Individual Details
Jacob Groff
(2 Apr 1699 - Abt 1766)
Jacob Groff signed the 1755 Mennonite Petition to the Pennsylvania Assembly.
Events
| Birth | 2 Apr 1699 | , , , , Europe |  | ||
| Death | Abt 1766 | Cocalico, Lancaster, PA |  | ||
| Probate | 15 Oct 1766 | Martic, Lancaster, PA | |||
| Marriage | Barbara Brackbill | | |
Families
| Spouse | Barbara Brackbill (1707 - 1760) |
| Child | Anna Groff (1725 - 1777) |
| Child | Benjamin Groff (1727 - 1812) |
| Child | John Groff Senior (1730 - ) |
| Child | Veronica Groff ( - 1826) |
| Child | Maria Groff (1735 - 1801) |
| Child | Barbara Groff (1747 - 1811) |
Notes
Death
Jacob Groff died in around 1740, according to Jane Best.Marriage
Jacob Groff and Barbara Brackbill were married "before 1743" according to Allan Garber. I don't know if most of Jacob's children were with another wife, or if "before" was long before.Endnotes
1. Best, Jane Evans, "Swiss Origins of Groff, Hess, Weber, Landis, and Oberholtzer Families" (Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, Volume XIII, Number 2, April 1990, Pages 9-25), 13.
2. Allan A. Garber, To God Alone The Honor: The Pioneer Mennonite Families of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Morgantown, PA: Mastof Press, 2017), 96.