Peter Lester and Mary Duncoff
Peter Lester, (The name is frequently spelled on the early records "Leicester," but is probably confused with the name of the county of his nativity as none of the family wrote it in that form.) the founder of the family of that name in Pennsylvania and a pioneer of the Richland Settlement, came to Pennsylvania about 1682 from Leicestershire, England, and located in Chester or Philadelphia County. He was a member of the Society of Friends and declared intentions of marriage at Chester Monthly Meeting with Mary Duncoff (Duncalf), 6 mo. 6, 1685. He was probably accompanied to this country by a brother or other relatives, as the will of George Lester, probated at Philadelphia December 14, 1695, mentions him as a kinsman and makes him executor, and the will of William Lester of the Manor of Rockland, County of New Castle, dated 9 mo. 24, 1691, gives him a legacy as "cousin" Peter Lester and also a legacy to "kinsman" George Lester. In 1699 he purchased a tract of 316 acres in the Manor of Moreland, Philadelphia, now Montgomery County, upon which he resided until 1712, when he sold his farm there and removed with his family to the Great Swamp where he had purchased, of Griffith Jones, a tract of 600 acres of land by deed, dated June 24, 1712. It was located on both sides of the Philadelphia road north of the cross roads at Rich Hill, most of it being on the east side; the present road starting about an eighth of a mile north of the above mentioned cross roads dividing the tract. At that date there was no Monthly Meeting nearer than Abington in which he held membership, but Gwynedd Monthly Meeting being later organized, on 8 mo. 29, 1716, a certificate was granted by Abington Meeting to Gwynedd Monthly Meeting for Peter Lester, his wife Mary and their daughter Elizabeth, "they having already removed to the Great Swamp." He was soon joined by other Friends' families, including his sons-in-law John Ball and Abraham Griffith, who settled on lands adjoining. About 1715 permission was granted to the "Friends in the Swamp" to hold meetings for worship at the house of Peter Lester, where they continued to be held until 1723, when a small log meeting house was erected near his residence.
After the death of his wife Mary, Peter married a second time at Abington Friends Meeting in 1740, Sarah Scott. He probably continued to reside at Richland until his death about 1742, but no records of deaths of the early Friends of that locality being preserved, we are unable to determine the exact date. He sold 200 acres of his Richland land to his son-in-law John Ball in 1717, 200 acres to Jane McVeigh in 1718, and the remaining 200 acres to his son Peter in 1721 who sold it to John Morgan in 1724.
Copied from Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks, Clarence V. Roberts, 1925, Chapter XXVII, Pages 336 – 337
Peter Lester, (The name is frequently spelled on the early records "Leicester," but is probably confused with the name of the county of his nativity as none of the family wrote it in that form.) the founder of the family of that name in Pennsylvania and a pioneer of the Richland Settlement, came to Pennsylvania about 1682 from Leicestershire, England, and located in Chester or Philadelphia County. He was a member of the Society of Friends and declared intentions of marriage at Chester Monthly Meeting with Mary Duncoff (Duncalf), 6 mo. 6, 1685. He was probably accompanied to this country by a brother or other relatives, as the will of George Lester, probated at Philadelphia December 14, 1695, mentions him as a kinsman and makes him executor, and the will of William Lester of the Manor of Rockland, County of New Castle, dated 9 mo. 24, 1691, gives him a legacy as "cousin" Peter Lester and also a legacy to "kinsman" George Lester. In 1699 he purchased a tract of 316 acres in the Manor of Moreland, Philadelphia, now Montgomery County, upon which he resided until 1712, when he sold his farm there and removed with his family to the Great Swamp where he had purchased, of Griffith Jones, a tract of 600 acres of land by deed, dated June 24, 1712. It was located on both sides of the Philadelphia road north of the cross roads at Rich Hill, most of it being on the east side; the present road starting about an eighth of a mile north of the above mentioned cross roads dividing the tract. At that date there was no Monthly Meeting nearer than Abington in which he held membership, but Gwynedd Monthly Meeting being later organized, on 8 mo. 29, 1716, a certificate was granted by Abington Meeting to Gwynedd Monthly Meeting for Peter Lester, his wife Mary and their daughter Elizabeth, "they having already removed to the Great Swamp." He was soon joined by other Friends' families, including his sons-in-law John Ball and Abraham Griffith, who settled on lands adjoining. About 1715 permission was granted to the "Friends in the Swamp" to hold meetings for worship at the house of Peter Lester, where they continued to be held until 1723, when a small log meeting house was erected near his residence.
After the death of his wife Mary, Peter married a second time at Abington Friends Meeting in 1740, Sarah Scott. He probably continued to reside at Richland until his death about 1742, but no records of deaths of the early Friends of that locality being preserved, we are unable to determine the exact date. He sold 200 acres of his Richland land to his son-in-law John Ball in 1717, 200 acres to Jane McVeigh in 1718, and the remaining 200 acres to his son Peter in 1721 who sold it to John Morgan in 1724.
Copied from Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks, Clarence V. Roberts, 1925, Chapter XXVII, Pages 336 – 337
Peter Lester and Mary Duncoff
Peter Lester, (The name is frequently spelled on the early records "Leicester," but is probably confused with the name of the county of his nativity as none of the family wrote it in that form.) the founder of the family of that name in Pennsylvania and a pioneer of the Richland Settlement, came to Pennsylvania about 1682 from Leicestershire, England, and located in Chester or Philadelphia County. He was a member of the Society of Friends and declared intentions of marriage at Chester Monthly Meeting with Mary Duncoff (Duncalf), 6 mo. 6, 1685. He was probably accompanied to this country by a brother or other relatives, as the will of George Lester, probated at Philadelphia December 14, 1695, mentions him as a kinsman and makes him executor, and the will of William Lester of the Manor of Rockland, County of New Castle, dated 9 mo. 24, 1691, gives him a legacy as "cousin" Peter Lester and also a legacy to "kinsman" George Lester. In 1699 he purchased a tract of 316 acres in the Manor of Moreland, Philadelphia, now Montgomery County, upon which he resided until 1712, when he sold his farm there and removed with his family to the Great Swamp where he had purchased, of Griffith Jones, a tract of 600 acres of land by deed, dated June 24, 1712. It was located on both sides of the Philadelphia road north of the cross roads at Rich Hill, most of it being on the east side; the present road starting about an eighth of a mile north of the above mentioned cross roads dividing the tract. At that date there was no Monthly Meeting nearer than Abington in which he held membership, but Gwynedd Monthly Meeting being later organized, on 8 mo. 29, 1716, a certificate was granted by Abington Meeting to Gwynedd Monthly Meeting for Peter Lester, his wife Mary and their daughter Elizabeth, "they having already removed to the Great Swamp." He was soon joined by other Friends' families, including his sons-in-law John Ball and Abraham Griffith, who settled on lands adjoining. About 1715 permission was granted to the "Friends in the Swamp" to hold meetings for worship at the house of Peter Lester, where they continued to be held until 1723, when a small log meeting house was erected near his residence.
After the death of his wife Mary, Peter married a second time at Abington Friends Meeting in 1740, Sarah Scott. He probably continued to reside at Richland until his death about 1742, but no records of deaths of the early Friends of that locality being preserved, we are unable to determine the exact date. He sold 200 acres of his Richland land to his son-in-law John Ball in 1717, 200 acres to Jane McVeigh in 1718, and the remaining 200 acres to his son Peter in 1721 who sold it to John Morgan in 1724.
Copied from Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks, Clarence V. Roberts, 1925, Chapter XXVII, Pages 336 – 337
Peter Lester, (The name is frequently spelled on the early records "Leicester," but is probably confused with the name of the county of his nativity as none of the family wrote it in that form.) the founder of the family of that name in Pennsylvania and a pioneer of the Richland Settlement, came to Pennsylvania about 1682 from Leicestershire, England, and located in Chester or Philadelphia County. He was a member of the Society of Friends and declared intentions of marriage at Chester Monthly Meeting with Mary Duncoff (Duncalf), 6 mo. 6, 1685. He was probably accompanied to this country by a brother or other relatives, as the will of George Lester, probated at Philadelphia December 14, 1695, mentions him as a kinsman and makes him executor, and the will of William Lester of the Manor of Rockland, County of New Castle, dated 9 mo. 24, 1691, gives him a legacy as "cousin" Peter Lester and also a legacy to "kinsman" George Lester. In 1699 he purchased a tract of 316 acres in the Manor of Moreland, Philadelphia, now Montgomery County, upon which he resided until 1712, when he sold his farm there and removed with his family to the Great Swamp where he had purchased, of Griffith Jones, a tract of 600 acres of land by deed, dated June 24, 1712. It was located on both sides of the Philadelphia road north of the cross roads at Rich Hill, most of it being on the east side; the present road starting about an eighth of a mile north of the above mentioned cross roads dividing the tract. At that date there was no Monthly Meeting nearer than Abington in which he held membership, but Gwynedd Monthly Meeting being later organized, on 8 mo. 29, 1716, a certificate was granted by Abington Meeting to Gwynedd Monthly Meeting for Peter Lester, his wife Mary and their daughter Elizabeth, "they having already removed to the Great Swamp." He was soon joined by other Friends' families, including his sons-in-law John Ball and Abraham Griffith, who settled on lands adjoining. About 1715 permission was granted to the "Friends in the Swamp" to hold meetings for worship at the house of Peter Lester, where they continued to be held until 1723, when a small log meeting house was erected near his residence.
After the death of his wife Mary, Peter married a second time at Abington Friends Meeting in 1740, Sarah Scott. He probably continued to reside at Richland until his death about 1742, but no records of deaths of the early Friends of that locality being preserved, we are unable to determine the exact date. He sold 200 acres of his Richland land to his son-in-law John Ball in 1717, 200 acres to Jane McVeigh in 1718, and the remaining 200 acres to his son Peter in 1721 who sold it to John Morgan in 1724.
Copied from Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks, Clarence V. Roberts, 1925, Chapter XXVII, Pages 336 – 337
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