Jacob Loesch (1722-1782) was a Moravian congregant and official who, in 1752, joined fourteen other Moravian men in relocating to the newly-purchased Wachovia land tract where they established the town of Bethabara. Loesch served as the new town's legal counsel and representative. He remained in North Carolina until 1769, when he was recalled by the Moravian Oeconomie Conference and instructed to return to Nazareth, Pennsylvania.