Individual Details

Birth

(twin with Isaac);

Event

His father, John Kirk's, will, dated July 30, 1759, proved September 24, 1759, devised to each of his surviving sons two hundred acres of land, and the remainder to be equally divided between his daughters; part of this land covered the present site of Dreshertown, Montgomery county. John Kirk built a large stone house on the part of his land which was afterwards occupied by his son Jacob, remodeled by his grandson, John Kirk, in 1832, and still in possession of the family.

Marriage

14th 5m 1760 Marraige Record of Jacob KIRK and Elizabeth CLEAVER. - xerox copy - (Swarthmore - Abington MM) Whereas Jacob Kirk of Abington Township in the County of Philadelphia, son of John Kirk of the Township affors'd Deceas'd and Elizabeth Cleaver Daughter of John Cleaver of Bristol Township in the County affors'd Having declared their Intentions of Marraige with each other before several Monthly Meetings of the People Called Quakers held at Abington Meeting House in the County Afforesaid according to the good order used amongst them, And having consent of Parents, and Nothing appearing to obstrust or hinder their said Proposals of Marraige was allow'd of by ye s'd Meeting X X X X Non these are to Certify all whom it concern that for the full accomplishing their said Intentions this Fourteenth day of the Fifth Month in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty. They the said Jacob Kirk and Elizabeth Cleaver appear'd in a Meeting at Germantown; and the said Jacob Kirk taking the said Elizabeth Cleaver by the hand, did in a Solemn Manner Openly declare that he took her the said Elizabeth Cleaver to be his Wife Promiseing; with the Lords assistance to be unto her a Loving & faithful Husband until death should seperate them. And then and there in the said Assembly the said Elizabeth Cleaver did in like manner Solemnly declare that she took him the said Jacob Kirk to be her Husband. Promising with the Lords assistance to be unto him a Loving and Faithful Wife until Death should seperate them. And more over they the said Jacob Kirk & Elizabeth Cleaver (she according to the Custom of Marraige) assuming the Name of her Husband as a further Confirmation hereof, did then and there to these Presents set their hands and we whose Names are here under subscribed being affores'd have as Witnesses hereunto set our Hands the day and Year above Written

Elizabeth Daves Sarah Cleaver Wm Cleaver Jacob Kirk
Deborah Hudson Susanna Tyson Mary Cleaver Elizabeth Cleaver
Elinor Roberts Jonathn Tyson Sarah Kirk Sarah Kirk
John Jones Rynear Tyson Peter Tyson John Cleaver
Thos Nedron(?) Abrm Shoemaker Saml Tyson Elizabeth Cleaver
Ann Roberts John Tyson Mary Tyson Rynear Kirk
Pricilla Daves Hannah Tyson Peter Cleaver Mary Kirk
Thos Rose Wm Engle Isaac Cleaver Wm & Mary Loofborrow
Wm Levering Hannah Cleaver Rebeckah Cleaver Sarah Kirk (illegible)
Abrm Daves Saml Engle John Spencer Isaac Kirk Mary Kirk
Deborah Levering Isaac Cleaver John Loofborrow
(?) Tyson John Cleaver Margaret Loofborrow
Mary Cleaver Margt Loofborrow(?)
Derrick Tyson

Event

In the assessment of 1780 we find
the name of Jacob Kirk, holding two hundred acres and the owner of a "stage
-wagon."

Death

Jacob Kirk, b. 7mo. 20,1735, who inherited and occupied homestead, dying in house in which he was born, aged 93years
He was a farmer in Abington; was born, lived and died in the same house.
He and his twin brother, Isaac, lived on adjoining farms and each passed the age of 90 years, Jacob being 93 and dying in the house in which he had been born in 1735. His death occurred in 1829.