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Descendants of Jacob Faubion

Generation No. 1

1. JACOB³ FAUBION (JACOB², HANS JOSEPH¹)¹ was born Abt. 1750 in Pennsylvania ², and died July 12, 1827 in Cocke County, Tennessee ³. He married DIANAH RECTOR^4,^5,⁶ July 5, 1772 in Fauquier, County, Virginia ⁷, daughter of HENRY RECTOR and ANN SPENCER. She was born Abt. 1750 in Virginia, and died February 22, 1841 in Cocke County, Tennessee ⁸.

Notes for JACOB FAUBION:
The name Faubion has many variations and many interesting places of origin. The earliest usage is in Rome around the time of Caesar, it is carved on a seat in the Roman Forum. By the thirteenth century it was being used and misspelled as a baptismal name. Other variations are; Faubin, Fayban, Fabyan, Fabian, Faubee, Fawbean, Fanbean, Forbion, Forbee, Faubert, Faub and many many more. In What's In a Name by La Reina Rule and William K. Hammond states that Faubion comes from the old Teutonic root-word, Falco-berht, and is French. It was a well known name in France from South to North.

There is much speculation on the immigration of the Faubions to America. There is a record of a Hans Joseph Faubion who came over from Rottingham on the ship Molly to Pennsylvania in 1741. He could have been removed from France to Germany due to the Edict of Nance which revoked all Protestant rights in France. He came first to Pennsylvania and Jacob Faubion could be his son, but that has not been proven on paper. Jacob eventually settled in Cocke County, Tennessee, which he was formerly from Fauquier County, Virginia. The town in which he settled near was called German town or Germana. This was the first settlement of the German immigrates of 1714, many of their kin from Germany came by way of Pennsylvania during the 1730's through 1760's.

One account by an internet user http://www.lcs.net/users/Merill/faubion.htm, states the first proof of our Faubion is Jacob Faubion who was born in Virginia in 1735. If this were true he would have been 64 years old when his last child was born. By 1772 he witnessed the will for John Rector with Henry Rector who was the father of his wife Dianah. Internet writer goes on to say " They were probably already married and living in Fauquier County, Virginia. Dianah was born in 1740 in Virginia." He also states Sally Faubion born in 1770. If one checks the age pattern of Henry Rectors children you will find it is more likely that Dianah was born about 1750. Her marriage to Jacob took place in 1772, so it is more likely that their first child Sally was born after this marriage.

Sometime about the year 1790, Jacob Faubion and his family, together with his daughter Sally and her husband Joseph Broadhurst, started their trek across the great mountains into the 'Country of the Cherokees Records of earlier land purchases were not found, but, on June 16, 1794, Jacob Faubin purchased from John Shields for Seventy pounds, two hundred acres of land in Greene County, in the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio.

Originally claimed by both Virginia and North Carolina, this "Wilderness Country" (1) became a part of North Carolina, (2) organized into a new state of Frankland (changed to Franklin), which state existed from 1784 or 1785 until 1787, unrecognized by the General Government, (3) was ceded to the General Government along with all of its Western Lands by the new State of North Carolina on February 25 1790, and (4) became a separate territory when the act for the Government of the Territory of the United States South of the River Ohio was passed on May 26 1790.

In 1795 a portion of Greene County was cut off to form the County of Jefferson, and on June 1, 1796 the new State of Tennessee was admitted to the Union. Cocke County was created out of a portion of Jefferson County, October 9, 1797. Thus it is possible that the Greene County land on which Jacob Faubion and his family settled in 1794 became a part of Cocke County, Tennessee in 1797. Greene and Jefferson County deed records do not enlighten us, and Cocke County records were thrice burned, the latest destruction in the year 1878.

Jacob was a blacksmith, wagon maker, and millwright. He and his family were already settled in East Tennessee when Cocke County was established. Here he and his sons set up one of the first mills, and built one of the first bridges on the French Broad River. It is said he did not speak English very well, and was called the "Dutchman" although later writers called him a French Huguenot. Letters written by a member of the Meredith family in the early 1900's express the opinion that he came from the Alsace area near France. This, and other opinions have been expressed; none proven. The fact that his daughter Sally and her husband, Joseph Broadhurst, migrated to East Tennessee with Jacob and the others of his family, none of whom were married, might have given rise to the legend that he traveled into the area with a "brother."

As far as can be determined Jacob Faubion did not serve in the Revolutionary War.
Census Index Colonial America, 1607-1789

Fabian, James State: South Carolina
County: Greenville District
Year: 1756
Page: #236
Census Type code: Muster Roll
Fabian, James State: South Carolina
County: South Carolina Colony
Year: 1716
Page: #047
Location: Willtown
Fabian, Joseph State: South Carolina
County: South Carolina Colony
Location: Willtown
Year: 1716
Page: #047
Fabion, Joseph State: Pennsylvania
County: Philadelphia County
Location: Philadelphia
Year: 1741
Fabian, William State: South Carolina
County: Greenville District
Year: 1756
Page: #236
Census Type Code: Muster Roll
Fabian, John State: New Hampshire
County: New Hampshire Colony
Year: 1689
Page: #235
Census Type Code: Petition List
Fabin, George State: New Hampshire
County: New Hampshire Colony
Year: 1689
Page: #235
Census Type Code: Petition List
Fabin, Paulus State: Pennsylvania
County: Philadelphia County
Location: Philadelphia
Year: 1754
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The following was received from Patt Seitas, San Diego, California, it is Titled "The Faubion Family" on page 4-FB/O'Dell, page 93.

Jacob Faubion born about 1750 in Pennsylvania. Died 12 July 1827 in Cocke County, Tennessee. Occupation: Blacksmith, Wagoneer. His father might have been William rather than Jacob Faubion. He married Diannah Rector, born abt 1745 in Fauquier County, Virginia and died 22 February 1841 in Cocke County, Tennessee Occupation: Housewife.

Jacob was a blacksmith, wagon maker and millwright. It has been reported that he did not speak English well but he did not speak his native language very often because he wanted his children to learn English.

About 1770, he married Diannah Rector in Fauquier county, Virginia. She was born about 1745 in Fauquier county of Henry Rector who was born 1715/20 in Germanna, Virginia and Anna Spencer, born 1729.

In 1789, Jacob paid taxes on seven horses and paid the poll tax both in Fauquier county for himself and for Joseph Broadhurst who was living in the household and had married his daughter, Sally, the year before.

About 1790, Jacob and his family left Virginia for Tennessee. They probably immigrated by the Great Wagon Road to Fort Chisel, Virginia, then by the single wagon road for two hundred miles to the Cumberland Gap where they probably joined the Wilderness Road to the Knoxville cut-off (built about 1791 between the Wilderness Road and the mouth of the French Broad River).

One source indicates Jacob settled on the Noachucky River in Greene County, Tennessee near a place later called Bright Hope Furnace because there was iron ore in the area and Jacob was a blacksmith and iron worker, Jacob eventually settled along the French Broad River in Cocke County, Tennessee, purchasing lands about three miles from a community later called Parrotsville and five miles from Old Newport.

On June 16, 1794, Jacob bought 200 acres in Greene County (later Cocke County), Tennessee for 70 pounds from John Shields. In October of the same year, Jacob's son-in-law, Joseph Broadhurst bought 100 acres, his land being "on the north side of the French Broad River on the head waters of Long Creek".
Jacob' claim was filed about one mile west of Neddy's Mounting on Sinking Cane Creek.

Jacob and his family were amoung the first settlers in Cocke County, Tennessee. They apparently settled in a German area of the County.

Jacob and his relatives erected first a blacksmith shop, next a mill and then a log
dwelling. The first mill, one of the first in the area, was known as the "Faubion Mill". They also built one of the first bridges across the French Broad River just above where Bridgeport, Tennessee is now located.

On March 14, 1808, Jacob abd Diannah's oldest daughter, Sally (Faubion) Broadhurst, died in Cocke County, Tennessee. Later that year, on May 2, 1808, Jacob and Diannah sold land in Faquier County, Virginia which Diannah had inherited from her father, Henry Rector. The land was sold to George Glasscock, husband of Diannah's sister, Hannah.
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The following is from Fauquier County, Virginia Deed Book 17, page 246:

"The mill was an important center of early settlement. At the very first session of the Buncombe County, North Carolina Court, in 1792, William Davidson was given liberty 'to built a grist mill on Swannanoa' and the following January a grant was given to build a grist mill on a branch of the French Broad near where it emptied into the river. Across the state line in Tennessee, one of the first mills on the river was built by a French Huguenot family named Faubion who, in addition to being millwrights, were blacksmiths and wagonmakers." (Dykeman, Wilman, THE FRENCH BROAD, Holt, Rhinehart and Winston (1974) page 57.)

More About JACOB FAUBION:
Comment 1: he built one of first mills and bridges on the French Broad River
Comment 3: Nickname "Dutchman"
Fact 5: June 16, 1794, purchased land in Greene County, Territory os U. S. south of the River Ohio ⁹
Fact 6: Occupation: Blacksmith/Wagonmaker/Millwright
Fact 7: March 22, 1772, Witnessed will of John Rector
Fact 8: 1789, paid taxes/Fauquier Count, Virginia on Personal Property ¹⁰
Fact 9: October 20, 1804, listed on father-inlaws Estate settlement ¹¹

Notes for DIANAH RECTOR:
Dianah Rector's history is well set out in The Germanna Record, No. 4 and 5, which takes herRector/Richter and Fischbach family lines back to Tyl van Fispe in the Nassau-Siegen area of the German Palatinate in the fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries. Her mother is believed to be Ann "Nancy" Spencer because, as was the custom of the period to give a son the maiden name of the mother, Henry and Ann Rector named a son "Spencer" and the name was carried down for a number of generations. The Germanna Record No. 4, page 13, paragraph (7), contains the indication that Ann, wife of Henry Rector, might be the sister or daughter of James Spencer of Prince William County, Virginia.

More About JACOB FAUBION and DIANAH RECTOR:
Marriage: July 5, 1772, Fauquier, County, Virginia ¹²

Children of JACOB FAUBION and DIANAH RECTOR are:

2.	i.	SALLY⁴ FAUBION, b. Bet. 1770 - 1772, Fauquier County, Virginia; d. March 14, 1808, Cocke County, Tennessee.
3.	ii.	HENRY FAUBION, b. Abt. 1774, Fauquier County, Virginia; d. December 24, 1803, East Tennsesse.
4.	iii.	JOHN FAUBION, b. February 29, 1776, Fauquier County, Virginia; d. December 4, 1869, Cocke County, Tennessee.
5.	iv.	MOSES FAUBION, b. February 27, 1778, Fauquier County, Virginia; d. November 1847, Lawerence County, Indiana.
6.	v.	NANCY FAUBION, b. Bet. 1780 - 1781, Fauquier County, Virginia; d. Bet. 1840 - 1850, Platte County, Missouri.
7.	vi.	WILLIAM FAUBION, b. January 16, 1783, Fauquier County, Virginia; d. September 26, 1839, Cocke County, Tennessee.
	vii.	ELIZABETH FAUBION¹³, b. Abt. 1784, Fauquier County, Virginia ^14,¹⁵; d. June 14, 1808, East Tennessee ¹⁶; m. MR. MCPHERSON¹⁷, Unknown; b. Abt. 1785; d. Unknown.

More About MCPHERSON and ELIZABETH FAUBION:
Marriage: Unknown

8.	viii.	REV./JR. JACOB FAUBION, b. Abt. 1785, Fauquier County, Virginia; d. December 14, 1852, Linden, Clay County, Missouri.
9.	ix.	SPENCER FAUBION, b. Abt. 1787, Fauquier County, Virginia; d. Bef. 1860, near Barry, Clay County, Missouri.
	x.	MARY ANN FAUBION^18,¹⁹, b. Abt. 1789; d. Unknown; m. JOHN MCPIKE¹⁹, March 31, 1809, Greene County, Tennessee ^20,²¹; b. Abt. 1787, Greene County, Tennessee ²²; d. Unknown.

Notes for MARY ANN FAUBION:
From Faubion and Allied Families, page 13:

The Bedford Indiana 1896 newspaper item previously refered to in Chapter I of this section lists Mary as a child of Jacob and Dianah. We have found no evidence to support this statement - other than from McPike family research which records the marriage in Greene County, Tennessee in 1809 of Mary Ann Forbee to John McPike, the brothe of Mary who married Moses Faubion.

During the years following the war of 1812, many of the McPike families left East Tennessee to settle in Indiana, as did Moses & Mary (McPike) Faubion. This could br reason enough for their knowledge of her existance.

More About JOHN MCPIKE and MARY FAUBION:
Marriage: March 31, 1809, Greene County, Tennessee ^23,²⁴

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