Jacob Strieby

1699 - Abt 1770  (71 years)

• Name	Jacob Strieby
  Birth	1699	Lower Rhine Vall, Palitinate, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1770	Northampton County, PA
  Burial	Westmoreland Twp, Northampton County, PA
  Person ID	I1505	Carl
  Last Modified	20 May 2012

  
  

  Children	+ 1. Hans Michael Strieby,   b. Abt 1726, Palatinate, Germany d. May 1790, Lynn Twp., Northampton County, PA (Age ~ 64 years)
  Family ID	F531	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2014

  
  

• Notes

  "STREVEY FAMILY HISTORY" by Maxine Strevey Scott, p. 4,5 and 6 "Jacob Strieby ...crossed the Atlantic on board the St. Andrew skippered by Capt. Robert Brown, arrived Port of Philadelphia on the afternoon of Oct. 7, 1743. Nothing is know of Jacob before his arrival in America. It is assumed that he is widowed, since the only family that he brought with him was his son Hans Michael." "Of all twelve children, most retained the spelling of Strieby, but if one looks at the passenger list the name was spelled both ways. Jacob and Hans Michael signed it Strieby, but when it was printed under "those who took the oath of allegiance" it was spelled Strevey. "Pennsylvania German Pioneers": the foreigners whose names are underwritten imported in ship St. Andrew, Capt. Robert Brown from Rotterdam, last from Cowes, England did this day take the Oathe of Qualification, vis dated Oct. 7, 1743." "Jacob Strieby and his son Hans Michael were the first Striebys to come to the new land. Jacob was born in the Lower Rhine Valley in the Palitinate area of Germany in 1699. He was 44 years old on that Oct. day in 1743 when he and his son Hans Michael said goodbye to Capt. Robert Brown on the ship St. Andrew and set foot on American soil for the first time. Young Michael (he followed the German custom of using his middle name) was one of the "young foreigners who came from Rotterdam by way of Cowes, England". At the time of his arrival he was 17 years old. After they left the ship they walked a short distance to the courthouse in Philadelphia where they were the 13th and 14th men, respectively, to sign the "Oathe of Allegiance" to the crown of England. (Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Strassburger Vol.11, p. 366)." "Jacob and Michael stayed in the Philadelphia area for the next 10 years, and while there Michael met and married Barbara ______, and their son Jacob was born." "Not much is learnedof Jacob after this. It is assumed that he lived a quiet life as a clockmaker. He lived to a ripe old age, and was laid to rest in Westmoreland County Pa."