Balthazar Leffel (1721 - 1796)

Born 3 Jan 1721 in Oggersheim, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate

Ancestors

Husband of Sybilla (Unknown) Loeffel — married 1751 in Schwarzwald Reformed Church, Exeter Twp., Berks Co., Pennsylvania, American Colonies

Descendants

Died 11 Jul 1796 at age 75 in Amity Twp., Berks Co., Pennsylvania, USA

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Biography

American Revolutionary War service

Balthazar Leffel performed Patriotic Service in Pennsylvania in the American Revolution.

Balthazar Leffel is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A069001.

Balzar Leffel is recognized by the Daughters of the Revolution as a Patriot Ancestor; he took an oath of allegiance in 1778, in Berks County, Pennsylvania.^[1][2]

Death and Burial

There is a will of Balzar Leffel in Amity Township., Berks County, Pennsylvania, dated 25 April 1796 wherein a bequest is left to a daughter Eve, wife of Benjamin Boone; also a will of a Catherine Bachtel, same township and county, leaving a bequest to her sister Eve, wife of Benjamin Boone, and to her father, Balzar Leffel i.^[3]

Research Notes

• Post by Cindy Jessop Robinson [2]
• Balzar Leffel i was my 5GR Grandfather, b-2/2/1721 ? or 1/3/1721 in Rhineland, Palatinate, W.Germany; Christened 1/6/1721 in Oggersheim, Bayern, Germany; the son of Hanss Johann (Loeffel) Leffel and Anna Rosina Scheffel; died 7/11/1796 in Amity Twp., Berks Co., PA; buried 7/13/1796 in Amity Twsp., Berks Co., PA, Dutch Reformed Church, Exeter, PA; Married to Sibilla (last name still unknown) in 1751 at the Schwarzwald Reformed Church, Exeter Twsp., Berks Co., PA. Sibilla (aka Sybilla, per her Will) b-3/1/1728 in Amity Twsp., Berks Co., PA; died 7/20/1804 n Amity Twsp., Berks Co., PA ; buried 7/21/1804 in Amity Twsp., Berks Co., PA w/Balzar
• more info for Balzar Leffel; father, Hanss Johann, b-1677, prob. in Germany; d-1/22/1722 in Oggersheim, Bayern, Germany; buried 1/24/1722 in Oggersheim, Bayern, Germany; Married Anna Rosina Scheffel 1/25/1707 (probably) in Germany; mother, Anna Scheffel, b-1684 in Edingen, Germany; died 6/24/1725 in Oggersheim, Bayern, Germany; buried 6/26/1725 in Oggersheim, Bayern, Germany; Hanss and Anna had 5 other children, besides Baltzer (I do have their names yrs. they were born, if you want those.) :
• more info for Hanns: father was Dietrich Loeffel, born 1655 in Germany; mother's name was unknown, but she was born 1657, probably in Germany. They were married in 1676, probably in Germany; besides Hanss, Deitrich had another son, Jacob Loeffel, born 1681 in Germany who died 4/28/1707 in Oggersheim, Bayern, Germany.

• Migration in 1750': [3]
• Cont. Migration in 1750*[4]
• 1779 census: [5]
• Baptism with image: [6]
• Ancestry tree with sources: [7]
• Will extract: [8]
• 1786 tax and exoneration: [9]

Sources

1. ↑ Owen, Persons who took the Oath of Allegince in Berks County, PA, Colls. of General Society of Pennsylvania, Vol 268, p. 222, FHL Roll # 20824 as cited at DAR.
2. ↑ Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed Dec 30, 2019), "Record of Balzar Leffel", Ancestor # A069001.
3. ↑ Spraker, Ella Atterbury, and Crump, Jesse Procter. The Boone family; a genealogical history of the descendants of George and Mary Boone who came to America in 1717; containing many unpublished bits of early Kentucky history, also a biographical sketch of Daniel Boone, the pioneer, by one of his descendants. Ruthland, VT: The Tuttle Co., 1922, p. 86. Accessed at [1]

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• Find a Grave - [11]

Acknowledgments

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