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Jacob (Merkle) MARKLEY, son of Abraham and Anna Veronica Merkle, was born at Wimpfen in Hesse Darmstadt, July 11, 1701. He was a twin to Isaac, who died in infancy.
The Markley chart has an error in regard to these twins. While stating that Jacob and Isaac were twins (Zwillinge) born ' '11 Juli, 1701,' ' underneath the name of Isaac is ' 'gestorben (died) 15 October, 1699.' ' Another son named Isaac was born 1704, who also died young.
Jacob Merkle came to Pennsylvania when a young man, settling in the Skippack region, where he married February 13, 1722, Barbara Dotterer, daughter of George Philip and Veronica Dotterer, of Frederick Township, Montgomery, but then in Philadelphia, Co.
Jacob (Merkle) Markley was one of the early settlers of what was then known as Bebbers Township. Here in 1725 we find him signing his name ' 'Jacob Marckley' ' (umlaut over the 'a') to the petition to the Court of Quarter Sessions of Philadelphia County requesting that a township be regularly laid out covering this district and be given the name of ' 'Skippack and Perkiomen' '.
In May, 1728, his name appears among those residents of ' 'Van Bebbers Township and ye adjacencies Belonging' ' who sent a petition to the Governor of the Commonwealth, asking for protection against the Indians who were attacking settlers at ' 'falkners Swamp & New Cosahopin.' ' More than half of these names were written by John Roberts, an Englishman who lived near Pennepacker's Mills and we, therefore, find him as ' 'Jacob Marieke.' ' Apparently he was not greatly concerned about the threatened Indian outrages, for two months later, July 17, 1728, he purchased of Jost Heydt, one hundred acres, and November 28, following, bought one hundred and thirty-two acres of Nicholas Scull. These racts
were located within the limits of the present East Perkiomen Township.
Jacob Markley subscribed to the qualifications and was naturalized September 24, 1753, thus becoming a full citizen of Pennsylvania. As he had conscientious scruples against taking an oath, he is named as a Quaker and therefore merely affirmed the terms of naturalization. Both he and his family were members of Augustus Evangelical Lutheran Church at New Providence (Trappe), In 1734, he is reported as a taxable of Perkiomen and Skippack township, owning two undred acres; on January 13, 1733, he paid quit-rent on three hundred and ighty-two acres of land in Bebbers Township. In the census taken June 5, 1756, of ' 'Parkiomen & Shippaake' ' township, appears the name Jacob Marcly, housekeeper; occupation, farmer, four children under 21; acres owned 150--50 acres cleared, 15 acres sowed with corn, 1 horse, three horned cattle. In 1769, he paid a proprietary tax on one hundred and fifty acres, one horse, three horned cattle; in 1776, the same amount of land, one horse and three horned cattle are still credited to him. Since he appears to have owned ut one horse, when this was stolen from him it is not surprising that we find him advertising the loss in the two leading apers of the community. In the Pennsylvania Gazette of July 31, 1776, appears the following notice:
FIVE POUNDS REWARD.
Stolen from the subscriber, living in Perkiomen township, Philadelphia county, the 12th of July inst. at night a Strawberry-roan HORSE 9 years old, about 16 hands high with a white star in his forehead paces and trots, carries lofty, was shod on one of his fore feet. Whoever takes up the said horse and thief and secures them, so that the thief may be brought to justice, and the owner may have the horse again, shall have the above reward for both, or Three Pounds for the horse only, and reasonable charges paid by Jacob Merkley.
The return of the First Battalion, which included Perkiomen and Skippack townships, shows that Daniel Heister, Jr., Esquire, was chosen Colonel; Jacob Reed, Esquire, Lieutenant Clonel, and Jacob Markley, Esquire, Major. Jacob Markley was now in his 76th year, and the fact that he was chosen despite his years to hold this important military office ertainly is an indication that he was in most hearty sympathy with the American cause. It is not known if he accepted this ffice, or if at any time he performed actual service in the field. Colonel Heister's Regiment was ordered to Swede's Ford, on duty, but the Revolutionary rolls, as they appear in the Pennsylvania Archives, do not again name Major Jacob Markley, though he was known as Major Markley the restof his life.
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