Person:Isaac LeFevre (4)

Heisterkamp's Annotated Landis Ferree Tree (as of 30 April 2004)

Daniel Ferree and Isaac LeFevre arrived in New York on 1 January 1709.

Abstracts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Wills - 1732-1785, page 132.

LeFevre, Isaac. His will names his Children: Abraham, Philip, Daniel, Samuel, Mary and Esther wife of Daniel Herman. Grandchildren: John and Peter LeFevre (sons of Abraham) and John Herman (son of Esther).

Executors: Philip and Daniel Lefevre. Strasburg Township.

The Pennsylvania LeFevres, complied by George Newton LeFevre, co-compiler Franklin D. LeFevre, Published by The LeFevre Cemetery and Historical Association, Strasburg, Pennsylvania 1952.

In 1685 Isacc's family was martyred (killed) by the Roman Catholics, he alone escaped "with difficulty" as he himself stated, from being killed along with the rest of the family. All that he saved out of his wrecked home was his father's Bible, published in Geneva in 1608. This he cherished and preserved through all his flights from France, through Bavaria, Holland and England, until he made his home Strasburg Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1712. He had the Bible by his side until in his eighty third year, when his body was laid to rest. It is now in the library of the Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

E-mail from Allen Schieber dated 12/29/1996 (page 1 and 2).

Fled to Bavaria, only child of Abraham LeFevre to escape martyrdom. Founder of the Pennsylvania LeFevre's. From a statement made by his grandson John LeFevre, who knew him for 20 years, Isaac was "lively, active, and took a great deal of exercise even in his old age, and was very temperate. " He prospered in his new home and at the time of his death, owned about 1,500 acres of land.

The Story of the Ferree Family, Emory Schuyler Ferree, 829 So. Mulberry Ave., Brea, CA 92621, 1990, page 5-2.

His cemetery plague reads; "Isaac LeFevre, our American ancestor, escaped from persecution and death in France in 1685. Came to America in 1708 and settled here in Pequea Valley 1712."

This farm including the LeFevre Cemetery has been the home of seven generations of LeFevres. Since it was bought by Issac LeFevre of 1669 from William Penn who bought it from the Pequea Indians in 1682.

Isaac LeFevre founder of the LeFevre family in Pennsylvania, lived near Strasburg in France. Being Protestants most of the family were killed at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685. He with other Huguenots escaped to Bavaria. In 1708 he left for America and arrived at New York, December 31, 1708. He lived at Esopus, New York 3 years. Then in 1712 he and the Ferree family came to Lancaster County as the Pioneer settlers of Pequea Valley, buying 2300 acres."

This cemetery is part of the LeFevre farm of 318 acres, surveyed October 18 , 1716 and deeded to Isaac LeFevre November 1, 1716. the first tract he bought was deeded September 10, 1712." He had an estate probated on 5 October. 175 1 in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Isaac LeFevre 1699-1751 fled from Chateau-Chinon, France age about 16, barely escaping Roman Catholic execution. Was adopted by Daniel and Marie Ferree. On August 25, 1708 he renounced original citizenship & swore allegiance to England.

Isaac LeFevre, founder of the Pennsylvania family of LeFevres, died in Strasburg Township, Pennsylvania. But the place of his burial cannot be definitely stated. However, since a place of burial had already been selected for his son Abraham who had died sixteen years previously, it is believed that he too is buried in the same place. Originally, there were thought to be two very old unmarked graves here which were thought to be those of Isaac and Catherine. This burial ground is now known as the LeFevre Cemetery and is located about one mile north of Strasburg, Pennsylvania. In it rest the remains of more than thirty of the early LeFevres, and if Isaac is buried here, it contains seven generations.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Jessie A. Landis nee Witmer. Ferree - du Bois Family Tree. (1913).
2. ↑ kamp3genealogy@@netscape.net. Heisterkamp, Charles, III, M.D..

   1949 Pine Drive, Lancaster, PA, 17601, ckamp3@@netscape,net, 717-392-0562

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3} Charles Heisterkamp, III, M.D. Annotated Landis Ferree Tree. (30 April 2004).

   Date of Import: Jul 14, 2004

4. ↑ Jessie A. Landis nee Witmer. Ferree - du Bois Family Tree. (1913).

   Jessie A. Landis nee Witmer, "Ferree - du Bois Family Tree," 1913. states 1675

5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 George Newton LeFevre and Franklin D.LeFevre. The Pennsylvania LeFevres. (The LeFevre Cemetery and Historical Association, Strasburg, Pa., 1952)
   page 13.
6. ↑ Linda Worstell. Ferree Family of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. (Roots Web - November 2000).
7. ↑ Eleanor Jane Fulton and Barbara Kendig Mylin. An Index to the Will Books and Intestate Records of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - 1729-1850. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore 1994)
   page 28.
8. ↑ ^8.0 8.1 F. Edward Wright, Editor. Abstracts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Wills - 1732-1785. (Willow Bend Books, Westminster, Carroll County, Maryland 2003)
   page 132.
9.   Charles Heisterkamp, III, M.D..

   1949 Pine Drive, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA, 17601-5529, kamp3genealogy@netscape.net