Jacob Iglehart & Jane Perry

The Surnames included here are mostly of Maryland lines and most of my research has been conducted at the Marylad State Archives.

Husband: Jacob Iglehart

   Born: 1720 in Saxony, Germany
Married: about 1750 in Annapolis,  Md.
   Died: 1790 in Prince George Co., Maryland
 Father: Count Johann von Eichlehardt
 Mother: >>>
Spouses:

   Wife: Jane Perry

   Born: about 1719 in Queen Annes, Maryland
   Died: about 1779 in Prince George, Maryland, USA
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Children

01  (M): Jeremiah Iglehart
   Born: 1750 in Prince George, Maryland
   Died: between 1802-1804
Spouses: Mary

Additional Information

Jacob Iglehart:
Notes:

1. Jacob Igleheart was born about 1720, possibly in England or perhaps in Maryland. He died in about 1790 in Prince Georges Co., Maryland. Our earliest documentary evidence of Jacob Igleheart in Maryland is in the period 1753-1754. A lien was executed in favor of Jacob Iglehart in 1754 in Prince Georges County.

He was married to Jane Perry (daughter of John Perry and Elizabeth Dawson) in approximately 1744. Jane Perry was born about 1714. Her father's will in 1753 refers to her as the wife of Jacob Iglehart. (Pr. Geo. Co. Will Book I, 461: Annapolis Will Book XXVIII, 500.) This will was dated 9 May 1753 and proved 28 June 1753.

According to an Iglehart family tradition, based on a document in the estate papers of Ann Sellman Iglehart Waddell, the family traces back to a Baron Iglehart. In the late 1680’s Baron Iglehart joined with a Count Benedikt in a conspiracy against the Holy Roman Emperor. Perhaps this had to do with contesting the arrangements for the succession to Emperor Leopold whose reign was drawing to a close. According to the Iglehart family tradition the conspiracy between Baron Iglehart and Count Benedikt came to light in 1690, with the result that Baron Iglehart and his family had to flee to England. Baron Iglehart and his family lived in England for some years during which time he continued to agitate for the restoration of his fortunes back in the Holy Roman Empire ruled by the Habsburgs. Some time after 1700 the Igleharts were asked to leave England. The Baron and two of his sons emigrated to Maryland and one son came to New York and settled on the northern reaches of the Hudson River.

The story is related this way by John Eugene Iglehart, an attorney in Evansville who in retirement did extensive research concerning the Iglehart/Igleheart families and this tradition:

Dated Jun 4 1921: "The only record we have of the origin of the family is one found among the papers of Cousin Anne Selman Iglehart of Annapolis, who married Waddell,.......... and a paper found among her papers after her death, was probably found in Germany, but it states the fact that the family of our name were "political refugees frm Saxony into England in thje time of Queen Ann", and in the first decade of the Eighteenth Century they emigrated to America and settled part of them in Maryland and part in Boston. There is a genealogical record in Boston, contained in a printed book showing among the extinct families the name of Iglehart. So much for origin.

"The paper referred to contains a statement that the family were 'entitled to a coronet with five points and a coat of arms'. Dr. James D. Iglehart of Lanvale Street, Maryland, has in his parlor a copy of the coat of arms copied from one in Annapolis, which was, I think 'constructed frm a description found in Cousin Anna Waddell's papers referred to'."

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