Jacob Zimmerman - I14562 - Individual Information - Wisconsin and Illinois Genealogy

Jacob Zimmerman (I14562)

Surname: Zimmerman
Given Names: Jacob

Gender: Male

Birth: 1710 -- Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pa
Death: March 1796 -- Montgomery County, Pa

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In the possession of Dr. Andrew Timberman, Columbus, Ohio, a descendant of this family, is a small, leather-covered notebook which he found in the attic of the Butler County, Ohio, homestead after the death of his father.

The entries begin:

This book was maid in the year one thousent seven hundert an sixty three. This is to shoue from wheare ouer genearations came.

Then follows a page of directions for making a wagon body, a wheel and shafts for a cart. On the fourth page:

I am now 82 years and six months of age an then I sot all alone an tocken with to my macker the 7 day of June an a speret came to me in the even an told me to be carful.

These entries were evidently made by Jacob Christopher. On page 7 it seems that his son Christopher made the entries.

In the first pleace My Granfather of my father side Christopher Zimmerman was his neam, a minister of the Gosple he brought my father in to this Provence of pencelveny when he was 12 years old when he comto this provence aforesaid
then there was no bilden in philedelphia but littel caves.

On page 8:

My father's Name was Christopher Timberman also they come from Garmany my Mother and her father Came from hollend there names was vanfosen Sebel vanfosen was her meaden name.

When my father dide he was 78 years of age and he died in the yeare fifty nine. My mother when she died was fifty five years of age. When she died she died in the year fourty four.

Page 9: Directions for a ' 'Dutch Waging body.' '
Page 10: Practice in making capital letters.
Page 11:
‎(Begins the script of Christopher)‎
In the year 1763 the twelft of July My Son Jonathan was born about an ouer afore day.
In the year 1764 the sixteenth of December my Son William was born betwen 9 and 10 a clock in the evening.

Page 12:

In the Yeare 1766 My Son George was Born The eighteenth of November.

Page 13:

In the yeare 1768 November the 27 my daughter mary was born.
In the year 1771 the first of October my daughter Yseabella was born.
In the yeare 1774 in May 25 my son Jacob was born.

Page 14:

In the yeare 1779 My Son Stoffel was born the six of June.
In the yeare 1782 in the month of May My Son Abraham was Born.
In the yeare 1784 my daugter Elis____ in the month of June.

Pages 15, 16 and 17: Directions for making clocks. Following pages contain directions for ' 'creadles,' ' ' 'Rocking Cheare,' ' ' 'vefer's Lum,' ' spinning wheel, wind mill, new sort of ' 'lum' ' for cloth, a chest-on-chest, and so on.

In some way the writer omitted the birth of his so, Matthew, born Mar. 15,
1777, the ancestor of Dr. Timberman.

Matthew m. Elizabeth Hershey whose family later became well known from the manufacture of chocolate. Matthew takes over the next entries with the names of his children and dates of their birth, still interspersed with the directions for making all sorts of things.
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Note from Nel:

Although Katherine van Fossen believes that it was Jacob Christopher ‎(husband of Sibella)‎ who was 82 years and 6 months old, this contradicts his ' 'son's' ' entry on page 8 that his father was 78 yrs old when he died and died
in 1759, four years before this notebook was begun. It would appear that entries may not have been made in sequence, since the births of the children, the first born in 1763 ‎(the same year this notebook was apparently begun)‎, are listed beginning on page 11. I believe there are two possibilities here. First, the 82 year old writer may be Jacob, husband of
Catherine Earnhardt, who died in 1789 ‎(see his will below)‎. This would mean Jacob was born c1707 and not 1710 as many family trees show ‎(including mine)‎. A birth date of 1707 would not be out of line and is possible. Second, the 82 year old writer may be the father of the children listed, son of Jacob and Catherine, and grandson of Jacob and Sibella.

Katherine also believes that Jacob Christopher and Sibella had only two sons: Arnold and Christopher ‎(bn Mar 1, 1736)‎. I have not seen the source for this specific birth date for Christopher, but believe that early researchers may have believed that Christopher Zimmerman who married Deborah Supplee was the son of Jacob Christopher and Sibella. There are those who currently have this Christopher listed as son of this Jacob, thus grandson of Jacob Christopher and Sibella. Katherine apparently also had not found Jacob and Catherine Earnhardt Zimmerman in the records to enable her to
identify Jacob as a son of Jacob and Sibella. There is always the possibility that Jacob and Sibella did have a son, Christopher. And based on the births of the known children of Sibella, many large gaps are found. Sibella may have had difficulties bearing children or had several die as infants. So far no evidence, to my knowledge, has been discovered to verify the existence of any other sons for Sibella and Jacob Christopher except Jacob and Arnold, but this may simply mean records have not yet been foundor, if found, have been interpreted incorrectly.

But Christopher who married Deborah Supplee appears not to be a son of Jacob and Sibella or one of the writers in this notebook, since the research on Christopher and Deborah shows no descendants matching the children listed in
this notebook. Nor could Christopher be the son of this Jacob and Catherine as shown by the wills below. Jacob's will was written in 1786 ‎(proven in 1789)‎ and leaves 5 pds to his son, Christopher; yet Christopher who md Deborah Supple died in 1782 - four years before Jacob wrote his will.

The notebook does not identify the writers and I cannot be positive that ' 'Christopher' ' is the father of the children listed in the notebook. I have no information at all on son Jacob nor do I have any solid documentation or proof on the families ‎(as shown on my file)‎ for sons Matthias or John. But if the data on John and Matthias is correct, it would leave only Jacob or
Christopher as the father of the children listed in the notebook.
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‎(Cover Page)‎
Jacob Zimmerman's Will, 1789

Proved March 16, 1796
Witnesses Aff.
Exrs. Aff.

Reg'd in Will book No 1, page 494
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Be it Remembered that I Jacob Zimmerman Senior of the Township of Providence in the County of Montgomery in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, being in my usual health and of sound disposing mind and memory, but being far advanced in years, and calling to mind the mortality of my body, do think fit this fifteenth day of December in the year of our Lord One thousand Seven hundred and Eighty nine, to make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, the
which I do in the following manner and form, that is to say ….

Imprimis It is my Will and I do Order that all my just debts and funeral expences be duely paid and satisfied out of my estate by my Executors herein afternamed.

2 I give to my Daughter Hannah, wife of Frederick Stem, the sum of six pounds, and the like sum of six pounds to each and every one of her children.

3 I give to each and every of the children of my deceased Daughter Mary, late wife of Andrew Supplee, the like sum of six pounds.

4th I give to my Daughter Catherine, wife of Christian Stouver, the like sum of six pounds, and the sum of six pounds to each and every one of her children.

5th I give to each of the three children of my deceased Daughter Susanna, late wife of Frederick Marstellar, the sum of thirty pounds.

6 I give to my son Matthias Zimmerman the sum of ten pounds.

7th I give to my Step Daughter Sophia, wife of Henry Rittenhouse the sum of ten pounds.

8th I give to my son Christopher the sum of five shillings beside what he has already had of me.

9th I give to my son John Zimmerman the sum of Eighty pounds over and above the sum of One hundred twenty pounds which he some time ago, hath received of me, and my said son John is to be charged with whatever sum or sums shall
be paid out of my Estate, towards dischargeing a debt of Two hundred pounds and Interest for which I am bound for him to Amos Roberts, which is entirely my said son John's debt.

10th I give to my son Jacob five pounds besides what he has already had of me.

11th But if my Estate shall happen to exceed or fall short of my expectations my Will is that every of the Legacies herein before given shall be increased or diminished proportionably to the said surplus or deficiency.

12th And as I apprehend I have made full provision for the comfortable support and maintainance of my beloved wife Susanna during her natural life, by the contract between me and my son Jacob, I now only recommend his to her
particular care and attention, through the remainder of her days, having no cause to doubt his discharge … the part of an affectionate son.

13th And I do hereby nominate Constitute and appoint my son Jacob Zimmerman and my son in law Christian Stouver Executors of this my last Will and Testament.

14th my Will further is that the legacies to my Grandchildren be paid as soon after the end of one year, as they severally attain the ages, the females, of Eighteen and the males twenty one years if the same ca be had, and if it can not be raised so soon, then to be paid them as soon after as the same can be raised, and all the other legacies to be at the end of the
said year.

15th And lastly I do hereby utterly disallow, revoke and Disannul all and every other former Wills, Testaments, Legacies and Executors by me in any wise before this time named …Willed or bequeathed, Rattifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal the Day and year first above written.

Signed, Sealed, published, pronounced and declared by the said Jacob Zimmerman the Testator in the presence of us the Subscribers.

‎(Signed)‎ Jacob Zimmerman

Witnesses:
‎(Signed)‎ Arnold Zimmerman, Christopher Zimmerman, Israel Jacobs

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>From ' 'Genealogical Landmarks and Milestones' ': Christopher's will proven 1782
‎(S 146)‎. Executors were brother John and Christopher's wife, Deborah.

>From Barbara Mihalcik: Christopher and Deborah are buried in Bethel Hill
Cemetery.

Will of Christopher Zimmerman was made 4/18/1782. Its purport was as follows: ' 'To wife, Deborah, the whole use and benefit of my estate, real and personal, until my 2nd son is 21.' ' She was to have the lower room of the house in the north end and the usual privileges, also one cow and one horse. The two eldest sons were to have the land, to be divided and each to have a due proportion of the meadow and woodland. The other children mentioned were Magdalena, Catherine, Susannah, Isaac, Jacob, and John and William, the latter being the youngest. These obtained their shares in money paid by thetwo older brothers. At that time there were but one set of farm buildings on the 214 acres. It appears that Christopher had a brother, John, who was appointed executor with the widow Deborah. The sick man either from weakness or illiteracy affixed his mark instead of signature to the will, which was witnessed by Henry Conard and Nathan Cox. The second son did not become of age until the fall of 1793.


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Birth	1710 2721 Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pa
Marriage	about. 1730 (Age 20) Catherine Earnhardt - ‎[View Family ‎(F5601)‎‎]
Death of mother	1744 (Age 34) Sibella Van Fossen (I14526) (Age 55) - [Relationship Chart]
Marriage	22 March 1754 (Age 44) Susannah Roberts - ‎[View Family ‎(F5602)‎‎] Swedes Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Death of father	1759 (Age 49) Jakob Christopher Zimmerman (I5733) (Age 76) - [Relationship Chart]
Death	March 1796 (Age 86) Montgomery County, Pa
Universal Identifier	4040DD5EE696D511973400E02931A9511C1F
Last Change	24 June 2006 - 19:06:11