Abt 1747 - 1829 (~ 82 years)
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Name |
Jacob FOUTS [1, 2] |
Born |
Abt 1747 |
, Frederick County, Maryland, USA [2] |
Gender |
Male |
Religion |
Brethren |
Buried |
1829 |
Young America, Cass County, Indiana,USA [2] |
- Center United Brethren Church Cemetery
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Died |
20 May 1829 |
, Clark County, Indiana, USA [2] |
Notes |
Roger Sappington in his BRETHREN IN THE CAROLINAS, p. 11, names the
following nine German families as very likely Brethren who settled on the
waters of the Uwharrie River in 1763-1764:
Jacob Stutzman
David Fouts
Jacob Fouts
John Fouts
Michael Fouts,
Andrew Hoover,
John Mast
Adam Varner
Jacob Schwartz
All of these men bought land from Henry Eustace McCullouch. Except for
Jacob Stutzman, who purchased his land on September 1, 1764, all of the rest
bought their land a year earlier on the same day: February 17, 1763.
This was not a coincidence. Hoover, Mast, and Varner were related to
members of the Fouts families by marriage. Andrew Hoover was married to
Margaret Fouts, sister of Michael Fouts. John Mast had married a Harmon,
but his sons and daughters were married to Fouts and Hoovers. Adam Varner
was a brother-in-law of Michael Fouts. These related families apparently
moved to the Uwharrie River from the Pipe Creek area of Maryland a year
earlier in 1762.
The circumstances of Jacob Schwartz are largely unknown, and that is the
main reason for this message. Various Fouts compilers say that Jacob
Schwartz was "a neighbor to Andrew Hoover in Maryland who sold out in
Maryland on the same day that Hoover did." Andrew Hoover sold his two
tracts, "Mirey Springs" on Little Pipe Creek, and "Addition to Mirey
Springs" near Big Pipe Creek, to Stephen Bowers on May 26, 1762. If Jacob
Schwartz sold out on the same day, one can speculate that he may have been
related to Andrew Hoover by marriage. If he did not marry a Hoover, perhaps
he married a Fouts (since so many Brethren seemed to be related to that
family).
Jacob Schwartz was known as Jacob Black in North Carolina. I think he was
the Jacob Schwartz who was born in Webenheim in 1718, emigrated on the Ship
Virtuous Grace in 1737, and was baptized by Michael Frantz at Conestoga in
1739. I think he was probably the Jacob Schwartz who warranted land in
Warwick Township, Lancaster County, in 1752, but never got around to having
it surveyed. Almost nothing is known about his family except that he had a
son Frederick Black, who married a Fouts daughter of Uwharrie and who moved
with the next generation of families Fouts, Younce, Burkett, and Shearer to
the New River headwaters in Wilkes/Ashe. Frederick Black, along with Ulrich
Kessler, was a leader of the early Ashe County (New River) Brethren.
If anyone has any knowledge or ideas about Jacob Schwartz/Black, please
share them.
Dwayne Wrightsman
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Person ID |
I2124 |
Ronald Allen Snowden Family Tree |
Last Modified |
18 Jun 2009 |
Father |
David Theobald FOUTS, Sr., b. Abt 1722, Rohrbach, near Sinsheim, Rhenish, Palatinate, Germany , d. Abt 1788, , Randolph County, North Carolina, USA (Age ~ 66 years) |
Mother |
Catrina SPENGAL, b. Abt 1727, , Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA , d. Abt 1792, Uwarrie, Rowan County, North Carolina, USA (Age ~ 65 years) |
Married |
27 May 1743 [2] |
_UID |
B0C4E0AA3FFB4BA187A2E172F17412CDE4E9 |
Family ID |
F3452 |
Group Sheet |
Family |
Mary Magdalene WAYMIRE, b. Abt 1754, , , Pennsylvania, USA , d. 3 Dec 1820, , Clark County, Indiana, USA (Age ~ 66 years) |
Married |
1 May 1772 |
Guilford County, North Carolina, USA [1, 3] |
_UID |
978291D90CB144EB9425D52E764CB5822446 |
Children |
| 1. David FOUTS, b. Abt 1773 |
| 2. Elizabeth FOUTS, b. 1774, , Randolph County, North Carolina, USA , d. 18 Nov 1833, , Clark County, Indiana, USA (Age 59 years) |
| 3. Squire or Captain Jacob FOUTS, b. 14 Jan 1782, , Randolph County, North Carolina, USA , d. 25 Oct 1860, , Clark County, Indiana, USA (Age 78 years) |
| 4. Susannah FOUTS, b. 1 Jun 1787, d. 14 Mar 1859 (Age 71 years) |
| 5. Polly FOUTS |
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Family ID |
F1567 |
Group Sheet |
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Sources |
- [S47] William M. Reser, M.D., (Newberry Library).
- [S275] Merle C. Rummel--Brethren Church historian.
- [S50] Family Tree, Rootsweb.com.
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