Individual Details
Leonard Streypers
(3 Jan 1719 - 1796)
Source: Carol Esterhai, The Streepers were part of the Krefeld group
and there is a lot of research on them all the way back to early 1500.
Lenart married, 2nd, Margaret Righter and had eight more children:
Jacob, Daniel, William, George, Susanna, Ann m. John Dull, Rebecca
m. James Harvey, and Mary m. Jonathan Jones.
Joan Higgins reports on his will (Montgomery Co., PA. RW 6339)
transcribed by Helen Stoller, in "Krefeld Immigrants and Their
Descendants", Vol 6, No. 1, Spring 1989, pages 16, 17, 18. Her article
is entitled Streeper/Streyper/ Streipers Wills. Joan summerizes: "you
will note that he is very careful to call one set of children "my
eldest' and the other set of children "my youngest". I believe that the
phrase 'my eldest' refers to the children of Rebecca Greathouse and the
phrase 'my youngest' refers to the children of Margaret Righter.
The Will of Leonard Streeper, Yeoman, of Whitemarsh Twp., Montgomery
Co., PA was made on June 20, 1796. He remembers his wife Margaret and
his minor children by setting down a plan for their care. To his three
eldest sons, (by his first wife Rebecca Greathouse) John, Peter and
Dennis, he gives the sum of 5 pounds sterling and notes that they are
already settled on plantations. But the lands given to Peter and Dennis
are encumbered by a promise to pay the heirs of "my brother Dennis'
immediately after the death of his widow, Margaret, a sum of 83 pounds,
6 shilling and 8 pence. To his 2 eldest daughters, (by his first
wife): Sara Johnson and Elizabeth Thomas are paid 75 pounds, within the
year after his death, as he has already given them 150 pounds. To his
four youngest sons (by his wife Margaret) Jacob, Daniel, William and
George all the plantation in Whitemarsh Twp. containing 100 acres more
or less, and a plantation in Springfield Twp containing 62 acres, and
a Messuage and Lot in Roxborough Twp containing 16 acres also 3/4
of an acre in Springfield Twp.....They are to share and equally divide
when George reaches age twenty-one. The lands are subject to a payment
of 20 pounds per annum, his wife Margaret (their mother). To his six
younger daughters, Ann Dull, Rebecca, Deborah, Mary, Catherine and
Susanna Streeper, the sum of one hundred pounds.
Submitted by-------Frank Neher
Greathouse List Records Coordinator.
and there is a lot of research on them all the way back to early 1500.
Lenart married, 2nd, Margaret Righter and had eight more children:
Jacob, Daniel, William, George, Susanna, Ann m. John Dull, Rebecca
m. James Harvey, and Mary m. Jonathan Jones.
Joan Higgins reports on his will (Montgomery Co., PA. RW 6339)
transcribed by Helen Stoller, in "Krefeld Immigrants and Their
Descendants", Vol 6, No. 1, Spring 1989, pages 16, 17, 18. Her article
is entitled Streeper/Streyper/ Streipers Wills. Joan summerizes: "you
will note that he is very careful to call one set of children "my
eldest' and the other set of children "my youngest". I believe that the
phrase 'my eldest' refers to the children of Rebecca Greathouse and the
phrase 'my youngest' refers to the children of Margaret Righter.
The Will of Leonard Streeper, Yeoman, of Whitemarsh Twp., Montgomery
Co., PA was made on June 20, 1796. He remembers his wife Margaret and
his minor children by setting down a plan for their care. To his three
eldest sons, (by his first wife Rebecca Greathouse) John, Peter and
Dennis, he gives the sum of 5 pounds sterling and notes that they are
already settled on plantations. But the lands given to Peter and Dennis
are encumbered by a promise to pay the heirs of "my brother Dennis'
immediately after the death of his widow, Margaret, a sum of 83 pounds,
6 shilling and 8 pence. To his 2 eldest daughters, (by his first
wife): Sara Johnson and Elizabeth Thomas are paid 75 pounds, within the
year after his death, as he has already given them 150 pounds. To his
four youngest sons (by his wife Margaret) Jacob, Daniel, William and
George all the plantation in Whitemarsh Twp. containing 100 acres more
or less, and a plantation in Springfield Twp containing 62 acres, and
a Messuage and Lot in Roxborough Twp containing 16 acres also 3/4
of an acre in Springfield Twp.....They are to share and equally divide
when George reaches age twenty-one. The lands are subject to a payment
of 20 pounds per annum, his wife Margaret (their mother). To his six
younger daughters, Ann Dull, Rebecca, Deborah, Mary, Catherine and
Susanna Streeper, the sum of one hundred pounds.
Submitted by-------Frank Neher
Greathouse List Records Coordinator.
Events
| Birth | 3 Jan 1719 | ||||
| Death | 1796 | ||||
| Marriage | Rebecca Greathouse | ||||
| Reference No | 6603 | ||||
| Burial | St Michael's Lutheran, Germantown, Phila, Pa |
Families
| Spouse | Rebecca Greathouse (1720 - ) |
| Child | Elizabeth Streypers (1744 - 1837) |
| Father | Lenart Streypers (1686 - 1727) |
| Mother | Ann Entgen Cunraeds (1684 - 1752) |
| Sibling | Dennis Streypers (1715 - 1766) |
| Sibling | William Streypers (1716 - ) |
| Sibling | Henry Streypers (1721 - ) |