Jacob  GERY

"The original progenitor, Jacob Gery, came from Switzerland, and served a term of years as a 'redemptioner' [indentured servant] to pay for his passage to Valentine Geisenur, of Herford, now Berks county. As it happened this modern Jacob was not only named like Israel of old, who wandered from his father's house, but like him, married his master's daughter, Gertrud.

"From this union has sprung all the Gerys of Montgomery and Berks counties. Sometime after his freedom and marriage, in 1748, he purchased of Margaret Jeckyl, who had bought of the Penn brothers, a tract of six hundred acres of land, now partly in Herford and partly in Upper Hanover. A portion of it he sold but partially cleared the remainder, and erected upon it the necessary farm buildings. Being also acquainted with the art of making tiles, he erected a tile-hut and kilns for manufacturing them. The place was thenceforward for many years known as 'Gery's tile-hut,' or teigel huette.

"This Jacob Gery, the emigrant, was born May 9th, 1721, and his wife, Gertrude, 15th of the same month, 1728. He died February 23d, 1808, aged eighty-seven years, and she died February 8th, 1802, aged seventy-four years. Jacob and Gertrude Gery left nine childern, five sons and four daughters: Jacob, John Adam, John, Peter, Michael, Rebecca, Elizabeth, Anna Maria, and Catharine."

(quoted from "Lives of the Eminent Dead and Biographical Notices of Prominent Living Citizens of Montgomery county, Pa.," by M. Auge (1879), pp. 440-1)

Find a Grave, database and images memorial page for Jacob Gery (9 May 1721–23 Feb 1808), Find a Grave Memorial ID 45481187, citing New Goshenhoppen UCC Cemetery, East Greenville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA; Maintained by John Schmeeckle (contributor 47662529) .