Davis Uriah I | Born 1707

SCHIETLEY, Ursula

Female Abt 1722 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name SCHIETLEY, Ursula  [1
    Born Abt 1722  Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Person ID I6194  Uriah Davis I - Genealogy
    Last Modified 21 Jun 2018 

    Father SHIETLEY, John,   b. Abt 1695,   d. Bef 1744, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 48 years) 
    Mother ,   d. Abt 1744, Plymouth, England, Or Aboard the Phoenix, While In Transit to the Colonies Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married Bef 1742  Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2236  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family HARNSBERGER, Stephen,   b. Aft 1712, (Of Alsace County, France) Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt 1774, Augusta County (Now Rockinghm County ), Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age < 60 years) 
    Children 
     1. HARNSBERGER, Stephen,   b. Rockingham County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location
     2. HARNSBERGER, Adam Captain,   b. 10/10 Jan 1750/1751, Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Mar 1815, Rockingham County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 64 years)
     3. HARNSBERGER, Henry,   b. 16 Oct 1752, Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 16 Jul 1834  (Age 81 years)
     4. HARNSBERGER, Conrad,   b. 15 Nov 1756, Rockingham County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1814, Norfolk, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 57 years)
     5. HARNSBERGER, Robert,   b. 1760, Rockingham County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Feb 1840, Augusta County Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years)
    Last Modified 24 Jun 2018 
    Family ID F2050  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • A court case in 1766 in Augusta Co. sheds light on the history of Ursula. Her father died in Germany. In Germany the mother married John Fotch who took possession of the remains of the Scheitley estate, which it was contended, amounted to almost one hundred pounds. The family left for America. After Ursula and her sisters were married, their husbands appealed to John Fotch for the girl's share of their father's estate. They received some money but Fotch contended that the balance of the estate was used in their support. Testimony was taken in the case but no decision appears in the records perhaps indicating that the case was dropped.
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      Transcribed Court Record follows ;
      November, 1766 (A)
      Carpenter vs. Fonts (Fotch). - Chancery. Writ dated 24th November 1763. Complaintants are George Carpenter and Ann, his wife; Stephen Hantsberger and Ursilla, his wife; Matthew Hearce and Francis, his wife, daughters and co-heirs of John Shitley, deceased; that John Shitley was an inhabitant of the German Empire, where he died, having a small personal estate, leaving behind him your oratrices, then very young, and ____ his wife, mother of oratrices, and one of the defendants, who by the laws and customs of the empire, possessed herself of the small fortune of her husband. Shortly after the father's death, the widow, thinking to benefit herself and children, transported herself to America, bringing with her your oratrices and what remained of John Shitley's estate, amounting to neary lb100, Virginia currency, and some time after her arrival married John Fotch, the other defendant, who took possession of all the effects. That as your oratrices grew up, they intermarried (as above) and their husbands frequently applied to the said John Fotsch and wife for the parts due their wives, but obtained only lb 20 Pennsylvania Currency, lb7 Virginia Currency, and 2 horses, worth lb14, for which they gave receipt to Fotsch, expecting to receive the remainder in a short time, but now so it is, he refuses to pay them anything more. John Fotch's answer: He married the widow of John Shitley in Germany and not in America, and that on her passage to America she died at Plymouth. He never possessed himself of any part of Shitley's estate, for he died insolvent, except a few trifling bed clothes made use of by his children on shipboard, but he says the grandfather of oratrices, Malchia Shitley, left them goods and chattels which this defendant, marrying their mother, possessed himself of, and before he came to America sold for as much money as came to lb67 Virginia Currency, of which defendant expended lb8 for oratrices for provisions and carriage from Switzerland to Holland, where they took shipping, almost 300 miles. He also paid for their passage to America the sum of 16 pistoles, and provisions growing short on shipboard, he was obliged to expend 30 shillings . Having landed in Maryland and intending to settle at Tulpahocken in Pennsylvania, he spent L 3, 15 for provisions and carriage to that place. That he left Germany in 1744, and about 2 or 3 years after he came to this country he advanced to oratrices lb 24 in Virginia Currency, and two mares of the price of lb14, 10. That lately, on 31st March 1762, he and complainants came to a final settlement and defendant agreed to settle with them lb 42. Augustine Price deposes before Felix Gilbert; That is March 1762, in company with George Carpenter, John Fotch and others, Carpenter and Fotch agreed to leave their dispute to Jacob Pershinger, Jacob Nichols and Daniel Price, but they could not agree, when they came to an agreement themselves, the only question remaining whether Virginia or Pennsylvania Currency. Daniel Price deposes the same. Jacob Miller deposes: That being at the house of John Fotch sometime in March, 1749, he heard George Carpenter ask three Gerles, that were heirs to the estate of _____, if they were satisfied with what they had received. Jacob Pershinger deposes like Augustine Price. Barbary Miller deposes, that being in company with Usley Shutling in 1750, Usley said she had received a mare and some clothes, and was well satisfied.
      Records of Augusta County Virginia
      Author: Chalkley
      Page: Volume 1, Pages 495 and 496

  • Sources 
    1. [S182] Records of Augusta County Virginia.