The following information was assembled from numerous sources and cannot be used directly as proof of Qualifying Service or Lineage.
It is considered a research aid and is intended to assist in locating sources that can be used as proof.
Author: David George Loose, Jr.
Jacob Loos, son of Patriot Jacob Georg Loos (P-238424) was born on 11 Dec 1743 in the Rhenish Palatinate (Hapsburg Empire). His parents and he immigrated to Philadelphia PA arriving 2 October 1753 sailing from Rotterdam on board the ship Edinburg. His parents’ signatures appear on the original immigration list on file in the Division of Public Records, Harrisburg PA. His family settled in Bern Township, Berks County, PA.
He married Magdalena Schneider (30 March 1747-Nov 1824) during May 1769. They had 11 children: Margaret (12 Feb 1769), Jacob, Jr. (22 Aug 1772), Mary Magdalene 25 Sept 1774), Johannes (27 Oct 1776), Johann Georg II (1 Dec 1778), Conrad, Daniel (12 Mar 1784), Joseph, Maria, Jonathan, and Catharine.
Jacob and his father served in Captain George Miller’s Company. The company was organized out of Bern and Heidelberg Township. Jacob was a private and his father was a 1st Sergeant then Ensign. He was assigned the job of making and repairing tents. He participated in the march across New Jersey and fought at the Battle of Long Island, at the Battle Monmouth and then stationed at South Amboy. Thence he followed the fortunes of the Continental Army. He was engaged in the capture of the Hessians at Trenton on December 25, 1776 and in the Battle of Princeton 3 Jan 1777. He was mustered out during July 1781.
After the war he was a trustee of a reformed church congregation when the in 1814 the Salem Belleman’s Church was built in today’s Mohrsville, Bern Township, Berks County, PA. He died 30 Dec 1830 and is buried in the Belleman’s Church Cemetery along with his parents and wife.
Send a biographical sketch of your patriot!
Patriot biographies must be the original work of the author, and work submitted must not belong to another person or group, in observance with copyright law. Patriot biographies are to be written in complete sentences, follow the established rules of grammar, syntax and punctuation, be free of typographical errors, and follow a narrative format. The narrative should unfold in a logical manner (e.g. the narrative does not jump from time period to time period) or have repeated digressions, or tell the history of the patriot's line from the patriot ancestor to the author. The thinking here is that this is a patriot biography, not a lineage report or a kinship determination project or other report published in a genealogy journal. The biography should discuss the qualifying service (military, patriotic, civil) of the patriot ancestor, where the service was rendered, whether this was a specific state or Continental service, as well as significant events (as determined by the author) of the patriot's life. This is the entire purpose of a patriot's biography.
Additional guidelines around the Biography writeup can be found here:
Send your submission1, in a Microsoft Word compatible format, to patriotbios@sar.org for inclusion in this space 1Upon submission of a patriot biography, the patriot biography becomes the property of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and may be edited to conform to the patriot biography submission standards.