1722 Jacob Good was born. [1]
1747 Jacob Good patented 126 acres in Warwick Twp. [2]
Jacob Good married Elizabeth. [3]
1761 Jacob Good sold the land, patented in 1747, to Jacob Oberholtzer. [4]
1765 Jacob Good purchased 163 acres in Washington County, Maryland. [5]
Jacob Good married Barbara. [6]
1797 The will of Jacob Good was proved in Washington County, Maryland. [7]
A biosketch reports [8]:
JacobGood was a resident of Leitersburg District in 1765. He was probably a descendant of Hans Guth, who settled south of Conestoga creek in Lancaster County, Pa. There were Guths in Brecknock Township, Lancaster County, as early as 1711, and it was doubtless from this locality that JacobGood (Guth) removed to Western Maryland. The land he purchased in 1765 comprised Good's Choice, with an area of 163 acres, originally embraced in Skipton-on-Craven, and Luck, a tract of 100 acres, formerly included in The Resurvey on Well Taught. He lived in a log house that stood on the bank of Little Antietam near the present residence of Harvey J. Hartle; on the opposite side of the creek was a saw-mill, in operation as early as 1772. Good eventually owned 350 acres of land, embracing these improvements and the confluence of Little Antietam with Antietam, and here he resided until 1787, when he sold this estate to his son-in-law, Joseph Long, and removed to Huckleberry Hall, a tract several miles distant in the valley of Little Antietam; there he died in 1797, leaving a widow, Barbara, and the following children: John; Anna, wife of Peter Longoneeker; Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Long; Barbara, wife of Peter Witmer; Catharine, wife of Peter Newcomer; Jacob; Mary, wife of Christian Hershey; Christian, and Abraham. The senior JacobGood was a member of the Mennonite Church, one of the few adherents of that faith among the pioneers of Leitersburg District.
[1] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 12, GA11.
[2] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 12, GA11.
[3] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 12, GA11.
[4] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 12, GA11.
[5] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 12, GA11.
[6] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 12, GA11.
[7] Jane Evans Best, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 12 (July, 1989), 11-28, at 12, GA11.
[8] Herbert C. Bell, History of Leitersburg district, Washington County, Md (1898), 191-192, [HathiTrust].