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Elizabeth Pfau

Female 1744 - 1777  (33 years)


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  • Name Elizabeth Pfau 
    Born 15 Mar 1744  Basel, Baselland, Switzerland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died 9 Oct 1777  Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried 10 Oct 1777  Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2453  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Family Johann Michael Stocker,   b. 15 Apr 1730, Goersdorf, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Mar 1819, Somerset, Perry, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Married 15 Feb 1769  Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Christina Stocker,   b. 11 Nov 1769, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1782, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age < 12 years)
     2. Maria Barbara Stocker,   b. 11 Nov 1769, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 1782, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age < 12 years)
     3. Johannes or John Stocker,   b. 4 Jan 1772, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Apr 1846, Rushville, Fairfield, Ohio, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years)
     4. Maria Salome Stocker,   b. 9 May 1773, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1818  (Age > 46 years)
     5. Maria Barbara Stocker,   b. 23 Dec 1774, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1818  (Age > 45 years)
     6. Eva Margareth Stocker,   b. 22 Jul 1776, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 10 Sep 1777, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 1 years)
     7. Stocker,   b. 7 Oct 1777, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Oct 1777, Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)
    Last Modified 28 May 2021 
    Family ID F186  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. Online article concerning Jacob Pfau, Joh. Michael's father-in-law from the website http://www.frederickcitizen.com/today040212.html accessed Feb. 13, 2015. Jacob's story may contain some parallels to Michael's timeline. Michael is mentioned as "Jonathan Michael Stocker" -- clearly a misnomer for our Joh. Michael, but certainly the right family. I believe the town of Winchester (formerly Frederick Town) in Frederick Co., Virginia (not Maryland), may be significant since it lies upon the Philadelphia Great Wagon Road down from PA into the Shenandoah Valley. Pfau followed the route of Winchester to Leesburg to Frederick and was into land speculation at the same times and places in Leesburg and Frederick as was Michael.
      The article is dated April 2, 2012 and published with "The Frederick Citizen - Commentary and Thoughts and Curmudgeon by Contemporary Writers of Insightful Liberality!" It is entitled: "Finding a Two Hundred and Eighty Year Old House Ruin Admidst Suburban Sprawl? My Ancestral Quest for Jacob Pfauw, or Faw, 1749 Immigrant from the Swiss German Palantine." It is by Jack Lynch who notes, "This publication contains a number of images that are mine alone, fully protected by copyright, I won't allow them to show up on a hundred other genealogical websites by theft or appropriation. Any other use is by my sole approval." See website for the photos. The article:
      "My life echoes with the spirits of a German immigrant family that came to America in 1749. He has long been traced as the original immigrant line of the family, but that seems more imagined than totally accurate. Over the years, the focus upon certain facts at the exclusion or poor weighing of similar salient facts has clouded the reality of the story - starting the Jacob Faw story in Frederick ignores a decade of life, and Abraham Faw's education in Winchester, Va and Leesburg, Va.
      The letter home in 1750 written by Jacob Pfauw (or Pfau, anglicized as Faw) from Fredericktowne (Winchester, Va), mentions that on arrival by ship in Philadelphia, he rode horseback three hundred miles to see relatives (possibly those below) and get money to pay their passage over. Otherwise, you were sold into indentured servitude for many years.
      The economic decline and religious belief in trine baptism have left the Basel Palantines impoverished in body and soul. A hundred years of scourges and internecine strife had reigned. Suzerainty and kingdoms called for peasant sacrifices and removals and church approbations.
      A 1733 letter from Charlestown, SC by a certain local immigrant named Antony Gondy seems to have started much interest, hidden interest because the dissemination and promotion of leaving was punishable, among the allied families we find eventually coming to America and helping one another across generations.
      In 1740 it is reported from Emigrant permits in Muttenz that Hans Jacob Pfau, showmaker, age 54 (not my immigrant Jacob, but a relative), and wife Katherina Spanhauer, age 60, with four youngest children (the two oldest children's spouses declined to go, Jacob and Sara Heyd, Margreth and Bernard Ramstein - government objecting to seperation of married couples. The latter of the laggards follow in 1749 on the ship "Crown").
      They sailed eight weeks on "Friendship" under Captain William Vettery, and encountered "a most terrible storm upon the sea so that we all expected to be lost". Half, or nearly 60 emigrants from the Canton of Basel died on that voyage.
      1740 the frontier is Lancaster County, by 1749 it is York, Pennsylvania though it is soon described as filled with artisans and devoid of open jobs. The mountains loom against a farming life, so immigrants point towards the Shenandoah Valley, moving through the Monocacy area. Soon they are west into what is now West Virginia, and colonizing the New River area of Virginia. Before long, some have settled at Bethabara, NC after Indian raids and frontier strife.
      My Jacob Pfauw, a saddler, immigrates in 1749 with wife and four children, losing an infant girl in England to smallpox along the way. My Abraham survives the same smallpox.
      Jacob's wife is ill after landing and they stay close to Philadelphia until Spring, when the Leonard Heyer family assists them in waggonage to Winchester, Va. Here he seems to have taken one of the first town lots from Lord Fairfax, a half acre with a five acre common pasture, and across the alley from him lives a surveyor named George Washington.
      We know that Jacob Faw was paid by Virginia to send his man in servitude in 1756 to the French and Indian War, John Larbuck, a tailor.
      About a year ago, my knowledge of Jacob Pfauw grew immensely, thanks to recent improvements in internet records of land grants in Loudoun County, Va. I found some additional help from the Office of the Circuit Court Clerk and ordered copies of all the documents.
      Studying colonial deeds, or indentures, is a bit amusing, for in the 1750 timeframe, following English law, the sale, or Bargain and Sale in their terms, had to be complemented by an exchange, or in many cases, a lease agreement, which was often a peppercorn, a trivial item, which would never be worth actually collecting.
      The largest Loudoun County tract was described as lying on the Tuscarora Branch of Goose Creek, about a mile above the mouth, which gave me a general sense of where it might lie on the map.
      This tract was said to contain the former dwelling plantation of one George Slater, with orchards and other appurtenances.
      A big surprise also came once I found out about the earliest map of lots owners in Leesburg! Jacob Pfauw had at least four, an interest in a couple more briefly, all before the family moved on to Frederick, Maryland.
      Once I had collected copies of the deeds, I focused in on those I could identify on the ground. The large farm, a combined 355 acres, with house and orchard, was along Tusacrora Creek, just south of Leesburg, Va. From the maps, I found a likely undeveloped parcel alongside parkland.
      Moving on to aerial maps, I discerned what seemed to be a stone foundation. Inquiries of county staff were fruitless, I had to get there and look myself.
      I expected to be greatly disappointed, after all, it would most likely be a barn or working building ruin. It still in time could prove not to be the location I sought.
      So I visited the site, not far off Route 7 in an industrial and quarry area, back winding roads until the pavement ended. The parcel just prior had bulldozers working. A work manager in a truck drove out of the gravel road leading to my site, and he tells me, "Oh yeah, there's an old stone house back there."
      "How old do you think it is?" I asked him.
      "Mid Eighteenth century," he said.
      Exactly what I was looking for!
      I talked to him about the parcel, which they did not own, and which he did not think would be any issue if I visited.
      I drove in and found the house ruin below.
      [Image] Faw House
      If my investigation proves correct by land records, this could be the second house of Jacob Faw, circa 1760. It likely was already built by the previous owner.
      [Image] The Chimney
      [Image] The Front Side
      [Image] From the stone work, I feel pretty confident this house is 1730 - 1750, in fact it seems to have some early modifications, maybe a ground level door was raised for a porch, a section of different colored stone fills a squared gap.
      [Image] It survived apparently because much later a brick house addition was added on the right side, and a cement block foundation section was added to the back, and aerials from 1957 appear to show it being farmed still, but by 1980 aerials it was knoecked down and I saw that a windowsill has evidence of a fire, though the interior stone does not.
      And the first house?
      I am still proving that too, but it seems to have been one of the orginal Fairfax grant Lots in old town Winchester, Va. If the notes I've seen online are correct, and my extrapolation of maps is right, then it was across an alley from George Washington's Winchester abode during those early years of survey work. We know that once passage was paid, the family laid over with sickness and then allied family friends from back home assisted them in waggonage of their goods to Winchester.
      [Image] One attraction of Winchester was frontier land, but also the German Reformed Church whose second ruins is in the Mount Hebron Cemetery shown below.
      [Image] The German Reformed Church Ruin of 1764 which replaced the 1741 Church at the same cemetery location, and whose wall was restored in 2008. This church burned in 1854.
      [Image] Pioneers plaque
      [Image] A monument to Lutheran Pioneers is nearby, alonside a dozen or more Revolutionary Soldier graves and the resting place of Daniel Morgan below.
      [Image] Daniel Morgan grave
      [Image] And Revolutionary Heroes Monument at Mt Hebron Cemetery in Winchester, Va
      The complete story of the sons and daughters of Jacob Pfauw have been nearly lost to time, but here is what I think I've derived from multiple bits and pieces and sources.
      Our best known, Jacob Faw II, ends up as our direct line in Ashe County, NC. For generations, this family history was held in written and oral traditions. His grave is at Calloway Cemetery along the New River in the Obids section of Ashe County.
      Son Issac Faw and grandson Issac Faw carry the Brethren ministrial lines of Muddy Creek in Winston-Salem, NC. Much is written online about their extensive family, and many descendants as they move on to Illinois and Washington State. Jacob Pfauw is buried there at Muddy Creek on the family lands near where the home stood.
      Son Abraham Faw has been delineated in both Frederick, MD and Alexandria, VA.
      Son Adam Faw disappears after 1800 from Ashe County, NC - either deceased or headed West?
      Daughter Magdalena died on voyage to America. Location of England burial is unknown.
      Daughter Anna Maria Pfau marries Peter Engels, Jr a gunsmith during the Revolution in Frederick, Maryland. They have eight children, all noted in the Evangelical Lutheran Church records at baptism, but she dies in childbirth. He soon remarries in a wedding attended by Abraham Faw and wife Juliana.
      Daughter Elisabeth Pfau marries Jonathan Michael Stocker. Much is written online about their extensive family, and many descendants from two subsequent wives in addition to Elisabeth. This has been hidden for many years by the records noting her last name as Fahs.
      Sister Dorde Pfau married John Reagor, and they die in an Indian masscare at Fort Seyberts, WV in 1758 and are noted as buried at the stone walled mass grave. The children are taken captive, two girls escape a few years later and stake claims on family lands, Barbara marries John Likens and Dorothy marries John (Samuel) Caplinger. A son seems to reappear many years later, after a dozen or more years of captivity, appears married in Kentucky and progentior of a large family, he is John Anthony Reagor.
      Grandfather Johannes Pfauw is said to come to America in 1758 and perhaps dies a year later for his name disappears from the record.
      I welcome anyone who may add to, or challenge these pieces of the full Faw family, right now this is the best that I can determine. Much may be unproven assumptions and much may still be yielded from these connections I've drawn.
      But I sense that the living descendants who have the inspiration and emotion of following this genealogical course are dying out, the spirits that float in my thoughts are no longer spoken by those from whom I heard about them from as a child."

      2. FHL book "The Historian's Guide to Loudoun County," Vol. I, "Colonial Laws of Virginia and County Court Orders, 1757-1766," by John T. Phillips, II. The book has mentions of both Michael Stocker and his future second father-in-law Jacob Pfau/Faw:
      P. 103: "June 15, 1758 - Jacob Pfhaw (Jacob Faw), a former ordinary keeper in Alexandria who is identified as a "saddler," for £4, subscribes Lot #27 in "George Town," the future Leesburg Courthouse lot. LDCODB, Book A, p. 89."
      P. 224: "August 14, and November 15, 1759 - Richard Roach, a man who was originally known to be a blacksmith by trade, was granted "leave to Build a Mill ... whereon he now lives on Kittocton [Creek]" with an acre apportioned from lands of the Estate of John Colvill, Gent., dec'd. The valuation jury was composed of John Trammell, Edward Hardin, Ezekiel Hickman, Andrew Adam, Richard Roberts, Daniel Davis, Joseph Claypoole, Cornelius Donohue, Hugh Fouch, Michael Stoker, Thomas Squires and Joseph McGeach. They valued an acre of Colvill's land at £1, 5 shillings, and found that "Building the said Mill by Darning [sic] the Water will be of no Damage to any other Lands only the Acre." Attorneys Hugh West and John Patterson, acting for the Earl of Tankerville (the Loudoun Deputy King's Attorney and the agent of the heir of John Colvill), objected to the licensing of the mill and noted an appeal to the General Court. Order Book A, pp. 266 and 308; see, FXCODB, Book B, p. 67."
      P. 329: "In March of 1758, months before the Assembly founded Leesburg or the Council had established the site of Loudoun's County Courthouse, Jacob Pfhaw (aka Jacob Faw) subscribed town Lot #27 for £4. Some serious maneuvering must have taken place privately between Minor and Faw in the next several months, because on September 12th Faw's lot was one of two lots selected as the site of the first Courthouse-gaol complex, and Faw never exerted his ownership interest in the property. Almost immediately after Faw's original deed for Lot #27 lapsed in the spring of 1761, Nicholas Minor issued a deed for Lots #27 and #28, conveying the Courthouse lots to the other Justices of the Loudoun County Court. [LDCODB, Book A, pp. 60, 89 and 117, and Book B, pp. 149 and 326; supra, Chapter on the Courthouse]."
      P. 333: "Carpenters generated a demand for nails from the smithys' forges, and horses required horseshoes and saddles. A number of blacksmiths and saddlers responded to the opportunity. Saddler Michael Stoker was one of Leesburg's first residents, but he moved to Maryland in 1760 and sold his prime location, across the street from the County Courthouse, to ordinary keeper John Herryford. … Jacob Faw set up a successful saddlers shop and stables on Lot #25, on the northwest corner at Market and Church Streets. Faw generated considerable profits, and he bought other town lots and several outlying farm tracts. In 1763 Faw sold his business on Lot #25 to John Reiger and retired to his farm."
      Pp. 335-36: "John Patterson, the land agent for Charles Bennett, Earl of Tankerville, arrived in Leesburg in the fall of 1761, purchased Michael Stoker's house on town Lot #11 on Loudoun Street and opened the Earl's land office. He had a silent partnership with his brother Fleming Patterson, who had travelled with him from England, and with Fleming acting as the "front" the Pattersons purchased several lots on west Market Street for their own account. Most of the early German town subscribers, notably Peter Creger, Andrew Link and Michael Stoker, sold their holdings to the late-coming tidewater merchants in 1761, extracting modest profits. [LDCODB, Book A, pp. 274, 369 and 374, and Book B, pp. 266 and 335].
      It has been suggested that colonial towns "were breeding grounds for aristocrats ... [where the gentry] by more information, better polish and greater intercourse with strangers, insensibly acquired an ascendancy over the farmer." A parallel argument has already been advanced to explain the high proportion of frontier ordinary keepers who became Justices of the Loudoun County Court. While only one of every fifteen Virginia colonists could properly be considered to be a member of the gentry, a large proportion of leading colonists lived in Virginia's towns. Holding colonial Leesburg up as an example, the premise would be true if modified to incorporate the assertion that colonial Leesburg was both a strong magnet and a "breeding ground" for the gentry. In Leesburg's first decade at least two dozen of the most prominent local merchants, doctors, attorneys and magistrates acquired perhaps half of all the town lots, and most of these men eventually made Leesburg their home. [Radicalism, p. 31; supra, Chapter on the County Court, and Chapter on Inns and Taverns]."
      P. 347: "The Loudoun Record:
      -"February 17, 1758 - Jacob Pfhow, aka Jacob Faw, is a "saddler"; and, Joseph Janney is a merchant. LDCODB, Book A, pp. 89 and 94."
      -"March 11, 1760 - Michael Stoker, living in Leesburg, is identified on a deed as a "sadler." LDCODB, Book A, p. 374."
      P. 482: "September 10, 1766 - On a deed of sale, Magdalina Phaw, aka Mary Phaw, [or Mary Pshaw or Mary Faw], is identified as the wife of Jacob Phaw, [or Jacob Pshaw or Jacob Faw]. LDCODB, Book E, p. 238."

      3. FHL book 929.273 P684pn: "Graybill/Stoker/Eller/Smith/Koons/Pitt Connections," by Norman E. 'Gene' Pitt, 1996, pp. 82-83: "Elizabeth was b. 1744; d. 10 Oct 1777. She was d/o Jacob Fahs and ___. She also had a marriage to Christian Schott... md. [Stoker] 15 Feb 1769."

      4. James Hook in his excellent book as quoted below, does not give a surname for Elizabeth. I am not yet sure where other researchers come up with the surname of Fah. There is record of another individual surnamed Fah when Michael marries his third wife after the death of his second wife, Elizabeth. The quote from the book: "Page 407 of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at Maryland Hist. Society, Baltimore, it is shown that Michael Stoker and Mary Adams were married, by license, 21 Jun 1778. The witnesses were Abraham Fah and his wife Juliana and Adam and Peter Schnock. Frederick Co. Marriage Records show that Michael Stoker and Mary A___, the spelling not complete, on 1 Jun 1778, were given a license to be married."

      5. FHL Book 929.273EL54h "George Michael Eller and Descendants of His in America," compiled by James W. Hook, 1957, also on FHL film 896571, item 2, pp. 88-97:
      "Michael Stoker, doubtless, was the son of Michael Stoker (Stocker) who settled in Frederick Co., Md. about the middle of the 18th century. No other family of the Stoker (Stocker) name was found by this writer in any of the early Frederick Co. records. The 18th century translated records of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. established about 1746, show many Michael Stoker (Stocker) entries beginning with the birth, on 1 Apr 1758, of Anna Barbara, daughter of 'Mich. Stocker' and his wife 'Ana Barb.' On p. 552 of a copy of these church records, now in possession of the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, Maryland, will be found a recording of eight children of Michael Stocker, the youngest named George, born 13 Nov 1781. The first of these children was named Marie Barbara, born 1 Apr 1758. She doubtless was the same as or the twin of another daughter named Anna Barbara mentioned above as having been born on the same date. Another record shows, again, the birth of Marie Barbara, daughter of Michael Stocker born 1 Apr 1758; baptized 15 May 1758. Thus the church records contain three separate entries of the birth on 1 April 1758, of a daughter to Michael Stoker (Stocker) as follows:
      a. 'On 1 Apr. 1758 to Mich. Stocker et uxori Ana Barbara a daughter Anna Barbara. Witnesses (to baptism) Marie Barbara filia coelebs Michael Roemers.' Filia Coelebs means unmarried daughter of.'
      b. '1758, 1 April to Michael Stoker a daughter Marie Barbara, sponsored by Barbara Romerin, baptized 15 May 1758.'
      c. '1758, 1 April to Michael Stocker a daughter Marie Barbara, sponsored by Barbara Romerin, baptized 15 May 1758.'
      As already stated, page 552 of the church book records, on one single page, the birth of eight children to Michael Stocker the last child of whom, named George, was born 13 Nov 1781 and baptized 7 Jun 1782. The first seven of these recordings obviously were made in 1769, the 8th having been put there in 1782 as will be explained later. Preceding the names of the 1st, 4th, 5th and 6th and 7th Child, the symbol ϯ was added to show, doubtless, that the child was deceased when the record was made. The record, on page 552 of the church records, is as follows:
      a. 1 April 1758, to Michael Stocker a child Marie Barbara; ϯ godmother, Barbara Romerin; baptized 15 May 1758.
      b. 1 Jan 1760, to Michael Stocker, a child Johana Magdale, godparents, Heinrich Hanth (and wife) Magdalena. Date of baptism not stated. (Note by JWH - On page 454 of the church record is shown the marriage on 2 Nov 1784 'by license' of Johanna Magdalena Stockern and Johann Jost Stimmel, Michael Stocker, Peter Stimmel and John and Peter Schnog serving as witnesses.)
      c. 20 May 1762, to Michael Stocker, a child Michael; godparents Michael Romer (and wife) Charlotte Amalia, (Amalis). Date of baptism not stated. (Note by JWH - This writer believes that this was the Michael Stocker who married Catherine Eller.)
      d. 26 Aug 1764, to Michael Stocker, a child, Elizabeth; ϯ godmother, Elizabeth Romerin. Date of baptism not stated.
      e. 24 May 1767, to Michael Stocker, a child Balthasar; ϯ godparents, Balthsar Bock (and wife) Rosina. Date of baptism not stated.
      f and g. 11 gbr 1769 (two children) to Michael Stocker, namely a child Marie Barbara; godparents, Johannes Haas (and wife) Mar. Barbara, and a child Christina; godmother, Christina Romerin, ledig, meaning unmarried. Baptized 19 gbr. 1769. (Note gbr is usually an abbreviation in German for born but in this case probably means November of possibly February.)
      h. 13 Nov 1781, to Michael Stocker, a child, George; sponsor George Bens. Baptized 7 Jun 1782.
      The above record of children of Michael Stocker, together with others shown below are interesting in two ways. First it will be noted that one of the sponsors in every case bore the same given name as the child. It was a custom in early German families to select as godmother or godfather of children being baptized the person for whom the child was named, usually a close relative and in some cases a respected friend. Second, as was shown by the first record quoted above and as will be shown by other records quoted below, Michael Stoker's wife as late as 24 March 1766 (Deed Record) was Barbara and as early as 12 April 1770 (Deed Record) was Elizabeth. That these two wives, Barbara and Elizabeth, were spouses of the same Michael Stocker is definitely established by the land records of Frederick County but, as the two next following church records show, Michael Stocker's full name was Joh. (John) Michael Stoker.
      a. Page 564 of the translated church records at Maryland Hist. Soc. - Johannes, son of Joh. Michael and Elizabeth Stoker, b. 4 Jan 1772 and baptized 9 Feb 1772. (Note by JWH - p. 233 of the church records show that Johannes Stocker, aged 19, was confirmed on 22 Apr 1791. A translated record of the German Reformed Church of Frederick Co., Md., p. 196, found at the Gen. Soc. in SLC shows a child Marianna Stocker, was born to Johannes and Catherina Stocker 10 Aug 1809. Susan Kuntz (Frentz) was her godmother. A Catherina Stoker (sic) is mentioned as a dau. in the will of John Coons (sic) of Frederick Co., Md. dated 23 Dec. 1816 and proved 6 Mch. 1817. (Liber H.S, No. 2, p. 55, Frederick Co., Md. Wills.))
      b. Page 591 of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at the Gen. Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City - Marie Salome, dau. of Michael and Elizabeth Stocker b. 9 May 1773; bap. 27 June 1773. Her godparents were John Michel and Salome Alex (sic).
      c. Page 617 of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at Maryland Hist. Society [Baltimore] - Marie Barbara, dau. of Joh. Michael and Elizabeth Stoker, b. 23 Dec 1774; bapt. 16 Apr 1775. Her godparents were Johannes and Marie Barbara Hass.
      d. Pages 638 and 1017 of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at the Gen. Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City - Eva Margreth, dau. of Michael and Elizabeth Stocker, b. 22 Jul 1776; bap. 10 Nov 1776. Her godparents were Jacob and Margreth Bens. This child died 12 Sept. 1777, aged 1 year.
      One may wonder why these four children were not listed with other children of Michael Stoker on page 552 of the church record (supra). After mentioning seven additional, more or less pertinent, translate church records the reason for this, as this writer sees it will be explained.
      a. Page 407 of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at Maryland Hist. Society, Baltimore, it is shown that Michael Stoker and Mary Adams were married, by license, 21 Jun 1778. The witnesses were Abraham Fah and his wife Juliana and Adam and Peter Schnock. Frederick Co. Marriage Records show that Michael Stoker and Mary A___, the spelling not complete, on 1 Jun 1778, were given a license to be married.
      b. Page 209 [of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at Maryland Hist. Society, Baltimore] shows that Michael Stoker born 24 May 1862 and Magdalena Stockern (sic) born 1 Jan 1760 were confirmed. These two were brother and sister, children of Michael and Barbara Stoker (Stocker), their birth dates in their confirmation checking substantially with those recorded on page 552 of the same translated church record.
      c. Page 664 of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at the Gen. Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City shows that Anna Margareth, daughter of Michael and Anna Marie Stocker was born 15 May 1779 and baptized 24 July 1779. Her godparents were Adam and Anna Margareth Schnock.
      d. Page 686 [of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at the Gen. Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City ] shows that Marie Catharina, daughter of Michael and Anna Maria Stocker was born 4 Sept. 1780.
      e. Page 752 [of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at the Gen. Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City] shows that Jacob, son of Michael and Anna Maria Stocker, was born 22 May 1785. His sponsors at baptism were his parents.
      f. Page 113 of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at the Gen. Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City, Utah, shows that Charlotte, daughter of Michael Stocker, was born 19 Feb 1788. Her mother's name was not given. Her godparents were Peter and Julia (Juliana) Schnock (Schnod).
      g. Page 1017 of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at the Gen. Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City shows that Elizabeth, wife of Michael Stoker died 10 Oct 1777 at the age of 33 years.
      It should be kept in mind that the only Stoker (Stocker) family found in the early church, land or court records of Frederick County, Maryland was one headed by Michael. The only suggestion of a Stoker of Stocker of another given name was the same Michael in the recordings of his children by his second wife, Elizabeth. In those recordings he was called Joh. Michael Stoker. Deed Records in Frederick Co., calling him a saddler in every case and showing his wife to have been Barbara in March 1766 and Elizabeth in April 1770 proves the two Michaels to have been the same person. The second wife, Elizabeth, died 10 Oct 1777 at the age of 33. On 21 Jun 1778 he married Mary (Marie) Adams as already shown.
      This writer explains the one page record that is found of Michael Stoker's (Stocker) children in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick Co., Md. as follows. When his first two daughters (twins probably) were born he had them baptized or recorded as they were born. When his twins, Marie Barbara and Christina were born in 1769 he had them baptized and recorded and when this was being done he decided to record all of his other children, four of whom had not been recorded, naming their godparents from memory. This would account for all of these children appearing on one page where immediately prior entries were 1769 and immediate subsequent ones 1770.
      When children of his second wife, Elizabeth, came he had them baptized and recorded. Apparently there were four of them, one named Johannes, b. 4 Jan 1772, another named Marie Salome, b. 9 May 1773, the third was Marie Barbara b. 23 Dec 1774 and the fourth Eva Margreth b. 22 Jul 1776 - d. 12 Sep 1777. Then on 10 Oct 1777 his wife, Elizabeth, aged 33, died and on 21 Jun 1778 he married Mary (Marie) Adams, his third wife.
      The first child of the third marriage was Anna Margareth, b. 15 May 1779. She was baptized and recorded. The second child by this third marriage was Marie Catherina, born 4 Sep 1780 and bapt. 4 March (May) 1781. She probably died young. The fourth child was Georg b. 13 Nov 1781. This child was baptized 7 Jun 1782 and the baptism recorded not on the current page of the record book but squeezed in on the 1769/1770 page where other children of Michael Stoker (Stocker) had been recorded enmasse. Thus we have on the 1769/1770 page of the church book a record of eight children of Michael Stoker (Stocker) born between 1758 and 1782 appearing on that page with other children of his who were born after 1769 appearing on other pages. The fact that his son Georg was so recorded is pretty conclusive proof that all of the eight Stoker (Stocker) children on that one page had the same father. The symbol ϯ apparently was to indicate that the child was deceased and, doubtless, was inserted when the baptism of the son George was recorded.
      Other entries in the church records show Michael Stocker (Stoker) and his wife, Anna Maria, had two other children, one named Jacob, b. 22 May 1785, and the other named Charlotte, b. 19 Feb 1788, making 17 children as follows:
      By first wife Barbara:
      1. Anna Barbara Stocker, b. 1 Apr 1758. She died young.
      2. Marie Barbara Stocker, b. 1 Apr 1758, the same as or twin of [Anna Barbara]. She died young.
      3. Johana Magdale Stocker, b. 1 Jan 1760.
      4. Michael Stocker, Jr., b. 20 May 1762 (24 May 1762 or 24 Mar 1762).
      5. Elizabeth Stocker, b. 26 Aug 1764. She died young.
      6. Balthasar Stocker, b. 24 May 1767. He died young.
      7. Marie Barbara Stocker, b. 11 ??? 1769. [Twin of Christina.] She died young.
      8. Christina Stocker, b. 11 ??? 1769. Twin of [Marie Barbara]. She died young.
      By second wife Elizabeth:
      9. Johannes Stocker, b. 4 Jan 1772.
      10. Marie Solome Stocker, b. 9 May 1773.
      11. Marie Barbara Stocker, b. 25 Dec 1774.
      12. Eva Margreth Stocker, b. 22 Jul 1776, d. 12 Sep 1777.
      By third wife Anna Marie Adams:
      13. Anna Margareth Stocker, b. 15 May 1779.
      14. Marie Catherina Stocker, b. 4 Sep 1780.
      15. George Stocker, b. 13 Nov. 1781, bapt. 2 Jun 1782.
      16. Jacob Stocker, b. 22 May 1785.
      17. Charlotte Stocker, b. 19 Feb 1788.
      [Note: James Hook totally missed one child, Eva Catherina, who was born between George and Jacob; see her notes for church record documentation.]
      The church records also show that Michael Stocker witnessed a goodly number of baptisms and marriages. One marriage, 'by license in Virginia,' which he and George Schaeffer witnessed, on 20/21 Apr. 1788, was that of Christopher Schaeffer and Elizabeth Adams, she, perhaps, a sister of his third wife. (Page 309 [of church record].) Michael Stoker attended communion service on 18 Oct 1778, 13 May 1779, 14 May 1780, 19 May 1782, 8 Jun 1783, 30 Jun 1784, 4 Jun 1786, 27 May 1787, 7 Oct 1787, and 24 Apr 1791. On 30 Jun 1784 and 4 Jun 1786 he was accompanied by his 'filia', meaning his daughter. A Michael Stocher (sic) attended services 23 Oct 1803 and 2 Jun 1805. After the latter date he was not found again in the records.
      The spelling of the name in the church records varied frequently between Stoker and Stocker but in deeds mentioned herein, it was spelled Stoker. He obviously was a German but from whence in Germany he or his parents came was not discovered. This writer once thought that he was, very likely, the son of Michael Stoker, aged 31, who came to Pennsylvania on the ship 'Brittania' with Margaret Stoker, aged 24, his wife probably, and took his oath of allegiance 21 Sep 1731 but dismissed the idea when he later learned that Michael and Margaret Stoker's son Michael died in 1771 in Macungie Twsp. of Northampton (now Lehigh Co.) Pennsylvania, his will having been probated there, 25 Jan 1771, naming a wife Margaret and children Mary, Elizabeth, Catherine, Susannah and George.
      Michael Stoker of Frederick Co, MD is first found in the records of that county on 1 Apr 1758 when the birth dates of his daughters Ann Barbara and Marie Barbara (they may have been the same Child) were recorded in the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Frederick, MD. On 14 May 1760 he purchased from Ballis Paugh lot no. 118 in Fredericktown, Frederick Co., MD. (Deed Book F, p. 985.) In that deed he is called a sadler. Another Frederick Co. deed dated 24 Mar 1766, 'Michael Stoker, sadler,' his wife Barbara relinquishing her dower, sold this same lot in Frederick Town to John Hoffman. (Deed Book K, p. 432.) On 30 Aug 1768, 'Michael Stoker, sadler' purchased from Henry Brunner lot no. 83 and a half interest in lot No. 80 located in Frederick Town. (Deed Book L, pp. 473-475.) This deed was corrected on 24 Dec 1772 to read lot 82 rather than lot 83. (Deed Book P., p. 530.)
      Sometime near the date of the last purchase his first wife Barbara apparently died because on 12 Apr 1770 'Michael Stoker, sadler,' his wife Elizabeth relinquishing her dower, sold to Henry Brunner, a five foot strip off of the lot purchased from said Brunner 30 Aug 1768. (Deed book N, p. 90.) On 7 Nov 1774 'Michael Stoker,' his wife Elizabeth relinquishing her dower, conveyed to Samuel Miller a part of lot no. 82 that he had acquired from Henry Brunner, 30 Aug 1768, when his wife doubtless was Barbara. (Deed Book L, p. 473-475 and Deed Book w, p. 235.) On 19 Nov 1778 'Michael Stoker farmer,' his wife Mary relinquishing her dower, sold another part on lot No. 82 to Philip Shade, (Deed Book RP1, p. 519.) These deeds relating to Lot No. 82 first when his wife, doubtless was Barbara, second when his wife, certainly was Elizabeth and third when his wife, certainly, was Mary (Marie) are conclusive proof that it was the same Michael Stoker who married these three wives.
      The Archives of Maryland, Vol. XLVIII shows orders in Council on 30 Nov. 1781 to pay certain sums of money to Michael and James Stocker. On 14 Mar 1783 other orders were given to pay Michael Stoker 17 pounds, 17 shillings and 1 pence."

      6. The book "Frederick County Maryland Land Records, Liber N Abstracts, 1770-1772," abstracted by Patricia Abelard Andersen, Damascus, Maryland, Jan 2003 from microfilm rolls CR 37,515 and 37,516 of the Maryland State Archives, copy of book in the Historical Society of Frederick Co., MD, in Frederick, MD, p. 17:
      "90-91. Henry Brunner recorded 12 April 1770, made 24 March between Michael Stocker of Frederick Town, for ₤13 sells lot purchsed by the said Michael Stocker of Henry Brunner on east side of Brunner's house. Signed by Wm Blair, Thos Price. Receipt. Acknowledgement and Elizabeth Stocker released dower rights."

      7. From the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. From an article entitled: "Michael Stocker 1731-1819 with wives: Ana Barbara Romerin, Elisabeth Fah, and Mary (Anna Maria) Adams." See notes of Johan Michael Stocker for complete text of which the following is a small part:
      "The Second Family...
      The next land record for Michael Stocker also list his second wife Elizabeth. It was recorded on 12 April 1770, when they sold a five foot strip of a lot (Deed Book N, p. 90).
      In putting together the family of Michael and Elizabeth Stocker, the date that James Hook uses leaves many questions as to who and if the first two children were twins and who was their mother. He list Maria Barbara born in May of 1769 and Christina in September. If Michael married Elizabeth in Feb of 1769 it would have been unlikely that Maria was born in May, but not impossible. However it is highly unlikely that a second child would be born only four months later. In Frederick Wieser's translation of the Maryland German Church Records Vol 3 he stated that the two girls were born in September and were twins. On the hand written record under the heading {Bapt. Mar. 26, 27- Festival of the Resurrection [1769]} it lists the two girls but with the dates as James Hook translated it and does not list them as twins. I have not located the original record that Wieser used for his translations...
      Michael and Elizabeth's children [Footnotes 5-10. "Maryland German Church Records Vol. 3, Baptismal records of the Monocacy Lutheran Congregation, and its successor, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland 1742-1779, as translated and edited by Frederick S. Weiser pg. 34."]
      [a.] Maria Barbara, twin dau of Michael Stocker, b. 11 Sept. 1769 bap 19 Sep 1769 Sponsors: Johannes & Maria Barbara Haafs (Died in 1769).5
      [b.] Christina, twin dau of Michael Stocker b 11 Sept 1769, Sponsors: Christina Romerin, single (Died in 1769).6
      [c.] Johanes, son of Joh. Michael and Elizabeth Stocker b. 4 Jan. 1772, baptized on 9 Feb. 1772, sponsors: Joh. Michael and Salome Alex.7 A later church entry states that Johannes was confirmed at age 19, on 22 April 1791.
      [d.] Maria Salome, dau of Michael and Elizabeth Stocker, b 9 May 1773, bp. 27 June 1773. Sponsors: Joh. Michael and Salome Alex.8
      [e.] Maria Barbara b 23 Dec 1774, bp 16 Apr 1775. Sponsors: Johannes & Marie Barbara Haafs.9
      [f.] Eva Margreth b 22 July 1776 bap 10 Nov 1776, Sponsors: Jacob and Margreth Bens d 12 Sep 1777.10
      [g.] Stillborn b Oct 7 1777 this child is mentioned only in connection with Elizabeth's obituary record within the church's records. [Footnote 11. "A hand written record verifying the event dates for Johannes, Marie Salome, Marie Barbara, and Eva Margareth can be found in the Church Record [Evangelical Lutheran], 1742-1910 Evangelical Lutheran Church (Frederick, Maryland) located in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Family History Center, Salt Lake City, Utah. US/CAN Film #1414857."]
      ...On 9 Oct 1777 Elizabeth Fah Stocker passed away only two days after giving birth to a stillborn child."

      8. Partial transcription from an article entitled "Michael Stoker and Catherine Eller." from the book "Our Stoker Family Histories 1731-1881," Vol. II, comp. and ed. by Elayne Stoker, 2004, printed by Stevenson's Genealogy Center, Provo, UT. See notes of Michael Stoker for full transcription of this article:
      "Settling New Territory.
      After the French and Indian War new territories were opened up to European settlers. Michael moved south locating just inside the North Carolina state line on or near the head waters of New River in Wilkes County. Country side events that were going on at the time shaped the settlement patterns and life styles. In the book German New River Settlement: Virginia by Rev. Ulysses S. A. Heavener, the author goes into detail about life for the German settlers in the New River territory. Rev. Heavener states that the Germans of this area were not used heavily in the Revolutionary War because of the language barriers. It is known from parish records of these early years that the people still spoke and wrote in their native language, although English influences can be noted. Reverend Heavener further states that the military titles found among the Germans were from their fight with the Indians. But that is not to say that the Revolutionary War was not around them. "In the movements and battles of Cornwallis and Tarrelton about Greensborough, North Carolina, in the Revolutionary War, menaced the people of the Northern part of the Colony of North Carolina as well as those of the southern part of Virginia. In fact they were seriously threatened" (Heavener 1976)...
      Picture, pg. 103: "First actual survey of the State of North Carolina David Stone & Peter Brown Esq. 1808." (North Fork of New River and Naked Creek are labeled.)
      Land Records
      James Hook states that Michael Stoker had a farm on the North Fork of New River in Ashe County. Then on 29 December 1792 Michael (Strucker) purchased: "100 acres from John Dick of land on Naked Creek in Ashe (Wilkes) Co. which creek flows west into the South Fork of New River" (Hook). The Morgan district, in which this land was located, in 1799 became part of the new Ashe County, North Carolina and was the same district where Peter Eller, John Koons and Conrad Dick lived. All now related by Michael's marriage to Catherine. There are two other reasons why Michael may have traveled south:
      Living in North Carolina at this time was Jacob Fah born 1765. He was the son of Jacob Faw (Pfau) and his second wife. Jacob Faw (Pfau) was Elizabeth Fah's father.
      Michael grew up around a religious group called the Moravians. They migrated a very large colony into northwestern North Carolina. (See John Michael Stocker story for more details.)"

      9. FHL book 975.287/F1 K28we "Maryland German Church Records," vol. 3, "Baptismal records of the Monocacy Lutheran Congregation, and its successor, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, 1742-1779," translated and edited by Frederick S. Weiser; mentions of Stockers (the initials in [brackets] probably refer to the minister who made the record):
      - Mich. Stocker and wife Anna Barb., a dau. Anna Barba., b. 1 Apr 1858, bp. 1758 Pentecost, sponsors: Maria Barbara, single daughter of Mich. Römer. [Kerry's note: bp. May 15.]
      - Michael Allex and his wife Anna Salome, a little son named Michael, b. 1 May 1768, bp. 18 Sep 1768, sponsors: Michael Stocker and his wife. 18 Sep 1768 [Schw.]
      - Bartholem Schuhmacher and Barbara (Ref.), a little dau. Anna Barbara, b. 5 Feb 1764, bp. 1 Apr 1764, sponsors: Michael Stocker and Anna Barbara.
      - Gottlieb Geist and Margaretha, a little son Johann Michael, b. 10 Oct 1768, bp. 16 Oct 1768, sponsors: Johann Michael Stocker and wife.
      - All recorded at once:
      - Maria Barbara, dau. of Michael Stocker, b . 1 Apr 1758 (+), bp. 15 May. Sponsors: Mar. Barb. Römerin [now] deceased.
      - Johanna Magdalina, dau. of [parents names not given] b. 1 Jan 1760, bp. [not given]. Sponsors: Heinrich and Magdalena Fauth.
      - Michael, son of Michael Stocker b. 20 May 1762, bp. [not given]. Sponsors: Michael and Scharletta Amalia Romer.
      - Elisabetha, dau. of Michael Stocker b. 26 Aug. 1764, bp. [not given]. Sponsors: Elisabetha Romerin.
      - Balthasar, son of Michael Stocker, b. 24 May 1767 (+), bp. [not given]. Sponsors: Balthasar and Rosina Bach.
      - Maria Barbara, twin dau. of Michael Stocker, b. 11 Sept. 1769 (+), bp. 19 Sept. 1769. Sponsors: Johannes and Maria Barbara Haass.
      - Christina, twin dau. of Michael Stocker, b. 11 Sept. 1769 (+), bp. 19 Sept. 1769. Sponsors: Christina Römerin, single.
      - [name not given], son of Michael Stocker, b. 13 Nov. 1781, bp. 2 Jun. 1782. Sponsor: Georg Bens. [Kerry's note: This child is George Stocker.]
      - Johannes, son of Joh. Michael and Elisabeth Stocker, b. 4 Jan 1772, bp. 9 Feb 1772. Sponsors: Joh. Michael and Salome Alex.
      - Maria Solome, dau. of Michael and Elisabeth Stocker, b. 9 May 1773, bp. 27 Jun 1773. Sponsors: Joh. Michael and Solome Alex.
      - Eva Margreth, dau. of Michael and Elisabeth Stocker, b. 22 July 1776, bp. 10 Nov. 1776. Sponsors: Jacob and Margreth Bens.
      - Anna Margreth, dau. of Michael and Anna Maria Stocker, b. 15 May 1779, bp. 24 July 1779. Sponsors: Adam and Anna Margreth Schnok.

      BIRTH:
      1. FHL book 975.287 K2w "Records of Marriages and Burials in the Monocacy Church in Frederick County, Maryland and in the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in the City of Frederick, Maryland 1743-1811," translated and edited by Frederick Sheely Weiser, Special Publication No. 38, The National Genealogical Society, Washington, D.C., 1972, p. 94
      "Oct 10, 1777: Elisabeth Stockern, born March 15, 1744, to Jacob Fahs and his first wife. Married Christian Schott, with whom she had 2 children, of whom 1 son still lives. Feb. 15, 1769 she married Michael Stocker with whom she had 7 children of whom one son and two daughters still live. Died Oct. 9 after she gave birth to a dead child on Oct. 7, aged 33 years, 5 months, 3 weeks, 3 days."

      MARRIAGE:
      1. We find no record Elizabeth's maiden surname in any of her children's christenings.
      James Hook in his excellent book as quoted above documents the fact that Michael had three wives; however, it is only for the third marriage that he an actual date can be provided. Subsequent more modern research since 1957 has failed to find documented dates for the first two wives: "Page 407 of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at Maryland Hist. Society, Baltimore, it is shown that Michael Stoker and Mary Adams were married, by license, 21 Jun 1778. The witnesses were Abraham Fah and his wife Juliana and Adam and Peter Schnock. Frederick Co. Marriage Records show that Michael Stoker and Mary A___, the spelling not complete, on 1 Jun 1778, were given a license to be married."
      For the date and place with first wife Anna Barbara Römerin, we can assume a marriage in Frederick prior to July 1757 based on the April 1, 1758 birth of their first child.
      As for the same with second wife Elizabeth Pfau, we can assume a window of opportunity for the marriage in Frederick from 18 Sep 1769 (born 11 Sep 1769) when Anna Barbara's last children are christened with two of her sisters acting as sponsors and 24 Mar 1770 when Michael and Elizabeth sell land to Henry Brunner. Some secondary publications use and repeat the date of 15 Feb 1769; however, I believe it is erroneous since it predates the 11 Sep 1769 births of twins Maria Barbara and Christina. The original source for this date is perhaps the one given in Elayne Stoker's 2004 book:
      "Hinke's translation of the death records of 1777 for the Evangelical Church lists the marriage of Elizabeth Fah to Michael Stocker on 15 February 1769. This death record also provides some vital information about Elizabeth's background. "1777 Oct 10. Elizabeth Stockern, born March 15, 1744, to Jacob Fahs and his first wife. Married Christian Scott, with whom she had 2 children, of whom 1 son still lives. Feb. 15, 1769 she married Michael Stocker with whom she had 7 children of whom one son and two daughters still live. Died Oct. 9 (1777) after she gave birth to a dead child on Oct 7, age 33 years, 5 months, 3 weeks, 3 days."
      I am of the opinion Hinke may have added some of his own commentary to Elizabeth's death record; but I have to admit to not having seen the original record. It is curious that no other translator of the records mention it in their translations. If the original record does contain the date, then it may have originally had a clerical error for perhaps a different year, i.e. 15 Feb 1770, which would very well in my estimated timeframe.

      2. Note possible previous marriage to Christian Schott per Pitt book quoted above and in James Hook's book.

      3. Elizabeth confirmed as wife per the book "Frederick County Maryland Land Records, Liber N Abstracts, 1770-1772," abstracted by Patricia Abelard Andersen, Damascus, Maryland, Jan 2003 from microfilm rolls CR 37,515 and 37,516 of the Maryland State Archives, copy of book in the Historical Society of Frederick Co., MD, in Frederick, MD, p. 17: "90-91. Henry Brunner recorded 12 April 1770, made 24 March between Michael Stocker of Frederick Town, for ₤13 sells lot purchased by the said Michael Stocker of Henry Brunner on east side of Brunner's house. Signed by Wm Blair, Thos Price. Receipt. Acknowledgement and Elizabeth Stocker released dower rights."

      4. FHL book 975.287 V2p "Frederick County Maryland Marriages References and Family Relationships 1748-1800," by Henry C. Peden, Jr. & Veronica Clarke Peden, (Colonial Roots, Lewes, Delaware, 2012). This volume is a "comprehensive compilation of marriage references, actual and implied, in early Frederick County, Maryland from its formation in 1748 through 1800. Marriages were gleaned from published license books, land records, probate records (wills and administration accounts), court records (judgments and indentures), military pension records, church records (marriages, births and baptism), bible records, newspapers, some family histories and other documented secondary sources." P. 272:
      "Stocker, Michael (also shown as Johann Michael Stocker), of Frederick Town, m. Elizabeth (no maiden name) before 24 May 1770; son Johannes Stocker b. 4 Jan 1772 {ref: Frederick County Land Records (see abstracts of Frederick County Land Records, 1752-1772, by Patricia Abelard Andersen, 8 vols. (1995-2003), N:90; ref: Monocacy Lutheran Congregation of Evangelical Lutheran Church in Frederick, MD (see "Maryland German Church Records," Vol. 3, translated by Frederick S. Weiser, published by Noodle-Doosey Press, 1987)}"

      DEATH:
      1. As quoted in the James Hook book above: "Page 1017 of the translated record of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Frederick, Md. at the Gen. Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at Salt Lake City shows that Elizabeth, wife of Michael Stoker died 10 Oct 1777 at the age of 33 years."

      2. As quoted in the James Hook book above: "Hinke's translation of the death records of 1777 for the Evangelical Church lists the marriage of Elizabeth Fah to Michael Stocker on 15 February 1769. This death record also provides some vital information about Elizabeth's background. "1777 Oct 10. Elizabeth Stockern, born March 15, 1744, to Jacob Fahs and his first wife. Married Christian Scott, with whom she had 2 children, of whom 1 son still lives. Feb. 15, 1769 she married Michael Stocker with whom she had 7 children of whom one son and two daughters still live. Died Oct. 9 (1777) after she gave birth to a dead child on Oct 7, age 33 years, 5 months, 3 weeks, 3 days."

      3. FHL book 975.287 K2w "Records of Marriages and Burials in the Monocacy Church in Frederick County, Maryland and in the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in the City of Frederick, Maryland 1743-1811," translated and edited by Frederick Sheely Weiser, Special Publication No. 38, The National Genealogical Society, Washington, D.C., 1972, p. 94
      "Oct 10, 1777: Elisabeth Stockern, born March 15, 1744, to Jacob Fahs and his first wife. Married Christian Schott, with whom she had 2 children, of whom 1 son still lives. Feb. 15, 1769 she married Michael Stocker with whom she had 7 children of whom one son and two daughters still live. Died Oct. 9 after she gave birth to a dead child on Oct. 7, aged 33 years, 5 months, 3 weeks, 3 days."

      BURIAL:
      1. FHL book 975.287 K2w "Records of Marriages and Burials in the Monocacy Church in Frederick County, Maryland and in the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in the City of Frederick, Maryland 1743-1811," translated and edited by Frederick Sheely Weiser, Special Publication No. 38, The National Genealogical Society, Washington, D.C., 1972, p. 94
      "Oct 10, 1777: Elisabeth Stockern, born March 15, 1744, to Jacob Fahs and his first wife. Married Christian Schott, with whom she had 2 children, of whom 1 son still lives. Feb. 15, 1769 she married Michael Stocker with whom she had 7 children of whom one son and two daughters still live. Died Oct. 9 after she gave birth to a dead child on Oct. 7, aged 33 years, 5 months, 3 weeks, 3 days."

      2. Findagrave Website accessed 23 Feb 2015 for burials at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Cemetery, 35 East Church Street, Frederick, Frederick County, Maryland, 21701, (301) 663-6361. "Very few stones remain, as the cemetery was removed to nearby Mount Olivet Cemetery (area NN) in the early 1900s. The remaining stones have all been placed against the stone wall behind the church building and have been photographed." Memorials of interest:
      A. Memorial #39323057:
      "Elisabeth Fahs Stockern
      Birth: Mar. 15, 1744
      Death: Oct. 9, 1777
      d/o Jacob Fahs
      Md. 1 Christian Schott 2 children
      15 Feb 1769 md. Michael Stocker, 7 children
      7 Oct. 1777 gave birth to a stillborn child."
      B. Memorial #39322782:
      "Eva Margareth Stocker
      Birth: Jul. 22, 1770
      Death: Sep. 10, 1777
      d/o Michael & Elisabeth Stocker
      Consumption"

      ACTION:
      1. Look up records in Frederick Co., MD, for a birth of Elizabeth Fah circa 1744.