The earliest known ancestor of this line is Jacob RABE (also known variant is RAPE). Most of what we know of him, comes from his 1822 Last Will and Testament filed in Washington Co., PA and which names him as a resident of Fallowfield Twp., of that county. Jacob was born about 1745 and died in 1822. He married Catherine (Unknown) who died in 1840. Their union produced seven known children, all named in their father’s will. Click here for text of the Jacob Rabe Will.
Surnames mentioned in the following family outline: AMMON, BARKER, FREDERICK, GRANT, RABE/RAPE, RYAN, SLATER, TEAGARDEN
Descendants of Jacob Rabe and his wife Catherine
1) Jacob Rabe 1745 - 1822
+Catherine Unknown - 1840
2) Jacob Rabe II 1770 - 1869
2) Thomas Rabe
2) Henry Rabe
2) Christana Rabe
+Unknown Slater
2) Nelly Rabe
2) Betsy Rabe
+Unknown Barker
2) Catherine Rabe
+Unknown Ryan
2) Jacob Rabe II 1770 - 1869
+Annier Unknown - 1842
3) Hester Rabe 1807 - 1873
+Upton Ammon 1810 - 1885 click for AMMON family outline
3) Henry Rabe 1795 -
3) John Rabe 1797 -
3) Rebecca Rabe 1798 -
3) Samuel Rabe 1800 -
3) Nancy Rabe 1802 -
3) Mary Rabe 1803 -
3) David G. Rabe 1809 - 1887
3) William Rabe 1812 - 1888
3) Eleanor Rabe 1815 -
3) Christina Rabe 1817 -
3) Rebecca Rabe 1820 -
3) Mary Ann Rabe 1835 - 1905
+Elgy Grant
3) Hiram Rabe 1826 - 1896
+Matilda Teagarden
second wife of Hiram Rabe:
+Catherine Frederick 1836 - 1877
The Last Will and Testament of Jacob RAPE (aka RABE)
Will Book #3, page 501, #70
Washington County Courthouse, Washington , PA
Dated 8th August 1811
Probated 19th July 1822In the name of God, Amen, I, Jacob Rape (also known as Rabe) of Washington County, Fallowfield Township and State of Pennsylvania being in perfect health of body and sound mind, memory and understanding, Blessed be God for the same, but considering the uncertainty of this transitory life do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following viz:
Principally and first of all I commend my immortal Soul into the hands of God who gave it & my body to the Earth to be buried in a decent & Christian like manner at the discretion of my Executors herein after mentioned or named, and as to such worldly estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me in this life, I give and dispose of the same in the following manner, viz: I give and devise to my loving son THOMAS RAPE twenty dollars together with all the land & tenements that he, the sd Thomas, holds now his natural life by him the sd Thomas paying the sum of six dollars per annum for the sd premises to me or the heir of sd land. I also give and devise & bequeath unto my loving son HENRY RAPE, forty dollars. I also give and bequeath unto my loving daughter CHRISTANA RAPE SLATER, to have one fourth of my personal Estate that is to say one fourth of the money arisiing from the same after my decease. I also give devise and bequeath unto my loving daughter NELLY RAPE the one fourth of the money arising from my personal estate after my decease. I also give devise and bequeath to my loving daughter BETSY RAPE BARKER the one fourth of the money owing from my personal estate after my decease. I also give devise and bequeath unto my loving daughter CATHERINE RAPE RYAN the one fourth of the money owing out of my personal estate after my decease that is to say all my personal estate is to be sold after my death and to be equally divided between my four daughters above mentioned. I also give, devise and bequeath unto my loving son JACOB RAPE all my plantation with improvements which belong thereto after death with the promise of him the sd Jacob paying off all Legacies or monies left to the rest of the Heirs of sd estate afforementioned. The sd monies or legacies to be paid one year after my death.
I also give devise and bequeath unto my loving wife CATHERINE the house that we now live in together, one large and two small pots, one bed & bedding with bedsteads, one cow , two sheep & a breeding sow, also the Garden that adjoins sd house sd garden to be plowed every year by Jacob Rape during her natural life together with firewood sufficient cut hauled & put up at sd house also ten bushels wheat five bushels of Rye ten bushels Corn and five bushels Buckwheat to be given to sd Catherine, my wife by sd Jacob year & yearly during her natural life. The sd Jacob is to get Grain manufactured fit for Bread & also one barrel of cider yearly to be given my wife if there be any made out of the Orcherd that is on the Plantation also one Bucket & spoons together with Pewter Basons and ten pounds of sugar yearly. After my death I leave my wearing apparel to be equally divided between my two sons Thomas & Jacob, also all the goods & Chattles that is left my loving wife Catherine returns to Jacob after her decease he paying funeral expenses and I do Constitute my beloved son Jacob Rape and my trusty friend Wm. Irwin to be my Executors of this my last will and testament and I do hereby revoke and disanull all other wills and testaments requests or Legacies and Exacutors by in any ways named by me Ratifing and confirming this & no other to be my last will and testament in Witness whereoff I have set my hand and seal hereto this eighth day of August Eighteen hundred & Eleven. His Mark ‘X’ Jacob Rape
Witness:
William Hunter, William Parkinson and John Anderson