Jacob Markley (1701 - 1784)

Born 11 Jul 1701 in Bonfeld, Heilbronn, Württemberg, Heiliges Römisches Reich

Ancestors

Husband of Barbara (Dodderer) Markley — married 13 Feb 1722 (to 24 Jul 1728) in Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Husband of Anna (Rausch) Markley — married 29 Jul 1739 in Perkiomen, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

Descendants

Died 29 Aug 1784 at age 83 in Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Jacob Markley (b. 11 Jul 1701, d. 29 Aug 1784)

Jacob Markley, (son of Abraham Merkle and Anna Landvatter) was born Jacob Merckle, July 11, 1701 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany. He has a twin brother called Isaac which died as an infant.^[1] Jacob died August 29, 1784 in Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. "Jacob Markley. ...married (first), February 13, 1722, Barbara, daughter of George Philip and Veronica Dodderer, of Frederick township; married (second), July 29, 1739, Barbara Kausch. Barbara (Dodderer) Markley died July 24, 1738. Barbara (Kausch) Markley was born April 14, 1714. Jacob Markley died August 29, 1784.^[2].

Jacob Markley, (son of Abraham Merkle and Anna Landvatter) was born Jacob Merckle, July 11, 1701 in Bonfeld, Württemberg, Germany. He has a twin brother called Isaac which died as an infant.^[1] Jacob died August 29, 1784 in Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. "Jacob Markley. ...married (first), February 13, 1722, Barbara, daughter of George Philip and Veronica Dodderer, of Frederick township; married (second), July 29, 1739, Barbara Kausch. Barbara (Dodderer) Markley died July 24, 1738. Barbara (Kausch) Markley was born April 14, 1714. Jacob Markley died August 29, 1784.^[2].

Abraham and Veronika Merkle emigrated to America in 1717 with family members (1) Anna Felizitas Merkle and her husband Johann George Bopp aka Popp, (2) Anna Katharine Merkle, (3) Anna Veronika Merkle; (4) Regina Christine "Christen" Merkle; (5) Jacob Merkle, (6) Anna Rosina Merkle; and Abraham's brother, Balthasar Merkle, his wife Elizabeth and three children, Maria Catharine Merkle, Hans Jerg Merkle and Maria Elizabetha Merkle.^[2]

In 1704 Jacob's oldest sister Anna Maria Merkle had married Jost Hite in Bonfeld, Germany. Jost was a linen weaver like their father, and may have learned the trade as Abraham's apprentice. Jost and Anna Maria Hite had then moved to Strasbourg in Alsace, where he worked as a linen weaver; but they found themselves barely surviving in the midst of devastation created by the French Army. After having lost two babies in Strasbourg, and with a third child on the way, they fled to a small village near Bonfeld where their daughter Maria Elisabetha, "Mary Hite" was born in 1708.

Anna Maria and Josh with baby Maria Elisabetha then fled the Rheinland Region, down the Rhine River to Rotterdam. On July 15, 1709 they migrated to England with Jost's stepmother and two of her children as refugees from the Palatinate of the Rhine (Jost's father and two of their four children had died). On June 16, 1710 four of the original nine family members emigrated to New York as Palatinate refugees from London. They were registered in New York as "Subsistence Refugees" and transferred to a British work party of several hundred indentured German families in the Hudson valley.

In 1714, no longer bound as servants to the Queen, the Hite family moved from the German community in Kingston, Ulster County, New York. They selected a 150-acre tract on Skippack Creek, located in the greater Philadelphia County area near Germantown, Pennsylvania.

In 1718, the year after Abraham Merkle arrived in Philadelphia County with three children under 21, Jost Hite purchased 600 acres of land a few miles up Perkiomen Creek. In 1721-1722 all three children married into families of the original settlers of Germantown: Regina Christine "Christen" married Benjamin Frey; Jacob Merkle married Barbara Dodderer; and Anna Veronika married William Frey.

Abraham Merkle had successfully reset his family from the devastation of Bonfeld and the Rheinland. All surviving children were now married, with four daughters and his youngest son reunited in Philadelphia County; and best of all, life was now running on the fast-track for his oldest daughter Anna Maria and Jost Hite who, like the proverbial Phoenix, were rising up from the fire and ashes of the Rheinland to create new life for their descendants in this "New World" of freedom and opportunity.

Jacob married (1) Barbara Dodderer (daughter of George Philip Dodderer and Veronica Schleipfer) February 13, 1722 in Skippack, Pennsylvania; born about 1704 in Stebbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany; died July 24, 1738 in Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

He married (2) Anna Barbara Kausch aka Rausch, July 29, 1739 in Perkiomen, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; born April 14, 1714, died September 1784.^[2]

"As early as the year 1725 we find the name of Jacob Marckley — so he wrote it — signed to a petition for a road in the Skippack region."^[2] Jacob purchased 100 acres in Philadelphia county from Jost Hite on July 17, 1728, and in November bought 132 acres in Bebber's township from Nicholas Scull. These tracts were located in the limits of the present East Perkiomen township. In the 1756 census of "Parkiomen & Skippaake" township, the entry reads:

Jacob Marcly, housekeeper; occupation, farmer ; 4 children under 21 ; acres owned, 150 — 50 acres cleared, 15 acres sowed with corn ; 1 horse ; 3 horned cattle.^[2]

Children of Jacob Markley and Barbara Dodderer

(i) Abraham Markley, born August 12, 1723 in Skippack, Perkiomen Twp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; married Barbara Ickes September 1745.

(ii) Philip Markley, born August 27 1725, Perkiomen Twp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; died April 5, 1800, Norristown, Pennsylvania; married Mary Johnson December 16, 1746; born about 1724, died February 21, 1815, aged 91 years.

Their children were:

1. Jacob Markley, born August 28, 1747; married Maria Koplin January 7, 1773.

2. Elizabeth Markley, born December 22, 1749, died January 14, 1821; married John Zieber March 17, 1772, born November 17, 1750, died November 23, 1829.

3. Daniel Markley, born October 3, 1755; married Elizabeth Magee.

4. Hannah Markley, born October 30, 1759, died January 5, 1813; married Matthias Koplin.

5. John Markley, born December 8, 1764, died July 28, 1834; married (1) Elizabeth Schwenck December 31, 1785, born December 31, 1766; died September 5, 1804; married (2) Elizabeth Henderson February 7, 1822.

(iii) a daughter born January 1, 1727; died soon after.

(iv) Isaac Markley, born May 24, 1729, Perkiomen Twp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; died May 19, 1812 in Hatfield Twp.; married Sarah Thompson, died December 7, 1823, aged 90 years.

Their children were:

1. George Markley, born November 24, 1755, died September 19, 1816, married Betty Clemens, born 1755.

2. Henry Markley, born July 17, 1759, died October 26, 1828; married Elizabeth Ruhl.

3. Abraham Markley, born August 1, 1764; died September 25, 1829; married Elizabeth Boganer, born August 23, 1779, died April 5, 1830.

(v) Veronica (Markley) Schwenck aka Veronica "Merckelin". Jacob Markley and his family were members of Augustus Evangelical Lutheran Church at New Providence (Trappe), where we find the following entry on the church book: "April 7, 1751, in Providence was confirmed: Veronica Merckelin, Jacob Merckels daughter, 19 years old. She can read a little."^[3]Note: Although American descendants of Jacob use the surname "Markley", the historic references use a variety of spellings of the name. Here we see the Lutheran Church book in 1751^[3] recording his name as "Merckels", and his daughter's name as "Merckelin". Neither name sounds much like "Markley". Perhaps the need for the family name change came later, and historic references were changed to match. Veronica was born April 1, 1732, Perkiomen Twp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; died October 2, 1777; married George Schwenck April 30, 1751; born February 24, 1728 in Germany, died February 24, 1803, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Their children were:

1. Johannes "John" Schwenck, born March 5, 1752; died February 3, 1803; married Regina Krautz, born 12 April 12, 1756; died after 1803.

2. Jacob Schwenck aka Nicholas, born June 7, 1755; died July 29, 1825; married Eva Maria Beirly; born May 24, 1753, died March 4, 1835.

3. Abraham M. Schwenck, born May 24, 1759; died August 6, 1843; married Fronica Bauer, born April 10, 1756; died September 13, 1840.

4. Daniel Schwenck, born May 5, 1761, died February 26, 1836; married (1) Catherine Raudenbush, born January 6, 1765, died August 17, 1802; married (2) Catharine Boyer, maiden name Shantz.

5. Elizabeth Schwenck, born December 31, 1766, died September 5, 1804; married John Markley December 31, 1785, born December 8, 1764, died July 28, 1834.

(vi) Rebecca (Markley) Isaac, born April 9, 1734 in Perkiomen Twp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; married Frederick Isaac (Isett?).

(vii) a daughter born April 9, died young.^[4]

(viii) Christina (Markley) Antes, born May 27, 1736 in Perkiomen Twp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; married William Antes. Col. Antes rendered valuable services to the American cause during the Revolutionary War.

(ix) Catharine (Markley) Brennemann, born May 9, 1738 in Perkiomen Twp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; married Christian Brennemann July 13, 1757.

Children of Jacob Markley and Barbara Kausch:

(x) Eleanor (Markley) Boganer, born February 5, 1741 in Perkiomen Twp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; married Tobias Boganer.

(xi) Elizabeth (Markley) Benner, born March 7, 1742 in Perkiomen Twp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; married Paulus Benner.

(xii) Mary Magdalena Markley, born November 9, 1744 in Perkiomen Twp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

(xiii) Anna Barbara (Markley) Smith, born October 6, 1746 in Perkiomen Twp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; married John Smith March 28, 1772.

(xiv) Hanna (Markley) Brotzman aka Mercklin, born 1752 in Perkiomen Twp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; died August 1792 in Limerick Twp., Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; married Jacob Brotzman (son of George Adam Brotzman and Anna Martha Sahler) January 11, 1774 in New Hanover, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; born October 23, 1752 in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania; died March 17, 1830 in Pennsylvania.

Marriage of Abraham Merkle and Anna Veronika Landvatter

Date: 27 Jul 1684

Place: Bonfeld, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Husband: Abraham Merkle

Wife: Anna Veronika Landvatter*

Child: 01 Jeremias Andreas Merkle

Child: 02 Anna Maria (Merkle) Hite;

+married Johann Justus "Jost" Hite.

Child: 03 Anna Felizitas (Merkle) Bopp;

+married Johann George Bopp/Popp.

Child: 04 Anna Veronika Merkle

Child: 05 Andreas Jeremias Merkle;

+married Maria Katharine G Lautenschlager.

Child: 06 Anna Katharine Merkle*

Child: 07 Anna Veronika (Merkle) Frey;

+married William Frey.

Child: 08 Regina Christine (Merkle) Frey;

+married Benjamin Frey.

Child: 09 Isaac Merkle

Child: 10 JACOB (Merkle) MARKLEY;

+married (1) Barbara Dodderer,

10 01 Abraham Markley

10 02 Philip Markley

10 03 Infant Markley

10 04 Isaac Markley

10 05 Veronica (Markley) Schwenck

10 06 Rebecca (Markley) Isaac

10 07 Infant Markley

10 08 Christina (Markley) Antes

10 09 Catherine (Markley) Brennemann

+married (2) Barbara Kausch/Rausch.

10 10 Eleanor (Markley) Boganer

10 11 Elizabeth (Markley) Benner

10 12 Mary Magdalena Markley

10 13 Anna Barbara (Markley) Smith

10 14 Hanna (Markley) Brotzman

Child: 11 Isaac Merkle

Child: 12 Anna Rosina Merkle*

Child: 13 Abraham Merkle

* apparently died en-route from Bonfeld to Philadelphia

Note

Jacob Markley and his family attended the Augusts Lutheran Church. The Pastor was Henry Melcior Muhlenberg, founder of the Lutheran Church in America. His eldest son, John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, became rector of Zion's and St. Paul's Church in New Jersey. He was stationed in Virginia when the Revolutionary War broke. At Woodstock he preached his powerful sermon on the sacred character of the struggle in which the colonies were engaged. Conclusion of his sermon:

"That it was the language of the Holy Writ there was a time for all things, a time to preach and a time to pray, but those times had passed and there was a time to fight and that time had now come." Pronouncing the benediction, he deliberately put off his gown and stood before his people clad in the uniform of a Continental officer. He rose to the rank of Brigadier General of the Army.

Copied Notes

In 1702, Skippack began as an outgrowth of Germantown, Pennsylvania. The original owners in the Perkiomen region were Telman Kolb, Gerret Clemens, Michael Ziegler, Hans Bower, Andrew Lederah, George Philip Dodderer and Jacob Markley. Most of these had been living in Perkiomen Town many years before the date of this account.^[5].

Jacob Mirkle listed as a Landholder with 200 acres in Philadelphia Co in 1734. Recorded next to Benjamin Frey. ^[6].

Markly, Jacob. Skippack. June 19, 1779. January 24, 1785. 1.19

To wife Barbara, bed, bedstead and bedding, pewter and earthen ware as she shall judge necessary, table, two chairs, two iron pots, teakettle and teatackling, towel, our present lodging room and kitchen for her use and the yearly interest of 150 pds. Son in law Jacob Brutzman to farm plantation as now for the third bushel. At death of wife plantation to be sold.

To my daughter Eleanor, wife of Tobias Boganer, 5 shillings. All money to be divided into 11 equal shares. One share each to sons: Abraham, Philip and Isaac. One to 5 children of my daughter Zornica. One to daughter Christiana, wife of William Anits. One to daughter Elizabeth Benner. One to daughter Barbarah, wife of John Smith. One to daughter Rebekah, wife of Frederick Isaac. One to daughter Hanah, wife of Jacob Brutzman. One to daughter Caterine, and one to my two sons Abraham and Isaac for the use of my daughter Eleanor.

Execs: Sons Abraham and Isaac.

Wit: William Penevacer, Jacob Markley (cordwainer).^[7][8]

Burial

Burial:

Place: Lower Mennonite, Cemetary

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Church Book, Bonfeld, Württemberg: Landeskirchliches Archiv Stuttgart > Dekanat Heilbronn > Bonfeld > Mischbuch 1607-1737 Band 1 URL: http://www.archion.de/p/8924c23f5c/
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5} Title: "Descendants of Jacob Markley of Skippack, Author: Dotterer, Henry Sassaman, 1841-1903; Markley Freundschaft (Montgomery County, Pa.) pbl.; Subject: Markley family (Jacob Markley, 1701-1784) ; Published 1884 by The Markley Freundschaft in [Norristown, Pa.], 36 p. Library of Congress CS71.M345 1884. URL: http://archive.org/details/descendantsofjac00dott
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1}
4. ↑ >From the old Lutheran Family Bible of Jacob Markley. The earliest family record written by Jacob Markley lists 10 children for Barbara Dodderer. This infant (vii) is often not reported. We note that Jacob Markley lists the godmother of Philip Markley as "Fronica", when referring to Barbara Dodderer's mother Veronica Schleipfer.
5. ↑ "History of Germantown", Samuel W. Pennypacker, Pennsylvania Magazine, Vol. IV,p. 142 , p. 24)
6. ↑ The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 1
7. ↑ Abstracts of Montgomery Co, PA, Wills & Admins, 1784 - 1823. GenealogyLibrary.com
8. ↑ "Pennsylvania Probate Records, 1683-1994". images, FamilySearch "Will". accessed 3 July 2014, Montgomery > Wills 1784-1808 vol 1-2 > image 14 of 642; county courthouses, Pennsylvania.

• Supplement to H.S. Dotterer's Descendants of Jacob Markley of Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Source: Stammtafel der familie Merkle nach den Kirchenbüchern zu Bonfeld, Oberamts Heilbronn, königreich Württemberg, und denen zu Wimpfen, grossherzogtum Hessen. Published in 1886 by Markley freundschaft of Montgomery Co. Pa. in Norristown, Pa. Note: No TOC or numbered pages. URL: http://archive.org/details/stammtafelderfam00mark

Acknowlegements

• Ancestral File Number: 1CRG-3L, https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3DQ9-28X

• WorldConnect database at Rootsweb. (This same file available from Ancestry.com Family Trees.)

Source: Files submitted by individuals. Research notes often included. Source sometimes cited. Copied notes imported by WikiTree.ged Oct 10, 2011. http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/

• WikiTree profile for "Jacob Mirkle" created as Markley-60 through the import of Lois for WikiTree.ged by Kay Haden on Oct 10, 2011. Markley-60 adopted by Jon Cunnyngham on Dec 21, 2012. Changed to German birth name, "Jacob Merkle" [Merkle-117] aka Merckle, Markley on Dec 27, 2012. Merkle-117 Jacob Merkle then redirected to Markley-84 on Dec 28, 2012, resetting profile to track descendants of "Jacob Markley" as originally set by Kay Haden. See the Changes page for edit details.

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