Notes:

From “The Van Deventer family”
by Van Deventer, I. C. (Ida Christobelle), b. 1866
pp. 109-110

57. Jacob Vandeventer, went with his parents to Loudoun Co., Va.; was assessed on the tithe lists, 1771 with his father, 1772-74 independently. (L. Co. Ct. Rec.) He m. In Penn., Mary Slater, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, dau. of William and Jeaean Slater. From Loudoun, he went to Hampshire Co., later Hardy (now Pendleton Co., W. Va.), ca 1780, located on a farm on the South Branch of the Potomac River, at a place called "Smoke holes". In Hampshire Co. census enumeration for 1782, he is listed as head of a family of seven, and in 1784, as head of family of eight.

Jacob Vandeventer manufactured gunpowder, and rendered signal service to the patriots during the Revolutionary war providing them with gunpowder. He served for a short time in the regular army and participated in the battles of Valley Forge and Yorktown; was a member of the home guards.

Biog. Review Case. Schuyler & Brown Cos., Ill. (1892), Chicago, p. 285.

Jacob left Va. ca. 1808, going to Madison Co., O. Some of his family were in Fayette and Highland Cos., O., and later moved to Brown Co., Ill. (1824 to 1833). His wife taught the first school in Madison Co. and died there 1814. He d. 1825, at the home of his dau. Mary Timmons, in Fayette Co., O.

Children:

110. i. William, b. ca. 1775, in Va.; d. ca. 1802, Pendleton Co., Va.
ii. Isaac, b. in Va.; d. 1824, Clark Co., O.; patented two tracts of land in Pendleton Co., Va., which sold in 1815, his residence then being in Green Co., O.; m. in Pendleton Co. (Mar. Bond dated Apr. 18, 1796), Mary Peterson, dd Mary Peterson.
110a. iii. Peter, b. ca. 1780, Hampshire Co., Va.; d. Nov., 1832, near Versailles, Ill.
110b. iv. Jacob, b. 1781, in Va.; d. 1833, Ill.
111. v. Cornelius, b. Feb 1783; d. Oct. 17, 1865, Brown Co., Ill.
vi. Jane, m. William Reardon.
vii. Sarah, m. Jacob Judy.
viii. Ann (Nancy), m. Aug. 10, 1809, Hamilton Nighswonger, Washington Co., O., the first settler on the site of Versailles, Ill.
Old N.W. Quar. II, 57.

Children:
1. Jacob
2. Hamilton, Jr.
3. Peter Vandevnter
4. Susan
5. Clarissa, m. Saul A. Vandeventer
6. Charlotte, m. Saul A. Vandeventer (as 2nd wife)

ix. Mary (Polly), m. George Timmons.
x. Margaret (Peggy)

Jacob married Mary Slater. Mary was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]