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.
Samuel Jobe (1735, married Dorcas MacKay), Jacob Jobe (1737, married Elizabeth MacKay),
Nathan Jobe (1739, married Lydia McCarty), and
Elizabeth Jobe (1741, married Josiah Leath and Jeremiah Mathes).
In 1736
East Nottingham Preparative Meeting Informs this meeting that there has of late happened a Reproachful Difference between two Brothers, Caleb & Joshua Job, which nigh Reached to Giving Blows if not Quite, with abusive and Unbecoming Language, Henry Reynolds & Jeremiah Brown are therefore Desired to treat with them & Labour that they may take the Reproach there of from Truth & Regain their own Credit by Condemninig the Same accordingly & give an Account to the next Monthly Meeting. (Men's Minutes of Nottingham Monthly Meeting, 1730-1756, Vol. I transcribed by Eleanor Orthun)
Third Month
Caleb Job, being at this meeting, requests one month more to consider the condemning of his bad conduct.
Sixth Month
Caleb & Joshua Job having been Labour'd with by the Friends appointed, Caleb hath sent a Paper Condemning his Behavior with his Brother...
Joshua Job wholy Refusing to Submit to the meeting or to give Satisfaction for his Misbehavior...
The Jobe family moved to Augusta County, Virginia where Caleb operated a mill.
Caleb died on August 4, 1750 in Augusta County, Virginia.
After he died, Barbara married Ephriam Leith.
Early Quakers were persecuted. In the Massachusetts Bay colony, Friends were banished on pain of death.
