September 16, 1747 - Received a land warrant for 197 acres and 131 perches in Heidelberg Township, Bucks County. He signed his name as Traubenspeck on land warrant.44

1762 - Signed his name as Dauvenspeck on tax records. May 14, 1765 - Signed his name as Jacob Daubenspeck on land warrant. He purchased 68 acres and later that year he bought 110 acres and 70 perches.

On Aug. 8, 1777 he signed an Oath of Allegiance for the United States.

Many people that came from Germany were from the Palatinate. They all seemed to settle in Heidelberg Township. According to the Charles Roberts history, he states that John Jacob Daubenspeck from the beginning of his entry into the Heidelberg area started to build a church. He originally started it in his own home. It is said by this historian that he traveled on his own around the area of Heidelberg Township inviting people to come to his home for divine worship. We believe that in his travels going to his neighbors and all around the area in which he lived inviting people to come to his home for worship that he must have met his wife, Juliana. John Jacob's home was used as a place of meeting for divine worship by 1740. Until 1745, both the Lutherans and Reforms met in his home (John Jacob Sr. was a Reformed). From 1740-1744 while holding their weekly divine meetings in his home, they were also working toward the organization of the church and a new building to worship in. By 1744, they built a new log building in which they started holding meetings in 1745. The congregation was a mixture of Lutherans and Reforms. Eventually, they called it the Heidelberg Union Church. When his church burned to the ground in 1756, another much larger and better log church was built. It was dedicated in 1757.

The two outstanding leaders in the committee that organized the first church that was dedicated in 1745 and the second church which was dedicated in 1757 were John Jacob Daubenspeck and Henrich Geiger. The last dedicated church of 1757 was built approximately in the center of Heidelberg Township about a mile northwest of John Jacob Daubenspeck home. Today, however, if you were to go to Washington Township, Lehigh County and travel the road to Saegersville, near that place you would find the area in which the old church and the cemetery plot stood (the old one and the new one that was started in 1932). Here of course you could also find the lands in which at one time were owned by our first ancestor, John Jacob Daubenspeck.

In this area, there is a small granite monument with a picture of a log church at the very top of the monument and down under it was written that the first church was built on this spot in 1745. Later rebuilt because a fire ruined the first one and it was rebuilt in 1756, dedicated in 1757.

Jacob Daubenspeck's house was about one mile southwest of the church lands. The church stood one mile from Sagerville near the center of the township on the road to Neffsville. The first small springs of Weidelberg Creek rise upon the Church lands.

According to Nellie King Doverspike, the Daubenspeck family characteristics are: Large blue eyes, high foreheads, large sinewy bodies, often weighing over 200 pounds and 6 feet or over in height.

Military DAR Patriot Index - Centennial Index Part 1 defined his service during the Revolutionary War as Patriotic Service.

Residence Originally from the Rhineland in Germany - Palatinate District

1736 - Settled in Bucks County

September 16, 1747 - Bought 197 acres and 13 perches in Heidelberg Township, Bucks County

1762 - According to tax records he was living in North Beaurford, Heidleberg Township, Northampton County

May 14, 1765 - Bought 68 acres and then 100 acres and 70 perches.

Ship List Ship Harle (Palatines to PA)

FIRST LIST (There are 3 records of this list, A, B, C.. Each list has different spellings etc.) "At the Courthouse of Philadelphia, September 1st, 1736. One hundred fifty one Foreigners from the Palatinate and other Places, who, with their Families, making in all three hundred eighty eight Persons, were imported here in the Ship Harle, of London, Ralph Harle, Master, from Rotterdam, but last from Cowes, as by Clearance thence, were this day qualified as usual."

From the Minutes of the Provincial Council, printer in "Colonial Records," Vol. IV, p.58f.