(Johan) John William (Schaffer) Shiver entered the country in Philadelphia from Rotterdam, Holland. He is listed as a passenger on a ship named the TWO BROTHERS, captain Thomas Arnot. He qualified at the New York County Court House in Philadelphia on September 28, 1753, where he signed the Oath of Allegiance to the British Crown and the Oath of Abjurment, denying any Allegiance to any other sovereign. (records located: Passenger Immigration List # 108 and Index, first edition, Source #2: Pennsylvania German Pioneers, by Ralph B. Strousburger, Vol., I, pg. 564 and Vol., 2, pg. 654. You will note that he signed Johna, either German or French, but he signed "William", definitely English and Shiver or French Shiever. All three of these names mean the same thing, Sheppard or keeper of the flock. All that Englishmen did in Philadelphia was to see the name Schaffer and write down the English version of the same name, SHIVER. John never changed his name back to the original spelling as many immigrants did. Perhaps he was trying to tell us something.
Our next record of John William Shiver is the marriage of John William Shiver to Hannah Clemmons in 1760, in Kershaw County, South Carolina. John and Hannah settled down in South Carolina and raised their children amid the Clemmons, Flemming, Burch and Manning Scot Families. His children married into these families and to this day use these sir names as Shiver first names. (See Georgia and Alabama Families).
On March 25, 1767 John Shiver bought 100 acres of land from John Phillip Pain (Payne) for 50 pounds. In Fredrickburg Township, known today as Camden, South Carolina. Sarah Shiver, daughter of John and Hannah married a Mr. Payne and is listed as Sarah Payne in the Family Bible records. The Payne and Shiver families intermarried and were neighbors in the early records of Camden. Many land transactions evidence of there close relations, as well as being court appointed appraisers of estate, along with being purchasers at "sales of goods and chattels". They were also witnesses for each other when legal documents were drawn.In the 1790 SC census, John Shiver sold 500 bales of cotton.
Jan. 7, 1777 (Recorded April 1791) Indenture between John Payne (blacksmith) and John Shiver (plantor) a transfer of track of land containing 100A situated in Fredericksburgh Township for fifty pounds.
Jan. 1791 John Shiver bought 100A northside of Wataree River from Burwell Boykin (Land had been granted to Philip Payne by Charles Greville Montague) for one hundred pounds sterling plus thirty pounds sterling.
June 10, 1892 100A (originally granted to Nicholas Swilla by William Moultrie) from John Payne to John Shiver ten shillings plus five pounds. Beginning at Tupelow Gum at corner of westside of Swift Creek.
November 2, 1799 Hannah Clemmons Shiver and children and spouses sold to Thomas English 100A on Swift Creek. John Shiver deceased.