1727 Pennsylvania

1727- Pennsylvania Council orders Masters of Vessels to furnish passenger lists, and all immigrants are required to declare allegiance to the King.

1727- Matthias Tyson dies in Abington Township, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Abstracts of Philadelphia County [Pennsylvania] Wills, 1726-1747 By F. Edward Wright

TYSON, MATHIES. Abington Co. Of Philadelphia. Yeoman. April 8, 1727. May 12, 1727. E. 46.
Wife: Mary. Children: Margaret, Reynear, Mary, John, Sarah, Isaac, Elizabeth, Mathew. Exec: Mary Tyson.

Witnesses: David Davies, Abigail Jenkins, Step. Jenkins.

From the Colonial Families of Philadelphia:
1. "By his will dated April 8, and proved May 12, 1727 (registered, Philadelphia County Will Book E, p 46) he devised to his wile Mary, for life or during widowhood, the use of all his estate, real and personal; if she married again (which she did) she was to have one-third of the estate, plus ten pounds; the remaining two-thirds, less the ten pounds, to be then equally divided between his eight children- Maragret, Mary, Reynear, John Sarah, Isaac, Elizabeth and Matthew; his wife was made executrix and it was directed that the children be brought up under her care.
Mary Tyson, widow of Matthias, married (second) 11 mo, 1732, Thomas Fitzwater, permission granted by Abington Meeting, 10 mo 25, 1732 and the marriage reported at the next meeting, 11 mo 29 as having been accomplished meanwhile. The Fitzwater family was one of great prominence polically and socially in Abington township and vicinity, and also in the city of Philadelphia, where a principal street is named for it. The Fitzwaters intermarried a number of times with the Tyson family."

(Matthias Tyson is my 1st cousin, nine times removed.)

1727- Lenart Streypers dies in Pennsylvania.

Abstracts of Philadelphia County Wills, 1726-1747 By F. Edward Wright

STREPERS, LENART. Germantown, Co. of Pennsylvania. Husbandman.
March 28, 1727/28. August 9, 1727. E. 56.
Wife: Anne. Children: William, Denis, Henry, Lenart. Brother: John.
Brother-in-Law: John Cunrads. Exec: Anne and John Strepers, John Cunrads, Isaac Davis.

(The wife of Lenart Streypers, Ann Entgen Cunraeds, is my seventh great grandaunt. John Cunrads is her brother. Another brother, Cunraed Cunraeds, is my seventh great grandfather. Our common ancestors are Thones Kunders and Elin Theisson.
Elin Theisson is the aunt of Matthias Tyson. Their common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs and Agnes Neeson op den Graeff. Elin Theisson is my eighth great grandmother.)