Jacob Landess

Note: Find a Grave lists his birth place as Virginia, but the immigration record below seems to prove otherwise.

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U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900
Name Jacob Landess
Gender Male
Birth Place Gr
Birth Year 1750
Spouse Name Mary Reynolds
Spouse Birth Year 1760
Marriage Year 1781
Marriage State NC

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U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name Jacob Landess
Arrival Year 1775
Arrival Place Pennsylvania
Primary Immigrant Landess, Jacob
Source Publication Code 4514
Source Bibliography LANDERS, JO, editor. "Emigrant List." In Landers' Landings, vol. 3:3 (Dec. 1983-Jan. 1984), pp. 3-4.

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Surname has also been reported to be Landis.

Date of birth might be 1750 or 1756.

He married Mary REYNOLDS (13 children)
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From the Find a Grave of his son John: His father's Swiss Mennonite ancestors were martyred for their religious beliefs. The surviving family fled to the Palatines. His grandparents (as children) and great-grandparents arrived in Pennsylvania in the early 1700's, with waves of other Palatinate refugees.

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Lewis MOLER made the first improvements on the STOCKWELL farm in Hamer, Highland County, Ohio in 1812. Jacob LANDESS, from Kentucky, settled on this land in 1815 and made further improvements. Jacob LANDESS was a Quaker. He had a family of thirteen children, ten of whom married. "Morris KING married Susanna, the daughter of Jacob LANDESS, and had fourteen children, thirteen of whom grew to maturity and married. Among them were six boys who never have used tobacco in any form."

"Jacob GARVER, a Dunkard preacher, living to the west on the Big Miami, often visited the LANDESSES, and held religious services in their house. Not having a regular preaching time announced beforehand, on his arrival Mr. LANDESS would mount a horse and make a circuit of the neighborhood, far and near, and the neighbors would come together. Garver preached at the house of Mr. LANDESS as early as 1817.

"Among the (other) pioneer preachers through New Market, Hamer, Salem, and other townships (in Highland Co., Ohio), was Peter HAUN. He was a Kentuckian and a slaveholder. He visited Ohio from time to time, and held religious services wherever there were those who would receive them. In Hamer his usual stopping place was at the LANDESSES." Williams Bros., HISTORY OF ROSS AND HIGHLAND COUNTIES, OHIO (1880), pp. 444,446.
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"On the farm of Jacob LANDESS, north of Pricetown (Salem Twp., Highland Co., Ohio), there is another (Indian) mound." Williams Bros., HISTORY OF ROSS AND HIGHLAND COUNTIES, OHIO (1880), p.456.

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