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From: "Dwayne Wrightsman" <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Uwharrie Brethren: Stutzman, Fouts, Huber/Hoover, Mast,Varner, Schwartz
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:58:50 -0400
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Yes, this John Fouts would have been a son from the father's second marriage
(to the Hohn woman). He and his brothers lived on the Uwharrie headwaters
in Rowan County (now Davidson County). I, too, wonder how this Barbara
Schwartz was related to Jacob Schwartz/Black (born 1718). She seems a
little young to have been Jacob's daughter unless Jacob had a second family
in his old age. I'm sure she was related to Jacob Schwartz/Black somehow as
Jacob stayed in the Uwharrie (assuming he was still alive) when his son
Frederick moved up and over to Wilkes/Ashe in 1787. I just cannot figure
out the relation since I know so little about Jacob's family. I suspect
that Barbara was either a daughter or a granddaughter.

John Fouts and his brothers Nicholas Fouts and Peter Fouts were living in
the same neighborhood with old Jacob Black during the 1790 Rowan County
census. Other close neighbors included Jacob Bowers, Adam Bowers, George
Bowers, William Embler, Leonard Eller, Christian Sears, and John Sears.
Most, if not all, of these men were Uwharrie Brethren or closely related to
the Uwharrie Brethren. This list does not include the Uwharrie Brethren who
were counted in the Randolph County census. The Randolph County
neighborhood was immediately east of the Rowan County neighborhood, divided
by the political geography of a county line.

Dwayne Wrightsman


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Subject: Re: [BRE] Uwharrie Brethren: Stutzman, Fouts, Huber/Hoover, Mast,
Varner, Schwartz

I have a John Foutz, son of Johan David Fouts, marrying (c1793) Barbara
Schwartz - John was born in Lancaster Co PA, and died 1835 in Davidson
Co NC. All the children (as far as I could trace) remained in Davidson
Co. I have no information on Barbara Schwartz

Merle C Rummel
.
>
> The circumstances of Jacob Schwartz are largely unknown, and that is the
> main reason for this message. Various Fouts compilers say that Jacob
> Schwartz was "a neighbor to Andrew Hoover in Maryland who sold out in
> Maryland on the same day that Hoover did." Andrew Hoover sold his two
> tracts, "Mirey Springs" on Little Pipe Creek, and "Addition to Mirey
> Springs" near Big Pipe Creek, to Stephen Bowers on May 26, 1762. If Jacob
> Schwartz sold out on the same day, one can speculate that he may have been
> related to Andrew Hoover by marriage. If he did not marry a Hoover,
perhaps
> he married a Fouts (since so many Brethren seemed to be related to that
> family).
>
> Jacob Schwartz was known as Jacob Black in North Carolina. I think he was
> the Jacob Schwartz who was born in Webenheim in 1718, emigrated on the
Ship
> Virtuous Grace in 1737, and was baptized by Michael Frantz at Conestoga in
> 1739. I think he was probably the Jacob Schwartz who warranted land in
> Warwick Township, Lancaster County, in 1752, but never got around to
having
> it surveyed. Almost nothing is known about his family except that he had
a
> son Frederick Black, who married a Fouts daughter of Uwharrie and who
moved
> with the next generation of families Fouts, Younce, Burkett, and Shearer
to
> the New River headwaters in Wilkes/Ashe. Frederick Black, along with
Ulrich
> Kessler, was a leader of the early Ashe County (New River) Brethren.


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