Individual Details

Peter Cleaver

(1667 - Jan 1728)

The Cleaver family of Gwynedd and Montgomery are the descendants of Peter Klever, one of the early German settlers at Germantown. He was, no doubt, one of the company that included the Shoemakers, the Lukenses, the Conrads, and others of the Quaker immigrants, who came from the lower Rhine, after the arrival of Pastorius and the earliest of the settlers.

Events

Birth1667Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany
Naturalization1691Germantown, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania
Marriage27 May 1695Abington Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia Co., PA - Gertrude Shoemaker
DeathJan 1728Bristol township, Philadelphia
Alt namePeter Klever
OccupationWeaver and husbandman

Families

SpouseGertrude Shoemaker (1669 - 1727)
ChildChristina Cleaver (1696 - )
ChildPeter Cleaver Jr. (1697 - 1776)
ChildEve Cleaver (1699 - )
ChildDerrick Cleaver (1702 - 1768)
ChildJohn Cleaver (1705 - 1773)
ChildAgnes Cleaver (1707 - 1757)
ChildIsaac Cleaver (1713 - 1799)

Notes

Naturalization

arrived in Germantown by ship from Rheinland

Marriage

they resided in Bristol Twsp., Philadelphia Co. [now Montgomery Co.], PA

Death

Peter Klever, one of the early German settlers at Germantown. He was, no doubt, one of the company that included the Shoemakers, the Lukenses, the Conrads, and others of the Quaker immigrants, who came from the lower Rhine, after the arrival of Pastorius and the earliest of the settlers. He is on the record as having been naturalized, as of Germantown, in 1691, and he died in Bristol (adjoining Germantown) in 1727, leaving children: Isaac, John, Peter jr., Derrick, and Agnes, besides two married daughters, Christiana Melchior, and Eve Adams. Isaac, the eldest son, had land in Cheltenham, and probably removed there; John received his father's place in Bristol township, and had a family, including Elizabeth, Peter, William, Sarah, John and Hannah; while Peter Cleaver, jr., removed to Upper Dublin, and was there before 1734, as he is returned in the list of that year as owner of 100 acres of land.