Individual Details
Jacob "Lancaster" Nissley Senior
(Abt 1697 - Abt 1749)
Jacob Nissley came to America in 1717. He was naturalized 14 February 1729/1730. He obtained a patent for 101 a cres in present-day Granveiw Heights in Lancaster City on 3 June 1747, and added 150 adjoining acres across New Holland Avenue, obtained from his father-in-law, Heinrich Funk.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1697 | Steinsfurt, Palatinate, Germany |  |  | |
| Marriage | 1718 | Maria Funk | | ||
| Death | Abt 1749 | , Lancaster, PA | | ||
| Alt name | Jacob Nislay | ||||
| Alt name | Jacob Nisley | ||||
| Alt name | Jacob Nutt | ||||
| Alt name | Jakob Nussli Senior | ||||
| Burial | Lancaster, Lancaster, PA | |
Families
| Spouse | Maria Funk ( - ) |
| Child | Henry Nissley Senior ( - ) |
| Child | Jacob Nissley (1721 - 1763) |
| Child | Martin Nissley Senior ( - ) |
| Child | Feronica Nissley ( - 1781) |
| Child | Maria Nissley ( - ) |
| Child | Anna Nissley (1727 - 1793) |
| Child | Barbara Nissley ( - 1752) |
| Child | Elisabeth Nissley (1735 - 1765) |
| Father | Hans Nissley Senior (1662 - 1726) |
| Mother | Anna Bar (1662 - ) |
| Sibling | Samuel Niessle (1694 - ) |
| Sibling | Anna Nussli (1702 - ) |
| Sibling | Hans "Donegal" Nissley ( - ) |
Notes
Birth
Jacob Nissley's birth year was 1688, according to Brent Smeltzer, and in 1683, according Anna Mae Sauder.Death
Jacob Nissley died in what was then Chester County, but is now Lancaster County. He died intestate in either Lancaster Boro or Manheim. Jacob's property was inventoried 9 November 1749.Burial
Jacob Nissley was buried in the now-defunct Nissley Cemetery.Endnotes
1. Seip (Miller), Ann Louise. "Readers' Ancestry." Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage. Volume 31, Number 3 (July 2008), pages 26-30., page 30.
2. Schmidt-Lange, Anne Augspurger, "Nissley/Nissly Documentation in Europe: Part 2: Switzerland," Pennylvania Mennonite Heritage, volume 38, number 4 (October 2015): 126.