Hi,
Here are some notes on Jacob family. He moved into northern Virginia from Penn. early 1800's (Harrison County,Va now WVA)Please send your information so I can fill in my missing data too. I'll keep looking and see what else I have. Hope we tie in...love finding more cousins.
Thanks Ellie
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CD 166 Church Records Pa 1600-1800 Selected Areas
York Co., Vol 2, Christ Evangelical Luthern Church, City of York
Susan Eib of Jacob Catharine
Born Oct 8, 1786
Bapt: Dec 15, 1795
!HISTORY:
!The Eib Families of America by Gerald S. Birum, FHL Film 2055151 Item 12 P.70. Listed: JACOB EIB'S birth as 17 July 1758 Lancaster County, Penn. and married MARIA CATHARINE CARPENTER, in York Co.,Pa.
"Jacob Eib's father, I believe, is the JOHN PETER EIB, that, with his brother, MATTIAS EIB, and mother, ANNA MARIA (GUMPER) EIB. That goes with their way of naming male children at that time. The first son was named after the paternal grandfather, and the next son was named after the father. Have no documented proof, as stated before, do not know what happened to John Peter Eib; But I believe him to be the one that joined the militia of Lancaster County, Penn and served in 1778. He was living in Warwick Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania at the time of the American Revolution. Also, a Matthias Eib was living there at that time, and he also served in the American Revolution.
Have no documented evidence as to whom Jacob married. We do know that she was named Maria Catharine and the family records said it was Carpenter as Nicholas Carpenter, who bought the land in Harrison County, Virginia had a daughter named Catharine, they thought she was his daughter. But, this could not be, for Catharine, born CA 1770, daughter of NICHOLAS CARPENTER and MARY WOLFE, married a DAVID SLEETH. No marriage records has ever been found.
As the above, NICHOLAS CARPENTER, is supposed to be from a line of Carpenters of English descent, and Maria Catharine, wife of JACOB EIB, was supposedly of German descent, and as stated on pg 129 of a Genealogical History of the Reboboth Branch of the Carpenter Family, by Amos B.Carpenter
quote, "The above account of the family was given to the writer by DAVID
CARPENTER, grandson of NICHOLAS, when he was 80 years of age. The tradition by him was that three brothers came from Germany. Their names were CHRISTOPHER,EMANUEL and DAVID. DAVID went south and was never heard from , EMANUEL setted in Pennsylvania and his heir are there yet." EMANUEL could be the father of MARIA CATHARINE CARPENTER.
!THE EIB FAMILIES OF AMERICA BY GERALD S. BIRUM, RR #2, BOX 13-B, Ridgeville, in Film 47380 (above information extracted from that source in library).
Included in that record are many court records from Harrison County,Virginia Pg 72 and on. pg 71
"At this point, am inserting several pages of court records that Al Stonestree found in the Chancery Court Records, Harrison County, Virginia. Am not inserting all the documents that he sent me. We have him to thank for the following documents. Most of these documents are hard to read and it took lots of time for the documents to be transcribed, etc." "In order to understand what has happened to JACOB EIB and his wife, MARIA CATHERINE, and their son, PETER EIB, these documents have to be part of this book. Some of these documents involve JACOB, and others directly or indirectly involve both PETER, his son JACOB, and helps to understand why JACOB left his son, PETER, out of the will that JACOB made in 1825." "What I'm going to write now about the times that involve the families of JACOB and MARIA CATHARINE EIB.
We know that the EIB'S were of German descent, and that the CARPENTER'S that settled in Harrison County, Virginia were of English descent and according to the family records that have been handed down from generation to generation, MARIA CATHARINE was also of German descent. At that time and many years after, the Germans, that came over, were not well liked, and many of the English tried to take advantage of them. As I see it, that is what has taken place with the JACOB EIB families." "The documents will begin in Warrington (Washington) in 1802, York County, Pennsylvania. According to the documents, JACOB EIB, owned 105 acres of land in Washington Township, York County, Pennsylvania .(This county lays close to Latimore Township, which became part of Adams County in 1800, where according to records three of JACOB and CATHARINE'S oldest children were baptised. The first document is JACOB EIB buying a small acreage in 1801, and part of it is what he sold in January,1805."