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the present instance, it is a fine commentary on such 

 honest proceedings to find the land thus obtained to be 

 still in the hands of the lineal descendants of such 

 wartlt/ ancestors. Hexry A. Carpenter, from whom 

 we have obtained the foregoing documents, is now the 

 ov/ner of the old Ferree Homcstetid,^ containing two 

 hundred and forty acres, and nearly all the owners of 

 the otlier farms makingup the tract of two thousand acres, 

 first purchased by Daniel Ferree and Isaac Le Fevre, 

 are eitlier relatives, or closely connected with the Ferrees, 

 H. A. Carpenter is the fifth in descent from Daniel Ferree. 

 His father was Abraham Carpenter. 



Before closing this chapter, we shall introduce a tra- 

 ditionaiy account of the Ferree famil}^, furnished us by 

 Joel Ligiitner, Esq., of Leacodk township. It was written, 

 in answer to several inquiries ptit to Mr. Lii^htner, in 

 lS22,by the Hon. Abraham Shreiver,E.sq.,ofV]i:edenck 

 county, Maryland. We have added a few iwte-s.-^ 

 Shreiver's mother was a Ferree. 



•*'An account of the ancestors of the Ferric family, as 

 given by John Ferric, aged 84 years, (in 1822) Joseph 

 Le Fevert and Leah Lightncr,J aged about 63, (in 1822), 

 and from some of the original title papers to the lands 

 purchased from the Hon. William Pcnn, proprietor of 

 the province of Pennsylvania. 



"Mary Fcrrcc, whose maiden nafno was Warcnbucr, died at 

 an advanced age, in Concstoga township, 1716. On her death, 

 Peter Evans, Register General for llie probate of Wills, and 

 granting Letters of Administration, in and for the province of 

 Pennsylvania, fee. granted Letters of Administration to Mary's 

 sons, Daniel, Philip and John, tlie 20th of September, 171G. 



fJoel Lightner's wife's father. 



jThc mother of Joel Lightncr. 



