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Matthew (Lefevre) Lefever (1749 - 1825)

Matthew Lefever formerly Lefevre
Born in Shawangunk, Ulster, New Yorkmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married about 1772 in Ulster, New York Colonymap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 75 in New Paltz Plains, Ulster, New Yorkmap
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Biography

1776 Project
Lieutenant Matthew (Lefevre) Lefever served with 4th Regiment, Ulster County, New York Militia during the American Revolution.
Matthew (Lefevre) Lefever is the descendant of a New Netherland settler.
Matthew (Lefevre) Lefever was a descendant of a Huguenot emigrant (1540-1790).
Dutch Descendants
Matthew (Lefevre) Lefever has Dutch Ancestry


Matthew Lefever s/o 1st cousins Nathaniel Lefever and Maritje Lefever. Born 13 Aug 1749 in Shawangunk, Ulster, New York[1].

Research Notes

Marriage: Married Elizabeth Lefever, d/o half-cousins Daniel Lefever and Catharina Cantine. Second cousins two and a half times over, Matthew and Elizabeth belonged to a large, intermingled family whose roots trace back to both original Huguenot and Dutch settlers of New Netherland.

Shared Lineage: Both share ancestor Elisabeth Deyo, a New Netherland settler who emigrated with her parents from the Palatinate (Mannheim) where their Huguenot travails found them in the 1650s-60s.

Four of Deyo's sons are ancestors for Matthew and his wife Elizabeth. Three of them, Jean, Andries and their 1/2 bro Peter md. dau's of Huguenot emigrant Matthys Blanchan and his New Netherland born wife of Dutch descent Magriet van Schoonhoove(n); thus, since both Matthew's gr-mothers and his wife's maternal gr-mother were Blanchan sisters, both are descendants of Blanchan and van Schoonhoove(n) bloodlines alongside Lefever and Deyo lines.

Elisabeth Deyo, Matthew's paternal and maternal gr-gr-mother is also paternal and maternal gr-gr-mother to his wife. And, of course, Simon Lefever is an ancestor to both as well, to Matthew through both parents, to Elizabeth through her father. To spice up the gene pool, Matthew inherited Freer genes from his paternal gr-mother and wife Elizabeth carries her father's Cantine lineage.

Pedigree Chart: simplified[2]
Elisabeth Deyo md 1) Simon Lefever; 2) Moses Cantine:

1st cousins Nathaniel and Maritje married:
  • son Matthew Lefever
1st paternal-half cousins (also 1st cousins to Matthew's parents) Daniel and Catharina married:
  • dau Elisabeth Lefever
2nd+ cousins Matthew Lefever and Elisabeth Lefever married.

Children: Matthew and Elizabeth had seven children:[3][4]

  1. Moses (b-1773)
  2. Maria (b-1777)
  3. Nathaniel (b-1780)
  4. Simon (b-1783)
  5. Catherine (b-1785) married Elting
  6. Getty (b-1788) unmarried
  7. Magdalene (b-1791) unmarried

Household: The couple lived next to Matthew's bros and father.[5] Later, they lived in his father's house on the Paltz Plains which Matthew inherited after his father's death. The home was built by his grandfather [6].

Enslaved Persons:

Like his father's, Matthew's household included enslaved persons. In 1790, there were four. On New Paltz "tax assessment," of 1798 Matthew owned five, (1 m <12, 1 m <50, 1 m >50, 1 f <50, 1 f >50).

Existing Manumission Records indicate no children were born to slaves in Matthew's household and none manumitted between 1799-1827. NY slavery ended in 1827.

Mentioned in father-in-law's will proved May 1800 as Mathew Lefever wherein his wife inherited one enslaved person named Margret[7]


Militia Service:

1777:Private, 2nd New Paltz Co.[8]
1778: 3rd Western Ulster Reg't, 7th Co. New Paltz under Col John Cantine (his wife's uncle)[9]
1779: Lieutenant, 4th Co. Ulster Cty Reg't with Col. Johannes Hardenburgh III, called Jr (relative by marriage, md Mary Lefever, sis of Daniel, paternal aunt to Matthew's wife--and 1st cousin once removed to Matthew).[10][11][12]
Note: 1778: Served with his uncle by same name who was 2nd Lt., 3rd Western Reg't, 7th Co. New Paltz[13]

Died: 1825 New Paltz Plains, Ulster, NY


Sources

  1. "The New Paltz LeFevers"
  2. Note: The above-traced lineage is not a full tree: Other generational siblings have been excluded in order to focus the entangled pedigree for this couple only. For further connections, see indiv. wikitree profiles. ---added perC-213 18:35, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
  3. Wright Page 7, family 443
  4. Wright Page 15, families 443-1 to 443-8
  5. various census data
  6. Lefevre, Ralph
  7. Will of Daniel Lefever
  8. American Wars: A complete history of colonial and early American wars fought on American soil.
  9. The History of Ulster County, New York, Vol 1 p174
  10. American Wars: A complete history of colonial and early American wars fought on American soil.
  11. LeFevre, Ralph. History of New Paltz, New York and its old families (from 1678 to 1820): p419-20.
  12. Miller, Myrtle Hardenbergh. The Hardenberg family; a genealogical compilation,p4-8
  13. The History of Ulster County, New York, Vol 1 p168

Records

"United States Census, 1790," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHK5-HJ3 : accessed 12 August 2019), Matthew Le Fever, New Paltz, Ulster, New York, United States; citing p. 255, NARA microfilm publication M637, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 6; FHL microfilm 568,146. {males >16=2; males <16=2; females all=3; slaves=4}

"United States Census, 1800," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XH5T-XC3 : accessed 12 August 2019), Matthew Le Fever, New Paltz, Ulster, New York, United States; citing p. 242, NARA microfilm publication M32, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 21; FHL microfilm 193,709.

American Wars: A complete history of colonial and early American wars fought on American soil. New Horizons Genealogy, 2012. americanwars.org.Ulster County Militia - Third Regiment: Lofovor, Matthew.

New Paltz Slave Census,1798 (originally entitled "New Paltz tax assessment 1798").New Paltz Town Records (1677-1932), Series 2. NY: Historic Huguenot Street, nd. New York Heritage Digital Collections. record link

New York Slavery Records Index (NYSRI)."New York Slavery Records Index: Records of Enslaved Persons and Slave Holders in New York from 1525 through the Civil War." Compiled by John Jay College of Criminal Justice. New York: CUNY Academic Commons, n.d. CC by 3.0 nyslavery.commons.gc.cuny.edu.

Resources

  • Miller, Myrtle Hardenbergh. The Hardenberg family; a genealogical compilation. New York, American Historical Co. 1958. Internet Archive. archive.org. booklink
  • The History of Ulster County, New York, Vol 1. Alphonso T. Clearwater, editor. Kingston, N Y: W. J. Van Deusen, 1907. Internet Archive, 2015. archive.org. booklink. See also p168, 174,
  • Wright, Donald Lefevre: The New Paltz Lefevres, Simon LeFevre and Elizabeth Deyo married 1660 and their descendants; LeFevre Family Association.
  • LeFevre, Ralph. History of New Paltz, New York and its old families (from 1678 to 1820): Including the Huguenot pioneers and others who settled in New Paltz Previous to the Revolution. (Albany, New York: Fort Orange Press 1903) [1]

Acknowledgements

  • Thank you Shirley LaFever for creating profile.
  • Bio Research Notes written/Marriage/Lineage/sources added -perC-213 20:29, 14 August 2019 (UTC)




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