One of the Pioneers in the later Colonial period of Pennsyl-
vania and the father of other Pioneers of the Revolutionary period
is the subject of this sketch, Dewald Ankeny, an immigrant who
arrived on these shores in the year l746. This fact is found in
the list of immigrants from the Rhine Palatinate and Switzerland,
by Strassburger-Hinke, and in this account we find that name in
the list of passengers on the ship Neptune which arrived at the
port of Philadelphia on October 25, 1746, the name being given
there as Dewalt Ancony. (We shall find that both his names were
given in those early days under various spellings.) On the same
ship was one Caspar Dewalt, said to have been an uncle,brother to
his mother, In the list of those who took the oath of allegiance
to the king on the same date, his age was given as 18 so from
that we get the date of his birth as the year 1728, which may or
may not be exactly right.
From the same list of Immigrants is also found the name of
Johann Nickel Angne, age 47, and wife Anna Catherine, age 38, as
having come to America in 1736. The name appears later in the
Bucks county records as Nicholas Onkeny, and will be referred to
again. Also the list of Immigrants reveals the name Theobald
Angane as having come to America in 1753. Both these names are
found in a sketch of the life of Joseph Ankeny, a grandson of De-
walt, in a book, Prominent Iowans, by Brigham, as brothers of De-
walt, but this statement as well as several others in the same
sketch is probably not correct, as will be shown hereafter.
By tradition, the Ankeny family originated in France, prob-
ably in Flanders, and the name was said to have been Enghen at that
time. The early members of the family were Protestants and follow-
ers of the Prince of Conde and Admiral Coligny,-that is, they were
Huguenots. Persecution forced them into exile, and they latter
appear in the Rhine Palatinate. In the proceedings of the Pennsyl-
vania Folklore Society, edited by the late Rev. Dr. John Baer
Stoudt, is found data pertinent to this sketch from the Bavarian
State Archives, found at Speyer, Germany, and other sources. In
vol. 1, p. 105, Stoudt refers to several immigrants from various
towns in Zweibrucken, in the Palatinate, or The Pfalz, as it is
sometimes called. One of these was Peter Heyderick, of Oberalba,
who left there in 1738 for Pennsylvania, and who afterwards lived a
neighbor to Dewalt Ankeny in Lancaster Co., Pa. In 1736, he points
out, one Johann Nickel Agne, of Einoth, left for America. In the
same list was one Theobald Kieffer, to whom Dr. Stoudt refers, in
a footnote, as Dewald Kieffer, the change from Theobald to Dewald
being significant, as indicated later. Also from the same Oberamt
(district), in 1746, came Theobald Agne and his sister, Magdalena
Agne, of Lamsborn. The reference is without doubt to our Dewald
Ankeny who came in that year. (As Nicholas and Dewald came from
different towns, and ages were quite different, they probably were
not brothers, as given in the account referred to above.)
Also in vol. 3, p. 19, Pennsylvania Folklore Society Proceed-
ings, items from German newspapers which are of interest to us are
quoted. On September 30, 1758, a notice by John Theobald, who had
come to America in 1752, and had settled 3 miles from Ephrata, ad-
vertised for the whereabouts of his brother, Caspar Theobald, who
had come to America 15 years ago. The article says John was
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accompanied by his sister, Catherine, who was married on ship-
board (married name not given). Dr. Stoudt again, in a footnote,
refers to the dates of entrance of John Dewald and Caspar Dewald,
as given in the List of Immigrants referred to above. He also
mentions that John Dewald was born at HahSpeyer, Germany.
In the above two paragraphs, the writer has given the data on
which he bases his conviction that the names Theobald and Dewald
are the same, or were thus used at that time. Hence he believes
that the Theobald Angena who came to America in 1753 was actually
Dewald returning from a visit to his former home. He signed his
name to the ship register as Theobald Angnee, and we find the name
spelled thus in church records in Somerset county when Dewalds
children had settled there. Again we find, in a church record of
Salem Church, near Hagerstown, i4d., where he settled later, this
item: born to Theobald Angena and wife, a daughter Elisabeth,
December 4, 1772, christened February 28, 1773; also in same
record it is found that Theobald Angena and wife, Margaretha,
were witnesses at christening of a son, David, born to John Shoff
and Fronica, the latter being a daughter of Dewalds wife, Margaret,
by her first husband. It can also be stated here that later, in
the church records of Somerset Co., it is found that a son was born
there to Peter, son of Dewald Ankeny, and was christened as Theo-
bald. Thus this writer is convinced that Theobald Ankeny was no
other than "our" Dewald, wherever the name may be found in those
early records. Many instances can be found where the ministers of
that period usually used the name, Theobald, rather than Dewald,
though the latter form was generally used colloquially.
Regarding Johann Nickel Angne, who came to America in 1736, and
was probably an uncle of Dewald, it appears that he settled in
Bucks Co., Pa., and that the name soon became Onkeny. His des-
cendants lived in Bedminster township, according to records of the
county histories, as well as the Historical Society of Bucks Co.
Christian and Jacob Angeny are mentioned in the latter, and in the
county history it is found that Nicholas Onkeny settled in the
"Deep Run" section in 1741, and is mentioned as one of the Tohick-
ton settlers. In the 1790 census, one finds the names of Jacob
Angeny, Sr., and Jacob Angeny, Jr. The Pennsylvania archives,
Series 3, V. 13, p. 304, refers to a David and a Christopher
Angeny, as living in the Leatherman Tract, and also refers to Jacob
Angeny, Sr., Jacob Angeny, Jr., and Henry Angeny, all of whom were
taxed during 1781 - 1787. There was an Angony mill on Deep Creek
in 1785,-the earliest mill in that section. Thus it appears that
the family also has "a posterity", though it is not clear whether
the name is now Angony or may, perhaps, have become Ankeny. A
recent item has been found in the Congressional Library, Washington,
D. C., in which it appears that one Jacob Ankeny, who had married
Mary Slifer, was a grandson of Jacob Angeny, born in 1740, who had
married Elisabeth Wismer in 1762. He was the son of a Jacob Ankeny
who had married Barbara Gehman and the other children were named:
Elisabeth, Abraham, Samuel, William and David. Also his children
were named: Joseph, of New Britain, Pa., Jacob, of Dublin, Pa.,
Catherine who married Abraham Hunsberger, of Dublin, Pa., and
Nancy. So it is possible that some of the Ankeny names now found
in various localities may be traced back to Nicholas Angne, rather
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than to our Dewald, See Supplement page A1.
Now, turning to the subject of this sketch, it is found that
Dewald settled in Lancaster county, Pa., somewhat west of Eph-
rata, referred to above, and in what is now Lebanon County, Pa.
A letter to the writer from the Director of the Pennsylvania
Land Office states that a warrant for 50 acres of land was
granted to Dewalt Angena on February 14, 1750, and that a sur-
vey of the tract was made, and returned 121 acres, 120 perches. -
Pennsylvania Archives, Ser.3, vol.24, p. 352. He also stated
that the land was then in Hanover township, Lancaster Co., but
now is in Union township, Lebanon Co., a short distance west of
Swatara Creek, midway between Jonestown and Lickdale. From the
History of Lebanon Co., by Egle, p. 179, it is found that he was
taxed in East Hanover township in 1756 under the name of Dayvolt
Angony, and that he was not one of those settlers who fled on
account of the Indian attacks. A church record in the Jonestown
Reformed Church shows the following item: Christian, son of De-
walt Annias (as translated) and Catherine, was baptized Dec. 23,
1750, and witnessed by Christian Lang and Anna Maria, daughter of
Peter Hedrick. This is an interesting item for several reasons,
Peter Hederick, as already mentioned, came from the same district
in the Palatinate as did the Ankenys. Also on the same ship with
Nicholas Angne there was one Nickel (Nicholas) Lang, and
this man was a member of the Jonestown church as early as 1742,
at which date he had a daughter baptized there. These two men
may or may not have been related to Dewalt, possibly one of them
a brother-in-law, but at least they all seem to have settled to-
gether. As the name Dewalt was not common, and as the name
Annias is not known to have existed, it seems almost certain that
the item refers to the subject of this sketch, and further evi-
dence of that likelihood is this fact that Dewalt did have a son,
Christian, who was born December 25, 1749, and his christening at
this time would be quite likely. Reference to the name Catherine
in the above item will be made in a later paragraph. But another
item comes from the record of the Host Church, on the Big Swa-
tara, near Jonestown. Here we find: that Rebecca was born to
Theobald Angne, July 5, 1755, christened August 17, 1755, wit-
nesses being Peter Heitherick and Rebecca Lang, both single. As
the sponsors are from the same families, and from the similarity
of names (allowing for variation in translation) it seems clear
that both refer to our Dewalt. From the tax records, we know
that he lived in this section, and no ether references to any
name like his is found. So we accept bath these references as be-
longing in this account.
Tradition has it that Dewalt had married Mary Jane Domer and
that she was the mother of the older children. This name is found
in the account referred to in the account of Joseph Ankeny, given
in Prominent Iowans, already referred to. Here it is stated that
she was a daughter of Thomas Domer, and that the first two sons
were named for two brothers,- Peter and Christian Domer. We know
that the Domers lived in Maryland, where Dewalt later lived, but
it is not known that they ever lived in Pennsylvania. Also we
know that some of the names that were used in the account just
referred to, were not entirely correct. So as far as this writer
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is Concerned, there is a question as to the verity of that
tradition. From the above item, it appears that the wife of
Dewalt and the mother of Christian was named Catherine, Her
family name is not evident, but might possibly be either Lang
or Hederick. It might also be noted that none of the children
of Dewalt named any of their girls Mary Jane, but nearly all
of them did have a daughter named Catherine. And Dewalt also
had a daughter - his first - who was named Catherine. Also as
we are quite sure the items mentioned above refer to Dewalt,
it must follow that the first wife was named Catherine, and pro-
bably not a Domer. But tradition has it that she died at an
early date from injuries received in the burning of their barn.
It seems that she tried to save some of the cattle. The exact
date is not known. Before leaving this matter of names, it
might be noted that one of the members of the Jonestown Church
was Kilian (or William) Lang, whose wife was Magdalena; that was
also the name of the sister of Dewalt who came with him to
America in 1746, These two Magdalenas may well be the same person.
Living near them at that time was a man named Noah Frederick
who, on October 12, 1756, was killed by the Indians in one of
the frequent attacks that they made on the frontier settlements.
Also several of the older children were carried off by them. The
widow of Frederick was left with two small children, both girls,
and several months later a son was born to the widow. About
1758, Dewalt married this widow - Margaret Becker Frederick - and
perhaps adopted the posthumously-born son as his own. This son
was named Johann George, born March 27, 1757, and christened May
8, 1757, as recorded in the Bethel Church of that district. A
Lancaster county court record shows that on January 16, 1759,
Dewalt Ancony and his wife Margaret, late Mrs. Frederick, were
appointed to administer the estate of Noah Frederick. The two
daughters of Margaret and Noah Frederick were Veronica, born 1752,
and Christina, born 1754. The Court, in 1762, appointed a guard-
ian for them, and in 1766 a different man was appointed to serve
until they became of age. (It appears that Margaret was the
second wife of Mr. Frederick, and so the older children who were
carried off by the Indians were not hers,- only her stepchildren.)
It was about this time that Dewalt and Margaret moved to Mary-
land, settling at a place called Clear Spring, in the Conoquo-
cheague Valley. Here he bought a small tract of land in 1764, and,
on January 19, 1773, it is found in the Maryland records, that
Duval Anconi had a warrant for 500 acres,- the tract he named
"Well-Pleased". He lived here during the remainder of his life
and became one of the wealthy men of the region. He later took
Out warrants for, or purchased, at least four tracts of land in
what was then Bedford, now Somerset County, Pa., where several of
his sons had settled. Very likely all of the children, -the five
who were born to the first wife, and several of those born to the
second wife came before he left Pennsylvania and were probably
baptized there. At any rate, only the christening of his last
child - seventh in the second family - is shown by the old church
records. This is found, as already mentioned, in the Salem Church
where the record shows that Elisabeth was born to Theobald and
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Margaretha Angena December 4, 1772, and was christened on
February 28, 1773, the witness being Elisabeth Ruf(in). It
is interesting to note, in referring to these early records,
how many different spellings are found for both the first and
the last name of our subject. Dewalt is written as Dewald,
Dayvolt, Duval, Devault. The last name comes in even more
spellings, Anconi, Ancony-, Angne, Agnes, Angena, Acconi, etc.
It is now generally spelled either Ankeny or Ankeney, the
latter form being that generally used by the families that re-
mained in Maryland and their descendants in the west. And re-
garding the form Theobald, it might be mentioned that one of
the sons of John, oldest of the second family of Dewalt, was
named Dewalt for his grandfather, but in Greene County, Ohio,
where he spent most of his life, he was known as Theobald
Ankeney.
The subject of our sketch died at Clear Spring in 1781. He
left a will in which he directed that he was to be buried in the
"orchard by the graves already there", just whose it is not
clear,-possibly several infant children whose names are not rec-
orded. This burial plat has been lost and plowed over; so today
there is only a memorial stone set up at St. Pauls Church, on
Highway #40, a mile or two east of Clear Spring, this cemetery
being on his original estate and given for burial purposes by his
son John. The inscription on this stone is: To the memory of
DeWalt Ankeny, the first of his name, and the founder of that
family in America, one thousand seven hundred forty six. Born
1728, died at Clear Spring, Md. 1781." In his will, which is very
interesting in many ways, especially as to his specific directions
for the dividing of his properties and the caring of his widow,
Dewalt refers several times to his "twelve children", or the
"seven Sons and five daughters". As he names individually the
seven in the second family, it is clear that there were five in
the first family,- two sons and three daughters. Another odd fea-
ture of the will is that he provides for giving his property in
Maryland, divided into two farms, to two of his sons "by the cast-
ing of lots", though the two who got these farms were to pay out
to the others according to the value, and the others were each to
have one of his tracts in Somerset, then Bedford, County, Pa. This
will is published in the Journal of American History, vol. 2, pp.
661-2, under the heading The Will of a Wealthy Colonial Ameri-
can, of 1781. Most of the larger libraries are likely to have a
copy of this publication.
His services to the Revolution are these: He took the Oath of
Allegiance to the Colonial Cause before John Barnes, a Justice of
the Peace in Washington County, Md., February 28, 1778, as found
in the Unpublished Records, vol. 3, p. 39, of the Daughters of the
Revolution; and from the Maryland Historical Magazine, vol. 12,
p. 345, it is found that he was one of 54 persons named to relieve
distress among the inhabitants. His name here is given as Devault
Anchony. A record of and grants in his name is found in Scharfs
History of Western Maryland, vol. 2, p. 985, and in the Pennsyl-
vania Archives, Ser. 3, vol. 24, p. 352. Reference to him is also
found in Memorials of the Huguenots, by Rev. A. Stapleton, as
follows: North of South Mountain, in the limits of Washington
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County, Md., the first settlements were made by Pennsylvania
Germans prior to 1735, in the vicinity of Clear Spring. Among
the settlers with Huguenot antecedents was Dewalt Ancony, who
arrived at Philadelphia from Europe in 1746, and died at Clear
Spring in 1781, at a very advanced age. (Today we should
hardly call 53 an "advanced age".)
If the first wife of Dewalt was really a Domer, this para-
graph may be of some interest. Tradition says that a sister of
Mary Jane married Joseph Fiery, and a daughter of that union was
married to Dewalts son George. The following is found in a
Md. Record: Joseph Fyers, (Fiery ?) md. Anna M. Dommer, Aug. 3,
1762. Others of this name who are shown by the 1790 Census to
have been in Washington County, Md., then are; Ludwig, John
and Christian. In Hagerstown, or near by, in 1776, were Michael
Domer and wife Anna, and sons Michael, Jr., and Frederick. The
name is also common in Somerset County, Pa., and in Tuscarawas
County, Ohio. In the latter county, one of the first settlers
was a Frederick Domer, from Somerset County, Pa., known as
"Judge" Domer, and was a Dunkard preacher. Brothers of his were
George and Jacob. Also a Michael Domer settled in Holmes County,
Ohio, adjoining Tuscarawas County. Jacob and George, at a later
date, went to Elkhart, Indiana. Michael died in 1845 and left
sons John, Jacob and George, besides six daughters.
The sons and sonsinlaw of Dewalt Ankeny were among the
first settlers in that part of Bedford county which later became
Somerset, when the county was divided in 1795. Christian, the
oldest of the family, was listed among the taxables there in
1775, and both Christian and Peter in 1776. In the Penna Archives
it is found that Dewalt, Christian and George, a son of Christian,
had taken out warrants for lands in that part of Bedford county
on September 6, 1774,- the amounts of land being 250 acres, 150
acres and 150 acres, respectively. Altogether, the family- father,
sons and grandsons had taken out warrants by 1795 for a total of
over 3000 acres, and probably most of these tracts were later sur-
veyed and patented to them. They also purchased other lands,
either by warrants or deeds; as, for instance, the lands of Ulrich
Bruner, who had laid out a town plan called "Milford", and of his
sons, Henry and George, which were purchased by Peter Ankeny, and
more lots were laid out on portions of this land by him. This
was the beginning of the present town of Somerset.
In Blackburns History of Somerset and Bedford Counties, Vol. 2,
p. 128, reference is made to a letter, written by request ap-
parently, by Joseph Ankeny, son of Peter, to David Husband, in
1870. Quoting from this letter, after he refers to Uncle Chris-
tian who came first to Somerset in 1772 or 1773, and settled on
the Fritz farm near Pine Hill. Then, the letter says, he later
returned with Peter to Somerset where "Christly" settled on the
John Schrock farm west of town, and Peter on the Hugus place where
he built a log cabin and planted an orchard. Peter went back for
winter to Washington Co., Md., and returned in the spring with his
wife and oldest child, and household goods, including a stove.
Then he says, to quote directly: My impression is that Uncles
Chorpenning and Walter did not come until 1780. Uncle Chorpenning's
first improvement was on the same ground still occupied by the
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buildings on the Old Chorpenning farm. Walter's I am not able
to describe. (Thus he must have been referring to John Chor-
penning as his uncle, as there were no other Chorpennings in
the county except John and his sons.) he adds that he thinks
that Harmon Husband came next summer (1781), when he rode a
sorrel horse and had one son Isaac whom he called "Trippy"
along. He went by the name of Harmon Scape-death, came often to
Ankeny's as he and his son kept " Bachelors Hall", and he enjoyed
the cooked meals. (Again one might mention that in 1781 he was
just returning from the general flight of 1778 due to the Indian
scare. He had been to Somerset county much earlier and had made
surveys prior to that time.)
Thus it seems probable that during these early years the men
raised their crops on the frontiers in the summers and returned
to Maryland for the winters. But in 1784 both Christian and
Peter were included among the list of residents of Somerset county
each with a family of seven. There are also records of baptism
of their children in Somerset even earlier than that date. Cath-
erine Ankeny, the oldest sister of Christian and Peter, had
married Michael Walter and had lived for several years in or near
Hagerstown, Md., and had also moved to Somerset by that date or
earlier; and possibly several of the other sons,- halfbrothers -
had settled there too, as well as the other son-in-law of Dewalt
referred to above as Josephs Uncle Chorpenning. In the records of
the Berlin Church,- both Lutheran and Reformed at that time,-
entries are found giving baptismal dates of children of all the
following: Peter and Christian Ankeny, Michael Walter, Jacob and
David Ankeny, and John Shoff, husband of Dewalts stepdaughter
Veronica. In 1789, according to the Penna. Archives, Christian,
Peter, David and Jacob were all registered for military service,
as well as Gillian Gary who after the death of Michael Walter in 1785
married Catherine, Michaels widow. The Census of 1790 gives all
the above names as residents of that part of Bedford later known
as Somerset County.
You will note that an earlier parenthetic statement referred an
uncertainty in regard to the Ankeny relationship to a member of
the Corpenning family. The name was originally spelled thus, and
by tradition again, it was said that one of three brothers had
married one of the Ankeny daughters. By some it was said that
Elisabeth Ankeny had married George Corpenning, and had gone to
North Carolina to live with the family of the oldest of the bro-
thers, Albert Corpenning. This man, the oldest of the sons, only
two, as we now know,- had married Barbara Probst, June 23, l774,
and had gone to that state, though a storm detained them during the
first winter in Virginia. Correspondence of the writer with mem-
bers of that family now living in North Carolina has brought out
the fact that they know of no George in the original family of
Hendrick Kourpening, who came to America in 1751 with two sons,
Albert and John, though Albert later had a son called George. De-
walts grandson Joseph, in the statements quoted above, clearly es-
tablished the fact that he had an uncle of that name, and the
description of the location of the farm definitely refers to the
other brother John, though he does not use the name. The trouble
in identifying this Corpenning uncle may have come from a statement
in a sketch of the family of John Corpenning written some years ago
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by J, Harry Fritz, an attorney of the Somerset Bar, who should
have known how to base his writing on facts, but apparently did
not. In this account he says that John Chorpenning-the name
had changed to that spelling by that time-had married Anna Maria
Ingrason. So far as known, he did not give the source of his
information; but one may assume that he found the name in an old
Bible, or an early church record. If so, the name was probably
written in German, and the form of the name, as written at that
period, would add the letters "in" to the name of a woman to make
it feminine. Thus the name Ankeny for a woman would appear
Angnesin. This would look much like the name Ingrason in the Ger-
man script, and one not skilled in translation of the German names
as written 150 years ago might readily make that error. At any
rate, all evidence we can get clearly shows that it was John Chor-
penning who married Anna Maria Ankeny, the youngest daughter of the
first family of Dewalt. Further reasons for taking this view comes
from the fact that in the census, taken at Hagerstown, then called
Elizabeth Hundred, Maryland, in August of 1776,-as given in a
Photostat in the History of Western Maryland, by Brumbaugh,-the
names and ages of Michael Walter and his wife Catherine are given
and immediately following each - men and woman were given separate-
ly - come the names of John Corponning and his wife Mary and their
ages. Apparently they were living together or next to each other
as would be natural for two sisters. The date given for the
marriage of the Corpennings was March of that year, so they might
well have lived together with members of the family until then.
Another striking bit of evidence is the practice of having the
christenings of their children witnessed when possible by parents,
brothers or sisters. We find that in the case of the Ankeny,
Walter, and Corpenning families, members of those families frequent-
ly, or generally, did just that for each other. Thus John and Mary
Corpenning were witnesses twice for Ankeny children, and the Ankenys
or Walter and his wife witnessed four times for the Corpenning
children. And this is for only a part of the children, as the re-
cords are not all given. Also when John Corponning died at an
early age and left most of his children still minors, several of
the Ankeny brothers were on the administrators bond and two of
them were guardians for some of the children. This mass of evi-
dence makes it apparent that Fritz erred when he gave the name of
Mrs. Corpenning as he did. in addition, the name Ingrason cannot
be found in any list of names of that period; and so there can be
no reasonable doubt that John Corpenning was a son-in-law of Dewalt
Ankeny.
In this sketch of the family, we shall take up the children in
the order of their ages, so far as we know that order. Then we
shall also give the same data for the two step-daughters, Veronica
and Christina. The children of the first wife were Christian,
Peter, Catherine, Rebecca, and Anna Maria (Mary). The seven of the
second wife were John, apparently adopted by Dewalt as his own,
then Henry, David, Jacob, Margaret, George and Elisabeth. Margaret
may have been older than one or both of the two brothers named
ahead of her. But otherwise the order is believed to be correct.
We shall give pertinent facts about each as to where he or she
lived, died and is buried, if known. Also something about their
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activities, the names of their children, and the childrens
children,- in some cases, down to the present generation. The
children of Dewalt will be numbered 1, and their children will
be given the number 2; and so on, with an increase of one for
each succeeding generation.
Signatures on the bond for the administration of the estate
of Noah Frederick, in Lancaster County, Pa., January 16, 1759,
of Dewalt and Margaret Ancony were both made by their marks,
thus:
Dewalt (x) Angeny
Margaret (x) Angony
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"_______________________________ " the signature to the
ships roll and oath of allegiance, Sept. 14, 1753.
_____________________________, Catherine Ankeny
_____________________________, Elizabeth Ankeny
Copied signatures to the certificate of marriage of Frederick
Moyers (Moyer) and Catherine Ankeny.
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An addition to the discussion of the names Dewalt and Theo-
bald, given earlier in this account, comes from a Circular, #6,
recently sent out by the Historical Society, of York County, Pa.,
on the confusion of names among the Pennsylvania Germans. In
this list of confused names given by the Circular is:-
Dewald, 18th century German form, same as
Theobald, the correct English translation. Then
follows that the name is confused with the name David.
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Miss Anna M. Angeny, 600 Market St., Perkasie, Pa., a grand-
daughter of Samuel Angeny, who was a grandson of Nicholas Angeny,
an older brother, or uncle, of Dewalt Angeny (Anconi - Ankeny).
Letter from her to Mrs. Foster was seen and returned to Mrs. Foster.
It is not certain that Samuel was related just as stated above,
but he was a son of Jacob, who was possibly a son of Christopher,
a son of Nicholas. At any rate she is of the line of Nicholas,
reference to whom was made in the early pages of the Dewalt Ankeny
account. (See also page 3).
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