Abraham Shelly

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• Eby ID Number: 00111-6972.4

Abraham — . [Group Sheet]

1. Abraham Shelly was born 1757, Of, Butler Co., Pennsylvania; died Yes, date unknown.

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• Eby ID Number: 00111-6972.5

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• Eby ID Number: 00111-6972.6

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• Eby ID Number: 00111-6972.7

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Shelly, "The Shellys are of English descent and originally belonged to the Non-conformists who were subjected to so many trials and privations during the Stuart Period that many of their number left their native home (England) and emigrated to Holland, while others went to the Palatinate and Switzerland where they could serve God according to their views of the teaching of the Bible. Among the number who thus came to Switzerland in 1657 we find the name of "Shelly" whose given name was not received. He resided the remainder of his life in the land of his adoption where he died leaving a family. We know the name of only one of the sons, namely: Abraham who was married to a Swiss lady and raised quite a family, all of whom lived and died in Switzerland save his youngest son, also named Abraham who was born about the year 1703 and came to America in 1727 or 1730, and settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, in 1734, where he purchased a large tract of land from the government. To whom he was married and the number of children in his family cannot be ascertained at so late a date. We know that one of his sons was named Abraham and that he was born in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, about the year 1736. He was married and raised a family of several children, all of whom settled in their native state. One of the sons was named Abraham. He was born about the year 1757. About the year 1779 he was married to Catharine Boyer.(It is not certain that her name was Boyer, one of the descendants is under the impression that it was Beyer) Some time after their marriage they left their native county and moved west to Butler County, same state, where he followed farming. He died, age some eighty years, leaving a family of eight children"


Eby, Ezra E. (1895). A biographical history of Waterloo township and other townships of the county: being a history of the early settlers and their descendants, mostly all of Pennsylvania Dutch origin: as also much other unpublished historical information chiefly of a local character. Berlin [Kitchener, Ont.]: [s.n.].