Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 73

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 978

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He married (second), 1785, Rachel Hubbs, sister to his first wife, and their daughter was:

Eleanor Lewis, m. Jesse Lukens.

LUKENS FAMILY.

JAN LUCKEN, ancestor of the Lukens family of America, was born in Crefeld on the Upper Rhine, whence came most of the thirteen original families of Ger- mantown, Philadelphia, and where this family had occupied an honorable position at Crefeld for many generations. He came in the "Concord," which cleared from London, July 24, and arrived at Chester, on the Delaware, October 6, 1683, hav- ing on board Thones Kunders, William Streepers, Reynier Tyson, the Op den Graeff brothers, altogether some thirty-two German Palatines, comprising the thir- teen families who founded Germantown on a tract of land purchased before leav- ing Germany, by the Frankford Company, and which was laid out to them on their arrival. Francis Daniel Pastorius, the "Sage of Germantown," had preceded them and assisted in perfecting the arrangements for their reception and was many years their teacher and councillor.

Jan Lucken received his allotment of land in German township and became at once prominent in its government and affairs. He was chosen Constable of the town, 1691, Burgess, 1694, Sheriff, 1695, and Bailiff, 1702.

Like nearly all of the first families of Germantown, that of Jan Lucken were Mennonites prior to accepting the invitation of William Penn to settle in his New Province of Pennsylvania, and brought with them to America a copy of the first Bible printed by the Mennonites, on the press of Peter Sebastian, 1598. A num- ber of these German families had, however, been converts of George Fox, and for several years after their arrival in Germantown, even those who were Men- nonites associated themselves with the Friends' Meeting, having a separate meet- ing for worship at Germantown, under the jurisdiction of Cheltenham, later Ab- ington Monthly Meeting. Through this association a number of Mennonites be- came members of the Society of Friends and retained this membership therein after the establishment of a Mennonite congregation. Among these was Jan Lucken, and his descendants have mainly held membership in the Society to the present day.

Jan Lucken married, about the time of his embarking for America, Mary, sister to Rynier Tyson, who accompanied him to Pennsylvania. She died 1742, and Jan Lucken died in Germantown, January 24, 1744. He prospered in the new settle- ment, acquired a plantation of five hundred acres in Towamencin township, Phila- delphia (now Montgomery) county, 1709.

Issue of Jan and Mary (Tyson) Lucken:

Elizabeth, b. 1684; d. young;

Alice, b. 1686; m., Aug. 29, 1706, John Conard, or Cunard, son of Thones Kunders, be- fore mentioned;

WILLIAM, b. Feb. 22, 1688-89; d. 1739; m., Dec., 1710, Elizabeth Tyson; of whom pres- ently ;

Sarah, b. Sept. 19, 1689;

John, b. Nov. 27, 1691; m., Feb. 25, 1711, Margaret Custard;

Mary, b. Jan. 18, 1693; m., 1712, John Jarrett;

Peter, b. March 30, 1696-97; m., Dec. 29, 1713, Gainor Evans;

Hannah, b. July 25, 1698; m., 1716, Samuel Daniel, son of Francis Daniel Pastorius ;

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Mathias, b. Oct. 13, 1700; m., 1721, Ann Johnson;

Abraham, b. Sept. 16, 1703; m. (first) Mary Marle, (second), 1727, Elizabeth Walker; Joseph, b. Nov. 3, 1705; m., 1728, Susanna Marle.

WILLIAM LUCKEN, born at Germantown, February 22, 1687-8, resided in Upper Dublin township, and was appointed an overseer of Horsham Meeting, 1718. He married, November 27, 1710, Elizabeth, born October 7, 1690, daugh- ter of Reynier Tyson, who had accompanied Jan Lucken in the "Concord," and settled in Germantown, where he became a very prominent man.

William Lucken died 1739, before his father; his will, bearing date June 15, 1739, was proven February 26, 1739-40. His widow survived him and was buried at Abington Meeting. February 18, 1765, aged seventy-four years and four months.

Issue of William and Elisabeth (Tyson) Lucken:

WILLIAM, JR., of whom presently:

John, m. Deborah Fitzwater, 1734;

Mary;

Sarah, m., 1744, her first cousin, John Lukens, Surveyor-General of Pa., son of Peter and Gainor (Evans) Lucken;

Reynier. of Moreland; m. Tacy - -; Mathew;

Jacob;

Elizabeth, m. Thomas Potts, b. 1735, member of Continental Congress. Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt is descended from Elizabeth Lukens:

Joseph, b. May 9, 1735; d. July 2, 1823, in Upper Dublin.

WILLIAM LUKENS (as the name now came to be spelled ), known as William Lukens, Jr., inherited one hundred acres of land in Horsham township, which his father had purchased of Joseph Hall, and lived all his life thereon. He married (first). Jannary, 1740-41, Martha, daughter of Thomas Pennington, who brought a certificate to Abington from Lancashire, England, 1719, by his wife, Martha Pennington, whom he married 1721. Martha (Pennington ) Lukens died July. 1750, and William married (second), 1752, her first cousin, Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Pennington, of Abington, later of New Britain township, Bucks county, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of John and Sarah Michener, of Philadelphia, later of Moreland.

The Friends at that time held that a man should not marry a nearer relation of his deceased wife than of himself and, as they were opposed to the marriage of cousins, William Lukens was disowned for his second marriage. He was, how- ever, reinstated in membership, 1757. He died April, 1803.

Issue of William and Martha (Pennington) Lukens:

William, b. Oct. 1, 1742; Elizabeth, b. Aug. 23, 1746; d. young ; Rachel, b. Aug. 23, 1746; Elizabeth, b. April 21, 1748.

Issue of William and Elisabeth ( Pennington) Lukens:

Jonathan, b. March 16, 1752; m. Mary Conrad;

DAVID, b. Oct. 7, 1753; m. Sarah Lloyd; of whom presently; Jacob, b. March 6, 1756;

Thomas, b. Feb. 20, 1758; m. Mary Jane Parry ;

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Daniel, b. 1760; m., April 20, 1792, Mary Shoemaker, and removed to East Fallowfield, Chester co., 1797, where he d. Jan. 9, 1842. His wife, an eminent minister among Friends, d. Oct. 26, 1839.

DAVID LUKENS, son of William and Elizabeth ( Pennington) Lukens, born in Horsham township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, October 7, 1753, through a member of the Society of Friends, became a member of Captain David Marple's Associated Regiment of Philadelphia County Militia, 1780.

His cousin, Jesse Lukens, son of Surveyor General Lukens, went with Colonel William Thompson's Battalion of Riflemen to Boston, 1775, and returning in the winter, joined the expedition against Wyoming and was killed there, December 25, 1775. Several others of the family saw service in militia companies during the Revolution.

David Lukens married at Abington Meeting, December 20, 1776, Sarah, born 1755, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Walton) Lloyd. She died February 20, 1824, and David Lukens died in Horsham, October, 1831.

Thomas Lloyd, grandfather of Sarah (Lloyd) Lukens, was born June 8, 1699, and died in Moreland township, Philadelphia county, December 29, 1781, aged eighty-two years, six months and three weeks. He was probably the eldest son of Thomas and Elizabeth (Edwards) Lloyd, of Merion, married, 1698, and a nephew of Robert Lloyd, of Merion, whose ancestry is given in this volume. Thomas Lloyd was a member of Abington Meeting and married at Middletown Meeting, Bucks county, May, 1724, Mary Harker, born October 6, 1700, daugh- ter of Adam and Grace Harker, from Leburne, Yorkshire; Adam Harker's certifi- cate from the Friends' Meeting at Leburne was dated 12mo. 10, 1698. He was a prominent member of the Society of Friends in Bucks county, active in the advancement of their principles and in the establishment of schools in connection with the several Monthly Meetings. His will, proved December 5, 1754, devised funds for schools at Middletown, Buckingham and Wrightstown Meetings. The children of Thomas and Mary (Harker) Lloyd were:

John, b. Oct. 24, 1725; m. Susanna, dau. of Benjamin Field;

Thomas, b. Aug. 22, 1727; m. Mary Tyson;

Adam, b. Nov. 3, 1728; SAMUEL, b. Oct. 8, 1729; m. Sarah Walton;

Evan, b. Nov. 1, 1731;

Adam, b. Nov. 8, 1733; Mary, b. May 3, 1737;

James, b. July 4, 1738; m. Sarah Thomas; David, b. May 13, 1741.

Thomas Lloyd married (second) at Birmingham Meetinghouse, Chester county, March 6, 1762, Mary, widow of Joseph Brinton and daughter of George Peirce, of Thornbury.

SAMUEL LLOYD, son of Thomas and Mary (Harker) Lloyd, born October 8, 1729, in Moreland township, Philadelphia county, married, June 12, 1753, Sarah, daughter of Job and Agnes (Walmsley) Walton, of Byberry. Samuel Lloyd was buried at Horsham Meeting, February 9, 1779, his wife, Sarah, surviving him until July 8, 1804. Their eldest child was Sarah, born 1755, who became wife of David Lukens, December 20, 1776.

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Issue of David and Sarah (Lloyd) Lukens:

Elizabeth, b. Nov. 22, 1777 ; Samuel Lloyd, b. April 1, 1779:

Edith, b. April 30, 1781 ; David, b. March 23, 1783;

JESSE, b. July 1, 1784; of whom presently ;

Dr. Charles Lloyd, b. Aug. 1, 1786; m. Rebecca Pennock, and, in 1816, established Lukens Iron Co., at Coatesville;

Jonathan, b. May 10, 1788;

Sarah, b. March 15, 1791 ;

David, b. March 10, 1793;

Solomon, b. June 15, 1795; associated with his brother, Charles, in Lukens Iron Co.

JESSE LUKENS, son of David and Sarah (Lloyd) Lukens, born July 1, 1784, located in Upper Dublin township, Montgomery county, where he died June 2, 1822. He married Eleanor, daughter of Amos Lewis, by his second marriage, with Rachel, daughter of John Hubbs, by his wife, Jane, second daughter of John Evans, of Gwynedd, born in Merionethshire, Wales, by his wife, Eleanor, daugh- ter of Rowland Ellis, of Merion. Eleanor (Lewis) Lukens, born June 21, 1785, died September 24, 1876, having survived her husband over half a century.

Issue of Jesse and Eleanor (Lewis) Lukens:

AMOS LEWIS, b. July 24, 1805; d. Sept. 6, 1871; m. Asenath Conrad; of whom presently; Israel, M. D., b. Nov. 27, 1810; m. Susanna Jones;

Rachel, b. March 13, 1813; d. unm .;

David L., b. Jan. 2, 1817.

AMOS LEWIS LUKENS, eldest son of Jesse and Eleanor (Lewis) Lukens, born in Upper Dublin township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, July 24, 1805, married, November 11, 1829, Asenath, born September 8, 1808, died December 9, 1881, daughter of Samuel Conrad, by his wife, Sarah Hallowell, and a descend- ant, sixth generation, from Thomas Kunders, of Crefeld, a founder of German- town 1683. Amos Lukens died September 6, 1871.

Issue of Amos L. and Asenath (Conrad) Lukens:

Angelina, b. Oct. 27, 1830; d. March 9, 1837; Courtlandt, b. Sept. 3, 1832; m. Mary Teas ; Ellen, b. Sept. 27, 1834; m. Israel Reifschneider; Jane Jones, b. Oct. 20, 1836; m. Barclay Walton; Ephraim Conrad, b. Nov. 7, 1840; m. Anna Briscoe, (second) Alada B. Ely;

Jesse, b. Jan. 20, 1842; m. Elizabeth Ann Seeds ; Sarah, b. Oct. 6, 1845; d. Aug. 11, 1848.

CONARD OR CONRAD FAMILY.

THONES KUNDERS, ancestor of the Pennsylvania families who now spell the name Conrad, Conard and Connard, was born at Crefeld, on the Upper Rhine, 1648, and was one of the little company of Palatines who took passage in the "Concord," which sailed from London, July 24, 1683, on their way to found the first German settlement on Pennsylvania soil, in pursuance of the invitation of William Penn. He was a member of the Society of Friends, and the first Meet- ing of German Friends was held at his home in Germantown, of which town he was a founder, and one of its first officers. He died at Germantown, 1729. The maiden name of his wife, Ellen, has not been ascertained.

Issue of Thones and Ellen Kunders:

Conrad Kunders, b., Crefeld, July 17, 1668: d. in Germantown, 1747; m. (first) Anna Klincken, (second)

MATTHIAS KUNDERS, b., Crefeld, Jan. 25, 1679-80; d. 1726; m. Barbara Tyson: of whom presently ;

John Kunders, b., Crefeld, Aug. 3, 1681; d. 1765; m. Alice Lucken;

Ann Kunders, b., Germantown, July 4, 1684; m., Sept. 29, 1715, Leonard Streepers;

Agnes Kunders, b., Germantown, Nov. 28, 1686; m., Dec. 29, 1709, Samnel Powell;

Henry Kunders, b., Germantown, Feb. 16, 1688-89; m. Catharine Streepers ;

Elizabeth Kunders, b., Germantown, April 30, 1691; m., Jan. 30, 1709, Griffith Jones.

MATTHIAS CUNARD, second son of Thones Kunders, born Crefeld, Germany, January 25, 1679-80, married, July 29, 1705, Barbara, daughter of Reynier Tyson, another pioneer of Germantown. He died in Germantown 1726.

Issue of Matthias and Barbara (Tyson) Cunard:

Anthony Conard; Margaret Conard;

CORNELIUS CONARD, b. 1710; d. Nov. 12, 1765; m. Priscilla Bolton: of whom presently ;

Magdalen Conard ; William Conard; John Conard; Matthias Conard.

CORNELIUS CONARD, second son of Matthias and Barbara (Tyson) Conard, lived at the time of his marriage in Horsham township, and for a time followed the vocation of a weaver. In 1742 he was a resident of "German Township" and in described as "Yeoman." He married, May 29, 1732, Priscilla, daughter of Everard Bolton, who came from Ross, Herefordshire, England, 1682, with wife, Elizabeth, and settled in Cheltenham township, near the present line of the city of Philadelphia at Milestown. He was a member of Abington Meeting of Friends and a prominent man in the community ; was commissioned a Justice, May 30, 1715. His first wife, Elizabeth, mother of his children, died June 5, 1707, and he married (second ) Margaret Jones, widow of John Jones. He died 1727, leav- ing a large family of children. Priscilla died November 22, 1765.

Issue of Cornelius and Priscilla (Bolton) Conard:

Matthew Conard, b. 1733; a miller of Cheltenham; m., April 13, 1760, Mary Roberts; Mary Conard, b. 1735: m., May 25, 1762, Jacob Watson;

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Everard Conard, b. 1741; m., June 18, 1761, Margaret, dau. of Isaac Cadwalader, of Warminster ;

Joseph Conard, b. 1742;

SAMUEL CONARD, b. Nov. 13, 1744; d. Nov. 20, 1819; m. Hannah ( Baker) Kenderdine; of whom presently ;

John Conard, b. Nov. 13, 1744 (twin to Samuel); m. Sarah , and settled in Bucks co .; had six children;

Susanna Conard, b. 1750; m., Oct. 13, 1773, Samuel Carew;

Two other children, older than Everard, d. in childhood.

SAMUEL CONARD, son of Cornelius and Priscilla (Bolton) Conard, born in Germantown, 1744, married, November 16, 1772, Hannah Baker, widow of Jacob Kenderdine, of Horsham, and settled in that township, where he died November 20, 1819.

Issue of Samuel and Hannah (Baker) Conard:

Sarah Conard; Ruth Conard, m. Isaac Parry;

Priscilla Conard, m. Jonathan Adamson;

Hannah Conard, d. single, at an advanced age;

SAMUEL CONARD, b. July 4, 1780; d. Nov. 18, 1829; m. Sarah Hallowell:

Cornelius Conard, lived to an advanced age.

SAMUEL CONARD, son of Samuel and Hannah ( Baker ) Conard, born in Hors- ham township on the nation's fourth birthday, married, November 17, 1807, Sarah, daughter of William and Mary (Roberts) Hallowell, of White Marsh, Montgomery county, and great-great-granddaughter of John Hallowell, who came from Hucknow, parish of Sutton, Nottinghamshire, England, 1682, and set- tled first at Darby ; in 1696, purchased a tract of six hundred and thirty acres in Abington township, adjoining the line of Upper Dublin and Moreland townships, near the present village of Glenside, where his family resided for two centuries. He was twice married before coming to America, his second wife, Mary, daugh- ter of Thomas Sharpe, being mother of all his ten children, except the eldest. John, born in England, February 8, 1672. John Hallowell and Mary, his wife, and four children brought a certificate to Abington Meeting from Nottinghamshire, dated February 19, 1682.

Thomas Hallowell, eldest son of John and Mary (Sharpe) Hallowell, was born at Hucknow, Nottinghamshire, March 6, 1679. He married, 1701, Rosamond, daughter of John Till, who had brought a certificate from White Greaves, Staf- fordshire, England, for himself and family, dated January 2, 1700. On October 1, 1702, John Hallowell, the father, conveyed to his son, Thomas, two hundred and twenty acres of the Abington plantation, on which he settled and lived until his death, February 14, 1734. His widow Rosamond survived him until Angust 13. 1745 ; both are buried at Abington Friends' burying-ground.

Joseph Hallowell, youngest of the ten children of Thomas and Rosamond (Till) Hallowell, born on the old Abington homestead, November 23, 1719, married, May 18, 1742, Sarah, daughter of Reese Nanney, of Upper Merion, by his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of William and Ann Coulston, of Merion, and settled at White Marsh, where he died.

William Hallowell, of White Marsh, son of Joseph and Sarah ( Nanney) Hal- lowell, married. June 17, 1777, Mary Roberts, born November 5, 1753, died Sep-

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tember 23, 1786, and they were parents of Sarah, wife of Samuel Conard, of Horsham.

Asenath Conard, daughter of Samuel and Sarah (Hallowell) Conard, born September 8, 1808, died December 9, 1881, married, November 11, 1829, Amos Lewis Lukens.

Mary Roberts, wife of William Hallowell, born near Gwynedd, November 5, 1753, was daughter of John Roberts, born in Montgomery township, July 28, 1714, died in Whitpain township, October 8, 1801, by his wife, Jane, born 1714, died 1762, daughter of John and Sarah (Evans) Hanke. John Roberts and Jane Hanke were married May 13, 1736.

John Roberts, father of the above named John, and grandfather of Mary Hallowell, was born near Penllyn, Merionethshire, Wales, 1680, and died in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, 1773. He married at Merion Meeting, Au- gust 7, 1706, Elizabeth Edwards. He was a son of Robert Cadwalader who was baptized at Llandderfel, Church Penllyn, Merionethshire, January 2, 1638, and came to Pennsylvania, 1699, settling in Gwynedd township, where he died prior to 1719.

His descent from Rhirid Flaidd, Lord of Penllyn, is as follows: He was a son of Cadwalader ap Robert, of Llandderfel, baptized February 6, 1612, buried at Llandderfel, January 4, 1670; a son of Robert Foulke, of Llandderfel, living in 1612, son of Foulke ap Robert Lloyd, of Llandderfel, died before 1591 ; son of Robert Lloyd ap David Lloyd, of Llandderfel, ap David ap Ievan Vychan ap Ievan ap Gruffydd ap Madog ap Iorwerth ap Madog ap Rhirid Flaida, Lord of Penllyn.

JOHANNES REIFSCHNEIDER was born in Germany about 1695 or 1700, and came to Pennsylvania with a brother Sebastian, 1720. They accompanied Johannes Philip Boehm who, beginning as a teacher at Falckner Swamp, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, was shortly after appointed "reader" for the "religious meetings" in that neighborhood, which developed into the "Reformed Christian Church of Falckner Schwamp," and later of Skippack and White Marsh. Boehm was ordained minister, 1729, having preached for them without license or ordina- tion for some years prior to that date.

Johannes and Sebastian Reifschneider were either grandsons or near relatives of Zacharias Reifschneider, of Birrstein, Isenberg, Prussia, where the family had existed from a very early period, branches later migrating to Nuremberg, Worms and other parts of Germany. It is known that descendants of Zacharias Reif- schneider, of Birrstein, came to Pennsylvania a few years prior to the date at which we find Johannes and Sebastian settled in Philadelphia county, but the destruction of the records of Isenberg during the "Thirty Years War" has made it impossible to trace their exact descent from the ancient family that was once numbered among those of the lesser nobility of Germany, and whose name and arms appear in a collection of arms of German families compiled in the seven- teenth century, the name coming later to be spelled Reifsnyder.

After the ordination of John Philip Boehm, Johannes Reifschneider took his place as schoolmaster at "the Swamp," as of him Boehm writes in his report to Holland, February, 1729, "My congregation at Falckner Schwamp is well sup- plied by the schoolmaster, Johannes Reifschneider, and at Philadelphia, is one named Johannes Berger, but neither can live from the office for the reason that

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the people in this country (except in Philadelphia and Germantown, where they live close together) are scattered over a large territory, not enough children can be brought together to yield a living for the Schoolmaster." Johannes Reif- schneider, owing to the conditions above stated, combined farming with school teaching. He was a tenant on McCall's manor, later Douglass manor and town- ship, of one hundred acres of land, 1742. He did not acquire a fee title to real estate and no probate proceedings have been found on his estate. He is, how- ever, presumed to have died about 1769. The name of his wife is unknown.

Issue of Johannes Reifschneider:

PHILIP REIFSCHNEIDER, b. about 1720; of whom presently; and probably-

George Reifschneider, of Ruscomb Manor, Berks co .;

Johann William Reifschneider, living, 1752, on a farm adjoining his father's, in McCall's Manor; m., 1746, Eva Catharine Schweinhard.

PHILIP REIFSCHNEIDER, son of Johannes, born about 1720, probably in New Hanover township, Philadelphia county, where his father settled at about that date, was named in honor of Rev. John Philip Boehm, his father's friend and companion. Philip resided with his father in New Hanover or vicinity until his mar- riage about 1742, to Susanna Hoffman, but prior to the birth of his eldest son, 1744, he removed to Milford township, Bucks county. January 18, 1752, he obtained a warrant of survey for one hundred and sixty-three and one-half acres of land in Lower Saucon, then Bucks county, but erected into Northampton county, March 11, 1752.

Here Philip Reifschneider erected substantial farm buildings and resided there the remainder of his life with the exception of a short period spent with his son, William, in Durham township, about 1789. He was named as a resident of Lower Saucon on March 16, 1793, in the deed by which he conveyed his Saucon property to Jacob Mast, and died prior to February 21, 1803, when his only son, William, executes a quit claim deed for the same land to Mast.

Susanna, wife of Philip Reifschneider, did not join him in the deed of 1793, from which the inference is drawn that she was then deceased, though that is hardly conclusive evidence at that early day. A "Susanna Reifsnyder, widow," died in that locality and letters of administration were granted on her estate Sep- tember 12, 1817, to Henry Jacoby.

Issue of Philip and Susanna (Hoffman) Reifschneider:

WILLIAM REIFSCHNEIDER, b. Oct. 15, 1744; of whom presently;

Johannes C. Reifschneider, b. 1746; bapt. at New Goschenhoppen Church, Aug. 23, 1746; d. young.

WILLIAM REIFSCHNEIDER, eldest and only surviving son of Philip and Susanna Reifschneider, born in Douglass township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) coun- ty, Pennsylvania, October 15, 1744, lived in Lower Saucon township with his father until about 1785, when he removed to Durham township, Bucks county, and in 1788 was in Williams township, Northampton county, adjoining Durham on the north. He soon after the later date removed to Ruscomb manor, Ruscomb manor township, Berks county, where he executed his will, dated February 28, 1810, and proved at Reading, September 26, 1819. He was possessed of consider- able estate. He married (first) about 1766, Susanna --; (second), 1795, Margaret ---- , who survived him.

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Issue of William and Susanna Reifschneider:

Magdalena, b. May 2, 1767;

Kathrina, b. Sept. 11, 1768;

Anna Maria, b. March 21, 1770;

Elizabeth, b. Aug. 27, 1771;

Philip, b. Nov. 27, 1772;

Rachel, b. Nov. 24, 1774;

Jacob, b. April 14, 1776;

Johannes, b. Dec. 23, 1778;

Abraham, b. Feb. 14, 1780;

Susanna, b. May 4, 1782; not mentioned in will; probably d. young ;

Moses, b. Sept. 4, 1785;

ISAAC, b. Feb. 6, 1788; of whom presently.

Issue of William and Margaret Reifschneider:

Joseph, b. Nov. 29, 1796.

ISAAC REIFSCHNEIDER, youngest son of William by his first wife, Susanna, was born in Williams township, Northampton county, February 6, 1788, and was reared in Berks county, where his father removed soon after his birth. After the death of his father or possibly earlier he removed to Upper Hanover, Mont- gomery county, where he lived 1815-27. He removed later to Limerick township and subsequently to Frederick township, in the same county, where he died Octo- ber 23, 1866, and is buried at St. James Church, Limerick Centre.

Isaac Reifschneider married (first), December 30, 1810, Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Longacre, of Limerick township; she died December 27, 1829, and he mar- ried (second), April 12, 1831, Deborah Bitting, who died May 28, 1863. The great grandfather of Elizabeth (Longacre) Reifschneider was Daniel Longacre, a Mennonite minister, born in Crefeld, Germany, came to Pennsylvania, 1717, with his wife, whose maiden name was Klotz. He had sons, David, grandfather of Mrs. Reifschneider ; Henry, and John. David Longacre and his wife, Barbara High, settled in Upper Providence, Philadelphia county, where he died 1776, leaving issue, David, Jacob, Henry, Peter, Daniel, Isaac, John, Mary and Mag- dalen. Of these Henry Longacre married Elizabeth Schell, and their daughter, Elizabeth, born February 18, 1791, became first wife of Isaac Reifschneider.

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Colonial families of Philadelphia, Volume II, Part 73

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed Publication date: 1911 Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 978

Author: Jordan, John Woolf, 1840-1921, ed
Publication date: 1911
Publisher: New York : Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 978