Jacob Ricker, Sr

About the Reicker Family

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• Name: Jacob Reicker Anglicized: Jacob Ricker
• Family (Original): Wife: Anna Maria Reicker,
• Son: Georg Reicker
• Son: Jacob Jr – born c. 1730
• Job: Miller
• Origin: Germany
• Birth Date: Jacob Reicker was born c.1705,
• Emigrated From: Bodelshausen
• Wife: Anna Maria
• Children: 2 sons, 6 daughters
• Proprieter/Sponsor: William Smith

Arrived in America: around 1750

There were two Rickers aboard the Lovey, both named Jacob, father and son. Jacob Sr was a widower and Jacob Jr. was the only male heir. Jacob Jr’s wife died soon after arrival at The Bend, probably related to childbirth of a daughter who survived. Jacob Jr then married the widow of Matthew Sommer in 1769, as it is recorded that he paid the Expenses of a lawsuit, and undertook to settle the Division of the Estate among one son and five daughters.

The Ricker family moved downriver to Hillsborough in 1770 along with the Stiefs, Lutzs and Wortmans. The Ricker family had predominately daughters, and grew the most flax of all the Petitcodiac Germans. It was even claimed that they supported their family by weaving.

Notes for Jacob Ricker Sr.

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As a widower he accompanied his son’s family from Philadelphia in 1766 to settle in Monckton Township. Likely married Charles Jones/Carl Schantz’s widow (Margaret Lintz Jones) after 1774. He appears to have re-located with his wife and step children to the Hillsborough Settlement before 1780 and is recorded in the 1783 census there with his wife, two grown sons and one grown daughter which are presumed to be the Jones children minus one married daughter (Margaret).92

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The Permanent Settlers Association honours the eight families, with such familiar names as: Copple, Jones, Lutes/Lutz, Ricker, Somers, Steeves, Trites and Wortman, who ventured to Canada in response to the promise of land grants. Following the Treaty of Paris in 1763, tracts of land were made available for development through land companies. This area of the Maritime Provinces was administered by the company of Benjamin Franklin of the United States.

These settlers came to Nova Scotia (as it was then called) via Pennsylvania where German settlers, together with one Welsh, (who has since been identified as German), had ventured to a new world to establish a new homeland. While in the United States, they spent several years working to pay off their passage, but they longed for a place where they could have land to raise their families and improve their station in life.

On June 3, 1766, the sloop “Lovey” arrived at “The Bend” on the Petitcodiac River to off-load these families. History has revealed that this landing place was named Hall’s Creek after the individual who had delivered them safely to their destination after a period of five weeks on the water. During those first few months after arrival, it was very difficult to survive the winter without the promised rations that never materialized. This story—one that reflects the character of our City-- is one of co-operation and caring for one’s fellow man as some of the returning Acadians who lived to the east, and the Mi’kmaq natives, helped the new settlers with the strange language, by teaching them how to hunt, fish, and make food out of meager rations.

With the exception of the Copple family, who did not survive over the years, the descendants of these first Permanent Settlers now number in the millions. They live throughout the world, have multiplied and prospered. These families have contributed much to the development of our city as we know it today. They have been immersed in the educational, financial, religious, social and political life of our community.