Jacob and Mary (Hendrickson) Kittle

Jacob Kittle was born July 26, 1757 in Sussex County, New Jersey, the son of Abraham Kittle Sr. and Christiana (Westfall) Kittle. He was baptized February 11, 1758, at Deer Park Church, Ulster County, New York. He died January 5, 1844, at the age 86 years 5 months and 14 days. He is buried at the Primitive Baptist Church Cemetery at Arnold Hill near Beverly (about 4 miles below). He is in one row and his wife is in the next row. The church was built in 1806. The first grave was Jacob Weese's 12 year old daughter. The Tygart Valley DAR put a marker at Jacob Kittle's grave in 1964.

Jacob's wife was Mary Hendrickson. She died March 9, 1834, age 74 years 3 months and 6 days. She was born October 13, 1760, her father was Johannes Hendrickson and her mother was Lydia Kelder (Keller). Jacob and Mary were married November 25, 1776 in New Amsterdam, NY.

In 1789 Jacob Kittle moved from Northhampton County, Pennsylvania to Tygart Valley, Augusta County, Virginia, where he lived until his death.

As a citizen of Randolph County, Jacob Kittle seems to have been a man of affairs, holding several offices in Randolph County, being a Captain in the militia in 1794, a justice of the peace in 1794 and having held several other appointments.

Jacob Kittle -- service, Pa. Va. No. 16657 No. S. 13630 born in Sussex County, New Jersey, 1757, son of Abraham and Mary Kittle. Enlisted in Northhampton County, Pennsylvania, February 19, 1776, across the New Jersey line. Served fourteen months in Third Battalion of Pennsylvania Brigade under Captains Boyles, Conkle, Hoover, Shrivers and Colonels Cadwallader, Miller, Stroud, Major Baker, and General Lacey. Pension certificates were issued in Randolph County in 1833 and 1835.

While living in Northhampton County, Pennsylvania, Jacob enlisted and served as a private with the Pennsylvania troops as follows: from February 18, 1776, in Captain Thomas B. Bykes and George Tudor's companies in Colonel Cadwalder's regiment, aided in building Fort Washington, was taken ill there and discharged from the hospital at Haekensack, New Jersey, on November 8, 1776; in the fall of 1777 he served two months under Captain Lawrence Conkle and Colonel Abraham Miller. From late February 1778 he served two months under Captain Samuel Hoover in Colonel Jacob Stroud's regiment; engaged in procuring powder from Fort Lackawack in Northampton; soon afterwards he served between fifteen to twenty days under Captain John Van Sickler and late in 1778 served about ten days under Lieutenant Nathaniel Washburn.

He was allowed a pension application executed August 29, 1832. He drew a pension (No. 13630) as a Revolutionary soldier in the New Jersey militia from 1835 to 1840. At that time he was 84 years old and lived in Randolph County.

Jacob Kittle's will is found in Will Book No. 3 page 193 dated January 1843 at Randolph County Courthouse. The appraisement is located in Volume 3 page 222, the settlement is dated May 1845. He named the following children and grandchildren in his will: son Benjamin, grandson Jacob Triplett, 2 sons of Moses -- Benjamin and Jesse, Jean Kelley, Elizabeth Phillips, Sarah Skidmore, Lydia Chenoweth, Jemima Kelley, Margaret Phillips, the heirs of Christey Triplett to have her part, Mary Hart, beloved daughter Anne and grand daughter Margaret Kelley. The executor was William Pugh Chenoweth. This will was dated March 13, 1836, and probated January 4, 1843. The witnesses were John I. Chenoweth, John Weese and John Chenoweth.

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