There is much speculation on the immigration of the Faubions to America. There is a record of a Hans Joseph Faubion who came over from Rottingham on the ship Molly to Pennsylvania in 1741. He could have been removed from France to Germany due to the Edict of Nance which revoked all Protestant rights in France. He came first to Pennsylvania and Jacob Faubion could be his son, but that has not been proven on paper. Jacob eventually settled in Cocke County, Tennessee, which he was formerly from Fauquier County, Virginia. The town in which he settled near was called German town or Germana. This was the first settlement of the German immigrates of 1714, many of their kin from Germany came by way of Pennsylvania during the 1730's through 1760's.11

Noted by James Edson: The following record from Ancestry US and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists index, 1500s-1900s appears to match key dates and information:

Name:
Hans Joseph Fabian13
Age:
41
Birth Year:
abt 1700
Arrival year:
1741
Arrival Place:
Pennsylvania
Primary Immigrant:
Fabian, Hans Joseph
Family Members:
Wife Maria Dorothea Muller; Son Johann Valentin; Daughter Maria Barbara; Daughter Anna Regina; Son Johann Valentin; Daughter Maria Eva; Son Johann Joseph; Son Johann Valentin; Daughter Maria Ernestina

Source Publication Code:
1031.8
Annotation:
Date and port of arrival or date and place of naturalization. Span indicates period between last mention of emigrant in country of origin and first mention of his residence in the New World. "Surname, ..." indicates a variation of a surname.

Source Bibliography:
BURGERT, ANNETTE KUNSELMAN. Eighteenth Century Emigrants from German-Speaking Lands to North America. Publications of the Pennsylvania German Society, 16/19. Birdsboro, PA: The Pennsylvania German Society. Vol. 1: The Northern Kraichgau. 1983. 461p.

Household Members:
Name
Relation
Hans Joseph Fabian
 
Maria Dorothea Muller Fabian
Wife
Maria Ernestina Fabian
Daughter
Maria Eva Fabian
Daughter
Maria Barbara Fabian
Daughter
Johann Joseph Fabian
Son
Anna Regina Fabian
Daughter
Johann Valentin Fabian