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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 tlie hands of the hneal descendants of such 

 woithy ancestors. Henry A. Carpenter, from whom 

 we have obtained the foregoing documents, is now the 

 owner of the old Ferree Homestead,'^ containing two 

 hundred and forty acres, and nearly all the owners of 

 tlie other 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- 

 ditionary account of the Ferree family, furnished us by 

 Joel Lightner^ Esq., of Leacock township. It was written, 

 in answer to several inquiries put to Mr. Lightner, in 

 lS22,by the Hon. Mrahain Shreiver, Esq.^oi Frederick 

 county, Maryland. We have added a few notes. — 

 Shreiver's mother was a Ferree. 



"An account of the ancestors of the Ferrie family, as 

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

 Le Fevert and Leah Lightner,± aged about 63, (in 1822), 

 and from some of the original title papers to the lands 

 purchased from the Hon. William Penn, proprietor of 

 the province of Pennsylvania. 



*Mary Ferree, whose maiden name was Warenbuer, died at 

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

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

 granting Letters of Administration, in and for the province of 

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

 sons, Daniel, Phihp and John, the 20th of September, 1716. 



fJoel Lightner's wife's father. 

 $The mother of Joel Lightner. 



