Notes

3. Jacob Schaub

and his brother Martin came from Switzerland to America in the
summer of 1737 on the ship "Virtuous Grace", in company with
their step-father Anthony Reiger Sr. and his family, and
Leinert Heyer Sr. and his family. The names of
the twenty persons in this group are given on pages 111 and
112, Volume II, of Faust and Brambaugh's "Lists of Swiss
Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies",
as coming from Benken in the Canton of Basel. For a time they
lived in the Tulpehocken region in Pennsylvania, and three more
children were born to Leinert and Clara Heyer - Anthony,
Magdalene and Eve. By 1750 the Shobes and Hyers were living in
the Valley of the South Branch of Potomac, just across the
river from the present location of Petersburg in Grant County,
and it was in this locality Jacob Shobe died. His will was
probated March 10, 1772. The name had become anglicized to
Shobe by his children and those of his brother Martin.

Jacob and Anna Barbara Hyer were married by the Rev. John
Caspar Stoever.

Jacob's will as recorded in at Romney, WV. The original will
is written in high Dutch and the translation as given below was
proved by Abraham Hite.

In the name of God Amen I Jacob Shobe in Hampshire County
and Colony of Virginia am weak in Bosy but Sound in memory I
give my loveing wife Barbara one mare branded with a 4 &/I and
a Cow which She choseth and the grane that is in the Stackyard
hemp Flax and wool and Woolen yarn and a Side Saddle and this
shall be her own. Secondly I will to my wife all the money
that is Due to me
and my black horse and all the Beds and all the house and
Furniture and all the Land Except that which I have give to my
son Jacob this I give her as long as she bears My Name and if
She bears my name no more then shall this all come to my heirs
again Except her third part. 3 I give my son Jacob that (?)
piece of Land which he now lives on and shall (be his own (?)
beginning) at a hickory .......... as the Pon gows to a hickory
Saplin marked with three chops from thence to a black Oak
Standing on the Pon Side And all that is on the other Side of
the Pon so far as my right goes. This I give to him and his
heirs this shall be his part of my Estate and Shall have no
more to expect.
The land which I have wild to my wife as Long as she bears
my Name that shall come to my three sons to wit Rudulf and
martin and Abraham to them and their heirs ..... my children
...... Shall be Sold and Equily Divided among my
Children And my wife shall have her thrid Part of it
Elizabeth and Flora and Barbara and Eve and Rudulf and Martin
and Abraham and my son Jacob I Do appoint to be my Executor of
my las will and Testament September 16th in the year of our
Lord 1771
his

Jacob Shob
Christopher Ermantrout
mark
Martin Shob
The will was presented in court 10 March 1772.

6. Martin Schaub

Will of Martin SHOBE - 1792

Hardy County Wills

Will of Martin Shobe 1792
This document was transcribed by Margaret Lew from Leonard
Hire's xeroxed copy of the original records. Folds in the will
have
obscured words and those which are illegible are indicated with
[...] or transcriber's best reading of them is also enclosed in
[].

(page one)

Name of God Amen, I Martin Shobe of Hardy
and Colony of Virginia Being Weak in Body But
Memory thanks be to God for his Mercy do
ordain this my last will and testament:
of all my Body to be decently Buried at
direction of My Executors hereafter Named

touching my Wordly Estate where with
it pleased God to bless me with. I give and
of in the following Manner Viz I give
Bequeath the one [third] of all my Estate
Beloved Wife Elizabeth during her life

her decease the [share] to be Equally
among my children and as to my lands
Bequeath to my [...] Rudolph Shobe the
[...] on he now [li...] also give and bequeath
son Leonard Shobe all the reste of the
I own. Except A [...cts] Lying on [Cheat]
Which I give and Bequeath to my Son
Shobe the Above [Mentioned] lands to be [...]
[..in] Hundred [pounds] the possessors of said
[after] a division being made Shall be allow
to pay of the their Legatees pay a fourth
[...] Year till all is paid. [...] my Moveable Estate
to be added to the [p...] of the Lands & Each
children to receive [equal] share of the whole

Constitute and [Ordain] my two sons
[Rudolph] Shobe and Leonard Shobe Executors
my last will and testament

(page two)

and utterly disa ___cel any will [...]
M Made. In Witness Whereof I have
set my hand and Seal this Sixteen
of May in the year of Our Lord [...]

Signd Sealed
& delivered in Martin Shobe
Presence of us

Jno Howard
Martin [...]
[... ....]

At a Court held for Hardy County the ___ day of July 1792 this
last will and Testament of Martin Shobes Decd was proved by the
oath of the witnesses thereto and ordered to Be Recorded and on
the motion of Rudolph Shobe & L Shobe one of the Executors
herein
named who made oath thereto according to Law Certificate is
granted him for obtaining a probate there of in [...] from
Giving
Security where upon they with Security entered into and
acknowledged Bond Conditioned [........] by the Court

Martin Shobes Last Will & Testament 1792 July Prov & O R
Rudolph
Shobe one of the [...] hereby [...] will the Law [...] is [...]

Recorded

19. Jacob Shobe

The will of Rudolph Heyer (ca. 1801) indicates that Jacob Shobe
and his wife
probably left children, whose names are not known; one possibly
Jacob.