Johann Jacob
(Jacob)
Seybert
Born about in Sötern, Nohfelden, Sankt Wendel, Saarland, Heiliges Römisches Reich
Ancestors 
Son of Christophel Seybert
and Anna (Unknown) Lorentz
Brother of
Adam Seibert, Anna Catharina (Seibert) Lauer, Johann Wendel Seibert, Mary Maria Seibert [half], Anna Elisabeth (Seybert) Lauer and Maria Barbara (Seibert) Rieth
Husband of
Maria Elizabetha (Teiss) Seibert
— married
26 Feb 1739 in Tulpehocken, Lancaster (now Berks), Pennsylvania Colony
Descendants 
Father of
John Casper Seybert, Nicholas Seybert, Henry Seybert, Catharine Seybert, Margaret Seybert, George Seybert and Elizabeth Seybert
Died
at about age 41
in Augusta, Virginia
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Biography
Jacob Seibert and his brother Wendel landed at Philadelphia in October 1738 and settled in the Tulpehocken Valley, Pennsylvania, an area first colonized in 1723 by Germans from New Amsterdam.
Jacob Seibert and Elizabeth Theiss were married at Tulpehocken Feb. 26, 1739 by Casper Stoever, a Lutheran minister.
He died at Fort Seybert, now West Virginia, in 1758.
Mistaken identities
It is a singular fact that two different sets of brothers, both named Jacob and Wendel Seibert, nearly the same ages, emigrated about 1738 from the Sankt Wendel region (in modern-day Saarland, Germany) to the Tulpehocken valley.
Sons of Jacob of Eitzweiler, remained in Pennsylvania:
Sons of Christophel of Sötern, removed to what is now West Virginia:
- Jacob (1717-1758), farmer, married Elizabeth Theiss.
- Wendel (1715-1802), blacksmith, married Catharine, perhaps Reiss.
The 1959 Seibert family and other manuscripts incorrectly confused them with each other, particularly assigning both of the Jacob marriages to a single composite man. The author published updated and corrected biographies, citing both German and North American records, in Seiberts of Saarland in 1982.
Sources
- Find A Grave: Memorial #43978557
- Bell, Raymond Martin. The Seibert family: Wolfersweiler, Saar; Tulpehocken, Pennsylvania; Clear Spring, Maryland; Martinsburg, West Virginia. Washington, Pennsylvania: n.p., 1959, [1]. Inaccurate; corrected in 1982 edition.
- Bell, Raymond Martin. The Seiberts of Saarland, Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Washington, Pennsylvania: n.p., 1982, pp. 5, 32.
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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. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jacob:
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. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Jacob:
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~0.78%
Cathe McConiga
:
23andMe
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~0.78%
George Will :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
Mary (Smith) Dull :
AncestryDNA
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~0.78%
P R :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch TV6922221 [compare], Ancestry member lukrytz
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~0.78%
Denise (Barrett) Petersen :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, FTDNA kit #795198
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~0.39%
Terri Messer :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Kim Hatton :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
Patti Brucher :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch Qt6324597 [compare]
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Michael Schell
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Michael Schell
There are two similar profiles for Johan Jacob: Seibert-481 and Seybert-23, but things appear too complicated to merge. The common element in all Jacob Seibert biographies is that he married Maria Elizabeth Teiss in Tulpehocken on 26 Feb 1739. However, some biographies say that Jacob remarried after Elizabeth died, while others claim that Jacob migrated to Virginia, where both he and his wife Elizabeth were killed in the Fort Seybert Massacre. Both cannot be true. There must be two Johan Jacob Seibert/Seybert(s): one who remained and died in Tulpehocken, and another who migrated to Virginia and was killled with his wife in the massacre. My feeling is that some of the source info related to the guy who remained in Tulpehocken has been mis-attributed to the guy who died in the Massacre
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Michael Schell
Something in the biography is not right. If both Jacob Seibert and his first wife Mary Theiss were killed in the Fort Seybert Massacre, then Jacob could not have re-marrried Susanna, widow of Schutz.
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Rejected matches › Johann Jacob Seibert (1716-1761)
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