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Jacob Cazier

Name
Jacob /Cazier/
Surname
Cazier
Given names
Jacob
Death of a maternal grandfather
Death of a maternal grandmother
Death of a son
Unique identifier
F1FB0873CBEBBE4ABDF7E25517E0F33A3469
Last change
26 August 201100:00:00
Note

Scharf, Thomas J., History of Delawar, 1609,1888 Volume Two-pp 8
54-880
Chapter XLVIII Pencader Hundred
"In 1714, Matthias Van Bibber purchased a portion of St.Augustin
e Manor from Ephraim Augustine Herman.....The portion of land i
n St. augustine Manor owned by him was devised to hius daughter
s Rebecca acquired the portion situated in Delaware. She was m
arried to ....Cazier and at her death the property descended t
o her sons--John, Jacob and Matthias. On the 21st of March, 17
80, John sold his interest to Matthias and Jacob. Inthis dee
d the property is mentioned as a tract of land
"commonly called or known by the name of St.Augustine's Manor al
l that which laid in the boundarysof Maryland before the establ
ishment of the lines between Maryland and Pennsylvania, containi
ng in the whole about two thousand acres, more or less, wherei
n a certain Loyed Delaney owns one-half and Beal Boardley one-fo
urth andRobert Haughey one-eight's part, and the heirs of Rebec
ca Cazier one-eith's part situated now a small part in Pencade
r Hundred, and the greatest part in St. George's Hundred and cou
nty of New Castle, now a chief part in the tenureof Robert Haug
hey and a small part in the tenure of Jacob and Matthias Cazier.
"
Mr. Cazier is now a retired farmer, near Kirkwood,New Castle Cou
nty, and was born on the White Hall Farm, the old homestead of h
is ancestors for several generations, December 25 1833. He is t
he son of Henry Cazier, whose wife was Sarah Johnson, of New Yor
k City. He is the grandson of Jacob Cazier, whose first name h
e bears, who, in turn, was a grandson of Matthias Van Bibber, a
n eminent and opulent man of his Day, who came from near Philade
lphia (Germantown), and settled in Maryland in 1702, and in tha
t year and in 1711, bought lands that had formed part of the fam
ous Labadie tract on the Bohemia River. Mathias VanBibber was c
ontemporary with the Hermans, ....
A large portion of this land descended from Jacob Cazier to hi
s son Henry, and is now inthe possession of Jacob Benson Cazier