Jacob Christlieb (Crislop), son of Frederich Carl and Anna Catherina Christlieb was born in the German Rhineland in 1749. Jacob was sixteen years old when the family departed the Bad Durkheim area of Germany for America in late spring or early summer, 1765.Jacob spent eight years of indentured servitude in Maryland after his family arrived in America.  Very little is known about Jacob's and his brother Carl's military service. Jacob’s name appears on a list of 27 men who served in the Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Militia, Seventh Class of “B” Battalion. Jacob appears as Jacob Crislop. His residency at the time was in Allen Township. Jacob served in 4th Co., 3rd Battn., Cumberland County, PA Militia, 1777-1782. Under Capt. John Lamb of East Pennsborough Township, Cumberland County PA. This company marched to Philadelphia when it was in possession of the British. While still under obligation to service in the Revolutionary War, Jacob married Anna “Nancy” Singer in 1779. The couple resided in Cumberland County until around 1785, which was shortly after the Revolutionary War came to a close.  Like his father who yearned for a better life in the New World, Jacob looked to the frontier of northwestern Virginia, where he sought a better life for himself and his family. When Jacob departed Cumberland County via the Great Wagon Road for the frontier, he would have been about 35 years of age with four very small children; The first evidence of his residency in Virginia was found in the 1787 tax roll for Berkeley County. Listed as Jacob Crisslip,. Four years after Jacob was assessed for taxes in Berkeley County, he appeared on tax rolls in Hampshire County, Virginia. Although it is a matter of record that Jacob paid taxes in Hampshire County in May 1792, he reportedly arrived in Harrison County that same year. Jacob’s trek westward probably terminated at a settlement some twenty miles east of Clarksburg, a place that eventually became Grafton. Jacob and family journeyed twenty miles to the south where he settled in the vicinity of Elk Creek in Harrison County. Seven years later, in 1799, he would acquire 300 acres of land via patent issued from Richmond. Jacob and Nancy’s seven sons and seven daughters were born over a span of 22 years. .Jacob died in April 1821 at the age of 74. He and Nancy are buried in Chrislip Hollow Cemetery near Philippi West Virginia. Jacob’s surname appears in a myriad of spellings-Christlip, Christleb, Chrisleb, Christlib, Chrislib, Crislib, Chrislif, Chrisliff, Crislip, Chrislip Christlieb-his progeny were recorded almost without exception in Harrison County with the spelling, Crislip. After Barbour County was formed in 1843, record keepers in that county favored the spelling, Chrislip.