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Note: Born Septembr 10, 1760, Jacob Sticher added the second "T" to his name, when he moved to Baltimore. He owned a butchershop and traded in land, aided, perhaps, by the wealthy Bull tobacco-raising family, of Harford County. His Last Will, of 1800, shows two nephews of Wm. Bull, of Harford, b. 1734: Jarrett and William, acting as Witnesses. His co-executors were, Henry Stouffer and George Decker. Stauffers were originally colonial Stoevers in Pa. Jacob's wife, Margarethe, born in Holland, was co-executor. When Jacob died, Margarethe married Richard Lee Head, a wealthy grocer, who owned a shop down the street from Jacob, at 35 N. Howard, on June 9, 1803. Children of Jacob and Margarethe were:George, John, Peter, Elizabeth, Anna Amelia, Harriot and Ann. Anna Amelia died in her first year and was buried out of the First Reformed Church of Baltimore, on January 1, 1792. William Bull, b.1734, was the son of Jacob and Rachel Warden, of Greenwich, N.J. The N.J. Bulls, who were Quaker, immigrated from England to the Byllynge Land Grant, in West Jersey. The Bulls and the Wardens moved to Maryland, at about the same time. Jacob Bull's sister married a Green and remained in Delaware. William Bull married Eleanor Amos, from an old Maryland family, and died around 1795. William Bull's brother, Jacob, Jr., fathered Jarrett Bull (see Jarretsville Md.) on February 17, 1776, and William Bull. Jacob Bull Jr.'s wife was Renrice Bussey, from another old Maryland family. Jarrett Bull married Hannah M. Bose, and had a son, Edmund, on January 2, 1811, in Baltimore. Jacob Stitcher's Last Will was filed in Baltimore County, on December 17, 1800, and was retrieved from the Maryland Archives. A relatively late research item revealed another, and third son of Jacob, in General George Stidger, of Stark County, Ohio. Stidger was a common misspelling of the surname in Baltimore records. George removed to Ohio for some unknown reason (perhaps following Nathan Cromwell) and married Mary Riley.
Other Possible Signees Of Jacob Stitcher's Last Will
George Decker, baptized June 10, 1768, Reformed Church, Carroll County, Md. His father was Christopher and mother, Elisabeth. George married Susanna Forney on August 16, 1792, first German Reformed Church, Baltimore.
George Smith, born ca. 1783, who married Nancy Hawkins, 1787-1885. Her father was Richard and mother, Avarilla Durbin.
John George Steinbach was a Baltimore attorney who married at Courthouse Square, Baltimore, to Mary Renfrew, September 23, 1790.
Henry Stouffer was a Baltimore businessman, whose son, John, married Ann Stitcher, youngest daughter of Jacob Stitcher. John was Treasurer of the Baltimore chapter of the Bretheran religious movement. Francis Asbury founded the first Methodist church in America, at Baltimore, after traveling through the wilderness of Virgina and West Virginia. He then became Bishop. Near Cumberland, he stayed at the home of a Herman "Stitcher/Stidger", as he described his host. The Bretheran were a branch of the original DUNKER religious sect. Another branch of the Dunkers was the Seventh Day Baptists, led by Alexander Mack, in Philadelphia. Among others baptized in Philly, were members of the BUCK and CLEMENS families.
GERMANTOWN CONGREGATION GERMAN BAPTIST BRETHEREN
BAPTISMS BY ELDER ALEXANDER MACK
1766-1785
If the Jakob Sticher who left Niederlinxweiler, in 1780, for Amerika, is the same Jacob Sticher/Stitcher/Stidger, of Baltimore, he must have rapidly made friends in Philadelphia. Following is a list of colonials who have some connection to the Stitchers. Although Herman and John Stitcher seem to have followed Methodists to Pa. and WVa, these people chose to be baptized by Alexander Mack.
Sarah Baker-May 14, 1769 See the Stidger Gen of Bev Carrigan for the Baker connection.
Michael Keyser-Sept. 3, 1769 Keysers were business acquaintances of Henry Stouffer of Balt.
Susana Baker- " " "
Peter Keyser-Oct. 5, 1769 Peter was Exec. of Keturah Clemens' Will and her son-in-law.
Dirock Keyser-Sept. 2, 1770
Ulrich Stouffer-Nov. 10, 1771 He is probably related to Henry Stouffer and his son, John, who married
Ann Stitcher, in Balt. Gearhardt Clemens and wife, Gertrude-Apr. 19, 1772
Susanna Hinckle-July 3, 1774 Mary Barbara Hinckle, b. 1736, m. John Conrad, Jr. John Conrad
Witnessed the Will of Keturah Clemens. Elizabeth Conrad, dtr of
Barbara Hinckle Conrad Evans, m. Christian Keyser. Catherine Frailey/
Froelich Conrad, dtr of Leonard Froelich, maintained his bible, after his
death. The bible lists the children of Leonard Frailey and his wife,
Elizabeth Stitcher, of Balt.
Lydia Keyser- " " "
Catherine Keyser-Oct. 20, 1783 She was the wife of Michael Keyser.
Note: Philip Conrad m. Catherine Froelich/Frailey 26 March, 1773, Germantown Reformed Church. Per Kathleen Frailey Puls, Philip was possibly a Quaker from Lower Merion Twp., who converted through Baptism, at the Germantown Ref. Ch., in 1770.
It is possible Jacob had brothers Herman, John and David, who later adopted the Stidger spelling. Herman operated a tavern in Baltimore, in the home of his son-in-law, John Bechem, for which he was taken to court. He had no operator's license, which Peter Stitcher, of Frederick, had been diligent in obtaining, in his later years. If Herman was Jacob's brother, then Elizabeth Stitcher Bechem was the cousin of Elizabeth Stitcher Frailey. Herman and John (who bapt his son, Peter, in the Sanner Church, Somerset County, 1793) seemed to stick together, both appearing in the Brownsville, Pa., Census, ca. 1800.
Per newspaper notes for Uniontown (Pa.) Borough, obtained by Bev Carrigan, Stidger researcher, John died March 16, 1811. He was a hatmaker, who owned a building next to (Thomas) McKibben's blacksmith shop in Uniontown. At this point, it is useful to point out that the family of Rachel Brownfield Searight, had moved to Uniontown from Virginia. She was raised in this town and later was to marry Harmon Stidger of Canton, Ohio. Since Harmon was older when he married the widow, Rachel, it is possible he was the Herman Stidger of Uniontown, or his son.
Herman was licensed to run a tavern in Uniontown and it may have been the "White Swan", which was owned by the Brownfield family. On December 3, 1806, a publication entitled, "Genius of Liberty", contained the following article referring to John Stidger. "The Debating Society meets next Saturday evening at Mr. John Stidger's. The question then to be discussed is, "Would it be good policy for the United States at the present time to enter into an alliance, offensive and defensive, with Great Britain."
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