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- Name Suffix: Senior
From Life and Letters of Rev J. Philip Boehm
pg 283, John Frederick Leibi, Deacon, Oley, 5 Feb 1739
pg 289, Frederick Leibi, Deacon, Oley, 5 Feb 1740
pg 364, Frederick Leibi, Elder, Oley, 1742
(also a Peter Leibi, elder, Maxatawny, 7 Feb 1740, pg 289)
See Bergert, 1983
http://genforum.genealogy.com/leiby/
http://www.reimert.org/genealogy/database/d221.htm
From Floyd's History of Northumberland County:
The Leiby family is of good old Berks county stock and of Swiss
origin. Early in the eighteenth century the progenitors of the family in
America left their native country, Switzerland, to go to South America,
but people along the Rhine river, to which place they came in their
journey, advised the wife not to go there. One night while they were at
the Rhine, she entreated her husband so earnestly not to go,because
people had told her they would forever be sorry, that he abandoned the
trip, and so they remained for twenty years in the Rhine country, in
Germany. In 1733 they came to America on the good ship "Samuel,"
qualifying at Philadelphia Aug. 17, 1733. Rupp in his 30,000 names of
immigrants gives the pioneer's name as Friederich Leiby, and the second
series of Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. XVII, also gives the name
Frederick Leiby; but the tax list of Greenwich township (Berks Co., Pa.)
for 1754, published in Rupp's history of the county,gives the name as
"Dietrich" Leiby, which probably was an error. The names Friederich and
Dietrich might sound nearly alike to the untrained ear. Rupp in his
30,000 names records the following: Palatines imported in the ship
"Samuel," of London, Hugh Percy, master, from Rotterdam, last from Deal,
males, eighty-nine above sixteen; females, eighty-six; males under
sixteen, fifty-four; females, sixty-two; in all 291.
It appears that Frederick Leiby died shout 1754, as the tax list
has this item: "Frederick Leiby's Widow," and also the names of their
children: George Michael Leiby and Jacob Leiby. The latter was assessed
six pounds tax, and his younger brother and widowed mother each five
pounds in 1754. The descendants of Frederick Leiby are quite numerous
and are scattered all over Pennsylvania as well as in other States. In
central Pennsylvania are settled several branches of this family. The
pioneers are buried at Dunkel's church, in Greenwich township, Berks
county, and were members of the German Reformed congregation. Willard
D. Leiby is a grandson of David Leiby, both of whose grandfathers served
as soldiers in the Revolutionary war. The paternal grandparents of
David Leiby lived in Albany township, Berks county, where their son John
J. Leiby, father of David, was born and reared. etc.
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Abt 1694 - Between 1754 and 1759 (~ 60 years)