aka: Johann Jacob Rupley, Johann Jacob “John” Rupley, Johan Jacob Rupley, Jacob Rupley
Jacob Rubli (in Swiss files)

Johann Jacob Rupley was born Jacob Rubli in CHE, changed name after emigration to US;
variants of Rupley:
rupley ruply rupply rupple ruppele ruppely ruppel ruple rupli rubli rooply roopley etc etc

ASR:
Revolutionary War service.
Eight children Anna Barbara Loughman
Nine children Mary (Maria) Schaeffer

Last Will and Testament:
signed: 6 Jul 1789, East Pennsborough Township, Cumberland County, PA
[by this date son George was dead]
executors: wife Mary, son in law Adam Fonderau, friend George Kober.

Mary bequeathed, to live in comfort: 50 acres, 1 horse/mare, 2 cows, 2 sheep, 2 beds + bedclothes,
20x30ft log house [in satisfaction of dowery].

Jacob: 100 acres, with payment arrangements.

Conrad: 100 acres, with payment arrangements.

Residue of estate to be sold and combined with payments by Jacob and Conrad, the total to be divided equally among 17 children, or if child deceased, his part to be shared by the grandchildren.
Thus, 1/17 part to the 7 children of son George.

Listed in the will are the husbands of various daughters of JJR
Dorothea David Frank
Magdalene Dewalt Erford
Margaret Adam Fonderau
Barbara John Swineford


SOURCES:
ASR:
Rupley family history collected by Allen Shurter Rupley.
Line of descent, Johann Jacob Rupley through Samuel Kendig Rupley, following Rupley name.

LDS:
Ancestral File:
AF95-105628
AF95-105650
both submitted by:
CLAUDIA J KOTTER
PO BOX 1734
EDGEWOOD NM
USA 87015-1734
idents:
J J J Rupley AFN:1CZG-SN0
B Loughman 1CZG-SP6
M Scoff 1CZR-384

Int. Genealogical Index - noth america (ician)
idents for jjj rupley/loughman/scoff
batch #: F504581
sheets: 12 and 13
source call #: 1553239 - type film

Pedigree Resource File
compact disk # 94
submitter:
Randal VANDREW
238 W. Leah Ave. Gilbert AZ 85233
submission search:
2351956-0825104135227
jjj rupley pin #723854
b loughman 723855
m schof 723856

LDS sources:
Jacob Rubli:
igi-cont. europe: Jacob Rubli, igi-europe: batch 6020286, sheet 51, call 1621521
verifies location of christ., as that by ASR from european manager of Grace.
anc file: 2228-F76
no new information
references Ulrich Rupley file
by April Mercado, Seattle: Submission: AF97-122426

1790 census (cumberland and thereabouts):
jacob roopley (page 31 of 39)
4 white males >16, 1 white male <16, 6 white females
(possibly 2 white males?)