The name is properly spelled LeFevre, not Lefever. George Newton LeFevre (a great-great-grandson of Abraham LeFevre and brother of Daniel LeFevre b.1713) held a Patent from William Penn for the southern half of his land. This Patent had Penn's great seal in wax, four inches in diameter and 3/8 of an inch thick, and was signed by Isaac LeFevre who transfered it to his two grandsons, John and Peter. In the body of the transfer, and in his signature, his name is spelled LeFevre, but in the Old French format[1], as Leffevre. As time went on, some began to drop the one "f" and write it Lefevre. Then pronouncing it wrong, they began to write it Lefever. Many LeFevres thus got to writing the name wrong and it has been written six different ways. However, in early legal documents the name is found written in its correct form of LeFevre.

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¹In Old French, a capital letter was made by doubling the small letter, thus a capital A was written "aa"; a capital E was written "ee"; and a capital F was written "ff".