Daniel Levan - I35642 - Individual Information - Wisconsin and Illinois Genealogy

Daniel Levan (I35642)

Surname: Levan
Given Names: Daniel

Gender: Male

Birth: 1709 -- Amsterdam, Hockensheim, Netherlands
Death: 15 May 1777 -- Maxatawny Twp., Berks Co., Pa

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Daniel, Jr. arrived on the WILLIAM AND SARAH in Philadelphia on 18 September 1727.
His will was written 9 July 1776 and proved 5 July 1777. ''Item and whereas I am siezed of one undivided share on half part of a tract of 500 acres of land--with Joseph Sigfried in Company situate in Browenswig ‎(Brunswich)‎ Township in Berks Co. whereon a sawmill is erected. I do hereby give and bequeath the one third part of that undivided money unto my son Daniel Levan his heirs and assigns for ever he paying to my executuors 100 pounds lawful money for the same, one other third part thereof I give and bequeath to my daughter Catherine Levan her heirs and assigns for ever for which the sum of 100 pounds shall be deducted of her share or legacy and one other third part thereof ‎(the whole into 3 equal parts to be divided)‎ I give and bequeath to my daughter Susanna Kemp and to her heirs and assigns for ever and the sum of 100 pounds shall be deducted out of her share or legacy by my executors for the same. To have and to hold the said land to them and their heirs and assigns as tennants in common and not as joint tennants.''

--History of the Levan Family by Warren Patten Coon, pub. 1927. P-17A descendent of a HUGUENOT family.He was an Inn Keeper in Kutztown, Berks Co. PAIn the summer of 1727 Daniel LeVan embarked at Rotterdam in the goodship ''William and Sarah'', Captain William Hill. The ship touched port atDover, England, and then started on the long voyage to Philadelphia, where it arrived early in September. There were upwards of three hundredpersons on the ship, of which 117 were males over sixteen years of age,and of this number sixty-two were ill on board at the time of arrival,and four had died on the voyage. Those who were well signed theDeclaration, and the sixty-two who were ill, were signed by the Clerk ofthe Board of the Provincial Council held at Philadelphia, September 21,1727. Among the latter so signed was that of Daniel LeVan.
Daniel LeVan settled in Maxatawny Township, Berks County,Pennsylvania, a mile or so from his brother Jacob of Eagle Point. Hebuilt his stone homestead just over the hill from the present eastern terminus of the Borough of Kutztown, and beside the unimproved highway that ran from Reading to Easton. In 1755 this road was improved by orderof the State after petition of thirty citizens of Berks and Northampton Counties, the list being headed by Conrad Weiser, and included two of theLeVan brothers, Jacob and Daniel. Traffic soon grew to such a volumethat Daniel LeVan enlarged his original homestead, built probably asearly as 1740, and, in 1765 ‎(?)‎, made it practically double its originalsize, and set up in business as proprietor of what is said to be theoldest hostelry in the eastern part of Berks County. In one of thelongest and most explicit wills imaginable, and drawn up by his nephew,Colonel Sebastian LeVan, Daniel LeVan left this property to his son Daniel. In 1788 it came into the possession of Susanna ‎(LeVan)‎ Kemp andher husband, Captain George Kemp of the American Revolution, whoconducted it for fifty-two years. It is still ‎(1927)‎ owned and conductedby the Kemp descendants of Captain George and his wife Susanna LeVan.From Reading, in 1775, the First Defenders of the nation-to-bemarched to Cambridge over the road that passes immediately in front ofthe LeVan Tavern, now Kemp Hotel. At the approach of Howe's army, theContinental Congress, in session at Philadelphia, adjourned precipitatelySeptember 18, 1777, to meet in Lancaster, making their journey thence byway of Bethlehem, Allentown, Kutztown, and Reading. In the ''Diary ofJohn Adams'' he mentions stopping over night at the LeVan Tavern. On theevening of November 12, 1777, there was a group of half a dozen men atLeVans, whose conversation one might wish had been more fully reported.One was the Hon. William Ellery, a Signer of the Declaration ofIndependence, and, as Representative from Rhode Island, at this time a Member of the Continental Congress sitting at York, Pennsylvania. Fromhis Diary under that date we learn, ''From thence to LeVan's about 15miles from Snell's, where we lodged. Here we met Col. John Brown andfour other New England men. Brown gave us an account of his expeditionto Ticonderoga and of the Mode of Surrendry of the vaunting Burgoyne.''It is quite certain that most of the noted characters of theAmerican Revolution passed over this ''Easton Road'', en route to and fromYork, Pennsylvania, where the Congress sat so long, and, with everyprobability, many of them ''dined'' or remained over night at the LeVanTavern.Taken by Lawrence Goodman from ''The LeVan Family'' by Warren Patten Coon1727 followed his brothers to Pennsylvania from Holland


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	Events of close relatives
Birth	1709 2933 Amsterdam, Hockensheim, Netherlands
Marriage	1735 (Age 26) Anna - ‎[View Family ‎(F15210)‎‎] Maxatawny Twp., Berks Co., Pa
Marriage	about 1744 (Age 35) Susanna M. Siegfried - ‎[View Family ‎(F15184)‎‎] Siegfriedsdale, near Kemp Hotel, Maxatawny Twp., Berks Co., Pa
Death of father	1768 (Age 59) Daniel Levan (I780) (Age 88) - [Relationship Chart]
Death	15 May 1777 (Age 68) Maxatawny Twp., Berks Co., Pa
Universal Identifier	E152E67A0176D911A1EFDC87DCEB762E527C
Last Change	25 June 2006 - 16:13:43