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Surnames: Casler, Cassilier, Caslin, Service, Sarvis, Shafer, Doyle
Classification: Query
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Am desperate for any information anyone may have on what happened to Francis Casler and
wife Elizabeth Service (sometimes spelled Sarvis) after 1806. She was a daughter of James
Sarvis and I think Catharine (who may have been Shafer). [It appears that in 1802 James
was married to a woman identified as Catherine, and when he died o/a November 1, 1803, the
kids were identified as orphans with no mother/step-mother. There is a vague reference to
a Catherine Shafer being married to ___ Serviss, but she exited the picture and went back
to Pennsylvania].
Elizabeth Service/Sarvis was born in about 1782, in Middlesex Co., New Jersey, so I am
anticipating that Francis Casler's birthyear would have been about 1778.
Francis Casler was named as one of the potential recipients of the $1,500 surety bond,
posted by brother-in-law Robert Sarvis, with Daniel Snowhill [a merchant/owner] as the
actual 'money-man'. In the bond, required by the Orphan's Court, dated April
30, 1806, Robert had to pledge to use the money from the anticipated sale of the Sarvis
real estate (that had been purchased from what looks like a "Shafer" estate),
for the education, feeding, and clothing of his 3 legal wards (who were also his
siblings)... minors Nancy, James and Joseph Sarvis. If there was any money left over
after they became of age, then whatever was left, was to have been split 9 ways between
the "kids" of the late James Sarvis, namely: (1) John Sarvis and his wife Mary,
(2) Sarah Sarvis, (3) Robert Sarvis, (4) Jane Sarvis, (5) Hester Sarvis and her husband
William Doyle, (6) Elizabeth Sarvis and her husband Francis Cassilier, and (7)Nancy, (8)
James and (9) Joseph Sarvis.
Most of the time the last name is spelled CASSILIER. In one document authored by someone
in the Orphan's Court, the minutes spell the last name as "Cassilin", which
appears to be a creative spelling of Casler.
Marriage date for Francis Casler and Elizabeth Service would have been aometime after 1802
when her father died and probate does not identify her as being married..., and before the
date of the bond on April 30, 1806, by which they were definitely married.
Service family was in Monmouth County, NJ at the same time that the Casler family was
there, according to church records.
I can find absolutely no reference after this 1806 bond, to Francis
Casler/Cassilier/Casslin and wife Elizabeth anywhere.