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Personal data Jacob Goodpasture 


Household of Jacob Goodpasture

He is married to Maria Catherine Schmidt.

They got married in the year 1739 at Virginia, he was 28 years old.


Child(ren):

  1. Sarah Goodpasture  1732-1810 
  4. Solomon Goodpasture  1739-1800
  5. Abraham Goodpasture  1744-1832 


Notes about Jacob Goodpasture

75405482==6th Gr Grandpa

13 Mar 1710 It is not clear exactly where the Goodpastures/Vollenweiders came from, but there is good circumstantial evidence that they were Protestants. There are multiple records of Jacobs and Ulrichs of this name-it was not uncommon-arriving in New York, Pennsylvania, and points South in the early to mid-18th century. There were several waves of middle European Protestants emigrating to escape religious persecution, beginning with the Huegonots from France in the 17th century. There are stories in the family that the Goodpastures were Huegenot. However, it seems clear that the anglicized name Goodpasture is a translation of the German Vollenweider. It is far more likely that a German-speaking family came in the mid-18th century. Many German and Swiss Mennonites fled Europe at that time. The place where they settled-the mountains of Western Virginia-is consistent with these Goodpastures having come with the Mennonites. Their neighbors were Scottish Highlanders who arrived at the same time and went West to what was then the frontier. Rockingham County, VA, where Jacob lived for some time, had a large population of German and Swiss Mennonites. There are records of Vollenweiders arriving in PA early in the century, when the area was still associated with the havens for religious refugees established by William Penn a generation earlier. Finding Penn’s tracts settled and land expensive, many of them headed South down the Great Wagon Road into the Valley of Virginia, settling in the Western counties where land was available. The Mennonites arrived a few years later, and gravitated to the same area. There are documented Jacob’s, Ulrich’s, etc. among both groups, and it is not possible to say when Sarah’s forebears arrived. Construction of his ancestry is conjectural, and based on undocumented stories.

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Birthday March 13, 1710

  • The temperature on March 13, 1710 was about 6.0 °C. Source: KNMI
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    Van 1702 tot 1747 kende Nederland (ookwel Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden) zijn Tweede Stadhouderloze Tijdperk.
  • In the year 1710: Source: Wikipedia
    • February 28 » Battle of Helsingborg: 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau are decisively defeated by an equally sized Swedish force under Magnus Stenbock. This is the last time Swedish and Danish troops meet on Swedish soil.
    • April 5 » The Statute of Anne receives the royal assent establishing the Copyright law of the United Kingdom.
    • April 10 » The Statute of Anne, the first law regulating copyright, comes into force in Great Britain.
    • August 20 » War of the Spanish Succession: A multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa.
    • October 13 » Port Royal, the capital of French Acadia, falls in a siege by British forces.

Day of death November 10, 1766

  • The temperature on November 10, 1766 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east by south. Weather type: mistig mottig. Source: KNMI
  • Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
  • In the year 1766: Source: Wikipedia
    • March 5 » Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
    • May 22 » A large earthquake causes heavy damage and loss of life in Istanbul and the Marmara region.
    • November 10 » The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
    • December 2 » Swedish parliament approved the Swedish Freedom of the Press Act and implemented it as a ground law, thus being first in the world with freedom of speech.
    • December 5 » In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale.
    • December 25 » Mapuches in Chile launch a series of surprise attacks against the Spanish starting the Mapuche uprising of 1766.


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