First Families of Orangeburgh District, South Carolina
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Snider, Schneider, Snyder, Sneider
1a. HANS JACOB SCHNEIDER, the second son of MICHAEL SCHNEIDER and ANNA MARIA KÜST, was born 8 Sept 1713[1,2] and died about 1756 in Orangeburg Township, South Carolina. Jacob married ANNA MARIA "Mary" DEG Nov 27, 1736 in Nöttingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany[2]. She was born Aug 24, 1717 in Diethenhausen, Baden-Württemberg Germany[2] and died Abt. 1767 in Craven County, South Carolina.
Hans Jacob, with his brother Johann Michael, left Nöttingen Germany in the spring of 1744 and arrived aboard the St. Andrew in Charleston South Carolina on December 31, 1744 after twenty six weeks at sea.
After arrival, they received their headright and provisions from the British colonial office. Hans Jacob's petition for 200 acres of land on 21 Jan 1744/45 claimed a wife and 2 children. One of the children was Anna Barbara. The other must have been one of the sons Phillip Jacob or Johann Michael. The assumption is that one of the sons died before arrival in South Carolina, the other after[3].
This 200 acres of was platted on 2 Feb 1748[4] and the grant was issued on 10 Feb 1749[5]
The Schneider families settled on the east bank of the Congaree river.
Children of Hans Jacob Schneider and Anna Maria Deg are:
a. Philipp Jacob Schneider, b. Oct 16, 1737 in Nöttingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany[1,2], d. in transit or in South Carolina after Jan 1745[3].
b. Anna Barbara Snider, b: Nov 13, 1738 in Nöttingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany[1,2], d: in Congaree Settlement, Craven County, SC. She married (1)Philip Puhl Pool Abt. Feb 20, 1756. Phillip, b: Abt. 1710 in Germany, d: Abt. 1769 in Lexington District South Carolina. She married (2)George Bowers Aft. 1775.
c. Johann Michael Schneider, b: Apr 18, 1743 in Nöttingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany[1,2], d: in transit or in South Carolina after Jan 1745[3].
d. Anna Maria Schneider, b: Nov 11, 1743 in Nottingen, Baden-Württemberg Germany, d: Bef. 1744 in Nöttingen Germany.
e. Wilhelm Judson SNIDER, b: Abt. 1746 in Congaree Settlement, Craven County, South Carolina, d: Feb 02, 1778 in Congaree Settlement, Craven, County, South Carolina
f. Jacob Snider, b: Abt. 1747 in Congaree Settlement, Craven County, South Carolina, d: Abt. 1782 in St. Matthews Parish, Orangeburg, South Carolina. He married Mary ____. She d: Abt. 1795 in St. Matthews Parish, Orangeburg, South Carolina
1b. JOHANN MICHAEL SCHNEIDER, the third son of MICHAEL SCHNEIDER and ANNA MARIA KÜST, was born 8 Aug 1720[1,2] and died about 1763 in Orangeburg Township, South Carolina. Johann Michael married Anna Rosina Schlägel on Apr 21, 1744[2]. She was born Jan 19, 1720 in Grunwettersbach, Karlsruhe Germany[2] and died in Saxe Gotha, Orangeburgh, South Carolina
Johann Michael, with his brother H ans Jacob, left Nöttingen Germany in the spring of 1744 and arrived aboard the St. Andrew in Charleston South Carolina on December 31, 1744 after twenty six weeks at sea.
After arrival, they received their headright and provisions from the British colonial office. Johann Michael's petition for 150 acres of land on 21 Jan 1744/45 claimed a wife and his sister-in-law, Barbara Sleighter (Schlägel)[3].
This 150 acres of was platted on 1 Feb 1748[6] and the grant was issued on 10 Feb 1749[7].
The Schneider families settled on the east bank of the Congaree river.
Children of Johann Michael Schneider and Rosina Schlägel are:
a. William Snider, b: Abt. 1746 in Craven County, South Carolina.
b. Jacob Snider, b: Abt. 1748 in Craven County, South Carolina, d: Abt. 1813 in Lexington District South Carolina. Jacob married Susanna OSWALT bef. 1780. She, b: Bef. 1760 in Lexington District South Carolina, d: Abt. 1835 in 1835, Lye Branch, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama
In German, a schneider is one who makes outer garments; a tailor. This is from the German verb "schneiden", meaning to cut. Schneider is a variant meaning "one who cuts". As every town needed a tailor, schneider became a very common word and its spelling was standardized much earlier than many other German names. Even so, German ministers sometimes varied the spelling of family names in different ways, even in the same sentence.
REFERENCES:
1. Evangelische Kirche Nöttingen (A. Pforzheim). "Kirchenbuch, 1590-1962". FHL INTL Film 1238326
2. Brigitte Burkett, Emigrants from Baden and Württemberg in the Eighteenth Century. Vol. 1: Baden-Durlach and Vicinity. Camden ME: Picton Press, Inc., 1996
3. Brent Holcomb, Petitions for Land from the South Carolina Council Journals, Volumw I:1734/5-1748. SCMAR, Columbia, South Carolina, 1996.
4. SC Archives, Colonial Plats (Jacob Schneider), 1748, Ser. S213184, Vol. 0004, Pg. 00430, Itm. 02.
5. SC Archives, Memorials (Jacob Kautz), 1767, Ser. S111001, Vol. 0009, Pg. 00324, Itm. 002
("... summarizing a chain of title to a grant to Jacob Shneider of Feb. 10, 1749.").
6. SC Archives, Colonial Plats (Michael Shneider), 1748, Ser. S213184, Vol. 0004, Pg. 00430, Itm. 01.
7. SC Archives, Colonial Grants(Michael Shneider), 1749, Ser. S213019, Vol. 0004, Pg. 00204.
Other references to this surname are found in OGSGS Newsletters: Vol. 1, pp. 24,33,37, 55, 75, 96, 100; Vol. 3, p. 47; Vol. 4, p. 7; Vol. 5, pp. 42, 103, 113; Vol. 6, pp. 8, 9, 10, 30, 40, 45, 152; Vol. 7, p. 1; Vol.10, p. 76; Vol. 11, p. 28.
Information provided by Dewey Snyder on 8 Feb 2007.