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- Per Rudisill Genealogy: Philip Jakob was credited as being the ancestor of a very large family in North Carolina by Miles Hoffman in his epic genealogy, "OUR KIN". To this day, many of our North Carolina cousins proclaim Philip Jakob as their true ancestor. However, the existing documentation shows that apparently Hoffman confused this Philip Jacob with another (John) Philip, son of Johann Jacob and Elizabeth Hamsbacher Rudisile. Philip Jakob left a will in which he named his wife, Mary (Ramsour), his daughter, Elizabeth, and referred to his brother, Michael. There were no other heirs; Mary promptly remarried after Philip Jakob's death in 1764, and half of Philip's real estate became the property of her husband, Nicholas Friday. The daughter, Elizabeth, received the other half of the real estate, and she later married Martin Friday, the younger brother of Nicholas Friday. Thus, the Rudisill land became Friday land. The land transfer records confirm these transactions. Elizabeth Rudisill Friday died young and she had no heirs.
In "OUR KIN", Hoffman correctly records Philip, as being married to Mary and a daughter, Elizabeth; also his wife and daughter each received half of the real estate in his will. At this point, however, his story diverges from the documentation. His Philip (Jakob) dies in 1792, daughter Elizabeth marries Jacob Costner and she also now has many siblings, namely, Barbara, Catharine, Mary, Margaret, Susie, Michael, Philip (Jr.) and possibly Wiley. Hoffman has his Philip (Jr.) married to Elizabeth Lau.
There seems little doubt that Hoffman ignored the probate date of Philip Jakob's will, probated in 1764, and may not have read John Philip's will. He seems to have assumed that John Philip and Philip Jakob were one and the same person. John Philip's will was dated 4 August 1792 and mentions clearly his wife, Elizabeth (Ruppert), his daughter, Margaret, "and my children now living." There were a number of land tranactions between John Philip and the Costner family, and it is believed that these two families did intermarry as reported by Hoffman. Philip Rudisill, son of Jonas and Maria Elizabeth Moul, married Elizabeth Lau and moved to North Carolina in 1786, thus adding to the confusion of Miles Hoffman. We are indebted to Curtis Mosteller, who researched the data to set the record on a documented basis, and to Robert Carpenter who reported it so well in his "CARPENTERS A'PLENTY".
Philip Jakob is reported as participating in the Spanish Alarm of N.C. in 1748, and is listed the D.A.R. Patriot Index. He received a land grant for 520 acres on Hoyle's Creek, NC in 1754.
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1731 - 1764 (32 years)
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