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HISTORY or BUCKS COUNTY. 



•county, during the latter part of their 

 lives. Henry lived for a time in Bed- 

 minster, removed thence to Gwynedd, 

 and a year later to Andalusia, Bensaleni 

 township, Bucks county. Leonard lived 

 for lifty years near the Mennonite meet- 

 ing house in Hilltown, and then re- 

 moved to Allentown. 



Peter Jacoby, third son of Conrad 

 and Hannah, was born in Bucks county 

 on New Years day, 1759. He learned 

 the trade of a blacksmith with his fath- 

 er, and probably followed it for a num- 

 ber of years. On June 9, 1792, he pur- 

 chased of his father seventy-one acres 

 of the Durham tract No. -6. He built 

 in 1801 the stone house and later the 

 barn, both of which are still standipg, 

 and later, purchasing other land ad- 

 joining, lived there all his life. While 

 attending the February term of court, 

 1815, as a juror, he was taken ill and 

 died' March 11, 1815. He was a member 

 of Durham Reformed church, a trustee 

 of the church from its organization and 

 was later an elder. He married Cathar- 

 ine Trauger, born September 29, 1763, 

 died September 4, 1844; daughter of 

 Christian and Ann Drager (Trauger) 

 of Nockamixon. The former, born 

 March 30, 1726, in Bechenbach, grand 

 duchy of Hesse Darmstadt, came to 

 Pennsylvania in the ship "Restora- 

 tion," arriving in Philadelphia, October 

 9, 1747, and died in Nockamixon, Janu- 

 ary 8, 181 1. His wife, Anna Barbara, 

 was born March 5, 1729, and died No- 

 vember 5, 1821. The children of Peter 

 and Catharine (Trauger) Jacoby were: 

 John, who settled in Doylestown town- 

 ship; Elizabeth, who married George 

 Hartman, of Rockhill, who after living 

 for twenty-seven years in that town- 

 ship, removed to near Bloomsburg,. 

 Pennsylvania; Mary, who married Jacob 

 Hartman, of Rockhill; Benjamin, who 

 finally settled in Springfield township; 

 Barbara, who died in youth; Catharine, 

 who married Frederick Laubach, of 

 Lower Saucon, later of Durham town- 

 ship; Hannah, who married George 

 Overpeck, of Springfield, and later re- 

 moved to near Milton, Pennsylvania; 

 Sarah, who died in youth; Peter, who 

 lived and died on the old homestead in 

 Durham; Samuel, who finally settled in 

 Northumberland county, Pennsylvan- 

 ia; and Susannah, who married Jacob 

 Schliefifer; of Springfield township. 



Benjamin Jacoby, son of Peter and 

 Catharine (Trauger) Jacoby, was born 

 September 9, 1786. He was a mason 

 by trade. In the fall of 1809 he married 

 Margaret Landes, daughter of Samuel 

 and Susannah Landes, and on Septem- 

 ber 10, 1810, purchased a small farm 

 in Nockamixon, where he lived for six 

 years, following his trade in summer and 

 teaching school during the winter 

 months. He then bought a farm of nine- 

 ty acres two miles from Frenchtown, 



New Jersey, where he lived until 1826, 

 when he purchased the farm in Sprmg- 

 ficld, adjoining the farm purchased by 

 his grandfather in 1768, and removed 

 thereon. This farm has remained in the 

 family ever since, and is now the prop- 

 erty of the subject of this sketch. Here 

 Benjamin Jacoby lived until the sprmg 

 of 1839, when he rented the farm to his 

 son, Peter L. Jacoby, and removed to 

 the village of Springtown, where he 

 lived until his death, October 29, 1850. 

 He served for three months in the army 

 during the war of 1812-14, his company 

 being stationed at Marcus Hook, to 

 guard the approach to Philadelphia af- 

 ter the burning of Washington in 1814. 

 His wife Margaret died in 1827, and he 

 married in 1829 Margaret, daughter of 

 Peter Werst, who died September 26, 

 1844, without issue. The children of 

 Benjamin and Margaret (Landes) Ja- 

 coby were: Samuel, who finally settled 

 at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Peter L., 

 who lived nearly all his life on the 

 Springfield homestead; Catharine, who 

 married Aaron Heckman and settled 

 near Milton, Pennsylvania; Caroline, 

 who married John Schlieffer, of Spring- 

 field; Susannah, who married Samuel 

 Fulmer, of Springtown; Anna, who died 

 in infancy; Benjamin L., who during 

 his later years resided in Philadelphia; 

 John L., who lived for some years in 

 Springfield and later removed to Allen- 

 town, Pennsylvania; and Levi L., who 

 was a minister of the German Evan- 

 gelical association and stationed at 

 various points in New York state, be- 

 ing located at Newark, New York, at 

 the time of his death. 



Peter L. Jacoby, second son of Ben- 

 jamin and Margaret (Landes) Jacoby, 

 was born in Nockamixon township, 

 Bucks county, February 9, 1813, and, 

 aside from teaching school for a brief 

 period was a farmer all his life. He mar- 

 ried, August 20, 1837, Barbara Shelly, 

 daughter of John and Mary Shelly, of 

 Milford township, Bucks county, and 

 lived in Milford township until the 

 spring of 1839, when he took charge of 

 his father's farm in Springfield, rent- 

 ing it until his father's death, when he 

 purchased it, later purchasing other land 

 adjoining, and lived on the homestead 

 until his death, July 3, 1876. With the 

 exception of ten years residence in New 

 Jersey and one year at a select private 

 school, his whole life was spent in 

 Bucks county. He was better educated 

 than most men of his day in that vicin- 

 ity, and appreciated the advantage of a 

 higher education. He was a prosperous 

 farmer, and actively interested in the im- 

 portant public interests of his neighbor- 

 hood. His wife died at Bethlehem, June 

 12, 1904. Their eldest child, Mary Ann, 

 died at the age of twenty-two years. 

 Those who survive are: Titus S., now 

 residing in Bethlehem; Amanda, who 



