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(21 Feb 1726 - 31 Mar 1793)
Joseph learned in his youth the trade of a weaver,—with whom is not known. It was usual, then, for every boy in a farmer's family, except perhaps the eldest, to have some trade besides that of husbandry. He went early in life to the neighborhood of Germantown, on the eastern side of that place, then Bristol township, and remained there permanently. His first wife was the granddaughter of Jan Lucken, one of the company who made the first settlement at Germantown, and as his sister Elizabeth married another member of that family, we may give at this point some facts concerning it.
The first Germantown company, Mennonites and Friends, came in 1683, from the city of Crefeld, in Rhenish Prussia, near the line of Holland, and a short distance west of the Rhine. Omitting Francis Daniel Pastorius, and one or two others, who came separately a few weeks earlier, these settlers included thirtythree persons,—thirteen men with their families. Three of these were the Op den Graeffs, Abraham, Dirck, and Hermann; and among the others were Willem Streypers, Thones Kunders, Reynier Tyson, and Jan Lucken, the ancestors of the Streeper, Conrad, Tyson, and Lukens families. They were nearly all related by blood or marriage to one another. They had purchased land of William Penn before leaving home, and, sailing from Rotterdam to London, they left the latter city in the ship Concord, William Jeffries master, July 24, 1683, and reached Philadelphia on the 6th of October. Lands were then promptly surveyed for them at Germantown, and in its neighborhood.
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| Birth | 21 Feb 1726 | | | | |
| Death | 31 Mar 1793 | | | | |
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