Eighth Generation

134. Jacob BEST was born about 1693 in Schoenbach, Saar, Germany. He died about 1759 at the age of 66 in New York. Schoenbach is west south west of Koblenz in the Rheinland/Pfalz region of Germany. But there is also a Schoenbach in Rheinland-Pfalz.

Name is also spelled Bast.

Jacob was still alive 4 Feb 1759.

135. Anna Christina BETZER was born in 1693 in Hachenburg, Altstadt, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. She died about 1759 at the age of 66. Hachenberg is in the Westerwald part of Rheinland/Pfalz, Germany, northwest of Frankfurt, northeast of Koblenz, southwest of Cologne. It is not far from Mundersbach and Nistertal, where other ancestors came from. Altstadt (old city) is in the southwestern part of the city.

She was baptized 17 Trinity 1693 at Hachenburg-Altstadt. She may also have been known as Anna Catherine.

Children were:

67	i.	Anna Maria BEST.
	ii.	Jacob BEST was born about 1716 in West Camp, Ulster Co., NY.
	iii.	Georg BEST was born about 1718 in West Camp, Ulster Co., NY.
	iv.	Johannes BEST was born in 1720 in West Camp, Ulster Co., NY. He died before 28 March 1788 at the age of 68 in Columbia Co., NY. He apparently owned slaves. His will was dated 10 Dec 1787 and probated 27 Mar 1788, Columbia Co., NY.
	v.	Elizabeth BEST was born on 2 April 1722 in West Camp, Ulster Co., NY.
	vi.	Johann Hermann BEST was born in October 1725. He was baptized 28 Nov 1725.
	vii.	Coenradt BEST was born about 1727 in Germantown, Columbia Co., NY.