Person:Jacob Moon (3)

Notes

Several Ancestry Trees and other sources claim that Jacob Moon was born in 1732, but based upon land records in Frederick County, Jacob and his older brother James acquired land in 1752, and both would have had to have been of legal age (age 21) to receive land grants, so Jacob was likely born a few years earlier, perhaps abt. 1729. Also Jacob's eldest child also appears to make Jacob's probable birth year no later than 1730.

Early Land Acquisition in Virginia

Acquisition of Land from Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants:

• H-221: James & Jacob Moon of Frederick Co., 675 acres in Frederick Co. Surv. Mr. John Baylis. On Middle Creek where they live adj. Thomas Thornborough, part of a former Grant to George Hobson, dec'd., Geo. Wm. Fairfax. 18 Nov. 1752. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 63].

Records in Virginia

• H-240: James Foley, son of John Foley dec'd of Prince William Co., 593 acres on Middle Creek in Frederick Co. Surv. Mr. John Baylis. Adj. Samuel Brown, James & Jacob Moon, Col. George Fairfax, Reuben Paxton, Samuel Patton, George Hobson. 13 Jan. 1764. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 155].

• O-200: Charles Gordon of Frederick Co., 184 acres on Opeckon in said Co. Surv. Richard Rigg. Adj. Thomas Ellis, Robert Scott, David Millar, Jacob Moon, George William Fairfax, Esq. 27 Oct. 1768. [Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775, Vol. 2, Gertrude E. Gray, pg. 155].