Biographical Notes |
Source: Myrtle Sheets Sowers
Note: The Sheets family emigrated from Germany to Pennsylvania. The earliest record of the family in connection with Pennsylvania was in 1683 when Johan Jacob Sheets, Minister in Crefeldt on the Rhine, purchased 4,000 acres of land. He was one of about a score of Palatinates who purchased large tracts of land in Pennsylvania for the purpose of establishing a German colony. They organized themselves into a company known as the Frankford [t?] Company and came to Pa. in 1683 to establish the town of Germantown. Johan Jacob Sheets did not come with the other and never saw the new world. His son, Conrad Sheets, came in Philadelphia in 1737. George Ludwig Sheets came in 1782. In 1789, one George Sheets owned 193 acres of land in Virginia. In 1790 Leonard & George sheets sold a large tract of land in Dauphin county, PA. Several members of the family went from Pennsylvania to Virginia.
In November 1834 George Sheets applied for a pension.....[see George, Sr.]
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