Shuysters and Skinners (1845)--name "Shuyster"?

[James C Stalker]

Name spelling is notoriously fluid.  A familysearch.org search for last name
shuyster using Soundex presents 53 names in the 1880 US census and the
International Index including shuster, shister, shuister, and shyster.
Shister is the most common, by far.  But, there is, in fact, a Henry
Shuyster, married in 18 April 1849 in Morgan, Ohio. This must be Roger's
granddad, right?

Jim


Mullins, Bill writes:

> It's as bona fide as anything else you'd find in Newsbank's "Early
> American Newspapers", I suppose.
> "All I know is what I read in the papers . . . ."
>
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>> FWIW, I never came across the surname "Shuyster." Is this bona fide?
>>
>> Gerald Cohen
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>> Original message from Bill Mullins, June 6, 2005:
>> > The Pittsfield Sun.;  Date: 1858-07-08;   Vol: LVIII;   Iss: 3016;
>> > Page: [1];
>> >
>> > "Jacob Shuyster, alias Tom Ham, a notorious burglar, who
>> some years since stole jewels, &c., from the Patent Office at
>> Washington, was arrested at Bridgeport, Ct., on Monday, by
>> officers from Philadelphia on a charge of making counterfeit coin."
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James C. Stalker
Department of English
Michigan State University