Jacob Polsgrove

1748 - Aft 1810  (> 63 years)

• Name	Jacob Polsgrove  [1]
  Birth	1748	Philadelphia, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA
  Gender	Male
  Death	Aft 1810	Pendleton, Kentucky, USA
  Person ID	I1503	Horton Test
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2025

  
  

  Father	John George Polsgrove,   b. 1715, Alsace, France d. 1757, New Hanover Twp, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 42 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Anna Maria Barbara Kamm
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	Bef 1735	New Hanover Twp, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA
  Family ID	F448	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Barbara Biddle,   b. Abt 1753, Douglassville, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA d. Between 1785 and 1790, Hampshire, West Virginia, USA (Age ~ 32 years)
  Marriage	13 Dec 1774	Douglassville, Berks, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  Children	1. Henry Polsgrove,   b. 1784, New Hanover Twp, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1842, Jordan, Hickman, Kentucky, USA (Age 58 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. Margaret Polsgrove,   b. Between 1775 and 1780, Philadelphia, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA d. Between 1820 and 1830, Henry, Kentucky, USA (Age ~ 45 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. Catherine Polsgrove,   b. Between 1777 and 1781, Philadelphia, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Mary Polsgrove,   b. Between 1779 and 1783, Philadelphia, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, USA  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   5. Jacob Polsgrove, II,   b. 10 Jul 1771, Virginia, United States of America d. 13 Jan 1862, Franklin County, Kentucky, United States of America (Age 90 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   6. George Polsgrove,   b. 1792, Virginia, USA d. 1861, Kentucky, USA (Age 69 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F450	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Nov 2025

  
  

• Notes

  The Pioneer [grayshouse3.FTW] Jacob Polsgrove (also spelled Palsgrove) was born 1748, confirmed 1766 at Faulkner Swamp Reformed Church, named in his father's will in 1757, a laborer by trade, on the tax lists of Philadelphia Co., Pa., 1779, 1780, 1781 and 1782. Served in thhe Revolutionary War, class 3 of Capt. Benjamin Markley's Company, Pennsylvania Militia, in 1781. Appears as Jacob Polsgrove with 5 other white souls in the 1784 census of Hampshire Co., Va. He last appears in the 1800 census of Scott Co., Ky., probably reaching Pendleton Co., Ky before 1810. He had three sons, Henry b. 1784, Jacob b. 1785 and George b. 1792. He also had three daughters, Margaret, Catherine and Mary. The daughters and first born son, Henry, were all born in Pennsylvania. Kentucky was originally a part of the western lands of Virginia. The oldest state west of the Appalachian Highlands, it has its first permanent settlement in 1775 - about a year before Daniel Boone brought his wife and teenage daughter to ln the town that was named after him, Boonesbourgh (now Boonesboro). During the next 15 years the population of the area grew to more than 73,000. In 1792, with the permission of Virginia, Kentucky was admitted to the Union as the 15th state.

  
  

• Sources

  [S15] Ancestry.com, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2011;), Historical Society of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Collection Name: Historic Pennsylvania Church and Town Records; Reel: 582.