Jacob Christman c1720

Jacob Christmann was born in 1720 in Rodan, Steinthal, Alsace, immigrated by 1741, and after settling first in Lancaster and York Counties, PA, came to North Carolina in 1763 Although he had joined the Moravians in Pennsylvania, he was not directly associated with their community in NC, living instead on Reedy Fork, a tributary of the Haw River in northeastern Guilford County. Several of his children did move to Salem and the surrounding area, however. His first wife was Barbara Heckedorn, whom he married in PA in 1742. After her death, he married Barbara Kraemer (in Lancaster PA in 1758), with whom he came to NC. Jacob died in January, 1785, in Guilford County.