Daubenspeck, John Jacob

1715 - 1777  (62 years)

• Name	Daubenspeck, John Jacob
  Birth	25 Jul 1715	Cassel, Hessen, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Also Known As	Johan Jacob Daubenspeck
  DAR Ancestor Number	A029925
  Military	Revolutionary War Veteran
  Immigration	01 Sep 1736	Philadelphia, PA   [1]
  	Aboard the Ship Harle, of London
  Death	17 Aug 1777	Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA
  Person ID	I83054	My Damon Genealogy
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2014

  
  

  Father	Daubenspeck, Johan Georg,   b. 1670, Freinsheim, Palatinate, Hessen, Germany d. 03 Jan 1743, Freinsheim, Pfalz, Germany (Age 73 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Wylly, Anna Drorthea,   b. Abt 1670, Freinsheim, Palatinate, Hessen, Germany d. 30 Oct 1726, Freinsheim, Palatinate, Hessen, Germany (Age ~ 56 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Family ID	F31293	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	( ), Julianna,   b. Abt 1720, Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA d. Abt 1796 (Age ~ 76 years)
  Children	1. Daubenspeck, Anna Magdalena,   b. Abt 1726, Palatinate, Germany d. 1803, Heidelberg Twp., Lehigh Co., PA (Age ~ 77 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   2. Daubenspeck, Maria Barbara,   b. 1742  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   3. Daubenspeck, George,   b. 1745, Heidelberg Twp., Lehigh Co., PA d. Aft 1807, Armstrong Co., PA (Age > 63 years)  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   4. Daubenspeck, Catherine,   b. 1750  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]   5. Daubenspeck, Philip,   b. 1757  [Father: Natural]  [Mother: Natural]
  Family ID	F31292	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2014

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 25 Jul 1715 - Cassel, Hessen, Germany Immigration - Aboard the Ship Harle, of London - 01 Sep 1736 - Philadelphia, PA Death - 17 Aug 1777 - Heidelberg Twp., Northampton Co., PA  = Link to Google Earth
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• Notes

  From Pennsylvania Archives, Series 5, Vol. 8, Pages 229 and 444: Revolutionary War Service: Sep 2 1777 Signed the PA Oath of Allegiance 1778 Capt. Willilam Mayer, Col. Michael Pobst's 2nd Co. Oct 26 1780 Capt. William Moore, Lt. Col. Henry Giger Muster roll for Northampton Co., 6th Battalion, 2nd Co. Listed as Jacob Dowbenspeck Source) Baptism 1753 Church Records Of The Egypt Reform Church 1734 -1807 Lehigh County Pennsylvania. From Pennsylvania Archives, Six Serrs Volume 6. 1753 Heidelberg. John Jacob of the Palatine District in Germany was born in 1714 Hesse Cassel in Germany. He arived in Philadelphia on September 1, 1736 when he was 22 years old. Many people from Germany were from Palatinate. They all seemed to settle in Heidelbergh Township. According to Charles Roberts history, he states that John Jacob Daubenspeck from the beginning of his entry into Heidlelberg area built a church. He originally started it in his own home. It is said by this historian that he traveled on his own around the Heidlberg Township inviting people to come to his home for devine worship. We know from historical facts that John Jacob's home was used a a meeting for devine worship by 1740. Until 1745, both the Lutheran and Reforms met in his home, they were also working toword the organization of the church and a new building to worship in. By 1744, they built a new log building in which they started holding meetings in 1745. The congregation was a mixture of Lutherans and Reforms. Eventually, they called it the Heidleberg Union Church. When his church burned to the ground in 1756, another much larger and better log church was built. It was dedicated in 1757. Two outstanding leaders in the committee that organized the first church that was dedicated in 1745 and the second church which was dedicated in 1757 were John Jacob Daubenspeck and Henrich Geiger. The last dedicated church in 1757 was built approximately in the center of Heidelburgh Township about a mile northwest of John Daubenspecks home. Today, however, if you were to go to Washington Township, Leheigh County and travel the road to Saegersville, near that place you would find the area in which the old church and cemetery plot stood (the old one and the new one that was started in 1932). Here of course you could also find the lands in which at one time were owned by our ancestors, John Jacob Daubenspeck. In this area, there is a small granite monumement with a picture of a log church at the very top of the monument and down under it was written that the first church was built on this spot in 1745. Later rebuilt because a fire ruined the first one and rebuilt in 1756, dedicated in 1757. John Jacobs house was about one mile southwest of the church lands. The church stood one mile from Sagerville near the center of the township on the road to Neffsville. The first small springs of Weidelberg Creek rise upon the church lands. A new Cemetery was opened up in 1932. Heidelberg Township is now Washington Township, Lehigh County Pennsylvania. Lehigh County was formed from Northampton in 1812.

  
  

• Sources

  [S687] William Henry Egle, Names of foreigners who took the oath allegiance to the province and state of Pennsylvannia 1727-1775, (Name: Edwin K. Meyers, State Printer; Location: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; Date: 1892;), Page 121.