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[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Jacob Seibert Family Papers, A&M 1857, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
Biographical / Historical
(Johann) Wendel Seibert (1721 - 1802) was born in the Saarland (now part of Germany) and immigrated to the United States in 1738. He arrived in Philadephia and later settled in Bethel Township (now Berks county), Pennsylvania. In 1796, Wendel Seibert, along with some of his grown children, moved to Martinsburg, (West) Virginia. (John) Jacob Seibert (1752-1832), Michael Seibert (1791-1858), and Elizabeth (Seibert) Nesbitt (1776-?) were children of Wendel Seibert. Michael Seibert married Catherine (Myers) Seibert (1794-1878), and Jacob Myers Seibert (1815-1891) was their son. More information concerning the Seibert family can be found in A&M 1869.
Scope and Contents
Papers of the Jacob Seibert family of Berkeley County, West Virginia, from 1813 to 1918. Manuscript materials chiefly include surveys, inventories, receipts, and notes related to the settlement of Seibert's farm. There are documents related to the death of Jacob Seibert and the settlement of his estate (including land surveys and inventories of property), as well as letters of attorney related to the subsequent suit by his daughter Elizabeth Nesbitt (nee Seibert) against his son and executor Michael Seibert (1813-1836). Contains court records (summons and receipts) related to the service of Jacob M. Seibert as a Constable (1841-1876). Also contains documents related to the death of Catherine Seibert (nee Myers) (1878-1879). Later records (1883-1918) consist of pamplets, newspaper clippings, receipts of payment, and other ephemera for other family members, including W.V. Seibert, W.M. Seibert, Henry J. Seibert, Moses Seibert, C.J. Seibert, C.M. Seibert, and C.A. Seibert. Seibert is also spelled Sibert and Seybert in the documents in this collection.
Container List
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 Item: 1
Form: Land survey; Person(s): Request of Jacob Seybert, Thomas Turner (surveyor); Location: Berkeley County, VA [now WV];
Description: 220 acres, 2 roods, 30 poles
1813 May 18
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 Item: 2
Form: Land survey; Person(s): James Gorman, James Maxwell (surveyor); Location: Unidentified; Description: Gorman's wood lot:
11 acres, 3 roods, 33 poles
1821 April 07
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 Item: 3
Form: Inventory; Person(s): Jacob Sibert; Location: Berkeley County, VA [now WV]; Description: Personal estate of Sibert
1832 September 12
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 Item: 4
Form: Conditions of sale; Person(s): Michael Sibert (executor); Location: Unidentified; Description: Unidentified
1832 September 13
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 1 Item: 5
Form: Bill of sale (booklet); Person(s): Jacob Sibert; Location: Unidentified; Description: Of Sibert's personal estate, lists
articles, buyer, price (includes such items as cookware, livestock, furniture, and linens)
1832 September 13
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 Item: 6
Form: Letter of attorney; Person(s): Elizabeth Nesbit (née Seibert) and her attorney Daniel Stoneberger bring suit against
Michael Sibert and Andrew Pottorff; Location: Suit brought in Berkeley County, VA [now WV], but Elizabeth Nesbit lived in
Indiana County, PA; Description: Suit regarding the settlement of Jacob Sibert's estate
1834 June 14
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 Item: 7
Form: Letter of attorney; Person(s): Elizabeth Nesbit (née Seibert) and her son and attorney Nathaniel Nesbit bring suit against
Michel Sibert; Location: Suit brought in Berkeley County, VA [now WV], but Elizabeth Nesbitt lived in Indiana County, PA;
Description: Suit regarding the settlement of Jacob Sibert's estate
1835 December 09
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 Item: 8
Form: Settlement of estate; Person(s): Jacob Seibert (deceased) with Michael Seibert his executor; Location: Berkeley County,
VA [now WV]; Description: Payment of debts owed by Jacob Seibert
1836 September 24
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 Item: 9
Form: Bill receipted; Person(s): Michael Seibert to Hedges & Robinson; Location: Unidentified; Description: For general items
such as coffee, calico, and nails
1836 October 22-1837 August 16
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 Item: 10a
Form: Bill; Person(s): Aaron Kesecker to Samuel Sellers; Location: Unidentified; Description: For ploughing, wood cutting
and hauling, mending shoes
1839 May 02-1842 April 01
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 2 Item: 10b
Form: Newspaper; Person(s): Unidentified; Location: Martinsburg, VA [now WV]; Description: "Martinsburg Gazette" (incomplete,
includes only front page and its reverse, no page numbers given)
1840 April 09
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 Item: 11
Form: Bill receipted; Person(s): James Porterfield to Daniel Gehr, receipted by Barret [surname illegible] for D. Gehr; Location:
Unidentified; Description: For $2.00 cash
1840 June 19-1843 August 14
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 Item: 12
Form: Summons; Person(s): Mellon Payne to answer complaint of Hedges & Robinson, Jacob M. Seibert (constable), signed by James
H. Robinson; Location: Berkeley County, VA [now WV]; Description: Debt
1841 November 16-1841 December 11
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 Item: 13
Form: Note; Person(s): Unidentified; Location: Unidentified; Description: Illegible handwritten note
1843 July
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 Item: 14
Form: Summons; Person(s): Aaron Kesecker to answer complaint of Samuel Sellers, Jacob M. Seibert (constable), signed by Robert
N. Snodgrass; Location: Berkeley County, VA [now WV]; Description: Debt
1843 August 1-1843 August 12
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 3 Item: 15
Form: Summons; Person(s): George Daugherty to answer complaint of P.H. Cookuz and Co., Jacob M. Seibert (constable), signed
by James H. Robinson; Location: Berkeley County, VA [now WV]; Description: Debt
1844 March 01-1844 March 09
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 Item: 16
Form: Summons; Person(s): Conrad W. Hedges to answer the complaint of A.W. Windham, Jacob M. Seibert (constable), signed by
James H. Robinson; Location: Berkeley County, VA [now WV]; Description: Debt
1845 February 03-1845 February 08
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 Item: 17
Form: Bill receipted; Person(s): Jacob Seibert to David Riner; Location: Unidentified; Description: For fencing boards and
sawing
1845 October 11-1847 May 17
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 Item: 18
Form: Protest on note (with copy of note); Person(s): William Wagner protesting note signed by Martin Chidester, protest notorized
by Joseph A.M. Lane; Location: Clarksburg, Morgantown, and Wheeling, VA [now WV]; Description: Debt and payment
1847 September 11-1847 December 13
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 Item: 19
Form: "Store book" (financial ledger); Person(s): Jacob M. Seibert with G. Wynkoop; Location: Unidentified; Description: Account
of items purchased by Seibert
1851 February 12-1858 March 10
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 4 Item: 20
forms: Note; Person(s): Ferdinand Gerling; Location: Martinsburg, Berkeley County, VA [now WV]; Description: Illegible handwritten
note
1855 March 14
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 Item: 21
Form: Affidavit of bill/receipt; Person(s): Michael Seibert in account with A.C. Hammond, James L. Cunningham (J.P.); Location:
Berkeley County, VA [now WV]; Description: Bill for suit charges, affadavit received
1858, 1860 January 30-1866 September 19
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 Item: 22
Form: Receipt; Person(s): Jacob M. Seibert to R.T.M. [surname illegible]; Location: Honeywood Mills; Description: 50 bushels,
4 lbs. wheat
1860 January 12
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 Item: 23
Form: Bill; Person(s): To Jacob M. Seibert from F.T. Smith; Location: Martinsburg, VA [now WV]; Description: Various cloth
items and candles
1860 December 10
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 Item: 24
Form: Promissory note; Person(s): John W. Gonterman to A.F. Cramer and Co., signed by Jacob M. Seibert on reverse; Location:
Unidentified; Description: For $15.30
1864 May 04
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 5 Item: 25
Form: Newspaper; Person(s): Unidentified; Location: Baltimore, MD; Description: The Daily Critic
1865 January 26
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 Item: 26
Form: Receipt; Person(s): Of Jacob M. Seibert by N.D. Keneaster (collector); Location: Little Georgetown, WV; Description:
United States Internal Revenue income tax
1865 July 18
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 Item: 27
Form: Account ledger; Person(s): Unidentified; Location: Unidentified; Description: Account of costs for goods, services,
and livestock, liabilites and assets for a farm
1865
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 Item: 28
Form: Bill/receipt; Person(s): Jacob M. Seibert to Jacob Casney; Location: Unidentified; Description: Mending shoes
1867 July 14-1867 December 29
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 Item: 29
Form: Receipt; Person(s): Of Jacob M. Seibert by John. H. Sherff; Location: Martinsburg, WV; Description: For goods totalling
$29.05
1867 December 14
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 6 Item: 30
Form: Receipt; Person(s): Jacob M. Seibert by G.W. Tobbs, postmaster, Christian Bowser; Location: Berryville, Clark County,
VA; Description: For letter addressed to Bowser
1868 June 17
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 Item: 31
Form: Receipt; Person(s): Of Jacob M. Seibert by J.L.W. Baker; Location: Martinsburg, WV; Description: Fifty dollars for window
glass
1868 August 12
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 Item: 32
Form: Receipt; Person(s): Jacob M. Sibert to Jeremiah Gunn; Location: Mostly illegible, possibly Hedgesville, WV; Description:
Bill for cloth goods, partly paid
1869 June 24
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 Item: 33
Form: Promissory note; Person(s): W. Hoard and Harvey A. Miller to Elizabeth Slyer, signed on reverse by Jacob. M. Seibert;
Location: Unidentified; Description: $28.05 to be paid 6 months after date, note on back "judgement rendered"
1870 March 30
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 Item: 34a
Form: Stationery; Person(s): B. Gilbert (proprietor); Location: Parkersburg, WV; Description: From Swann House, writing in
ink on reverse, faded to illegibility
1871
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 Item: 34b
Form: Letter; Person(s): Unidentified; Location: Martinsburg, WV; Description: Handwritten letter written in German, dated
10th February 18 [last two numerals of date unclear]
1873 February 10
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 7 Item: 35
Form: Bill/judgement rendered; Person(s): Daniel Sullivan to Peter Etchberger, William Sperow (J.P.); Location: Cunningham
schoolhouse; Description: Bill for labor, judgement rendered on reverse
1874 April-1876 August 05
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 Item: 36
Form: Bill; Person(s): Jacob M. Seibert, George W. Marshall; Location: Bedington Station, WV; Description: For fish, molasses,
and bacon
1877 May 02
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 Item: 37
Form: Letter; Person(s): Jacob M. Seibert; Location: Addressed to Bedington, Berkeley County, WV from Philadephia; Description:
Letter written on the stationery of the North American Lightning Rod Company, Reyburn, Hunter & Co
1877 May 27
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 Item: 38
Form: Note and protest; receipt; Person(s): Jacob M. Seibert, G.S. Hill (Notary Public), other names mostly illegible; Location:
Martinsburg WV, Falling Waters, WV; Description: Promise to pay Jacob M. Seibert $750 payable at the National Bank of Martinsburg
1877 September 25-1877 November 27
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 Item: 39
Form: Bill; Person(s): To Jacob M. Seibert (administrator) of Catherine Seibert (deceased) from Nathan A. Anthony, received
of Anthony by D.S. Hull; Location: Hedgesville, WV; Description: For digging grave for Catherine Seibert, $4.00
1878 July 4-1878 July 26
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 Item: 40a
Form: Receipt; Person(s): Jacob M. Seibert, Catherine Hunts, G.W. Marshall (post master); Location: Bedington post office,
Manor Hill, Huntington County, PA; Description: Receipt for a registered letter addressed to Mrs. Catherine Hunts
1878 August 09
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 8 Item: 40b
Form: Receipt; Person(s): Jacob M. Seibert, Catherine Hunts, other names illegible; Location: Bedington, WV, Manor Hill, PA;
Description: Return registered-letter receipt for a letter adressed to Mrs. Catherine Hunts
1878 August 09-1878 August 15
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 Item: 41
Form: Receipt; Person(s): Jacob M. Seibert, Soloman Troutwein; Location: Bedington, WV, Manor Hill, PA; Description: Return
registered-letter receipt for letter addressed to Soloman Troutwein
1878 August 09-1878 August 15
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 Item: 42
Form: Bill; Person(s): To Jacob Siebert (administrator for Catherine Sibert, deceased) from Beall & Bro.; Location: Hedgesville,
WV; Description: Payment received for fabric and gloves purchased
1878 August 19-1878 August 27
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 Item: 43
Form: Bill receipted; Person(s): Catherine Seibert, signed by the Sheriff of Berkeley County, signature illegible; Location:
Hedgesville, Berkeley County, WV; Description: Receipt of payment received for property taxes owed by "Mrs. Catherine Seibert
Michael Widow"
1879 March 22
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 Item: 44a
Form: Newspaper; Person(s): Unidentified; Location: Rochester, NY; Description: Rathbun's Re-Bolting Quarterly
1880
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 Item: 44b
Form: Bill receipted; Person(s): Jacob M. Seibert, Catherine Seibert (deceased); Location: Martinsburg, Berkeley County, WV;
Description: Payment for Estate of Catherine Seibert received by Clerk of County Court
1879 June 17
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 9 Item: 45
Form: Notice; Person(s): Thomas H. Reeves, Cyrus Hall, Will A. Strickler (commissioner); Location: Ritchie County, WV; Description:
Commissioner's Notice of case brought by Reeves against Hall
1882 April 10
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 Item: 46
Form: Receipt; Person(s): Of W.V. Seibert by S.S. Maxwell; Location: Falling Waters, WV; Description: Receipt written on reverse
of ballot for Republican ticket
1883 April 04
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 Item: 47
Form: Receipt; Person(s): Of M.V. Sibert to John W. Dodd; Location: Unindentified; Description: Receipt for one ton of phosphate
costing $21 written on reverse of a bank note from the People's National Bank of Martinsburg, two blank bank notes from the
National Bank of Martinsburg are attached.
1885 October 24
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 Item: 48
Form: Bulletin; Person(s): See description; Location: Berkeley County, WV; Description: List of the appointed commissioners
and canvassers of elections for the next two years
1886 September
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 Item: 49
Form: Ledger; Person(s): J.M. Seibert, John S. Ropp; Location: Unidentified; Description: Estimated expenditures for county,
on back in pencil is a receipt of money owed to Seibert by Ropp
1887 January 01
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 10 Item: 50
Form: Letter; Person(s): Jacob M. Seibert, C.M. Schaffer & Son, G.W. Mix; Location: Martinsburg, WV; Description: Signed letter
from Schaffer requesting that Seibert settle a debt owed by Mix
1887 March 01
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 Item: 51
Form: Bill receipted; Person(s): W.M. Seibert, John Z. Stehley; Location: Falling Waters, WV; Description: Bill for sawing
totaling $102 owed by Seibert to Stehley
1887 April 30
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 Item: 52
Form: Directory; Person(s): Henry J. Seibert (general receiver county court); Location: Berkeley County, WV; Description:
Page of the official directory for the county
1889 January 01
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 Item: 53
Form: Bill receipted; Person(s): Jacob M. Seebert; Location: Martinsburg, WV; Description: For subscription to "The Martinsburg
Statesman," published by Westenhaver and Boyer
1891 June 06
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 Item: 54
Form: Receipt; Person(s): Moses Seibert, Daniel S. Nicely; Location: unidentified; Description: For $12 paid by Seibert to
Nicely for blacksmithing
1893 January 06
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 11 Item: 55
Form: Receipt; Person(s): Moses Seibert, D.S. Nicely; Location: Unidentified; Description: For $7.30 paid by Seibert to Nicely
for blacksmithing
1894 January 02
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12 Item: 56
Form: Receipt; Person(s): W.V. Seibert; Location: Martinsburg, WV; Description: Receipt of payment by Seibert for 3 tons of
phosphate costing $58.50 from [name illegible], written on stationery from the Continental Hotel, Corner Public Square
1895 October 05
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12 Item: 57
Form: Bill; Person(s): W.V. Seibert, A.T. Hess; Location: Martinsburg, WV; Description: For lard, coffee, sugar and other
groceries purchased by Seibert from Hess, advertisments for "leading business houses of Martinsburg, WV" on reverse
1896 August 08
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12 Item: 58
Form: Handwritten note and typed copy; Person(s): Harry G. Norton, Sidney G. Morton; Location: Masontown, WV, Pittsburgh,
PA, VA; Description: Note on reverse of envelope addressed to Harry G. Norton, contents of note concern Civil War service
of Sidney G. Morton
1897 July 14
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12 Item: 59
Form: Advertisment with typed draft of letter on reverse; Person(s): Oren F. Morton; Location: Kingwood, WV; Description:
For the lecture series "A New United States and America Viewed in a New Light" by Oren F. Morten, letter on reverse solicits
contributions for publishing a paper called "The Banner"
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 12 Item: 60
Form: Receipt; Person(s): W.V. Seibert; Location: Martinsburg, WV; Description: For subscription to "The National Stockman
and Farmer"
1904 February 06
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13 Item: 61
Form: Program; Person(s): Unidentified; Location: Martinsburg, WV; Description: For the First Annual Luncheon of the Board
of Trade
1910 April 27
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13 Item: 62
Form: Itinerary; Person(s): C.J. Seiber, C.M. Seibert
location: Martinsburg, WV; Description: For vacation tour from Martinsburg to Boston and points north, two Seibert family
members listed as directors of The People's Trust Co.
1916
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13 Item: 63
Form: Addressed envelope; Person(s): C.A. Seibert; Location: Martinsburg, Falling Waters, WV; Description: Envelope addressed
to Seibert from J.W. Lloyd's Steam Bakery in Martinsburg
1918 June 18-1918 June 20
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13 Item: 64
Form: Printed letter; Person(s): W.T. Cox, J.T. Piggott, C.W. Watson, Davis Elkins; Location: Parkersburg, WV; Description:
Letter from Cox, the Commander of the Department of West Virginia, Grand Army endorsing Davis Elkins for the United States
Senate
1918 October 21
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13 Item: 65a
Form: Newspaper; Person(s): Unidentified; Location: Unidentified; Description: "American Agriculturalist"
1925 January 17
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 13 Item: 65b
Form: Letter; Person(s): Unidentified; Location: Unidentified; Description: Handwritten letter to the editor of "The Independent"
entitled "Encourage your Home Manufacturers"
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14 Item: 66
Form: Note; Person(s): Unidentified; Location: Unidentified; Description: Handwritten note, possibly describing a home remedy
for some ailment
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14 Item: 67
Form: Note; Person(s): See description; Location: Unidentified; Description: Handwritten note listing several people and their
street addresses
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14 Item: 68
Form: Ticket; Person(s): Unidentified; Location: Unidentified; Description: Three tickets good for a chance in a quilt raffle
organized by the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic of West Virginia
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14 Item: 69
Form: Book; Person(s): Unidentified; Location: Unidentified; Description: Loose pages from a Bible, containing parts of John
and Revelations
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14 Item: 70
Form: Booklet; Person(s): J.F. Rutherford; Location: Unidentified; Description: "Choosing Riches or Ruin explained in Two
Bible Treatises by J.F. Rutherford"
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14 Item: 71
Form: Photograph; Person(s): Unidentified; Location: Baltimore, MD; Description: Photograph of unidentified woman with advertisment
for petite photos from "Jeffres Studio's" on the reverse
undated
Mixed Materials Box: 1 Folder: 14 Item: 72
Form: List formatted as a table; Person(s): Unidentified; Location: Unidentified; Description: Table in German listing degrees
and minutes along with other measurements
undated