This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------13C2924F70C7123FCA202D44 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi Hallman's" This came through the Montgomery County, PA mailing list. It talks about Anthony Hallman and Christina who married "Mr. Leffeber." Doris --------------13C2924F70C7123FCA202D44 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <PAMONTGO-L-request@rootsweb.com> Delivered-To: midwig@mail.ptd.net Received: (qmail 23517 invoked from network); 12 Sep 1999 16:31:48 -0000 Received: from bl-14.rootsweb.com (204.212.38.30) by mail.ptd.net with SMTP; 12 Sep 1999 16:31:48 -0000 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA15546; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 09:30:33 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 09:30:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199909121630.MAA949098@pimout2-int.prodigy.net> From: "GENE B ROOKS" <GENEROOKS@prodigy.net> Old-To: <pamontgo-l@rootsweb.com> Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 12:44:02 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1155 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [PAMONTGO-L] Thoughts on Abraham LeFEVER's family Resent-Message-ID: <ny0qMB.A.wyD.oU923@bl-14.rootsweb.com> To: PAMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com Resent-From: PAMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com Reply-To: PAMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <PAMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/1797 X-Loop: PAMONTGO-L@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: PAMONTGO-L-request@rootsweb.com There are unanswered questions, a few out and out errors, and some assumptions may never be proved on the family of Abraham LeFEVER of Skippack. One long standing published error had to do with the wife of Johannes LEFEVER, the son of Abraham of Skippack whose will was written in 1729. She had long been identified as a WENTZ, which is one of my families, and I knew there was no such daughter in the family I had. Further research in Genealogical Landmarks and Milestones of the Lower Perkiomen Country, a reprint of The Perkiomen Region, written by Ralph L. Johnson and David Bergey, Adams Apple Press 1992, pages 55-59 gives a rundown on the family of Antonius Heilman/HALLMAN 1671/1759 of Skippack, Philadelphia Co. His will is abstracted there, showing a bequest to his daughter Christiana Leffeber the sum of 500 pounds. This same Antonius Helman and his son-in-law, Richard Jacobs, married to his daughter Barbara, were witnesses in 1729 to the will of our Abraham LEFEVER, and they entered his will for probate in Phila. Co. in 1733. Antonius was born in 1671, Christiana ca. 1705, she was the third of his eight children. It is she, not a Wentz, who married Johannes. Abraham LeFEVER had two other children, daughter Catherine who married a SWITZER, and Elizabeth who married a WINSE/WENTZ. A genealogy of the Peter WENTZ family available at the Peter Wentz Farmstead, state attraction in Worcester, Montgomery Co., PA, contains transcripts of land records of Peter. Among them is the following found in Philadelphia Deeds G 2, p. 199. Aug. 11, 1715, Peter WENS and Lawrence SWISSER bought of William Willis . . . . . 250 acres in New BristolTownship, now Worcester Township, and by Deed of Partition May 1, 1719, between Peter WENS of New Bristol, near Skippack, Co. of Phila, and Lawrence SWISHER, of same, it was agreed that Lawrence SWISHER shall have one-third...adj. land of George COLLET and David Lloyd, and the said Peter WENS shall have an enjoy the remaining two-thirds. Signed Peter WENS Elizabetha WENSIN. This property is of course close to Abraham LeFEVER's own property. Let us go back to 1710, here we find on Vol. 1, page 127 of archives of the Historical Society of Montgomery County, that on October 5, 1710, Joseph PENNOCK and his wife Mary sold to Abraham LeFEBER of Bristol Township, Co. of Phila, ....a tract of 500 acres. On June 6, 1720, Abraham Lefeber, of Bristol, and wife Mary, sold to Lorenz SWITZER of the same place, 100 acres of this 500-acre tract. It should be noted that this 500 acres originally belonged to an Irishman, George COLLETT, who was the father-in-law of Christopher PENNOCK, who was the father of Joseph PENNOCK. Christopher PENNOCK also had a daughter Mary who was born in 1673, and not further followed in PENNOCK genealogies. I do not know the source for stating that the name of Mary, wife of Abraham LeFEVER, is PENNOCK. The page I mentioned above does not state it. It is however, certainly a possibility, but that would make Mary Pennock quite a bit older than Abraham, if he indeed is the son of Isaac LeFEVRE and Jannetje Boudnock born in 1687. This is my real question. Are we looking at the right parents for Abraham of Skippack????? The same above mentioned page 129 states Johannes LeFEBRE was naturalized in 1729. WHY, unless he was an emigrant child with his father Abraham, arriving with the 1708/09/10 ships bringing Huguenots to NY with the blessing of Queen Anne? We don't have anything letting us know exactly when Abraham of Skippack was born, if not the child of Isaac and Jannetje, other than the dates of his own childrens marriages and dates of grandchildren, as nearly as we can figure out. Johannes was an elder of the Skippack Reformed Church in 1728. Did they give that honor to a 20 year old? The first born child of Johannes and Christiana was supposedly born in 1724. Did Johannes marry at 16? Abraham's will would lead one to believe that his two daughters were married to neighbors Peter WENTZ and Lorentz SWITZER, and I do believe they were. Peter's wife was noted as being Elizabeth L. Those two men were buying land at least in 1715, so they were born earlier than 1695. I don't believe Abraham was born as late as 1687, or Johannes as late as 1708, but I am wide open for any facts anyone else has come up with, to figure out who married who, and when. Please keep in mind the LeFEVER family was a large one, members came over from the mid 1600's on through the 1700's, and Abraham was a revered name, used in nearly every branch. OK, I've given a few facts, and asked a whole lot of questions. Can someone add to this puzzle? 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