Display Patriot - P-335422 - Philip SEIFERT/SEYBERT Sr
Philip SEIFERT/SEYBERT Sr
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P-335422
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State of Service: PA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
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Author: Thomas Allen Whitefield Sr.
Philip Seifert, Sr. was born about 1730 at Alsace, France. He had lived at Lotharingia, Alsace, France at the time he immigrated to Pennsylvania Colony, arriving at Philadelphia in 1749 aboard the ship Speedwell, James Creagh, Captain, from Rotterdam, last from Cowes, bearing 240 passengers. His wife’s name is not known. His son, Philip [Jr.] made the long sea journey or was born en route to Philadelphia. Philip Sr. was taxed in 1768 in Bern Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. Philip Seifert, Sr. contributed money to the Revolutionary War by paying the Supply Tax in 1779 and 1780 in Bern Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. His date and place is death or burial is not known, only that he died prior to 25 March 1790, the date of a deed recorded in Volume 11, Pages 477-478 at Berks County, Pennsylvania involving Philip Sr.’s 76.5 acres of land after this death, as described: Joseph Seifert and John Grate and Mary Elizabeth his wife, [grantors] to Philip Seifert [grantee] “…and whereas the said Philip Seifert Dyed [sic] intestate Seized and possessed of the above described tract of Land… and leaving Issue three children to wit Joseph [,] Philip [,] and Mary Elizabeth the wife of John Grate [Grett] in whose right they the said Joseph and Mary Elizabeth became Lawfully Entitled to their part and share in right of their Father to the above mentioned and described seventy six acres and one half of Land…” the above meaning that Philip [Jr.] bought his brother and sister’s portions of the land they each inherited from their father, Philip, Sr.
Service Citation: Published Pennsylvania Archives, Third Series, Volume Eighteen, Pages 204 and 323.
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