John Jacob Meyer (1732 - aft. 1808)

Born 4 Feb 1732 in Muhlbach, Lebanon, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died after 24 Feb 1808 after age 76 in Freeburg, Snyder, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Sergeant Jacob Meyer served with Northumberland County Militia, Pennsylvania Militia during the American Revolution.

Jacob Meyer is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A083892.

John Jacob Myers served as a sergeant in the Revolutionary War in May and June of 1780. His name appears on the payroll of Lt Spees company from Northumberland. ^[4] He was a private when he served under Captain Michael Weaver as one of the Rangers on the Frontiers, who served between 1778 and1783, from Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. ^[2][5] Jacob's name appears on lists of citizens of Northumberland County who paid federal supply taxes.^[2][6]

Marriage : Details of his marriage are unclear. Some descendants report that his wife's name was Susan Zartman, daughter of Jacob Zartman, but a power of attorney made out to his son Michael names her as Susanna Ream, daughter of Peter Ream of Dauphin County.^[1][2] Further evidence is needed to clarify whether he was married twice, to two different women named Susan, or whether the reports of a marriage to Susan Zartman are in error.

Jacob's children are identified as :

1. Catharine^[1]
2. Barbara^[1]
3. Philip^[1]
4. John Jacob^[1]
5. John George^[1]
6. Henry^[1]
7. Michael^[1]
8. Christopher^[1]

Death and burial : Jacob died before 24 February 1808, in either Northumberland County ^[2] or Snyder County, PA.^[7]

Notes

Jacob's mother's name has not been confirmed, but has been given at various times by various people as Anna Mary Catharina Moore and also as Anna Kunigunta. The second name is probably a reference to the couple named Henrich Meyer and Anna Kunigunta, who emigrated from Germany to New York; no records exist to show that they ever spent time in Pennsylvania, and they are not believed to have had a son named Jacob.

Abraham Myers had previously been mistakenly included as a son of this family, but has since been removed. (Cooke-7654 16:16, 11 December 2022 (UTC) This relationship can be considered disproven and Abraham has been removed from this family per a deed from Jackson Co., Georgia:

Deed Book E, page 433 – Deed of Sale – Oct. 14, 1808

Abraham Mires (Myers), Lewis Hynor, & Henry Robeson, the legal heirs & representatives of Jacob Myers late of Jackson Co., (now deceased) to Robert Montgomery, Jun. of the same county, $25 for 80 acres on the north side of the walnut fork of the Oconee river… being part of 600 acres[7] originally granted to Jacob Myers, bounded SE by land of John Phinesy, S by John Kirk’s land, N by Tuggle & W by said boundary line…Signed: Abraham (X) Myers, Lewis Hineer, Henry Robeson. Wit: Jno. McConnell, Jun., Jno. McConnell, J.P. Rec. Feb. 27, 1811.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9} Meyer, Henry (1890) Genealogy of the Meyer Family pp.34-38. Rebersburg, PA : Author. Viewed at https://archive.org/details/genealogyofmeyer00meye/page/n6 and also at https://cdn.website-editor.net/020d9c979f77483189db333592c7de7f/files/uploaded/Genealogy%2520of%2520the%2520Meyer%2520family%2520%25201890_m6ZCfUqpTnm1gDJhlIZQ.pdf
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 7 May 2017), "Record of John Jacob Myers", Ancestor # A083892.
3. ↑ National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Indexes to Naturalization petitions to the U.S. Circuit and District Courts for Maryland, 1797-1951; Microfilm Serial: M1168; Microfilm Roll: 12
4. ↑ Pennsylvania Archives, Fifth Series, Volume VIII, pg. 679.
5. ↑ Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume XXIII, pg. 256.
6. ↑ Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume XIX, pg. 502.
7. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/63450141/john-jacob-meyer : accessed 10 November 2021), memorial page for John Jacob Meyer (1732–24 Feb 1807), Find A Grave: Memorial #63450141, citing Zion-Morr Lutheran Church Cemetery, Freeburg, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, USA ; Maintained by Ken Morr (contributor 47403848) . NOTE: This grave is in the same cemetery as the grave of Susanna Ream Meyer; it is not certain that it is her husband Jacob's, but it is likely.
8. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20060827220740/http://www.users.uswest.net/~willmurray/Mullins/jacksoncountydeeds.htm

See also :

• Meyer, Henry. Genealogy of the Meyer Family, Lauer & Mattill, Google Books, 1890, entry for Jacob Meyer, pp. 34-38.
• William Henry Egle, M. D., editor. Pennsylvania Archives [Third Series], Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: William Stanley Ray, State Printer, 1852.
• Thomas Lynch Montgomery, editor. Pennsylvania Archives [Fifth Series], Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg Publishing Company, State Printer, 1906.
• U.S. Naturalization Records Indexes, 1794-1995 Author: Ancestry.com

Acknowledgements

• This person was created through the import of Smith-Hunter.ged on 10 March 2011.
• Meyer-4589 was created by Christopher Decker through the import of 2z05b5_287502bel9550o8h54l2ba.ged on Dec 28, 2014.