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From: "Leon F. Borst" <>
Subject: Daniel Levan's first wife
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 07:29:16 -0500

To LEVAN researches:



Here's the question - "What was the name of Daniel Levan's first Wife?"



We say that Daniel was born in Europe (the son of Daniel Levan and Marie Beau) and that he landed in Philadelphia in 1727. He moved to an area called Maxatawny (close to a brother named Jacob) and eventually purchased land and built an Inn along the road from Reading to Easton (The Inn is still there on the east side of Kutztown along what is now US 222). Daniel had sixteen (16) children that I'm aware of (and he names them in his Will written in 1776 and probated in 1777). He also mentions his wife Susanna (she was the daughter of Johannes and Elizabeth Siegfried of Maxatawny).



So far there is no problem. Now Daniel's wife, Susanna (Siegfried) Levan, wrote her will in April 1778 and it was probated in May of 1778. In her will, Susanna mentions her step-children: Barbara Reeser, Elizabeth Reeser, and Anna Elizabeth Friedly and wills them each £50. The rest of her estate, she divides equally among "my own children, sons and daughters equal shares"(she does not name "my own children"). These "step-children" are mentioned in Daniel's will as his children, so if Susanna is not their birth mother, who is?



Leon F. Borst

Chester County, PA

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