Sources: Persinger

John Henry Persinger

Will, 1824

In the name of god! Amen!  I Henry Persinger of the County of Alleghany and State of Virginia being this the abundant mercy of god, in perfect memory and understanding, I do constitute this my last Will and Testament as followeth, towit, Item, I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Grizzy the whole of my Estate, both personal and real at her own disposal except as is hereafter mentioned, that is, Item I give and bequeath to my beloved son John now deceased, that is his Children twenty Shillings to be equally divided among them.  Item I give and bequeath to all the rest of my beloved Children that is, Andrew, Jacob, Sampson, Mary Bennet, Peggy Patterson, Rebecky Tingler, Sally Persinger, Elizabeth Persinger and Ruthy Humphries, each of them Twenty Shillings,  I do hereby constitute my beloved wife Grizzy and my beloved son Sampson my Sole Executors of this my last and Testament.

In  Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this 25th day of November anno Dom., 1824

Signed Sealed and acknowledged In presence of

Jacob Persinger Senr

Samuel Erwin

Adam Quickle

Henry Persinger (SEAL)

Alleghany County, January Court, 1825

The above Instrument of writing purporting to be the last will and testament of Henry Persinger deceased, was presented in Court and was duly proved by the Oaths of Jacob Persinger Senr, Samuel Irvin and Adam Quickle the subscribing witnesses thereto, to have been duly executed and acknowledged by the said deceased and the same is ordered to be recorded.

Oliver Callaghan C.A.C.

Jacob Persinger

Various Sources:

• Pennsylvania German Pioneers, E. Ralph Beaver Strassburger, v.1, 1727-17 75: "The signature of Jacob Persinger, Sr. who arrived in Pennsylvania on the Ship Mercury, May 29, 1735. He was on List 38 B of the "Palatines and Switzers Imported in the Ship Mercury from Rotterdam but last from Cowes."

• Seedbed of the Republic, Robert Douthat Stoner.Jacob Persinger, Sr., fought in the French and Indian Wars-he was with Dickinson's Rangers. Two of his sons, Abraham and Philip were killed in those wars. "On February 10, 1780, service was proved of: Jacob Persinger, 1757, also his two sons, Abraham and Philip both dead under age, as of February 10, 1780."

• Chronicles of the Scotish-Irish Settlement in Virginia: Extracted from the Original Court Records of Augusta County 1745-1800," Vol II, Lyman Chalkley, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, 1980

  • Order Book X, p.124, 16 Oct 1765, "Jacob Persinger ... qualified as justice..."

  • Order Book XI, Nov. 19, 1767, "Jacob Pence appointed overseer of road, vice Jacob Persinger."

• Virginia Public Claims, Botetourt County, compiled and transcribed by Janice L. Abercrombie and Richard Slatten, Iverian Publishing Co., Athens, GA 1994: "Jacob Parsinger for 4 3/4 bu wheat 19s."

• Historical Sketches of the Alleghany Highlands," Gay Arritt, Alleghany Historical Society, Covington,VA 1982: "He was appointed overseer from the county line by the Cowpasture to the Red Hill in 1770."

• A Centennial History of Alleghany County, VA, J.K. Ruebush Co., Dayton,VA, 1923, reprinted by C.J . Carrier Co., Harrisonburg, VA 1986: "In 1760, Jacob was the executor of Philip."

• Virginia Vital Records from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly, edited by Wm. J. Hinke and Charles E. Kemper, Genealogical Publishing Co, Baltimore, MD, 1984: "The Reformed elders in 1762 were Jacob Persinger (baptism No. 37)...This record (of the Peaked Mountain Church) is one of the oldest and most important German record books to be found in the upper part of the Shenandoah Valley. It contains much historical and genealogical information about the early German Reformed and Lutheran settlers in Rockingham County, which cannot be found anywhere else."