Jacob Race, Sr.

Jacob was born about 1691 in Germany. He must have come to Amwell, Hunterdon Co., as early as 1715, as in 1726 he had been a Guardian of Henry Boss for nine years. In 1768 he bought the mill at Mt. Airy and in 1796 came with his son Jacob to Franklin Twps. in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey. Sources Book: The Early Germans of New Jersey: Their History, Churches, and Genealogies, By Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers, p. 280