Thanks! I will certainly try your suggestions. I have found the name spelled many ways. One connection I have thought possible is Johannes George STURTZ who is mentioned in the records of the Lower Bermudan Church near Gettysburg in the 1760s but have no further records of him. The Christian Stotz - Sturtz - Storts family of whom Rev. War Vet. John Jacob STORTS was descended is a well documented member but the ones I talked to seem to have "lost" Johannes George." Old family notes do state that the family did live near Gettysburg at one time, Linda In a message dated 12/5/2011 4:56:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Linda wrote: "My ancestor George Storts / Steorts / Sturtz / Stots / Stotz / Steortz / etc was born in 1769 near Hagerstown according to the 1850 census. His father, whose name may have been George or Frederick, was supposed to have come from Germany and fought in the Revolutionary War. Old family notes say the family lived near Gettysburg at an early date before two brothers went west over Braddock's old road. One brother went on West and my ancestor George Steorts bought land in 1817 near the Harrison / Lewis County line on Hacker's Creek on what is today Route 19. . . . [snip]. I have wondered if the father could have died in the Revolutionary War." The 1850 US Census for Lewis County, (West) Virginia states your George was born in "Md.", not in or near "Hagerstown." There are indeed occasional local 1850 enumerations that give a County of birth, but this is not one of them (Lewis was set off from Harrison and Randolph Counties in 1816). Back in August you said in a post to this list that you did not know where the item regarding Hagerstown came from. If you have discovered evidence that your George lived in or near Hagerstown, future queries and this list's readers would benefit by your sharing what that evidence is. Some Maryland records concerning the Revolutionary War have been published in the volumes of the Archives of Maryland, and have been scanned and posted to the MD Archives' internet site here: _http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/volumes.html_ (http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/volumes.html) Volumes 12 and 18 have these records. If you click on the link to a particular volume you can search it by surname. If you have not already checked the Penna. State Archives' military records card file index for the Revolutionary War, the gateway to it is here: _http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/_ (http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/) --click on the link at bottom of the page, then on the new page scroll down for the Revolutionary War link. The card file is arranged alphabetically and is pretty easy to navigate. Many items are from records that either no longer exist or are closed to public access, but a lot are extracted from the ~published~ volumes of the Pennsylvania Archives. In the latter case, there will be a citation, at lower right of the card, to Volume and Series of these published volumes, which can be found free at the Internet Archives as well as on the paid-subscription sites ancestry.com and fold3.com. None of these service or militia lists will give genealogical information, but they do often indicate places of residence. Even if they only add to your list of possible ancestors of your George, they will give you leads about where to look for possible estate and land records that might indicate who their living children were. Good hunting, Judy . ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MDWASHIN ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Maria Sturtz married Phipip Shroyer -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 4:08 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Storts / Steorts / Sturtz / Stotz, was Triple Tax,Journals . ... Thanks! I will certainly try your suggestions. I have found the name spelled many ways. One connection I have thought possible is Johannes George STURTZ who is mentioned in the records of the Lower Bermudan Church near Gettysburg in the 1760s but have no further records of him. The Christian Stotz - Sturtz - Storts family of whom Rev. War Vet. John Jacob STORTS was descended is a well documented member but the ones I talked to seem to have "lost" Johannes George." Old family notes do state that the family did live near Gettysburg at one time, Linda In a message dated 12/5/2011 4:56:56 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: Linda wrote: "My ancestor George Storts / Steorts / Sturtz / Stots / Stotz / Steortz / etc was born in 1769 near Hagerstown according to the 1850 census. His father, whose name may have been George or Frederick, was supposed to have come from Germany and fought in the Revolutionary War. Old family notes say the family lived near Gettysburg at an early date before two brothers went west over Braddock's old road. One brother went on West and my ancestor George Steorts bought land in 1817 near the Harrison / Lewis County line on Hacker's Creek on what is today Route 19. . . . [snip]. I have wondered if the father could have died in the Revolutionary War." The 1850 US Census for Lewis County, (West) Virginia states your George was born in "Md.", not in or near "Hagerstown." There are indeed occasional local 1850 enumerations that give a County of birth, but this is not one of them (Lewis was set off from Harrison and Randolph Counties in 1816). Back in August you said in a post to this list that you did not know where the item regarding Hagerstown came from. If you have discovered evidence that your George lived in or near Hagerstown, future queries and this list's readers would benefit by your sharing what that evidence is. Some Maryland records concerning the Revolutionary War have been published in the volumes of the Archives of Maryland, and have been scanned and posted to the MD Archives' internet site here: _http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/volumes.html_ (http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/volumes.html) Volumes 12 and 18 have these records. If you click on the link to a particular volume you can search it by surname. If you have not already checked the Penna. State Archives' military records card file index for the Revolutionary War, the gateway to it is here: _http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/_ (http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/) --click on the link at bottom of the page, then on the new page scroll down for the Revolutionary War link. The card file is arranged alphabetically and is pretty easy to navigate. Many items are from records that either no longer exist or are closed to public access, but a lot are extracted from the ~published~ volumes of the Pennsylvania Archives. In the latter case, there will be a citation, at lower right of the card, to Volume and Series of these published volumes, which can be found free at the Internet Archives as well as on the paid-subscription sites ancestry.com and fold3.com. None of these service or militia lists will give genealogical information, but they do often indicate places of residence. Even if they only add to your list of possible ancestors of your George, they will give you leads about where to look for possible estate and land records that might indicate who their living children were. Good hunting, Judy . ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MDWASHIN ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MDWASHIN ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message