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Family Sheet
HUSBAND
Name: Jacob Cripe Sr.Male Note
Born: 1712 1712-1-1 at Amoneburg, Germany Amoneburg, Germany
Married: 1740 1740-1-1 at York, PA York, PA
Died: 28 Sep 1753 1753-9-28 at Huntington County, PA Huntington County, PA
WIFE
Born: 1723 at Hanover, Baltimore County, MD
Died: 1810 at Huntington County, PA
Father: Stephen Ulrich Jr.
Mother: Hannah Stutsman
CHILDREN
Born: 1764 at Bedford, PA
Died:
Husband: Leonard Sr. Wolf
Born: 1746 at Bedford, PA
Died: 1850
Wife: Barbara Shideler
Born: 1744 at Bedford County, PA
Died: 9 Jul 1814 at Madison Townplace, Montgomery County, OH
Wife: Elizabeth Rench
Born: Abt 1749 at PA
Died: 1819 at Montgomery, OH
Husband: Christian Shively
Born: 1748 at Bedford, PA
Died:
Husband: Simon Mason
Name: Sussanah Cripe
Born: 1750 at Bedford, PA
Died:
Born: 15 Apr 1752 at Bedford, PA
Died: 23 Oct 1823 at Dayton, Montgomery County, OH
Wife: Magdalena Miller
Born: 1755 at Bedford, PA
Died: 1845 at Clinton, IN
Wife: Catharine Nesbitt
Born: 1762 at Bedford, PA
Died: 1834 at Caroll, IN
Husband: John Wagoner
Name: Mary Cripe
Born: 1768 at Bedford, PA
Died:
Born: 1769 at Huntington County, PA
Died: 1827 at Montgomery County, OH
Husband: Daniel Martin
Name: Joseph Cripe
Born: 20 Jul 1771 at PA
Died: Jul 1822
NOTES
1). Jacob Cripe Greib arrived in Philadelphia Sept. 2 8 , 1 7 3 2 George Washington was eight months old on th e s hi p R ic hard and Elizabeth. He was about 20, and th e on l y Crip e o n board. His next six years are a blank . If h e f ollowe d th e pattern of most German immigrant s thos e no t indentu red he passed through Germantown , learne d wha t the prospe ct s were, and headed west. Wes t wasn t far aw ay. In 1732 n ear ly everybody in Pennsylv ania liv ed east o f the Susquaha nn a River, in an arc abo ut 100 mi les from P hiladelphia. Mo s t of this was very s parsely se ttled too . A contemporary w ri ter describes Co nestoga on ly 20 mile s from Germantown a s wilderness. This is th e country G ermans spread into . Ph iladelphi a itself was c ontrolled b y English Quakers. Jacob Cripe and the Ulrichs may be the first Replogle a n c e s tors to have joined the German Baptist Brethren Chu r c h . I t was a new sect, and most of its members lived c lo s e t o Ph iladelphia. Their first American congregatio n , i n Germ antow n, only dated from Christmas day 1723. B u t th e churc h alrea dy had gone through a serious split . J ust f our year s befor e Jacob arrived the more mystica l wi ng ha d gone of f to esta blish a colony at Ephrata. B ut Ja cob di dn t joi n this branc h. Maybe he joined the c hurc h in Germ antown. M aybe his marr iage to Elizabeth Ul ric h brought hi m into it . All of this i s conjecture. Th e fa ct is he show s up nex t in 1738, some 8 0 miles wes t of Ph iladelphia , a charter m ember of the Littl e Conew ago Cong regation, a long with th e Ulrichs, Dierdorff s an d Stutesm ans. He stay ed in this ar ea for another 1 0 o r 12 years a t least. In 1 743 he obtaine d a warrant f or 15 0 acres i n Manchester Tow nship, Lancaste r County . The 174 5 surve y is in Conewag o township proba bly t he same land . H e was almost certa inly married by no w a nd had start e d a family. Then abou t 1750 a number of B r ethren famili es f elt it safe to mov e further west, amo ng t hem the Shi velys , Ulrichs and Crip es. In 1752 Jaco b bough t 300 acre s in Fre derick County, M aryland. I don t know wh ere thi s property w as located. Bu t Stephen Ul rich bought l and t he same year ne xt to today s Clea r Springs, and Dan ie l and John Ulrich s ettled the re too . These were probab l y all Jacob Cripe s bro thers in law , and he may have li ve d near them. No towns ha d bee n es tablished here yet. J oh n Hager had already buil t a st on e house in the neighbo rhoo d still standing , but H age r stown came ten years la ter. A s far as I can tell the o n l y thing resembling a vi llage wa s Conococheague, a set tlem e nt where the creek o f that nam e empties into the P otomac . Part of Braddock s army cross ed the river ther e in 175 5.T his was abou t nine or ten mi les southeas t of Stephe n Ulrich s farm . In contemporary ac counts C onococheague often ref er s to the whole area. S o in 175 2 Jacob Crip e and his grow i ng family lived somewhe re i n this locality , along wit h Step hen Ulrich, Uhli Shive l y and other ances tors to be . Some, o f course weren t pre s ent yet. The Koni gs and Me tzgers had a rrived in Americ a on ly the year befo re, th e same year Rineh art Replogl e had bu ried an infan t son and probably a wife in Als ace. But th e clan was d rawin g together. In 1753 Jacob Cripe is on record in Frederick Co. a s a n O v e rseer of Roads in 1754 he s Overseer of the Po or . In 1 7 5 8 he s described as a cooper. That year h e sol d 106 a cr es , and other land transactions place hi m in th e commun it y u p through 1764. Now the RRG says th at in 17 62 his da ugh te r Esther was born in Bedford Coun ty, Penns ylvania. I f tr u e this would change the scenari o. The bi g German mig rati o n from Frederick County, Mary land to Be dford County , Penn sy lvania took place about 1 770. If Jac ob Cripe wen t earlie r i t would be a signific ant deviatio n. For one th ing it wo ul d detach him from t he Ulrichs an d members of t he clan, a n d it would detac h him from th e Brethren congre gation he s ee ms to belon g to. Maybe mor e important, it wo uld sugges t som e hin t of individualit y so universally lac king in the se ear l y ancestors, know n mostly from land rec ords and chi ldren s names. Some wr iters say a few Brethre n families en te red M orrisons Cov e Bedford County in 175 5, perhaps t h e first p ermanen t settlers in the valley. B ut they di dn t come fro m th e Conococheague. Living up th ere wa s not on ly dangerou s it was illegal. A 1744 treat y ha d given lan d between t h e Alleghenies and the Ohio Riv e r to the Indian s. In 175 0 t o honor this treaty the Brit i sh had chased squ atter s out o f the Juniata Valley nex t do or and burned thei r c abins. The n in 1756 an India n massac re in Morrisons Co v e took the liv es of unknow n numbers o f Brethren. Thos e lef t almost certai nly fle d when in 176 3 Pontiac s upri sing cl eared the land o f m ost remaining s ettlers. It wou ld be int eresting to fi n d the Cripes livin g there in thi s turbulenc e, doing so methi ng rather odd an d very risky . I hope it tu rns ou t to be tru e, but so fa r I have see n no evidence fo r it . More likely J acob Crip e went nort h after the defea t o f Pontiac in 1768 , along w ith almos t everybody else. T h at triggered a mass m igratio n over t he mountains. Th e Repl ogles, Metzgers, Shive lys , Ulrich s were part of i t. All o f them went to Morriso n s Cove. J acob Cripe wa s there too b y 1776 the year re vol utiona ries in Phil adelphia signe d the Declaration of I ndepe nde nce. The ne xt year, as a non resident, he sold 45 5 acr e s back in F rederick County, Mar yland. All this sugg est s th e famil y had recently moved nor th, had decided t o st ay, an d wa s selling off Maryland hold ings. It s wort h no ting t h e size of this acreage. In 174 3 Jacob bought 1 5 0 acre s in L ancaster County, in 1752 30 0 acres in Frede r ick C ounty. B y 1784 he s taxed for 900 ac res in Frankst ow n T ownshipi n the Morrisons Cove area . T hat s the fa mil i ar pattern bu y land cheap on the frontier , wait unt i l i t appreciates, th en move to the next frontie r. By the late 1770s Cripes, Replogles, Ulrichs, Shivel y s , a n d Metzgers all lived near each other in Morrison s C ov e o r nearby and our ancestry was well under way . Jac o b Crip e s son Daniel married Barbara Replogle17 75 , h i s daught e r Susannah married Christian Shively, a nd hi s ot her child re n had married into the families o f Shidle r, Ne sbett, Ren ch , Martin, Wise and Wolf. Jacob s will i n 177 9 divided 85 0 a cres among his children an d grandchi ldren , plus cash, h orse s and cooper s tools . His wife go t life time use of hal f th e land, buildings , a mare, an d the ho rned cattle. H e die d in 1801. He d been in Ame rica for 6 8 years, and ha d live d on thre e frontiers. I n 1802 his wi fe Elizabeth Ulr ich rel inqui shed executorsh ip of the esta te, signing wit h a mark . T hat same yea r a list of 99 fre e males over 20 i n a sing l e township o f southern Ohio O Banon included th e nam es Me tsger, Sh ively, Replogle an d Cripe. The family h a d moved on.
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