Anne, Regarding this: > His son Jacob Grob/Grubb (born 1777 in Lancaster) is listed as one of the > first settlers in Franklinton (now Columbus), Ohio, in 1797. If Jacob was a Revolutionary soldier and moved to OH in 1797, it sounds like he moved there on a Federal Revolutionary War bounty land warrant. Columbus is in present-day Franklin County, OH, which is part of the U.S. Military District where Revolutionary warrants were exchanged for land patents. You could confirm this by checking the "Federal Land Series" books by Clifford Neal Smith, at many research libraries. Peggy Reeves