Person:Lydia Riley (1)

Harrison, Waples and allied families : being the ancestry of George Leib Harrison of Philadelphia and of his wife Sarah Ann Waples Pg 82: John Riley, of Philadelphia, clock and watch maker, was born in the year 1759. In 1785, and evidently until his death, he resided at No 11 South Second Street. This was on the east side of the street, between Chestnut and Market.

He married by license of December 30, 1784, Sarah Leib, daughter of John George Leib and Margaretha Dorothea Liebheit of Philadelphia, and sister of Doctor Michael Leib and of Lydia Leib, who married John Harrison. John Carrell was surety on the marriage license bond, to which James Trimble was witness. He died in Philadelpha and was buried in Christ church burying ground, where a tombstone bears the following inscription: "Mr John Riley, May 14, 1814, in 56th year, & our beloved & only child, Mrs Lydia Leib (Riley) Waples, daughter of John and Sarah (Leib) Riley, October 19, 1819, in 24th year."

On March 21, 1815, letters of administration on the estate of John Riley were granted to his widow, Sarah (Leib) Riley, and Michael Leib, Esquire. John L Leib of Philadelphia, attorney-at-law, and John Hart of Philadelphia, druggist, were sureties for the administrators.

(sources: PA Archives, Sixth Series, Vol VI p 304 and Administration Book L, p 234, Philadelphia