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 1724 - 1783 (58 years)
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| Name |
Jacob Baer |
| Suffix |
Jr. |
| Born |
15 Nov 1724 |
Pennsylvania, British Colonial America  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Name |
Whiskey Baer |
| Buried |
Feb 1783 |
Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States [1] |
Address:
Bear Cemetery |
| Died |
12 Feb 1783 |
Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States |
| Person ID |
I11724 |
TangledRoots |
| Last Modified |
6 Nov 2019 |
| Father |
Jagley Jacob Bär, b. 30 Dec 1683, Zurich, Bezirk Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland , d. 1740, Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, British Colonial America (Age 56 years) |
| Family ID |
F4453 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Ana Barbara Miller, b. 1726, Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States , d. 27 Nov 1791, Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States (Age 65 years) |
| Children |
| | 1. Henry Bear, b. 1756, Augusta County, Virginia, British Colonial America , d. 1851, Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, United States (Age 95 years) |
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| Last Modified |
16 Jan 2022 |
| Family ID |
F4441 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
He came to Brock's Gap area of Rockingham (then Orange) County Va.with father Jacob and brother John around 1740, but earliest known record of him was dated 4 Feb. 1752 when he bought 400 acres at the Gap. He was elder of St. Peter's Reformed Church. 5 Miles NE of Elkton VA in 1767. (Reference: Groff Book II
Author: Jane Evans Best
Publication: Masthof Press, Rt 1, Box 20, Mill rd, Morgantown, PA 19543)
Originally Brothers lived At Brock's Gap, a mountian pass, about 20 miles west of Lithia Springs from about 1750 to1763. In 1764 his Father-in-law, Adam Miller, offered him 280 acres and 200 pounds on the condition that he would be allowed to spend the rest of his life at "the new house now a building on said plantation", and that Jacob was to keep his in-laws supplied with two cows, a horse, meet, barley, wheat, and 33 gals. of whiskey. Jacob then moved to Lithia Springs. The springs are now know as "Bear Lithia Springs" They are about 2 mi. north of Elkton, Va. Jacob was a Lt. in the Militia during Revolution, recorded Feb. 23, 1780. He and brother John married sisters Ann and Elizabeth Miller. Spelled Bare and Baer was called "Whiskey" because he's kept his father in law warm with whiskey.
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- [S1888] Find A Grave, MEMORIAL ID 46705054 Jacob Baer, Jr.
Jacob “Whiskey” Baer, Jr
BIRTH 15 Nov 1724 Pennsylvania, USA
DEATH 12 Feb 1783 Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
BURIAL Bear Cemetery Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia, USA
MEMORIAL ID 46705054
Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia
Jacob Baer1724-1783Elkton, Rockingham County, Virginia
Jacob Baer, Jr. 1734-1783
Inscription:
Transcription
1724
on Nov 15
was Jacob Baer
born. "But the
righteous (man),
even if he dies
Too early, is
after all at rest,
for his soul pleases
God . . Therefore he
hastens with him out
of this even life."
Wisdom 4:7:14
Died Feb. 12, 1783.
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