Jacob Egg / Eck [E200] (1698?

Jacob Egg / Eck [E200] (1698? - 1748) Genealogy

Jacob Egg / Eck

Born: ~1695 in Baselbede, Alsace, Germany
Married: Anna Maria Margaret Kilcher between 1715 - 1717 in Hagendorf, Solothurn, Switzerland
Died: 13 Feb-28 Apr 1748 in Upper Salford, Montgomery Co PA

Father:
Mother:
Religion: Catholic

Children:

Jacob Leontius (Leonz) Egg (15 Apr 1718 - ); m. Maria Burchard 22 Apr 1743 in Egerkingen, Solothurn, CH

Catherine Egg (19 Jul 1719 - )

Johannes/Hannes Egg (John Eck) (5 Feb 1721 - 9 Feb 1809) m. Savina Ott, Mary Magdalene Snyder, Dorothy Yost Shaffer

Anna Maria Barbara Egg (27 May 1722 - )

Ursus/Durus Joseph Egg (31 Aug 1723 - )

Joseph Egg/Eck (4 Feb 1725 - )

Johannes Jacob Egg (6 Mar 1725 - 1 Apr 1726)

Anna Maria Egg (4 Feb 1727 - 13 Jun 1807 Taneytown, MD); m. Valentine Johan Weibel

Johannes Egg/John Eck (23 Mar 1730 - )

Anna Egg (6 Apr 1732 - )

Jacob Christian Egg (17 Dec 1736 - )

Supporting Information

Wills

Translated from Latin: February 13, 1748 -

Because of an extended illness, I, Jacob Egg have to distribute my belongings in the presence of witnesses. If it can be executed, I will to Hannes Egg and Jacob Egg and Johannes Egg, each one 33 pounds, to Durus Egg and Joseph Egg each one 25 pounds. And Hannes Egg and Jacob Egg and Johannes Egg are to draw for six years the interest from the sale once it is carried out. If one or the other of two brothers should come, he must receive his appropriate share. Anna Maria Eggin and Anna Eggin shall each receive 25 pounds and each one the bed she is sleeping in and each one her dishes.
Everything is to be sold, horses and cattle, hogs and household goods and everything there is. If at all possible, each one should receive an equal share. If, however, the final proceeds are smaller, each one should proportionately take a lesser amount. And once the six years have passed and neither of the two sons has appeared, then the other five shall receive everything in equal parts.
/s/ Jacob Egg
Witnesses: Hannes Egg, Jacob Egg, Johannes Egg, Anna Maria Eggin, Anna Eggin
The final inventory totals approximately £200.

Church Records

Jacob is not identified in them, but several children and later descendants show up in registers of St. Paul's Mission at Goshenhoppen (now Most Blessed Sacrament Church at Bally).

Land Records

From ECK Families - Jacob Egg received patents for o125 acres in 1747, first for 100 acres, then for 25 acres; recorded in Book A-13, page 288, Philadelphia Co. Located in Salford Twp, Montgomery Co., near Bucks Co. line, just west of Tylersport along north edge of Ridge Road (RT 563) between Schultz Road and Dietz Mill Road, near Dietz's grist and saw mill. Map of first landowners shows neighbors as Mark Renninger, John Goerge Ilgerfritz, Philip Filman, Jacob Bare, Henry Dietz, and Friederich Hertzogh. Warrants also received for 50 acres in Hereford Twp on 8 Feb 1747 and 50 acres in Rockhill Twp. (Bucks Co) on 8 Feb 1746.

Secondary References

ECK FAMILIES, A Compilation of Eck Families Primarily Listing Descendants of Jacob Egg/Eck and Anna Maria Kilcher compiled by Helen E. Arkey

Extensive research of Eck/Egg families, starting with Jacob Egg, father of John Eck. Source of information on children above.

From History of Montgomery County by Theodore Weber Bean (1884) pp 1136-7

John Eck and Reminiscences of his Family. - Jacob Eck, the ancestor of the family in this county, with his son John, arrived from Baselbede, in Alsace, possibly in 1746 or near the beginning of the following year. He was by occupation a locksmith, and perhaps a widower, his son being then a young man and single. The father took up by patent in Upper Salford, in two tracts, one hundred and twenty-vie acres. The survey was made June 3, 1747, and the deed given April 6th of said year, under the great seal , by Governor George Thomas. The cost of the land was £19 7s 6d, under a yearly quit-rent of half-penny sterling for every acre, payable on the 1st day of March at the manor of Springettsbury near the city of Philadelphia. This tract lay near the northern part of the township, within Ridge Valley and near the present Dietz's grist and saw-mill. Her the father and son at once commenced the first improvements, not only in building, but in clearing the land to render the same fit for tillage.
It is likely that within the first ten years Jacob Eck died and the son inherited the property and took in marriage for his first wife Savina Ott, the daughter of a neighboring farmer...[Continued on Hannes Egg / John Eck page]

Other Researchers

H. Arkey, author of above
[email protected]
Eck/Egg in Frederick/Carroll Co MD late 1700s-early 1800s [email protected]
Emma Eck b. 30/10/1860 in Smalland, Sweden [email protected]
Decendants of Anna Maria Eck Brian Deaver or [email protected]; www.familytreemaker.com/users/d/e/a/Brian-J-Deaver/

Other References

Zach Eck Family by Lydia Cooper (1959)