Jacob Groff, Sr.

DAR Ancestor A207358

aka Grof / Graf

"About [1748] Jacob Graff built a large grist-mill on the Perkiomen creek, on the site of Perkiomenville. It was in use about one hundred years," per the History of Bucks County by W. W. H. Davis.

In tax records of 1769 and 1774, Jacob had 4 horses and 6 cattle.

On 18 May 1785, Jacob Groff Senior and wife Mary of Upper Salford deeded 200 & 1/2 acres along the Perkiomen Creek to their son Jacob Groff Junior, also of Upper Salford. This land dates to a patent of 21 June 1709 by Thomas and Richard Penn, proprietors of the Province of Pennsylvania, who had conveyed it to Jacob Groff Senior.

Jacob's wife Maria died in 1794. A widower in 1800, Jacob lived his remaining years with his son Heinrich's family, also in Upper Salford.

Old Goshenhoppen Church Cemetery Records compiled in 1974 show there was a Revolutionary War marker for Jacob. Edward Hocker's 1938 transcription of grave stones also indicates a marker. Jacob would have been 61 at the start of the Revolution. The marker is not there now. However, three of his sons have Revolutionary War markers at their graves in this section of the cemetery.