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John Riggs married, January 16, 1721-22, in St. Anne's
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Parish, Anne Arundel county, Maryland, Mary Davis, daugh- ter of Thomas Davis, and had issue: 1. Thomas, born Octo- ber 20, 1722, died October 25, 1797 (unmarried). 2. Rachel, born June 11, 1724, died April 16, 1794; married, October 6, 1741, Edward Warfield. 3. John, born July 11, 1726, died 1808 (unmarried). 4. James, born April 13, 1728, died August 14, 1780; married Sarah Howard. 5. Ruth, born October 20, 1730, died October 18, 1779; married, January 20, 1752, Greenberry Griffith. 6. Mary, born September 24, 1732, died November 27, 1755; married Benjamin Griffith. 7. Catharine, born February 24, 1734, died April 8, 1802; married Hyatt. 8. Ann, born July 29, 1739. 9. Samuel, of whom later. 10. Elisha, born October 4, 1742, died June 6, 1777; married (first), Caroline Welsh, married (second) Delilah Holland. II. Achsah, born January 27, 1746, died September 9, 1817; married, November 30, 1773, Samuel Brown. 12. Amon, born April 21, 1748, died March 16, 1822; married Ruth Griffith.
Samuel Riggs, father of Elisha Riggs, was born October 6, 1740, in Anne Arundel county, and died May 25, 1814, near Brookeville, Montgomery county, Maryland, where he is buried. He removed to "Bordley's Choice," near Brookeville, Maryland, about 1767, of which tract he had inherited two hundred acres by the will of his father. He was tobacco inspector in Queen Caroline Parish, September 2, 1766-67, and held a commission as second lieutenant in Captain Na- thaniel Pigman's company of the militia in the Lower District of Frederick county, belonging to the Twenty-ninth Battalion, his commission being issued on May 14, 1766 (Md. Arch. XI. 424).
Samuel Riggs married, in 1767, in Anne Arundel county, Amelia Dorsey, daughter of Philemon Dorsey, and had issue : I. Mary, born August 14, 1768, died January 21, 1846; mar- ried Henry Griffith. 2. Henrietta, born December 22, 1769,
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died April 3, 1854; married Daniel Gaither. 3. Thomas, born January 12, 1772, died January 10, 1845; married Mary Riggs (cousin). 4. Anna, born August 12, 1773, died February 18, 1796; married John H. Riggs (cousin). 5. Reuben, born May 23, 1775, died April 25, 1829; married Mary Thomas. 6. George W., born August 8, 1777; married (first), Eliza Robinson; married (sec- ond), Rebecca (Smith) Norris. 7. Elisha, of whom later. 8. Eleanor, born June 7, 1781, died August 9, 1804. 9. Romulus, born December 22, 1782, died October 2, 1846; married Mercy Ann Lawrason. 10. Julia, born December 22, 1784, died September 26, 1862 (unmarried). 11. Samuel, born June 14, 1786, died 1805 (unmarried). 12. Remus, born January 12, 1790, died December 18, 1867; married Katha- rine Adams.
Elisha Riggs was born June 13, 1779, near Brookeville, Maryland, and died August 3, 1853, in New York City. A complete biographical sketch of Elisha Riggs will be found, under his name, in the preceding pages.
Elisha Riggs married (first), September 12, 1812, Alice Lawrason, daughter of James Lawrason; (second) July 16, 1822, Mary Ann Karrick, daughter of Joseph Karrick. Issue by first marriage: 1. George Washington, born July 4, 1813, died August 24, 1881 ; married Janet M. Shedden. 2. Lawra- son, of whom later. Issue by second marriage: 3. Elisha, married Mary Boswell. 4. Joseph Karrick, married Rosalie Vanzantd (she married (second) Prince Ruspoli, of Florence, Italy). 5. William Henry (of Paris, France), donor of the Riggs' collection of armor at Metropolitan Museum, New York City; (unmarried). 6. Mary Alice, married Samuel Wilkins Cragg.
Lawrason Riggs was born November 22, 1814, at George- town, D. C., and died October 13, 1884, at 814 Cathedral
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street, Baltimore, Maryland. He went to school at Round Hill, and started in business at fourteen years of age. At twenty he went to Spain for his health. His godfather, George Peabody, gave him a dinner, in London, on his twenty-first birthday. Later he went to Peoria, Illinois; and next to St. Louis, Missouri, engaging in business with Lawrason Lever- ing. His factory burning down, about 1858, he retired from business, and removed to Washington, D. C. After marrying for the third time, in 1859, he lived abroad two years, then in New York five years, and finally removed to Baltimore, in March, 1867, where he resided until his death. He was buried at Greenmount, Baltimore.
Lawrason Riggs married (first), February 4, 1840, Sophia Cruttenden, of Georgetown, D. C., who died without issue in 1841, and is buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri; (second) in 1843, Frances Behn Clapp, who died January 4, 1849; (third) February 24, 1859, in Washington, D. C., Mary Turpin Bright, daughter of Jesse D. Bright. Issue by second marriage : 1. Benjamin Clapp, born February 16, 1844, died April 18, 1883; married, June 1, 1874, Bebecca Fox. 2. Alice Lawrason, born July 10, 1846; married, De- cember 2, 1873, Riggin Buckler, M.D. 3. George Washing- ton, born December 22, 1848, died May 15, 1914; married, October 8, 1879, Kate Cheesaman. Issue by third marriage : 4. Mary Bright, born January 5, 1860, died April 7, 1862. 5. Lawrason, born October 17, 1861, in New York City (un- married). 6. Bright, born March 26, 1863, died November II, 1863. 7. William Pickersgill, born August 11, 1864, in Newport, Rhode Island, (unmarried). 8. Clinton Levering, of whom later. 9. Jesse Bright, born February 3, 1870, at Baltimore; married, October 5, 1893, Charlotte Morris Sym- ington. 10. Alfred Randolph, born April 19, 1871, at Balti- more. 11. Francis Graham, born November 29, 1872. 12.
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Henry Griffith, born November 29, 1872. 13. Thomas Dud- ley, born January 28, 1875, died May 22, 1913; married, June, 1897, Laura Lanman.
Clinton Levering Riggs was born September 13, 1866, at No. 33 West Seventeenth street, New York City. He was brought to Baltimore when six weeks old, and resided, until marriage, with his parents at No. 814 Cathedral Street. His education commenced at Grady's Private School in Read Street. At the age of eleven years, he went to St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire. He graduated as civil engineer in the class of 1887, of Princeton University.
He practiced engineering a short time in building a branch of the C., B. & Q. railroad in Iowa, with headquar- ters at Cedar Rapids; then entered the machine shop of Robert Poole & Son Company, Baltimore. He then went to the Det- rick & Harvey Machine Company, February 9, 1891, and retired from business, a vice-president of that company, on January 15, 1903. He entered the service of the Maryland National Guard as second lieutenant, Company E, Fifth Regi- ment Infantry, April 29, 1890; was promoted to the captaincy of Company F, same regiment, February 23, 1891 ; was com- missioned major of same regiment, November 12, 1895. He was mustered into the service of the United States as major of the Fifth Maryland United States Volunteer Infantry, May 14, 1898, and mustered out at the close of the Spanish-Ameri- can War, October 22, 1898. He resigned from the Maryland National Guard, January 26, 1899. He was appointed Adju- tant-General of Maryland, with the rank of Major-General, January 29, 1904, and served under Governor Edwin War- field until January, 1908. He was appointed by President Woodrow Wilson a Commissioner to the Philippine Islands and Secretary of Commerce and Police, assuming office on December 1, 1913, resigned November 1, 1915.
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Clinton Levering Riggs married, October 23, 1894, at "Oak Hill," York Road, Baltimore, Maryland, Mary Ann Jenkins Cromwell, daughter of Richard Cromwell, and had issue : 1. A son, born October, 1900, at "Montrose," Catons- ville, Maryland; died in infancy. 2. A daughter, born Sep- tember, 1901, at "Notting Hill," Catonsville, Maryland ; died in infancy. 3. Clinton Levering, born September, 1903, at No. 903 North Charles Street, Baltimore ; died June 11, 1912. 4. Marian Cromwell, born February 28, 1905, at No. 903 North Charles street, Baltimore. 5. Richard Cromwell, born June 24, 1908, at "Notting Hill," Catonsville, Maryland.
(The Dorsey Line).
The name, Dorsey, was pronounced as if spelt "Dossy," and in fact it appears, at times, so recorded. It was also writ- ten "Darcy," from which circumstance a French origin has been claimed for the family; but there is evidence to indicate that the Maryland Dorseys had been located for a time, at least, in Ireland, prior to their arrival in America. That the family bore arms is proved by the seal to the original will (dated January 7, 1742), of Caleb Dorsey, of Anne Arundel county, which displays: "on a fess between three wolf heads, a lion passant, guardant."
Edward Dorsey, also called "Edward Darcy, Gentle- man," received, in 1650, a warrant for two hundred acres of land in Anne Arundel county, Maryland, and a grant was issued to him on February 23, 1651, for two hundred acres additional. In 1667, Edward Dorsey assigned to Cornelius Howard his right to land for transporting seven persons into the Province. "Dorsey," held by Edward Dorsey, gave the name to Dorsey's creek, upon which was located Thomas Gates, whose will of 1659 provided that "Edward Dorsey's children shall have free outlet to the woods and spring, as
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formerly I have given them." He therefore had children, although it is not known whether they followed him to the Province or traveled between the Province and England ; but an early record read : "Robert Bullen demands lands for bring- ing a number of passengers, amongst whom was Edward Dorsey, in 1661." The record continues : "August 24, 1664, patented to him (Edward Dorsey, Jr.) and to John and Josua Dorsey, a plantation called 'Hockley-in-the-Hole,' originally 400 acres (later resurvey, 842 acres), near the site of Ann- apolis." Edward Dorsey died prior to 1681, for on December 6th of that year, Edward Dorsey of Anne Arundel county, Gent., son of Edward Dorsey, late of said county, deceased, conveys his interest in "Hockley-in-the-Hole" to his brother, John Dorsey. Edward Dorsey married, and had issue: I. Edward, of whom later. 2. Joshua, died 1688; married Sarah Richardson. 3. John, died March 11, 1715; married, 1683, Pleasance Ely. 4. Sarah, married Matthew Howard, Jr.
Colonel Edward Dorsey, son of Edward Dorsey, the American ancestor, came to Maryland before 1664. He is doubtless the Edward Dorsey brought over by Robert Bullen in 1661; but whether this was his first trip across the sea is not known. He was a Justice for the County of Anne Arundel in 1679, again in 1686, and again in 1689; was styled "Cap- tain in 1686, "Major" in 1687; commissioned Major of Horse, of Anne Arundel county, September 4, 1689; Major of Anne Arundel county, October 9, 1694; was commissioned Associate Commissioner in Chancery, October 17, 1694; Bur- gess of Anne Arundel county in 1694, again in 1695, 1696, 1697, and for Baltimore county, 1701-1705. He was Commis- sioner, also Judge of High Court of Chancery, March 2, 1695-96; and was styled "Colonel" in 1702; was one of the committee in 1694 to lay out town lots and a common for Annapolis, Trustee of King William and Mary School in
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1696, and a Commissioner for the erection of St. Anne's Church, Annapolis. The first session of the Legislature in Annapolis was held at the house of Major Edward Dorsey, commencing February 28, 1694-95. Prior to 1700, and after his marriage to his second wife, Margaret Larkin, Colonel Edward Dorsey removed from Annapolis to "Major's Choice," west of Waterloo, and north of the Old Brick Church. Colonel Dorsey's sons by Sarah Wyatt, his first wife, were located near him upon "Long Beach" and "Major's Choice." Colonel Dorsey owned landed estates not only in Anne Arundel county, but also in Baltimore county. Colonel Edward Dorsey died at "Major's Choice" (now Howard county), in 1705. His will is dated October 26, 1704, and was proved December 31, 1705. Children by first wife, Sarah (Wyatt) Dorsey: 1. Edward, died young. 2. Samuel, mar- ried Jane Dorsey. 3. Joshua, of whom later. 4. John, born 1688; married, April 8, 1708, Honor Elder. 5. Nicholas, died 1718; married, December 20, 1709, Frances Hughes. 6. Benjamin, living in 1715. 7. Hannah, married Samuel How- ard. 8. Sarah, married John Petticord. Children by second wife, Margaret (Larkin) Dorsey: 9. Larkin. 10. Charles. II. Francis, died 1749; married Elizabeth 12. Ed- ward. 13. Ann, married John Hammond. The widow, Mar- garet (Larkin) Dorsey, married (second) John Israel, for- merly of London, England.
Joshua Dorsey, son of Colonel Edward and Sarah (Wyatt) Dorsey, was born in 1686, and died November 28, 1747. He inherited from his father by his will, "Barnes Folly" and part of "Long Reach." He acquired the interest of his brother, Samuel, in "Major's Choice," Howard county, and afterward resided there. On June 10, 1734, Joshua and his brother, John, patented 632 acres under the name of "Brother's Partnership," and on November 23, 1747, a deed
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was executed, dividing the same. Joshua Dorsey was a Justice of Baltimore county, 1712-14, and Captain of Militia, 1742. He married, May 16, 1711, Anne Ridgely, daughter of Henry and Katharine (Greenberry) Ridgely, at Christ Church, Queen Caroline Parish, Anne Arundel county, Maryland. His will was dated November, 1747, and proved February 6, 1748. Children of Captain Joshua and Anne (Ridgely) Dor- sey: I. Henry, born November 8, 1712; married Elizabeth Worthington. 2. Philemon, of whom later. 3. Rachael, born July 6, 1717; married John Warfield. 4. Elizabeth, born November 6, 1720. 5. Joshua, born March 6, 1723; died un- married. 6. Nicholas, born June 2, 1725; married Elizabeth Worthington. 7. Catharine, born December 21, 1727, died April 20, 1746. 8. Anne, born October 15, 1730. 9. Sarah, born May 27, 1733. 10. Charles, born November 11, 1736.
Philemon Dorsey, son of Captain Joshua and Anne (Ridgely) Dorsey, was born January 20, 1716, and died 1772. He inherited from his father, "Brother's Partnership," at Day- ton, and settled there. He was captain of the "Hundred," whose duty it was to count the output of tobacco, and to levy church tax for its support. He was one of the builders of the "Chapel of Ease" upon "Poplar Spring Branch" and attended to its construction in 1750. His homestead stood upon the west of the road leading from Glenelg to Dayton, and his sur- veys reached west of his homestead some ten miles. His will is dated December 1, 1771, and proved April 7, 1772. Cap- tain Philemon Dorsey married (first), February 19, 1738, Catharine Ridgely, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (War- field) Ridgely, at Christ Church, Queen Caroline Parish, Anne Arundel county, Maryland. He married (second) Rachael Lawrence. Children by first wife: I. Anne, born October 2, 1740; married Captain John Dorsey. 2. Eliza- beth, born May 13, 1742; married William Ridgely. 3. Phile-
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mon, Jr., born February 7, 1744; married Ann 4. Catharine, born November 30, 1745; married Benjamin War- field. 5. Sarah, born September 9, 1747; married Rachel Warfield. 6. Amelia, born August 23, 1749, died August 6, 1807; married Samuel Riggs (see Riggs family). Children by second wife : 7. Joshua, married Janet Kennedy. 8. Hen- rietta, married William Hobbs. 9. Ariana, married Samuel Owings.
(The Lawrason and Levering Lines).
James Lawrason, a prominent merchant of Alexandria, Virginia, was born December 2, 1753, in Sussex county, New Jersey, son of Thomas Lawrason, of whom little record is found. He died at Alexandria, April 18, 1823, leaving a will dated October 23, 1820, probated May 26, 1824. He mar- ried at Leesburg, Virginia, June 23, 1779, Alice, daughter of Septimus Levering. Children: 1. Thomas, born March 29, 1780, died June, 1819; married Elizabeth Carson. 2. Eliza- beth, born September 28, 1781, died March 16, 1821 ; married (first) Hezekiah Smoot, (second) John Paradise. 3. Mary Miller, born February 17, 1783, died August 13, 1870; mar- ried Aaron Levering. 4. John Butcher, born March 15, 1785, died December 17, 1786. 5. Ann Butcher, born February 14, 1787, died 1861 ; married, September 3, 1807, Aaron Righter Levering. 6. William, born June 13, 1788, died October 23, 1788. 7. Mercy Ann, born October 24, 1789, at Alexandria, Virginia, died September 12, 1853; married, May 29, 1810, Romulus Riggs. 8. Alice, born February 28, 1792, at Alex- andria, Virginia, died April 16, 1817; married Elisha Riggs (see Riggs). 9. Susanna, born March 24, 1794, died 1800.
10. James, born March 15, 1796, died February 14, 1814. II. Benjamin S., born June 4, 1799, died November, 1800.
Alice Levering was a great-great-granddaughter of Rosier Levering, who was born in the early years of the seventeenth
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century in Holland, of a family which, according to the Lever- ing family history and genealogy, was derived from ancient English or Anglo-Saxon stock, and which had been exiled because of their religious principles. The name is certainly Teutonic in its origin. Proof of this is found in the little town of Leveringhausen in Westphalia, near Arnaberg, the ancient capital of the duchy. Rosier Levering, after his mar- riage, settled at Gemen, Westphalia, Germany, where prob- ably he died about 1662. A tradition preserved by the rem- nant of the family there says that they occupied the old Lever- ing homestead in that town, and that Rosier Levering and his wife died there. He married Elizabeth Van der Walle, of Wesel, Westphalia, Germany, near the frontier of Holland. Children : 1. (John) Wigard, of whom later. 2. Eberhard, born about 1652, died September 5, 1711; married, 1677, Mechtold Schmulling. 3. Elizabeth, born about 1654. 4. Alche, born about 1656. 5. William, born about 1658, died January 3, 1709; married (first), about 1687, Greta Nilent; (second) about 1691, Maria Velts. 6. Gerhard, born about 1660, died after 1731 ; married Mary -, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 7. A daughter, born September, 1662.
Wigard Levering, son of Rosier and Elizabeth (Van der Walle) Levering, was born about 1649, at Gemen, West- phalia, Germany, and died February 2, 1744-45, at Roxbor- ough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was buried in the Levering Cemetery. From an original contract in the pos- session of the Pennsylvania Historical Society is the following :
1685, March 20, we the subscribers, do acknowledge and confess by these presents, that we have contracted and agreed together that Dr. Thomas Van Wylick and Johannes Le Brun, in behalf of the Pennsylvania Company, in which they and other friends, of Frankfort and other parts, are engaged, to accept or receive one Wigard Levering, old 36 or 37 years; Magdalena Boeckers, old 36 years, and four children: Anna Catharine, William,
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Amelia, and Sibella, respectively 1/2, 21/2, 5, and 9 years, to and for the service of the aforesaid company to transport by shipping out of Holland or England, to Pennsylvania, upon their costs, etc.
NOTE .- Written upon the margin of this contract appears an agreement to include the "contractor's brother, Gerhard Levering."
In the Philadelphia Historical Society is a petition from the agent for the Pennsylvania Company to William Penn, setting forth that a suit, heretofore brought against said Wigard for the payment of the money due for transporting him and his family under the above-mentioned contract, had been adjudged against him, and in favor of said Wigard Lev- ering, by reason of the unlawful and unfair advantage taken by said Wigard Levering, who employed and retained all the lawyers in the colony in his own behalf, thus making it im- possible to have his case properly prosecuted before the court, and he (the agent) petitions, therefore, that the case be ordered reopened for a further hearing. Wigard Levering and his wfie lived in Gemen until after the decease of their first child, and then moved to Mulheim, where they remained until they emigrated to America, after March 20, 1685, bring- ing their surviving four children. He settled first in Ger- mantown, and removed to Roxborough township in 1691, where he bought 500 acres, lying between and bordering upon the River Schuylkill and Wissahickon creek. Upon this estate he lived his remaining years. He left a will, dated August 23, 1742, probated February 7, 1745.
Wigard Levering married, in March, 1674, Magdalena Boeker, daughter of William Boeker. Children: 1. Johanna Sophia, born January or March, 1675, at Gemen, Germany, died in infancy. 2. Anna Catharine, born March, 1676, at Mulheim, Germany; married, 1692, Heinrich Frey. 3. Maria Elizabeth, born July, 1678, at Mulheim, died in infancy. 4. William, born May 4, 1679, at Mulheim, died 1746; mar-
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ried Katharine 5. Amelia Ann Sophia, born July, 1682, at Mulheim, died February 5, 1771 ; married Benjamin Morgan. 6. Anna Sibella, born September, 1684, at Mul- heim, died August 17, 1764; married George Miller. 7. Her- man, born November 18, 1686, at Germantown, died May, 1691. 8. Elizabeth, born January 7, 1689, at Germantown, died September, 1703. 9. Sidonia, born April 23, 1691, at Germantown; married Peter De Haven, or Indehaven. 10. Jacob, of whom later. 11. Magdalena, born January 13, 1695, at Roxborough, Pennsylvania, died before 1736; married Wil- liam Tennis or Tunes. 13. Infant (still born).
Jacob Levering, son of Wigard and Magdalena (Boeker) Levering, was born January 21, 1693, at Roxborough, Penn- sylvania, and there perhaps died in October, 1753. On Feb- ruary 20, 1717, his father conveyed to him eighty-five acres of land on which he settled, and which comprised the area as now subdivided between Washington and Levering streets, Twenty-first ward of the City of Philadelphia, bordering on the Schuylkill river, and embracing a large part of the bor- ough of Manayunk. His house was on the east side of Green Lane until 1736, when he built a stone house on the west side. A modern dwelling was erected on the site of the old stone house in 1890 by Eliza Levering, who occupied it. Jacob Levering also owned an estate on the opposite side of the Schuylkill, now in Lower Merion Township, in Montgomery county. His will is dated December 22, 1752, and proved October 22, 1753. Abraham and Septimus Levering were his executors. Jacob Levering married, about 1715, Alice Tunes, who died 1750-53. Children: 1. Magdalena, born 1716, at Roxborough (now part of Philadelphia), Pennsylvania ; mar- ried, September, 1740, Samuel Showler. 2. Abraham, born May, 1717, on Green Lane, Roxborough, died October 31, 1804; married, November 14, 1745, Anna Thomas. 3.
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Wigard, born 1719, died July 5, 1782; married (first), Eliza- beth Sturges, married (second) Elizabeth 4. Wil- liam, born 1721, died November 7, 1785; married, May 16, 1751, Margaret Lohrmann. 5. Jacob, born 1723, died before 1807; married Elizabeth 6. Anthony, born 1725; married, December 12, 1751, Agnes Tunis. 7. Benjamin, born September 15, 1728, died February 25, 1804; married, April 2, 1754, Katherine Righter. 8. Septimus, of whom later.
Septimus Levering, son of Jacob and Alice (Tunes) Lev- ering, was born about 1731, at Roxborough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and died before 1794, in Loudoun county, Vir- ginia. His wife is buried in the Levering Cemetery, Rox- borough, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and as her gravestone is inscribed "widow of Septimus Levering," he must have preceded his wife, who died June 16, 1794. Under date of February 4, 1775, the minutes of the Phliadelphia Baptist Church record: "Our brother Septimus Levering, intending to go to Virginia, has requested a letter of recommendation, which the church agrees he shall have." On June 9, 1779, a bond describes him as "Septimus Levering of the Parish of Shilborn, County of Loudoun, and Colony of Virginia." Both Septimus and his wife were baptized June 25, 1757, as mem- bers of the Great Valley Church in Chester County, and were dismissed to the Philadelphia Church, July 1, 1761. He was made a deacon September 7, 1761, and resigned October 5, 1765.
Pierre de Simitiere's MSS. in the Pennsylvania Library, states: "Septimus Levering was one of the few persons who kept a carriage in Philadelphia in the latter part of the Eighteenth century." Septimus Levering inherited from his father "all that tract of land whereon Jacob Levering lived."
He married Mary Thomas, born 1730, died 1794, daugh- ter of Griffith Thomas. Children: I. Griffith, born April
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25, 1753, at Roxborough, Pennsylvania, died August 20, 1888; married, October 13, 1776, Hannah Griscom. 2. Alice, born April 25, 1756, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died April 25, 1821; married James Lawrason. 3. Septimus, born 1758; married Elizabeth Ferrill. 4. Thomas, born December 9, 1761, died August 5, 1805, unmarried. 5. Mary, born 1772, died October 19, 1862; married Seth Cartwright, of Alexan- dria, Virginia.
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