My 5th Great grandfather Jacob Allen Albert Sr. the revolutionary war hero is not related IN ANY WAY with the N.C. ALBRIGHT line, nor the OHIO line. He is buried in Giles county VA, and is my direct family (my grandmother was an Albert. I spent my years in that area and have a complete history of my family.
The line is as follows ( Jacob Frederick Albert m. (family tradition states) Mary Lucas Jacob Frederick Albert II married (family tradition states) Mary Allen. Jacob Allen Albert Sr. married first Eliz. Countz, 2nd Elizabeth Williams (have her lineage as well), their son is The Rev. war hero Jacob Allen Albert and he is buried in Giles County VA. on land that belonged to his 2nd wife. Their son is Jacob Allen Albert Jr. had James (Jamie) Frederick Albert II and he is buried in the Albert Cemetery . Jamie also married an Elizabeth (Betsy) Williams of John Stafford Williams and wife Mary "Polly" Griffith... I can go on and on.
SOURCE FOR BELOW: Log Cabin Heritage by Henry E. Albert p. 40-42
Surname Albert has been in America since 1620 when 3 brothers from Holland came to the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Two of the brothers were killed by Indians soon after their arrival, the remaining brother Johan Albert remained in the Dutch Colony, raising a family that later spead throughout the North East." THERE IS NO DOCUMENTS TYING THESE brothers to the GERMAN ALBERT LINE .
From 1720-1860 there were more than 100 Alberts that migrated to America.
"It is known that several Albert refugees from Germany fled down the Rhine River to Amsterdam Holland. From one of these families came 3 brothers Jacob Frederick, Michael and William.
In 1851 , the William Albert family history was compiled from info given by Abraham Albert of New Oxford Adams County. PA. He stated 3 Albert brothers came to America in the 1st years of the 1700's. Again, these brothers were Jacob Frederick, Michael and William Albert. Abraham Albert stated that William remained in PA. , Michael later moved to Virginia, and Jacob Frederick was somewhere south.
William and Michael migrated around 1710and landed in the port of Philidelphia. Around 1719, they appear on records as "freemen"and living in Lancaster County, PA.
From researching the records that are now available , it appears that the statement of Abraham is essentially correct. Also records and family legend indicate the German Alberts (pronouced ALLBERT) came from the Rhine Palatinate, where several families had lived in the Lauterecken valley. During the latter part of the 17th century , this area was prodestant and ruled buy the German court. About 1690-95, the Franks living to the south pushed north and seised control of the Rhine Palatinate, reimposing Catholicism upon the people. During the occupation, migrtation of the Germans was forbidden by the Franks. In spite of this, a large number of Rhinelanders did find a way to flee to the Nertherlands, England, Northern Germany, and other receptive countires.
Jacob Frederick Albert was the first to come to America and arrived in June 1709. He was aboard an English ship which landed in the Carolina Colony of Albemarle Sound. It appears he was indentured for a period of about 5 years to repay his passage. From colonial records & census we know he was known as a freeholder anddid own some Negro slaves. This is further indicated by the names of the slaves. They were givne surnames of first owners in those days. from 1850 census we note about 15 free Negros with the surname Albert, indicating they were set free.
Jacob Frederick was the eldest of the 3 brothers and he settled in Pasquotank County, N.C. The records become incomplete as the courthouse was burned in 1862, resulting in early marriages bonds, indentured, and slave ownership records being lost.
SOURCE FOR BELOW: Log Cabin Heritage by Henry E. Albert p. 40-42
Surname Albert has been in America since 1620 when 3 brothers from Holland came to the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Two of the brothers were killed by Indians soon after their arrival, the remaining brother Johan Albert remained in the Dutch Colony, raising a family that later spead throughout the North East." THERE IS NO DOCUMENTS TYING THESE brothers to the GERMAN ALBERT LINE .
From 1720-1860 there were more than 100 Alberts that migrated to America.
"It is known that several Albert refugees from Germany fled down the Rhine River to Amsterdam Holland. From one of these families came 3 brothers Jacob Frederick, Michael and William.
In 1851 , the William Albert family history was compiled from info given by Abraham Albert of New Oxford Adams County. PA. He stated 3 Albert brothers came to America in the 1st years of the 1700's. Again, these brothers were Jacob Frederick, Michael and William Albert. Abraham Albert stated that William remained in PA. , Michael later moved to Virginia, and Jacob Frederick was somewhere south.
William and Michael migrated around 1710and landed in the port of Philidelphia. Around 1719, they appear on records as "freemen"and living in Lancaster County, PA.
From researching the records that are now available , it appears that the statement of Abraham is essentially correct. Also records and family legend indicate the German Alberts (pronouced ALLBERT) came from the Rhine Palatinate, where several families had lived in the Lauterecken valley. During the latter part of the 17th century , this area was prodestant and ruled buy the German court. About 1690-95, the Franks living to the south pushed north and seised control of the Rhine Palatinate, reimposing Catholicism upon the people. During the occupation, migrtation of the Germans was forbidden by the Franks. In spite of this, a large number of Rhinelanders did find a way to flee to the Nertherlands, England, Northern Germany, and other receptive countires.
Jacob Frederick Albert was the first to come to America and arrived in June 1709. He was aboard an English ship which landed in the Carolina Colony of Albemarle Sound. It appears he was indentured for a period of about 5 years to repay his passage. From colonial records & census we know he was known as a freeholder anddid own some Negro slaves. This is further indicated by the names of the slaves. They were givne surnames of first owners in those days. from 1850 census we note about 15 free Negros with the surname Albert, indicating they were set free.
Jacob Frederick was the eldest of the 3 brothers and he settled in Pasquotank County, N.C. The records become incomplete as the courthouse was burned in 1862, resulting in early marriages bonds, indentured, and slave ownership records being lost.
Jacob Frederick's wife is unknown but family tradition passed down suggestes she was a LUCAS. Their only known issue were Jacob Frederick Albert Jr., Mary Albert and Joshua Albert.
Joshua stayed in North and South Carolina, while Mary and Jacob Jr. moved to Surry County, N.C. the to Augusta County Virginia.
Jacob Frederick Jr was named on a jury in Pasquotank County. N.c but soon thereafter he went to Virginia (about 1767)
Jacob lived in a cabin at the base of Butts mt.
Sources 1.BB Albert AlbertFam History revised 1962 and 2.Log Cabin Heritage by Henry Albert p 43-47
3.Links With the Past, A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Albert and Related Families by Ethel Evans Albert p233
1850 census residence Giles Co. VA.
LOG CABIN HERITAGE, page 43: "Elizabeth died at age 21 years, 129 days
Generation No. 1
1. Jacob Frederick1 Albert, Sr. Per family history He married Mary Lucas.
Child of Jacob Albert and _Mary Lucas is:
+ 2 i. Jacob Frederick Albert, ..
Generation No. 2
2. Jacob Frederick2 Albert, II (Jacob Frederick 1) He married Mary Allen.
Child of Jacob Frederick Albert II and Mary Allen is:
3 i. Jacob Allen Albert, Sr., born 12 Jun 1757 in Pasquotank, North Carolina; died Abt. 1856 in Giles County, Virginia. He married (1) Elizabeth Countz 22 Apr 1783 in Augusta Co., Virginia; born 1765 in Augusta County, Virginia; died 1786 in Montgomery Co., Virginia. He married (2) Elizabeth Ann Williams 04 Oct 1789 in Montgomery Co., Va.; born 1771 in Virginia; died 22 Sep 1831 in Giles County, Virginia.
Notes for Jacob Allen Albert, Sr.:
Jacob Allen Albert son of Jacob Frederick and Mary Allen Albert was born in Pasquotank N.C. in 1757.
Jacob A. Albert enlisted as a pvt. on December 24, 1776 in the 12th Virginia Regt. under Captain Thomas Bowyer and served under Capt. Bowyer's command while the unit was in the state militia. The regiment was transferred to the Continental Army in April 1777. Col. James Wood commanded the Regt. from August 1777 until February 1778. Jacob Albert served in Capt. Jonathan Langdon's Company until Langdon became a casualty in December 1777. The company was then commanded by Capt. Benjamin Casey.
Jacob's pay as a pvt. was two pounds or about $6.66 per month. He was assigned as a scout in the German speaking area of Pa. for ten weeks in the summer of 1777. He was in the Battle of Brandywine Creek on September 11, 1777 and Germantown October 4, 1777 and in Washington's evacuation of Philadelphia. The winter of 1777-1778 was severe , He was with General Washington at their winter quarters in Valley Forge. He was a casualty from malnutrition and had frozen hands and feet from that stay.. The hospital from which he was discharged on February 20, 1778 was a horse stable at Valley Forge. He received $4.00 severance pay and crippled and ill, he left to return to southwest Virginia. Although eligible for a pension and 100 acres of bounty land, records do not indicate he received either.
Records in Ohio indicate that bounty warrant #8887 for one hundred acres, located on the confluence of Mills Creek with the Muskingum River near present day Coshocton, Ohio, was issued to a Jacob Albert from Virginia.
Jacob Albert married Elizabeth Countz, daughter of George Countz of Agusta County, Virginia on April 22, 1783. Jacob and Elizabeth Countz Albert had at least one child, Jennie, born about 1784.
Elizabeth Countz Albert died in 1786 at age 21 and is buried in the Harless Cemetery on Toms Creek in Montgomery County, Virginia.
On October 4, 1789, Jacob Allen Albert married (2) Elizabeth Williams, daughter of George and Margaretha Harless Williams. Jacob and Elizabeth Williams Albert had At least seven children: Margaret born about 1791, Mary born 1794, George born about 1796, Jacob Allen, Jr. born June 12, 1799, John born about 1802, James Frederick born 1806, and Wilson born about 1800.
Jacob A. Albert lived his last years with his son James, then his daughter Margaret and her husband John Pleasant Webb, Crippled from frostbite ant Valley Forge,, he used a mule to get around. He was riding a mule near Mountain Lake in Giles County when a storm came up. He took shelter under an overhanging rock, when found the next morning he was sitting upright under the rock, his mule tied to a tree nearby. He apparently died of a heart attack at age 99. Tradition says he and his second wife are buried in a cemetery between Hoges Chapel and Mt. Lake in what is now Doe Mt. Farm in Giles County, there is a DAR memorial there.
Sources: LOG CABIN HERITAGE
DAR Patriot Index :
ALBERT, JACOB: b. c. 1757 N.C. d. p. 1850 Va. M (1) Elizabeth Countz (2) Elizabeth Williams; Pvt. Virginia
Notes for Elizabeth Countz:
LOG CABIN HERITAGE, page 43: "Elizabeth died at age 21 years, 129 days."
The line is as follows ( Jacob Frederick Albert m. (family tradition states) Mary Lucas Jacob Frederick Albert II married (family tradition states) Mary Allen. Jacob Allen Albert Sr. married first Eliz. Countz, 2nd Elizabeth Williams (have her lineage as well), their son is The Rev. war hero Jacob Allen Albert and he is buried in Giles County VA. on land that belonged to his 2nd wife. Their son is Jacob Allen Albert Jr. had James (Jamie) Frederick Albert II and he is buried in the Albert Cemetery . Jamie also married an Elizabeth (Betsy) Williams of John Stafford Williams and wife Mary "Polly" Griffith... I can go on and on.
SOURCE FOR BELOW: Log Cabin Heritage by Henry E. Albert p. 40-42
Surname Albert has been in America since 1620 when 3 brothers from Holland came to the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Two of the brothers were killed by Indians soon after their arrival, the remaining brother Johan Albert remained in the Dutch Colony, raising a family that later spead throughout the North East." THERE IS NO DOCUMENTS TYING THESE brothers to the GERMAN ALBERT LINE .
From 1720-1860 there were more than 100 Alberts that migrated to America.
"It is known that several Albert refugees from Germany fled down the Rhine River to Amsterdam Holland. From one of these families came 3 brothers Jacob Frederick, Michael and William.
In 1851 , the William Albert family history was compiled from info given by Abraham Albert of New Oxford Adams County. PA. He stated 3 Albert brothers came to America in the 1st years of the 1700's. Again, these brothers were Jacob Frederick, Michael and William Albert. Abraham Albert stated that William remained in PA. , Michael later moved to Virginia, and Jacob Frederick was somewhere south.
William and Michael migrated around 1710and landed in the port of Philidelphia. Around 1719, they appear on records as "freemen"and living in Lancaster County, PA.
From researching the records that are now available , it appears that the statement of Abraham is essentially correct. Also records and family legend indicate the German Alberts (pronouced ALLBERT) came from the Rhine Palatinate, where several families had lived in the Lauterecken valley. During the latter part of the 17th century , this area was prodestant and ruled buy the German court. About 1690-95, the Franks living to the south pushed north and seised control of the Rhine Palatinate, reimposing Catholicism upon the people. During the occupation, migrtation of the Germans was forbidden by the Franks. In spite of this, a large number of Rhinelanders did find a way to flee to the Nertherlands, England, Northern Germany, and other receptive countires.
Jacob Frederick Albert was the first to come to America and arrived in June 1709. He was aboard an English ship which landed in the Carolina Colony of Albemarle Sound. It appears he was indentured for a period of about 5 years to repay his passage. From colonial records & census we know he was known as a freeholder anddid own some Negro slaves. This is further indicated by the names of the slaves. They were givne surnames of first owners in those days. from 1850 census we note about 15 free Negros with the surname Albert, indicating they were set free.
Jacob Frederick was the eldest of the 3 brothers and he settled in Pasquotank County, N.C. The records become incomplete as the courthouse was burned in 1862, resulting in early marriages bonds, indentured, and slave ownership records being lost.
SOURCE FOR BELOW: Log Cabin Heritage by Henry E. Albert p. 40-42
Surname Albert has been in America since 1620 when 3 brothers from Holland came to the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Two of the brothers were killed by Indians soon after their arrival, the remaining brother Johan Albert remained in the Dutch Colony, raising a family that later spead throughout the North East." THERE IS NO DOCUMENTS TYING THESE brothers to the GERMAN ALBERT LINE .
From 1720-1860 there were more than 100 Alberts that migrated to America.
"It is known that several Albert refugees from Germany fled down the Rhine River to Amsterdam Holland. From one of these families came 3 brothers Jacob Frederick, Michael and William.
In 1851 , the William Albert family history was compiled from info given by Abraham Albert of New Oxford Adams County. PA. He stated 3 Albert brothers came to America in the 1st years of the 1700's. Again, these brothers were Jacob Frederick, Michael and William Albert. Abraham Albert stated that William remained in PA. , Michael later moved to Virginia, and Jacob Frederick was somewhere south.
William and Michael migrated around 1710and landed in the port of Philidelphia. Around 1719, they appear on records as "freemen"and living in Lancaster County, PA.
From researching the records that are now available , it appears that the statement of Abraham is essentially correct. Also records and family legend indicate the German Alberts (pronouced ALLBERT) came from the Rhine Palatinate, where several families had lived in the Lauterecken valley. During the latter part of the 17th century , this area was prodestant and ruled buy the German court. About 1690-95, the Franks living to the south pushed north and seised control of the Rhine Palatinate, reimposing Catholicism upon the people. During the occupation, migrtation of the Germans was forbidden by the Franks. In spite of this, a large number of Rhinelanders did find a way to flee to the Nertherlands, England, Northern Germany, and other receptive countires.
Jacob Frederick Albert was the first to come to America and arrived in June 1709. He was aboard an English ship which landed in the Carolina Colony of Albemarle Sound. It appears he was indentured for a period of about 5 years to repay his passage. From colonial records & census we know he was known as a freeholder anddid own some Negro slaves. This is further indicated by the names of the slaves. They were givne surnames of first owners in those days. from 1850 census we note about 15 free Negros with the surname Albert, indicating they were set free.
Jacob Frederick was the eldest of the 3 brothers and he settled in Pasquotank County, N.C. The records become incomplete as the courthouse was burned in 1862, resulting in early marriages bonds, indentured, and slave ownership records being lost.
Jacob Frederick's wife is unknown but family tradition passed down suggestes she was a LUCAS. Their only known issue were Jacob Frederick Albert Jr., Mary Albert and Joshua Albert.
Joshua stayed in North and South Carolina, while Mary and Jacob Jr. moved to Surry County, N.C. the to Augusta County Virginia.
Jacob Frederick Jr was named on a jury in Pasquotank County. N.c but soon thereafter he went to Virginia (about 1767)
Jacob lived in a cabin at the base of Butts mt.
Sources 1.BB Albert AlbertFam History revised 1962 and 2.Log Cabin Heritage by Henry Albert p 43-47
3.Links With the Past, A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Albert and Related Families by Ethel Evans Albert p233
1850 census residence Giles Co. VA.
LOG CABIN HERITAGE, page 43: "Elizabeth died at age 21 years, 129 days
Generation No. 1
1. Jacob Frederick1 Albert, Sr. Per family history He married Mary Lucas.
Child of Jacob Albert and _Mary Lucas is:
+ 2 i. Jacob Frederick Albert, ..
Generation No. 2
2. Jacob Frederick2 Albert, II (Jacob Frederick 1) He married Mary Allen.
Child of Jacob Frederick Albert II and Mary Allen is:
3 i. Jacob Allen Albert, Sr., born 12 Jun 1757 in Pasquotank, North Carolina; died Abt. 1856 in Giles County, Virginia. He married (1) Elizabeth Countz 22 Apr 1783 in Augusta Co., Virginia; born 1765 in Augusta County, Virginia; died 1786 in Montgomery Co., Virginia. He married (2) Elizabeth Ann Williams 04 Oct 1789 in Montgomery Co., Va.; born 1771 in Virginia; died 22 Sep 1831 in Giles County, Virginia.
Notes for Jacob Allen Albert, Sr.:
Jacob Allen Albert son of Jacob Frederick and Mary Allen Albert was born in Pasquotank N.C. in 1757.
Jacob A. Albert enlisted as a pvt. on December 24, 1776 in the 12th Virginia Regt. under Captain Thomas Bowyer and served under Capt. Bowyer's command while the unit was in the state militia. The regiment was transferred to the Continental Army in April 1777. Col. James Wood commanded the Regt. from August 1777 until February 1778. Jacob Albert served in Capt. Jonathan Langdon's Company until Langdon became a casualty in December 1777. The company was then commanded by Capt. Benjamin Casey.
Jacob's pay as a pvt. was two pounds or about $6.66 per month. He was assigned as a scout in the German speaking area of Pa. for ten weeks in the summer of 1777. He was in the Battle of Brandywine Creek on September 11, 1777 and Germantown October 4, 1777 and in Washington's evacuation of Philadelphia. The winter of 1777-1778 was severe , He was with General Washington at their winter quarters in Valley Forge. He was a casualty from malnutrition and had frozen hands and feet from that stay.. The hospital from which he was discharged on February 20, 1778 was a horse stable at Valley Forge. He received $4.00 severance pay and crippled and ill, he left to return to southwest Virginia. Although eligible for a pension and 100 acres of bounty land, records do not indicate he received either.
Records in Ohio indicate that bounty warrant #8887 for one hundred acres, located on the confluence of Mills Creek with the Muskingum River near present day Coshocton, Ohio, was issued to a Jacob Albert from Virginia.
Jacob Albert married Elizabeth Countz, daughter of George Countz of Agusta County, Virginia on April 22, 1783. Jacob and Elizabeth Countz Albert had at least one child, Jennie, born about 1784.
Elizabeth Countz Albert died in 1786 at age 21 and is buried in the Harless Cemetery on Toms Creek in Montgomery County, Virginia.
On October 4, 1789, Jacob Allen Albert married (2) Elizabeth Williams, daughter of George and Margaretha Harless Williams. Jacob and Elizabeth Williams Albert had At least seven children: Margaret born about 1791, Mary born 1794, George born about 1796, Jacob Allen, Jr. born June 12, 1799, John born about 1802, James Frederick born 1806, and Wilson born about 1800.
Jacob A. Albert lived his last years with his son James, then his daughter Margaret and her husband John Pleasant Webb, Crippled from frostbite ant Valley Forge,, he used a mule to get around. He was riding a mule near Mountain Lake in Giles County when a storm came up. He took shelter under an overhanging rock, when found the next morning he was sitting upright under the rock, his mule tied to a tree nearby. He apparently died of a heart attack at age 99. Tradition says he and his second wife are buried in a cemetery between Hoges Chapel and Mt. Lake in what is now Doe Mt. Farm in Giles County, there is a DAR memorial there.
Sources: LOG CABIN HERITAGE
DAR Patriot Index :
ALBERT, JACOB: b. c. 1757 N.C. d. p. 1850 Va. M (1) Elizabeth Countz (2) Elizabeth Williams; Pvt. Virginia
Notes for Elizabeth Countz:
LOG CABIN HERITAGE, page 43: "Elizabeth died at age 21 years, 129 days."
My 5th Great grandfather Jacob Allen Albert Sr. the revolutionary war hero is not related IN ANY WAY with the N.C. ALBRIGHT line, nor the OHIO line. He is buried in Giles county VA, and is my direct family (my grandmother was an Albert. I spent my years in that area and have a complete history of my family.
The line is as follows ( Jacob Frederick Albert m. (family tradition states) Mary Lucas Jacob Frederick Albert II married (family tradition states) Mary Allen. Jacob Allen Albert Sr. married first Eliz. Countz, 2nd Elizabeth Williams (have her lineage as well), their son is The Rev. war hero Jacob Allen Albert and he is buried in Giles County VA. on land that belonged to his 2nd wife. Their son is Jacob Allen Albert Jr. had James (Jamie) Frederick Albert II and he is buried in the Albert Cemetery . Jamie also married an Elizabeth (Betsy) Williams of John Stafford Williams and wife Mary "Polly" Griffith... I can go on and on.
SOURCE FOR BELOW: Log Cabin Heritage by Henry E. Albert p. 40-42
Surname Albert has been in America since 1620 when 3 brothers from Holland came to the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Two of the brothers were killed by Indians soon after their arrival, the remaining brother Johan Albert remained in the Dutch Colony, raising a family that later spead throughout the North East." THERE IS NO DOCUMENTS TYING THESE brothers to the GERMAN ALBERT LINE .
From 1720-1860 there were more than 100 Alberts that migrated to America.
"It is known that several Albert refugees from Germany fled down the Rhine River to Amsterdam Holland. From one of these families came 3 brothers Jacob Frederick, Michael and William.
In 1851 , the William Albert family history was compiled from info given by Abraham Albert of New Oxford Adams County. PA. He stated 3 Albert brothers came to America in the 1st years of the 1700's. Again, these brothers were Jacob Frederick, Michael and William Albert. Abraham Albert stated that William remained in PA. , Michael later moved to Virginia, and Jacob Frederick was somewhere south.
William and Michael migrated around 1710and landed in the port of Philidelphia. Around 1719, they appear on records as "freemen"and living in Lancaster County, PA.
From researching the records that are now available , it appears that the statement of Abraham is essentially correct. Also records and family legend indicate the German Alberts (pronouced ALLBERT) came from the Rhine Palatinate, where several families had lived in the Lauterecken valley. During the latter part of the 17th century , this area was prodestant and ruled buy the German court. About 1690-95, the Franks living to the south pushed north and seised control of the Rhine Palatinate, reimposing Catholicism upon the people. During the occupation, migrtation of the Germans was forbidden by the Franks. In spite of this, a large number of Rhinelanders did find a way to flee to the Nertherlands, England, Northern Germany, and other receptive countires.
Jacob Frederick Albert was the first to come to America and arrived in June 1709. He was aboard an English ship which landed in the Carolina Colony of Albemarle Sound. It appears he was indentured for a period of about 5 years to repay his passage. From colonial records & census we know he was known as a freeholder anddid own some Negro slaves. This is further indicated by the names of the slaves. They were givne surnames of first owners in those days. from 1850 census we note about 15 free Negros with the surname Albert, indicating they were set free.
Jacob Frederick was the eldest of the 3 brothers and he settled in Pasquotank County, N.C. The records become incomplete as the courthouse was burned in 1862, resulting in early marriages bonds, indentured, and slave ownership records being lost.
SOURCE FOR BELOW: Log Cabin Heritage by Henry E. Albert p. 40-42
Surname Albert has been in America since 1620 when 3 brothers from Holland came to the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Two of the brothers were killed by Indians soon after their arrival, the remaining brother Johan Albert remained in the Dutch Colony, raising a family that later spead throughout the North East." THERE IS NO DOCUMENTS TYING THESE brothers to the GERMAN ALBERT LINE .
From 1720-1860 there were more than 100 Alberts that migrated to America.
"It is known that several Albert refugees from Germany fled down the Rhine River to Amsterdam Holland. From one of these families came 3 brothers Jacob Frederick, Michael and William.
In 1851 , the William Albert family history was compiled from info given by Abraham Albert of New Oxford Adams County. PA. He stated 3 Albert brothers came to America in the 1st years of the 1700's. Again, these brothers were Jacob Frederick, Michael and William Albert. Abraham Albert stated that William remained in PA. , Michael later moved to Virginia, and Jacob Frederick was somewhere south.
William and Michael migrated around 1710and landed in the port of Philidelphia. Around 1719, they appear on records as "freemen"and living in Lancaster County, PA.
From researching the records that are now available , it appears that the statement of Abraham is essentially correct. Also records and family legend indicate the German Alberts (pronouced ALLBERT) came from the Rhine Palatinate, where several families had lived in the Lauterecken valley. During the latter part of the 17th century , this area was prodestant and ruled buy the German court. About 1690-95, the Franks living to the south pushed north and seised control of the Rhine Palatinate, reimposing Catholicism upon the people. During the occupation, migrtation of the Germans was forbidden by the Franks. In spite of this, a large number of Rhinelanders did find a way to flee to the Nertherlands, England, Northern Germany, and other receptive countires.
Jacob Frederick Albert was the first to come to America and arrived in June 1709. He was aboard an English ship which landed in the Carolina Colony of Albemarle Sound. It appears he was indentured for a period of about 5 years to repay his passage. From colonial records & census we know he was known as a freeholder anddid own some Negro slaves. This is further indicated by the names of the slaves. They were givne surnames of first owners in those days. from 1850 census we note about 15 free Negros with the surname Albert, indicating they were set free.
Jacob Frederick was the eldest of the 3 brothers and he settled in Pasquotank County, N.C. The records become incomplete as the courthouse was burned in 1862, resulting in early marriages bonds, indentured, and slave ownership records being lost.
Jacob Frederick's wife is unknown but family tradition passed down suggestes she was a LUCAS. Their only known issue were Jacob Frederick Albert Jr., Mary Albert and Joshua Albert.
Joshua stayed in North and South Carolina, while Mary and Jacob Jr. moved to Surry County, N.C. the to Augusta County Virginia.
Jacob Frederick Jr was named on a jury in Pasquotank County. N.c but soon thereafter he went to Virginia (about 1767)
Jacob lived in a cabin at the base of Butts mt.
Sources 1.BB Albert AlbertFam History revised 1962 and 2.Log Cabin Heritage by Henry Albert p 43-47
3.Links With the Past, A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Albert and Related Families by Ethel Evans Albert p233
1850 census residence Giles Co. VA.
LOG CABIN HERITAGE, page 43: "Elizabeth died at age 21 years, 129 days
Generation No. 1
1. Jacob Frederick1 Albert, Sr. Per family history He married Mary Lucas.
Child of Jacob Albert and _Mary Lucas is:
+ 2 i. Jacob Frederick Albert, ..
Generation No. 2
2. Jacob Frederick2 Albert, II (Jacob Frederick 1) He married Mary Allen.
Child of Jacob Frederick Albert II and Mary Allen is:
3 i. Jacob Allen Albert, Sr., born 12 Jun 1757 in Pasquotank, North Carolina; died Abt. 1856 in Giles County, Virginia. He married (1) Elizabeth Countz 22 Apr 1783 in Augusta Co., Virginia; born 1765 in Augusta County, Virginia; died 1786 in Montgomery Co., Virginia. He married (2) Elizabeth Ann Williams 04 Oct 1789 in Montgomery Co., Va.; born 1771 in Virginia; died 22 Sep 1831 in Giles County, Virginia.
Notes for Jacob Allen Albert, Sr.:
Jacob Allen Albert son of Jacob Frederick and Mary Allen Albert was born in Pasquotank N.C. in 1757.
Jacob A. Albert enlisted as a pvt. on December 24, 1776 in the 12th Virginia Regt. under Captain Thomas Bowyer and served under Capt. Bowyer's command while the unit was in the state militia. The regiment was transferred to the Continental Army in April 1777. Col. James Wood commanded the Regt. from August 1777 until February 1778. Jacob Albert served in Capt. Jonathan Langdon's Company until Langdon became a casualty in December 1777. The company was then commanded by Capt. Benjamin Casey.
Jacob's pay as a pvt. was two pounds or about $6.66 per month. He was assigned as a scout in the German speaking area of Pa. for ten weeks in the summer of 1777. He was in the Battle of Brandywine Creek on September 11, 1777 and Germantown October 4, 1777 and in Washington's evacuation of Philadelphia. The winter of 1777-1778 was severe , He was with General Washington at their winter quarters in Valley Forge. He was a casualty from malnutrition and had frozen hands and feet from that stay.. The hospital from which he was discharged on February 20, 1778 was a horse stable at Valley Forge. He received $4.00 severance pay and crippled and ill, he left to return to southwest Virginia. Although eligible for a pension and 100 acres of bounty land, records do not indicate he received either.
Records in Ohio indicate that bounty warrant #8887 for one hundred acres, located on the confluence of Mills Creek with the Muskingum River near present day Coshocton, Ohio, was issued to a Jacob Albert from Virginia.
Jacob Albert married Elizabeth Countz, daughter of George Countz of Agusta County, Virginia on April 22, 1783. Jacob and Elizabeth Countz Albert had at least one child, Jennie, born about 1784.
Elizabeth Countz Albert died in 1786 at age 21 and is buried in the Harless Cemetery on Toms Creek in Montgomery County, Virginia.
On October 4, 1789, Jacob Allen Albert married (2) Elizabeth Williams, daughter of George and Margaretha Harless Williams. Jacob and Elizabeth Williams Albert had At least seven children: Margaret born about 1791, Mary born 1794, George born about 1796, Jacob Allen, Jr. born June 12, 1799, John born about 1802, James Frederick born 1806, and Wilson born about 1800.
Jacob A. Albert lived his last years with his son James, then his daughter Margaret and her husband John Pleasant Webb, Crippled from frostbite ant Valley Forge,, he used a mule to get around. He was riding a mule near Mountain Lake in Giles County when a storm came up. He took shelter under an overhanging rock, when found the next morning he was sitting upright under the rock, his mule tied to a tree nearby. He apparently died of a heart attack at age 99. Tradition says he and his second wife are buried in a cemetery between Hoges Chapel and Mt. Lake in what is now Doe Mt. Farm in Giles County, there is a DAR memorial there.
Sources: LOG CABIN HERITAGE
DAR Patriot Index :
ALBERT, JACOB: b. c. 1757 N.C. d. p. 1850 Va. M (1) Elizabeth Countz (2) Elizabeth Williams; Pvt. Virginia
Notes for Elizabeth Countz:
LOG CABIN HERITAGE, page 43: "Elizabeth died at age 21 years, 129 days."
The line is as follows ( Jacob Frederick Albert m. (family tradition states) Mary Lucas Jacob Frederick Albert II married (family tradition states) Mary Allen. Jacob Allen Albert Sr. married first Eliz. Countz, 2nd Elizabeth Williams (have her lineage as well), their son is The Rev. war hero Jacob Allen Albert and he is buried in Giles County VA. on land that belonged to his 2nd wife. Their son is Jacob Allen Albert Jr. had James (Jamie) Frederick Albert II and he is buried in the Albert Cemetery . Jamie also married an Elizabeth (Betsy) Williams of John Stafford Williams and wife Mary "Polly" Griffith... I can go on and on.
SOURCE FOR BELOW: Log Cabin Heritage by Henry E. Albert p. 40-42
Surname Albert has been in America since 1620 when 3 brothers from Holland came to the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Two of the brothers were killed by Indians soon after their arrival, the remaining brother Johan Albert remained in the Dutch Colony, raising a family that later spead throughout the North East." THERE IS NO DOCUMENTS TYING THESE brothers to the GERMAN ALBERT LINE .
From 1720-1860 there were more than 100 Alberts that migrated to America.
"It is known that several Albert refugees from Germany fled down the Rhine River to Amsterdam Holland. From one of these families came 3 brothers Jacob Frederick, Michael and William.
In 1851 , the William Albert family history was compiled from info given by Abraham Albert of New Oxford Adams County. PA. He stated 3 Albert brothers came to America in the 1st years of the 1700's. Again, these brothers were Jacob Frederick, Michael and William Albert. Abraham Albert stated that William remained in PA. , Michael later moved to Virginia, and Jacob Frederick was somewhere south.
William and Michael migrated around 1710and landed in the port of Philidelphia. Around 1719, they appear on records as "freemen"and living in Lancaster County, PA.
From researching the records that are now available , it appears that the statement of Abraham is essentially correct. Also records and family legend indicate the German Alberts (pronouced ALLBERT) came from the Rhine Palatinate, where several families had lived in the Lauterecken valley. During the latter part of the 17th century , this area was prodestant and ruled buy the German court. About 1690-95, the Franks living to the south pushed north and seised control of the Rhine Palatinate, reimposing Catholicism upon the people. During the occupation, migrtation of the Germans was forbidden by the Franks. In spite of this, a large number of Rhinelanders did find a way to flee to the Nertherlands, England, Northern Germany, and other receptive countires.
Jacob Frederick Albert was the first to come to America and arrived in June 1709. He was aboard an English ship which landed in the Carolina Colony of Albemarle Sound. It appears he was indentured for a period of about 5 years to repay his passage. From colonial records & census we know he was known as a freeholder anddid own some Negro slaves. This is further indicated by the names of the slaves. They were givne surnames of first owners in those days. from 1850 census we note about 15 free Negros with the surname Albert, indicating they were set free.
Jacob Frederick was the eldest of the 3 brothers and he settled in Pasquotank County, N.C. The records become incomplete as the courthouse was burned in 1862, resulting in early marriages bonds, indentured, and slave ownership records being lost.
SOURCE FOR BELOW: Log Cabin Heritage by Henry E. Albert p. 40-42
Surname Albert has been in America since 1620 when 3 brothers from Holland came to the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. Two of the brothers were killed by Indians soon after their arrival, the remaining brother Johan Albert remained in the Dutch Colony, raising a family that later spead throughout the North East." THERE IS NO DOCUMENTS TYING THESE brothers to the GERMAN ALBERT LINE .
From 1720-1860 there were more than 100 Alberts that migrated to America.
"It is known that several Albert refugees from Germany fled down the Rhine River to Amsterdam Holland. From one of these families came 3 brothers Jacob Frederick, Michael and William.
In 1851 , the William Albert family history was compiled from info given by Abraham Albert of New Oxford Adams County. PA. He stated 3 Albert brothers came to America in the 1st years of the 1700's. Again, these brothers were Jacob Frederick, Michael and William Albert. Abraham Albert stated that William remained in PA. , Michael later moved to Virginia, and Jacob Frederick was somewhere south.
William and Michael migrated around 1710and landed in the port of Philidelphia. Around 1719, they appear on records as "freemen"and living in Lancaster County, PA.
From researching the records that are now available , it appears that the statement of Abraham is essentially correct. Also records and family legend indicate the German Alberts (pronouced ALLBERT) came from the Rhine Palatinate, where several families had lived in the Lauterecken valley. During the latter part of the 17th century , this area was prodestant and ruled buy the German court. About 1690-95, the Franks living to the south pushed north and seised control of the Rhine Palatinate, reimposing Catholicism upon the people. During the occupation, migrtation of the Germans was forbidden by the Franks. In spite of this, a large number of Rhinelanders did find a way to flee to the Nertherlands, England, Northern Germany, and other receptive countires.
Jacob Frederick Albert was the first to come to America and arrived in June 1709. He was aboard an English ship which landed in the Carolina Colony of Albemarle Sound. It appears he was indentured for a period of about 5 years to repay his passage. From colonial records & census we know he was known as a freeholder anddid own some Negro slaves. This is further indicated by the names of the slaves. They were givne surnames of first owners in those days. from 1850 census we note about 15 free Negros with the surname Albert, indicating they were set free.
Jacob Frederick was the eldest of the 3 brothers and he settled in Pasquotank County, N.C. The records become incomplete as the courthouse was burned in 1862, resulting in early marriages bonds, indentured, and slave ownership records being lost.
Jacob Frederick's wife is unknown but family tradition passed down suggestes she was a LUCAS. Their only known issue were Jacob Frederick Albert Jr., Mary Albert and Joshua Albert.
Joshua stayed in North and South Carolina, while Mary and Jacob Jr. moved to Surry County, N.C. the to Augusta County Virginia.
Jacob Frederick Jr was named on a jury in Pasquotank County. N.c but soon thereafter he went to Virginia (about 1767)
Jacob lived in a cabin at the base of Butts mt.
Sources 1.BB Albert AlbertFam History revised 1962 and 2.Log Cabin Heritage by Henry Albert p 43-47
3.Links With the Past, A Genealogical and Historical Account of the Albert and Related Families by Ethel Evans Albert p233
1850 census residence Giles Co. VA.
LOG CABIN HERITAGE, page 43: "Elizabeth died at age 21 years, 129 days
Generation No. 1
1. Jacob Frederick1 Albert, Sr. Per family history He married Mary Lucas.
Child of Jacob Albert and _Mary Lucas is:
+ 2 i. Jacob Frederick Albert, ..
Generation No. 2
2. Jacob Frederick2 Albert, II (Jacob Frederick 1) He married Mary Allen.
Child of Jacob Frederick Albert II and Mary Allen is:
3 i. Jacob Allen Albert, Sr., born 12 Jun 1757 in Pasquotank, North Carolina; died Abt. 1856 in Giles County, Virginia. He married (1) Elizabeth Countz 22 Apr 1783 in Augusta Co., Virginia; born 1765 in Augusta County, Virginia; died 1786 in Montgomery Co., Virginia. He married (2) Elizabeth Ann Williams 04 Oct 1789 in Montgomery Co., Va.; born 1771 in Virginia; died 22 Sep 1831 in Giles County, Virginia.
Notes for Jacob Allen Albert, Sr.:
Jacob Allen Albert son of Jacob Frederick and Mary Allen Albert was born in Pasquotank N.C. in 1757.
Jacob A. Albert enlisted as a pvt. on December 24, 1776 in the 12th Virginia Regt. under Captain Thomas Bowyer and served under Capt. Bowyer's command while the unit was in the state militia. The regiment was transferred to the Continental Army in April 1777. Col. James Wood commanded the Regt. from August 1777 until February 1778. Jacob Albert served in Capt. Jonathan Langdon's Company until Langdon became a casualty in December 1777. The company was then commanded by Capt. Benjamin Casey.
Jacob's pay as a pvt. was two pounds or about $6.66 per month. He was assigned as a scout in the German speaking area of Pa. for ten weeks in the summer of 1777. He was in the Battle of Brandywine Creek on September 11, 1777 and Germantown October 4, 1777 and in Washington's evacuation of Philadelphia. The winter of 1777-1778 was severe , He was with General Washington at their winter quarters in Valley Forge. He was a casualty from malnutrition and had frozen hands and feet from that stay.. The hospital from which he was discharged on February 20, 1778 was a horse stable at Valley Forge. He received $4.00 severance pay and crippled and ill, he left to return to southwest Virginia. Although eligible for a pension and 100 acres of bounty land, records do not indicate he received either.
Records in Ohio indicate that bounty warrant #8887 for one hundred acres, located on the confluence of Mills Creek with the Muskingum River near present day Coshocton, Ohio, was issued to a Jacob Albert from Virginia.
Jacob Albert married Elizabeth Countz, daughter of George Countz of Agusta County, Virginia on April 22, 1783. Jacob and Elizabeth Countz Albert had at least one child, Jennie, born about 1784.
Elizabeth Countz Albert died in 1786 at age 21 and is buried in the Harless Cemetery on Toms Creek in Montgomery County, Virginia.
On October 4, 1789, Jacob Allen Albert married (2) Elizabeth Williams, daughter of George and Margaretha Harless Williams. Jacob and Elizabeth Williams Albert had At least seven children: Margaret born about 1791, Mary born 1794, George born about 1796, Jacob Allen, Jr. born June 12, 1799, John born about 1802, James Frederick born 1806, and Wilson born about 1800.
Jacob A. Albert lived his last years with his son James, then his daughter Margaret and her husband John Pleasant Webb, Crippled from frostbite ant Valley Forge,, he used a mule to get around. He was riding a mule near Mountain Lake in Giles County when a storm came up. He took shelter under an overhanging rock, when found the next morning he was sitting upright under the rock, his mule tied to a tree nearby. He apparently died of a heart attack at age 99. Tradition says he and his second wife are buried in a cemetery between Hoges Chapel and Mt. Lake in what is now Doe Mt. Farm in Giles County, there is a DAR memorial there.
Sources: LOG CABIN HERITAGE
DAR Patriot Index :
ALBERT, JACOB: b. c. 1757 N.C. d. p. 1850 Va. M (1) Elizabeth Countz (2) Elizabeth Williams; Pvt. Virginia
Notes for Elizabeth Countz:
LOG CABIN HERITAGE, page 43: "Elizabeth died at age 21 years, 129 days."
