Jacob
Dech
Born in Schoenersville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Son of Johann Dech
and Anna (Pressler) Dech
[uncertain]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Christina (Best) Dech
— married
about 1771 in Pennsylvania
Descendants 
Father of
John Dech,
Anna Margaret (Dech) Kemmerer,
Jacob Dech,
Elizabeth (Dech) Laubach and
Andrew Dech
Died
at age 87
in Schoenersville, Hanover Township, Lehigh, Pennsylvania, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 3 Oct 2009
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Biography
Jacob Dech was born in Pennsylvania.
Jacob Dech has German Roots.
Jacob, son of Johann Dech and possibly Anna Pressler,[citation needed] was born 26 January 1746 in Schoenersville, Bucks County (Northampton after 1752; Lehigh after 1812), Pennsylvania.[1]
He lived in Forks township,[2] and married Christina Best,[2] sister of Conrad and daughter of Jacob Best of Williams township.[2] They had five children:
- John Dech (b. 16 February 1778;[3][4] bapt. 15 March 1778;[3] m. Elizabeth Oberly;[2][5] d. 21 December 1858).[6]
- Anna Margaret (Dech) Kemmerer (b. 29 September 1780;[4]
m David Kemmerer;[2] d.
- Jacob Dech (1782-) (b. 2 October 1782;[4]
m. Mary Magdalen Oberly;[2] d.
m. Christian Laubach;[2] d.
- Andrew Dech (b. 31 May 1793;[4]
m. Katherine Heller;[2] d. 28 September 1854).
Jacob Dech purchased various tracts of land in Allen township, enlisted as a soldier in the Revolutionary Army.
Jacob Dech was a valiant soldier in the Revolutionary War under Washington, and was a native of Bucks County, this state.[7][8]
- Death:
- Date: 26 Feb 1833[2]
Sources
- ↑ Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950, database, FamilySearch (27 January 2020), Jacob Dech, Schoenersville, Hanover Township, Bucks [ahistorically indexed Lehigh] County, Parents are not named in the index. The parish is given as Christ Reformed Lutheran Congregation.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Heller, William Jacob (ed.). History of Northampton County (Pennsylvania) and the Grand Valley of the Lehigh. New York: American Historical Society, 1920. Vol II, p. 189.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Pennsylvania Births and Christenings, 1709-1950, database, FamilySearch (27 January 2020), John Dech, 1778.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Northampton County Births, Dech Family (accessed 4 June 2022) on Family Search.
- ↑ Pennsylvania Marriages, 1709-1940, database, FamilySearch (6 February 2020), John Dech, 1797.
- ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 10 June 2022), memorial page for John Dech (16 Feb 1778–21 Dec 1858), Find A Grave: Memorial #82484770, citing Green Mount Cemetery, Bath, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by Debbie Peters nee Nester (contributor 47359069).
- ↑ Source: #S56 missing
- ↑ Source: #S3 missing Page: p. 761
- "Pennsylvania Cemetery Records, ca. 1700-ca. 1950", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:8BYT-XZT2 : 1 October 2020), Jacob Dech, 26 Jan 1746 - 26 Feb 1833. Buried Schoenersville, Lehigh [ahistorically indexed Northampton] County, Pennsylvania.
Acknowledgments
Thank you to John McVey for creating WikiTree profile Dech-19 through the import of Dech-233.ged on Dec 8, 2013.
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