Person:Jacob Short (5)

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

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Estate Records

Short, Jacob. Inventory Returned June, 1805.

[Source: Early Marriages, Wills and some Revolutionary War Records, Botetourt County, Virginia, Compiled by Anne Lowry Worrell, pg. 63].

1.   Find A Grave.

   Jacob Short
   Birth 1739
   Germany
   Death Jun 1805 (aged 65–66)
   Botetourt County, Virginia, USA
   Burial
   Carleton Family Cemetery
   Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia, USA
   
   Arrived the Port of Baltimore Maryland in 1755
   married, Eve Gottschalk in 1768
   
   Although there are no stones, The Carleton's & Short's were neighbors & friends, and their children married each other.
   so we will call this a Cenotaph, so we can link family.∼Jacob is our earliest known Short, although the original family name may have been Schartz, Schoritz, Scheritz, Shertz, Schwartz, or some other variation of the spelling. Jacob was born during the 1740's in the German Rhineland, and on coming to America the family name was spelled by English clerks how it sounded to them or what was easy and, therefore, the name came to be Short.
   
   The Germany from which the family came was one of a loose
   confederation of some 300 German states and principalities. Many of them were long embroiled in European intrigue and conflict,and many Germans came to America during the middle and latter part of the 18th century. Most were peasants and nearly all were
   Protestants.
   
   https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/166868275/jacob-short