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Ancestors of Robert Wayne Deaves

      140. Abraham Lukens, born July 16, 1703 in Germantown, Philadelphia Co., Pa.; died June 01, 1776 in Towamencin Twp., Philadelphia Co., Pa.. He was the son of 280. Jan Lukens and 281. Merchen Gastes. He married 141. Mary Marie Maule February 24, 1726/27 in Abington Twp., Philadelphia Co., Pa..

      141. Mary Marie Maule, born 1702; died December 09, 1751.

Notes for Abraham Lukens:
Will of Abraham Lukens Philadelphia, Pa. Will Book "Q", p. 299
Folder 253 - 1776

In the name of God, Amen
I Abraham Lukens of Towamencin Township in the County of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania, yeoman am advanced in years and weakly in body, but perfect sound mind and understanding and memory, thanks be to God, Do this thirty-first day of March, one thousand and seventy six, make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner following, Viz; First I will that all my just debts and funeral charges with the probated hereof be duly satisfied and paid by my hereunto named Executors, out of my whole estate.
Item - I give and devise unto my well beloved wife, Elizabeth one bedstead and beddings with the usual furniture therunto belonging at her choice, my case of drawers now in the house and free liberty and privilege for her to live in which Room of my dwelling house. She may choose to live for the time of three whole years from the time of my ;death with sufficient agress and egress as usually, if she remains my widow so long, but if she marrieth before that time, then she is to move off my place. Item - It is my will and I do order that as soon as can conveniently by my whole estate both real and personal (likewise my lands near Juniata) shall be sold at a public sale by my hereunto named Executors (except what is hereafter reserved to my said wife) to the best advantage and price that can be got, and I do hereby empower by hereunto named Executors to make sign seal and deliver as good and sufficient deed and deeds for all and any of my lands as good and sufficient as I myself could do, if I was living. Item - It is ;my will and I do further order, that my said whole estate both real and personal (except as before excepted) shall be equally divided amongst and between my said wife and all my children of my first and second wife, share and share alike named as followeth; John, Mathias, William, Abraham, Joseph, Job, Mary, Margaret, Jonathon and Enos, and I do further order that whenever my said wife, Elizabeth should marry again, then one half of her respective share in money whatsoever it may come to besides the goods above mentioned, the said one half part as aforesaid I hereby give to all my said children share alike, and the other half part of the said whole share I give to her my said wife when married in full of her thirds out of my whole estate and if any of my said children should happen to die that are of age and ;married before they could receive their share aforesaid, then and in such case I give each dying to all his children share alike. Item - It is my will and I so further order that all the money or share coming and belonging to my younger children under age shall be put on interest for their use for good security until they come of age, and then is shall be paid to them principal and interest as they come of age., and if any of them under age should happen to die before or age or without issue (lawful) then I give such share to dying likewise to all the rest of my children so living share alike, in the same manner as above directed. It is further my will that the interest money of the younger children share under age shall be applied for bringing them up until each of them be seven years old and no longer with all the interest afterwards incruing thereon to be for the said children use as aforesaid. It is my will further that my wife Elizabeth shall have the privilege of keeping a cow on my said place, free for her use during the time she lives on my said place as abovesaid. This cow to be pastured and fed on the said place, like the rest will be pastured and fed there without any charge for the same. Likewise sufficient firewood shall be delivered to my said house free, ready cut, fit for her use during she remains my widow on my said place as aforesaid and Lastly I do constitute and appoint my said wife Elizabeth and my son John and my son Mathias to be my whole and sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament, and I do hereby disannul and make void all former and other wills and bequests by me heretofore made, ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my Last Will and Testament. In witness whereof I the said Abrham Lukens have hereunto set my own hand and seal the day and year above written.

Signed sealed published and declared
by the said Abraham Lukens as his last
will and testament, in the presence of Proved June 11, 1776
us the Subscribers.

Melchoir Wagener
Peter Godshalk

Children of Abraham Lukens and Mary Maule are:

	i.	Margaret Lukens, born February 12, 1726/27.
	ii.	John Lukens, born October 17, 1729.
	iii.	Mathias Lukens, born September 18, 1731.
	iv.	William Lukens, born February 23, 1732/33.
	v.	Abraham Lukens, born November 21, 1734.
	vi.	David Lukens, born February 27, 1736/37.
70	vii.	Joseph Lukens, born May 14, 1739 in Phila. Co., Pa.; died November 07, 1814 in Whitemarsh Twp., Montgomery Co., Pa; married (1) Margaret Dixey February 24, 1762; married (2) Mary Roberts October 07, 1794.
	viii.	Mary Lukens, born March 22, 1740/41.
	ix.	Job Lukens, born July 28, 1743.

      144. William Foord, born 1722 in Nottingham, Burlington Co., New Jersey; died 1763 in Nottingham, burlington Co., New Jersey. He was the son of 288. William Foord and 289. Unknown. He married 145. Margaret ? 1742.

      145. Margaret ?

Child of William Foord and Margaret ? is:

William Foord, born Abt. 1743 in Nottingham, Burlington Co., New Jersey; died Abt. 1818 in Nottingham, BurlingtonCo., New Jersey; married (1) Unknown Abt. 1765; married (2) Mary Hutchinson March 20, 1796 in Monmouth, New Jersey.

      152. John Wallace He married 153. Jane ?.

      153. Jane ?

Child of John Wallace and Jane ? is:

James Wallace, born Abt. 1725 in N. Ireland; died 1777; married Isabel Miller 1754.

      154. Robert Miller He was the son of 308. William Miller and 309. Isabelle ?. He married 155. Margaret Graham.

      155. Margaret Graham

Children of Robert Miller and Margaret Graham are:

	i.	William Miller
	ii.	Hugh Miller
	iii.	Robert Miller
77	iv.	Isabel Miller, married James Wallace 1754.

      156. Andrew Long⁸, born 1691 in Scotland; died November 11, 1738 in Warwick, Bucks Co., Pa.. He married 157. Isabel Miller.

      157. Isabel Miller, born in Ireland; died in Warrington, Bucks Co., Pa.. She was the daughter of 308. William Miller and 309. Isabelle ?.

More About Andrew Long:
Burial: Neshaminy Ch. yard, Hartsville, Bucks Co., Pa.

Children of Andrew Long and Isabel Miller are:

		i.		William Long, born in Bucks Co., Pa.; died November 01, 1793; married Elizabeth Henderson
		ii.		Esabel Long

More About Esabel Long:
Christening: October 03, 1725, Bensalem Pres. Ch., Bucks Co., Pa.

		iii.		Mary Long, married Joseph Carr
		iv.		Jane Long, born in Bucks Co., Pa; married John McClenachan
		v.		Andrew Long, Jr.⁹, born 1730 in Bucks Co., Pa.; died November 04, 1812 in Warwick, Bucks Co., Pa; married Mary Smith 1751; born 1726; died January 17, 1821 in Warwick, Bucks Co., Pa..

More About Andrew Long, Jr.:
Burial: Nashaminy Pres. Ch. Hartsville, Bucks Co., Pa.

vi.

Hugh Long, born 1732 in Bucks Co., Pa.; died 1778; married Mary Corbit October 31, 1761.

      158. William Corbit, died in Bucks Co., Pa.. He married 159. Unknown.

      159. Unknown

Child of William Corbit and Unknown is:

Mary Corbit, born in Bucks Co., Pa.; died 1794 in Bucks Co., Pa; married Hugh Long October 31, 1761.

      160. Philip Heinrich Soller, born February 18, 1698/99 in Weinheim, Germany; died July 01, 1769 in Montgomery Co., Pa.. He was the son of 320. Hans Adam Soller and 321. Margaretha ?. He married 161. Margaretha Unknown.

      161. Margaretha

Notes for Philip Heinrich Soller:

Philipp Heinrich Soller was confirmed in 1716.In a letter from his grandson, Abraham Sellers to his son Cornelius ,the age at death of Philipp Heinrich Soller was erroneously given as 65. The letter follows:
Dec. 10, 1827
The Catalogue You wish me to give you I fear will not be very correct in every respect, but as far as memory serves me, I will give it. My Grandfather, Philip Henry Soller was born in Germany in a town called Weinheim near the City of Manheim on the Bergstrasse in the Palatinate. As near as I can trace it, about 97 Years ago he left his native country and with a wife and four children and came to Philadelphia, from there he went to Skippack and stayed a short time after which he bought a tract of land 200 acres on the Branch about one mile below where Thomas Sellers now lives. There he lived until his death. He died at the age of sixty-five, leaving a wife and ten children, 7 sons and three daughters. The names of his sons were Philip, Leonard, Philip Henry, John (who was your grandfather), Paul, Peter and Jacob. The daughters were Elizabeth, Magdalena and Margaret. My father settled in Hilltown on the farm where Frederick Fluck now lives and there he died at the age of fifty-five, leaving Mother, three sons and one daughter. Two daughters and one son died in infancy, being seven in all. The names were Abraham, Samuel, John and Elizabeth. The Other three were two Hannahs and Amos.

As to my mother's family I know little, being all dead before my time. Her father's name was William Johnson. I think he came from Holland. He lived at Skippack, a respectable farmer. Your grandfather Bodder came from "Dutch Country". When he married he settled in Hilltown. He died at the age of 73 leaving a wife and four children, two sons and two daughters, their names being Jacob, John, Sophia and Catherine. Your grandmother, Bodder's maiden name was Regine Ditor (or Detor), likewise from Germany.
                                                                              Abraham Sellers
Additional matter by Cornelius Sellers.

My father always said our original name was Soller, as above.

C. Sellers

Sep. 8, 1864
Of Philip Henry Sellers' sons, Peter, John and Philip Henry settled and died in Hilltown Township. Bucks co.,Pa.; Philip in Saucon Township, Northampton County, now Lehigh; Paul in Maryland and Jacob in Juniata, then Mifflin, Co., Pa. Of the daughters one married a Road or Roth and one a Huntzberger. I don't remember who the other married.

Philip, who settled in Saucon, was your great-grandfather; he had three wives and (I think) eighteen or more children. Some of his sons settled in the South. My uncle John Sellers settled and died in Alexandria, Va.

Abraham Sellers, a brother of your grandfather, settled and died in Baltimore.

One of Leonard Sellers' sons and one daughter, Mrs Dungan, settled in Bedford Co., Pa. Two of Leonard's sons settled in Franklin Co., near Green Castle.

Bucks County has had two Sheriffs of the family, also two members of the Legislature. Montgomery County one Sheriff, one member of the Legislature, a member of the Convention to amend the Constitution and a Recorder of Deeds, juniata, a member of the State Senate. Franklin, now Fulton, a member of the Legislature--others have held offices of trust and honor.

Abraham Bruner, a Grandson of your great-grandfather Philip Sellers says he, Philip, had 25 0r 26 Children. Great-grandfather Sellers, his wife and four of his sons were buried at Indianfield Church (Should be Indian Creek Church, Montgomery County. Uncle Samuel Sellers, his wife and eight children were buried at the same place.

Of Philip Sellers, who settled in Saucon, two of his sons, John and George, settled in North Carolina. David in Lancaster County. John Bruner's first and second wives were daughters of this Philip. One daughter married a Rohr and after his death she married Andrew Schlichter, Esq., of Sellersville.

Grandfather John Sellers and wife were buried at Indianfield (Indian Creek) Church.
Colonial Records of Penna., Vol III, P.322 and Immigrants in Pennsylvania, by I. Daniel Rupp, P.58 and Penna. Archives, second series, Vol XVII, P. 15 give the following
: Sep 11, 1728, A number of Palatines, including Philip Henrich Soller, with their families, about ninety, imported in the ship "James Goodwill", David Crocket, Master, from Rotterdam, last from Deal, whence she sailed June 15th." Philip Henrich Seller, of Bucks o. was naturalized in September, 1740 as a subject of Great Britain.

Philip Heinrich Soller left his native land and witha wife and four children came to Philadelphia (1728) and from there went to Skippack , stayed for a short time then he bought a tract of land of 200 acres on Branch Creek, about one mile below where Thomas Sellers now lives (1827). There he lived until his death, at the age of 65 years, leaving a wife and 10 children - 7 sons and 3 daughters. (dated 1827 family record) According to another record he had secured a grant of land from Thomas Penn, March 10, 1733 for 150 acres on a branch of the 'Pekeomin", near Roel's land in Bucks County. The 200 acres purchase, mentioned previously, is also stated in the later record, the deed being dated August 24, 1735 and granters being Peter Snyder and Catharine, his wife.

Both Philip Henry Sellers and his then wife, Catharina left wills. He died on 1 July 1769, his will was dated 27 April 1766, recorder in Liber 0, folio 398, Philadelphia, and was probated on 28 July 1769. He bequeaths money owed to him by his son John to his wife Catharina and additional sums from the sale of his real and personal estate which he orders to be sold. The residue is to be equally divided among his ten children, Philip, Leonard, Henry, John, Paul, Peter, Jacob, Elizabeth wife of Henry Burggy, Magdalena, wife of Henry Brunner and Margaret. His widow, Catharina's will, much the same, is also on file at Philadelphia, Liber P, folio 414, The will was dated 5 Feb, 1770 and probated 26 May, 1773.

Philip Heinrich Soller progeny
His son John born in 1731 had 7 children. John's second son, Samuel, born 1758 and died in 1817 was Sheriff and a Pennsylvania Legislature. He had 11 Children. Whe Elias Sellers, the first postmaster died at 28 years of age, his younger brother Thomas became postmaster at age 21 years. Thomas who was born in 1798 and died in 1863 had 3 children. He also became the proprietor of Sellers Tavern.


Children of Philip Soller and Margaretha are:

Philip Sellers, married Barbara ?

Notes for Philip Sellers:
Philip Sellers was born at Weinheim in 1724 and came to America with his parents in 1728. He settled in Saucon Township, Northampton Co., Pa. It is said hi married three times. At his death, the name of his wife was Barbara. Several Deeds are recorded at Easton, Pa. regarding the transfer of real estate to Philip Seller, Liber B, Vol 1, p. 37. April 3, 1765 - William Allen of Phila., Esq. to Philip Seller, of Upper Saucon Township, Northampton Co., Pa., 75 Acre in Upper Saucon Township. Liber F, Vol3, p. 213. July 2, 1765 Henry Brunner and wife to Philip Seller two tracts in said township, 32 acres and 126 perches and 7 acres.
He is said to be buried at the Indian Creek Ref. Church, as are several of his children.
Letters of Administration were granted on Oct. 17, 1808 to Philip Sellers and John Geisinger,Jr. Liber VIII, folio 204

	ii.	Paul Sellers, married Elizabeth ?
	iii.	Jacob Sellers, married Unknown
	iv.	Elizabeth Sellers, married Henry Beurggy
	v.	Mary Magdalena Sellers, married Henry Brunner
	vi.	Margaret Sellers
80	vii.	Leonardt Sellers, born 1727; died August 24, 1805 in Bucks Co., Pa; married (1) Catharina Bef. 1758; married (2) Barbara ? Aft. 1759.
	viii.	Philip Henry Sellers,Jr., born 1730; married Elizabeth ?
	ix.	John Sellers, born 1731; married Anna Johnson

Notes for John Sellers:
John Sellers, born in 1731 had 7 children. His son Samuel was born in 1758 on his father's farm, in Hilltown Twp, Bucks Co., Pa. and he died in 1817. Samuel Sellers was not only the the founder of Sellersville, Bucks Co., Pa., but he was the Sheriff of Bucks Co., Pa., and a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature. His youngest son Thomas, born in 1798 and died in 1863, became at the age of 21 years, the proprietor of Sellers Tavern and the Postmaster, after his brother, Elias died at the age of 28 years.

Peter Sellers, born 1736.

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