Jacob Herr Nissley, II

• KNEISLEY, JACOB Ancestor #: A066345
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• Birth: 5-31-1753 LANCASTER CO PENNSYLVANIA
• Death: 11-3-1832 WEST VIRGINIA PENNSYLVANIA

Revolutioary War Vetran 1775-1783. Jacob Nessley was b.June 2,1753 in Lancaster Co, Pennsylvania.He migrated from Pennsylvania to Hancock Co,Va/Wv in the year 1784.Jacob can be found owning land in Ohio in the year 1784. Jacob Nessly/Nessley was a pioneer settler who prospered as a farmer and distiller.He settled on a small farm that would become an 8,000 acre plantation,strctching 5mile along the Ohio River.In 1826,he built Nessly Chapel,which wsa once called "The Old Stone Church" as it was made of native stone. Located on Route 2,south of Newell.Nessly chapel occupies a unique niche in the religious history of Hancock County. The Chapel was built for general worship services and was nondenominational.TYHe first communion cups were made with coin silver that Jacob had donated to a silver smith. After the death of his wife,Elizabeth Jacob moved to Ohio in 1829 leaving the farm in the hands os Jacob DeSellem,his Grandson.Jessie Sisson,a hired hand and zealious reformer of the Methodist Church,perwuaded DeSellem to deed the Old Stone Church to the Methodist Protestant group. Signing of the deed was required to take place in the home state of the church.A deed was drawn up,and Sisson and Richard Brown,a Va justice of the peace,travled to Ohio to obtain the required signature of Jacob Nessly.The two men hlped Nessly into a wooden farm sled and drove to the middle of the Ohio River,which was under Va jurisdiction. With a stroke of a pen aboard the sled,Jacob Nessly,farmer,nurseryman,fruit grwer,and distiller,brought into being the first Methodist Protestant Church in the World.

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