Jacob Shelly

  Noted events in his life were:

• Property, 1760. My parents conveyed land to me

• Occupation: yeoman.

• faith: Mennonite.

• lived, 1781. Lived in Lower Milford Township, Bucks County.

Anonymous [View Citation] [Table of Contents] Report of the thirty-first reunion of the Landis-Landes families : held at Perkasie Park, Perkasie, Bucks County, Penna., August 19, 1950 Bethlehem, Pa.: Times Pub. Co., 1950? pg 40

• Will Abstract, 27 Nov 1804. Jacob Shelly, Lower Milford Twp., yeoman.
November 27, 1804. Proved November 2, 1812.
Son Daniel and Brother-in-law John Landis exrs.
Wife Barbara, “One full child's share of the children. I got by her.”
Francis Shelly one of sons by first wife.
Eldest son Abraham's children.
Dau. Elizabeth deceased, was Married to one Isaac Kolb and left a dau. Elizabeth Kolb.
Wife and her children. Provided for in agreement with son John.
Wits: David Spinner, Joseph Shelly.

Jacob's son Abraham didn't deport himself, as he ought to have done, so Jacob had his share go to his children to share equally. Abraham inherited some money and a colt from his father and that is all.

Jacob married Barbara Latshaw about 1760 in Milford Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Divorced: Divorced, Bef 1775.

Jacob next married Anna Barbara Landis, daughter of Unknown and Unknown, in 1776. (Anna Barbara Landis was born in 1732 and died in 1812.)

  Marriage Notes:

Anna Barbara b. 1732 d. 1812

Children Joseph [infant] SHELLY b. 1782 d. infancy Samuel L. SHELLY b: 1777 Johannes [John] L. SHELLY b: 8 NOV 1779 d. 6/12/1858 Daniel L. SHELLY b: 14 Jan 1780/82 Milford Twp.. d, 6/11/1871 occ. spinning wheel JOSEPH L. SHELLY b: 1784 d. after 1830 David L. SHELLY b: 2 SEP 1786 d. January 1, 1866 Catharine L. SHELLY b: 1791 Elizabeth SHELLY b: ABT 1792 Mary (Maria) L. SHELLY b: 5 FEB 1793 in Quakertown, Bucks Co., Penn. d. 8/21/1825 Barbara Shelly b. about 1780

parents were Father: SAMUEL LANDIS b: Jan 1724/40 Mother: MARGARET JUNG b: ABT 1725


Name: SAMUEL LANDIS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Sex: M Birth: Jan 1724/40 Note: age abt 10 at death of father John Death: 1771 in Lower Milford Twp., Bucks Co., Penn. 13 14 15 16 Burial: East Swamp Mennonite Church Cmty, Quakertown, Bucks Co., Penn. 5 Occupation: Yeoman 17 Note: 4 18 17 5 3

Brother: Martin

1751 - Named in will of father 1762 - Bought 70 3/4 acres. Will of Samuel: Dated: 24 11 1770. Proved Date: 12 2 1771. BookP age: p:59, I. Remarks: Samuel Landis. Lower Milford. Bucks Co. Yeoman. 24 No v 1770. 12 Feb 1771. Wife: Margaret. Children: Samuel, John, Jacob, Abraham, George, Ann Barbara, Eve . Exec.: John Young, Margaret Landis. p:59.

(Contains summary of will.) Taxes 1781, estate was taxed on 60 a cres in Richland Twp. Will witnesses were Michael MUSSELMAN an d Jacob SHELLEY [prob. ID 2057]. Executors were John JUNG and M argaret LANDIS.

A "Samuel Landes" is on the passenger list of the ship Robert an d Allice, Martly Cussack, Commander (Qualified Septr 30, 1743) . In Strassburger & Beaver, Pennsylvania German Pioneers: Origi nal Lists of Arrivals to Phila 1727-1808, p347-8. LoC F160 .G3 S 8 1966. Text: p214 Text: p347 Change Date: 29 JUL 2003

Father: JOHANNES "JOHN" LANDIS b: ABT 1692 in Switzerland Mother: ANN MUSSELMAN b: ABT 1695

Name: JOHANNES "JOHN" LANDIS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Sex: M Birth: ABT 1692 in Switzerland 8 9 10 11 Death: 1747/51 in Milford Twp., Bucks Co., Penn. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 Immigration: ABT 1717 19 20 21 Religion: Mennonite 22 23 Note: 24 25 26 27 28 29 24 30 30 27 30 31 32

"Of Milford Twp., Bucks County." "As a brief overview, about 1717, three brothers (Benjamin, Feli x, and John) emigrated to Pennsylvania from their ancestral hom e near Zurich, Switzerland. All 3 were Mennonites, but Benjami n was a preacher; Benjamin and Felix went directly to Lancaster , whereas John first went north to Bucks County. Most living mem bers of the Landis family are descended from Benjamin, and the p ublished genealogies of the Landis families are heavy with thos e descendents. However, our group of families is descended fro m John, of Bucks County, as he is called, who left fewer descend ents." - Tom McFarland,

"Among the early Lands imigrants were Jacob...Felix...John Landi s who settled in Richland township, Bucks County, Pa. about 1717 , Rudolph and Abraham Landis,...Jacob (of Franconia), and Jaco b (of Salford township.)"

Settled first near Germantown, Penn. "Located in Bucks county, Penn." From nr. Mannheim, Germany; settled in Milford Tp. Bucks Co., Pa .


1730 - Signed a petition to form the township of Richland from M ilford Township. 1730 - Signed a petition for a road in Richland, Penn. (Bucks C o. website) 1734 - Petitioned for naturalization in Bucks County 1743, Dec 21 - Bought 125 acres in Richland Twp. from Wm. Alle n next to Jacob Musselman.* 1747, Sept. 26 - Wrote will Probated May 1, 1751 (Phila. Co., W ill Book 1:397, File #255).

*"Allen acquired his land holdings in many different ways. Afte r his return from England in 1725, young Allen purchased ten-tho usand acres of land from William Penn, the son of the founder o f Pennsylvania, for £741.15. [40] These lands, located above t he forks of the Delaware at Easton, had not as yet been purchas ed from the Indians. [41] James Logan, the proprietary secreta ry, objected to the sale. He believed that once the Indians fou nd out that Allen had claimed the area, they would raise the pur chase price. Penn had wasted the colony's money in order to rew ard Allen with prime real estate without any competition from ot her colonists, since the colony did not even own the land yet. Allen profited quickly from the sale, surveying the land, the n dividing and selling it in small lots. [42] "William Allen an d the Search for Economic Security in Eighteenth Century Pennsyl vania" by Augustine Nigro. http://earlyamerica.com/review/2001_s ummer_fall/william_allen.html#_ftnref37

A [different?] "Johanis Landis" b. ca. 1712 immigrated to Philde lphia on the pink* Plaisance Sept. 21, 1732. *Pink = A smaller vessel, usually in the coasting trade as a mer chantman. The name seems to have come from a particular type o f hull with round bow and stern, but with the upper part of th e stern having the characteristic pinched in shape of the 'pink ' stern. In the naval context used in the late seventeenth centu ry for small vessels, probably chiefly used as transports.

Name: VALENTINE JUNG NSFX: [YUNG] 1 2 Sex: M Birth: ABT 1700 1 Immigration: 30 SEP 1727 Philadelphia Note: on ship "Molley" 1 3 Religion: v Note: 4 5

"He arrived in Pennsylvania on the ship Molly on 30 Sep 1727 wit h a large group of Mennonites. He went to Montgomery County, Pa . He was a witness to a will at Uper Saucon Township, Northampt on County in 1759 with Hans MUSSELMAN." Listed on Captain's list of the Molly as "Fellone Younge". No t listed in oath of allengiance list. Text: p337 Text: pp14-15

Name: VALENTINE JUNG NSFX: [YUNG] 1 Sex: M Birth: ABT 1670 Note: prob. Harxheim, Rheinhessen, Germany 1 Religion: Mennonite 1 Note: 2

"He was living at Harxheim where he was a Mennonite deacon in th e Kriegsheim congegation in 1732. He may be the Valentine YUN G who arrived on Charming Nancy on 8 Oct 1737 with a group of Me nnonites. Valentine JUNGER, widower was taxed at Harxheim in 17 37."