Person:Jacob Wolfe (10)

Jacob Wolf was one of the Early Settlers of Augusta County, Virginia

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Early Land Acquisition in Virginia

Acquisition of Land from Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants:

• H-578: Jacob Wolf of Augusta Co., 400 acres in said County including where he lives, on West side of Stoney Creek. 17 Nov. 1754. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 81].

[Note: the next Land Grant, #579 was granted to Adam Rader, containing 265½ also on Stony Creek in Shenandoah County, Virginia. Jacob's grand daughter Mary Wolfe (1761-1853) would later marry Adam Rader's son Conrad Rader (1761-1834) on 3 Feb 1784 in Shenandoah County, VA.]

Will Abstract

Shenandoah County, Virginia, Will Book E:325.

JACOB WOLF.

Wife: Catharine.

Sons: John Jacob Wolf (dec'd) and Augustine Wolf (dec'd).

Daus: Ann Clara, widow of George Caufeld (dec'd); Susanna, wife[?] of William Kelp; Margretha (dec'd) who was wife of Christian Funkhouser (dec'd).

Mentions: George Jacob Woolf.

Exors: Daus.: Anna Clara, widow of George Caufeld, Susanna, widow of William Kelp and my dau.'s son, John Adam Caufeld.

Wit: George Fravel, David Jordan and __ ?_ .

[Written] 20 Apr 1795/[Proven] 10 Dec 1799.

Estate Inventory

23 Dec 1799 - Estate Inventory of Jacob Wolf taken in Shenandoah County, Virginia

16 January 1800 - At a Court held for Shenandoah County on Tuesday Jany. 14th 1800. This Inventory and Appraisement of the Estate of Jacob Woolf dec'd was returned and ordered to be recorded.

Test: P. Williams

Records in Virginia

N-120: George Coffield of Frederick Co., 300 acres on Stony Creek in said Co. Surv. Robert Rutherford. Adj. Jacob Woolf. 14 Aug. 1766. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 174]. [Note: George Coffield/Kauffelt married two daughters of Jacob Wolfe, Anna Eleanor and Clara. He lived in an adjoining tract of land on Stony Creek based upon this record]

Historical Note

Wolf Gap, Virginia [part of which later became part of West Virginia in 1863] was named after this Jacob Wolf who was one of the first settlers on Stony Creek in what was then located in Augusta County, Virginia that now is on the border of Shenandoah County, Virginia and Hardy County, West Virginia. Stony Creek is a tributary of the North Fork Shenandoah River.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 message 2048, posted 25 Apr 2001 by Daniel Bly, in Wolfe Family Genealogy Forum.

   'John Jacob Wolff was born at Oberauerbach in the parish of Contwig, Zweibrucken, Germany, 31 Mar. 1707, son of Jacob and Anna Maria.'

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} message 4052, posted 11 Mar 2010 by Terri Osborne, in Wolfe Family Genealogy Forum.

   'Jacob Wolff and Anna Maria of Oberaurbach had: Hans Jacob b. 31 Mar 1707.' citing Annette Burgert, Eighteenth century emigrants from German-speaking lands to North America, 2(1985):337
   'They immigrated to PA on the Virtuous Grace in 1737.'

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} message 4052, posted 11 Mar 2010 by Terri Osborne, in Wolfe Family Genealogy Forum.

   'Jacob received a land grant in VA by 1754. I have a copy of Jacob's will, proven in 1799 in Shenandoah Co. VA.' (in message 4054, she indicates that she found many records in the Library of Virginia)

4. ↑ Rupp, Israel Daniel. Collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727-1776: with a statement of the names of ships, whence they sailed, and the date of their arrival at Philadelphia, chronologically arranged, together with the necessary historical and other notes, also, an appendix containing lists of more than one thousand German and French names in New York prior to 1712. (Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart & Co., 1896)
   p. 107.

   on the Virtuous Grace

5.   .

   The Lantz Mill Historic District is significant under Critedon A as an example of a small
   manufacturing community dating from the late 19th century in Shenandoah County. It is also
   significant under Criterion C on the local level in the area of architecture for its collection of mid and late 19th century residential and manufacturing buildings.
   History:
   The area around Lantz Mill was fist settled around 1740 by Jacob Wolfe. In 1766 Hans George Lantz, frst of his family in the area, received a patent of 470 acres on both sides of Stony Creek.
   
   https://www.dhr.virginia.gov/pdf_files/SpecialCollections/SH-049_Shenandoah_Historic_Resources_survey_report_1995_Massey.pdf

6.   Morton, Oren Frederic. A History of Preston County, West Virginia. (Kingwood, WV: Journal Publishing Co., 1914)
   pg. 406.

   The Wolfe connection is unique in its far-reaching relationships. Not only is this kinship very numerous, but it is more widely diffused over the country than any other. The families into which it has married are almost legion. A venturesome spirit is characteristic of the Wolfes, and notwithstanding the many who are within Preston, they have contributed liberally to the westward advance of the American people. At the time of the French and Indian war there were two brothers [or father and son?] by the name of Wolfe at the Stony Creek settlement in Shenandoah County. It was affirmed to the writer that the elder brother never came to Preston himself. Yet he appears to have been the senior Jacob who was living here in 1782. It is probable that he died before the end of the century. The widow died about 1824 at the house of her son, Augustine, having attained an extreme age. The sons who permanently located in Preston were Jacob, Jr., George, and Augustine. John, a fourth son, was a temporary settler, and lived here in 1798. There is also mention of a daughter. The brothers were men of powerful physique....

7.   Find A Grave.

   Johann Jacob “Jake the Elder” Wolf Sr.
   BIRTH 31 May 1707
   Oberauerbach, Stadtkreis Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
   DEATH Dec 1799 (aged 92)
   Edinburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia, USA
   
   He was supposedly born 31, May 1707 in Oberauerbach near Zweibrücken ,Western Palatine, Germany. His father was Johann Jacob Wolf, Sr. born about 1680, also in Oberauerbach. He immigrated on the Ship Vituous Grace in 1737. He Lived on Stoney Creek near Edinburg VA
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/156007818/johann-jacob-wolf

8.   Jackson, Ron V. Virginia, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1607-1890.

   Name Jacob Wolf Sr.
   Residence Year 1783
   Residence Place Shenandoah, Virginia
   Title Va Early Census Index