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Northumberland, Jacob, 251.40 acres, 25 May 1802
1787 tax, Augusta, $10.0, single (s/o Jacob)
1800 census, Augusta, Jacob, 1800, 00010-10011
1810 census, Augusta, Jacob, 1810, pg 223
will mentions wfCatharine
Catharine w/o John Zerfoss
Jacob
Elizabeth
Henry
John
John Nicholas (under 21)
John
George
Peter
Christian
David
(children appear to bein birth order)
will is signed Jacob Conrath. Executors are his brothers Henry Conrad and John Conrad.
Witnesses are George Long, Henrich Conrath and Andrew Albertz?
Deed Y:224 of 1831/2, has Christian Conrad selling his share of his land to Henry
Masser, Esq. "the mount due me at my mother's death from John Nicholas
Conrad [executor?] under the will of my father Jacob Conrad of Augusta Twp desc."
.. giving full power of assigns ... with said Nicholas.
FromHistory of Northumberland County, pg 705:
The other Jacob Conrad, farmer of Augusta township, "being sick
and weak," made his will July 8, 1815, and it was probated Aug. 29,
1815. His wife's name was Catharine, and the following sons and
daughters are mentioned: Catharine (married John Zerfoss), Jacob,
Elizabeth, Henry, John Nicholas (under twenty-one), John, George, Peter,
Christianand David.
************************ A note on his son Christian:
Biographical Souvenir of the Counties of Delaware & Buchanan, IA, Vol II,
1890:
Christian Coonrod, a farmer, residing in Coffin's Grove township, about
six miles northwest of Manchester, is certainly the oldest man in Delaware
county, and probably the oldest man in northeast Iowa. He says that he was
born September 22, 1780. He would, therefore, at this writing (September,
1890) be 110 yearsold. There are no means at hand for verifying the dates,
the fact as to the time of his birth resting upon his memory, unsupported by
any corroborative evidence. Still, if we grant Mr. Coonrod the same privileg
in reference to testifying for himself as to his age that we grant other men,
and take his statement in reference to that fact as we take the statements of
other men, the date above given must stand in the record as the time when he
made his appearance inthis world. He was born in Cumberland county, PA, and
comes of ancestry which, according to his statement, was remarkable for its
longevity. His father, Jacob Coonrod, lived to be only 55, but his
grandfather Coonrod reached the great age of 106; his grandmother Coonrod was
something over 100, while his mother died at 102 and his maternal grandfather
at 97. He is of German & French extraction, his father having been a native
of Germany & his mother, whose maiden name was Catherine Steinbrook, a native
of France. Christian Coonrod was reared in Cumberland county, PA. He served
in the War of 1812, taking part in the assault on Queenstown heights & the
battle of Fort Erie, witnessing Perry's great victory on the lake, & concluded
his military career at Sackett's harbor, where he was discharged at the end of
the war. He remembers events connected with the war quite well, but he can
not fix dates. This, and the fact that he lost his discharge papers years
ago, has prevented his getting a pension for his military services at that
time.
Returning to Pennsylvania at the close of the War of 1812, Mr. Coonrod
took up farming, & followed it until the Erie canal was opened to traffic,
when he sought & secured employment on that, running a line boat for several
years between the chief commercial points on that water-way. He had
previously operated a small boat on the Schuylkill River,when Philadelphia
was a place of only a few thousand, Reading, a small country town, &
Pittsburgh consisted of two stores & a boarding-house.
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1765 - 1815 (49 years)