An American Family History

Abraham Jobe

also spelled Joab, Job

Chester County was one of the three original Pennsylvania counties created in 1682.

American colonists continued to use British monetary units, namely the pound, shilling and pence for which £1 (or li) equalled 20s and 1s equalled 12d. In 1792 the dollar was established as the basic unit of currency.

The American folk hero, David "Davy" Crockett(1786 – 1836), grew up in East Tennessee.

Abraham Jobe (Job) was born on August 22, 1702 in Chester County, Pennsylvania and was the son of Andrew Jobe, Jr. and Elizabeth Vernon.

He married his first wife, Sarah Gatchell, on November 24, 1726 at the Nottingham Meeting.

Abraham and Sarah's children included:
Elisha Jobe (1727),
Hannah Jobe
Rebecca Jobe, and
Mary Jobe (married Moses MacKay).

They moved from Chester County, Pennsylvania to the south river area of Virginia around 1736.

In November, 1736 Abraham applied for certificate of transfer for himself and his family from the Nottingham Meeting in Chester County, Pennsylvania to the Hopewell Monthly Meeting in Virginia.

In 1736, Abraham and his family moved to the Shenandoah Valley. Abraham was received by letter to the Hopewell Meeting in Frederick County, Virginia.

In 1738, Sarah died.

On September 8, 1739 Abraham married Elizabeth MacKay in Virginia.

Abraham and Elizabeth's children included:
Isaac Jobe (about 1740),
David Jobe (1744, married Abigail Denton), and
Phoeby Jobe,

On September 18, 1739 the Nottingham Monthly Meeting near the Pennsylvania and Maryland border disowned Elizabeth Mackay and on October 20, 1741 Abraham Jobe was disowned.

In 1741 the Hopewell Monthly Meeting minutes included:

Whereas Abraham Job, one of the Society of the People called Quaker, having attained our certificate to friends of Hopewell Meeting, Virginia, but before he delivered it was married by a priest to Elizabeth MacKay, daughter of Robert MacKay, of the Society, Being first by child with him, which being a scandal to our profession and the said Abraham delaying to give satisfaction though tenderly laboured with, we disown him from the society.

On May 12 1746, Abraham became the constable in Massautten, Augusta County, Virginia.

Abraham died on October 24, 1750 in Augusta County, Virginia.

Sometime after the death of Abraham, the widow and her children moved to the Watauga Settlement in present-day Washington County, Tennessee.

In 1795, David Jobe was an executor of Isaac Denton's will.

The Society of Friends (Quakers) began in England in the 1650s, when they broke away from the Puritans. Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn, as a safe place for Friends to live and practice their faith.

Bound children were indentured servants whose master provided training in a craft, board, lodging, and clothes for seven years or until the child came of age.

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