My immigrant ancestor to America from the Scroter/Streeter/Streetor line is John Jacob Scroter who was born in Holland between 1760 and 1770. After a short stay in England, Scroter came to America and married Elizabeth Dubbert on November 10, 1800 in Charleston, South Carolina. Elizabeth's family had fled to Charleston from Fairfield County, South Carolina during the American Revolution because her father, John Frederick Dubbert(Dubard) was a Tory sympathizer with the British crown. In fact he provided supplies and goods to Lord Cornwallis in South Carolina(near Winnsboro near where the Dubbert family had been living at the time in the mid 1770s.
Elizabeth Dubbert Scroter's father John Frederick Dubbert(Dubard) was a Presbyterian minister and was a chaplain during the Revolutionary War. Dubbert(Dubard) led a fascinating life according to records I've researched. He was evidently very brave and unafraid of bucking colonists while assisting the British thru the early parts of the American Revolution. I imagine the threats on his life and his family forced him to flee to Charleston later in the war. He sadly, died of smallpox in Charleston and was never able to return to his home near Winnsboro, SC(Fairfield County) Dubbert(Dubard) is buried at the St. Phillips Episcopal Church Graveyard. (no marker, I searched them all) But he is in the church record books(I checked with the sexton at the cemetery)as being buried there November 4, 1781 after suffering from smallpox.
John Jacob Scroter was a member of the High Presbyterian Church in Holland.
The Scroters had four daughters as follows:
1 Mary, born 1804, Married Angus Munn
2 Charlotte Felestia, born 1810. Married Alexander(Sandy) Campbell both are buried at the old Munn Cemetery in Jefferson, SC. (no markers left as of 2015) Charlotte & Alexander(Sandy) are my Great-Great-Great Grandparents
3 Nancy Ann, born 1812, married Tolar (Tarlor) Sutton
4 Rosalie, born 1815, married Daniel Munn
It's not clear how the Dubberts came by a land grant from the King of England, but Reverend Dubbert was a Tory refugee and was an arden supporter of the King. There is a legend that this land reached from Blakeney's Bridge to Black Creek. SC. For some unknown reason he never claimed all of it.
A tract of this land was inherited by his granddaughter, Mary, who had married Angus Munn. This land was three miles east of Jefferson, South Carolina, off highway 265 and on a state road leading to the right and to the Sycamore Place.
The Munn Cemetery is on the right side of the road in a growth of trees. Angus, Mary, Charlotte Felestia, Tolar Sutton, and several other family members are buried there.
However as this cemetery fell into disrepair in the 1980s the family decided to place a marker for Nancy Ann Streetor(Schroter) and her husband Tolar Sutton at Fork Creek Methodist Church. The bodies however are buried at this Old Munn Cemetery which has no markers left.
John died in the 1846 and Elizabeth died during the 1860's.
John Scroter's name died with him because he did not have any male members to carry on the name. The surname has been spelled several different ways in census, marriage, land grant and other records in South Carolina. My older relatives in Jefferson/Pageland area, specifically my Great Aunt Verdie Johnson Gilmore told me the family pronounced the name "Streeter" and the spelling was changed to that.
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Additional info:
John Frederick DUBBERT d. 4 Nov 1781 & is buried in Charleston SC at St. Phillips Episcopal Church downtown. His daughter Elizabeth R. DUBBERT b. abt 1774 SC, d. 1860/1869 married 10 Nov. 1800 to John Jacob SCHRODER, b. abt 1760, d. 1840/1849 SC.
Children of this marriage were:
1. Mary Elizabeth b. before 1808 SC. md. abt 1830 to Angus MUNN b. 1806 Bladen Co NC
2. Nancy Anne b.1808 SC d. 1 Feb 1892 near Jefferson, Chesterfield Co., SC. married Tarlor SUTTON (I don't have a date)
3. Charlotte Felestia b. 1810 SC, d. 7 Jul 1864, Jefferson, Chesterfield Co SC. Married Alexander CAMPBELL
4. Rosalie b. SC married Daniel MUNN
MARRIAGE NOTICES IN
The South-Carolina Gazette And Its Successors.
(1732-1801.)
COMPILED AND EDITED A. S. SALLEY, JR.
From the files in the library of the Charleston Library Society, Charleston, S. C. ALBANY. N. Y.: JOEL MUNSELL'S SOUS, PUBLISHERS. 1902.
November 1800-
Married, this week by the Rev. Mr. Faber. Mr. J. J. Scroter to Miss Elizabeth R. Dubbert, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Mr. Dubbert, of the German Church in this city. (Ibid.)
"One bit of oral history that has survived is a memory of Elizabeth Dubbert's. She recalled when she was a girl and her father died. His pallbearers were British soldiers. This family was "High Presbyterian" Perhaps a reference to Rev. Dubbert's formal training, as opposed to the rural expression of Presbyterianism. Regardless the reformed religion of Presbyterianism had its roots in Britain( particularly Scotland) A word about the spelling. Schroter, was the orignial. In the records it is very inconsistent. I have seen it spelled all sorts of ways, as well as the Anglicized variations on Streetor /Streator /Streeter /Streater /Strutter /Streighter and so on.
... J.J. Schroter died in the 1846 according to a lawsuit filed in 1899 by the Clark Family who were disputed land originally owned by Scroter. , Elizabeth died in the 1860s in Chesterfield Co. There is a graveyard on or near the old Schroter land east of Jefferson, SC, next to Road Branch Church. It is the old Munn graveyard. The only gravestone left standing is that of Charlotte (Schroter) Campbell." As of 2015 that stone ha
CENSUS:1850 Chesterfield Co SC, p142
#673 Elizabeth Scroter 70 b.SC value of real estate: $1000
Elizabeth Munn 14 b.SC
(Tarlor Sutton also on this page)
CENSUS:1860 Kershaw Co SC lists Elizabeth twice: p33 with the Tollie Sutton family, as E.M. Schnoter, age 86 and with the D.D. Munn family as Elizabeth Streighter, age 86. John Jacob Sutton, Elizabeth's grandson, was living next door.
Equity Court proceedings in 1837 of her sister, Catherine Gross Fasbender, Elizabeth's name is given as Schroder. It is also found in records as Schroeder.