Person:Jacob Zorn (1)

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

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Records in Pennsylvania

• 20 Sept. 1738 - Jacob Zorn arrived in Philadelphia on the ship "Friendship" Sept. 20, 1738, age 20 from Rotterdam and took the Oath of Allegiance to the province and state of Pennsylvania. [Source: Egle, William Henry. Names Of Foreigners Who Took The Oath Of Allegiance To The Province and State Of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, With The Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1808. Harrisburg, PA: E. K. Meyers, 1892].

• Marriage Record of Rev. John Casper Stoever: 1741, April 12. Jacob Zorn and Anna Maria Gotteskind, Tulpehocken. [Source: Stoever, John Casper, and Elizabeth P. (Elizabeth Petty) Bentley. Early Lutheran baptisms and marriages in southeastern Pennsylvania: the Records of Rev. John Casper Stoever from 1730 to 1779. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Genealogical Pub. Co., c1982, 1998), Pg. 58].

• Baptism Record of "The Little Tulpehocken Church"

Joh. Jacob Vollmar, Snr. [Father].

Vollmar, Eva Mary, b. Nov. 1, 1741; bap. Nov. 8, 1741; spon., George Briegel and Anna Mary Zorn. [Source: "Notes and Queries Historical and Genealogical /Chiefly Relating to Interior of Pennsylvania Annual", Volume 1899 (XLI), Edited by William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., pg. 212]. [Note: this appears to be Jacob Zorn's first wife, Anna Maria].

Records in Augusta County, VA

From Chalkley's: [unless otherwise listed]

• Page 126.--20th November, 1755. Mary Sorn's bond as administratrix of Jacob Sorn, with sureties Jacob Syver, John Duncan.

• Also in 1756, Charles Wilson is listed as a taxpayer in the “lower end of Augusta County” and as an appraiser of the estate of Jacob Zorn who, it is said, was the first settler to die in the South Branch Valley. Source: "Charles Wilson of Augusta County, Virginia"

• Page 448.--24th May, 1763. William Green, &c., to Jacob Rollman, £16, 200 acres on South Fork of Potomac, part of 600 acres patented to Wood, Russell and Green; corner Jacob Rollman and Catherine Zorn's land. Delivered: Henry Stone, March, 1764.

• Page 396 --March 21, 1764. On motion of Henry Stone and Catherine, his wife, admx. of her late husband, Jacob Zorn - by a mistake the inventories of Jacob Zorn and of Henry Horse were drawn together as inventory of Jacob alone. Clerk ordered to alter the minute book and record. [Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted, Volume 1, pg. 112].

• Page 326.--24th March, 1764. Henry Stone's settlement of estate of Jacob Zorn (Sorn) recorded.

Notes

From "Progress Report on Archaelogical Investigations at Fort Seybert":

The settlement of both valleys proceeded at a rapid pace. On August 28, 1750, the following men were added to the list of tithables for the part of Augusta County containing the fledgling settlements: Roger Dyer, William Dyer, John Patton, William Stephenson, Samuel Patton, Matthew Patton, John Smith, Peter Hawse, Henry Hawse, Michael Propst, Mark Swadley, Postley Hoover, George Puffenbarger, John Cunningham, William Cunningham, Henry Lancisco, Jacob Peterson, Jacob Peterson, Jr., Martin Peterson, John Dunkle, George Dunkle, Jacob Seybert and George Mouse (Chalkley, Vol. 1, pg. 41). In the 1753 alone, fifteen newcomers arrived, including: John Davis, Hwney Hawse (deceased 1755), Peter Hawse, Ulrich Conrad, John Dunkle, Jacob Goodman, Michael Mallow, Peter Mozer, Michael Freeze, John Michael Propst, John Michael Simmons, Benjamin Scott, Frederick Sherler and John, James and William Cunningham. Other settlers that arrived but before 1758 were Jacob Zorn (soon deceased), Christian Evick, Postley Hoover, Jacob Ruleman, Mark Swadley, Henry Stone, Frederick Keister, Michcel Peterson, Jacob Peterson, Jacob Peterson, Jr., Samuel Bright, Joseph Skidmore, Peter Vaneman and Adam Harper. [Source: http://www.http%3A%2F%2Fsevenyearswar.wikispaces.com].

1.   Find A Grave.

   Jacob Zorn
   Birth: 1718, Germany
   Death: unknown
   Augusta County
   Virginia, USA
   
   Immigration: 20 Sep 1738 Philadelphia, Pa.
   He sailed from Rotterdam on the "Friendship". By 1742 he was in what is now Pendleton Co., West Virginia. He may have died in Augusta Co., Va. in 1756.
   
   Marriage 1: Mary Catherine Ruhlham, d/o Jacob Ruhlham & Maria Gotteskind, b. 1726, Monongalia, VA.
   
   Marriage 2: Anna Maria Totteskind b. 1722 in Germany, d. ca1741.
   
   Children of Jacob Zorn and Mary Catherine Ruhlham:
   
   1. Susanna Zornes b. 1745 in Monongalia, VA
   2. Polly Zornes b. 1749 in Monongalia, VA
   3. Martin Zornes b. 1753 in Augusta, VA
   4. Phillip Zornes b. 1754 in Augusta, VA
   5. Jakob Zornes b. 1760 in Augusta, VA
   6. Susanna Zornes b. 1752 in Augusta, VA
   7. William Zornes b. Jan 1750 in Augusta, VA
   8. Catherine Zornes Eye b. 1751 in Augusta, VA
   9. Andrew Zornes b. 1756 in Augusta, VA
   
   http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=156279224

2.   Genealogy.com.

   Jacob Zorn evidently emigrated from Rotterdam on the ship Friendship, arriving in Philadelphia on, or about, 19 September 1738.He took the Oath of Allegiance (20 September 1738) to the province and state of Pennsylvania. From 1727-1775 all males over sixteen years of age were obliged to take this oath and declaration, as soon after their arrival as possible. In this oath, immigrants declared they would be faithful to King George II.
   
   The PA records have Jacob and numerous others identified as Palatines who emigrated in a two ship group that sailed together: the ship Nancey (William Wallace, Commmander), and the ship Friendship (Henry Beach, Commmander).Both ships were from Rotterdam, but their last stop prior to the Atlantic crossing was in Dover, England.
   
   If Jacob were 20 in 1738, then he was born in 1718 or so.
   
   Source Information:Egle, William Henry. Names Of Foreigners Who Took The Oath Of Allegiance To The Province And State Of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, With The Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1808. Harrisburg, PA : E. K. Meyers, 1892.
   
   http://www.genealogy.com/forum/surnames/topics/zorn/158/

3. ↑ Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900: [database online] (not considered a reliable primary source). (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004).

   Name: Jacob Zorn
   Gender: Male
   Birth Place: Gr
   Birth Year: 1716
   Spouse Name: Mary Catherine Ruleman
   Marriage State: of VA
   Number Pages: 2

4.   Bates, Edward Bryant. A compilation of data on the Zorn family in America
   Pg. 4-5.

   Jacob ZORN married Mary Catharine RUHLMAN. the daughter of JACOB AND ALPON RUHLMANN. According to this account.
   Jacob and Alpon Ruhlmann arrived in America on 28 August 1733. Mary Catherine was listed as "Maria" aaed ?.. and a 'brother "HANS", aged 9
   Later, AFTER Jacob Zorn died, his widow Mary Catherine married aaain. this time to Garret T. DECKER, and after his death, to Henry STONE Sr.
   
   Following THE ZORNES FAMILY IN AMERICA, the children of Jacob Zorn and Mary Catherine Ruhlmann Zorn were as follows:
   #1. Susanna Zorn married Henry STONE Jr.
   #2. Catherine Zorn. married Christopher S. Eye
   #3. Polly Zorn. married James Mahon. They had a son John Zern Mahon who lived to be 103 years of age. He was born I August 1769
   #4. William "Willy" Zern. He died of a heart attack in the back yard of his brother, Andrew in July 1774 after fighting two Indians on Ministers Run. He had
   killed one of them with a Mattock and chased the other away. He then ran 2 miles to his brothers house, yelled loudly and died. This death occured in what is now
   Marion County. West Virginia.
   #5. MARTIN ZORN. born 20 Oct 1753. married CATHERINE. Some say her maiden name was STOUT, he died 20 March 1838 and is buried at the Sandy Springs Cemetery in Adams county. Ohio. His grave is located and marked as a veteran, of the War of
   Independence, although his unit and state is not known.
   #6. Andrew Zorn. born 1756. married first Rebecca Llewellyn died in Kentucky in 1844. He obtained a pension for his service with the Pennsylvania Continental Line.