Notes for Mathias LEY
Family History: George Tressler Scott, THE FAMILY OF JOHN TRESSLER AND ELIZABETH LOY TRESSLER, reprint 1972; Tressler Lutheran Service Associates, Camp Hill, PA; Copy in Perry Historians collection, New Bloomfield, PA
Immigration: Arrived Philadelphia August 17, 1733 aboard ship "Samuel", age 28 with wife Anna Maria, age 24; Source: Tressler history.
Immigration: Sailed with a "party of French immigrants." Source: Dorcus Bousom Smith, Hanover, PA. Query in The Airy View (newsletter of The Perry Historians) September, 1989.
From baptism records of his children, it appears that he lived near present-day Colebrookdale (1734) and New Hanover Church (1744); Source: Tressler history.
He was paying taxes in Greenwich Twp., Berks Co. by 1755. Received warrant for 100 acres on January 12, 1742 and for 50 acres on January 16, 1758. Source: Tressler history.
Naturalized September 16, 1765. Source: Tressler history.
Homestead believed to have been located between Krumsville and Stony Run, Berks Co. on land owned by William Schucker in modern times; Source: Tressler history.
Death: The will of Mathias Ley was dated February 22, 1762 and proved October 22, 1783; Source: Berks Co. Wills, Book B, p. 74. Buried in Friedens Church Cemetery, Stony Run. Tombstone indicates he had ten children.
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