Hans Jacob Reger (1734 - abt. 1786)

Born 22 Apr 1734 in Benken, Basel, Schweiz

Ancestors

Husband of Barbara Ann (Crites) Rieger — married [date unknown] in Heiliges Römisches Reich

Descendants

Died about 18 Nov 1786 at about age 52 in Volga, Barbour, West Virginia, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika

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Biography

Birth

Hans Jacob Rüger was born in 1721 and baptized on 27 July 1721 in in the small village of Benken in the Canton of Basel, Switzerland. He was the son of Antoni Rüger and Barbara Würtz.^[1]

Emigration to America

On 11 May 1737, his family was still living in Benken when his father expressed his intention to emigrate with his family to the Palatinate. His father succeeded in obtaining the consent of the government to emigrate based on his claim to have friends in the vicinity of Mannheim, in Baden. The family presumably left Benken not long after that and may have resided for a brief period in Mannheim.^[2]

That September, Hans Jacob emigrated to America with his family on the Virtuous Grace, departing from Rotterdam via Cowes and arriving at the Port of Philadelphia on 24 September 1737.^[3][4]

The Rügers are thought to have settled initially in the Tulpehocken Colony in what later became Berks County, Pennsylvania, where they were living in 1739.^[5][6]

Marriage

He reportedly married Barbara Crites.^{[citation needed]}

Children

Children of Hans Jacob Rüger and Barbara Crites included:

• Elizabeth Reger(1775-1849)^[7]

Death

It is believed he died on the 18th of November, 1786 in Volga, Barbour, West Virginia and is buried in the Reger Cemetery in Hodgesville, Upshur county, West Virginia^[8][9]

Family Bible

The family bible is on display in the Chapel on the campus of the West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon, Upshur County, West Virginia.

The card next to the Bible in the display says^[10]:

This 1753 German Bible was brought to this area by Jacob Reger in 1782. He was the forefather of the Regers who have lived in West Virginia and those Regers who later moved westward.

The Reverend John W. Reger was one of the founders of West Virginia Wesleyan College. Roy S. Reger was the first student to enroll at Wesleyan.

The Bible was presented to West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1980 by: Mrs. Dean Johnson, Jefferson City, Missouri; Mr. John S. Reger, Buckhannon, West Virginia; Mr. Kyle M. Reger, Buckhannon, West Virginia; and Mr. Robert H. Reger, Buckhannon, West Virginia.

Research Notes

• Border Settles - Starting on Page 296, need to read through the chapter and related it to the family Border Settlers of Northwestern Virginia, Chapter XXIX, published 1915
• Notes regarding the family bible can be found here: http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~hyde/reger/RegerBible.html
• Please see the attached images on the family bible for Jacob, as well as the page for teh Jacob Hans Reger Family Bible with notations for each image

Sources

1. ↑ Albert Bernhardt Faust & Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies, 2 vols., (Washington, D.C.: National Genealogical Society, 1925), 2:111-112; images, FamilySearch, here.
2. ↑ Faust & Brumbaug, Lists of Swiss Emigrants", at 2:111.
3. ↑ Ralph Beaver Strassburger, Pennsylvania German Pioneers: a Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808, 3 vols. (Norriston, PA: Pennsylvania German Society, 1934), 1:175-177; images, Hathitrust, (https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/004390410 : accessed 25 Aug 2022) (lists 46A ("Anty Reigel"), age 48; 46B & 46C ("Antoni Rüger").
4. ↑ Daniel I. Rupp, A Collection of Upwards of 30,000 Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French, and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776, (Philadelphia: I.G. Kohler, 1876), 107; images, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/collectionofupwa00ruppuoft  : accessed 25 Aug 2022) ("Antoni Rüger sen.").
5. ↑ Faust & Brumbaug, Lists of Swiss Emigrants", at 2:112.
6. ↑ Frost, Frosts and Related Families, at 104; citing a letter from Leonard Hire entered in the minutes of the city council of Basel.
7. ↑ "West Virginia, County Marriage Records, 1776-1971", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q2ZX-JKNZ : 29 September 2021), Jacob Reger in entry for Catrill Tolbert and Elizabeth Reger, 1788.
8. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #106596602 Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106596602/hans-jacob-reger : accessed 19 October 2021), memorial page for Hans Jacob Reger (22 Apr 1734–18 Nov 1786), Find a Grave Memorial ID 106596602, citing Reger Cemetery, Hodgesville, Upshur County, West Virginia, USA ; Maintained by mariolina (contributor ) .
9. ↑ "Find A Grave Index,"database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL1-LX6X : 13 December 2015), Hans Jacob Rieger, 1786; Burial, Volga, Barbour, West Virginia, United States of America, Reger Family Cemetery; citing Find A Grave: Memorial #106596602, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
10. ↑ Family Bible of Jacob Reger Notes

• Border Settles - Starting on Page 296, need to read through the chapter and related it to the family
• Lester LeMay genealogical files.
• Familysearch Profile for Hans Jacob Reger
• U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 Ancestry Record 2204 #815132