Individual Details

Jacob & Susannah moved to the Robinson River Valley with the Second Colonists. Jacob appears only once in the Hebron church records, as they moved on to KY at an early date, probably about 1777..
Both Susanna and Mary Thomas and the Holtclaw husbands received land from the ladies' father, John Thomas. John Thomas gave them land 20 Nov 1760 in Culpeper Co; Jacob Holtzclaw's father left him land when he died in 1760. Part of this Jacob sold to his brother-in-law Jeremiah Darnell soon after; the remainder was sold in 1772. The land given to him by John Thomas was sold in 1775.

The children of Jacob & Susannah are listed in a Bible still possessed by descendants. There was another child listed apart from the children - a James, born 25 Mar 1797 when Susannah would have been 51 years old. He is probably a grandson.

BACK OF THE CANE, Early VA Surveys in Today's Garrard Co KY, Fred. L. Simpson
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Court at Harrodsburg 28 Jan 1780:
Jacob Holtclaw by Peter Watts claimed preemption to a tract of land on account of raising a crop of corn in the year 1776 lying on the N side Dick's River adjoining the land of James & Edmund Archer on the west side to include Holtsclaw's improvement.
Land Entry 8 Feb 1780 Jacob Holtclaw enters 400 acres.
Survey 27 July 1781.
Granted 1 Dec 1782 to Jacob Holsclaw by Benjamin Harrison, Gov of VA.
100 acres of this land was sold to Jacob Holeslaw, Jr. on 22 Apr 1794.

Jacob Holtzclaw served in the Revolution in 1782.

Jacob Holsclaw & Elijah Holsclaw appear on the Mercer County Tax List in 1789, when Mercer Co was still part of Virginia.

Birth	17 Feb 1738	Prince William County, Virginia
Marriage	1758	Culpeper County, Virginia - Susannah Thomas
Death	21 Oct 1812	Harrodsburg, Mercer County, Kentucky

Spouse	Susannah Thomas (1745 - 1821)
Child	Leeanah Holtzclaw (1759 - )
Child	Elijah Holtzclaw (1764 - 1853)
Child	Jacob Holtzclaw Jr (1767 - )
Child	Elizabeth Holtzclaw (1769 - )
Child	Nellie Holtzclaw (1772 - )
Child	Susannah Holtzclaw (1775 - )
Child	Benjamin Holtzclaw (1777 - )
Child	Ruth Holzklau (1779 - 1869)
Child	Jesse Holtzclaw (1782 - )
Child	Mary Ann Holtzclaw (1785 - )
Child	Sarah Holzklau (1791 - )

Father	HANS JACOB HOLZKLAU ( - 1760)
Mother	Catherine [HOLZKLAU] ( - )
Sibling	Joseph Holzklau (1740 - 1835)
Sibling	Eva Holzklau (1742 - )