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The Rector Family (PH 9-2)(1976) (68 pages)

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a e ELEVEN GENERATIONS OF THE RECTOR FAMILY IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The First Generation in America John Jacob Richter (Rector) (Hans Jacob Richter) was born in Truppbach Nassau-Siegen (now part of Siegen) in 1674 and was baptized on the 19th Sunday after Trinity, 1674.19) He was educated in Westphalia as an iron and steel manufacturer and married Pastor Hager’s daughter, Elizabeth in Nassau-Siegen on January 17, 1711. They sold their home in Truppbach in 1713 to John Jacob’s brother and immigrated to America in the summer of 1713, arriving in Germantown, Virginia in April, 1714. He died in Germantown, Virginia between 1724 and 1729.01) John Jacob was a member elder in the first German Reform Church ever established in America and one of the guild that manufactured the first pig iron ever made in America. John Jacob and Elizabeth had four sons: 1. John Rector, born 1713 in Maidstone, England. 2. Harmon (also Harman) Rector, probably born 1715-1720 in Virginia, died 1789 in Fauquier County. 3. Henry Rector, born 1715-1720 in Virginia, died 1799 in Virginia. 4. Jacob Rector, born ca. 1720-1725 in Virginia, died 1795 in Fauquier County. He married Mary Hitt, daughter of one of the immigrees. The Second Generation in America 1. John Rector, the second, was born in Maidstone, Kent County, England in the year 1713 where the immigrants wintered while waiting for a ship to Virginia. He married his cousin Anna Catherine Fishback, eldest daughter of immigrant John Fishback, about 1732. John Rechter (Rector), like all of his neighbors was.