Person:Jacob Hershberger (17)

About Jacob Hershberger

Jacob Hershberger settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and died there in 1762. Christian Hershberger Sr. was his oldest son. Jacob Hershberger was undoubtedly an immigrant. Jacob came from Koblenz, Germany, prior to the year 1735. He could be the Jacob Hornberger, age 33, listed on the passenger list for the ship "Pleasant" that arrived from Rotterdam to Pennsylvania on 11 October 1732. He is mentioned in 1735 as having been naturalized as a citizen of Pennsylvania (still under English control) at Philadelphia, but his residence is listed as Lancaster Co., Pa. In 1736 he bought a tract of land in Cocalico Twp., Lancaster Co. He later bought other land, but continued to live on the original tract until his death in 1762. Jacob's will is on file in Lancaster County, Pa., and it mentions a wife Catherina and six sons, Christian, Jacob Jr., John Joseph, Abraham, and Isaac. He had two daughters, Christian, who married Daniel Reasor, and Anna, who married a Jacob Huber (Hoover). Source: wikitree.com

Will Abstract

HORSEBERGER, JACOB Cocalico Twp.

November 3, 1762 December 20, 1762

Wife: Catharine Horseberger.

Children: Isaac, Abraham, Joseph, John, Jacob and Christian.

Ex.: Jacob Erb and Abraham Brubaker.

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Will Transcript

I Jacob Herseberger Senior of Cocallico Township Being weak in body but perfectly sound in mind and memory......

To my beloved wife Catharina besides one third of my moveable Estate I give the new house for her residence during her natural life nothing therein excepted and no man shall molest her therein, I give her one moiety [meaning half or part] of my linnen and she shall take what she pleaseth and she shall have that treasure of my stoferoom wherein I put my cloaths [?]

Item my son Isaac shall furnish her every Year with the following Goods......fufficient firewood ten Bushels of Wheat delivered in her room granted so as she shall want it ten Gallons of brandy and two Barrels of cyder....further my son Abraham shall pay unto her every year the sum of six pounds......and my son Isaac the same sum during her natural life.......

I ordain that Abraham & Isaac shall divide among themselves the Plantation on two equal shares my son Isaac shall have that part of the plantation wherein all my Buildings are and my son Abraham shall have the other moiety each ofthem shall have one moiety of the orchard and applepress with the house belonging to it shall be common between them but if they cannot agree one shall pay to the other a reasonable price for his right...my son Isaac is to pay five hundred seventy pounds for my plantation and Abraham to pay for his share four hundred and twenty fivepounds. They shall not be able to sell said premises while my wife is alive and my other sons shall have preferences before strangers....

my son Joseph shall have free use of Sixty apple trees standing on the upper part of my orchard the Long way for ten years.....and my three Sons Joseph Abraham and Isaac shall have an equal right to the saw mill standing upon the Land now sold to my son Joseph and also the repairing ofsaid mill shall be common and my son John shall have the right to saw theron what is necessary for him provided he work with a wagon and four Horses every year at the said Dam two days and also that he shall have Liberty to Water the Meadow out of said Dam but these shall cease with said son John death.....

my two Executors shall sign and Execute a good Bill of Sale for an Improvement located on Swarata Creek in Lebanon Township to my sons Jacob and Christen....the Land shall be divided among them in equal shares......

I give and bequest to the poor of our Congregation, five pounds....Further I ordained my burying place be laid out for our family on the land to be deeded to my Son Isaac which shall be a square and shall contain on each side four perches [a measure of area equal to 30 1/4 square yards] and shall be fenced in by charges taken out of my estate....

Further my wife shall have one third part of my garden for her use during her life and shall have the Liberty to take apples for her use as much as she will........

[Signed] Jacob Herseberger

Source: The Ancestors of Samuel Leven Heschberger, pub 2001.

Land Records

• 19 November 1736, recorded in the Philadelphia deeds, Book G2, page 204 in 1739. Jacob Haisbarger paid one hundred twenty-three pounds fifteen shillings for 275 acres to John White. John White was a merchant and land speculator from Philadelphia whom in 1733 had been granted a warrant for 1,647 acres in the northeast section of Lancaster County by the Penn brothers. [Note: We know this is the same Jacob because this land transaction is repeated in every deed that Jacob deeded to his sons]. Source: The Ancestors of Samuel Leven Heschberger, pub 2001.

• 7 September 1748, Maria Katharina Ensmonger sold 200 acres to Jacob Haisberger, for 300 pounds. An additional patent was issued to him for 117 acres in Cocalico Township on April 9, 1751, He also received a warrant for 20 acres on November 1, 1754 in Cocalico Township. Source: The Ancestors of Samuel Leven Heschberger, pub 2001.

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   Jacob Hershberger
   Birth: 1695
   likely Germany or Switzerland
   Death: 30 Nov 1762 (aged 66–67)
   Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/95306857

2.   Ellis, Franklin, and Samuel Evans. History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men. (Everts and Peck, 1883)
   pg. 710.

   

3.   Filby, P. William, ed. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research, 2006).

   Name: Jacob Herschberger
   Arrival Year: 1734-1735
   Arrival Place: Pennsylvania
   Primary Immigrant: Herschberger, Jacob
   Source Publication Code: 7820

4.   Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. Mennonite Vital Records, 1750-2014.