speculation on George Jacobs

Hello cousin, (ish)

Every now and again as time allows and I'm feeling like a little frustration will not upset my apple cart I kick my computer into drive and see what I can see about my genealogy. Most times it stress's my humor, but sometimes..... just sometimes I find something. I believe I am a descendant of George Jacobs Sr. also... that salty gent of Salem witchcraft fame. I have tried for years to connect him to his parents or his method of arrival to these grassy shores. Alas no luck... I bet he's just laughing at my efforts. do you have a clue? fact? rumor? belief? felling? hint?

George Sr begat George Jr who Begat George (I find this challenging when so many generations use the same name....)

The third George Begat Benjamin who begat Josiah WHO IS BELIEVED TO HAVE begotten Alger (or Aulguar) Jacobs who begat James Hunter Jacobs (where did hunter come from????) whos' second son was James Hunter Jacobs. His second daughter was Grace Masons DeWitt, her second daughter was Mary Elizabeth Couturier....
I am now looking into Presidents Grover Cleveland and William Taft whom we are said to be related to.

Anyway... have a lovely day...I need to get back on my roof to finish repairing damage from the last monsoon storm.... Enjoy! nice meeting you!


I have a hard time with it because he was supposedly illiterate and he was adamant about Christ during the drama of pretrial and trial. Although I have read thru every passenger list I can find from Canada to New Orleans and have yet to come up with him or a group of brothers or even a miss spelling that could be him. with my name I've become talented at spotting misspellings. I find folks were willing to believe him a which because he was such a cantankerous old fart. I found it interesting that you speculate he was bipolar. I wonder, I have looked, if there is a dna project for the "witches"

This time searching the net has been interesting, I have found one gent who claims we are related to Lizzie Borden as well as some Pharaoh. And here I thought I was doing well to get my Dads side back two generations in Germany, and my moms side as far as I have in the US.

Anyway...I need to go to work.... A customer has a grout problem calling my name.

Thank you~ ciao.

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yup, every now and then I zip through all the various sites that I

can get into free but as of yet I have had no luck with old George. I have come

up with a few rumors. (1) he was born in England, (2) he came with his brothers

one went west, the other south (sorry but wasn't Salem west at the time???) (3)

they came over with captain Kid (4) he was a German Jew..... oh well I

also have not connected george lll's son Benjamin firmly to his son Josoiah nor

Josiah to his son Alger (Aulguar) oh well.... his whole line has been a

challenge.


The German Jew theory has poppped up and been tossed around exactly beacuse of his lack of origin' hemay hve fled anninomously to avoid persecution for being a Jew, and the name certainly fits. That has been our speculation in the family.


LoLyn,
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I enjoyed reading thru your blog the other day, then today at a customers I

hopped on the internet and could "see" different pages. weird hugh?
have a good day!


From Glenn RE: the other side of our family:

At Auntie Lola's funeral supper, I visited with Max (Baca?).

He told me that because of the Spanish Inquisition, a lot of Jewish Spaniards became Catholic.

They were despised by both Christians and Jews as "Marranos" (pigs), and were in danger from the Inquisition.

Many tens of thousands of them left Spain and got as far away as they could -- to New Spain -- to Mexico and South America.

Cousin Max said among these were many of our ancestors.

He said, "Look around".

I looked at our relatives eating.

He said, "We are Jews. I am taking the lessons to convert to be a Jew. I am to be circumcised shortly."


Maybe so. Maybe not. I don't know.

Glenn