Jacob Schrecengost

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Husband Jacob Schrecengost ¹

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            AKA: Yock Schrecengost,1 Yost Schrecengost 2
           Born:  - Germany
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Wife

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Children

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1 M Conrad Schrecengost ^{1 4}

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            AKA: Coonrod Schrecengost,1 Conrad Schrecongost 3
           Born: Abt 1758 - Germany
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           Died: 1840 - Valley Twp, Armstrong Co, PA 3
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         Spouse: [Unk] Zortman (      -      ) 1 4

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob Schrecengost

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According to family accounts he was a mighty hunter, and being caught trespassing on the hunting grounds of a great lord was warned against repeating the offense. But he was caught a second time, and to make mat­ters worse shot one of the lord's dogs. He was sent for at once, but managed to escape and came to America, settling in eastern Pennsylvania. Report says he hired his son George out to a ship captain for nine years to pay the passage of the family to this country, being obliged to abandon all his possessions when he fled, and there is a tradition in the family that there is a large fortune in the old country never claimed by the Schrecengost heirs.

He was born in Germany and grew to manhood there. The game laws were very strict in that country, and it is said that Yost Schrecengost fled for fear of being arrested for having shot a deer out of season, and came to America, accompanied by his wife and four sons.

1 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 677.

2 Editor, Armstrong County, Pennsylvania, Her People Past and Present (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1914), Pg 694.

3 Editor, History of Indiana County, Pennsylvania (Newark, OH: J. A. Caldwell, 1880), Pg 475.

4 Samuel T. Wiley, Biographical and Historical Cyclopedia of Indiana and Armstrong Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: John M. Gresham & Co., 1891), Pg 560.