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Fevre, who was a direct descendant from Madame Ferree. 

 General Reynolds' record is too well known to require 

 repetition here ; certainly no more gallant soldier was 

 developed during the war than the commander of the 

 First Ai^my Corps who died so nobly at the battle of 

 Gettysburg. His brother, William Reynolds, who died a Rear Admiral 

 Rear Admiral in the United States Navy, was also a dis- ^^^'^ 

 tiuguished member of the family and helped carry on the 

 family traditions by his service in the Mexican and Civil 

 Wars. The Schreiver family of Maryland is another 

 branch of Madame Ferree' s descendants which has made 

 an honourable record for itself, tracing its descent from 

 Rebecca Ferree. Abraham Schreiver (1771-1848) earned 

 an enviable reputation as a judge of great legal ability 

 and uprightness. A very distinguished descendant of Admiral 

 this branch is Admiral Wiufield Scott Schley, who earned ^''^^^^ 

 lasting glory at Santiago. Admiral Schley is descended 

 from Mary Schreiver, daughter of David and Rebecca 

 (Ferree) Schreiver, who married John Schley, the ad- 

 miral's grandfather. How much of his success as a fighter 

 Admiral Schley owes to the strain of martial Huguenot 

 blood in his veins it is, of course, impossible to say ; but 

 when we look at the records of the Ferree- Lefever de- 

 scendants in camp and field, we may feel sure that his debt 

 is no inconsiderable one. 



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Three Huguenots were among the first residents of 

 Philadelphia — Jean de La Vail, Edmund Du Ctistle, and Early in 

 Andrew Doz. Doz, who was a refugee in London at the ^^'^^^^^p^'^ 

 time of Penn's purchase, came over with Penn to inves- 

 tigate the advisability of planting vineyards. In 1690 

 he was rewarded for his services by a grant of two 

 hundred acres of land, which included the vineyards al- 

 ready laid out along the banks of the Schuylkill River. 

 Settling upon this grant, he prospered, found himself a u^z 1690 

 wife and established a worthy family. His grandson. 



