Schuhlmeister at Oberfischbach, Nassau-Siegen, before emigrating to Virginia where he arrived with his family in April 1714. He was naturalized by Lieutenant-Governor Alexander Spotswood at Williamsburg, July 11, 1722, which was recorded at the Spotsylvania Court House, October 5, 1725. He was the schoolmaster and church reader at Germantown in present-day Fauquier County, where he died testate with a will dated January 15, 1759, which was proved February 29, 1760. He possessed lot 14 of the original Germantown survey, as well as the Germantown Glebe, which was lot 15, and later purchased the upper and lower portions of lot 16. The original church and cemetery of the community was located on the glebe land in his possession.
Husband of (1) Anna Margreth, daughter of Hermannus Otterbach (d. 1724-29), and (2) Catharine (d. by 1757).
Please do not ask me to add February 29th as the date of his death. That is the date his will was proved before the Prince William County Court, and his death may have occurred days, weeks, or even months before that date. Also, his second wife Catharine was not a Löbernicht. Some researchers are confusing his sister-in-law with his second wife.
Will Transcript
In the Name of God Amen I Jacob Holtzclaw of the Parish of Hamilton and County of Prince William being of perfect Sense and Memory do make and Ordain this my last Will and Testament as followeth, Imprimis
I give and Bequeath to my son Joseph Holtzclaw three hundred and seventy four acres of Land more or less being the Land I bought of Warner Toward to him and his Heirs lawfully begotten of his Body forever and in default of such Heirs to fall to my son Jacob Holtclaw and his Heirs forever lawfully begotten of his Body.
Item I give and bequeath unto my son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs ~ forever lawfully bogotten of his Body all that Tract of Land on Sinking run and containing two hundred acres more or less being the land whereon I now live including forty acres I bought of Harman Kamper and also that forty acres bought of Harman button being all the land joining the said Tract.
Item I give and bequeath to my son Jacob Holtzclaw all that Tract of Land which I bought of Thomas Barton in Prince William County containing one hundred and fifty acres more or less to him and his Heirs forever lawfully begotten of his Body
Only reserving to my son Joseph Holtzclaw the Liberty of taking as much Timber off of the said One hundred and fifty Acres of land as he shall have Occasion for in building a dwelling House for himself.
Item I give and bequeath to my son Harman Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever lawfully begotten of his Body two hundred Acres of Land more or less being the Land I bought of Thomas Stone whereon the said Harman now lives also I give and bequeath to my abovesaid Son Harman and his Heirs forever One hundred Acres of land being part of a Tract of Land containing three hundred and thirty seven acres and lying on the Branches of Hunger Run in Prince William County and hereafter given to my Grandsons Henry and Joseph Holtzclaw
Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Eve Wiley the wife of Allen Wiley and her Heirs ~ forever lawfully begotten of her Body three hundred acres of Land lying in Loudon County on Goose Creek granted to me by Patent in the Year One thousand seven hundred and fifty but if my said Daughter Eve should die without Heirs lawfully begotten of her Body or in default of such Heirs the said Land to fall to my Son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever lawfully begotten of his Body
I give and bequeath to my Daughter Alice Catherine Hitt the wife of Henry Hitt three hundred Acres of land where the said Henry Hitt now lives being hart of a Tract of Land lying in Culpeper County Containing one thousand three hundred Acres and granted to me by Patent in the Year one thousand seven hundred and forty Eight to her and her Heirs lawfully begotten of his Body forever and in default of such Heirs to my son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever lawfully begotten forever
Item I give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth Miller the Wife of Harman Miller three hundred Acres of Land whereon the said Harman Miller now lives being part of the abovesaid Tract of thirteen hundred Acres to her and her Heirs forever lawfully begotten of her Body and in default of such Heirs to fall to my son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs lawfully begotten of his Body forever.
I leave to son Henry Holtzclaw two hundred acres of Land whereon he now lives being part of a Tract of Land of 496 Acres lying upon broad Run and taken up in the Year 1724 during his natural life and at his Death to fall to his son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever lawfully begotten of his Body and in default of such Heirs said Land to fall to my son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever lawfully begotten ~
Item I give and bequeath to my Grandson Henry Holtzclaw the Son of John Holtzclaw one hundred acres of Land lying upon the Branches of Hungar Run being part of a Tract of Land containing three hundred and thirty seven Acres to him and his Heirs forever
Item I give and bequeath to my Grandson Joseph Holtzclaw the son of John Holtzclaw the Remaining part of the above said Tract of Land of three hundred and thirty seven Acres being one hundred and thirty seven Acres more or less to him and his Heirs forever
Item I give and bequeath to my Grandson Joseph Darnall the son of Jere. Darnall three hundred and thirty five Acres of Land lying in Loudon County near William's Gap joining the Lane of George Carter to him and his Heirs forever.
Item I give to my Daughter Katharine Darnall the wife of Jeremiah Darnal three hundred and Sixty? two Acres of Land in Prince William County joining the Land of the Heirs of John Fishback to her and her Heirs forever.
Item I give and bequeath unto my son Joseph Holtzclaw above mentioned One Negro Woman named Nan one feather Bed and Furniture, one Cow and Calf, one Pewter Dish and Bason and two Plates and one Desk.
Item I give and bequeath to my son Jacob Holtzclaw One Negro Boy named Anthony, one Feather bed and furniture, one Clothes Press, one Cow and Calf, one Pewter Dish and Bason and two Plates.
Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Eve Wiley one Negro Girl named Kate now in the possession of Allen Wiley Husband to the said Eve.
Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Alice Katherine Hitt one Negro Boy named Daniel
Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Elizabeth Miller one Negro Boy named Solomon now in the possession of Harman Miller Husband to the said Elizabeth
Item I give and bequeath to my son Harman Holtzclaw one Negro wench named Sarah now in his Possession
Item I give and bequeath to my son Henry Holtzclaw one Negro Boy named Ned now in his Possession
Item I give and bequeath unto my Grandson Jacob Fishback son to Frederick Fishback one Negro Boy named Toney
Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Katharine Darnal one Negro Man named Robin, one Feather bed and Furniture and one warming Pan.
Item I give and Bequeath unto my Grandson John Fishback son to Frederick Fishback one hundred and seventy seven Acres of Lane lying in Loudon County on Goose Creek being the remaining part of the Tract of Land whereof apart is given to my Daughter Eve Wiley abovementioned to him and his Heirs forever ~
Item it is my Will and desire that one Tract of Lane containing five hundred and eleven Acres in Augusta County being in two Patents together with all my Personal Estate not herein before mentioned and the money arising therefrom after paying my just Debts to be divided between all my Children herein before mentioned
Item I constitute and appoint my Son in law Jeremiah Darnal and my son Jacob Holtzcla my Executors to this my last Will and Testament ~
In Witnes whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this 15th Day of January Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and fifty nine.
[Signed] Jacob Holtzclaw [L.S.]
Signed Sealed and published in the Presence of
Peter [His X Mark] Hitt
Thos. Marshall
Henry Kamper
At a Court continued and held for Fauquier County the 29th Day of February 1760
This will was proved by the oaths of Thomas Marshall and Henry Kamper Witnesses thereto and was Ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of Jeremiah Darnal one of the Executors therein named who made Oath according to Law ~ Certificate is granted him for obtaining a probat thereof in due Form and Liberty is granted the other Executor to join in the Probat when he shall think fit.
Teste: Humphrey Brooke Clk.
Schuhlmeister at Oberfischbach, Nassau-Siegen, before emigrating to Virginia where he arrived with his family in April 1714. He was naturalized by Lieutenant-Governor Alexander Spotswood at Williamsburg, July 11, 1722, which was recorded at the Spotsylvania Court House, October 5, 1725. He was the schoolmaster and church reader at Germantown in present-day Fauquier County, where he died testate with a will dated January 15, 1759, which was proved February 29, 1760. He possessed lot 14 of the original Germantown survey, as well as the Germantown Glebe, which was lot 15, and later purchased the upper and lower portions of lot 16. The original church and cemetery of the community was located on the glebe land in his possession.
Husband of (1) Anna Margreth, daughter of Hermannus Otterbach (d. 1724-29), and (2) Catharine (d. by 1757).
Please do not ask me to add February 29th as the date of his death. That is the date his will was proved before the Prince William County Court, and his death may have occurred days, weeks, or even months before that date. Also, his second wife Catharine was not a Löbernicht. Some researchers are confusing his sister-in-law with his second wife.
Will Transcript
In the Name of God Amen I Jacob Holtzclaw of the Parish of Hamilton and County of Prince William being of perfect Sense and Memory do make and Ordain this my last Will and Testament as followeth, Imprimis
I give and Bequeath to my son Joseph Holtzclaw three hundred and seventy four acres of Land more or less being the Land I bought of Warner Toward to him and his Heirs lawfully begotten of his Body forever and in default of such Heirs to fall to my son Jacob Holtclaw and his Heirs forever lawfully begotten of his Body.
Item I give and bequeath unto my son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs ~ forever lawfully bogotten of his Body all that Tract of Land on Sinking run and containing two hundred acres more or less being the land whereon I now live including forty acres I bought of Harman Kamper and also that forty acres bought of Harman button being all the land joining the said Tract.
Item I give and bequeath to my son Jacob Holtzclaw all that Tract of Land which I bought of Thomas Barton in Prince William County containing one hundred and fifty acres more or less to him and his Heirs forever lawfully begotten of his Body
Only reserving to my son Joseph Holtzclaw the Liberty of taking as much Timber off of the said One hundred and fifty Acres of land as he shall have Occasion for in building a dwelling House for himself.
Item I give and bequeath to my son Harman Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever lawfully begotten of his Body two hundred Acres of Land more or less being the Land I bought of Thomas Stone whereon the said Harman now lives also I give and bequeath to my abovesaid Son Harman and his Heirs forever One hundred Acres of land being part of a Tract of Land containing three hundred and thirty seven acres and lying on the Branches of Hunger Run in Prince William County and hereafter given to my Grandsons Henry and Joseph Holtzclaw
Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Eve Wiley the wife of Allen Wiley and her Heirs ~ forever lawfully begotten of her Body three hundred acres of Land lying in Loudon County on Goose Creek granted to me by Patent in the Year One thousand seven hundred and fifty but if my said Daughter Eve should die without Heirs lawfully begotten of her Body or in default of such Heirs the said Land to fall to my Son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever lawfully begotten of his Body
I give and bequeath to my Daughter Alice Catherine Hitt the wife of Henry Hitt three hundred Acres of land where the said Henry Hitt now lives being hart of a Tract of Land lying in Culpeper County Containing one thousand three hundred Acres and granted to me by Patent in the Year one thousand seven hundred and forty Eight to her and her Heirs lawfully begotten of his Body forever and in default of such Heirs to my son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever lawfully begotten forever
Item I give and Bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth Miller the Wife of Harman Miller three hundred Acres of Land whereon the said Harman Miller now lives being part of the abovesaid Tract of thirteen hundred Acres to her and her Heirs forever lawfully begotten of her Body and in default of such Heirs to fall to my son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs lawfully begotten of his Body forever.
I leave to son Henry Holtzclaw two hundred acres of Land whereon he now lives being part of a Tract of Land of 496 Acres lying upon broad Run and taken up in the Year 1724 during his natural life and at his Death to fall to his son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever lawfully begotten of his Body and in default of such Heirs said Land to fall to my son Jacob Holtzclaw and his Heirs forever lawfully begotten ~
Item I give and bequeath to my Grandson Henry Holtzclaw the Son of John Holtzclaw one hundred acres of Land lying upon the Branches of Hungar Run being part of a Tract of Land containing three hundred and thirty seven Acres to him and his Heirs forever
Item I give and bequeath to my Grandson Joseph Holtzclaw the son of John Holtzclaw the Remaining part of the above said Tract of Land of three hundred and thirty seven Acres being one hundred and thirty seven Acres more or less to him and his Heirs forever
Item I give and bequeath to my Grandson Joseph Darnall the son of Jere. Darnall three hundred and thirty five Acres of Land lying in Loudon County near William's Gap joining the Lane of George Carter to him and his Heirs forever.
Item I give to my Daughter Katharine Darnall the wife of Jeremiah Darnal three hundred and Sixty? two Acres of Land in Prince William County joining the Land of the Heirs of John Fishback to her and her Heirs forever.
Item I give and bequeath unto my son Joseph Holtzclaw above mentioned One Negro Woman named Nan one feather Bed and Furniture, one Cow and Calf, one Pewter Dish and Bason and two Plates and one Desk.
Item I give and bequeath to my son Jacob Holtzclaw One Negro Boy named Anthony, one Feather bed and furniture, one Clothes Press, one Cow and Calf, one Pewter Dish and Bason and two Plates.
Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Eve Wiley one Negro Girl named Kate now in the possession of Allen Wiley Husband to the said Eve.
Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Alice Katherine Hitt one Negro Boy named Daniel
Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Elizabeth Miller one Negro Boy named Solomon now in the possession of Harman Miller Husband to the said Elizabeth
Item I give and bequeath to my son Harman Holtzclaw one Negro wench named Sarah now in his Possession
Item I give and bequeath to my son Henry Holtzclaw one Negro Boy named Ned now in his Possession
Item I give and bequeath unto my Grandson Jacob Fishback son to Frederick Fishback one Negro Boy named Toney
Item I give and bequeath to my Daughter Katharine Darnal one Negro Man named Robin, one Feather bed and Furniture and one warming Pan.
Item I give and Bequeath unto my Grandson John Fishback son to Frederick Fishback one hundred and seventy seven Acres of Lane lying in Loudon County on Goose Creek being the remaining part of the Tract of Land whereof apart is given to my Daughter Eve Wiley abovementioned to him and his Heirs forever ~
Item it is my Will and desire that one Tract of Lane containing five hundred and eleven Acres in Augusta County being in two Patents together with all my Personal Estate not herein before mentioned and the money arising therefrom after paying my just Debts to be divided between all my Children herein before mentioned
Item I constitute and appoint my Son in law Jeremiah Darnal and my son Jacob Holtzcla my Executors to this my last Will and Testament ~
In Witnes whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and Seal this 15th Day of January Anno Dom one thousand seven hundred and fifty nine.
[Signed] Jacob Holtzclaw [L.S.]
Signed Sealed and published in the Presence of
Peter [His X Mark] Hitt
Thos. Marshall
Henry Kamper
At a Court continued and held for Fauquier County the 29th Day of February 1760
This will was proved by the oaths of Thomas Marshall and Henry Kamper Witnesses thereto and was Ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of Jeremiah Darnal one of the Executors therein named who made Oath according to Law ~ Certificate is granted him for obtaining a probat thereof in due Form and Liberty is granted the other Executor to join in the Probat when he shall think fit.
Teste: Humphrey Brooke Clk.
