John Jacob

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(1729 – 1799) was a

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ironmaster who established the Mount Hope Iron Furnace in the Mount Hope village section of

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in 1772 which played an important role in providing

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s and tools during the Revolutionary War. Faesch established himself as an early patriot to the American cause. He was appointed as a Morris County judge, justice of the peace and later one of three Morris County delegates to the New Jersey State Convention that ratified the

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in 1787.

was born Johann Jakob

in 1729 in

Basel , french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese , neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...

Switzerland ). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...

and had emigrated to the United States in 1764. In his later years he relocated to

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and died at Morristown, New Jersey on 29 May 1799.

Sources

*Ernest Kraus, "John Jacob

, Morris County Iron Master," ''The North Jersey Highlander'', vol. 15, no. 3 (Fall 1974): 3-41. *William S. Bayley, ''Iron Mines and Mining in New Jersey'', Final Report Series of the State Geologist, vol. 7 (Trenton, NJ" Geological Survey of New Jersey, 1910), 408-409. *?Cook, 1911 People of New Jersey in the American Revolution John Jacob 1729 births 1799 deaths {{US-business-bio-1720s-stub