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Philadelphia, was a former student of the writer's in botany at 

 the University of Pennsylvania. With this satisfactory intro- 

 duction to the family, Dr. H. K. Leech was willing to give the 

 desired information about William Young and William Young, 

 Jr., and his son Frank R. Leech volunteered to reproduce the 

 old family records photographically. This was done, and from 

 the photographic copy thus secured, additional facts concerning 

 the family are here given. These are combined with those 

 printed by Mr. Rhoads, which are given herewith in quotation 

 marks, so that a rather complete biographic sketch is possible. 

 William Young, the progenitor of the American family of that 

 name, was born in Germany, January 12, 1713. The names of 

 his great grandfather and grandmother were Robert and Eliza- 

 beth Young, who left England in May, 1556, because of religious 

 persecutions and settled at the Constate of Hesse. William 

 Young's mother was a German woman, but his paternal ancestors 

 were English. On January 12, 1734, William Young, Sr., married 

 Elizabeth Wageraine, daughter of a family of rank and nobility, 

 who was born in 171 1. William Young and his family left 

 Germany and arrived in Philadelphia on December 24, 1744. 

 Accompanying him were his wife and the following three children : 

 Ann Christiana, his oldest daughter, who was born in Germany 

 on October 21, 1737; Jacob Maximilian, who died at sea on 

 November 25, 1744; William Young, Jr., the subject of this 

 sketch, who was born on November 30, 1742, probably at Cassel 

 Hesse in Germany. Also the mother and sister of William 

 Young, Sr., came to America with him. There were born in 

 this country Catherine Young on November 2, 1745, who later 

 married Jacob Hoffman, but died in child-bed. Ann Christiana 

 Young married John Leech and the mother of William Young 

 died on January 12, 1746, a year and almost a month after reach- 

 ing America. On April 17, 1751, William Young, Sr., moved 

 with his wife and three children from Philadelphia to Conestoga. 

 In May, William Young, Sr., the son William Young, Jr., and 

 Ann Christiana moved to New River, Virginia, while the mother 

 and other sister Catherine remained at Conestoga. Later in 

 October, the family moved to Philadelphia, where William 



