Jacob
Moyer
Born in Lower Salford, Montgomery, Pennsylvania,
Ancestors 
Son of Christian Meyer
and Susanna (Detweiler) Meyer
Brother of
Fannie Meyer, Mary (Meyer) Alderfer, Christian Moyer, Magdelena Moyer, Samuel D. Moyer, Abraham Moyer, John Moyer, Elizabeth (Moyer) Shoemaker, Susanna Detweiler (Moyer) Friedt, Hanna Detweiler Moyer and Catharine (Meyer) Swartley
Husband of
Maria (Detwiler) Moyer
— married
1763 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Susanna Meyer, Christian Moyer III, Jacob Moyer, Mary (Moyer) Kratz, Abraham Detweiler Moyer, Sarah D (Moyer) Landis and Joseph Moyer
Died about
at about age 58
in Salford, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA [uncertain]
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| Created 1 Sep 2011
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Biography
Jacob, the oldest son of Christian Meyer and Susannah Detweiler, was born on 4 Nov 1751.[1]
He inherited 132 acres from his father's Montgomery County estate, including a 5-acre lot which held the old homestead, in 1784. He was a "Funkite" and had a meetinghouse built on his land above Harleysville about 1814 or 1815.[1]
Jacob married Magdalena Detwiler. [1] They were the parents of :
- Susanna (1775-1826) m. Henry Kolb (Fretz, p.28) [1]
- Christian (1778-1859) m. Mary Landis (Fretz, p.38) [1]
- Jacob (1780-?) m. Sarah Detweiler (Fretz, p.44) [1]
- Mary (1783-1820) m. Valentine Felty (Fretz, p.54) [1]
- Abraham (1786-1866) m. Barbara Landis (Fretz, p.54) [1]
- Sarah (1789-1865) m. Jacob Landis (Fretz, p.58) [1]
- Joseph (1791-1862) m. Elizabeth Detweiler (Fretz, p.59) [1]
Baschi Meyer Project
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Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 Fretz, Abraham James. "A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Christian and Hans Meyer and Other Pioneers: Together with Historical and Biographical Sketches, Illustrated with Eighty-seven Portraits and Other Illustrations", pp.27-28. Harleysville, Pennsylvania: News Printing House, 1896. (Available online at Google Books.)
See also :
- Cassel, Daniel Kolb. A Genealogical History of the Kolb, Kulp, or Culp Family, Norristown, Pa., Morgan R. Willis, 1895. page 28.
- Find A Grave: Memorial #44896282
- Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950 [1]
- Jacob Moyer
- Age: 58
- Death or Burial Place: Pennsylvania, United States
- Cemetery: Delp
- Death Date: 4 Sep 1810
- Birth Year (Estimated): 1752
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DNA Connections
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jacob by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jacob by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. Y-chromosome DNA test-takers in his direct paternal line on WikiTree:
- Eric Myers
:
Family Tree DNA Y-DNA Test 37 markers, haplogroup I-M253, FTDNA kit #647051
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~1.56%
Nancy Pippen :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member ella
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~1.56%
Calvin Schenkel :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Rick Reed :
23andMe, GEDmatch M152933 [compare]
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A979379 [compare], Ancestry member rick6reed
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T018509 [compare], FTDNA kit #340381
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~0.78%
Mary Cook :
23andMe
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~0.78%
Kyle Jones :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch UR6764683 [compare], Ancestry member kylejones
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Sharon Smith :
23andMe, GEDmatch M116147 [compare]
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