Hans Jacob was born in Preuschdorf, Alsace in 1731 to Hans Heinrich and Anna Catharina (Schaeffer) Acker [1 & 2]. He immigrated to America with his parents in 1732 [2].
1. Evangelische Kirche Preuschdorf Kirchenbuecher: Baptisms, page 186. [Family History Library International Film #8087398.]
2. Annette Kunselman Burgert, Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America (Camden, Maine: Picton Press, 1992), pages 21 & 23.
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