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3. III. JACOB3: b. about 1701, at Roxb. Removed with his parents
in 1730-1, to Whitpain Tp., where, in 1731, he acquired
100 acres of land through his father. In "Pennsylvania
Marriages," Vol. II, page 42, in "First Presbyterian
Church of Philad. list," is recorded the fact of his
marriage, thus: "1:28:1732, Jacob Levering to Sinah
Davis." (13)
He subsequently became a proselyte to the Friends or
Quaker Society. In his will, dated Jan. 28, 1793, which
was admitted to probate in court at Norristown,(*) he
makes a bequest to the Gwynedd Preparatory Meeting,
and was buried in the grounds of that Meeting. He devised
to "my cousin, Daniel Levering, grandson of my
brother Henry Levering, my plantation or tract of land,
containing 100 acres, situate in Whitpain," and further,
"I give my large English bible to my cousin, Henry Levering."
As he called the grandson of his brother Henry,
his "cousin," in this bequest, he must have referred to
Henry4 Levering, son of his brother Daniel3, as there appears
no other Henry.
4. IV. DANIEL3: b. Dec. 2, 1704, in Roxb. In archives of Christ's
Church, Phila., is preserved a Marriage Register, which
shows: "May 12, 1735, Daniel Levering and Margaret
Beane. 12 sh. pd.," i. e,, fee, 12 shillings. (14)
Daniel occupied and cultivated his 100 acres of land in
Whitpain Township, now in Montgomery County, and
died there on June 12, 1776. His widow followed him
on Jan. 9, 1778. They were buried at Boehm Church.
His will, dated Mch. 11, 1776, was probated in Philad.,
July 6, 1776.
5. V. MAGDALENA3: b. about 1707, in Roxb. From the statement
of Mrs. Heist, it appears that Magdalena was living in
1731, in Whitpain, as she was made the beneficiary of a
money equivalent from her father, when he allotted to
each of his sons 100 acres of land. It is believed that
she did not marry. The destruction of the old records of
Boehm Church, as has been related, deprives me of any
record of her decease.
(*)Norristown, the county seat of Montgomery County, which was created in 1784, from the western
part of Philadelphia County.
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