Mathias Shutz emigrated from Preusen. Germany on the ship "Rowand which landed at Philadelphia, Sept. 29. 1753. He located in Lynn Township, Lehigh County. His homestead is now the William H. Reitz farm.

Jacob Zink on March 6, 1748, obtained a proprietary warrant for a tract in Lynn, bounded by lands of Mathias Schlitz and others; and he, on September 25, 1752, sold this tract to John Gerlach Moyer. who sold it on September 9, 1760. to Nicholas Lynn. The latter sold it to Henry Brednig on January 15, 1763, and Brednig sold 14 acres of it on January 10, 1767, to Mathias Schultz, whose farm then had come to embrace a total area of 148 acres.

In 1765. Mathias Schulz built a log barn and this was replaced in 1888 by the present one. A singular co-incidence in the three generations of this family is that Mathias Schutz was an only son; he had an only son, Heinrich, and the latter also had an only son, David. William H. Reitz, whose wife was Brigitta, a daughter of David Schulz, has a document which explains an early legal transaction, connecting the Schmitt and the Schulz families, and reads as follows:

"Lynn Township, November 12, 1753: I do assign and set over all my right, title and interests in this bill of sale, unto my brother-in-law. Matthias Schulz.. as witness my hand." (Signed) Christian Schmitt. Witness: John Everett, Andres Everett.

Ancestor Schulz and his wife Anna Mary, had an only son. Heinrich, and tradition tells us they had eight daughters, among whom were: Mrs. Frederick Sechler; Mrs. Ferdinand Ennis (Enos), whose husband was a noted Indian fighter), and Catharine Elizabeth (married to P. Philip Wannamacher 1760-1839, born August 4. 1758, and died December 3, 1835).

The name Schulz has been corrupted into Schitz, by David Schitz. Some of the later generations anglicized it into Scheetz.