Jacob Graf and Maria [Unk]

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Husband Jacob Graf ¹

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           Born: 1715 - ? Holland 1
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         Father: [Ancestor] Graf (      -      )
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Wife Maria [Unk] ¹

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           Born: 1722 2
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Children

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1 M Jacob Groff ¹

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         Spouse: Elizabeth Hubner (      -      ) 1

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General Notes: Husband - Jacob Graf

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The pioneer of this branch of the Groffs in America, he settled near old Goshenhoppen, in Upper Salford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, in 1769.

Rupp gives the names of three Jacob Groffs, who came to Philadelphia in 1737, 1744 and 1749. The ancestor of this family purchased his farm in 1769, when he was fifty-four years of age, and twenty years after the arrival of the latest Jacob mentioned by Rupp. Hence it seems altogether possible that the family ancestor may have been the son of the pioneer. His wife Maria was born in 1722. They were married previous to 1745, and tradition states that their eight children were all born in Germany. Tradition also states that the family on coming to America first encamped under a large oak tree, one-fourth mile east of Zieglerville, on the banks of the Goshenhoppen run, on land later owned by Charles Koch, but at that time public land. The permanent home was made two miles to the northwest on the Perkiomen. Beside farming, the elder Groffs were fullers and dyers, in which work they continued at least three generations.

1 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 872.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Record of Central Pennsylvania, Including the Counties of Centre, Clinton, Union and Snyder. (Chicago: J. H. Beers & Co., 1898), Pg 874.