In 1750, property map of Exeter township (or rather, I think, Exeter District), Elias Wagner owned a piece of land, and Isaac Levan was one of his next door neighbors. Another neighbor was named Werner. Elias Wagner died around 1754-1755, leaving a "widow Wagner" of 1754 tax list for Exeter who was the only Wagner in Exeter that year, who was made sole administrator of Elias's estate in 1755; her name was Margaret or Margaretha. In 1775, it seems that no Wagner lived in Exeter, even though a big Wagner family lived pretty continuously in Exeter and by the end of teh century had parcels of land all over Exeter and Cumru and possibly Alsace. Further, one of these parcels, maybe more than one, was located roughly where Elias's parcel was in 1750. On 1775 property map, the land that had been owned by Elias Wagner in 1750 was owned by Abraham Levan, who also owned the land that had belonged to Isaac Levan in 1750, and the land that had belonged to the man named Werner in 1750. By 1770, Johannes or John Wagner, who I suspect was a son of Elias, had a farm in Cumru, possibly near where Elias's farm had been - and some genealogy I haven't seen yet links this John / Johannes Wagner with the Werner family. "Descendants of the Wagner and Werner families" or something. I am wondering if one of the Levan men outright married Margaret the widow of Elias Wagner. In any case, since the families lived on adjacent properties, does anyone show a family tie between these two families - seems unlikely one would NOT have existed. There are all kinds of clues that my Wagners did belong to a kinship network that the Levan's also belonged to, along with the Schneiders's and the Keim's. I am looking for genealogical information on these Wagners - so far, none to be found anywhere, unless for John Wagner's DESCENDANTS. I happen to want to know who were the family of JOhn's brother Henry. I think that this Levan family were descended from an Abraham Levan who was among the earlier settlers in the Oley Valley, in the part of Philadelphia County that became Berks County, and that some of them were members of the Moravian Church of Oley in 1741, along with almost every single one of the families that I've established were related to my Wagners but the Wagners themselves. Since it is unlikely my Wagners and people I think were my Wagners never married Levan's, I'd also like to know the first several generations of the Levan family genealogy. Yours, Dora Smith __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail � Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/