• I  have found no primary document, nor reference to primary document, that reveals Maria Clara "Gloria" , the wife of Johan Conrad "Conrad" SWOPE, with any surname at all. It is the Hoke Researchers who present her as Mary Clara "Gloria" HOKE married to Johannes Conrad "Conrad" SWOPE.

• Maria Clara "Gloria"'s probable brother Andrew HOKE  is represented in this generational level also, and that purported brother Andrew HOKE  is the secure Hoke Descendant yielding our line. The progeny of these "siblings" [  Andrew HOKE   and Maria Clara "Gloria" ] coalesce in the marriage of Adam SWOPE [son of Maria Clara "Gloria" here discuessed ] to Lydia SPANGLER [granddaughter of Andrew HOKE, the purported brother to Maria Clara "Gloria" ]. In this way, the ascendancy presented here does not mar the integrity of the HOKE line in any way, Maria Clara "Gloria" 's parents being soundly direct through their son Andrew, who then had dtr Lydia. See Alias entry below.

• Birth: 24 May 1736, At The Old Homestead, UpperLeacock Twp,  Lancaster Co, PA¹
• Death: 3 Aug 1799, Hanover, Penna¹

Children:

• Johann Jacob ìJacobî (1759-<)
• Anna Barbara (1761-)
• John  (Johann) (1763-1844)
• Henry [married Herr] (1767-1842)
• George (1774-1841)
• Adam** (1778-1855)

Notations on her Ascendancy herein presented and comments on the "Confusing Claras" :

Notes on her Ascendancy purported:

• It is the HOKE researchers who purport Maria Clara "Gloria's"  ascendancy within their lines. Again,  I have found no primary document, nor reference to primary document, that reveals Maria Clara "Gloria" with any surname at all. She DOES appear in primary records as Maria Clara, Clara, and Gloria, all of which do not reveal her surname.

• Swope Book of Remembrance states: î If she is indeed the daughter of the parents here listed (and that is a matter of debate as itís documentation has not been unearthed)  her parents emigrated on the same ship as Anna Barbara Swope and her husband John Ranckî ³
• ( Anna Barbara Swope is a grandaughter of Yost Swope outlined in The Swope book of Remembrance,and, through the ascendancy provided in that tome, is  the first cousin of   Maria Clara "Gloria" 's husband Johann Conrad "Conrad" SWOPE . That the two families would form a friendship on board ship is not unlikely, and that they would be part of a tight knit circle of pioneers furthering their alliance in marriage common to the period.  But these suggestions do not provide any substance for her ascendancy beyond providing a plausable backdrop.

• There are Two Maria Clara HOKES in the time frame, both comingling in allied family groups.  This Maria Clara "Gloria", if she IS a Hoke, is one, and Mary Clara HOKE who married Heinrich [Henry] SPANGLER the other.  In the HOKE research, Mary Clara "Gloria" is an Aunt to the Mary Clara who married SPANGLER, and in true fact , regardless of her surname, was a sponsor, with her husband Conrad SWOPE, at the young Maria Clara's baptism. Conrad and Maria Clara "Gloria" would have a last chld and final son  named Adam SWOPE  in 1778.  The Mary Clara baptized would marry Heinrich [Henry] SPANGLER and bear a middle child and only dtr, Lydia SPANGLER  in 1785.  Mary Clara "Gloria"'s son Adam SWOPE married Lydia SPANGLER before the birth of their firstborn child in 1804, causing both Lydia SPANGLER and Adam SWOPE to have mother in laws named Mary Clara HOKE who were perhaps already related  and surely newly aligned through the marriage of their children. If the ascendancy for Maria Clara "Gloria" HOKE is correct, then Lydia SPANGLER and Adam SWOPE were first cousins once removed.

Her appearances:
A) as Gloria [Husband's will] ; B)   Maria, and Maria Clara, [Lutheran Church Records] ;  and C) the SHRIVER surname reference [from G E Swope published 1898]: [Linked only for assistance in accessing entry which is located  within this same page]

Appears as Gloria as wife in husband's will abstract:
[Will abstract: SWOOPE, Conrad.  Hanover Township. July 29, 1799    September 5, 1799 Executors:  George Charles and John Swoope. Wife:  Gloria Swoope. Children:  John, Henry, George and Adam. ]

Appears as Maria as mother and wife in baptism of son Johann with husband Conrad SCHWOB
Schwob, Johann
Date:  Oct 1, 1763
Event:  Birth
Record ID:  133192
Relation:  Born
Location:  Adams Co., PA
Church:  Lutheran Record, Adams Co., PA
Remark:  Johann son of Conrad Schwob and Clara. Sponsors: Johannes Schwobb and Catharina Elisabeth.
Above From  Lutheran Church Records the larger context of which is provided via this link

Appears as Maria Clara as sponsor in baptism of her purported neice,  her in fact future daughter in law:
There is the baptism of Maria Clara HOCH in church records sponsored at baptism by  Maria Clara "Gloria"  . This babe is  Maria Clara HOKE who would later marry Heinrich [Henry] SPANGLER.
Schwob, Maria Clara [purported nee HOKE; she is the Gloria in her husband's will]
Date:  Jun 27, 1762
Event:  Baptism
Record ID:  133167
Relation:  Sponsor
Location:  Adams Co., PA
Church:  Lutheran Record, Adams Co., PA
Remark:  Maria Clara daughter of Andreas Hoch and Maria Barbara. Sponsors: Conrad Schwob and Maria Clara.

• The parents here and the Sponsors were later reunited in marriage through progeny. Maria Clara Hoch, she being  baptized, married Henry Spangler and Maria Clara [nee HOCH] and Henry SPANGLER would produce Lydia Spangler who married Adam Swope. Adam Swopeís mother was Maria Clara ìGloriaî [purported HOKE], and his father Conrad SWOPE, the sponsors here given. Above From  Lutheran Church Records the larger context of which is provided via this link

Regarding my quest to identify any connection with SHRIVER, I wrote to Jack Hoke, a frequent contributor at genforum on the HOKE lines, and a dedicated and generous Hoke researcher. In asking if he had any knowledge of a SHRIVER alliance for Maria Clara "Gloria" he answered he had not heard of any reference to SHRIVER in any discussion he has had on this elusive female. He did add this in evaluating the name:
" The 'Shriver' might be a "putdown" of that time for a Woman who had become pregnant before tying the knot? From "Shrive" = to give absolution to. The nearest German  would likely translate into something like Shreiker or Screecher. But Penna Deitsch had changed from Platt Deutsch after 20-30 years in America. Perhaps she had a shrill voice, and a Swope dubbed her " die Shriver" and it stuck.⁸
Again, Jack Hoke, in stating the above, had been previously unaware of any reference to SHRIVER for her.
 
 
 

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ìIndian Incursions into York County in 1755.
GREAT CONSTERNATION AMONG THE INHABITANTS. LETTER OF SUNDRY PERSONS AT YORK, TO GOV. MORRIS, 1755.

"May it please your Honour,
 "We receiv'd sundrie Acc'ts lately, all concerning in this, that a numerous Body of Indians & some French are in this Province,which has put the Inhabitants here in the greatest Confusion, the principal of whom have met sundrie Times, & on examination find that many of us have neither Arms nor Ammunition.

 "Herewith we send a copy of an Express just arrived from John Harris's Ferry, by Way of James Anderson, with Intelligence that the Indians are encamp'd up Susquehannah within a Day of two's March of that Place and 'tis probable, before this comes to Hand, part of these back counties may be distroyed.

 "We believe there are men enough willing to bear Arms & go out against the Enemy, were they supplied with Arms, Ammunition & a reasonable Allowance for  their time, but without this, at least arms and Ammunition, we fear little to purpose can be done.

"If some measures, are not speedily fallen upon, we must either sit at home till we are butcher'd without Mercy or Resistance, run away, or go out a confused Muititude destitute of Arms and Ammunition & without Discipline or proper Officers, or any way fixed on to be supplied with Provisions.

 "In short we know not what to do, & have not much time to deliberate.

"As the Company who go, from this Town & Parts adjacent, to Morrow, to the assistance of the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, will take almost all our Arms & Ammunition with them, We humbly pray your Honour to order us some Arms & Ammunition, otherwise we must desert our Habitations.

"We have sent the Bearer Express with this letter, and also a Petition to the Assembly, which our People were signing, when the Express came to Hand.

"We humbly hope your Honour will excuse this Freedom, which our distress has obliged us to use, and beg leave to subscribe ourselves.

 "Honoured Sir,
your most obedient Humble Serv't.
GEO. STEVENSON.
GUR. UPDEGRAFF.
THOS. ANNGR.
JAMES SMITH.
JOHN ADLUM.
 "Endorsed.--Letter from the Magistrates of York County, to the Govr. "York Saturday 11 o'clock, P. M., 1st Novr. 1755.
 

GEORGE STEVENSON TO R. PETERS, 1755.
 "Dr Sir:
 "As the Bearer carries the same News to you which he brought to me, 'tis needless to say anything about that.

"We have sent 53 Men, well filed, from this Town last Monday 2 o'clock P. M. & a Doctor, some Medicines & what
Ammunition we could spare to Tobs Hendrick's to join the main Body of English Tories on the most needful Part of the
Frontiers, Mr. Adlum is with them, Mr. Hamilton is gone towards Conigogeeg last Sunday with a Company.

"Mr. Bay yesterday with & at the Head of another. We are all aloft and such as have Arms hold themselves ready, but alas they are few in Number; 40 men came here yesterday willing to defend, but had but 3 guns & no Ammunition, and could get none here, therefore went home again.

"We stay all here yet, how long God knows, 6 Families fled from their Homes, Dist. about 15 miles viz: Conewago last Night,  the last came into Town about Day Break This Morning. I am determined to stey & by the assistence of Mr. Lispy & the other Justices, on the spot spirit up the People & keep 'em together (if possible,) till I hear from the Government.

"A few of us have pledged our Credit for publick services, if we are encouraged we will stand till we are cut off, if not or if no News comes to us (wch we shall construe as discouragement,) some of us are bound to the lower Parts Maryland immediately, if not scalptd by the way.

 "Herewith you have another of our Petitions to the Assembly, all I shall say about it is that the biggest Part of its Signers are Menonists, who live about 15 miles westward of York.

"Pleas to deliver it to the Assembly, the Express waits which hastens to me to   the only agreeable part of my Letter, to my self & that is that in Peace or War, Comfort or Distress, I am,
Dr. Sr, with great Esteem,
 Yr most obedient  Hble Servt,
GEO. STEVENSON.
 "York, 11 o'clock, A. M. Wednesday, 5th Novr.
Mr. Peters.
 "Tell Hannan we are all Well.
 "Indorsed.
 Geo. Stevenson. ì¹⁰

Schwob, Johann
Date:  Oct 1, 1763
Event:  Birth
Record ID:  133192
Relation:  Born
Location:  Adams Co., PA
Church:  Lutheran Record, Adams Co., PA
Remark:  Johann son of Conrad Schwob and Clara. Sponsors: Johannes Schwobb and Catharina Elisabeth.

Schwob, Johann
Date:  Oct 10, 1763
Event:  Baptism
Record ID:  133192
Relation:  Baptized
Location:  Adams Co., PA
Church:  Lutheran Record, Adams Co., PA
Remark:  Johann son of Conrad Schwob and Clara. Sponsors: Johannes Schwobb and Catharina Elisabeth.

Schwob, Johann Conrad
Date:  Aug 27, 1758
Event:  Baptism
Record ID:  133130
Relation:  Sponsor
Location:  Adams Co., PA
Church:  Lutheran Record, Adams Co., PA
Remark:  Johann Conrad son of Johann Cranester and Maria Barbara. Sponsors: Johann Conrad Schwob and Maria Clara.

Schwob, Johann Conrad
Date:  Sep 22, 1762
Event:  Baptism
 Record ID:  133169
Relation:  Sponsor
Location:  Adams Co., PA
Church:  Lutheran Record, Adams Co., PA
Remark:  Johann Conradt son of Johann Lehmer and Elisabeth. Sponsors: Johann conrad Schwob and Clara.
 

Schwob, Maria Clara
Date:  Aug 27, 1758
Event:  Baptism
Record ID:  133130
Relation:  Sponsor
Location:  Adams Co., PA
Church:  Lutheran Record, Adams Co., PA
Remark:  Johann Conrad son of Johann Cranester and Maria Barbara. Sponsors: Johann Conrad Schwob and Maria Clara.

Schwob, Maria Clara
Date:  Jun 27, 1762
Event:  Baptism
Record ID:  133167
Relation:  Sponsor
Location:  Adams Co., PA
Church:  Lutheran Record, Adams Co., PA
Remark:  Maria Clara daughter of Andreas Hoch and Maria Barbara. Sponsors: Conrad Schwob and Maria Clara.
Note that the parents here and the Sponsors were later reunited in marriage through progeny. Maria Clara Hoch, she was was baptized, married Henry Spangler and both these individuals are our directs. They produced Lydia Spangler who married Adam Swope. Adam Swopeís mother was Maria Clara ìGloriaî Hoke, and his father Conrad, the sponsors here given.
 
 

Schwobb, Catharina Elisabeth [sponsor]
Date:  Oct 10, 1763
Event:  Baptism
Record ID:  133192
Relation:  Sponsor
Location:  Adams Co., PA
Church:  Lutheran Record, Adams Co., PA
Remark:  Johann son of Conrad Schwob and Clara. Sponsors: Johannes Schwobb and Catharina Elisabeth.
 

Schwobb, Conrad
Date:  Oct 18, 1761
Event:  Communion
Record ID:  133968
Relation:  Communicant
Location:  Adams Co., PA
Church:  Lutheran Record, Adams Co., PA
Remark:  Schwobb, Conrad, wf. Ref. - 22nd Sunday after Trinity.

Schwobb, Mrs. Conrad
Date:  Oct 18, 1761
Event:  Communion
Record ID:  133968
Relation:  Wife
Location:  Adams Co., PA
Church:  Lutheran Record, Adams Co., PA
 Remark:  Schwobb, Conrad, wf. Ref. - 22nd Sunday after Trinity.

Back to Maria Clara "Gloria" Probably HOKE
 
 
 

Regarding York County of the time (more regarding Digges Choice and where these two went to settle found on her husbandís card) and the hostilities with Native Americans and the French, making incursions into Penna.

ìIndian Incursions into York County in 1755.
GREAT CONSTERNATION AMONG THE INHABITANTS. LETTER OF SUNDRY PERSONS AT YORK, TO GOV. MORRIS, 1755.

"May it please your Honour,
 "We receiv'd sundrie Acc'ts lately, all concerning in this, that a numerous Body of Indians & some French are in this Province,which has put the Inhabitants here in the greatest Confusion, the principal of whom have met sundrie Times, & on examination find that many of us have neither Arms nor Ammunition.

 "Herewith we send a copy of an Express just arrived from John Harris's Ferry, by Way of James Anderson, with Intelligence that the Indians are encamp'd up Susquehannah within a Day of two's March of that Place and 'tis probable, before this comes to Hand, part of these back counties may be distroyed.

 "We believe there are men enough willing to bear Arms & go out against the Enemy, were they supplied with Arms, Ammunition & a reasonable Allowance for  their time, but without this, at least arms and Ammunition, we fear little to purpose can be done.

"If some measures, are not speedily fallen upon, we must either sit at home till we are butcher'd without Mercy or Resistance, run away, or go out a confused Muititude destitute of Arms and Ammunition & without Discipline or proper Officers, or any way fixed on to be supplied with Provisions.

 "In short we know not what to do, & have not much time to deliberate.

"As the Company who go, from this Town & Parts adjacent, to Morrow, to the assistance of the Inhabitants of our Frontiers, will take almost all our Arms & Ammunition with them, We humbly pray your Honour to order us some Arms & Ammunition, otherwise we must desert our Habitations.

"We have sent the Bearer Express with this letter, and also a Petition to the Assembly, which our People were signing, when the Express came to Hand.

"We humbly hope your Honour will excuse this Freedom, which our distress has obliged us to use, and beg leave to subscribe ourselves.

 "Honoured Sir,
your most obedient Humble Serv't.
GEO. STEVENSON.
GUR. UPDEGRAFF.
THOS. ANNGR.
JAMES SMITH.
JOHN ADLUM.
"Endorsed.--Letter from the Magistrates of York County, to the Govr. "York Saturday 11 o'clock, P. M., 1st Novr. 1755.¹¹
 

GEORGE STEVENSON TO R. PETERS, 1755.
"Dr Sir:
"As the Bearer carries the same News to you which he brought to me, 'tis needless to say anything about that.

"We have sent 53 Men, well filed, from this Town last Monday 2 o'clock P. M. & a Doctor, some Medicines & what
Ammunition we could spare to Tobs Hendrick's to join the main Body of English Tories on the most needful Part of the
Frontiers, Mr. Adlum is with them, Mr. Hamilton is gone towards Conigogeeg last Sunday with a Company.

"Mr. Bay yesterday with & at the Head of another. We are all aloft and such as have Arms hold themselves ready, but alas they are few in Number; 40 men came here yesterday willing to defend, but had but 3 guns & no Ammunition, and could get none here, therefore went home again.

"We stay all here yet, how long God knows, 6 Families fled from their Homes, Dist. about 15 miles viz: Conewago last Night,  the last came into Town about Day Break This Morning. I am determined to stey & by the assistence of Mr. Lispy & the other Justices, on the spot spirit up the People & keep 'em together (if possible,) till I hear from the Government.

"A few of us have pledged our Credit for publick services, if we are encouraged we will stand till we are cut off, if not or if no News comes to us (wch we shall construe as discouragement,) some of us are bound to the lower Parts Maryland immediately, if not scalptd by the way.

"Herewith you have another of our Petitions to the Assembly, all I shall say about it is that the biggest Part of its Signers are Menonists, who live about 15 miles westward of York.

"Pleas to deliver it to the Assembly, the Express waits which hastens to me to   the only agreeable part of my Letter, to my self & that is that in Peace or War, Comfort or Distress, I am,
Dr. Sr, with great Esteem,
Yr most obedient  Hble Servt,
GEO. STEVENSON.
"York, 11 o'clock, A. M. Wednesday, 5th Novr.
Mr. Peters.
"Tell Hannan we are all Well.
"Indorsed.
Geo. Stevenson. ì¹¹

1. Gilbert Ernest Swope, The Swope Family 1676-1896, T.B. & H.B Cochran, Publishers, 68, page 68. Comments  ëClara Shriver' but states ìthere is some question as to her name".
2. Will Abstract Conrad Swope. Shows Wife:  Gloria Swoope.
SWOOPE, Conrad.  Hanover Township.
July 29, 1799    September 5, 1799
Executors:  George Charles and John Swoope.
Wife:  Gloria Swoope.
Children:  John, Henry, George and Adam.
Accesable at http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/york/wills/willabstrp-s.txt Gloria Swoope, wife.
3. Emily Swope Morse and Winifred Morse McLachlan, "The Swope Family Book of Remembrance", pub.1972. 1397 pp.  Unknown publisher. 300 limited editions., - Vol.1 in page of pages from 1299 to end
4. Church Records: Adams, Berks & Lancaster Counties,   Pennsylvania 1729-1881, From GenForum Library. She appears as  Clara as mother, Maria Clara as sponsor.
5. ìThe Hoke Family,î sent to me 042701, Jack Hoke, cited by Jack Hoke in Gedcom download 042701. States "AKA Gloria"
6. Church Records: Adams, Berks & Lancaster Counties,   Pennsylvania 1729-1881, From GenForum Library, Clara in childís baptism record; Maria Clara as sponsor.
7. Gilbert Ernest Swope, The Swope Family 1676-1896, T.B. & H.B Cochran, Publishers, 68, Page 67.
8. ìThe Hoke Family,î sent to me 042701, Jack Hoke, cited by Jack Hoke in Gedcom download 042701, given for reference only, came in email.
9. Emily Swope Morse and Winifred Morse McLachlan, "The Swope Family Book of Remembrance", pub.1972. 1397 pp.  Unknown publisher. 300 limited editions., - Vol.1 from page 1299 to end. Citations for  Information on  this family group provided by this source are:

A. Rec. of Bermudian Church, E. Berlin, PA.
B. Bapt. rec. of Rev. Jacob Lischy, p. 54,66.
C. York Co., Deed Bk. B, p. 312, & Bk. I, p. 166, 261 Bk. 2G, p. 297 & 2L, p. 71.
4D York Co. Genealogical Reports, vol. 23, p. 191.

12. Emily Swope Morse and Winifred Morse McLachlan, "The Swope Family Book of Remembrance", pub.1972. 1397 pp.  Unknown publisher. 300 limited editions., - Vol.1 from page 1299 to end, http://worldroots.com/~brigitte/swope/index.html  OR http://worldroots.com/~brigitte, Brigitte Gastel Lloyd  TRANSCRIBED ENTIRITY,  Brigitte@qrz.com, chapter 5.

13.  Church Records: Adams, Berks & Lancaster Counties,   Pennsylvania 1729-1881, From GenForum Library, appears as both Conrad
Schwob and Conradt Schwobb. Shown in these entries with wife Maria at times Maria Clara.
14.  ì1750 Census as found in Swope Book of Remembrance, detailed there.î [ Emily Swope Morse and Winifred Morse McLachlan, "The Swope Family Book of Remembrance", pub.1972]