Jacob Charles Landes, I

Birth: UNKNOWN in probably Switzerland Death: BET SEP AND OCT 1749 in PA; estate settled 11 Oct 1749 - buried Delp's Cem, Harleysville, Philadelphia Co (now Montgomery Co) Note: Naturalized in 1743 with his son, Jacob. In 1727 he purchased 187 acres of land on Indian Creek, Franconia Twp, in what is now Montgomery Co, P A. On this land he built a grist mill and a house. In 1734 an adjacent tract was surveyed to him; the two tracts extending from the Indian Creek to the Branch Creek, northeast of the village of Vernfield. In 17 38 he was listed as a Trustee of the Lower Salford Mennonite congregation n. On 20 Apr 1748, Jacob Landes (Sr) and his wife, conveyed their entire holdings to their son, Jacob Landes/Landis (Jr.) This seems to indicate that he was their only son, or at least the only one still living in 17 48. Jacob (Jr) further improved the land he inherited by building a saw m ill on Indian Creek.

Richard Warren Davis book is source of him as a son of Rudolph. I ha ve no further proof of this.

According to Thera of the Schwenk Family Tree, Ancestry.com estate settled 11 Oct 1749 - buried Delp's Cem, Harleysville, Note: Naturalized in 1743 with is son, Jacob. In 1727 he purchased 187 acres of land on Indian Creek, Franconia Twp, in what is now Montgomery Co, PA. On this land he built a grist mill and a house. In 1734 an adjacent tract was surveyed to him; the two tracts extending from the Indian Creek to the Branch Creek, northeast of the village of Vernfield. In 1738 he was listed as a Trustee of the Lower Salford menonite congregation. On 20 Apr 1748, Jacob Landes (Sr) and his wife, conveyed their entire holdings to their son, Jacob Landes/Landis (Jr.) This seems to indicate that he was their only son, or at least the only one still living in 1748. Jacob (Jr) further improved the land he inherited by building a saw mill on Indian Creek.

Please note there is another Jacob Landes buried at Delps who died 1777. The caption for his marker indicates a mention of this Jacob on the back side of that monument.

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Birth: 1685 Zürich, Switzerland Death: Oct. 11, 1749 Franconia Montgomery County Pennsylvania, USA

According to Thera of the Schwenk Family Tree, Ancestry.com estate settled 11 Oct 1749 - buried Delp's Cem, Harleysville, Note: Naturalized in 1743 with is son, Jacob. In 1727 he purchased 187 acres of land on Indian Creek, Franconia Twp, in what is now Montgomery Co, PA. On this land he built a grist mill and a house. In 1734 an adjacent tract was surveyed to him; the two tracts extending from the Indian Creek to the Branch Creek, northeast of the village of Vernfield. In 1738 he was listed as a Trustee of the Lower Salford menonite congregation. On 20 Apr 1748, Jacob Landes (Sr) and his wife, conveyed their entire holdings to their son, Jacob Landes/Landis (Jr.) This seems to indicate that he was their only son, or at least the only one still living in 1748. Jacob (Jr) further improved the land he inherited by building a saw mill on Indian Creek.

Please note there is another Jacob Landes buried at Delps who died 1777. The caption for his marker indicates a mention of this Jacob on the back side of that monument.

sources

• https://hsmcpa.org/images/thebulletin/1958vol11no2.pdf page 177 ( a later genealogy of the Landes family