Sgt. Jacob Rittenhouse Gorgas

A Patriot of the American Revolution for PENNSYLVANIA with the rank of Sargent. DAR Ancestor # A046210

Generation No. 4

4. JACOB GORGAS was born 09 Aug 1728 in Germantown, Philadelphia, PA, and died 29 Mar 1798. He married (1) CHRISTIANA MACK15,16, daughter of ALEXANDER MACK and ANNA KLINGEN. She was born 29 Mar 1734 in Schriesheim, Mannheim, Baden, Germany16, and died 20 Oct 180416. He married (2) CATHARINE HORTER. Jacob Gorgas was a clock maker out of Lancaster County.

Jacob earned some renown as a fine Clockmaker. They lived for a while in Ephrata Area and an area called Cocalico ( in Lancaster Co. - Mainly during the time when Joseph helped in the clock business -Then Joseph must have changed his mind - His children ( With wife Sophia Atkinson were Soon born in Running Pumps ( Dauphin Co. Pa) .

While Jacob was a clockmaker, he moved to Ephrata where he built the house at Vine and West Sunset Avenue, which was the former Menno Hess home, and in 1777 built the home at Oak and West Main Streets, which at one time was known as the Village Inn.340.

My great grandmother was born Mary Emaline Gorgas (b. 11 August 1840 d. 2 April 1914). She was second cousin to Dr. William Crawford Gorgas. She was the daughter of William Rittenhouse Gorgas, who was the son of Solomon Gorgas and Grandson of Jacob Gorgas, the clockmaker of Ephrata. She married Dr. George A. Horting, dentist who had a sister Cassiah Horting who married a Jacob Gorgas in about 1850-1860 (certainly not the clockmaker or his son). Does anybody know how (or if) he fits into the family? I will be glad to share any information I have about the Gorgas or Horting families.

George Block

Children of JACOB GORGAS and CHRISTIANA MACK are: 6. i. JOSEPH5 GORGAS, b. 07 Apr 1770, Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania; d. 1841, Louisville, Stark County, Ohio.

      ii.       SOLOMON GORGAS, b. 1765.

      iii.       JACOB GORGAS.

      iv.       MARY ELIZABETH GORGAS.

Birth: 1728 Death: 1798 Inscription: REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER

Burial: Ephrata Cloister Cemetery Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA Find A Grave Memorial# 26066533

GEDCOM Note

Bio notes: Son of John Gorgas, a native of Holland and Sophia Rittenhouse a granddaughter of William Rittenhouse of Germantown. A Soldier in the Revolution , serving as sergeant in Captain John Jones Company, Colonel Peter Grubbs' Battalion, Lancaster County Association. He was a celebrated clock maker Married Christina Mack Sgt. Jacob Rittenhouse Gorgas

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