This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Cramer/Schaber Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SFB.2ACI/2697.1 Message Board Post: i have the whole cramer family i just finished their tree my e-mail address is [email protected] if you want i can e-mail you the entire tree there are 10 generations just let me know and give me your e-mail address thank you! Jonas Cramer (Kramer) b.October 14, 1755 in Schluctern, Hessen-Hananau, Germany -d. August 14, 1835 in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland -buried in Lutheran Church Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland -(note:Cemetery name change is now Lennox Memorial) -at age 19, from Schluechtern, (Germany) he enlisted or transferred to the 6th Company (Grenadiers) of the Hessen- Hanau Regiment of the Crown Prince in April, 1771. His unit left Germany in March of 1776, arrived in Quebec in June 1776, served near Lake Champlain, and was transferred to Virginia in 1778. The unit records indicate that Jonas was appointed in March 1776 and April 1779, serving in the rank of Grenadier (Grenadier units were composed of taller-than-average men); and was taken prisoner of war and bound out as an indentured servant in 1782. He chose to stay in America, and married soon after his release from his indenture after the end of the Revoltionary War. His wife Catherine was probably a local girl in the area of his intended servitude, in Pennsylvania. He was never a prosperous man, about 1796, he settled in Elizabethtown (now Hagerstown), Washington County, Maryland, and lived there the remainder of his life. In 1803-4 he appeared to have no real estate but 1 cow, value of $2; value of improvements,$10; total personal property,$12. He was a member of the German Evangelical Reformed Congregation of Zion Church, Hagerstown, in1807. On November 19, 1814, Jonas Cramer of Washington County, executed an indenture of apprenticeship, binding his son, John Cramer, for the term of 3 years, to commence November 1, 1814, to learn the trade of wago! n making, etc. Jonas was the overseer of the County Poor House for the years 1819 to 1822 he had put an ad in the Torchlight and Public Advertiser on Nov.9, 1819, $30 Reward for Stolen Horse/Jonas Cramer/Wash Co Govt-Poor House and an ad in the Maryland Herald newspaper Jan 1, 1822 Notice (New Overseer for Poor House Wanted)/Jonas Cramer/Wash Co. Govt-Poor House. -m. Catherine Elizabeth SCHABER (daughter of Henry SCHABER and Anna (?) (SCHABER) on November 6, 1784 in Reading, Bearks County, Pennsylvania. Catherine Elizabeth SCHABER b. November 18, 1766 -she was christened in German Reformed Church, Frederick County, Maryland. -d. December 5, 1827 in Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland -buried in Lutheran Church Cemetery, Hagerstown, Washington County, Maryland. -they had the following children: +2. Peter Cramer b.April 28, 1786 +3. Catharine Cramer b.June 13, 1788 +4. Jonathan Cramer b. September 9, 1790 +5. Ann Mary "Polly" Cramer b.about 1793 +6. Jacob Cramer b.July 3, 1795 +7. John (Johannes) Cramer b.October 13, 1797 +8. Leah (Lea) Cramer b. January 29, 1802