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The Story of Georg Schneider (1746-1793) in His Own Words

Georg Schneider is the father of our ledger writer, George Taylor. After the death of Schneider's father (Johann Nicholaus Schneider/ 1719-1764) in Germany, Schneider came to this country with his mother and four siblings. His mother died en route. Schneider wrote: "In the year Christi 1764, my mother emigrated from Germany with us (five) 5 children, but she died on the voyage upon the sea as we had yet three weeks before coming to the land." He was eighteen years old when he and his family arrived in America. In 1776, Schneider wrote in German a four and one-half page synopsis of his life. The letter chronicles his indenture with a Philadelphia baker, his marriage to Maria Baumann (mother of our ledger writer) and the births of all of his children. It has been translated into serviceable English by his son Johann Georg Schneider (aka George Taylor.) The letter has also been added to by Taylor (1772-1852) to include a synopsis of his own life's work and line. The English letter also includes a translation of a German document from a Lutheran pastor in Germany certifying that Schneider's mother was a member in good standing;the certificate with seal entitles the bearer to receive Holy Communion in "strange countries." This may have been the only item that Schneider managed to retrieve belonging to his poor mother who died at sea.This lot includes the original Good Standing Certificate with seal, in German (dated May 29, 1754); Georg Schneider's original letter detailing his life, in German (dated 1776); and George Taylor's English translation of the certificate, his father's letter detailing his life, and his own additions up to 1816. Taylor died at the age of 79 in 1852.

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