The Culpepper, Gay, Dunlap, Layfield, Poole and Welch Family:Information about John Jacob, Sr.
John Jacob, Sr. (b. 1629, d. October 26, 1702)
Notes for John Jacob, Sr.:
Captain John Jacob came to America in 1665. In addition to grants of land from the Crown, he bought several large tracts in Anne Arundel County and became a tobacco planter. At that time his cousin, Sir John Jacob, was the head of a tobacco business in England, and Lloyd in his "memoirs of Eminent People," who suffered for their loyalty says, "The wonderful John Jacob, a man ever ready to assist his Majesty, declared "What! Shall I keep my estate and see the King want? If it please God to bless the King, though I shall give him all I have I can be no loser." The crown owed him more than 200,000 pound, which it could not pay, but the King created a Baronet in 1665. The Baronetcy continued to the fifth Baronet, Sir Clement Byrdges Jacob, who dying without issue in 1790, it is now in abeyance. Caption John Jacob was an Officer of Colonial Forces, and was a prominent and prosperous man in that section of Maryland.His will and those of his sons are on file in Annapolis.
Children of John Jacob, Sr. and Ann Cheney are:
- +Benjamin Jacob, b. 1688, Anne Arundal County, MD``, d. 1770, Anne Arundel Co. MD.
- Elizabeth Jacob, b. 1683, d. date unknown.
- Joseph Jacob, b. 1685, d. date unknown.
- John Jacob, b. 1686, d. date unknown.