1725 Pennsylvania

1725- Joseph Conard is born to Cunraed Cunraeds & Ann Burson in Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

David Potts marries Elizabeth Jane Lane,  a daughter of Edward Lane of Perkioman, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Perkiomen was in the neighborhood of Gilberts Manor, and the Lanes and Jonas Potts family did not live far apart. Elizabeth is said to have been a woman of fair complexion, and was familiarly known as "Betty."

(Joseph Conard is my sixth great granduncle. David Potts is my sixth great grandfather.)

1725 Maryland

1725- John Pike is born to Archibald & Lucy Pike in Leonardstown, Maryland.

John Robey is born to Benjamin Robey & Mary Wood in Charles County, Maryland.

John French is born in St. Mary's County, Maryland.

(John Pike is my fifth great granduncle. Our common ancestor is Archibald Pike.
John Robey is my first cousin 6 times removed. Our common ancestors are John Robey & Sarah Hines Luckett.
John French is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are James French & Elizabeth Meekin.)

1725 Pennsylvania

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1725- Springett Penn joins with his step-grandmother, Hannah Penn, in appointing Patrick Gordon Lieutenant-Governor of Pennsylvania. Springett Penn was a grandson and heir of William Penn, founder and proprietor of Pennsylvania.

The chancery suit over his grandfather William Penn's will was not yet settled. The founder had several children that died in his lifetime.--His eldest surviving son, William Penn, born about 1676; died in Liege in 1720, came to the colony with Lieutenant-Governor Evans, arriving February 2, 1704, and was made a member of the provincial council on the 8th. As such he joined in a declaration that a clause in his father's instructions suspending the operation of laws passed by the lieutenant-governor until the proprietor's pleasure be known was illegal and void. He raised a militia company, but, being presented before the corporation of the city of Philadelphia, the chief men in which were unfriendly to his father, for disorder at a tavern, he took offence and returned to England.

His son, Springett Penn, succeeded to his father's claims, and was by many persons considered the rightful governor-in-chief. Sir William Keith, the lieutenant-governor, caused a large tract of land on the frontier to be laid out for him, and called Springettsbury Manor. The will of the founder was established by decree of the court of exchequer in 1727, and a compromise between the two branches of the family was in process of adjustment at his death.

Springett was referred to as "Saracen" in his grandfather's letters.

Edward Austin is born to Samuel Austin & Mary Jarman in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

Anthony Levering is born to Jacob Levering & Alice Tunes in Roxbury, Pennsylvania.

(Springett Penn is my fourth cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestors are Pletjes Driessen & Alet Gobels Syllus.

Edward Austin is my second cousin 7 times removed. Our common ancestors are Thomas Potts & Elizabeth Baset.

Anthony Levering is my second cousin 8 times removed. Our common ancestor is Thonis Klincken.)