1743 Pennsylvania

The traditional colors of a Lancaster County covered bridge: red sides and white portals (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1743: A son, John, is born to John Lloyd & Ellen Foulke in Horsham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

A son, Jacob, is born to Samuel Showler & Margaret Levering in  Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

John Pawling, son of John Pawling & Anjje Dewill, marries Elizabeth DeHaven, daughter of Herman DeHaven & Anneken Op den Graeff, in Pennsylvania.


(John Lloyd is my third cousin 6 times removed. Our common ancestors are Aret Klincken & Niske Agnes Jensen.
 Jacob Schuler is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestor is Thonis Klincken.
Elizabeth DeHaven is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes.)

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1741, Pennsylvania



The traditional colors of a Lancaster County covered bridge: red sides and white portals (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1741- Gabriel Schuler is born to Samuel Showler & Magdalena Levering in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.

Isaac Shoemaker marries Hannah Roberts in Pennsylvania.

Margaret Shoemaker and Benjamin Mason are married in Pennsylvania.

Samuel Shoemaker, son of Peter Shoemaker & Margaret Op den Graeff, dies at the age of 21 in Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

 Martha Ann DeHaven is born to Abraham DeHaven & Rebecca Pawling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

( Gabriel Schuler is my third cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestor is Thonis Klincken.
Siblings Margaret Shoemaker, Isaac Shoemaker and Samuel Shoemaker are my third cousins 8 times removed. Martha Ann DeHaven is their first cousin once removed. Martha Ann DeHaven is my fourth cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes.)

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December 1737, Pennsylvania

December 29, 1737- Hannah DeHaven is born to Abraham DeHaven & Rebecca Pawling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

(Hannah DeHaven is my fourth cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes.)

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March 3, 1736- Abraham DeHaven marries Rebecca Pawling in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.
Abraham was a well-known (some might say notorious) inn and tavern keeper in the Skippack/Trappe area.

(Abraham DeHaven is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes.)

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1734, Pennsylvania

1734- Peter Lukens, with wife Gaynor Evans, moves to Horsham Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Peter was a clockmaker. He is mentioned as residing on a tract in Horsham of seventy-five acres. The following year the Horsham road is mentioned as having been laid out from his house up into the centre of Montgomery Township.

Thomas Lewis is born to James Lewis & Sarah Potts in Pottsgrove, Berks County, Pennsylvania.

Herman DeHaven, with wife Anneken Op den Graeff, moves to New Providence, where they live on a 200-acre tract. Herman builds a saw mill and grist mill. He also keeps an ordinary or inn. He is granted a license for the inn in 1734. 

(Peter Lukens is my first cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff.
Thomas Lewis is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Potts & Elizabeth Baset.
Anneken Op den Graeff is my second cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes. Peter Lukens is her second cousin.)

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1730 Pennsylvania

1730- Elizabeth Lukens is born to William Lukens & Elizabeth Tyson in Horsham, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She would go on to be the great great great grandmother of Theodore Roosevelt.

Isaac DeHaven is born to Herman DeHaven & Anneken Op den Graeff in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

(Elizabeth Lukens is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Mathias Dohrs & Agnes Neesgen Op den Graeff.
Isaac DeHaven is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes. Elizabeth Lukens is his third cousin.)

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1729 Pennsylvania

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1729- Thomas Potts is born to John Potts & Elizabeth McVaugh in Upper Dublin, Montgomery, Pennsylvania. (Thomas Potts is the second great grandfather of President Theodore Roosevelt. The president is my sixth cousin 3 times removed.)

Jonathan Potts marries Sarah Wood. They passed meeting the second time on 11 mo. 26, 1729, and at the next meeting, held 12 mo. 23, 1729-30, the marriage was reported orderly accomplished. They settled in Whitemarsh Township, now in Montgomery County.
It is not known if they had any children.

Harmond DeHaven is born to Herman DeHaven & Anneken Op den Graeff in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Samuel Seeley and Mary DeHaven are married in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

(Jonathan Potts is my first cousin 8 times removed. Thomas Potts is his nephew. Thomas Potts is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Potts & Elizabeth Baset.
Harmond DeHaven and Mary DeHaven are siblings.  They are my third cousins 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes.)

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1724 Pennsylvania

1724- Jacob DeHaven is born to Herman DeHaven & Anneken Op den Graeff in Whitemarsh, Montgomery, Pennsylvania.

(Jacob DeHaven is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes.)

May 1723, Pennsylvania

May 1, 1723- Joseph Ambler, husband of Ann Williams, purchases a tract of 90 acres of land from William Morgan in Montgomeryville, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

May 2, 1723- Gerhard DeHaven and wife Mary Sellen, along with his brother Herman DeHaven and wife Anneken Op den Graeff conveyed 200 acres at the upper end of their 440 acre tract in Germantown to Peter Jansen, May 2, 1723.

A daughter, Elizabeth DeHaven, was born to Herman & Anneken on May 6, 1723 in Skippack, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Herman DeHaven and his family then moved to New Providence, where he was living in 1734 on a 200 acre tract. He built a saw mill and grist mill. He also kept an ordinary or inn. He was granted a license for the inn in 1734.

May 26, 1723- Mary Cleaver is born to Peter Cleaver, Jr. & Elizabeth Potts in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

(Ann Williams is my first cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Aret Klincken & Niske Agnes Jensen.

Anneken Op den Graeff is my second cousin 8 times removed. Her daughter, Elizabeth DeHaven, is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes and Pieter Dohrs & Lysgen Grietes.

Mary Cleaver is my first cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors is Jonas Potts.)

1721 Pennsylvania

1721- Henry Streypers is born to Lenart Streypers & Ann Entgen Cunraeds in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

William Levering is born to Jacob Levering & Alice Tunes in Roxborough, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

Margaret DeHaven is born to Herman DeHaven & Anneken Op den Graeff in Germantown, Pennsylvania.

(Henry Streypers is my first cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thones Kunders & Elin Theisson.
William Levering is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestor is Thonis Klincken.
Margaret DeHaven is my third cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes.)

1711 Pennsylvania

1711- Henry Cunnard is born to John Cunard & Alice Lukens in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

Abraham DeHaven is born to Herman DeHaven & Anneken Op den Graeff in Skippack, (now Montgomery County.)

Elizabeth Op den Graeff dies in Germantown, Pennsylvania. She had no children. Following her death, her husband, Peter Von, married Gerritje Jansen in Bensalem.

(Henry Cunnard is my first cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thones Kunders & Elin Theisson.
Abraham DeHaven is my third cousin 8 times removed. Henry Cunnard is Abraham's third cousin. Elizabeth Op den Graeff is my second cousin 9 times removed. Henry Cunnard is her second cousin once removed. Elizabeth is Abraham DeHaven's aunt. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes.)

February 1711, Pennsylvania

February 6, 1711- Herman DeHaven and Anneken Op den Graeff are married at Whitemarsh, (or Wytmes), Church in a township southeast of Whitpain, not far from the present boundaries of Germantown, Pennsylvania. The ceremony was performed by Reverend Van Vlecq.
Herman DeHaven had come to America from Mülheim on the Rühr, Germany in 1698.

(Anneken Op den Graeff is my second cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Hermann Op den Graeff & Gretchen Driessen Pletjes.)

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April 1712, Pennsylvania

April 29, 1712- Jacob Op den Graeff and Annaken DeHaven are married in the Dutch Reformed Church in Bensalem, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were married by Rev. Paulus Van Vlecq who recorded the bride's name as Anneken ten Heuven. The records of the Bensalom Dutch Reformed Church in then Bucks County say:  "Married April 29, 1712 - Jacob op de graef, young man born in Jermantown and now residing at Schipack and Annchen ten heuven, young woman born at Willem aen der Roer."

(left) Grater House, built by Jacob Op den Graeff and Annaken DeHaven in 1724.

( Jacob Op den Graeff is my second cousin 9 times removed. Our common ancestors are Herman Op den Graef & Gretjen Driessen Pletjes.)