Jacob Isaacs VanBibber

     Jacob Isaacs VanBibber was born in 1628 at Krefeld, Duchy of Kleve, Rheinland. He was the son of Isaac VanBibber and Hester Op Den Graeff. Jacob Isaacs VanBibber married Christina Hermania in 1648. Jacob Isaacs VanBibber died on 7 September 1705 at Earlsville, Cecil County, Maryland Colony, America, at age 77 years. He was buried Saint Stephen's Church, Earlsville, Maryland.
     The Van Bibber family that was the first to settle in the New World was the family of Isaacs Jacob Van Bibber who came to Philadelphia in 1687. He came to America to prepare the way for his parents and the rest of the family that would soon follow. The Van Bibbers were residents of Krefeld (now Germany) and had been persecuted in Europe because they were followers of Menno Simons. Other Mennonites from Krefeld had come to Philadelphia in 1684 at the invitation of William Penn including Herman Op Den Graff, who was the husband of two of the sisters of Isaacs Jacob. Isaacs Jacob Van Bibber moved to Germantown (now a suburb of Philadelphia) and was engaged in commerce.

     It was not long before the rest of the family immigrated to Germantown and resided there and in Philadelphia until moving to Cecil County Maryland. While in Germantown the family got involved in a religious dispute and perhaps that is what caused the migration to Maryland.