Re: PHILIP CHRISTIAN GRAPES - Schoof
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PHILIP CHRISTIAN GRAPES
gay day 1/01/04
Found this on NEHGR search...maybe ring a bell with different spellings, names.
"The Journal of Elder Phinehas Pillsbury", page 375 - "Ashburnham Vital Records - Two errors in the Ashburnham Vital Records, printed under the Systematic History Fund, are as follows, p.151, marriages: - Shoof, Elizebeth and Philip Chriger, July 30, 1767.Schoofe, Delahah and Aaron Sampson, Nov 9, 1768.The first one of these marriages gets the name of the husband quite wrong.In the original ms.(which I have personally examined) the entry was very careless, being "Phillip Chri, Ger., " which Stearns in his History of Ashburnham expands to "Phillip Christian Ger."This name should be GRAPES.Jacob Schoff and his family, including these two married daughters, left Ashburnham in 1773 and moved to northern New Hampshire, and later to Maidstone, Vt.In the town and census records of Maidstone and Brunswick, Vt., may be found many entries as Grapes, and some as Graves.There are still numberous descendants in the vicinity.I believe the correct German version of the name was Krebs.The second marriage makes a slight mistake in both names:the girl's name was Delanah, shortened to Lena, and the man's Samson, without the p.These names also occur in the records of Guildhall, Maidstone and Brunswick, Vt.Stearns, in his history says these famlies went to Haverhill, NH but he was mistaken.They went to Morristown, now Franconia: then to Northumberland; towns of Guildhall, Stratford, and Brunswick.Stearns gives the date of removal as 1777 but he is wrong - it was 1773.They did not sell their Ashburnham land until 1777 but the NH census of 1775 has them down as living in Morristown.I have copies of the deeds to the land in all the towns, with dates, also various vital records and family data, which fully prove the above statements."Signed Wilfred H. Schoff, Lynwd, Pa