Person:Jacob Rice (9)

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b.Abt 1726
d.1801
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  1. Daniel Rice
  2. Henry Rice
  3. Isaac Rice
  4. Jacob Rice
  5. Abraham Rice1754 - 1795
  6. Nancy Rice1758 - Abt 1843
  7. Catherine Rice1768 - 1842
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Name[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Jacob Rice
Gender Male
Birth? Abt 1726
Marriage to Sarah Philabaum
Marriage to Ann _____
Death? 1801

A large stockade fort erected by the Rice family, located on Buffalo Creek, about fifteen miles from its mouth, in Brooke County, near the present location of Bethany College. It was the scene in September, 1782, of one of the most important episodes in the Indians wars, during which six defenders drove away a band of over a hundred Indians. "West Virginia History - Virginia Frontier Defenses 1719-1795 "By Roy Bird Cook Volume I, Number 2 (January 1940), pp. 119-130 

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From Ancestry.com Family Trees: ADA (Owner: ahpershing) Jacob Rice Born: 1726 Germany Death: 1802 

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References
  1. ↑ Boyd Crumrine,. History of Washington County, Pennsylvania.. (Philadelphia: L. H. Leverts & Co., 1882)
    pp 742-764.
  2. ↑ Census 1790. Washington county, Pennsylvania. Donegal Township.
  3. ↑ Joseph Doddridge, Narcissa Doddridge, John S. Ritenour, William Thomas Lindsey. Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania from 1763 to 1783: Inclusive, Together with a Re. (Published by s.n., 1912)
    pp 218-220.
  4. ↑ Spraker, Ella Hazel Atterbury. Boone family, The; A genealogical history of the descendants of George and Mary Boone who came to America in 1717;.
  5. ↑ Wood, Thomas Fullenwider. Connections: The Wood and Fullenwider Families in America :
    pp 96-97.

    Jacob Rice built a gristmill about 1773 in Dutch Fork area about three miles from the current W. Va. & PA line and 10 mi east of Ohio River. Later the Rices built a fort on the bank to the west of the road."

  6. ↑ Crumrine, Boyd (ed). History of Washington County, Pennsylvania. (H. Leverts & Co., 1882..).

    In narrative about Donegal township - "Jacob Rice's (Reis') tract of four hundred acres, surveyed to him by William Hoge, Sept 21, 1785,as 'Turkey's Nest was taken up by him on a Virginia certificate granted in January, 1780."

  7. ↑ Copied from Original Records for the Washington Co (PA) Chapter, DAR). Tax Lists of Washington County, PA: 1784-85, 1793.

    Jacob Rice appears on tax rolls between 1784 and 1792 in Donegal Township, Washington Co, PA.

  8. ↑ Tax lists of Shelby County, KY 1797-1815.. (FHL films: 1830 - #0008229,.......1821, 1824, 1825, 1828 - #0008228.......1797-1815 - 0008227).

    Jacob Rice is on tax rolls in Shelby County, KY: In 1797 & 1799. He is listed as owning "1 black" and horses (7 in 1797 and 5 in 1799). He is listed on tax rolls from 1800 - 1804 (no blacks). From 1811-1828, Nancy Link is listed.

  9. ↑ Egle, William H. Immigrants into Pennsylvania. Vol. I. "Names of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the the Province and State of Pennsylvania". (Harrisburg, PA : E. K. Meyers, 1892.).

    IMMIGRANTS INTO PENNSYLVANIA: Volume 1 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.  :Name: Jacob Rice,Ship: WINDSOR Place: ROTTERDAM Date: SEPT. 27, 1753..

  10. ↑ . Early Census Index. Pennsylvania. Census 1753 Pennsylvania.. ( In Pennsylvania Census 1772-1890.). (Ancestry.com).

    RICE, JACOBState:PAYear:1753 County:Philadelphia County Township:Philadelphia

  11. ↑ Cook, Roy Bird. West Virginia History - Virginia Frontier Defenses 1719-1795. (Vol 1 No. 2 (January 1940))
    119-130.
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