1790: US Census - Brecknock Township, Lancaster Co., PA. (14) Page 132 has an enumeration for a Jacob Good, which can be explained as follows:

  2 Males 16 and up
    Jacob, Peter

  4 Males under 16
    John, Daniel, Joseph, David

  4 Females
    Frances, Barbara, Elizabeth
    Unknown

1790: Jacob buys 36 acres from his brother Peter. This land is part of their father's homestead. (15)

1792: Jacob sells to Henry Mofser those same 36 acres that he bought from his brother Peter. (15)

1793: The Brecknock Twp. tax list of Lancaster Co. shows a Jacob Good Sr. with 300 acres of land. (16) This may be the Jacob we are talking about on this page.

1795 ca.: Jacob and Frances move to Virginia. (11 p11, 17 p674)

"[About 1795, Jacob] left Pa. with his last family and settled in Eastern Virginia. Barbara was the only of his first children to come with him to Virginia. The rest remained in Pa., ...." -- From Jacob's great grandson Noah Good. (12 p1) See also (9 p8, 26 pDanG-100).

?? Where did they live in eastern VA?

?? Was it perhaps the Germanna Colony (VA)? -- dg 2009

1800 ca.: "[About 1800,] as Jacob did not wish to remain in the slave country, he decided to move in the Shenandoah Valley in Augusta Co., what was known as the Hildebrand neighborhood. He in length of time he[sic] sold his property and moved down near Harrisonburg." (12 p1)
See also (9 p8, 26 pDanG-100).

The Great Wagon Road In moving to eastern VA, Jacob and Frances may have traveled part of the Great Wagon Road which ran south from Philadelphia through Lancaster, PA, Harrisonburg, VA, and on to Augusta, SC. (24) This was a major road in colonial America. Indian Raids Some, such as (11 p11), have reported Jacob hiding in the waterwheel of his mill during Indian raids. This is a great story, but alas, it may be a case of mistaken identity. We have found no other mention of Jacob having a mill in Virginia, and no mill is mentioned in his estate appraisal. However, a similar story is told about a Peter Guth who moved from Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania to Virginia about 1759 and had flour milling business there. "[When Peter saw Indians] coming, he would crawl down through the mill to the tail race, thinking he would save his scalp and life by getting out of their sight in hiding himself." (25 p6) Burnt Deeds The black edges on the documents from Rockingham Co. (2-5,18,20,21) are burn marks caused by Union forces attempting to destroy them during the US Civil War. For more of that story, see (27 p47). Acknowledgments Many thanks to Pete Burkholder for much of the research reported on these pages about Jacob and Frances in Virginia, including tracking down the deeds for the sale of Jacob's land from Harrisonburg to Richmond and back again. A special thanks also goes to Carter V. Good and Gene Ann Good Cordes for their work (9), which first made us aware of the Rockingham Co. documents for the settlement of Jacob's estate.