Jacob Klock (colonel)

Colonel Jacob Klock (1701–1798) was the colonel of the 2nd regiment of the Tryon County militia during the American Revolutionary War.[1]

For other persons named Jacob Klock, see Jacob Klock.

He was the son of George Klock and Margaret Catherine Walrath.[2][3] George Klock was a farmer and trader who kept a disreputable store and tavern next to the Mohawk village of Canajoharie.[4] The Mohawk Canajoharie chief complained to William Johnson "I am under the necessity of complaining again, against that old rogue, the old disturber of our village, George Klock".[5] Joseph Brant and others broke into his house and forced him to relinquish his claim to the Mohawk village of Canajoharie.[4] Jacob Klock married Anna Nelles in Albany County on April 7, 1763.[3]

He was at the Battle of Oriskany and other battles.[6] In 1777, he was chairman of the Tryon County Committee of Safety.[7]

He died in Montgomery County, New York in 1798.[8]

Footnotes
  1. Berry, pg. 9
  2. Barker, pg. 289
  3. Penrose, Vol. 1 pg. 446
  4. Taylor, pg. 69
  5. Taylor, pg. 70
  6. Watt
  7. The Minute book of the Committee of Safety of Tryon County
  8. Berry, pg. 336

References
  • Barker, William, Early Families of Herkimer County New York, 1999, ISBN 0-8063-1078-2
  • Berry, A.J., A Time of Terror, 2005, ISBN 1-4120-6527-5
  • Foot, Allan D., Liberty March, The Battle of Oriskany, 1998, ISBN 0-925168-72-6
  • Jones, Thomas, History of New York during the Revolutionary War, 1879
  • Penrose, Maryly, Compendium of Mohawk Valley Families, 1990, ISBN 0-8063-1280-7
  • Taylor, Alan, The Divided Ground, 2006, ISBN 0-679-45471-3
  • Watt, Gavin, The Burning of the Valleys, 1997, ISBN 1-55002-271-7
  • Watt, Gavin, Rebellion in the Mohawk Valley, 2002, ISBN 1-55002-376-4
  • The minute book of the Committee of Safety of Tryon County, 1905
  • Minutes of the Committee and of the First Commission for Detecting and Defeating Conspiracies in the State of New York
  • The Political Graveyard,
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