Anna Gertrude Schaefer (widow of Nicolas Schaefer) nee Gilles, daughter of Johann Gilles and Anna Maria Schneider, married Johann Peter Adams, son of Johann Adams and Maria Catharina Diedrich, on 30 May 1786 at St Kastor Catholic Church in Weiler. Anna Gertrude and Johann Peter were the parents of four children known, in birth order, Heinricus, Johann Castor, Mathias and Nicholas ~ Their son Nicholas Adams, with his wife Susanna and their five children, and Susanna's brother Nicolaus Gaeb, emigrated to America and arrived at Port of New York on 21 August 1841. Nicholas Adams was one of three founders' of Johnsburg, McHenry County, Illinois, and helped to establish the parish and church, St John the Baptist Catholic Church. They traveled from New York to Chicago by rail and from Chicago to Johnsburg, McHenry County, Illinois, by oxen-drawn wagon, along with Jacob Schmitt and his family, and Nicholas Frett and his family. It is said that "their original destination was Johnsburg, (Mower County) Minnesota", along with the Jacob Schmitt and Nicolas Frett families ~
Anna Gertrude Schaefer (widow of Nicolas Schaefer) nee Gilles, daughter of Johann Gilles and Anna Maria Schneider, married Johann Peter Adams, son of Johann Adams and Maria Catharina Diedrich, on 30 May 1786 at St Kastor Catholic Church in Weiler. Anna Gertrude and Johann Peter were the parents of four children known, in birth order, Heinricus, Johann Castor, Mathias and Nicholas ~ Their son Nicholas Adams, with his wife Susanna and their five children, and Susanna's brother Nicolaus Gaeb, emigrated to America and arrived at Port of New York on 21 August 1841. Nicholas Adams was one of three founders' of Johnsburg, McHenry County, Illinois, and helped to establish the parish and church, St John the Baptist Catholic Church. They traveled from New York to Chicago by rail and from Chicago to Johnsburg, McHenry County, Illinois, by oxen-drawn wagon, along with Jacob Schmitt and his family, and Nicholas Frett and his family. It is said that "their original destination was Johnsburg, (Mower County) Minnesota", along with the Jacob Schmitt and Nicolas Frett families ~
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