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Note: NOTES: JACOB ZECH II AND ANA MARIA CATHERINE KOHLER ARRIVED ON THE 16TH OF OCTOBER IN 1751, ON THE SAILING SHIP " DUKE OF WIRTENBURG " ( WITH DANIEL MONTPELLIER, MASTER ) SAILED INTO THE PORT OF PHILADELPHIA,PA. WITH 406 PASSENGERS ON BOARD. THE 169 MEN FROM THIS GROUP OF NEW IMMIGRANTS WERE REQUIRED TO TAKE THE OATH AND SIGN THE SHIP'S PASSENGER LIST. THE NAME OF JACOB ZECH IS ON THE LIST.
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE WAS PRINTED BY SARAH HAYS SHARP FROM HER BOOK WHICH IS NOW OUT OF PRINT TITLED DECENDANTS OF JACOB ZECH WHICH WAS PRINTED AROUND 1973. IF ANYONE IS A DECENDANT OF JABOB TRY THRU THE LIBRARY TO OBTAIN THE BOOK ITS GOT A LOT OF GOOD INFO.
VARIOUS DESCENDANTS OF JACOB ZECH TELLS DIFFERENT TALES OF THEIR " FAMILY TRADITIONS " ABOUT OUR ANCESTOR.. THESE TALES WERE TOLD TO ME BY DESCENDANTS WHO WERE NOT ACQUAINTED WITH EACH OTHER AND DISTANTLY RELATED.
JACOB ZECH WAS A STOW-AWAY ON BOARD SHIP AND HID IN A HOG'S HEAD BARREL. HE WAS IN LOVE WITH THIS GIRL FROM HOLLAND AND THEY COULDN'T GET MARRIED IN GERMANY. THEY GOT MARRIED ON BOARD SHIP. JACOB ZECH LOVED THIS GIRL AND HER FOLKS DIDN'T APPROVE OF HIM, SO THEY SENT HER TO AMERICA TO LIVE WITH HER BROTHER. JACOB STOWED AWAY ON THE SAME SHIP SHE CAME OVER ON.
WE CAN NEITHER PROVE OR DIS APPROVE THESE TALES, BUT THERE IS A REMOTE POSSIBILITY THAT ALL CONTAIN A DEGREE OF TRUTH. IF JACOB ZECH CAME TO AMERICA AS A STOW AWAY ON BOARD THE SHIP IT WAS NECESSARY FOR HIM TO BE INDENTURED TO PAY FOR HIS PASSAGE ON THE SHIP. INDENTURED SERVANTS HAD TO WORK FROM 3 TO 7 YEARS,DEPENDING ON THEIR INDEBTEDNESS. WHEN THE IMMIGRANTS BECAME A FREE MAN HE WAS THEN ENTITLED TO 100 ACRES OF LAND IN THE NEW WORLD.
THE LAST KNOWN DOCUMENT PRETAINING IN OUR IMMIGRANTS ANCESTOR, JACOB ZECH, IS THE DISPOSAL OF HIS ESTATE. THIS RECORD IS ON FILE AT THE ROCKINGHAM COUNTY COURT HOUSE IN HARRISONBERG,VA. IT READS AS FOLLOWS :
TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL OR MAY COME,MICHAEL ZECH,GEORGE ZECH AND DANIEL ZECH, THREE OF THE SONS AND LEGAL REPRESENTATIVES OF JACOB ZECH OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY IN THE STATE OF VIRGINIA . YOEMAN DECEASED SEND GREETINGS.WHERE AS THE SAID JACOB ZECH LATELY DIED OWNED AND SEIZED OF AND IN THE POSSESSION OF A CERTAIN TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED LYING AND BEING IN ROCKINGHAM COUNTY , AFORESAID ADJOINING LANDS OF HENRY BERKLY, JAMES HOOK, JOHN HASSTLOCK, ROBERT HOOK AND JACOB YUNT, CONTAINING EIGHTY EIGHT ACRES, BEING THE SAME, MORE OR LESS. LEAVING ISSUE AND SAID MICHAEL ZECH, GEORGE ZECH, DANIEL ZECH AND JACOB ZECH TO SURVIVE HIM. NOW KNOW YE THAT THE SAID MICHAEL ZECH, GEORGE ZECH AND DANIEL ZECH FOR AND IN CONSIDERATION OF THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED AND TWO POUNDS LAWFUL MONEY OF PENSYLVANIA TO THEM IN HAND PAID BY THE SAID JACOB ZECH ZECH OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY AFORESAID, THE RECEIPT WHEREOF IS HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGES, HAVE AND EACH OF THEM HATH GRANTED BARGAINED SOLE RELEASED AND CONFIRMED AND BY THESE PRESENTS DO AND EACH OF THEM DOTH GRANT BARGAIN SELL REALEASE AND CONFIRM UNTO THE SAID JACOB ZECH AND TO HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS, ALL THEIR AND EACH OF THEIR RIGHTS TITLE INTEREST CLAIM AND DEMAND WHAT SO EVER WHICH THEY , THE SAID MICHAEL ZECH, GEORGE ZECH AND DANIEL ZECH AND THEIR HEIRS NOW HAVE OR HERE AFTER MIGHT OR COULD HAVE OR CLAIM TO THE SAID TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND WHERE OF THE SAID JACOB ZECH DIED OWNER AND POSSESSED AS FORESAID IN LOSS OR EQUITY TO HAVE AND TO HOLD THE SAID TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND CONTAINING EIGHTY EIGHT ACRES, WITH HTE APPURTENANCES THERE UNTO BELONGING UNTO THE AFORE SAID JACOB ZECH HIS HEIRS AND ASSIGNS FOREVER. SO THAT NEITHER THEY THE SAID MICHAEL ZECH, GEORGE ZECH AND DANIEL ZECH, NOR THEIR HEIRS, NOR ANY OTHER PERSON OR PERSONS FOR THEM OR ANY OF THEM OR IN THE RIGHT OR STEAD OF ANY OF THEM SHALL OR WILL BY ANY WAYS OR MEANS WHATSEVER HAVE CLAIMS CHALLENGE OR DEMAND ANY ESTATE RIGHT TITLE INTEREST OR DEMAND OF IN AND TO THE SAID EIGHTY EIGHT ACRES OF LAND OR ANY PART HERE OF ___________ OF AND FROM THE SAME THEY AND EVERY OF THEM AND THEIR HEIRS RESPECTIVELY SHALL BE UTTERLY EXCLUDED AND DEBASSED FOREVER BY THESE PRESENT, IN WITNESS WHERE OR THE SAID PARTIES HERE HERE UNTO SET THEIR HANDS AND SEALS THIS TWENTY NINTH DAY OF MARCH, AMO DOMINI, ONE THOUSAND EVEN HUNDRED AND NINETY EIGHT.
SEALED AND DELIVERED IN PRESENCE OF US, NOTE THE WORDS MICHAEL ZECH " ONE HUNDRED AND TWO " INTERLINED GEORGE ZECH BEFORE SIGNING. HIS JN. MORRIS DANIEL X ZECH JOSEPH MORRIS MARK CHILDREN OF JACOB ZECH II AND ANA MARIA CATHERINE KOHLER
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