Notes for Jacob COONROD

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Notes for Jacob COONROD

Residences & events:

1750 Berne, Switzerland. Following the death of his wife, he tookhis young family and set out for the new world.

1763 Pendleton Co, WVA, was his choice for final settlement. Thecounty history states: "It is said than when Jacob Sr. came to theSouth Branch, he found on his land a 'squaw patch' of about one acre,which formed the nucleus of his cleared land, and that there was alsoa cabin that he temporarily made use of."

Local history recorded 2 Coonrods who settled in the county. Itlists:

Conrad (A) - German - 1753 - South Fork Mountain, southwest of FortSeybert (Woolrick?)
Conrad (B) - German - 1763 - South Branch bottom, 1 1-2 miles belowRuddle (Riddle?) (Jacob)

Augusta Co, VA, court records mentioned him often:

5/24/1763 "James Green and Moses Green, of Culpeper, and Mary Wood,of Frederick, to Jacob Conrod, £90, 457 acres on South Branch Potomac,part of 660 acres patented to Robert Green, who devised the same tograntors, 203 acres being sold to Joseph Skidmore and Gabriel Coyle.Teste: Mathew Patton, Postel ( ) Hover and Henry ( ) Pickles.Delivered: Jacob Conrad, January, 1765."

8/2/1773 "Estate of Jacob Caplenger, of South Branch, appraised byJacob Conrad, Jacob Friend, Wolrie Conrad."

Augusta Co, VA, court records:

"Jacob Conrad's will--To son, Jacob, testator's dwelling place; todaughter, Barbara, the place she lives on (wife of Charles Hedrick);to daughter, Elizabeth, the place she lives on, bought of ChristopherThompson and James Skidmore, wife of George Fisher: to daughter MaryConrad's two children, Margaret Barlet, John Clifton, land bought fromSaml. Caplinger; to Jonas Friend, a debt to be paid; son to sign histhree sisters their deeds by his Earship. Teste: Wolerey Conrad, JohnSkidmore, George Kile. Proved, 19th March, 1776 (translation
by George Carpenter) by the witnesses. Jacob Conradqualifiesadministrator."

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