Jacob Hawk (1764 - 1849)

Born 5 Oct 1764 in Capon Valley, Hampshire County, (W) Virginia [uncertain]

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Died 3 Mar 1849 at age 84 in McArthur,Athens County, Ohio

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Biography

Jacob Hawk was born on 5 October 1764 ^[1] possibly in Hampshire County, Virginia, but more likely in Frederick County, to John and Christina Hawk.^[2] Jacob married Sarah Baumgardner: a traditional date assigned to Jacob's marriage is 1786. ^[3]

Jacob's father, John Hawk / Johannes Haack, was the progenitor of the Hawk in the Capon Valley. The farm owned by John was in Hampshire County until Hardy County was organized from it in 1786. The Virginia personal property tax was instituted in 1782 and for four years, 1782-1785, John and his household was assessed in Hampshire County; from 1786 on in Hardy County.

From 1782 through 1786, John was assessed for one white male aged 21 or older - himself - and for a white male age at least 16 but under age 21. In 1787, John was assessed only for himself, and the second male from his household, Jacob, was the head of his own household. ^[4]

Jacob was affiliated with Hebron Church near Capon Springs in Hampshire County. From its organization in 1786 until 1813 Hebron was a union church, used by both Lutheran and German Reformed congregations, and provided religious services to people of the German community who previously had had no access to a church. In 1786, John Hawk's four adult children - Maria Switzer, Isaac Hawk, Chistina Wolf, and Jacob Hawk - were confirmed in the Reformed Church. ^[5] Johannes, born 21 November1788, son of Jacob Hack and wife Sarah, was baptized at Hebron on 12 February 1789. ^[6]

Jacob Hawk was last assessed in Hardy County in in the spring of 1790. Two years later he was assessed for personal property tax in Bath County, Virginia.^[7] By July 1793, he had been joined by his older brother, Isaac. ^[8] On 19 November of that year, Jacob received a Virginia patent for 165 acres on a branch of Little Sinking Creek in Greenbrier County.^[9]By 1810 Jacob had acquired an additional 315 acres of land and an unspecified share with six other men in 208 a. on Brier Knob. ^[10] This property lay in the southwestern end of Bath County, adjacent to Greenbrier County. ^[11]

Even while Jacob was acquiring the final piece of his Bath County-property, he was contemplating removal to Southeastern Ohio

While still resident in Bath County, he purchased, in private sales, land in Gallia County, Ohio, in November 1811 and adjacent land in October 1814, along Big Raccoon Creek, now in Wilkesville Township, Vinton County.^[12]The deed of 1814 records him as a resident of Gallia County, but he still was assessed for personal property and owned land in Bath in 1814 and 1815.

Jacob paid his last personal property tax in Bath County on 13 April 1815. In August he sold his Bath County land for $2,000 and likely made his move very soon after that sale, perhaps in September. ^[13]

By traveling about 20 miles south along the Greenbrier River, Jacob reached Lewisburg, in Greenbrier County. There he took the “Old State Road” - which had become the principal route of migration to Ohio and Kentucky from the middle and southern counties of Virginia – westward across the New River to present-day Fayetteville, where the road turned northwest around Cotton Hill to the Great Falls of the Kanawha River. The road followed the south bank of the Kanawha to the Ohio River, and ferries carried Jacob and his family across Kanawha and Ohio River to Gallipolis, the seat of Gallia County. ^[14]

Jacob and Sarah and their large family likely made their home initially on the Gallia County land. The next year, in the summer of 1816 he purchased, on credit, ^[15]at the Government Land Office in Chillicothe, for $2.00 an acre, the 160 acres of the Southeast quarter of Section 30 in Township 11, Range 17 and the following year, as the assignee of James Morrow, purchased an addition 160 acres, the Northeast quarter of the same section. This Northeast quarter, in Elk Township in Jackson County, is near MacArthur (platted in 1815, now the county seat of Vinton County) and was the place that Jacob and Sarah made their home for the rest of their lives. ^[16]

In 1819, Jacob acquired another 480 acres of land, ^[17] also purchased on credit, and added additional land in later years. ^[18] Jacob and Sarah sold their 500+ acres on Raccoon Creek in 1822 and 1828, the larger part, 302 acres, to their eldest son, John. ^[19]It was from his home in Jackson county that Jacob wrote a letter supporting his brother Isaac’s application for of pension for his service in the Revolution. ^[20]

When Jacob wrote his will in 1832, ^[21] he left to Sarah lifetime rights in one-third of the quarter section on which they lived in Elk Township, with their dwelling, one-third of his personal estate and the meadow in Section 30. He bequeathed to each of his oldest thirteen children five dollars “in addition to what I have already given them Deeds from Jacob and Sarah from in Gallia, Athens, and Jackson Counties document the gift or sale of land to seven of their sons. ^[22] Jacob devised land to his youngest sons, Eli and David, and provided that at Sarah’s death her dower property would revert to David.

By 1840 Jacob and Sarah, in their seventies, were living in a household headed by their youngest son, David. ^[23] Jacob died on 3 March 1849. Sarah survived him. She was living with David in 1850, and died on 22 July 1853. ^[24]

Some descendants show his father Isaac, as an English soldier, escaping German captivity to come to America, and waiting until after the Revolution to send for his wife. This is not likely, being that his sons were born between 1759 and 1764, all in Virginia. Others point to the family's affiliation with the Hebron Lutheran Church, a Dutch Reform Church, and the fact that Isaac's children married among the German communities both in Virginia and later in Ohio for two successive generations, as evidence that his father may have been a Hessian deserter, or religious dissenter trying to keep a low profile in the wilderness of Capon Valley. It is interesting that a Johann Hawk and wife Christina are also named as parents, and that the counties of birth for Jacob and two of his siblings were also confirmed residences for Johann Hawk. Jacob married Sarah Bumgardner in 1786. Soon after, the two moved to Hampshire, Virginia. In 1803, he received a land grant for the Ohio territory. He lived a long life, dying in McArthur, Ohio in 1849. Five of his 15 children married five children of the Switzer family.

Sources

1. ↑ Joseph H. Vance, The Vance Family Scrapbook (Lombard, Ill.: private printing, 1970), p. 169: not documented. No record has been found of his birth, but the life dates presented in this profile and been published in several context without attribution.
2. ↑ No evidence has been found to place the Hawk family in Hampshire County before the late 1760s. John acquired his first property in 1775,
3. ↑ Vance, The Vance Family Scrapbook, 169.
4. ↑ “Personal property tax lists, 1782-1850,” Hampshire County, W. Va. Family Search. Personal property tax lists, 1782-1799, Film #007849130, Personal property tax lists, 1786-1806. (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/777469?availability=Family%20History%20Library); “Personal property tax lists, 1786-1850,” Hardy County, Family Search. Film # 008151960, Personal property tax lists, 1786-1806, (www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/776150?availability=Family%20History%20Library).
5. ↑ Hebron Lutheran Church, Capon Lake (Intermont) W. Va., Register, 1784-1885: Library of Virginia Miscellaneous Microfilm reel 418, p. 89.
6. ↑ Hebron Lutheran Church Register, unnumbered page headed "1789 baptisms."
7. ↑ If the purported date and place of birth of Jacob's son, Isaac, 26 Dec. 1790 in "Pocahontas" Co. - that is, Bath Co., is accurate Jacob and family had arrived in Bath Co. before the end of 1790.
8. ↑ “Personal property tax lists, 1791-1852.” Bath County, Va. Family Search. Personal Property Tax Lists, 1791-1816, FHL film # 007846305, image 40, June 18, 1794, Jacob; image 100, June 26, 1794, Jacob and June 27, 1794, Isaac. (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/777446?availability=Family%20History%20Library).
9. ↑ Land Office Grants No. 29, 1793, p. 681: digital image at Library of Virginia Digital Library Program (http://www.lva.virginia.gov/).
10. ↑ Jacob Hawk, asge of James Calleson , 35 acres east side of the Little Mountain Bath County, Virginia, Surveyor’s Records, vol. 1, p 332 (1 Apr 1801). Family Search. FHL Film # 008190027, image 199. (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSL6-M3KC-8?i=198&cat=332466); Bath Co., Va.., Deeds 2:576 (14 Feb. 1804) William Hughes and wife Mary of Bath Co. to Isaac [sic] Hawk of same. Hughes conveys to Jacob Hawk for 100 pounds current money 163 acres, granted to Hughes by patent dated 29 June 1795 on the waters of Falling Spring. (Film # 007893736, image 607). [Initially the name of grantee is Isaac, but clearly this is a copyist’s error and Jacob was intended. After the metes and bounds, “to the said Jacob Hawk…” and Jacob is mentioned four more times. See Jacob’s sale of this land.]; Bath Co., Va.., Deeds, 4:56 (10 Oct. 1809) William Edmiston and wife Rebecca of Bath Co. to Jacob Hawk of same for $460, 115 a., part of 363 a. granted to James Edmiston by patent 9 Nov 1787, joining the land of Jacob Hawk. (FHL Film # 007893737, image 286); Bath Co., Va.., Deeds 4:63 (8 Oct 1810) Mathew Sands and wife Lovicey [?] of Greenbrier Co. to Isaac Hawk and others, including Isaac and Abraham Hawk, 208 a. on Brier Knob (Film # 007893737, image 289). [“Virginia, Bath County deeds, 1791-1874; general index to deeds, 1791-1903” Bath Co. (Va). County Clerk. Family Search. (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/399209?availability=Family%20History%20Library).
11. ↑ In 1821, after Jacob had gone to Ohio, this portion of Bath Co. was organized as Pocahontas Co.
12. ↑ Gallia Co., Oh, Deeds 5:15 (26 Nov. 1811) Orasha Strong of Gallia Co. to Jacob Hawk of Bath Co., Va. for $300 land in Gallia Co., Fraction no. 23 in Section 22, T8, R16 [acreage not specified] and Gallia Co., Oh, Deeds 5:203 (25 Oct 1814 at Gallipolis) William Woodbridge of Marietta, Washington Co., Ohio, to Jacob Hawk of Gallia Co. $400. Land estimated to be 262 acres in fraction section 22, T 8, R 16. [503 acres in both tracts by adding the acreages when these tracts were sold by Jacob Hawk in1822 and 1828]. “Deeds, 1803-1901; index to deeds, 1789-1918,” Gallia County (Ohio). Recorder. Family Search. FHL Film # 007900695, images 394 and 540 (https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/265135?availability=Family%20History%20Library).
13. ↑ Bath Co., Va.., Deeds 4:515 (28 August 1815) Jacob Hawk and wife Sarah of Bath Co, to William McCoy of Greenbrier Co. for $2,000 Va. money.
14. ↑ James Morton Callahan, Semi-Centennial History of West Virginiai (Charleston, W. Va.: Semi-Centennial Commission of West Virginia, 1913), pp. 92-94.
15. ↑ “Under the Act of 1800 the lands were offered at public sale in sections and half-sections for not less than two dollars per acre, payable in cash or in evidences of the public debt. One fourth of the price was to be paid within forty days, one-fifth of that, or one-twentieth of the whole, was required at the time of sale. The other three-quarters were payable in two, three and four years, respectively, with interest at six per cent, per annum.” Morris Bien, “The Public Lands of the United States,” The North American Review, Vol. 192, No. 658 (Sep., 1910), p. 391. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/25106763).
16. ↑ U.S Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, Ohio River Survey, Land Patents No. CV-0030-001, 6 July 1816, for and No. CV-0034-084, 1 May 1817.
17. ↑ U.S Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, Ohio River Survey, Land Patents No. CV-0044-518, 24 Apr. 1819, for the NW qtr of Sec. 6, T11N, R17W, 160 a., in Jackson Co, and No. CV-0045-019, 24 Apr. 1819, for the S half of Sec.8, T11N, R17W, 160 a., in Jackson Co (now Vinton Co.).
18. ↑ See U.S Dept. of Interior, Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records, Land Patents (https://glorecords.blm.gov/default.aspx)
19. ↑ Gallia Co., Oh., Deeds 8:401 (29 Nov. 1822) Jacob Hawk and Sarah his wife of Athens County to son John Hawk of Gallia Co. for $324: FHL Film # 007897614, image 551; Gallia Co., Oh., Deeds 10:463 (24 Oct 1828) Jacob Hawk and wife Sarah of Jackson Co. to John Bacus [indexed as Backus] of Gallia Co., for $150, 120a. on west side Big Raccoon Creek: Film # 007920314, image 480.
20. ↑ National Archives, Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 9571, Isaac Hawk, Virginia. Digital images at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/54826745. Image 36: Letter from Jacob Hawk in support of Isaac application. Jackson Co., Ohio, 3 Sept 1833. (https://catalog.archives.gov/id/54826745?objectPage=3).
21. ↑ Athens Co. Wills 5:554, Will of Jacob Hawk of Elk Twp (15 Jan. 1832 / pro 24 April 1849). “Ohio Probate Records, 1789-1996 “ Athens Co, Ohio. Wills 1836-1851 vol 3-5, image 176. FamilySearch. (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1992421)
22. ↑ GALLIA COUNTY: see deed to John, above. ATHENS CO.: “Deed records, 1792-1901; index, 1790-1902” Athens County Oh., Recorder Family Search. https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/89216?availability=Family%20History%20Library - Deeds 5:289 (20 Feb 1824) Jacob Hawk and wife Sarah of Athens Co to son Jacob Hawk Jr. of same for “natural love” etc. 161 a. NW ¼ of section 6, T11, R17. [Film # 00819320, image 455.]; - Deeds 6:231 (3 Dec 1829) Jacob Hawk and wife Sarah of Athens Co. to son James Hawk for “natural love” etc 164 a. in Elk Twp. Athens Co. NW ¼ Section 21, T11, R17, and east ½ of said Section [21] and west ½. [Film # 008193202, image 134] - Deeds 7:83 (8 Oct 1833) Jacob Hawk and wife Sarah of Athens Co to son Eli Hawk for “natural love” etc SE ¼ Section 30, T11, R17 in Athens Co. 84.36 a. [Film # 008330659, image 49]; - Deeds 10:739 (4 Aug 1841) Jacob Hawk Sr. of Elk Twp, Athens Co., Ohio, to David Hawk of same for $400 land in Elk Twp., NE ¼ Section 30, T17. R11: 160 a. AND N ½ NW ¼ of section 30, T17. R11: 83 a. [Film # 008330661, image 401] JACKSON CO.: “Deeds, 1816-1877,” Jackson Co. (Ohio) Recorder. Family Search. https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/279766?availability=Family%20History%20Library - Deeds A:210 (11 Aug 1823) Jacob Hawk and wife Sarah of Athens Co. to son William Hawk “for natural love” etc.163 a. in Jackson Co. SW ½ Sec. 8, T7, R17. [Film # 007901022, image 117]; - Deeds A:233 (11 Aug 1823) Jacob Hawk and wife Sarah of Athens Co to son Abraham Hawk “for natural love” etc. 162 a, in Jackson Co. NW ¼ sect 29, T9, R17. [Film # 007901022, image 129].
23. ↑ U.S. Census, 1840, Elk Township, Athens, Ohio, p. 392, David Hawk.
24. ↑ U. S. Census, 1850, Elk Township, Vinton, Ohio, p. 225 (stamp), 98/98, line 30. 21 July 1850, household of David Hawk; Vance, The Vance Family Scrapbook, p. 169.

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• I820 United States Federal Census, Ohio: Elk Township, Athens, Ohio, p. 124

1830 United States Federal Census, Ohio: Elk Twp, Athens Co., Ohio, p. 187. 1840 United States Federal Census, Ohio: Elk Township, Athens, Ohio, p. 392, male age 70<80 in household of David Hawk. 1850 United States, Selected Federal Census: Elk Township, Vinton, Ohio, p. 225 (stamp), 98/98, line 30. 21 July 1850. Sarah HAwk, age 83, in household of David Hawk .

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