Book Description

Three sons of Daniel and Anna Schubdrein's children were the first of the family to immigrate to America. They sailed as indentured servants of a Swiss clergyman. When they landed in Savannah, Georgia the pastor from Ebenezer, Georgia purchased their freedom in exchange for them agreeing to settle in Ebenezer and practice their trades of carpentry and masonry. The spelling of the family name "Schubdrein" continued for about a generation. The spelling gradually became "Schubtrein" or "Schubtrine". By about 1800 the current spelling was adopted and has remained consistantly "Shuptrine", throughout the United States. Descendants of the three brothers reside all across the United States with many still in Georgia and elsewhere in the south. Includes families of Brogdon, Sims, Love, Brown and others marrying into the family.