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Jacob Stoneking II was born about 1765, in Greene County, Pennsylvania. He died on May 31, 1841, in Dunkard Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania, and is buried at the Bald Hill Cemetery. Jacob enlisted in the Continental Army at Little York, York County, Pennsylvania as a private on March 1, 1781, 1st Pennsylvania Regiment in Captain McCurdy’s Company. He was 14/15 years of age and was intended for a fifer. However in June, 1781, he went with Adjutant Mc Farland as a “servant on public duty” to Pittsburgh, where he assisted in establishing American Independence. He made a pension application on September 16, 1834, and was denied, but later drew a $40 pension annually.

Jacob’s father, Johann Jacob Steinkonig (1707‐1785), came from Germany on the ship Bilander Vernon in 1747. His first wife and several of his children died on board or shortly after. Jacob I later married a Seneca Indian named Summer Eve Aliquippa. This was considered to be a blanket marriage. Summer Eve died on December 23, 1774, and is buried at Dutch Corner in Bedford, Pennsylvania on the Indian side. Today a road goes through the Indian side of the cemetery.

Jacob II, married Charlotte Samuel in 1787, in Greene County, Pennsylvania. Together they had ten children. James Samuel, Jacob Johan Jr., Elizabeth “Betsy”, John G, David, Mary Elizabeth, Susannah, Joseph D., Jane, and Elijah. Charlotte died around 1822. Jacob later married Martha Mary Flowers on July 7, 1823. Together they had 7 children. Jane, Patrick, Jonathan J., Franklinton, Lewis, Benjamin, and Samantha. Records show that Jacob made 4 purchases of land. He was a farmer and possibly a blacksmith. Jacob died intestate and everything was left to his wife Martha.

Note: Little is known about Jacob’s mother Summer Eve, but Jacob’s grandmother was Queen Aliquippa, and by the 1740's Queen Aliquippa was a tribal leader of a small band of Mingo Seneca Indians living along three rivers, Ohio, Allegheny, and the Monogahela, near what is now Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. It is said that she crossed path several times with George Washington. In his journal entry in December 1753, stating: As we intended to take horse here at Frazer’s Cabin on the mouth of Turtle Creek, and it required some time to find them, I went up about three miles to the mouth of the Youghiogheny to visit Queen Aliquippa, who had expressed great concern that we passed her in going to Fort Le Boeuf. I made her a present of a match‐coat and a bottle of rum, which latter was thought much better present of the two. Queen Aliquippa’s son Kanuksusy, traveled to Fort Necessity to assist George Washington, but did not take an active part in the Battle of the Great Meadows on July 3‐4, 1754. Queen Aliquippa later moved to Aughwick Valley. She died there on December 23, 1754.