Jacob Scheimer. who was born in Gersheim, Rheinpfalz, Bavaria, Germany, in 1679, and his will was probated Oct. 5. 1757, his death having occurred about the middle of the preceding September. The date of his arrival heare is not known, but he was naturalized in 1730, and prior to 1734 paid quit rent to the English government on one hundred acres of Skippack, in Germantown township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. After 1736 he removed to above Redington, Pennsylvania., his land extending to the Lehigh river, and there made his permanent home. For many years the place was known as Shimerstown, as maybe seen on old maps of the section, but is now Redington, and the original one hundred and ten acres has never left the possession of the Shinier family.

Jacob Scheimer married (first) between 1720 and 1722, Margaret, who died after 1730, a daughter of Heivert and Elizabeth (Rittinghuysen) Papen, and a granddaughter of William Ruttinglniysen, who came from Broig, Holland, settled at Germantown, Pennsylvania, was the first American Mennonite bishop, and established the first paper mill in this country. One of his great-grandsons was David Rittenhouse, the celebrated astronomer. Mr. Scheimer married (second) Elizabeth whose family name is not on record.