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Massachusetts. At the age of twentytwo,
Samuel Hicks enlisted under Captain
Scudder in the Essex County (New
Jersey) Regiment, State Troops, Continental
Army. In 1783 Samuel Hicks married
Catherine, daughter of and
Elizabeth (Bishop) Johnson, being at the
time a resident of Dover, New Jersey.
(See Bishop line.)
(II) Hannah Hicks, daughter of Samuel
and Catherine (Johnson) Hicks, was
born November 27, 1788, and became the
wife of David Herriman (see Herriman
line). Mrs. Herriman died November 4,
i860.
(The Bishop Line).
The Bishop family, like that of the
Hicks, settled early in New England, and
was of English origin. The derivation of
the name is variously given, one of the
suppositions being that it was adopted
by those who rented land of the holders
,
of bishoprics.
John Bishop is first mentioned as the
owner of land in Newbury, Massachusetts,
in 1637. Other purchases and
grants followed. He probably went to
Nantucket about 1664, his name appear-
ing as one of two added to those of the
original proprietors on the first deed
given by the Indians. In 1667 he was
one of nine patentees who founded Wood-
bridge, New Jersey, of which settlement
he was the leading man. In 1668 he was
one of two deputies from Woodbridge to
the first assembly of the province of New
Jersey, and in 1672 he became a member
of Governor Carteret's council, serving
ten years. He married, in 1647, m Newbury,
Rebecca Scullard, widow of Samuel
Scullard, and daughter of Richard Kent,
a very prominent settler and selectman.
John Bishop died in 1684.
(I) John Bishop, a lineal descendant of
John Bishop, the immigrant, was born
about 1700.
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(II) Elizabeth Bishop, daughter of
John Bishop, was born, probably, about
1730, and became the wife of John-
son, as stated in Hicks line.
(The Shriver Line).
The original form of the patronymic
was Schreiber, signifying "writer," a
meaning very illustrative of the literary
habits of the race.
(I) Andrew Schreiber, son of Jost and
Anna Schreiber, was baptized September
7, 1673, in Alsenborn, Oberant Sacetern,
in the Electorate Palatine. He married,
in August, 1706, Anna Margareta Young,
widow of John Young, and in 1721, they
all emigrated to the province of Pennsyl-
vania, landing in Philadelphia and settling
in the neighborhood of Goshenhoppen
on the banks of the Schuylkill.
(II) Andrew (2) Schreiber, son of Andrew
(1) and Anna Margareta (Young)
Schreiber, was born September 6, 1712,
and was a child when the family came to
Pennsylvania. He followed the trades of
tanning and shoemaking. In 1733 he
married Anna Maria Keiser, who was
born in 1710, near Heidelberg, Germany,
and removed to Conewago, Pennsylvania,
which was then in a comparatively unsettled
region, but the Indians, who were
their neighbors, proved friendly and gave
them no cause for uneasiness. Andrew
Schreiber died August 12, 1797, and his
widow passed away May 8, 1801.
(III) David Schreiber, son of Andrew
(2) and Anna Maria (Keiser) Schreiber,
was born in Conewago, Pennsylvania,
and settled in Little Pipe Creek, Frederick
county, Maryland, on land given him by
his father. He married Rebecca Ferree,
a member of a Huguenot family which
was among those exiled by the Revoca-
tion of the Edict of Nantes. They took
refuge in Pennsylvania, finding peace and
protection under the just and mild rule of