Jacob Cupp, son of Marcus and Margaretha (-?-) Cupp, born in Virginia abt. 1770 and lived in Augusta County and perhaps in neighboring Rockingham County until about 1810 or 11. Jacob is not mentioned in Marcus Cupp's Will, but is listed as one of the heirs in the executor's account.
Jacob married his first wife, Elizabeth Linn, in Rockbridge County, Va. on 19 Aug 1802. Elizabeth's family had previously lived in Rockingham and this is where Jacob & Elizabeth probably first met. Jacob purchased 100 acres of Augusta County land on 26 Sep 1808 from Jacob & Polly Rapp. Whether Jacob and Elizabeth lived in Rockbridge, Rockingham or Augusta prior to this land purchase is not known. Elizabeth died about 1809/10 perhaps due to complications during the birth of her second son, David. Jacob is listed in the 1810 Augusta County census, age 26 to 44, with two sons under 10 years and having one slave. (This slave may have been a wet-nurse for the baby.)
Elizabeth's two sons are mentioned in the will of her father, Jacob Lyn/Linn, proved at Rockbridge County in Jan 1818: --- Henry & David Cups, sons of my daughter Betsey Cups, deceased --.
Jacob quickly remarried, probably because of his young son Henry and baby David. He traveled to Botetourt County where he wed his second wife, Eve Kilmer (b. abt: 1789) on 1 Nov 1810. Like Jacob's first wife, Eve's parents may have also lived in Rockingham County prior to Botetourt. (A George Kilmer received a 100 acres Rockingham land grant in 1794. The possibility that this is the same George Kilmer, as George Kilmer of Botetourt has not been explored.) Jacob and Eve sold his 100 acres to George Keller on 24 Jun 1811, about eight months after their marriage. They may have remained in Botetourt County after the wedding or more likely returned to Augusta to live until the land sale.
Either way, they were living in Botetourt when their first child, Elizabeth, was born in 1811.
Jacob and his family continued to live in Botetourt for an unknown time period; he was there when his son James was born abt. 1813. Jacob was a farmer, but not a land owner he rented plantations for family use. One land owner, William Wilson, initiated a Chancery suit against Jacob on 5 Oct 1814 saying: "Jacob Cupps hath agreed to pay him for the rent of a plantation the said Jacob Cupps now occupies the sum of fifty dollars on the 15 day of March 1815 of which he has received no part and that the despondent hath sufficient grounds to suspect and verily believes that the said Cupps hath removed part of his effects and absconded with himself before the said rent has become due." Wilson sought and was granted an attachment on part of Jacob's estate to cover the $50.00 rent. The County Sheriff seized one stack of wheat, one stack of rye, one stack of oats, one loom, one bar shear blough (plow?) and one bedstead on 7 Oct 1815 and sold them at auction for $25.00. On 8 Jan 1817, Wilson sued out a writ of fieri facias. (A legal paper authorizing execution on the goods of a debtor.) The writ was not returned probably meaning that Jacob was no longer in Botetourt County. This case would eventually follow Jacob to Montgomery County, Va. where it was finally settled in October 1842.
Jacob and Eve are not listed in the Botetourt 1820 census nor are they in the census of Montgomery County where they would be residing in 1830. There is a Jacob Cupp in the 1820 census of Rockingham County. This Cupp family may have been Jacob and Eve, but this author has not pursued this possibility other than to compare their known children in 1820 to the Rockingham family. By 1820 Jacob had seven children, two by Elizabeth & five by Eve. Taking their approximate ages from later census and marriage records gives an approximate age breakdown for the 1820 census and for a comparison with the Rockingham Jacob's family. No female Eve's age was listed in the Rockingham census. Eve is known to have been living when her father, George Kilmer, wrote his Will 19 Oct 1819 at Botetourt County.
A comparison of the known family of Jacob and the 1820 Rockingham Jacob's family makes it questionable that the two are the same family unless Eve was dead and some of the children were living outside the family. No marriage of Jacob has been found other than to Elizabeth Linn and Eve Kilmer. Jacob is said to have married Eve Huddle in Rockingham County in 1813 after the death of his second wife Eve. This cannot be true because Eve (Kilmer) was living in and after 1813.
If Jacob had left Botetourt by 1817 it is likely that he had moved to adjacent Montgomery County. In 1840 the executor of William Wilson (d. 1823) sued Jacob in Montgomery to recover the remainder of the $50.00 (plus court costs) from the Botetourt plantation rent judgment made in 1814. The executor in his complaint wrote: "--- Yet the said Jacob Cupps, though often requested, hath not paid the aforesaid sum of $55.28 nor any part thereof either to the said Wm Wilson in his lifetime or to the said Pltff. his executor since ----."
Jacob does not seem to have been far removed from Botetourt during the period covered by these two court cases. (Rockingham records have not been examined for evidence that Jacob's family lived there around 1820.)
Jacob and Eve were living in Montgomery County for the 1830 census. Their family, at the time of the census, consisted of eight children, including the two oldest by his first wife Elizabeth. The two youngest children were born after the 1830 census. (The 1850 census indicates William & Susan were born abt. 1830 and could have been twins. The 1860 census gives abt. 1830 for William's birth date and abt. 1832 for Susan's. The 1900 census shows that Susan Mary was born in Nov. 1832. William and Susan were probably not twins as the 1850 census indicated.) Two of Jacob and Eve's sons are not included in the 1830 census.
At the end of 1832, Jacob Cupp had the following children:
Children of Jacob Cupp & Elizabeth Linn:
(1.) Henry Cupp, b. Augusta abt: 1806
(2.) David Cupp, b. Augusta abt: 1809
Children of Jacob Cupp & Eve Kilmer:
(3.) Elizabeth Cupp, b. Botetourt abt: 1811
(4.) James Cupp, b. Botetourt abt: 1813
(5.) Samuel Cupp, b. Botetourt or Montgomery abt: 1815
(6.) Margaret Ann Cupp, b. Botetourt or Montgomery abt: 1817
(7.) John Cupp, b. Botetourt or Montgomery abt: 1819
(8.) Nancy Cupp, b. Botetourt or Montgomery abt: 1823
(9.) William J. Cupp, b. Montgomery abt: 1830
(10.) Susan Mary Cupp, b. Montgomery abt. Nov. 1832
On 26 Sep 1831 Jacob purchased from George & Jane Surface, 29-1/2 acres of Montgomery County land located on the east side of the Allegany Mountains. Later described as being on the North Fork of the Roanoke River near Blacksburg. This land is the only tract that Jacob is know to have owned other than the 100 acres of Augusta County land he sold in 1811. Jacob was exempted from County tax levies in 1835.
The following are probably the family members living in Jacob's household in the 1840 Montgomery County census record: wife Eve, son William, daughters Nancy and Susan Mary.
Eve (Kilmer) Cupp died in Montgomery County, Virginia sometime prior to the 1850 census. The family is listed in that census as follows: Jacob Cupp, age 80, William J. Cupp & Susan Mary Cupp, age 20. Living with the family is Isaac McMahan, age 22, who would marry Susan Mary in September 1850.
Jacob Cupp died intestate at Montgomery County, Virginia about 1853/54. His son James Cupp was the estate administrator of record on 6 Jun 1854. Final settlement of the estate was not achieved until James initiated an 1863 Chancery suit in Montgomery County to divide Jacob's 29-1/2 acres of land among his heirs. Many of the details about Jacob's children are drawn from this suit that continued until about 1869 before ending. Jacob's 29-1/2 acres was purchased for $147.50 at the court ordered sale by his grandson, Anderson Cupp, son of James & Martha (Rinehart) Cupp. The money from this sale was to be divided among Jacob's surviving children or their heirs.
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