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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Private / Patriotic Service
Birth: 25 Dec 1757 / Berks / PA Death: 27 Jul 1844 Orwigsburg / Schuylkill / PA
Qualifying Service Description:
Took Oath of Allegiance in 1778
Captain Ladich, Colonel Samuel Ely, Berks County, Militia, 1 October 1781
Paid Supply Tax at Bern Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 1780 and 1781
Additional References:
Published Pennsylvania Archives
Series 3, Volume 18, pg 319, 447
Series 5
Vol 4, pg 258
Volume 5, pg 280
Persons who Took the Oath of Allegience in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Collection of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania: Volume 268, pg 140, FHL Roll# 20824
Spouse: Elizabeth Kieffer Children: Jacob; Daniel; Abraham; Susannah; Maria; Elizabeth;
Jacob Faust was born December 25, 1757, at Langenselbold, Hesse, Germany, and died July 27, 1834. He was the son of Phillip Lebs Faust and Magdalena Albrecht who immigrated to Berks County, Pennsylvania, from Germanic principality of Hesse.
He was a private in Captain Ladich’s Company, Colonel Samuel Ely’s Regiment of the Berks County, Militia, 1 October 1781. He took the Oath of Allegiance in 1778. He also paid the Supply Tax at Bern Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania, in 1780 and 1781.
A biographer for the Faust family noted that Captain Ladich’s Company was also known as the Frontier Rangers. According to that biographer, the Ranger Company roamed along the western edges of the colony to dissuade both Native Americans and British troops from threatening the isolated settlements in the area
In 1782, while in the militia, Jacob Faust married Elizabeth Kieffer. They were the parents of fourteen children, seven sons and seven daughters. After his marriage, he purchased 300 acres of land at Brunswick Township. He built a large two-story red brick and quarried native stone house that is still an occupied residence as of the date of this writing. Nearby, he built a grist mill that has since been turned into a house and remains occupied as of the present.
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