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A. S. died December 25, 1822, aged 76 years, 8 months.
Regina, his widow, died November 9, 1826, aged 77
years, 1 month, 8 days.
Abraham Schultz, the eldest son of George Schultz,
was born in Upper Hanover, March 23, 1747. In his
youth, after some brief school instruction, he became,
not only a great lover of books and literature, but an
industrious reader, and being gifted with a comprehensive
mind and retentive memory, he soon acquired a
good deal of general knowledge, of which he made good
use through life. He was a member of the religious
society of Schwenkfelders, and served them in the capacity
of trustee, school-inspector, teacher, and catechist,
and the community in which he lived as scrivener
and counsellor, and in the year 1796 was elected
a member of the General Assembly of the State from
Montgomery County.
He died nearly 76 years of age. Among some papers
left at his demise there were a few letters written by
him that are quite interesting. One of them, dated
June 14, 1783, to Chr. Groh, J. F. Heintze, Jeremiah
Heydrick, and others, in Germany, giving an account
of the then existing situation of the followers of
Schwenkfeld in this country, and how they fared during
the troublous times of the "Revolution;" giving
also some of the incidents, effects, and consequences of
the war then just closed.
Another letter, to his young friend Dr. Christopher
Heydrick, who was then about entering upon the practice
of his profession. The letter is full of sound sense
and good advice, and is still carefully treasured up by
the doctor's worthy descendants in Western Pennsylvania.
Another, written in 1820, in reply to a request of Pastor