Jacob Harness ( probably born about 1758 in Hampshire County, VA, death date unknown) was the second son of Michael and Elizabeth to bear the name Jacob. He was married to Eunice Petty, a niece of brother John's wife by the same name.
According to History of West Virginia and the People, Chapter III, Settlements East of the Alleghanies, Jacob and his family lived on Lot#48, of Lord Fairfax South Branch Manor. Other information indicates that Jacob inherited the original lot of his father, Lot #49W (some 249 acres on the west side of the river, near Fisher).
The History of West Virginia and the People indicates that another son of old Michael's, John, occupied Lot #49E in South Branch Manor.
Jacob Harness was a Revolutionary War non-military patriot. In a manuscript in the Virginia State Library at Richmond, copied by Anne Waller Reddy, are the names of persons who furnished supplies under the Commissioners of Provision Law, the supplies to be applied to Continental Army purposes.
Jacob Harness is listed as providing " 65 days of waggonage with the Hampshire Militia." |