Individual Details
Anna Catharine LEVERING
(March 1673 - )
Her parents brought her to America in 1685 when aged "9 years," as stated in the contract of transportation. She married Henry Frey at Germantown, Philadelphia Co., PA. April 26, 1692(O.S.), of whom Cassel states: “Heinrich Frey and Joseph Blatenbach were the first German emigrants who came to Pennsylvania. They emigrated in 1680 and settled in Philadelphia” Their marriage was among the first weddings, which were contracted and solemnized in the province. The evidence of it still exist in the certificate and previous notice which was posted on the door of meeting-house, as follows:
Whereas, Henry Fry, of Altheim, in the province of Alsace, in High German, now inhabitant of Germantown, in the county of Philadelphia, bachelor, and Annie Catharine Levering, of the county of Bruick, likewise in High Germany, a young woman, after due consultation with their respective parents, have produced a sufficient certification of their clearness of all other enganements, under the hand of several credible personsm unto one of the Justices of the Peace, in the bailwick of Germantown, and have published abd affixed their intention of marriage in the meeting-house of the said town on the 24th of the first month past.
As no objections were filed the ceremony was performed, and THIS CERTIFICATE witnesseth that the said Henry Fry and Anna Catharine Levering have this day solemnized such their marriage by taking one another as husband and wife, according to the law of this country, and before and in the presence of us, whose names are hereunder written at Germantown, the 26th day of the second month, 1692”
Francis Daniel Pastorus; Justice of Peace.
Witnesses: Wigard Levering, Gerhard Levering, Magdalena Levering, Hans Peter Umstat, Arnold Cassel, Henrich Shellenberg, Jon Ponder, Andrew Supplee, Manigha May, Catein Tompkins, William Rittinghuysen, Henrich Zollern, Jacob Pfoutz, Henrich Bucholtz, Elias Tossen, Honnas Miller, Elizabeth Cassel, Herman Trapman, Sara Hendricks, Anecki Supplee, Maria Bonus and others.
Henry Fry was the owner for many years of one hundred acres of land in Roxborough, adjoining the tract of like area then owned by Gerhard Levering.
Whereas, Henry Fry, of Altheim, in the province of Alsace, in High German, now inhabitant of Germantown, in the county of Philadelphia, bachelor, and Annie Catharine Levering, of the county of Bruick, likewise in High Germany, a young woman, after due consultation with their respective parents, have produced a sufficient certification of their clearness of all other enganements, under the hand of several credible personsm unto one of the Justices of the Peace, in the bailwick of Germantown, and have published abd affixed their intention of marriage in the meeting-house of the said town on the 24th of the first month past.
As no objections were filed the ceremony was performed, and THIS CERTIFICATE witnesseth that the said Henry Fry and Anna Catharine Levering have this day solemnized such their marriage by taking one another as husband and wife, according to the law of this country, and before and in the presence of us, whose names are hereunder written at Germantown, the 26th day of the second month, 1692”
Francis Daniel Pastorus; Justice of Peace.
Witnesses: Wigard Levering, Gerhard Levering, Magdalena Levering, Hans Peter Umstat, Arnold Cassel, Henrich Shellenberg, Jon Ponder, Andrew Supplee, Manigha May, Catein Tompkins, William Rittinghuysen, Henrich Zollern, Jacob Pfoutz, Henrich Bucholtz, Elias Tossen, Honnas Miller, Elizabeth Cassel, Herman Trapman, Sara Hendricks, Anecki Supplee, Maria Bonus and others.
Henry Fry was the owner for many years of one hundred acres of land in Roxborough, adjoining the tract of like area then owned by Gerhard Levering.
Events
| Birth | March 1673 | Mulheim On The Rhur, Freig, Prussia |  |  | |
| Immigration | 1685 | | |||
| Marriage | 26 April 1692 | Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - Heinrich FREY | |
Families
| Spouse | Heinrich FREY ( - ) |
| Child | Jacob FREY (1694 - ) |
| Child | Henry FREY ( - ) |
| Child | John FREY ( - ) |
| Child | George FREY ( - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth FREY ( - ) |
| Child | Rebecca FREY ( - ) |
| Child | Amelia FREY ( - ) |
| Father | John Wigard LEVERING (1648 - 1745) |
| Mother | Magdalena BOKERS (1650 - 1717) |
| Sibling | Joanna Sophia LEVERING (1675 - 1675) |
| Sibling | Maria Elizabeth LEVERING (1676 - 1676) |
| Sibling | William LEVERING (1677 - 1746) |
| Sibling | Amelia Anna Sophia LEVERING (1682 - 1771) |
| Sibling | Anna Sibella LEVERING (1684 - 1764) |
| Sibling | Herman LEVERING (1686 - 1691) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth LEVERING (1689 - 1703) |
| Sibling | Sidonia LEVERING (1691 - 1740) |
| Sibling | Jacob LEVERING (1693 - 1753) |
| Sibling | Magdalena LEVERING (1695 - 1695) |
| Sibling | Magdalena LEVERING (1696 - 1736) |
Notes
Birth
also 15 Mar 1676Endnotes
1. (Janet, monkey@getgoin.net, http://www.geocities.com/janet_ariciu/Levering.html).
2. (Janet, monkey@getgoin.net, http://www.geocities.com/janet_ariciu/Levering.html).
3. (Janet, monkey@getgoin.net, http://www.geocities.com/janet_ariciu/Levering.html).