Johann Adam Schauss

Birth: 1703-1704 Albisheim, Pfalz, The Palatinate, Germany
(Male)

Death: 12 December 1770 Bethania, Forsyth County (also referenced Rowan County), North Carolina
Burial: 13 December 1770 Dobbs Parish Graveyard, Bethabara, Forsyth County (also referenced Stokes County), North Carolina
Residence:  Gnadenthal, Northampton County, Pennsylvania 1748
Occupation:  Miller 1743/1750 Gnadenthal
Note:
>Immigration 1 September 1736 Ship Harle, Captain Ralph Harle, Rotterdam, Holland to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 32 years old.
>Conf/Christening: 1717, Evangelical Church, Albisheim, Pfalz, Germany

Father: Johann Conrad Schauss
b: 2 January 1675
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Mother: Anna Engel Conrad
b: abt 1676 Albisheim, Pfalz, Germany
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Married: Maria Barbara Baum 16 January 1724 or 25 in Albisheim, Pfalz, Germany

Children:
Maria Magdalena Margaretha Schauss 25 September 1725 Albisheim, Pfalz, Germany
Friedrich Christoph Schauss 15 April 1727 Albisheim, Pfalz, Germany
Philip Nicolaus Schauss 17 December 1728 Immesheim, Pfalz, Germany
Anna Maria Gertraud Schauss 18 July 1731 Albisheim, Pfalz, Germany
John Conrad Schauss 7 January 1737/1738 Falkner Swamp, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Anna Margaret Schauss abt 1740 Falkner Swamp, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Heinrich Schauss 1741
Gottlieb Schauss 14 December 1744 Bethlehem, Northampton, PA
Elizabeth Benigna Schauss December 1746 Bethlehem, Northampton, PA
Christina Schauss 11 July 1748 Whitehall Twp, Lehigh, PA

Sources/Notes:
>1743 the Moravians built the first grist mill in Bethlehem. The construction was supervised by Henry Antes, and assisted by John Adam Schaus, the miller (copied from RootsWeb)
>1753 Witness to a Northampton County deed (A1, p. 5-6)
>1769 Served on a jury in Rowan County, 
>Dobb's Parish Graveyard, Cranford Collection in the NC Room
>Records of the Moravians in NC, 1:399 Wachovia Memorabilia
  "A widower, Adam Schaus, who passed away at the home of his son in Bethania, was buried in the    Parish graveyard near the mill." 1770
>Pennsylvanische Geschiectes-Schreiber
  Christopher Sauer, Germantown, PA
  "Adam Schausz, miller on Perkiomen Creek in Pawling's mill, offers to seel his mill in Bucks              County, at the Forks of the Delaware." 16 December 1750
>Was a member of the Lutheran Church
>Was an inkeeper
>He and several of his children, including Philipp, moved their families to Rowan County, NC, near the Wachovia settlement, a Moravian community
>On December 16, 1750, he advertised his mill for sale in the "Pennsylvanische Geschictes-Schreiber" published in Germantown, PA, by Christopher Sauer.The ad reads as follows: "December 16, 1750.Adam Schauss. miller on Perkiomen Creek in Pawling's mill, offers to sell his mill in Bucks County, at the Forks of the Delaware."
>HISTORY: He was living during American Revolution, had migrated to NC from PA "In 1743, the Moravian built their first grist mill at Bethlehem, at the foot of the declivity above which the original house of the settlement stood.Henry Antes undertook to supervise the construction, being assisted by John Adam Schaus, the miller.This was a great boon to the settlers surrounding it.It was replaced by another mill in 1751"...Quote from the "Pennsylvanian German in Revolutionary War 1775-1783", page 466.