Category: Notes
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Excerpt from History of Denver, PA
The following is a narrative of the early years of the Leisey family in America taken from: History of Bucher Thal and Denver. J. R. Johns, MD, 1896. John Bucher, having no children of his own, selected from a company of emigrants at the Port of Philadelphia, a boy and a girl who had come Continue reading
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The History of Joseph Leisey: The First Known Leisey in America
From the Leisey Family File — Lancaster County Historical Society, Lancaster, PA Joseph Leisey was born in Germany on February 7, 1754. Records in the United States show nothing of his early years, but fragments indicate that he was born in the Palatinate part of Germany. (The western part.)* Joseph and his sister Catherine came Continue reading