Research Notes:
c 1713 Casper Sherk was born. [1]
1732 Kasper Schirch arrived in Philadelphia on the ship Norris. [2] On 21 September, Casper Shirch was listed in the Philadelphia Council minutes, among Palatines who came on the ship Norris. [3] [4]
1741 Casper Sherk married Magdalena Newcomer on September 5. [5] [6]
1751 Casper Sherk was taxed at Cocalico next to Ulrich Sherk. [7]
1753 Casper Sherk bought 484 acres in Cocalico, next to Uli Sherk and John Sherk, from Peter Sherk. Dated April 10. [8]
1783 Casper Schurch died in Cocalico Township. [9] [10]
[1] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Sherk A3317, [Website].
[2] Ralph B. Strassburger, William J. Hinke, ed., Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Vol. 1 (1934, Pennsylvania German Society), 57, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[3] Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania, Vol. 3 (1852), 429, [HathiTrust].
[4] Ralph B. Strassburger, William J. Hinke, ed., Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Vol. 1 (1934, Pennsylvania German Society), 58, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[5] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Sherk A3317, [Website].
[6] John Adams Becker, Sherk A Genealogy of One Line of the Sherk Family ... Including Hans Schurch of Sumiswald (Toronto, Canada: self-published, 1997), 4, [FHLBook].
[7] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Sherk A3317, [Website].
[8] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Sherk A3317, [Website].
[9] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Sherk A3317, [Website].
[10] John Adams Becker, Sherk A Genealogy of One Line of the Sherk Family ... Including Hans Schurch of Sumiswald (Toronto, Canada: self-published, 1997), 4, [FHLBook].