Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Brombach, Jacob ???? - 1799
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

JACOB BROMBACH
who was an orphan, came to America from Germany some time between the years
of 1740 and 1750, and located in the Conococheague settlement, Washington
county, Maryland.  Subsequently he married a Miss Angle, a German Baptist,
and finally joined that church himself, having been a Lutheran previously. 
During Braddock's campaign he served as a packman, his religious convictions
not permitting him to take part as a combatant.  He finally became the owner
of about six thousand acres of land, lying in the present counties of Bedford
and Blair, the Springfield furnace property being a portion of it.  He died in
1799, and was buried on the paternal homestead, four miles north of
Hagerstown, Maryland.
      Of Jacob Brombach's seven sons, John settled in Morrison's Cove, on the
headwaters of Yellow Creek, soon after 1780.  Samuel Ullery, a son-in-law, and
the first Dunkard preacher to locate in the cove, also came at about the first
time.  David, another son of Jacob, was the father of a large family.

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Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Bonnie Millican, Akron, Ohio.

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