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Matthew Lefever s/o 1st cousins Nathaniel Lefever and Maritje Lefever. Born 13 Aug 1749 in Shawangunk, Ulster, New York[1].
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.
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:
Children: Matthew and Elizabeth had seven children:[3][4]
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].
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).
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:
Died: 1825 New Paltz Plains, Ulster, NY
"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.
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