Benjamin Jacobs

Abt 1750 - Aft 1815  (~ 65 years)

• Name	Benjamin Jacobs
  Birth	Abt 1750  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	Between 1750 and 1760	Caswell, North Carolina   [2]
  Death	Aft 16 May 1815	Person County, North Carolina   [3]
  Person ID	I2386	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of PNH
  Last Modified	8 Feb 2024

  
  

  Family	Nancy Simpson,   b. Abt 1757, Virginia
  Children	+ 1. Caleb Jacobs,   b. Abt 1780, St Lukes, Caswell, North Carolina d. Between 1825 and 1830, Robertson, Tennessee (Age ~ 45 years)
  Family ID	F6345	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Nov 2014

  
  

• Notes

  He is listed on the roll of Major John Baptist Ashe's Company of the 1st North Carolina Battalion, commanded by Colonel Thomas Clarke, dated 8 Sep 1778, as a private who enlisted on 16 Feb 1777. Elsewhere, he is shown as having enlisted 16 Feb 1777 and mustered out as a corporal on 19 May 1779. A "Benj. Jacobs" also appears as a private on the muster roll of Capt. John Belfield's Troop in the First Regiment Light Dragoons in the Service of the United States of America, Commanded by Col. Theodorick Bland, Taken for the Months of Oct. and Nov. [year not legible], said to have enlisted 15 July 78 for a term of three years. It seems plausible that the Benjamin Jacobs of this page corresponds to at least one of these records. He appears as head of family the 1790 census in Caswell, North Carolina, in the 1800 census in Hillsborough, Person County, North Carolina, and in the 1810 census in Person County, North Carolina. In 1794 he appears on the Person County tax list, St. Luke's district, with 100 acres; he also appears in the 1795 and 1805 Person County tax lists. He witnessed the wills of Nathaniel Norfleet, William Hargis, and Richard Hargis (son of William Hargis). His own will is dated 16 May 1815; sons Calbel and Elijah are named executors, and Nathaniel Norfleet and Stokes Allen are witnesses. His estate was settled in May 1817. According to an unsourced Find a Grave page which says that his burial details are unknown, he died in August 1815. Volume One of Wheeley's or Upper Hico Primitive Baptist Church Minutes from 1790 to 1846, covering the period when the church was simply called Wheeley's Church, mentions Benjamin and sons Caleb and Elijah.

  
  

• Sources

  [S946] Karen Trouvat, 25 Mar 1998, post to NCORANGE-L. [S567] Jim Davis, 27 Nov 2000, post to TNCHESTE-L. [S947] Mary Meyer, 25 Nov 2000, post to TNHCHESTE-L., year only.