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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: 1737 / / Europe Death: 04 Dec 1787 Brothersvalley / Somerset / PA
Qualifying Service Description:
Paid Supply Tax in Brothersvalley Twp, Bedford County PA, 1781 and 1783
Court Appointed Overseer of the Poor, 1780 and 1781
Additional References:
Tax Records, Bedford County,PA 1780-1783. Bedford County Historical Society
Court of Quarter Sessions Document. Bedford County Historical Society
Benedict Lehman is a second-generation American of this family. He came to the colonies on the ship Charming Nancy on 7 October 1737 with his parents, Benedict and Veronica, and his siblings John, Barbara, and Catherine. His father and mother settled on the west bank of the Schuylkill River, opposite where the town of Hamburg, Pennsylvania, is located today.
He married a daughter of Christian Miller in about 1747; her given name is unknown. They had five known children:
John was born in 1749
George
Peter was born in 1757
Benedict [III] was born about 1760
Jacob
He and his family were members of the Amish church.
In the late 1760s, he and several other members of the church were sent west to explore the western lands and to report back to the church on the potential for future settlement. Their report must have been favorable, for in the 1770s, he moved with his wife and family to Brothersvalley Township, Bedford County (now Somerset County).
He obtained a warrant for 216 ¼ acres on 2 December 1773. The land was situated on the road from Bedford to Henry Rhoads’ mill (near the current village of Roxbury, about four miles northeast of Berlin). He is listed in the Brothersvalley Township tax records book for 1775, so he must have arrived in 1774 or earlier.
He obtained another warrant on 2 December 1774 for 300 acres on the waters of Stony Creek in Quemahoning Township (now Stonycreek Township). It was located about a mile north of his original parcel. This land later belonged to his son Jacob.
During the Revolutionary War period, Benedict paid the supply tax in Brothersvalley Township, Bedford County, in 1781 and 1783. The Bedford County Court of Quarter Sessions also appointed him as Overseer of the Poor in 1780 and 1781.
He died sometime after 4 December 1787. He is buried in an unmarked grave on his original parcel, in a field about 150 feet south of the barn (WPA records). No stones are evident. The farm was taken over by his son Benedict who would have been around 27 years of age.
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