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About Pvt. Jacob Reiff, Sr.
- Jacob Reiff Find A Grave Memorial# 70251192
- Lower Skippack Mennonite Cemetery, Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA Find A Grave
- Account of Military service in the Revolution
by several records ~ a Skippack Mennonite... referring to Skippack, Pennsylvania.
"Jacob received in inheritance and bought from his brothers most of his father's plantation in Lower Salford, and added to it. The Jacob Reiff Park in Lower Salford is named for him and is located on a portion of his land, as is the Reiff homestead (although this building may not be the original Hans Geirge Reiff/Jacob Reiff home). The Skippack Reformed Church was built on this land of logs (sic), but Jacob later tore down the church and used the lumber to build a grist mill on the the little branch of the Skippack Creek.
Jacob made a trip to Europe " to fetch his relations ", and again in 1730 to collect money in Europe for the Reformed Church in Pennsylvania. " ~ source: Letter of Harry E. Reiff to Elizabeth Wildman dated 10/3/1981 (added here by Mike van Beuren in 2013)
The trip to Europe (the Netherlands) was controversial. See: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044105531511&view=1up&... (The Ill-Starred Collecting Tour) by Henry Dotterer
• bought 546 a. from Samuel Powell in 1727 then subsequently sol 160 a. of these to brother George ... leaves 386 acres
• 1743 Erected a mill on his property 30'x 60' 1 m. race; homestead belonged to J.R.Tyson 1884, a descendant.
• buried Skippack Mennonite graveyard
This entry on Jacob Reiff is taken from blog entries on him in Perkiomen Autographs and Pennsylvania Fathers by AE Reiff.
Jacob Reiff the Elder (15 November 1698 – 16 February 1782) was the youngest son of Hans George Reiff (d. December, 1726) and Anna Maria (1662-1753), his executor and a man of wide reputation in Skippack and Lower Salford. Evidence now suggests that his wife was Anna Landis (1709 – 28 October 1788) who he married at Skippack in 1733.
Jacob the Elder had two sons, Jacob Jr. and George III. It is hard to conclusively prove whether he was a Mennonite later in life because of the records which Mennonites essentially did not believe in keeping, but a summary of some of the argument goes like this: His oldest son, Jacob Reiff Jr., the first elected member of the Pennsylvania General Assembly from Montgomery County (1786-89), who voted for the Pennsylvania convention to adopt the Constitution of the United States, seems to have followed his father's Reformed tendencies since he participated in the founding of the Wentz Reformed Church...
Jacob Jr.'s children however got him into the Mennonites in a big way, especially his son John Reiff (5 December 1759 – 6 February 1826) who married a daughter of Bishop Christian Funk and became a minister with that prescient, if defrocked divine, who endorsed the American Revolution. This John Reiff signed the preface, with other ministers, of the English version of Funk's Mirror for all Mankind (Norristown, Pa.,1814). In 1814 Jacob Reiff (Jr.) donated land for the first Funkite meetinghouse in Skippack (Wenger, 350), the same land that his son John later retitled to the Dunkards after the Funkite demise...
- "bought 200 acres of Henry Pennnypacker in 1724" (PA) (per Theo. Lane Bean)
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Pvt. Jacob Reiff, Sr.'s Timeline
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November 15, 1698
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Germany
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| 1734 |
June 18, 1734
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Lower Salford Twp, Montgomery, PA, BCA
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| 1739 |
April 9, 1739
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Lower Salford Township, Montgomery County, PA, United States
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| 1782 |
February 16, 1782
Age 83
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Lower Salford Township, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States
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February 18, 1782
Age 83
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Lower Skippack Mennonite Cemetery, Skippack, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States
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