[7] GEORGE SCHOLTZ[E 7], b Feb. 15, 1674; d Feb. 21, 1754; lived in Nieder Harpersdorf, Silesia; m Jan. 15, 1704, ANNA HUBNER [E 8], of Armenruhe, b 1680; d Oct. 17, 1756.
George Scholtz and wife left Silesia for Saxony Apr. 27, 1726, with their four children and settled in Hennersdorf, near Gorlitz. On Apr. 19, 1730, they moved to Herrnhut; on June 16, 1731, they moved from Herrnhut:to Berthelsdorf ‘‘Auf den Ober Hof.”” On Apr. 19, 1733, they left Berthelsdorf for Pa., arriving in Phila. on the Brigantine ‘“Merchant,”’ Sept. 18, 1733.
Children (4):
George Scholtz [E 7], d Feb. 22, 1754, aet. 80 years. Anna, widow of George Scholtz, d Oct. 17, 1756, aet. 76 years less 5 weeks; interred Oct. 19, Text, Ps. 90: 15 [C/. David Schultze’s Almanac, Perk. Reg., Vol. ITT, p. 61}.
“Nuptials Patris mei d 15 Januar 1704, war alt 30 Jahr, et Mater 23 Jahr; Anno 1674, d 15 Februar ist mein Vater George Scholtze gebohren und ist Anno 1746 d 15 Februar nun 72 Jahr alt. Meine Mutter Anna, geb. Hiibnerin, ist gebohren Anno 1680.” [Cf. David Schultz Almanac, p i@.] (The nuptials of my father took place on Jan. 15, 1704. His age was 30 years and mother was 23 years. My father, George Scholtze, was born in 1764, and was 72 years old on Feb. 15, 1746. My mother, maiden name Hiibner, was born in 1680).
“Drei davon handeln schon 1731/2 mit Saffron in America.” [Regent, p 84 b.] (Three of the children deal in Saffron in America in 1731/2.)
Practically all the information concerning the family of George Scholtze, Sr., after their arrival in Pa., was obtained from the diaries of his son, David. His place of residence and burial are not known although it is likely that they in later life lived with their son, Melchior, on the tract bought by George and Melchior in Upper Hanover Twp., Montg. Co., Pa. [Plate D I]. It is surmised that George Schultz and wife, Anna, and their son, Melchior, are buried in unmarked graves on an unenclosed plot on this tract.
His son, George, who had preceded the family to Pa. by two years, was a merchant in Philadelphia at the time of the arrival of the father’s family, and it is very likely that father and son lived together for the first few years, but where the father lived after the son moved to Maryland the Editor has been unable to determine.