Jacob Reiff

1698 - 1782  (83 years)

• Name	Jacob Reiff
  Birth	15 Nov 1698
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Feb 1782
  Burial	Lower Skippack Mennonite Cemetery, Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  Person ID	I23993	Tulpehocken Genealogy
  Last Modified	18 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	John George Reiff,   b. 1659, Ibersheim, Worms, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany d. 15 Dec 1726, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 67 years)
  Mother	Anna Maria Werblin,   b. Apr 1662, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany d. 7 Jan 1753, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 90 years)
  Family ID	F8560	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Ann Maria Landes,   b. 1709, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 28 Oct 1788, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F6667	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Nov 2023

  
  

• Notes

  his entry on Jacob Reiff is taken from blog entries on him in Perkiomen Autographs and Pennsylvania Fathers by AE Reiff. Jacob Reiff the Elder (15 November 1698 – 16 February 1782) was the youngest son of Hans George Reiff (d. December, 1726) and Anna Maria (1662-1753), his executor and a man of wide reputation in Skippack and Lower Salford. Evidence now suggests that his wife was Anna Landis (1709 – 28 October 1788) who he married at Skippack in 1733. Jacob the Elder had two sons, Jacob Jr. and George III. It is hard to conclusively prove whether he was a Mennonite later in life because of the records which Mennonites essentially did not believe in keeping, but a summary of some of the argument goes like this: His oldest son, Jacob Reiff Jr., the first elected member of the Pennsylvania General Assembly from Montgomery County (1786-89), who voted for the Pennsylvania convention to adopt the Constitution of the United States, seems to have followed his father's Reformed tendencies since he participated in the founding of the Wentz Reformed Church... Jacob Jr.'s children however got him into the Mennonites in a big way, especially his son John Reiff (5 December 1759 – 6 February 1826) who married a daughter of Bishop Christian Funk and became a minister with that prescient, if defrocked divine, who endorsed the American Revolution. This John Reiff signed the preface, with other ministers, of the English version of Funk's Mirror for all Mankind (Norristown, Pa.,1814). In 1814 Jacob Reiff (Jr.) donated land for the first Funkite meetinghouse in Skippack (Wenger, 350), the same land that his son John later retitled to the Dunkards after the Funkite demise...

  
  

• Sources

  [S64] Website: Find a Grave [text], https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/70251192/jacob-reiff.