Fred Westcott added more information about the Jacoby family, and, in order that it form a part of the Jacoby sequence here, I am restating the information that he supplied, with the addition of a little more from other sources.
John Francis Lucas Jacobi and his wife Johanna Friederika Lotspeich were married in 1764, in London. They moved back to Virginia. In 1784 and 1786 they sold their land in Culpeper Co., Virginia, and moved to Bourbon Co., Kentucky. Francis Jacoby died there in 1788, leaving a will. It mentions his wife Frederica, three daughters, Katrina, Elizabeth Butler, and Susannah, and sons, Frank, Ralph Gladingsberg, Frederick, Henry, John V., Adam, Jacob, and Daniel. Thus, the twenty-four years of marriage produced at least eleven children, according to the will.
The will was witnessed by John Grant, William Butler (perhaps a son-in-law), and Catherine Butler (relationship unknown). Executors were to be Fredericka, John Grant, and William Butler. The will itself is filed in Will Book A, p.7 .
Then, in 1798, again in Bourbon Co., Henry Jacoby made a will. He names the heirs of his brother Francis (probably this is the Frank above). Henry also mentions his parents (?) and an Adam. Henry does not seem to have a wife, so leaving his estate to his brothers and sisters would be logical. Adam would have been his brother. William Butler appears again as a witness, along with John Burns and Elizabeth Watts. (Watts is a good Culpeper name.) This will is filed in Will Book B, p.118 .
The article on the Lotspeich family in Beyond Germanna gives the children of Francis Lucas Jacoby and Friederika Lotspeich as:
Katrina (m. William Butler),
Susannah (m. Benjamin Hallock),
Ralph Ladenberg (drowned in the Mississippi River),
Francis (m. ___ Plunkett),
Henry (drowned),
Daniel (m. Nancy Rutledge),
Elizabeth,
Frederick, (m. Nancy Bivins, was killed by Indians),
Jacob (m. Polly Stark),
Rachel (m. Joseph Hibler),
John (m. Jane Stark),
Adam (b. 1783 and died young).
The name Ralph Gladingsberg in the will is a mistake as he was named for his uncle, who used the name Ralph Ladenberg in London.
Fred Westcott also asked about the name Lucas in Culpeper Co. I see a Francis Lucas and a William Lucas in the 1781 Culpeper Classes, number 55. The only German names here that I recognize are James Wilhoit and perhaps Daniel Deel (Diehl). The same two Lucas names, plus another Francis, are in the 1787 Culpeper tax list.
(05 Feb 01)
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