PVT Jacob Trollinger^[1]

1755 - 1831  (76 years)

• Name	Jacob Trollinger
  Prefix	PVT
  Birth	1755	Salem County, NJ
  Gender	Male
  Death	31 Aug 1831	Barton, Allegany, MD   [2]
  	Genealogical Society of Allegany County, Allegany County, Maryland Rural Cemeteries (Parsons, WV: McClain Printing Company, 1990) Dye Cemetery #2 located west side of Dan's mountain, Dogwood Flats, Barton MD. Currently private property, has been abandoned, surrounded by strip mines. copy of email from John Myer of Atlanta, GA in possession of Gordon L. Drollinger
  Person ID	I3360	Drollinger Genealogy
  Last Modified	2 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Gabriel Drollinger,   b. 25 Mar 1722, Ellmendingen, Pfortzheim, Baden, Germany d. Nov 1805, Salem County, NJ (Age 83 years)
  Mother	Margaretha Lottholtz,   b. 16 Mar 1721, Ellmendingen, Pfortzheim, Baden, Germany d. Nov 1805, Salem County, NJ (Age 84 years)
  Family ID	F269	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne Christina Duckworth,   b. 1766   d. 17 Jul 1840, Allegany County, MD (Age 74 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1783	Penns Neck, Salem, NJ
  Children	1. Elisabeth Trollinger,   b. 18 Sep 1784, Georges Creek, Allegany, MD d. 7 Aug 1862, Zanesville, Muskingum, OH (Age 77 years)   2. Catherine Trollinger,   b. 15 Nov 1788   d. Aug 1833, Allegany County, MD (Age 44 years)   3. Mathalena Trollinger,   b. 3 Apr 1790, Georges Creek, Allegany, MD d. 5 Jul 1868, Doddridge County, WV (Age 78 years) + 4. Rosanna M. "Rosa" Trollinger,   b. 27 Jan 1792, Georges Creek, Allegany, MD d. 27 Sep 1872, IL (Age 80 years)   5. Anna Trollinger,   b. 23 Nov 1794, Georges Creek, Allegany, MD d. 25 Jul 1872, Doddridge County, WV (Age 77 years)   6. Lydia Trollinger,   b. 23 Nov 1794, Georges Creek, Allegany, MD d. 28 Jun 1880, Doddridge County, WV (Age 85 years)   7. Samuel Trollinger,   b. 3 Jun 1797, Georges Creek, Allegany, MD d. 1833 (Age 35 years)   8. Jacob Trollinger,   b. 15 Nov 1798, Georges Creek, Allegany, MD d. 13 Feb 1868, Miami Twp, Greene County, OH (Age 69 years)   9. George Trullinger,   b. 27 Mar 1800, Allegany County, MD d. 10 Feb 1874, Knox County, OH (Age 73 years)   10. Anne Christina "Ann" Trollinger,   b. 10 Feb 1804, Georges Creek, Allegany, MD d. 17 Jul 1882, Millersburg, Holmes, OH (Age 78 years)   11. Joseph M. Trollinger,   b. 27 Sep 1806, Georges Creek, Allegany, MD d. 21 Dec 1886, Doddridge County, WV (Age 80 years) + 12. Asenath "Senie" Trollinger,   b. 2 Sep 1808, Georges Creek, Allegany, MD d. 27 Oct 1902 (Age 94 years)
  Family ID	F1091	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Mar 2016

  
  

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  Birth - 1755 - Salem County, NJ Marriage - Abt 1783 - Penns Neck, Salem, NJ Death - 31 Aug 1831 - Barton, Allegany, MD  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

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  JACOB DROLLINGER (TROLLINGER), SR. (1755 - 1831) & ANN CRISTENEY DUCKWORTH (1764 - 1840) REVOLUTIONARY WAR SOLDIER JACOB DROLLINGER, SR., was of German ancestory, his parent being GABRIEL DROLLINGER and ANNA MARGARETHA LOTTHOLTZ. Both of them had been born in Germany and had immigrated to the United States in 1743. JACOB, one of their 12 children, was born in Mannington Township of Salem County, New Jersey, in 1755, and was probably baptised there in the nearby Cohansey Lutheran Church at Alloway, as his older brothers and sisters had been. When JACOB was about a year old, his parents moved to a farm in Pennsneck Township of Salem County, New Jersey, where the family attended the nearby Swedish Lutheran Church and five more children were born to his parents. There JACOB grew into his teens. In fact, when he was almost twenty, he married ANN CRISTENEY DUCKWORTH there in January 1778. She was the daughter of AARON and ELIZABETH DUCKWORTH and had been born in New Jersey on August 14, 1764. Then when the Revolutionary War broke out in 1776, many of its battles were fought in New Jersey, which caused great concern to JACOB and his brother, GABRIEL. Eventually, in about 1778, GABRIEL and JACOB moved their families to a safer area in East Pennsboro Township of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, located on the west bank of the Susquehana River near Harrisburg. The records indicate that JACOB was taxed there L 15.0.0 as a freeman by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1780, L 40.0.0 in 1781 and L 2.10.0 in 1782. Pennsylvania Archive records indicate that JACOB served as a private in the 8th Class, 3rd Company, 3rd Battalion of the Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, Militia under the command of Captain Jno McCarnick, as shown on the roll call of March 14, 1781 and April 1781. Subsequently, JACOB and ANN moved to George's Creek Valley in Allegany County, Maryland, in about 1788 and purchased land there. In fact, in Scharf's History of Western Maryland, JACOB is listed among the early settlers who had located on lands lying to the west of Fort Cumberland, Maryland, in 1788. Among the others were his brothers-in-law, WILLIAM JACOBS and SAMUEL JACKSON. His brother, GABRIEL DROLLINGER, may have come a year later. Maryland land records reveal that JACOB received a patent to 50-acre Lot No. 3793 on May 8, 1798. He had been awarded this lot as a settler and in accordance with the terms of an 1787 resolution of the Maryland general assembly by the land commissioners after he had paid the purchase price of the lot to the treasurer of the Western Shore of Maryland. That same day, JACOB purchased adjoining Lot No. 3794. These were adjacent to Lot No. 3795, purchased five years later by his brother-in-law, WILLIAM JACOBS. Later, JACOB's brother, GABRIEL, purchased nearby Lot No. 3731 in 1803. Later GABRIEL sold this lot to JACOB in 1808. Then on January 11, 1819, JACOB received a patent to a 36-1/2 acre tract called "The Walnut Hill." It was due north on the northwest side of George's Creek, and adjacent Lot No. 3937, which his brother, GABRIEL, had patented on November 16, 1803. Little is known of the marriage of JACOB and ANN, except that they were blessed with 13 children, namely: Elizabeth, Catherine, Mathalene (Mary), Rosanna, Anna, Lydia, Samuel, JACOB, JR., George S., Sarah, Ann Cristeney, Joseph M. and Cenea. It is known that JACOB served on the Allegany County Grand Jury in 1802. Also, he owned and operated a substantial farm and also a still house in George's Creek Valley. He died there on November 30, 1831, after attaining a comfortable financial independence and a well-regarded standing in the community. ANN served as the administrator of his his estate. An apprasal of his personal property was set at 643 pound and 19 shillings on October 24, 1831. His estate was divided in 1833 and his wife, ANN, and his 11 children who had reached adulthood, or their heirs. ANN followed JACOB in death on July 17, 1840. Both were buried on Dan's Mountain Allegany County, Maryland. REFERENCES: 1. Pennsylvania Archives; Fifth Series, Vol. VI; pages 229 and 232. 2. History of Western Maryland - Vol. II; pp 1343-1344; J. Thomas Scharf; Louis H. Everts; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; 1882 3. Allegany County, Maryland, Register of Wills; Inventories D; pp 150b-152a and 181a & b; Jacob Trollinger; 1832. 4. Allegany County, Maryland, Register of Wills; Administrative Accounts B; pp 69a & b and 72a & b; Jacob Trollinger; 1833. 5. Maryland Land Office; IC #L; page 464; Jacob Trullinger's patent of Lots No. 3793 and 3794; 8 May 1798. 6. Maryland Land Office; IC #F; page 283; Jacob Trullinger; 7 and 8 May 1798. 7. MaryLand Office; IB #F; page 52; Jacob Trullinger's patent of "The Walnut Hill;" 11 Jan 1819. 8. Maryland Land Office; IB #G, page 208; Jacob Trullinger's certificate of survey for "The Walnut Hill," 11 Jan 1819. 9. General Index To Deeds - Allegany County, MD, pages 34, 35a, 36 and 36a., Circa early 1800s. MILITARY: History of Allegany County, Maryland, by James W. Thomas, p. 4 . . . Lots of land west of Fort Cumberland were offered by the state government to volunteers in the Continental Army. In 1788 Frances Deakens laid out 4,165 of these military lots - Jacob Tustlinger (Trollinger) is listed among those who received lots from this parcel. http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/md/allegany/land/MilLots.txt PROBATE: Abstract of Allegany County, Maryland deed book S, 1835-1836, p.394, FHL F#0013300. Indenture made 23 Jul 1836 between Mary Trollinger, Ann Trollinger, Lydia Trollinger, Joseph M Trollinger, John Duckworth and Cinea Duckworth his wife all of Allegany County, Maryland. Lots 3937, 3731, 3938, part of a tract called "Balls Good Luck" and also one tract called "The Walnut Hill" for the outlines thereof reference being had to three deeds one from a certain Gabriel Drollinger, one from a certain William Sigler and one from Henry Myer all to the said Jacob Trollinger and for the tract called "the Walnut Hill" to a patent granted of the Western Shore land office, to the s'd Jacob dec'd will all more fully and at large appear and the aforeside Mary, Ann, Lydia, Jos M. and Cenea, being heirs of him the aforesaid Jacob Trollinger dec'd . . . Now for and in consideration of the sum of $600.00 paid by Jacob Trollinger to the aforesaid . . . . Signed: Mary Trollinger (by her mark), Ann Trollinger (by her mark), Lydia Trollinger (by her mark), Joseph M Trollinger (by his mark), John Duckworth, Cenea Duckworth (by her mark). 1800 Census Name: Jacob Trollinger Township: Georges Creek County: Allegany State: Maryland Free White Males Under 10: 2 Free White Males 16 to 25: 5 Free White Males 26 to 44: 1 Free White Females Under 10 : 4 Free White Females 10 to 15 : 2 Free White Females 26 to 44 : 1 Number of Household Members Under 16 : 8 Number of Household Members Over 25 : 2 Number of Household Members: 15 1810 Census Name: Jacob Trollinger Township: District 3 County: Allegany State: Maryland Free White Males Under 10: 1 Free White Males 10 to 15: 2 Free White Males 45 and Over: 1 Free White Females Under 10: 2 Free White Females 10 to 15: 2 Free White Females 16 to 25: 2 Free White Females 26 to 44: 1 Number of Household Members Under 16: 7 Number of Household Members Over 25: 2 Number of Household Members: 11 Records of Friesburg Emanuel Lutheran Church Friesburg, Salem, New Jersey translated by the Reverand Herman G.L. Drews for the Federal Historical Records Survey Project of the Works Progress Administration, published by The Glouster County Historical Society, Woodbury, NJ 1984 1775 May 28th the following young people after proper instructions were confirmed: 6. Henr. Langenbach 7. Jacob Drollinger 8. Sarah Drollinger Henrich Muhlenberg Junior

  
  

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  [S3] Pennsylvania Militia during the Revolution. The "Act to Regulate the Militia of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania" passed 17 March 1777, and the the subsequent Militia Act passed March 20, 1780, together with their amendments, required all white men between the ages of 18 and 53 capable of bearing arms to serve two months of militia duty on a rotating basis. Refusal to turn out for military exercises would result in a fine, the proceeds from which were used to hire substitutes. Though the act provided exemptions for members of the Continental Congress, Pennsylvania's Supreme Executive Council, Supreme Court judges, masters and teachers of colleges, ministers of the Gospel, and indentured servants, as a practical matter anyone could avoid serving either by filing an appeal to delay their service for a period of time or by paying a fine to hire a substitute. (It should be noted, however, that a person serving as a substitute for someone else was not thereby excused from also serving in their own turn.) The act called for eight battalion districts to be created in Philadelphia and in each of the eleven extant counties. The geographical boundaries for each district were drawn so as to raise between 440 to 680 men fit for active duty as determined by information contained in the local tax rolls. A County Lieutenant holding the rank of colonel was responsible for implementing the law with the assistance of sub-lieutenants who held the rank of lieutenant colonel. Though they held military titles, these were actually civilian officers not to be confused with the military officers holding the same ranks in the Continental Army. The County Lieutenants ensured that militia units turned out for military exercises, provided the militia units with arms and equipment at the expense of the state, located substitutes for those who declined to serve, and assessed and collected the militia fines. It should be noted that these fines were not necessarily intended to be punitive. Recognizing that personal circumstances might in some cases make it inconvenient or even impossible for a particular individual to serve, the fine system was in part devised to provide money in lieu of service in order to hire substitutes. It also provided an avenue for conscientious objectors to fulfill their legal obligation to the state without compromising their religious convictions. These were organized in local ?training companies? and each man was assigned to one of eight ?classes.? When militia services were needed, the members of one or more classes from specified counties were ordered into service for a maximum of two months. Although the militia of a given company might be called up more than once, the second call would not apply to a class that had already served until an entire cycle of all eight classes had been completed. The system had the advantages of equalizing the obligation of military service and of avoiding the depopulation of any particular area of military age men. It had the disadvantage of insuring that men called for military duty not only had no military experience from previous call ups but also, as they came from the same class but from different localities, had never trained or worked together before. The men in each battalion elected their own field officers who carried the rank of colonel, lieutenant colonel and major and these officers were then commissioned by the state and expected to serve for three years. Within each county, the colonels drew lots for their individual rank, which was then assigned to their battalion as First Battalion, Second Battalion, Third Battalion, etc. When new elections were held for field officers in 1780 and 1783, the colonels elected at that time again drew lots for their rank and this resulted in a new order for the battalions. The names of men in each company of each battalion were listed on a roll called "General Returns of the Battalion" together with the names of any substitutes that were provided. On these permanent billet rolls the men in each company were listed as being either part of the first class, second class, third class, etc. and were required to show up for their two months of active duty at the time and in the order that their class was called up. When several classes were called up for active duty, a separate roll for each company listed the names of the men who actually served, either in person or as substitutes. This active-duty roll was therefore a completely different roll from the permanent billet roll. These active duty rolls could be distinguished from the permanent billet rolls by the fact that instead of being listed by individual classes as they were in the permanent rolls, the names of the men were here listed under the name of the company captain. Under the provisions of the Militia Law, the men called up for active duty were automatically assigned to companies whose numbers were different from their own company numbers on the permanent billet rolls. They were instead the numbers of the battalions from which the men came! For example, men listed on the permanent roll as belonging to the 2nd Class of the 7th Company of the 6th Battalion would in the active duty battalion be automatically placed in the 6th Company of the 2nd (Active Duty) Battalion. Since the company captain and lower officers were also called up, their identities provide a clue to the permanent class, company, and battalion to which a particular individual belonged. The battalion colonels, lieutenant colonels, and majors were called to active duty in a specific order. For example, when the 1st Class was called up, the colonel of the 1st Battalion, the lieutenant colonel of the 2nd Battalion, and the major of the 3rd Battalion entered into service commanding the 1st Class active-duty Battalion. For the 2nd Class, the colonel of the 2nd Battalion, lieutenant colonel of the First Battalion, and major of the 4th Battalion entered service in command of the 2nd Class active-duty battalion. For the rotation of field officers on active duty, it was therefore necessary to substitute Colonel for Captain, Lieutenant Colonel for 1st Lieutenant, Major for 2nd Lieutenant, etc in the column under each Battalion for Company. After each tour of duty was completed, all of the privates and the company and field officers were returned to their permanent battalion billets. For this reason, a separate permanent billet record and an active duty record would have existed for each individual who saw active duty. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission [S350] Dye Cemetery #2.