Ahnentafel charts (organized in numerical order from a multi- generation pedigree chart) are hard to make sense out of. I have broken mine down by family grouping. At the level of my father's grandparents and great grandparents, his ancestry breaks into distinct groupings that contributed in identifiable ways to who my family are: early German religious refugees to Philadelphia and Montgomery County, prosperous yeoman farmer Quaker meeting and community leaders, and Pennsylvania-Dutch immigrants to central Pennsylvania from Rhineland and (mostly) the Palatinate. And of course the Scotch-Irish Smiths, about whom I as yet know nothing before they came to Pennsylvania.
Following is the key to places repeatedly mentioned: WC White Clay Creek (part in LB, part in DE, part changed hands) MC Mill Creek, New Castle Co, DE LB London Britain, Chester Co, PA NG New Garden, Chester Co, PA NL New London, Chester Co, PA LG London Grove, Chester Co, PA (THese four towns belonged to Penn's London Tract and share a common historical identity) FR Franklin, created from LB in 1850's EM East Marlboro, Chester Co, PA (imm north of listed towns) WM West Marlboro, Chester Co, PA PH Philadelphia, PA
1 Russell D Smith b 1919 Philadelphia m 1955, Glens Falls NY,
Kathleen Allen Lowe b 1932 Glens Falls, NY
2 William Henry Smith Jr b 9/23/1879 WC m 4/5/1911 PH
d 8/18/1942 Carlisle Pa. A bank executive. Worked his way
up from clerk. Died of a heart attack while at work,
had had heart trouble for several years.
3 Bessie Mae Moore b 5/14/1884 Dauphin Co d 12/5/1946
Carlisle died 12/5/1946, Carlisle PA "after long illness"
which was cerebral vascular disease and strokes.
Go to my notes on my grandparents
4. William Henry Smith Sr. b 10/14/1830 LB m 2/15/1871 PH
d 8/19/1911 PH (where
they moved in 1901 with 3 youngest children after selling
his share of his father's farm in WC).
They both lived in White Clay Creek when they eloped to
Philadelphia to marry, and continued to live on the Smith
farm in White Clay Creek for the next thirty years.
William Henry Smith Sr was a schoolteacher, then, in
Wilmington? a justice of the peace, moved in with his
mother on farm in White Clay Creek when his father died,
in 1863, served at some times as postmaster, census
enumerator. Farmed. LIved in James P's house by 1883.
He wrote a biographical and
genealogical sketch of the Smiths for a Delaware
Biographical and Genealogical Encyclopedia, around 1900.
5. Mary Emma Thompson b 9/12/1844 or 1845 LB. Quaker.
d 4/19/1923 PH
SEE THOMPSON AHENTAFEL BELOW
6. Charles Moore. b Aug 3 1859. Pennsylvania. His father,
Thomas, b Pennsylvania and his mother b PA or MD (known
only from census).
Died Jan 22, 1920 Philadelphia
married in Dauphin Co before June 1880, as per 1880 census
record of the Dehart family that shows Carrie B Moore
visiting her parents and Charles nowhere to be found
unless not in the area or in Harrisburg.
1890, no census. 1900, found in Wilmington, where city
directories show that the family lived from 1900 to 1904.
Cousin Dorothy said the Moores had
relatives in Wilmington or Wilmington area and in Northern
Delaware. Sister Libby (Elizabeth) among those found in his
parents' family on census. They show up in Philadelphia
in the city directory in 1908.
1910 census at 5222 Webster St where they lived in 1908,
and in 1911 (Bessie Mae's marriage application) and in
1920. 1910 census says they owned the house and there
was no mortgage on it.
Charles Moore is consistently
listed as a roller trimmer and seemed to consistently be
employed, unlike the impression hs death certificate gives
that he was a "self employed roller trimmer". He must
have worked in one of the large plants that reworked
steel into parts for ships, trains, etc., in Philadelphia.
Buried on 1/26/1920 at Arlington Cemetery, Upper Darby
Nothing else known.
Death certificate shows him b Aug 3 1859 in Pennsylvania.
Says his father was Thomas, also b in PA. 1910
census says same, adds mother b Maryland. Gravestone
says he was b 1858, and has a flag engraved on it, which
may mean he was a veteran. He was a "roller trimmer" on
death cert, "Self-employed" and a "Roll turner" at "Steel
Works" in 1910 census, at which time he had been employed
all of the previous year. 1910 census says they owned the
house at 5222 Webster St whre they lvied by 1908 and where
Nellie continued to live long enough after 1920 for my
father to remember visiting her there. He was apparently
a steelworker. PHiladelphia had heavy industry that used
steel workers. Steelton had steel mills.
1860 census finds him in Lancaster County, age 11 months,
son of Thomas Moore and Emaline, who could not read or
write. Thomas Moore was a laborer. In 1870 the family
lived in Harrisburg, spelling their name "More".
7. Carrie Dehart b 1862 Dauphin Co, according to all family records,
b May 10, 1863, according to her death certificate, b May
1863 1900 census. d July 29 1941, Carlisle Pa,
Carlisle in 1942. She married by 1880 when she was 17 or 18 and
Charles was 20.
Her sister Eva also married extremely young, she may
have been only 16 - and she had in the 1880 census been
working for another family as a servant, at housework or
in the "truck garden". She was enumerated twice at both
households.
She died of cerebral arteriosclerosis, causing myocardial
degeneration, and she had developed shock as a result
dislocating her shoulder when she fell getting out of bed.
But the death certificate says under occupation that she'd
been an invalid for 18 years. She was only 78 when she
died. My father remembered her as being in poor health
for a long period of time, and as living with her two
daughters by turns for awhile. A picture of her, taken
by her visiting sister and niece at my grandparents' house
in Carlisle in 1935, shows her in a very nice housecoat,
outside, where the pictures were taken, and looking
like she didn't know what was going on or who was there,
or at the very least did not appreciate what was going on
and who was there.
She married Charles Moore by June, 1880, was living in
Highspire at the time, visiting her parents in 1880 census,
Charles nowhere in sight unless in Harrisburg. She was
17 or 18 years old at the time. She seems
to have had Nellie in Reading, where her parents also had
a home in 1886 (FUneral home's records) and to have lived
in Wilmington with Moore relatives some time before they
lived in PHiladelphia by 1908 - with or without Charles
with her.
8. William Smith b 2/4/1797 LB m 5/10/1821 LB d 9/23/1863 WC
buried in cemetery of Flint Hill Church ("Wesley" in my
great grandfather's family history; almost noone remembers
that name) Bought a huge farm that spanned the Delaware-
Maryland-Pennsylvania border. When the Delaware-Pennsyl-
vania border moved for a time in the 19th century, his
part of White Clay Creek was in London Britain for a time.
Was and is now in Newark, Delaware. William was a very
ambitious man, a local political leader, and served several
terms in the Delaware legislature. His son, my great
grandfather, wrote that as a youth he was a lively and
active lad, who loved sport. He was started as an apprentice
stonemason, the son of a poor weaver, and ended up
building numerous large and public buildings, then in
business with his brother selling farm threshers big
time in Maryland, then bought the farm.
9. Mary Dehaven b 5/14/1803 LB d 2/18/1882 WC
buried Flint Hill Cem
SEE DEHAVEN AHNENTAFEL BELOW
10. Ezra Thompson Sr b ca 1804 LB (graveyard records, 1870
census) prob WC. d 1873 WC
11. Mary Webster Miller b 11/17/1808 NG d 1887 WC
Identified via her father's will.
14. John Burkhart Dehart b 12/31/1836 Reading Pa
m 1861/abt 1862 Dauphin Co. d 4/6/1928 Plainfield NJ
See Dehart Ahnentafel below.
15. Mary Ann Weiss/Wise b 9/29/1843 Highspire Pa 10/1842 or abt
1841 Middleton, Dauphin Co, Pa d 10/20/1930 Plainfield,
Union Co, NJ. They lived when old with their daughter,
Evie Greene.
16. John Smith b abt 1769 Ireland. d 1847, my family records
1854, Jim McVey's and Richard Carey's records
Immigrated to LB (landed at
New Castle, but their records burned) roughly between 1787
and 1797. Supposed (biogr article, William Henry Smith
Sr) to have worked for Davis Whitten, justice of the peace.
Davis Whitten b 1788, didn't have own household until after
1810 (1820 census). John Smith bought 29 acres of land in
London Britain from Robert Roney, adjoining land of Robert
Roney, late Moses Crow, and Benjamin Whitten brother of John,
in 1798. Since he and Isabella went to live and work for
Whittens because they came from Ireland penniless, they needed
time to save up cash they paid for farm. John
Whitten had two free servants in 1790
census, names not listed. Aquired "small" farm LB, "near
Chesterville" (hamlet in northwest sector).
See farmhouse that contains John Smith's house
The deed and London Britain tax records consistently
describe John Smith as a weaver, and he paid $100 annual
tax as a weaver; it looks as though it was his primary
livlihood. He owned only l horse and l or 2 cows, and 29
acres of land is a very small amount of land.
Attended
New London Presbyterian Church, then the series of little
offshoot churches in southern New London that included
Flint Hill and that both shared with other congregations
and changed over to Methodist and Methodist-Episcopal;
the Smiths changed with them. Supposed to have attended
these churches along with William their son, and to be
buried with William and his wife under same marker at
"Wesley Chapel" which was Flint Hill Church, but if they
are there they aren't on any of the markers in the Smith
plot.
In 1831, a judgement on a mortgage for $200 that John
Smith took out in what looks like l803 forced him to
sell his farm, and his loom, to his son George, for the
mortgage, the judgement, and a sum of money, and the
following year George sold the entire mess to someone
else. I don't know what happened to John and Isabella
then. George is buried at
Flint Hill Cemetery; he didn't go very far, and probably
neither did John and Isabella. I expect the l840 and
1850 census of the area to yield light on it, especially
if John was living in l850.
Yvan Kellar currently owns what was the Smith farm; the
current house was built around the log cabin the Smiths
built, and another half of the house added on. A fireplace
in the cellar of the original log cabin suggests that
John and Isabella, who had a one year old child and a small
baby, lived in the cellar of their uncompleted cabin the
first winter. They must have really have struggled, and
one wonders at their failure to have made friends in eight
years they could have stayed with. It seems like if they had
had people they could have gotten indoors with with those two
little babies, they would have.
A history of weaving, in addition to showing the large
manual loom he would have used, says that just between
1830 and 1832, the first industrial textile mills started
operation in the PHiladelphia/ southeastern Pennsylvania
area, and the price of textiles plummeted severely.
Village/ cottage weavers like John Smith were unable to
make a living, and many, like John Smith, were ruined.
17. Isabella Smyth b abt 1769 Ireland. d 1843 LB or WC.
Described as slight and intellectual of feature. Her
parents were William Smyth and Elizabeth King, according
to Jim McVey's family records.
18. Jesse Dehaven b 9/10/1773 Montgomery County m __________
d 1835/8 LB Buried New London Presbyterian Church, as is
his wife. He and his father Samuel of Horsham bought 79
acres in London Britain from John or Jacob Wright, a
relative by marriage. In l814, Jesse officiated at the
wedding of his daughter Phoebe, must have been elder or
deacon. In l8l8 he petitioned and in l8l9 opened a tavern,
the Dehaven Tavern or Dehaven Inn, at corner of Elkton Road
and a new (in l8l8) road that began in New London, ran past
a paper mill, ran past limestone quarries in New Garden
(probably the quarries near Landenburg, in London Britain,
the town boundary was different then) and ended at a public
road at the Delaware state line - I'm working on that
location.
19. Mary Madeleine Pluck b 6/10/1774, Rhineland Germany. Parents
not known, two or three Pluck immigrants in the area.
(Pennsylvania Archives indexes one of them, George, as
Gluck Pluck.) Most women of Jesse Dehaven's line were
fresh from Germany, if not all of them.
20. Eli Thompson b 2/4/1770 MC settled WC m (1) LG m (2)
1806 NG d 9/19/1840
Inconsistency of dates and a registration omission leave it
unknown which of the two wives was Ezra's mother. It strongly
appears that Ezra's mother was Elizabeth Wilson, who died giving
birth to him or soon after, in early 1804.
21 (1) Elizabeth Wilson b 7/16/1777 d "11, 3rd mo, 1803"
(New Garden meeting records)
Translate: January 11, 1803. I think it possible she
really died January 11, 1804, but so far cannot confirm.
21 (2) Sarah Scarlett b________ d 3/1/1859
22 John Miller b 8/16/1771 m 8/25/1797 NG (I couldn't find a
marriage certificate for that date in NG meeting records,
though the date of the marriage is recorded there)
d 12/22/1834.
23 Mary Webster d 11/9/1862
She came from the middle of Delaware County;
the marriage record had been impossible to find because the
only record that exists is the one at her meeting of her
being kicked out of the meeting for marrying John Miller of
New Garden, before a Justice of the Peace. She was descended
via her mother's people from the founders of Germantown,
who were Mennonite Quakers from Krefeld, and
Kaldenkirchen,Germany, near the Dutch border, and not far
from Muelheim, where the Dehavens and Leverings lived.
Penn, who may have been a distant cousin of the Opden graffs
via an ancestor named Jasper, who was back and forth like many Protestants
across teh English channel, had gone to Germany and visited
both Krefeld, and Muelheim. The Dehavens and Leverings were
also early settlers of Germantown.
See Webster ahnentafel below.
See the family history that one of the emigrant Thompson
brothers wrote into the Quaker record where the family settled
in West New Jersey.
See my sketch of the New Garden Quakers
1. Mary Emma Thompson b 9/12/1844 or 1845 LB, d 4/19/1923 PH
m 2/15/1871 PH (lived WC) William Henry Smith Sr
A family photo I have shows her as a possibly formal or
stiff and retiring sort, who went for nice but simple
plain dark clothing - as I do.
Ezra Thompson Sr b 1804 Graveyard records (65 at 1870 census
Julia Farver, a grandaughter of Willard Smith, has
b 12/28/1804 d 11/21/1873.
prob WC, poss MC or NG d 1873, buried LB Quaker meetinghouse
graveyard, with wife, some children.
Either or both Ezra or his brother Daniel were leaders
of and also lead services at the (Orthodox) LB meeting.
All anyone so far remembers of them is they lived in
WC, and "my mother said they sat in the front pew", the
latter statement reminiscent of my own family. My father
was Episcopal minister of a small village church, from
the time I was two until I was twenty-one, and the
people didn't know us at all, and thought us
stand-offish. We kept to ourselves, and my brother and
I weren't allowed to have friends or to participate in
many activities - because my parents were scared of the
world and ever thought one or another terrible sort of
thing was going to happen. Sometimes the terrible thing
that was going to happen was well defined, and sometimes
it was vague.
3. Mary W Miller b 11/17/1808 d 1887
4. Eli Thompson b 12/4/1700 Mill Creek m (1) 6/11/1798, Elizabeth
Wilson m (2) 8/19/1806 Sarah Scarlett Settled in WC, I don't
know when, d 9/19/1840, family records at New Garden mm.
Eli seems to have been a very quiet person. I don't
know what role he may have played in his meeting. But
he signed the wedding certificate only of one of his
brothers. This means the only wedding he ever went to of
his small, close-knit community was that of one of his
brothers. All present signed a Quaker wedding
certificate, and that was almost always alot of people;
usually from half to most of the members of the meeting.
5a. Elizabeth Wilson "of" London Grove. d "11, 3rd mo, 1803" =
January 11, 1803. Much confusion about dates results from
different Quaker dating system. THEY didn't always know what
year it was, or what to do with November and December. lst
month, or l3th? Also, many dates I have have been simply
copied from Quaker records as though they were English dates.
But because the date died is important, I
checked it in the actual original New Garden records.
5b. Sarah Scarlett d 3/1/1859.
I proceed on assumption Elizabeth Wilson is Ezra's mother. Could
prove untrue.
6. John Miller b 8/16/1771 NG m 8/25/1797 NG d 12/22/1834 He
had a set of traits I have never until now seen listed
in genealogies for every 3rd or 4th member or recent
descendant of a family. For that matter, I have elsewhr
seen peoples' personalities described in genealogies
only in the half-dozen published by Dehavens.
He was a very quiet person, "a zealous
Quaker, and a whig of uncompromising principle."
7. Mary Webster b 6 3m 1773 Kingwood/ Quakertown, NJ d
11/9/1862. She was hard to track down, owing to
the fact that her family from New Jersey lived in the
middle of Delaware County; I have no idea how she and John
Miller even met! Her family were staunch Quakers, but they
had an interesting history of running off to marry without
following proper procedure and then atleast trying to make up
with the local meeting (which provides interesting history to
the time when her granddaughter, Mary Emma Thompson, and William
Henry Smith did the same thing), and she and John Miller married
before a justice of the peace, and the record of her disownment
for this by her meeting doesn't say in what town this justice of
the peace was. It also isn't clear if the date I have is the date
they married or the date she was disowned. Both John and Mary
were apparently in good standing at the New Garden Quaker meeting,
where his clan were prominent among the leadership of both meeting
and township, and they are both buried at that meeting. There is
no record that Mary's home meeting ever accepted her back after
she acknowleded her error, and I didn't know enough when I went
through the New GArden records where I understood they had
married to check to see if anything had been made of them maybe
having done something of this nature.
8. Daniel Thompson b 11/16/1737 MC m 10/25/1764 NG d 3/2/1809
9. Elizabeth Chambers b 5/14/1743 NG (or WC) d 3/15/1808
10. Ephraim Wilson of LG m 10/16/1776 NG, LG
11. Elizabeth Johnson b 4/5/1755 LG
12. James Miller b 5/28/1745 NG m 1768 d 1809 NG
13. Jane Elliott d 1813 NG
16. James Thompson b 9/25/1712 Elsinboro, Salem Co, NJ m 1735
settled on large plantation in Mill Creek, Delaware
17. Sarah Worsely b 4/13/1717 d 1748 MC
18. William Chambers b 3/1/1692 Yorkshire, England m 8/22/1729
d3/30/1761 WC
Six of his and Elizabeth Miller's ten children died young.
That was common but hardly random. Just one of my mother's
lines, and two of my father's, had alot of children die.
The Thompsons and their kin particularly died in bunches
during epidemics of one sort or another. By contrast,
my Smith and Dehaven families lost very few children in
childhood. Few of my mother's ancestors died before
old age. I believe I am looking at one of the lines that
carried my allergies and asthma; this makes people
extremely vulnurable to respiratory infections and
causes colds to always turn into bronchitis and pneumonia.
Both my mother and I owe surviving childhood to modern
antibiotics.
19. Elizabeth Miller b 1704, lst mo, Ireland d 2/18/1783
20. John Wilson of LG m 10/24/1745 NG
21. Elizabeth Jackson b 2/25/1720 NG
22. Joshua Johnson b 10/27/1735
23. Eliza
24. James Miller b 1693 Charlemont, Armagh, Ireland m 3/24/1722
The quietist and most a-social of John Miller's sons.
Kept strictly to himself and took no part in town affairs,
which Miller Clan usually did no matter how quiet they
were. Attended meeting regularly, and never once called
up for discipline! (My father has never gotten a
traffic ticket and never bounced a check.)
25. Ann Cane/Cain
26. William Elliott
27. Mary ____.
32. James Thompson b 10/12/1668 Salem, Salem Co, NJ m 1700
Elsinboro, NJ
33. Ann Hollingsworth b 10/28/1680 Belliniscrannell, Segoe,
Armagh, Ireland
34. Daniel Worsley of New Castle Co. De
35. Sarah _____
36. John Chambers Yeoman of Acaster Selby, Yorkshire. Bought
large farm in WC m (1)10/17/1730
37. Elizabeth Austwick b 5/24/1650/8
38. John Miller b poss 1663 from Grange near Charlemont,Ireland
d 11/11/1714
Acquired large plantation in NG. Founded NG Meeting,
it met at first in his house, then he donated land, then
he served as elder. His children and children-in-law
continued to be principal leaders of the NG meeting.
Also, he borrowed from his meeting for some time the
book, New England Judged. He was apparently right up
on the central emotional issues of the Quaker movement.
39. Mary Ignew b 1704, lst mo, Ireland d 2/18/1783
Brother of Andrew Ignew. Left money to bring three of
his sons from Ireland. I don't know if they came.
A story was handed down about her that in her early
50's, she went out to get the cows and got lost in the
woods. At length, she came to a house. She knocked on
the door and asked if she could please spend the night.
She had gotten so scared that it took her family some
time to get her to realize she had come to her own house!.
42. John Jackson m 1/26/1697 Edgmont De, Pa Chester MM
43. Jane Swayne b 4/3/1719 E Marlborough
44. Joshua Johnson b 1699
45. Sarah Miller b 9 mo/1/1704
48. John Miller b 1669 (same as 38.)
49. Mary Ignew (see 39.)
50. JOhn Cane came from Bellyhagen mtg, Armagh, to London Grove,
1713
51. Ann
64. John Thompson b 5/1635 Kirkfenton, Yorkshire (son of Thomas
Thompson m Elizabeth of Kirkfenton)
65. Jane Humbles b Cty Wickloe, Parish Donard, Ireland, d 1676/7
at sea. dau of Thomas from County Durham, England
John and Andrew purchased a very large tract of land in
Penn's colony of West New Jersey. They organized and
founded the Quaker meeting there; had it meet in their
home, donated the land and much of the money, and were
leaders of the meeting, as were some of their children.
They also served as colonial members of the legislature
and justices of the peace. One of them died with old
books appraised at his death in his possession. Andrew
wrote a long and beautifully written family history
in the meeting records at Elsinboro.
66. VAlentine Hollingsworth b 6/1632 Belleniskrannell d 1710
Delaware. He was one of Penn's surveyors, and had a nearly
1000 acre plantation at Shelpot on the Brandywine. He founded
both Newark and its Quaker meeting. HIs roots go back several
generations in Ireland; he was originally of English Puritan
stock, settled there either with a land grant for fighting in
the civil war, or in an effort to supplant the Catholic Irish.
Named "New Work". He was recorded as having tithes seized in
Ireland - large quantities of grain. Prominent in affairs of
Friends. Early Newark meetings held at his house, he donated
land for a meeting house. Also owned land in New Garden.
67. Ann Calvert b 9/1650 Killwain, near Hillbrough, Cty Down,
Ireland. Her grandfather William
came from Moore Some, near Gisbrough,
Yorkshire. Her father, Thomas, born at Lygasory, near
Lurgan, Armagh, 1617, was charged by his meeting
with seeing to the welfare of Quakers in prison. Her
father and some brothers collectively bought a very
large quantity of land; some of these individuals came
over here, and some didn't.
72. William Chambers
74. Philip Austwick
76. John Miller (supposed father) Breckenbrough, Parish Kerbywilk
Yorkshire
77. Ann Clibborn, dau William Clibborn, Anglo-Irish gentry.
b 1630 Cowley, Cty Durham, England
82. Ephraim Jackson
83. Rachel Newlin dau Nicholas and Elizabeth
86. Robert Johnson native Radnor, Wales d NG 1732
87 Margaret Braithwaite b Braithwaite, Cumberlandshire, England
of the family of one of the most prominent early Quaker
ministers.
88. Gayen Miller, probably the brother of John Miller of NG
He purchased 200 acres at Kennett Square and in 1712 700 acres in
New Garden, also several other tracts, served in Proninvial Assembly
in 1714.
89. Margaret
94. John Miller (76)
95. Ann Clibborn (77)
See my complete pages on Mary Webster's Germantown and New Jersey
ancestors.
1. Mary Webster b 6 3m 1773 Kingwood/ Quakertown, NJ d
11/9/1862. Piecing her identity and her lineage
together was not easy, and it took the collaborative work
of a half dozen people on the Chester and Delaware County
lists at Rootsweb and possibly people on a New Jersey list
as well. Her people were back and forth between Pennsylvania
and New Jersey like yo-yo's, and she grew up and somehow
met and married John Webster from the middle of Delaware
County. She did have cousins living in Chester County,
including a family of them near John Miller. The only
record of her marriage to John Webster is a record in her
meeting minutes in the middle of Delaware County, of her
being kicked out because they married in front of a justice
of the peace, and the date traditionally given for their
supposed marriage at the New Garden meeting, was the date
that Mary Webster was kicked out of her meeting for the
elopement. Clearly that was not the date when the marriage
happened but probably was not long afterwards.
SECOND GENERATION
2. Joseph Webster b 4/3/1743 prob Plainfield or Woodbridge,
NJ, as his family were back and forth between those two
places at the time. m about 8 12 m 1768,
Kingwood/Quakertown MM, Hunterdon Co, NJ.
3. Rebecca Kester b 12 Dec 1738 Philadelphia or Germantown, PA
In 1788 they moved from New Jersey to Delaware County, PA,
and then they moved several more times.
This was one of about ten marriages between the children of
two Kester brothers, and the children of two Webster brothers.
It appears that mood disorders massively run in the descendants
of these marriages.
THIRD GENERATION
4. Benjamin Webster b 2 mo 4 1709 Woodbridge, NJ (town records)
5. Rachel ____ poss. Skinner.
6. Paul Kester b abt 1706 Germantown m 9th mo 17th, 1730 at
Philadelphia First Presbyterian Church, which was the
elopement center of the known world at the time.
7. Ruth Kitchen b 1714/ 1716, Solebury, Bucks Co, PA. Paul
Kester and a brother had been up there for some reason,
possibly doing survey work. The family lived in Solebury,
and Paul d there betw 1745 and 1750.
FOURTH GENERATION
8. William Webster an early settler of Woodbridge, NJ, and
a Quaker. Origins unknown, from Scotland, possibly
Perth Amboy. He lived in Perth Amboy in New Jersey for
maybe ten years before coming to Woodbridge area. His
children's births were recorded in an assortment of places.
Some of them can't be found. Some of his children, including
apparently Benjamin, were founders of Plainfield, NJ.
9. Mary ______.
11. Johannes Kuester/ Kester bp 12/12/1670 Kaldenkirchen
Reformed, Kaldenkirchen, Germany. m Elizabeth Cassell
10/31/1692 Abington MM, Abington TWP, PA. A brother of
Johannes' was ancestor to General Custer, of Custer's Last
Stand. Johannes d aft 1709, PA. or, from probate records,
before 10/23/1708, when Elizabeth Custers, widow of
Germantown, with Arnold Cassell of Phildelphia as one of the
bondsmen, appointed to administer his estate.
12. Elizabeth Cassell b Kresheim, Germany, to a prominent
Mennonite family of weavers there. Kresheim was not far from
Krefeld. I have a bunch of information on this family but]
have not yet been through it.
13. William Kitchen origins unclear, may have been from
Philadelphia or Sussex County.
14. Rebecca Norton. or Rebecca Wells. Uncertain. He may have
married a niece of John Wells, who lived in Solebury,
on the river, and I think ran a mill, and who took in
William Kitchen, who he may have known from where they
appear to have both come from, when he was in dire straits,
not clear if due to financial or mental health reasons!
FIFTH GENERATION
22. Paulus Kuester b betw 1640 and 1646. Kaldenkirchen,
Germany. Raised Roman Catholic. d Feb 1707 Germantown
prob buried in Germantown Mennonite Cemetery. They
went to Germantown sometime between the baptism of a child
in 1687, and the naturalization of two of his sons in 1691.
They seem to have been quite close to the Gottschalks, who
were a family of Mennonite bishops and leaders in
Germantown. He married in Kaldenkirchen Reformed Church,
10/16/1668. Only the Reformed and Lutheran cnurches were
legal.
23. Gertrude Doors b abt 1645, Kaldenkirchen, Germany.
d 2/23/1707. The baptismal record of one of her children,
contains this concerned note by the minister;
that the child's mother "for a time was unable to use her
mental faculties" and "Theiss and Agnes Doors promised to
assume responsibility for the child in her behalf." She
had a very serious bout of psychotic mental illness; probably
severe postpartum depression. The entry also said that
the child's father was Roman Catholic and th emother Reformed.
In reality they were both Mennonites, who had sheltered by
enrolling in the legal churches.
24. Johannes Cassell, weaver, came to Germantown in 1686,
three years after the place was founded. From Kriegsheim
or Kresheim, near Crefeld.
SIXTH GENERATION
44. Arnold (Aret or Arets) Kuester b abt 1606 Kaldenkirchen
d 11/24/1679 Kaldenkirchen m 10/13/1629 Kaldenkirchen
45. Catharine von Haren, dau of Christopher Von Harem,
a surgeon, according to a family researcher.
46. Theis Doors bp 9/18/1614 Kaldenkirchen, Germany
d after 1663. Theis Doors was a parent or parent in law
to most of the founders of Germantown. Three of his sons,
who went by the Dutch form Theisson, came to Germantown,
and their descendants are known as Tyson. He m around
1635-40, prob in Kaldenkirchen, Neesgen/ Nees/ Neesen/
Agnes.
47. Neesgen/ Nees/ Neesen/ Agnes Her identity is unknown,
and extremely controversial. Three known copies exist of
a 17th century Krefeld family genealogy called the
Scheuten manuscript. One of these copies, which were all
handmade, was altered in an attempt to both make the
Op den Graeff's ancestral to ALL of the founding families
of Germantown, and give the Op den Graeff's royal ancestry.
The Op den Graeff's have always been intense, mystical,
and over the edge, and in this country, prone to various mental health
problems, and they remain so to this day. No other
evidence exists for any of it, and indeed, the other two
editions of the Scheuten manuscript give Hermann Op den
Graeff, the mystic and Mennonite leader of Crefeld, quite
commonplace albeit possibly prominent among Mennonites,
Mennonite ancestry. The altered edition of the Scheuten
manuscripts states that this Agnes/ Neesgen, which is a
Dutch diminutive form of Agnes, was Hillekren, a daughter
of Herman Op den Graeff. The names don't even match up.
There is better evidence for another claim made by the
altered version of the Scheuten manuscript, which is that
the wife of Isaac Herman Op den Graeff, who was the father
of all three Op dengraeff brothers who came to this country,
and thus ancestral to all Op den Graff's in this country,
was a sister of Theiss Doors. Her name was Margaret
Greitjen Peters. Krefeld had a larger thriving Mennonite
community than often comes across from descriptions of
the history of the group who left for Germantown, and they
had close relations with the Mennonite community in
Cresheim or Kriegsheim. A small group of families who
founded Germantown, had become Quakers. This Margaret was the daughter of
someone named Peter. It could have been any Peter, and it
could well have been a different Peter. Theiss' father was
Peter Doors, and he is the only Peter in the area I've seen
any mention of, anywhere. Of course, that would make
all of the Op den graff's in this country, with their
crotchety, intense temperament and tendency to alcoholism
similar to that of the Dehavens, descendants of the aunt of
Gertrude Doors, who had that bout of psychotic depression.
The records show the following about this family; Sometime
before 1655, Theiss Doors left the CAtholic Church and became
a Mennonite. An effort was made to expel him from Kaldenkirchen.
He was fined 100 gold guilders for some violation. He was
unable to pay the fine, and the authorities confiscasted the
goods in his shop to meet it. The bailfiff at Kaldenkirchen
entered the Doors home, and got into an argument with Agnes
Doors, who was soon to give birth to a baby, abused her, and
struck her hardin the face. Charges were filed, and the case
was eventually taken before Elector Philipp Wilhelm, Duke of
Julich, who decreed that theiss could stay on in Kaldenkirchen
and was nt to be further molested.
Agnes had entered their children in the Reformed Church school
but to ease the stress and pressure from the officials, they changed
their children to the Catholic schoo, and had their infant
Margarita baptized Catholic in 1655.
But by 1/20/1656 the family had chnged to the Reformed Chruch and
attended there for three months. The trial record said that
"Theiss Gohrs or Peterschen (Doors) b at Kaldenkirchen of
Catholic parents, later adhering to the Anabaptist sect (joined
the Reformed Church three mos ago but did this only to escape
persecution. (from Charles Custer)
SEVENTH GENERATION
88. Johannes Kuester b 1576 Kaldenkirchen, Germany d 7/3/1616
Kaldenkirchen, Germany m 1598. He was a bailiff.
89. ___ Walburgis
90. Peter Doors (Cuypers) b 1580, d bef 12/28/1638
91. Elizabeth Grietes
EIGHTH GENERATION
176. Reiner Kuester b abt 1542 d 7/3/1616 Kaldenkirchen.
180. Tisken An Gen Dohrs an gen Door b abt 1550 Kaldenkirchen
d 3/19/1614 Kaldenkirchen.
Out of date genealogy of the Dehaven
family (taken from some standard but old Dehaven genealogical
sources, such as Helen Martha Wright's book and the Baron Von
Alten's chart).
Genealogy of descendants of Samuel Dehaven
(father of Jesse of London Britain township).
My notes on the history of the Dehaven family;
they have an intense mentality and tend to suffer from mental
health problems. The family were intensely religious.
1. Mary Dehaven b 5/14/1803 LB d 1882 WC m William Smith
2. Jesse DeHaven b 9/10/1773 Montgomery Co m d 1835/8
He and his wife had farm in LB, which he bought w his
father, Samuel, and attended New London Presbyterian
Church, and are buried there. Jesse Dehaven also
owned a Dehaven TAvern and Dehaven Inn, at corner of
Elkton Road and the new (in l8l8) road taht began in
New London and ran past George Smith (the not related
to John Smith George Smith with 20 children in l820
census) saw and paper mill in London Britain, past
lime stone quarries in New Garden ending at public
road at Delaware State Line! (Did they NAME roads in
those days?) A road that met that description is
on l830 map of the area, but I have Elkton Road as
in Franklin, ie in New London in 1830, and intersecting
this other road at Kemblesville main intersection.
This is based on what someone in London Britain told
me when he tried to name the roads on my l883 map
over the phone. I'm still working on this location.
3. Mary Madeleine Pluck b 6/10/1774 Rhineland Germany,
d 9/14/1838
4. Samuel DeHaven b 1752 Whitpain Montgomery Co m abt 1771 d 1771
Horsham Montgomery Co PA
5. Catherine Ramey Noone knows who that was. Some list it Ramsey
Could be Remy. People do genealogically pop up in various
places throughout the areas my ancestral families spread
to named Ramey.
8. William (I) Dehaven b 1714 d 9/10/1784
9. Hannah Cramber Some list that Cramer. Appears to be a German
name, may have been Crambert.
Either Hannah Cramber or Catherine Ramey possibly had a
Mennonite father.
16. Peter I Dehaven (with a dozen aliases) b 3/12/1688 Muelheim,
Germany or Germantown, Philadelphia m 12/24/1711
d 5/23/1768 He is listed in Philadelphia as a merchant.
His activities are quite mysterious. He probably was
involved in international shipping. The only story that
survives about it is that a Dehaven ship was sunk by
the British off the coast of France - with its owner on
board! There is no reason to suspect disreputable activity,
but the Dehavens, paranoid to the max, used ten versions
of their name, most of them Dutch; kept bags of money
under their beds ready to flee at a minute's notice -
partly because they did not trust banks. He owned enough
land to prosper as a farmer, and a number of his immediate
descendants owned mills and taverns. My own theory is
he may have benefitted indirectly from Van der Walle
connections of his wife's grandmother. The Van der Walles
were wealthy aristocrats or such in Holland, and members
of the circle of wealthy investors who purchased the land
on which Germantown was founded. They are much of the
source of the wealth that some Leverings in this country
still have. Even though Wigard Levering himself was a
weaver/ laborer in Muelheim, and has been called illiterate
though he wrote the family vital information in the
family bible, in his own German language.
17. Sidonia (Elizabeth) Levering b 4/23/1691 d abt 1736
32. Evert Inderhoefen/Indenhoeven/Inderhoffen b 1660 Muelheim on
the Ruhr, Germany, near Dutch border. Emigrated around
1690-1698 to Germantown, Pa
See my notes on Dehaven history
in Germany (such as it is) with the IGI abstracts of
the records of the Reformed Church in Muelheim, of the
Dehaven family.
33. Elizabeth Schipbower b abt 1666 Germany Her name means
shipbuilder. Muelheim was a deep water port where ocean-
going ships were built. It is likely that Elizabeth had
ancestors who were from that region and had built ships.
34. John Wigard Levering emigrated to Germantown from Muelheim,
Germany. b1648/9 Gemen, Westphialia. m 4/1674 Westfullen,
Gemen Borken d 2/2/1745 Roxborough, Philadelphia
35. Magdalena Boekrs or Bakers b 1650 Leiden, s, Netherlands
d 1717. She was Dutch.
64. Rosier Levering b abt 1600 Leiden, S, Netherlands m Gemen,
Westphalia, Prussia d GEmen Illiterate, probably a
craftsman. The Leverings were orginally English.
Town named Levering in Suffolk near major port of
Protestant migration to Holland. ONe
of them were among the tens of thousands of Protestants
who fled Charles I by going to Holland; probably Rosier
Levering's father. For several centuries Protestants
were fleeing all over Europe by the tens of thousands in
every which direction, leading to the "my ancestors ran
from one country to another like the tax collector was
after them" syndrome. Most in Holland eventually spread
out and assimilated. After atleast twice marrying Dutch
women, the Leverings moved not far across the German
border, and then to GErmantown, Pa.
65. Elizabeth VanDeWalle b 1626. Her brother, Jacob
VanDderWalle, was a wealthy Dutch Pietist, and a
prominent shareholder in Frankfort Company which owned
and organized Germantown. His wealth was the foundation
of the Levering wealth; some of them are still wealthy
industrialists. The Dehavens may also have benefitted
from it.
See my complete page on the Dehart family ,
with the entire history of the family, and family groups.
l. Carrie Dehart
b 1862 Dauphin co d a7/29/1941 (see above)
m Charles Moore in Dauphin Co
Second generation
2. JOhn Burkhart Dehart b 12/24 or 12/31 1836, Reading,
christened l/l/1837 at First Reformed, Reading.
m 1861 or 1862 Dauphin Co d 4/6/1926 Plainfield NJ, Union Co,
3. Mary Ann Weiss/ Wise b 9/29/1843 Highspire PA d 10/20/1930
Plainfield, Union Co, NJ
See my page of what I know about
the Weiss family.
Third Generation
4. Gilbert Dehart b abt 1809 d 1881 age 72 m 11/9/1834
Reading death records says he died DEc 4, 1880, Reading.
Buried Alsace Cem, Muhlenburg twp.
5. Lydia Ann Borgert (Burckhart) b 5/22/1814 d 1898 or
2/9/1893? age 85 Reading death records index says she
d Reading, Feb 9, 1899. Buried Alsace Cemetery, Muhlenburg
township.
6, Jacob Weiss/ Wise b 3 Mar 1802 Switzerland (gravestone, 1850
1860, 1870 and 1880 census) parents born there too. d 30 May 1887
Steelton or Highspire, was staying w daughter Sarah
Conklin in 1880 census. Was a weaver and rug weaver, wove
rugs on loom while working at Highspire railway station.
Owned a large plot of land on the railroad tracks near
the station in Highspire. 1840 census index says he
did not live in Dauphin Co at the time though 1850
and 1880 census say Sarah b betw 1835 and 1840 in PA.
7. Johanna Susanna _____ / Joanna S. b 30 Apr 1809 Germany
d 3 Oct 1875. Both buried in Highspire cemetery.
For details and the children/ non-Dehart descendants known of
this couple, See my Weiss page
Fourth GEneration
8. John Dehart b 1764 Amity TWP Farm in Alsace went to son Amos
m 9/23/1795 St Paul's Union, Amity,
d Exeter age 104, 1868 or 1869 age 101
9. Mary/ Polly Horner/ Harner
b 17774 under 18 in 1788
d 12/2/1860
10. Philip Burkhard/ Burckhart of Alsace
d 1823 Alsace, as per will.
Owned large farm w mill and forge in Alsace township from
1795, when he acquired it from Samuel Burkhart, who may
have been his father.
m 7/23/1804 Reading at Trinity Luteran or Schwarzwald Church
See my page on the
Burkhart family and what little I know of their roots.
I have far more on several large Burkhart families in the
area.
11. Barbara Wagner of Alsace
b 3/14/1775 d 12/27/1855 age 79, Reading, accd to Death
Register of Reading
Fifth Generation
16. John Dehart b abt 1750 d 6/23/1805 Faulkner Swamp, Amity
m abt 1722
17. Elizabeth Weidner b abat 1750
18. Frederich Horner b 2/16/1772/3 Germany immigrated to
Philadelphia 9/29/1750 d 1788 Exeter
See F. Horner's family below.
19. Anna Maria/ Mary _______ also from Germany
21. Henry Wagner b 1841-1843, Exeter, Berks, PA. Deduced from
his father's probate records as well as dob of his wife.
He was a blacksmith, according to documents filed in
conjunction with his father's estate in 1762 and 1764.
He married 14 Dec 1769,, Sophia Seiwertin (Seifert) of
Maxatawny; he was listed as of Exeter.
He married again, listed as a "widower", Maria Elisabeth
Gottschall, the widow of Nicholas Gottschall and daughter
of the late John Jacob Nuss, records of Rev. Krugg, probably
in Reading, on 2 Apr 1771.
22. Elizabeth (Maria Elisabetha) Nuss, widow of Nicholas
Gottschall of Reading. She was b 27 Nov 1741, Hanover
Townships (Upper and Lower), Philadelphia (Montgomery) County.
She m Nicholas Gottschall of Reading and Alsace, son of Christopher
Gottschall from Baumholder, Germany, 12 Sept 1758. Records of
both Schwarzwald, and Old Goshenhoppen Church in New
Hanover. She was appointed sole administrator of his
estate on 23 May, 1770.
Sixth Generation
32. Cornelius Dehart b 1707/8 Brooklyn d bef l/13/1779 Berks Co
33. Maria Catherine ____.
34. George Adam Weidner. b abt 1710 Germany m 8/7/1780 E. Distr
TWP Berks Co. Came from Wuremburg on Hope, 1733. large
tilemaking plant. He had indentured servants, who he abused.
35. Dorothea Greiner b 1712 Pfalz, or 1720/25. (In Palatinate)
d 3/17/1806, will 8/15/1807, Amity TWP
42. Elias Wagner died 1754/5, Exeter. He lived in Exeter township
where he owned I think 180 acres, an average sized plot,
by 1740, according to tax records. Others around shared his
family's names and he probably was not from very far away.
43. Margaret. She remarried, to Jacob Rahn.
44. John Jacob Nuss d 20 Sept 1757 at 5 AM, buried 21 Sept
in Old Goshenhoppen Churchyard (from Old Goshenhoppen church
records, which are unusually thorough). b 25 June 1716,
Heuckelheim, Pfalz, Germany, near Worm. From Heuckelheim
records, from FHS, as researched by Anne Thompson. Came on
ship Marle from Rotterdam, in 1736, without his parents.
Anne Thompson is my main source on
the Nuss, Reiher and Gottschall families, she has researched
them exhaustively. He was christened at Evang. church.
Buried at Old Goshenhoppen Church. m abt 1738 in
Philadelphia (Montgomery) County. Died of dropsy (fluid
buildup).
45. Anna Maria Reiher b 5 Dec 1712 bapt Dec 8 1712 Rohrbach,
near Sinsheim, Wuerttemberg d 10 Nov 1797 Reading, Berks
Buried Lutheran Cem Died of consumption.
Seventh GEneration
64. Elias Simon Dehart c 3/21/1677 Brooklyn moved to Six Mile
Run, Monmouth Co NJ
65. Catherine/ Catalinka Lane
68. Hans Adam Jr. Weidner b 6.10.1688 Geisselhardt Germany
THAT IS CHALLENGED -NO RECORD FOUND THERE - WAS APPARENTLY
ERROR BY A RESEARCHER WHO SINCE FIXED IT.
m 5/151/1774 (?) Germany d 1745 Weidner Homestead, Oley TWP
Berks Co He was a member of the Ephrata Cloister and may
have been New Born. That rumor persists without apparently
any hard evidence. He and another young man did circumcize
themselves, which was a New Born practice, from Ephrata
records. He made most of teh roof tiles for the Cloister.
He had a kiln and is often described as a tile maker. He
also apparently made other pottery, etc, with great skill.
But supposed to be not listed anyplace as a tilemaker.
He is both supposed to have come between 1721 and 1727, and
located as having come over in 1733 or 1734, ship to be
found on Dehart page. Incident with the circumcision was in
1735. New Borns most active in 1720's. He bought or else
made official claim to his land in Oley in 1734. Land office
was out of commission until 1733 and many people squatted.
He also put date 1734 on a roof tile of his cabin. It is
not clear if he lived in ornear the Cloister when a member.
69. Anna Marie Haass/ Catherine. I don't know where the first
came from.
70. John Theodore Greiner
from Bonfeld, Germany - a village in the Palatinate.
on ship Dragon in 1732. d 1765 He and a friend from Bonfeld,
Johann Jacob Rodt, bought a 300 acre parcel together, and
split it.
71. Dorothy Avensheen or Emmert b 1716 or 1722 Amity
88. Peter Nuss
89. Anna Margaretha
90. Johann Michael Reiher (Royer) His family also is well
documented in the Old Goshenhoppen church records.
91. Anna Maria Seeland
Eighth Generation
128. Simon Aertszen Dehart b 10/11/1643 Nieuwkoop S Holland
Immr to New Amsterdam (Brooklyn) 1664 age 21. d after 1704
129. Geertji Cornelissen
130. Gysbert Thyssen Lane m 1672 Long Island
131. Jannetje
They moved to Monmouth Co NJ bef 1709
136. Hans Adam Sr, Weidner m 8/23/1675, children b Geisselhardt
137. Catharina Herrlinger
Ninth Generation
256. Aert Symonsz de Hart b 1607 Nieukoop S Holland m 12/18/1639
257. Gerritiizen Stoffles of Tiel
260. Mattys Janszen Lanen Van Pelt
Came to New Netherlands 1663 with wives and children.
His brother Teunis was ancestor of prominent Van Pelts.
262. Adriaen Lamberts (Smith)
(MOre on Lanes in Mark Dehart's file)
272. Caspar Weidner
Tenth Generation
512. William Dehart. Deborah Clare has him b abt 1550 Brest of
Hart, France, but I don't know on what that is based.