Israel Tennis (1750 - 1790)

Born 1750 in Pennsylvania

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Died 9 Aug 1790 at about age 40 in Hatfield Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA

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Name: Israel TENNIS Surname: Tennis Given Name: Israel Sex: M Birth: 1750 in Pennsylvania Death: 9 Aug 1790 in Hatfield Twp., Montgomery, Pa.

1. 2 [pg 1088] A licensed Inn was kept here by Hugh Hughs in 1773, by Israel Tennis in 1779, and by Jacob Wampole and Elizabeth Weber in 1790. (notaion by nrt), This Inn was known as Hughes Tavern and was located along the Sumney-town Pike just East of Kulpsville, it was still standing till about 1985, per conversation with Lilian Smith, owner and operator of The Morgan Hughes Bed & Breakfast, farther east, across from North Penn High school;

1. 3 Number of Warrant [100], Name of Warrantee [Tennis, John & Israel], Description of Warrant [Survey], Warrant Location [Milford Twp., South-side of Juniata River], Date of Warrant [13 March 1776], Date of Return [28 Apr 1789], Acres returned [117 1/4], Name of Patentee [Israel Tennis], Where recorded [Volume P, number 15, page 24], Where survey is copied

[Book A75, Page 290]. This is the same land sold by Israel's son Israel of Annville, Lebanon county in early 1800's;

1. 4 buried at Lukens-Tennis Cemetery, Towamencin Twp., Montgomery co., Pa.;

1. 5 TENNIS, Israel amongst the list of Associators of The Fifth Battalion, led by Captain Daniel Springer

Sources

• #1 The Levering Family History by Col. John Levering, pg. 141;

1. 2 History of Montgomery County, Towamencin Twp., pg. 1088;
2. 3 RG-17, Register of the Land Office, Warrant Registers, 1733-1957, [www.phmc.state.pa.us];
3. 4 Lukens-Tennis Cemetery, Allentown Rd., & Forty Foot Rd., Kulpsville, Pa.;
4. 5 The History of Towamencin Twp---1897, by Edward Matthews, pg 13;