Person:John Shafer (15)

'In 1732 Alexander Shafer, who was born in 1711, emigrated from the Palatinate, Germany, to America, and settled in Lancaster County, Pa., where he ultimately became the owner of 1800 acres of land. He founded Shaferstown, Lebanon County, Pa. in 1745. His only son, John Shafer, was a successful and prominent farmer in that section and was the father of five children. Two of them, John, Jr., and his sister, removed to Washington County, MD., and settled along Antietam Creek, six miles from Hagerstown. John was a farmer and miller. He built a mill long known as "Roxbury Mill." By close attention to duty, and through economical management, John Shafer acquired a handsome competency, which gave him sustenance to the ripe old age of 97, when he passed away, as peacefully and calmly as one who wraps the cover of the couch about him and lies down to pleasant dreams.

John Shafer was an upright and honest man. He married Miss Miller, of Shaferstown, Lebanon Co., Pa., by whom he had five children.' - A History of Washington County, Maryland

1. ↑ Williams, Thomas John Chew. A history of Washington County, Maryland, from the earliest settlements to the present time: including a history of Hagerstown; to this is added a biographical record of representative families prepared from data obtained from original sources of information. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Regional Pub. Co., 1968).
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} John Shafer, in Find A Grave.