William #2
Footnotes
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William warranted land "adjoining the lands of Nicholas Borgher and Henry Hoover over the Blue Hills" 8 August 1749. This land is in present-day Eldred Township, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. See Maps.
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William warranted land in present-day Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, 23 August 1753. (The land was situate in Heidelberg Township in 1828 and Washington Township in 1872.) See Maps.
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William appears in the 1761 tax list for Heidelberg Township, Northampton County. This is the first tax year for Northampton County. William does not appear as single. It is not known that if a young man was single it would be noted as such in this year. See Silvii in the Northampton County Tax List.
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Naturalizations of Foreign Protestants in the American and West Indian Colonies (Pursuant to Statute 13 George II, c. 7). Edited by M. S. Giuseppi, F. S. A. , 1969
All three certified by Joseph Shippen, Jr., on 10
November 1766, Philadelphia. Henry was not noted. Perhaps because he
signed an Oath of Allegiance when he arrived in Philadelphia in 1738?
See
Statutes at Large. Does not explain why they had to take the oath
in 1766.
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22 March 1786 Orphans Court record for the Estate of Jacob "Hafelfinger" requesting inquest for the partitioning of his land--lists his eight children. For Catharine: "Catharine, wife of William Sylvius." It also lists "Barbara, wife of Conrad Sylvius." Jacob Heffelfinger's estate was situate in Indian Tract Manor, Lehigh Township, Northampton County, across the Lehigh River from William's land. Conrad's land was also located in Indian Tract Manor land. Volume E, P. 103. See SILVIUS-L Archives, 12/23/2001, Subject: Heffelfinger Family for content of Petition for Inquest.
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Bucks County deed of #2 William selling his land to his son, Abraham, dated 16 December 1800. Mentions his "present wife Catherine."
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Image of the signature of William taken from his 26 December 1800 Will. |