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About Hans Jacob Weber
Jacob Weber, husbandman and vinedresser, was born about 1678, most
likely in the area between Heidelberg and Sinsheim, Baden, Germany. He
and his wife, Anna Elisabethe, born about 1683, had their first child,
Eva Maria, about 1704 and a second daughter, Eva Elisabethe, about three
years later in 1707.
The Webers had become acquainted with Pastor Josua Harrsch�s plans to
emigrate to the English Colonies. With living conditions worsening in
1708, Jacob and Elisabethe decided to join the Kochertal Party and left
secretly with four-year old Maria and one-year old Elisabethe to go with
them to Frankfurt, Rotterdam and London.
The Webers� third child, Johann Herman, was born in 1708, either in
London or while they waited on board the Ship Globe for their departure.
In his journal, Kochertal recorded this baptism 14 September 1708 �on
board the Ship Globe.� After delays in every port, in October 1708 the
Kochertal Party finally left England for New York.
They arrived on New Year�s Day 1709 at the mouth of Quassaic Creek on
the west side of the Hudson River, later Newburgh, Ulster County, New
York. The new arrivals quickly built crude log cabins for shelter before
the Globe departed and settled on the land intending to support
themselves by farming.
On 19 April 1710 the Weber�s son, Johannes, was baptised in the �Colony
on the Quasaic Kill,� and son, Pieter, born 25 December 1715, was
baptised at the �Highlands.� Daughter, Catharine, born 20 March 1719 in
the Highlands, was baptised 21 June 1719.
The Provincial Surveyor-General was told to lay out farms for the
Kochertal settlers who rejected his first proposal in 1714, saying the
land was all upland and that they needed some meadow land for fodder for
their cattle in winter. In the meantime, Jacob Weber paid taxes on this
land from 1711 through 1721.
Before the allotments of 50 acres per person were finalized some of the
original Kochertal Party had died or moved elsewhere. A patent for the �Palatine Parish by Quassaick,� was issued 18 December 1719. Jacob Weber
received 200 acres, Lot #7, with Johannes Fischer Lot #8 and Andreas
Volck Lot # 9.
On Lot #6, 100 acres on the north side of North Street, was Burger
Meynders, a Lutheran blacksmith from Kingston (not an original member of
the Kochertal Party) who had purchased the interests of Peter Roose/Rose
who had moved away. Soon after the patent was granted, the Quassaick
(Newburgh) Glebe Church was built, a twenty-foot square log structure
with a cupola in the center of the roof for the bell given by Queen Anne.
Since Pastor Kochertal had died that same year, his widow received his
apportionment of 250 acres and Jacob Weber and Andries Volck were
appointed the first Trustees of the Glebe�s 500 acres, to manage it for
the benefit of the Lutheran Church. On 20 February 1722 Jacob sold some
of his New York land to John Fischer (his next-door neighbor on Lot # 8)
and on 5 August 1724 he sold the remainder, Lot #7 in the �German
Patent,� to Zacharias Hoffman. Andreas Volck had also sold his Lot # 9
to Zacharias Hoffman before he left for Pennsylvania in 1723.
In the spring of 1723 Conrad Weiser with a group of settlers from
Schoharie cut a road to the Susquehanna River, made canoes and floated
down the river until they reached Swatara Creek, then went overland to
Tulpehocken, west of Reading in Philadelphia/Berks County. Andreas Volck
accompanied Weiser to Tulpehocken and this may be the route Jacob Weber
and his family took in the late summer of 1724 to join Volck in
Pennsylvania.
On a list of heads of households and single freemen residing in the Oley
Valley in 1701-1741, by 1723 Andreas �Fulk� had settled on Lot A12 in
the 10,000 acre �Swede�s Tract� on the Schuylkill River near Manatawney
Creek in Amity Township and by 1724 Jacob Weber/Weaver was on Lot A10. A
1734 tax list of landholders in Amity Township, Philadelphia Co.
included Jacob Weaver who owned 110 acres.
Amity Township was in northern Oley Valley, part of Philadelphia County
until 1752 when it became the southern part of newly-formed Berks
County. The surnames, �Fulk� and �Foulk� anglicized from �Volck,� and �Weaver� the English translation for �Weber,� used by their descendants
date from this time and place.
By 1735 Jacob�s former New York neighbor, Andreas Fulk/Volck, had moved
from Amity Township to the Allemangel (later Lynn Township, Lehigh
County) where he warranted 150 acres of land in 1738. There he became
affiliated with the Moravian congregation and died in September 1747.
Among his eight children were Barbara (wife of John Holder), George who
married Dorothea Dewees, Gertrude, Carolus/Carl who became Captain
Charles Foulk/Volck and married Catherine Harzy, Anna Maria, Elisabeth,
Jacob who married Mary Dewees and Andreas who married Maria Margaret
Romig.
The �Old Swede�s� Lutheran Church at Molattan in Amity Township was
organized about 1719 to serve the Swedish Lutherans, German Lutherans,
Reformed and the Anglicans. Several visiting pastors held occasional
services but there was no regular minister until Henry Muhlenberg began
bi-weekly visits in 1744-48.
In 1754 a Swedish Lutheran minister began regular services. As a result,
the German Lutherans and Reformed withdrew and formed a union church and
school house three miles away, known as St. Paul�s Union Church. The
Molattan Church eventually became an Episcopal Church, now called St.
Gabriel�s of Douglassville. These are the churches that the Weber
families attended, where their children married and where family members
are buried. About 1750 Jacob�s wife, Elisabeth, died and Jacob Sr. died
about 1752. His farm passed to his sons, Peter and Jacob Jr.
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Hans Jacob Weber's Timeline
| 1678 |
April 14, 1678
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Hasback, Birkenfeld, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
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| 1707 |
July 15, 1707
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Lower Palatinate, Germany
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1707
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Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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| 1708 |
September 14, 1708
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On ship "Globe", Atlantic Ocean
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| 1709 |
1709
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Newburgh, Orange, NY, United States
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| 1710 |
February 10, 1710
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New York, USA
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| 1711 |
1711
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Quassiac Creek, New York
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| 1714 |
September 14, 1714
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Quassiac Creek, New York
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| 1716 |
March 10, 1716
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Amity, Berks County, Province of Pennsylvania
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