Person:Jacob Funk (8)

Will Abstract

Jacob Funk wrote a will 28 June 1746 in which he named his wife, Franey, his sons Jacob, Henry and John, daughters, Franey, Elizabeth, Mary and Barbara. He mentioned that his youngest children were still under age (apparently John and Barbara). His sons, Jacob and Henry had already received land and his youngest son, John, was to receive the land where the mill stood. In spite of the fact that his wife, Franey,had gone to court with complaints of abuse, and he was ordered to provide for her support, he also willed her additional money, livestock, a portion of the harvests and a barrel of liquor annually. His son, Jacob and "kinsman," John Funk Jr. were appointed executors of his will, which was probated 3 Dec. 1746 (Frederick County Will Book 1, p. 93).

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 #164 in Funk Family "A", in Davis, Richard W. Mennosearch.
2.   Wikitree.com.

   Jacob Funk
   Born 1695 in Bonfeld, Heilbronn, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germanymap
   Ancestors ancestors
   Son of Heinrich Funck and Veronica (Fronica) Funck
   Died 1746 in Frederick County, Virginiamap
   
   Biography
   
   Jacob Funk was a grown man when his family came to America in 1717 and by the following year he had acquired 301 acres on the Conestoga Creek in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Lancaster County Deed Book "CC" p. 176). He purchased the land from Rudolph Bundeli and Martin in 1718 but the deed was not recorded for many years. Jacob probably married about the time he acquired his land and he appears on the tax lists for the region from 1718 onwards. (Gary Hawbecker and Clyde Groff, Index to 1718-1726 Tax Records of Chester County Relating to the Areas Later Part of Lancaster County, (1988). Jacob Funk also signed a petition by Lancaster County landowners requesting naturalization in October 1729 (I. D. Rupp, History of Lancaster County, p. 121) A court of appeals for the Board of Property met at "Jacob Funk's on the Conestoga" in January 1730 to consider local cases (Ellis and Evans, History of Lancaster County, p. 26). Jacob Funk and his wife, Veronica, sold their land on the Conestoga to John Snavely 15 May 1735 and moved to Virginia that summer.
   
   Jacob Funk was the first of the Funk family to move to the frontier in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and was indeed a part of the first wave of Germans who began moving to Virginia only three years earlier. In Virginia Jacob Funk was instrumental in opening new roads, getting a new county established west of the Blue Ridge Mountains (Frederick County, established 1739, organized, 1743) and providing a place for travelers and newcomers to get their bearings. His home was an "Ordinary" and appears to have been a gathering place where local people and newcomers could transact business.
   
   An indication of the ages of his children and who the daughters married can be found in an order of January 3, 1758 to have the land appraised (Frederick County Order Book "7," p. 347). The youngest son, John, had just come of age and wanted his land. His sisters were identified as; Franey Stover, Elizabeth Beam, Mary Strickler and Barbara Funk.
   
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