✏ Sources for Jacob Good and Magdalena

• Title: PA Lancaster: History of Lancaster Pennsylvania with Biographical Sketches.
  Author: Ellis, Franklin and Evans, Samuel.
  Publication: 1883, Everts & Peck, Philadelphia.
  Page: p. 676
  Note: Lists landowners after Revolution including 2 Jacobs. One farmer has 200 acres. One weaver and farmer has 150 acres.
  


• Title: Good Family Record of John and Mary Good.
  Author: Mrs. Anna B Reed, secretary (handwritten note in cover).
  Publication: 1960, 71 pages (handwritten note in cover).
  Page: p. 5
  Note: Names Magdalena as spouse of Jacob.
  


• Title: Six Good Families.
  Author: Jane Evans Best.
  Publication: Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, 13 (1989): 11-28.
  Page: GC35
  Note: Jacob married (1) Magdalena, who died before Aug. 19, 1786.
  


• Title: PA Archives.
  Page: Series 3, Vol 17, p. 40, 190, 330, 646, 831
  Note: 1771, 72, 73, 79, 82 Brecknock Twp, Lancaster County tax.
  


• Title: PA Berks: Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County Pennsylvania.
  Author: Morton L Montgomery.
  Publication: 1909, J H. Beers & Co, Chicago.
  Page: Vol 2, p. 1024
  Note: Names Jacob Good Sr as grandfather of Jacob B Good, born 1817, and as son of Christal Good of Switzerland.
  


• Title: Good: History of the Good Ancestry.
  Author: Good, Elias Hosea.
  Page: p. 7
  Note: Reports that Jacob's father was John Guth, born 1731 to Christian Guth and Anna Schmidt,and that Jacob had siblings Joseph, Samuel, and a sister.
  


• Title: Mennosearch.com.
  Author: Richard Warren Davis.
  Page: Good D.130
  Note: "Jacob Good, born c1746. died 1812, Brecknock Township. He wrote his will 7 Nov 1811 and it was proved 25 Apr 1812. md 1) Magdalena. md 2) Veronica Oberholtzer (1753-1831) in about 1788. The executors of his will were John Broucher and Peter Guth. On 7 Jul 1813 money was distributed to his sons. He was single when his siblings sold some of their father's land to him in 1769. He was taxed at Brecknock in 1769 as a single man. The 1790 census at Brecknock shows Jacob Good "Jr", with 4 males under 16 and 1 female. In 1800 at Brecknock he was over age 45 years, his wife was over age 45 and he had one son age 16 to 26 years and one son age 0-10 years. Jacob's second wife and widow Veronica left money to her only son Samuel and mentioned her 3 step-sons John, Christian and Jacob Guth in her will which she wrote on 15 Jan 1825 and which was proved 10 Oct 1831."