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- Born Hans Jacob Richter in Siegen, Germany about 1674
Hans was admitted to the Guild of Steelsmiths & Toolmakers in the Freudenburg District on Jan 7, 1712.
At a court held per adjournment from yesterday the 2nd day of June 1724, for Spotsylvania Co (Will Bk A, pp 3-4) - see John Fishback- Jacob Richart stated that he came to Virginia in April 1714 with his wife Elizabeth and his son John, and certificate was granted hom to take up 150 acres of land.
The Germanna Record:
Mr Fender thinks that the Hans Jacob Fischbach who sold a house in Trupbach in 1713 on the eve of emogration, to Johannes Richter fo Weidenau, was really hans Jaboc Richter, Phillip Fischbach's son-in-law, who was selling our to his brother and was called Fischbach in the record because he had married into that family.
1719, elder in the Reformed Church established by the colonists in VA
Died at Germantown about 1728 or 1729, probably just before August 7, 1729 when the three trustees, John Fishback, John Hoffman and Jacob Holtzclaw deeded to the 12 families at Germantown their parts of the 1805 acre grant which had been made in1724.
Database: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s
Name: Hans Jacob Rector
Year: 1714
Place: Virginia
Source Publication Code: 926.44
Primary Immigrant: Rector, Hans Jacob
Annotation: Date and port of arrival.
Source Bibliography: BREITBARD, GAIL. "Some Early Virginia Immigrants." In The Lost Palatine, no. 5 (1982), pp. 4-5.
Page: 4
Source Information:
Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database online]. Provo, Utah: MyFamily.com, Inc., 2005. Original data: Filby, P. William, edit. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Research, 2003.
Jacob Rector
Year: 1714
Place: Virginia
Source Publication Code: 7480
Primary Immigrant: Rector, Jacob
Annotation: Date and port of arrival or date and place of first mention of residence in the New World. Extracted from The Virginia Germans (Klaus Wust), Hebron Church Register, 1750-1825, Madison, Virginia (George M. Smith), W.W. Scott's A History of Orange County, Virginia, and the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 12, pp. 367-370.
Source Bibliography: RILING, MILDRED. "Governor Spotswood's Germans." In The Palatine Immigrant, vol. 7:3 (Winter 1982), pp. 109-111.
Page: 109
Johann Jacob Rector
Year: 1713-1714
Place: Virginia
Source Publication Code: 4894
Primary Immigrant: Rector, Johann Jacob
Source Bibliography: LUECK, ALFRED. Eisen, Erz und Abenteuer: Der Anteil einer kleinen Gruppe Siegerlaender Berg- und Huettenleute am industriellen und geistigen Aufstieg Amerikas. Siegen, Germany: Huettenwerke Siegerland A.G., [1956]. 78p.
Page: 74
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West Virginia Pioneers
1674 - Abt 1729 (55 years)
