Person:Jacob Young (20)

BIRTH: Sources listed in DAR Membership Application:

    Vol. 5, page 394, Fifth Series Pennsylvania Archives. 
    Revolutionary War Pension claim of Jacob Young W.F. No. 27800. 
    Dates taken from tombstones and family records. 

DAR Application for Membership #306826, submitted by Miss Mary Louise Schaller, 2704 13th St., N. E., Washington, DC; dated 9 Feb. 1938.

BIRTH: DEED: Dated 1 Oct 1857. 1st party: Susanna Weydemeyer of twp of Greenwich, Warren Co., NJ. 2nd party: George A. Hice, Borough of Easton, Northampton Co., PA. For $200. Susanna is one of the Heirs & Legal Representative of Jacob Young, Senr., dec'd, & by virtue of a certain will of the the said Jacob Young, dec'd.

 Will dated 31 July 1840 and was proved & recorded in the Surrogate Office in Warren Co., NJ, 13 June 1843.  Widow of Jacob Young, senr., was Mariah. Children:  Abraham, John, Jacob, Susanna Weydemeyer, Polly Myers, Elizabeth Fine, & Catherine Hunt.  Signed by Susanna Weydemeyer, "x" her mark. Witnessed by Jonas Weydemeyer.  Recorded 5 Mar 1858. 

SOURCE: Warren Co., NJ Deeds, Vol 46 page 295; film SLC 960751; copy in my possession.

BURIAL: "Jacob Young son John and Mary Young died March 16th 1850 in the 58th year of his age." The above information was found on a tombstone uncovered on the grounds of the Easton Area Public Library, Northampton, PA, along with 2 other tombstones: "Susan Ripple, daughter of John and Maria Young died July 20th 1895 aged 51 years." "Margaret Y., wife of Abraham Bidleman died February 11th 1865 Aged 74 years 8 months and 25 days."

  If no heirs make a claim to the tombstones after 3 weeks of advertising, 

the tombstones will be donated to the Northampton County [PA] Historical & Genealogical Society.

  The library had been built on a burial ground for the First Reformed 

Church, now called the First United Church of Christ. When the library acquired the site in 1902, the cemetery was filled to capacity and its grounds neglected...

  Using the list of plot holders, the library wrote heirs telling them they could re-inter the bodies to other cemeteries.  Most did, but about 30 bodies were never claimed or found... 

Source: The Morning Call, No. 37,606, Friday, Sept. 22, 1995. [I assume this is an Easton, PA newspaper].

RESEARCH NOTES: UNCONFIRMED DATA:

http://www.pa-roots.com/~berks/books/montgomery/h12.html Biographies from Historical and Biographical Annals by Morton Montgomery HENNINGER, HIRAM L. p. 1018

John Henninger, his paternal grandfather, was born in Windsor township, Berks county, July 17, 1788. He was married by Rev. Mr. Muhlenberg to Miss Sarah Rapp, and eight children were born to them, viz.: William, April 25, 1815; Mary A., Sept. 18, 1816; Catherine, April 25, 1818, who married Jacob Young; Frederick R., June 25, 1820; Sarah C., July 8, 1822; John R., Aug. 18, 1824; Hiram L., Dec. 11, 1826; and Charles B., Dec. 10, 1828.