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From: "Cheryll Reed" <>
Subject: [SNOWHILL] Monn - Conrad Jr.'s children - Jacob (11)
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 09:50:09 -0500


There were four (adult) Jacobs in the first half of the 19th century, and
sorting them out is not easy. From the taxes in the 1840s we find listed
"Jacob Sr.", a shoemaker, "Jacob of George", a laborer, "Jacob of David", a
mason, and "Jacob of Jacob", also called "Jacob C.", a carpenter. Since we
know from his will that Conrad Junior had a son named Jacob, and since there
was no Jacob of Conrad explicitly named, we can assume that the Jacob Sr.
mentioned in the taxes is Conrad's son. This Jacob was the oldest of the
four by more than twenty years. The 1850 census has him as 64 years old,
which means he was born around 1786. In 1850 he was a shoemaker, married to
an Elizabeth, who was born around 1790. He first appears in the 1811 taxes
in the list of single freemen. He bought one acre of land from Peter
Knepper in 1820 for 50 dollars, and sold it 24 years later for 405 dollars.
The tax lists started calling him Jacob Sr. in 1839. In the 1830 census he
is listed with two sons between the ages of 10 and 15, and two daughters,
one under 5 years old, and the other between five and ten. One of these
sons was Jacob C., also called Jacob of Jacob in the tax records, and much
too old to be the son of either of the other Jacobs. I'm not sure who the
other son is. One of the daughters may be named Sarah; there was a Sarah
Kerr, age 28, living with Jacob and Elizabeth when the 1850 census was
taken. There was also possibly a third son, named Samuel. In an Orphan's
Court record dated January 11, 1841, we learn that a Jacob C. Monn was the
widower of Catherine McFerren, who died in 1839, and that they had a son
under 14 years of age (evidently an infant) named Samuel Monn. In the 1850
census, Samuel, now age 11, is in the household of Jacob Sr., age 64, and
Elizabeth, age 60, not in the home of Jacob C. Monn. So either Jacob Sr.
also had the middle initial "C.", had been the husband of Catherine McFerren
and the father of Samuel (who was about 20 years younger than Jacob's other
son Jacob C. Jr.), and Jacob Sr. remarried by 1850, or else Jacob Jr. was
the father of Samuel and the husband of Catherine, and by 1850 Samuel
decided to live with his grandfather after his father remarried. My guess
is the former, but I have no proof.

In the 1820 census, Jacob had three boys under 10 (one would have been Jacob
C. Jr.), and a female between 10 and 16 years old (probably not a daughter,
since Jacob was single in 1811 and 1812, according to the tax records). It
would seem as though one of these boys died before 1830, since there were
only two boys in the household in that census. I wasn't able to find Jacob
Sr. in the 1840 census at all.

From: The First Generations of MANN/MONNs in Franklin County, Pa.;
David Monn

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