The BALTZER/BALSOR Family in North America
1. Johannes Christopher BALTZER The BALTZER family came from Hessen in Northern Germany with the Foreign Protestant settlers of Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia. Johannes Christopher BALTZER came in the "Sally" in 1752, he was listed as aged 41 and a butcher. The ship's list said he was "indebted for 3 1/2 freights, fee 264.12.0. He signed his name "Johannas Baltzer".
He had previously married in Germany Anna Elizabeth, who, after Christopher's death in 1755, married on 29 Jun 1756 Adam SHAFNER, recorded in St. John's Parish, Lunenburg as 'SCHAUFNER'. She died in Jul 1782. In 1764 two sons of Christopher moved to Granville Township and then in 1792 to Wilmot Township, Annapolis County. (W.A. Calnek in his History of Annapolis County, page 599, states that they came from the Palatinate on the Lower Rhine in Germany in 1752, however, research indicates they actually came from the northeastern part of Hessen).