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From: John Blankenbaker <>
Subject: [GERMANNA] (1085)Germanna Colonies, History of
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 05:33:01 -0500


The one thousand and eighty-fifth note in a series on the Germanna Colonies

The Jacoby/Jacobus/Jacobi family had a presence in Virginia as early as
1747. Since the records in this year pertain to land, presumably they had
been here for a while. It appears that Francis Jacoby was old enough to be
a chain carrier in this year so he might have been born about 1730 or
earlier. Later John Francis Lucas Jacobi mentions brothers and sisters so
we have a family. His future wife was born in 1744 and they were married in
London in 1764 when he was, probably at least 34 years old and she was
about 20. I will assume that they returned to Virginia after the marriage.

Johanna Friederika Lotspeich, the wife of Francis Jacobi, had two brothers
who came to Virginia also. One of them is known to have come after
Johanna's marriage and I suspect that the other came after her marriage
also. In other words, she wrote home to them and encouraged them to emigrate.

Johann Wilhelm Lotspeich was four years older than Johanna. We know that he
married Magdalena Klug, daughter of Rev. Klug who died in 1764 in Culpeper
Co. In his estate settlement in 1775, William Lotspeich is mentioned but
that is not evidence that he was married to Magdalena in 1764. According to
some estimates of her age, she was much too young to marry in 1764. William
Lotspeich was active in land trading in Culpeper County (I believe his
first land record is in 1771). The first mention of Magdalena is in 1774.
Matthew Broyles in Greene County, Tennessee, gave a power of attorney to
William Lotspeich of Stafford Co., Virginia. (The two men had married
sisters.) In 1781, William is in Culpeper Class 106. The trail goes cold
here for a while but in 1811 he is mentioned in a Kentucky paper in the
matter of a stolen watch. Magdalena died in 1820 in Lexington. Later,
William married Sarah Sprake and he died in 1828 at the age of 88. Five
children, four of them daughters, are known. The son was David. However, in
1819, a Benjamin Lotspeich is twice mentioned in the newspaper as a tobacco
manufacturer. He might be an additional son.

The other brother of Johanna Friederika Lotspeich was Johann Christopher.
He was born in 1750 and died in 1830 in Greeneville, Tennessee. His arrival
in America was in 1772 on the ship Catherine. Four years later he was a
witness in the Culpeper Co. deed book. In the Bourbon Co. Deed Book it is
recorded in 1795 that he received a distribution from his uncle's estate.
He was said to be "of Virginia." Apparently, the record is in Bourbon Co.
because his sister was living there. In 1798, there is a record in Greene
Co., Tennessee, in which Christopher signed a release to his uncle's
executors.

Christopher was a resident of Greene County for many years as he had a
North Carolina land grant in 1788. His will was proven in Greene County in
1830. He had married Rebecca Barbara Hartley in Culpeper Co. and they were
the parents of fifteen children. Christopher was a Quaker who would not
allow any work, including cooking, on Sunday. However, Rebecca was a
Methodist and two of their sons were Methodist ministers.


John Blankenbaker
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