John
Jacob
(Jacob)
Groff
Sr
aka Grof, Graf
Born [location unknown]
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Maria (Lederach) Groff
— married
[date unknown] [location unknown]
Descendants 
Died
at age 88
in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Dec 2017
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Biography
Jacob Groff Sr performed Patriotic Service in Pennsylvania in the American Revolution.
Jacob Groff Sr is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A207358.
John Grof / Groff/ Graf was born in 1715. He paid the supply tax in Upper Salford in 1781. [1] [2]
"About [1748] Jacob Graff built a large grist-mill on the Perkiomen creek, on the site of Perkiomenville. It was in use about one hundred years," per the History of Bucks County by W. W. H. Davis.
In tax records of 1769 and 1774, Jacob had 4 horses and 6 cattle.
On 18 May 1785, Jacob Groff Senior and wife Mary of Upper Salford deeded 200 & 1/2 acres along the Perkiomen Creek to their son Jacob Groff Junior, also of Upper Salford. This land dates to a patent of 21 June 1709 by Thomas and Richard Penn, proprietors of the Province of Pennsylvania, who had conveyed it to Jacob Groff Senior.
Jacob's wife Maria died in 1794. A widower in 1800, Jacob lived his remaining years with his son Heinrich's family, also in Upper Salford.
Old Goshenhoppen Church Cemetery Records compiled in 1974 show there was a Revolutionary War marker for Jacob. Edward Hocker's 1938 transcription of grave stones also indicates a marker. Jacob would have been 61 at the start of the Revolution. The marker is not there now. However, three of his sons have Revolutionary War markers at their graves in this section of the cemetery.
He passed away in 1803. [3]
Sources
- ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 14 Dec 2023), "Record of John Groff", Ancestor # A207358.Meehan-411
- ↑ SAR https://sarpatriots.sar.org/patriot/display/171189
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 16 June 2022), memorial page for Jacob Groff (1 Feb 1715–9 May 1803), Find A Grave: Memorial #20202926, citing Old Goshenhoppen Cemetery, Woxall, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by Jayne (contributor 48342477) .
See Also: US, Sons of the American Revolution Membership Application, 1889-1970 posted on ancestry.com
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