NameJohannes KOLB
Birth19 May 1683, Wolfstein, Baden, Germany
Death31 Jan 1759, South Carolina
Misc. Notes
--Came to America in 1707, moved to Skippack in 1709.
--Bought 150 acres of land, the deed dated 15 Dec 1709.
Misc. Notes
Johannes Kolb, son of Dielman and Agnes Kolb, came to America in 1707 with his brothers Martin and Jacob. They first settled in Germantown and by 1709 had moved to Skippack, PA, which is now in Montgomery Co, PA. There, according to a deed dated 15 Dec 1709, he purchased 150 acres of land. He also owned land in Coventry Township in Chester County (KH). Sometime after 1734, the family sold the farm and moved south by ship to Charleston or down the Shenandoah Valley with Scotch-Irish, Welsh, and German pioneers to South Carolina, where he received a grant of 650 acres in the Causeway neck of the Pee Dee River in 1737 and the family made their home there between 1737 and 1742. The homestead was located on Causeway Neck, now Byrd's Island, on a plot north of the loop but south of Sugar Loaf.
A record signed by Deputy Surgeon George Pawley show that "by virtue of a precept bearing the date of Feb 7, 1737, there was laid out unto Winyaw, and in the Welsh tract, Jan 10, 1742." Johannes operated a mill at Cashway Ferry and left this and other properties to his oldest son Tillman Kolb.58