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Hans Joggi “Jacob” Ifert

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Hans Joggi “Jacob” Ifert

Birth
Rümlingen, Bezirk Sissach, Basel-Landschaft, Switzerland
Death
1814 (aged 75–76)
Cabarrus County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Oakboro, Stanly County, North Carolina, USA Add to Map
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Hans Joggi "Jacob" Ifert was born in January in 1738 in Rümlingen, Baselland, Switzerland and was Baptized in the Kirche Saint Georg in Rümlingen on 5 January 1738. His parents were Matthias Ifert and Barbara "Barbel" Bürgin. His siblings were Elsbeth Ifert, who died before she was a day old, Elsbeth Ifert, who also died young, Matthias Ifert, and Martin A Ifert, who was known later as Martin Eaford. Hans Joggi married Maria Schaffner on the 1st September 1760 in the Kirche Saint Margaretha in Frenkendorf, Baselland, Switzerland. She was born in May 1728 in Anwil in Baselland and Baptized in the Kirche Saint Niklaus in Oltingen in Baselland on 15 May 1728. Her parents were Jakob Schaffner, who was a Schulemeister (School Master) and a Bailiff, and Barbara Gysin. According to the Birth Records of all of his children who had been born in Switzerland, Hans Joggi had been a Schulmeister by Profession for about ten years in Rünenburg, Baselland, Switzerland before the Ifert family came to America. He may have been a teacher or possibly a farmer when he lived in Berks County in Pennsylvania and Meckelnburg/Cabarrus County in North Carolina. Hans Joggi and Maria had five children in Switzerland, Anna Ifert, Ursula Ifert, Hans Jacob Ifert, who died when he was only three months old, Maria Ifert, and Verena Ifert. Anna, Maria, and Verena were their only children who survived to emigrate with the family when they came to America in 1771 with Hans Joggi's brother Martin and his wife Anna Furler. The family arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the Ship Tyger on 19 November 1771. Two more children were born to Hans Joggi and Maria in Berks County, Pennsylvania shortly after they arrived in America. Their names were Hans Jacob Ifert, later known as "Jacob Efird", and Barbara Ifert, later known as "Barbara Efird". The family stayed in Berks County for about twelve years. By this time Hans Joggi was calling himself by the name of "Jacob" and Maria was going by the name of "Mary". There is a record for a "Jacob Efright" who served in the Revolutionary War in the 3rd Pennsylvania Continental Line. He enlisted as a Private in January 1777 and left his service with the rank of Sergeant on 18 April 1782. In 1783 Jacob and Mary Ifert took their family and traveled down the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Jacob received a land grant for land on Adams Creek on 9 October 1783. His name was listed as "Jacob Iffert" on the grant documents. In 1785 Jacob Effert and Mary Effort sold part of their land on Adams Creek to Isaac Blackwelder. They are present in the 1790 Census for Mecklenburg County. Jacob is in the 1800 and 1810 Census records for Cabarrus County, living with his son Jacob Ifert "Efird" and his family. Jacob's name is also on various land purchases and sales, and petitions, until his death. Judging from data on Census records Mary died between 1790 and 1800 in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Jacob probably died in about 1814, also in Cabarrus County. Hans Joggi "Jacob" Ifert and Maria "Mary" Schaffner were the Original Immigrants of the Efird family in Stanly County, North Carolina. They are said to have been buried in the Efird Family Cemetery in Oakboro, Stanly County, North Carolina.

Children of Hans Joggi "Jacob" Ifert and Maria "Mary" Schaffner - - Anna Ifert - born in December 1761 in Rünenburg, Baselland, Switzerland. She came to America with her family in 1771 and traveled, also with her family, to North Carolina in 1783. She married Heinrich "Henry" Linker in about 1784 in the old Dutch Buffalo Creek Meeting House in Concord, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. She died in Mecklenburg County in about 1789. Her younger sister Barbara married her husband Henry after her death. - Ursula Ifert - born in October 1764 in Rünenburg, Baselland, Switzerland and died in June 1771 in Rünenberg. She was buried in the cemetery of the Kirche Saint Martin in Kilchberg in Baselland. - Hans Jacob Ifert - born in August 1766 in Rünenburg, Baselland, Switzerland and died in November 1766 at the age of three months, in Rünenburg. He was buried in the cemetery of the Kirche Saint Martin in Kilchburg, Baselland, Switzerland. - Maria Ifert - born in October 1767 in Rünenburg, Baselland, Switzerland. She came to America with her family in 1771 and traveled, also with her family, to North Carolina in 1783. She married Jacob Bleiler/Plyler in 1785 in the old Dutch Buffalo Creek Meeting House in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. She died in 1848 in Lancaster County, South Carolina. - Verena Ifert - born in January 1770 in Rünenburg, Baselland, Switzerland. She was on the Emigration record with her family in 1771 but no information has been found about her after that. She may have died on the ship on the voyage between Europe and America, or possibly in Pennsylvania or North Carolina. - Jacob Ifert "Efird" - born in about 1772 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He died in late 1844 in Stanly County, North Carolina. He married Elizabeth Taub "Dove" in about 1792 in the Old Dutch Buffalo Creek Meeting House in Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina. She was born in 1769 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and died between 1844 and 1850 in Stanly County, North Carolina. Her parents were Johann Georg Taub and Maria Christina Stier. Jacob and Elizabeth are both buried in the Efird Family Cemetery in Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina. - Barbara Ifert "Efird" - born in 1774 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. She died in about 1825 in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. She married her older sister Anna's widowed husband Heinrich "Henry" Linker in about 1794 in the Old Dutch Buffalo Creek Meeting House in Concord in Cabarrus County. Henry was a Hessian soldier who had stayed behind in Mecklenburg County after the Revolutionary War. He was born in about 1750 in Erksdorf, Hesse Kassel, Germany, and died in 1824 in Cabarrus County. His parents were Engelhardt Linker and Elisabeth Amrehn. The burial places of Barbara and Henry are not known, except that they are probably in Cabarrus County.

Sources
"History and Genealogy of the Efird Family" by Judge Oscar Ogburn Efird
Kirchenbuch Rümlingen 2, Stadtsarchive, Basel, Switzerland.
Kirchenbuch Kilchburg 2, Stadtsarchive, Basel, Switzerland.
Kirchenbuch Oltingen 1, Stadtsarchive, Basel, Switzerland.
Kirchenbuch Frenkendorf 2, Stadtsarchive, Basel, Switzerland.
Auswanderung B5, Stadtsarchive, Basel, Switzerland.
"Lists of Swiss Immigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies" by Albert Bernard Faust Ph.D and Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh M.D.
FEEFS - The Federation of East European Family History Societies. https://feefhs.org/index.php/resource/germany-palatine-index-ijk
"Palatine Index; A surname Index of Eighteenth Century Immigrants" by Charles M Hall.
H. Frank Eshleman. Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and of Their Remote Ancestors, From the Middle of the Dark Ages, Down to the Time of the Revolutionary War. Lancaster, PA, USA: 1917.
Filby, P. William, ed. "Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900". Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA.Gale Research 2012.
Rupp, I. Daniel. A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727-1776 : with a statement of the names of ships, whence they sailed, and the date of their arrival at Philadelphia, chronologically arranged, together with the necessary historical and other notes, also, an appendix containing lists of more than one thousand German and French names in New York prior to 1712. Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart, 1927 c1898.
"Pennsylvania German Pioneers, A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727-1808" by Ralph Beaver Strassburger and William John Hinke.
"Names of foreigners who took the oath of allegiance to the province and state of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, with the foreign arrivals, 1786-1808. Edited by William Henry Egle, M.D.
Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M881, 1096 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, RG9; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Revolutionary War Battalions and Militia Index Cards, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Piladelphia, Pennsylvania.
"Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, Battalions and Line. 1175-1783 (1880)" by John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, and Joseph McClellan.
First Census of the United States, 1790 (NARA microfilm publication M637 (12 Rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC.
Second Census of the United States, 1800. NARA microfilm publication M32 (52 Rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC.
Third Census of the United States, 1810. NARA microfilm publication M252 (71 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives, Washington, DC.
North Carolina Land Grants, microfilm publication 770 Rolls. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Tax and Exoneration Lists, 1762-1794. Series No. 4.61; Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4. Pennnsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
"Residents of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1762-1790" by Kathaleen Marler.
"Families of Cabarrus County, North Carolina, 1792-1815" by Kathleen Marler.
Hans Joggi "Jacob" Ifert was born in January in 1738 in Rümlingen, Baselland, Switzerland and was Baptized in the Kirche Saint Georg in Rümlingen on 5 January 1738. His parents were Matthias Ifert and Barbara "Barbel" Bürgin. His siblings were Elsbeth Ifert, who died before she was a day old, Elsbeth Ifert, who also died young, Matthias Ifert, and Martin A Ifert, who was known later as Martin Eaford. Hans Joggi married Maria Schaffner on the 1st September 1760 in the Kirche Saint Margaretha in Frenkendorf, Baselland, Switzerland. She was born in May 1728 in Anwil in Baselland and Baptized in the Kirche Saint Niklaus in Oltingen in Baselland on 15 May 1728. Her parents were Jakob Schaffner, who was a Schulemeister (School Master) and a Bailiff, and Barbara Gysin. According to the Birth Records of all of his children who had been born in Switzerland, Hans Joggi had been a Schulmeister by Profession for about ten years in Rünenburg, Baselland, Switzerland before the Ifert family came to America. He may have been a teacher or possibly a farmer when he lived in Berks County in Pennsylvania and Meckelnburg/Cabarrus County in North Carolina. Hans Joggi and Maria had five children in Switzerland, Anna Ifert, Ursula Ifert, Hans Jacob Ifert, who died when he was only three months old, Maria Ifert, and Verena Ifert. Anna, Maria, and Verena were their only children who survived to emigrate with the family when they came to America in 1771 with Hans Joggi's brother Martin and his wife Anna Furler. The family arrived in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on the Ship Tyger on 19 November 1771. Two more children were born to Hans Joggi and Maria in Berks County, Pennsylvania shortly after they arrived in America. Their names were Hans Jacob Ifert, later known as "Jacob Efird", and Barbara Ifert, later known as "Barbara Efird". The family stayed in Berks County for about twelve years. By this time Hans Joggi was calling himself by the name of "Jacob" and Maria was going by the name of "Mary". There is a record for a "Jacob Efright" who served in the Revolutionary War in the 3rd Pennsylvania Continental Line. He enlisted as a Private in January 1777 and left his service with the rank of Sergeant on 18 April 1782. In 1783 Jacob and Mary Ifert took their family and traveled down the Great Philadelphia Wagon Road to Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. Jacob received a land grant for land on Adams Creek on 9 October 1783. His name was listed as "Jacob Iffert" on the grant documents. In 1785 Jacob Effert and Mary Effort sold part of their land on Adams Creek to Isaac Blackwelder. They are present in the 1790 Census for Mecklenburg County. Jacob is in the 1800 and 1810 Census records for Cabarrus County, living with his son Jacob Ifert "Efird" and his family. Jacob's name is also on various land purchases and sales, and petitions, until his death. Judging from data on Census records Mary died between 1790 and 1800 in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. Jacob probably died in about 1814, also in Cabarrus County. Hans Joggi "Jacob" Ifert and Maria "Mary" Schaffner were the Original Immigrants of the Efird family in Stanly County, North Carolina. They are said to have been buried in the Efird Family Cemetery in Oakboro, Stanly County, North Carolina.

Children of Hans Joggi "Jacob" Ifert and Maria "Mary" Schaffner - - Anna Ifert - born in December 1761 in Rünenburg, Baselland, Switzerland. She came to America with her family in 1771 and traveled, also with her family, to North Carolina in 1783. She married Heinrich "Henry" Linker in about 1784 in the old Dutch Buffalo Creek Meeting House in Concord, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. She died in Mecklenburg County in about 1789. Her younger sister Barbara married her husband Henry after her death. - Ursula Ifert - born in October 1764 in Rünenburg, Baselland, Switzerland and died in June 1771 in Rünenberg. She was buried in the cemetery of the Kirche Saint Martin in Kilchberg in Baselland. - Hans Jacob Ifert - born in August 1766 in Rünenburg, Baselland, Switzerland and died in November 1766 at the age of three months, in Rünenburg. He was buried in the cemetery of the Kirche Saint Martin in Kilchburg, Baselland, Switzerland. - Maria Ifert - born in October 1767 in Rünenburg, Baselland, Switzerland. She came to America with her family in 1771 and traveled, also with her family, to North Carolina in 1783. She married Jacob Bleiler/Plyler in 1785 in the old Dutch Buffalo Creek Meeting House in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. She died in 1848 in Lancaster County, South Carolina. - Verena Ifert - born in January 1770 in Rünenburg, Baselland, Switzerland. She was on the Emigration record with her family in 1771 but no information has been found about her after that. She may have died on the ship on the voyage between Europe and America, or possibly in Pennsylvania or North Carolina. - Jacob Ifert "Efird" - born in about 1772 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. He died in late 1844 in Stanly County, North Carolina. He married Elizabeth Taub "Dove" in about 1792 in the Old Dutch Buffalo Creek Meeting House in Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina. She was born in 1769 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and died between 1844 and 1850 in Stanly County, North Carolina. Her parents were Johann Georg Taub and Maria Christina Stier. Jacob and Elizabeth are both buried in the Efird Family Cemetery in Albemarle, Stanly County, North Carolina. - Barbara Ifert "Efird" - born in 1774 in Berks County, Pennsylvania. She died in about 1825 in Cabarrus County, North Carolina. She married her older sister Anna's widowed husband Heinrich "Henry" Linker in about 1794 in the Old Dutch Buffalo Creek Meeting House in Concord in Cabarrus County. Henry was a Hessian soldier who had stayed behind in Mecklenburg County after the Revolutionary War. He was born in about 1750 in Erksdorf, Hesse Kassel, Germany, and died in 1824 in Cabarrus County. His parents were Engelhardt Linker and Elisabeth Amrehn. The burial places of Barbara and Henry are not known, except that they are probably in Cabarrus County.

Sources
"History and Genealogy of the Efird Family" by Judge Oscar Ogburn Efird
Kirchenbuch Rümlingen 2, Stadtsarchive, Basel, Switzerland.
Kirchenbuch Kilchburg 2, Stadtsarchive, Basel, Switzerland.
Kirchenbuch Oltingen 1, Stadtsarchive, Basel, Switzerland.
Kirchenbuch Frenkendorf 2, Stadtsarchive, Basel, Switzerland.
Auswanderung B5, Stadtsarchive, Basel, Switzerland.
"Lists of Swiss Immigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies" by Albert Bernard Faust Ph.D and Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh M.D.
FEEFS - The Federation of East European Family History Societies. https://feefhs.org/index.php/resource/germany-palatine-index-ijk
"Palatine Index; A surname Index of Eighteenth Century Immigrants" by Charles M Hall.
H. Frank Eshleman. Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and of Their Remote Ancestors, From the Middle of the Dark Ages, Down to the Time of the Revolutionary War. Lancaster, PA, USA: 1917.
Filby, P. William, ed. "Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900". Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA.Gale Research 2012.
Rupp, I. Daniel. A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727-1776 : with a statement of the names of ships, whence they sailed, and the date of their arrival at Philadelphia, chronologically arranged, together with the necessary historical and other notes, also, an appendix containing lists of more than one thousand German and French names in New York prior to 1712. Philadelphia: Leary, Stuart, 1927 c1898.
"Pennsylvania German Pioneers, A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727-1808" by Ralph Beaver Strassburger and William John Hinke.
"Names of foreigners who took the oath of allegiance to the province and state of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, with the foreign arrivals, 1786-1808. Edited by William Henry Egle, M.D.
Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War; (National Archives Microfilm Publication M881, 1096 rolls); War Department Collection of Revolutionary War Records, RG9; National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Revolutionary War Battalions and Militia Index Cards, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Piladelphia, Pennsylvania.
"Pennsylvania in the War of the Revolution, Battalions and Line. 1175-1783 (1880)" by John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, and Joseph McClellan.
First Census of the United States, 1790 (NARA microfilm publication M637 (12 Rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC.
Second Census of the United States, 1800. NARA microfilm publication M32 (52 Rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29. National Archives, Washington, DC.
Third Census of the United States, 1810. NARA microfilm publication M252 (71 rolls). Records of the Bureau of the Census, Record Group 29, National Archives, Washington, DC.
North Carolina Land Grants, microfilm publication 770 Rolls. North Carolina State Archives, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Tax and Exoneration Lists, 1762-1794. Series No. 4.61; Records of the Office of the Comptroller General, RG-4. Pennnsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
"Residents of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1762-1790" by Kathaleen Marler.
"Families of Cabarrus County, North Carolina, 1792-1815" by Kathleen Marler.


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