Hello everyone: In this letter, John refers to his sister as, Catharine Delap. In my database, I have her and her husband, John listed as DELASS. This came...
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Kathryn Stuart
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Oct 10, 1998 7:11 am
Yes David, it is Delap or Dunlap/Dunlop in early census records. I found that it was Delap after a long search for Delass. Have some things on this family...
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Jeff Leas
jleas@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 10, 1998 12:40 am
Hi David, I would be careful of doing that. It may just be the way that Katherine interpreted the script of the double 's' as a 'p'. I have a copy of the ...
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Kathryn Stuart
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Oct 10, 1998 1:37 pm
Actually, I have only found Delass in the Faye Leas Genealogy. Any other reference to this family, Census, Quaker records, etc. all are given as Delap or...
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Kathryn Stuart
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Oct 10, 1998 1:47 pm
I do not have the "original" letters but a transcription of them. If I had them and saw the looped double ss, I would interpret it ss and not p. I wouldn't...
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David A. Leas
dleas@xxx.xxxx
Oct 10, 1998 1:52 am
Jeff: Thanks. In the light of the "evidence" received, I would have changed my records, but I had reservations. Hopefully this, like Don's information...
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Jeff Leas
jleas@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 10, 1998 1:59 am
E-mail is great, but it is like a verrrrry slowwwww motion conversation. I think you should consider Kathryn's census records. It looks like Delass is really...
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David A. Leas
dleas@xxx.xxxx
Oct 10, 1998 2:15 am
Jeff: Slow, but effective. Delap it is. In fact I have found a few Delap's but they have all been one generation later. At one time I sponsored a "live chat"...
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Jeff Leas
jleas@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 10, 1998 2:17 am
I don't have any proof (yet) of where Leonard is from, but I have often wondered if the confusion caused by the spelling on his gravestone (I transcribed it as...
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Jeff Leas
jleas@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 10, 1998 2:18 am
I happened to be looking at Leonard's will and one of his witnesses was William Delap. So there! Jeff...
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Kathryn Stuart
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Oct 10, 1998 2:36 pm
Below is what I have gathered on John Delap's parents. It is still not impossible that census, Quakers and the books online have ALL interpreted the "ss"...
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Kathryn Stuart
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Oct 10, 1998 2:45 pm
Yes, that was another piece of evidence that I took into consideration. I too had Delass when all I had was Faye Leas' book. As time went on I began to use...
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Kathryn Stuart
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Oct 10, 1998 2:59 pm
Jeff and all, If you have the inventory of Leonard's possessions, you will find a listing for "Dutch books to the value of 12 shillings." Also, the fact ...
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Jeff Leas
jleas@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 10, 1998 3:11 am
I think it was in the 1950 Leas Genealogy that Fay Leas says that John spoke only English and his wife Sophia Ziegler spoke only German. If it is a true...
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Kathryn Stuart
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Oct 11, 1998 1:14 am
Could someone put up the information from that 1950 Leas Genealogy; I don't have it. My cousin sent me copies of the information on our own family but he...
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Jeff Leas
jleas@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 10, 1998 2:54 pm
Hi Kathryn, I found the reference I was referring to in the 1950 Leas Genealogy. It is on p25 where it says:"Leora Yeagy gave the information that John Leas ...
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Kathryn Stuart
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Oct 11, 1998 3:03 am
Yes, I am VERY interested and I'm sure that others are. Kathryn ... any ... John ... it ... find a ... the ... have ... also ... unless ... fact, ... that ......
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Kathryn Stuart
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Oct 11, 1998 10:31 am
To: Mr. Jacob Leas Adams County, PA November 25, 1843 Dear Children, I now take the liberty of informing you that we are all well at present and all the rest...
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Kathryn Stuart
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Oct 11, 1998 10:44 am
To Jacob Leas Tyrone Township Adams County, PA February 24th, 1845 Dear Children, I now take the liberty of informing you that I received yours dated the 3rd ...
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Kathryn Stuart
kestuart@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 11, 1998 10:51 am
This letter should be read as ... 3rd ... you ... time....
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jcneen
jcneen@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 12, 1998 1:02 am
Please, please, don't continue to forward each message around. Last night I was printing all my messages and each one took more and more paper. The last one...
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Kathryn Stuart
kestuart@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 11, 1998 12:21 pm
... Yes, I noticed that today and went in and cleaned out all of the dead wood in the archives. Perhaps we could take off all but the sentence or paragraph...
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Jeff Leas
jleas@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 11, 1998 12:26 am
Pat Hutton Bounds is a researcher in Beaverton Oregon who has done a lot of wonderful research on the Zieglers. One of her notes indicated the following: A...
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Jeff Leas
jleas@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 11, 1998 12:31 am
Sorry, but I for one like the history that is maintained with the messages. In fact where I work it is expected that the reply history is maintained with the...
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Kathryn Stuart
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Oct 11, 1998 1:19 pm
... One thing that I do is to hit the "Reply" and then cut out the dead wood, forward it to myself and then print it either before or after it comes back to...
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Kathryn Stuart
kestuart@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 11, 1998 1:25 pm
Hi Jeff, Was she inferring that this was our Leonard? We might find this in a book that I get occasionally from the library called which gives passenger lists...
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Jeff Leas
jleas@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 11, 1998 1:30 am
No -- only that she happened upon the name in her Ziegler research. She is aware of Sophia's marriage to John Leas and of my interest in both of those lines...
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Kathryn Stuart
kestuart@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 11, 1998 2:33 pm
Letter to Jacob Leas in Ohio from his brother, William Leas in PA. John has died as this letter will bear out. My records show that he died May 20, 1847. The...
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jcneen
jcneen@xxxx.xxxx
Oct 12, 1998 8:25 am
Just wanted to speak generally of some of the families that the Leas's lived around and married into, etc. The ones that related to my direct line were all...
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Kathryn Stuart
kestuart@xxxxxxxxx.xxxx
Oct 12, 1998 1:20 am
Hi Elaine and Jack, Can you tell us any more about Christine and Johann Peter Lausche. What time frame are we talking about. Could Christine be the Christine...
