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John Leedom

Male 1768 - 1842  (73 years)


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  • Name John Leedom  [1, 2
    Birth 7 Mar 1768  Bucks Co, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Christening 19 Jun 1768  North and Southampton Reformed Church, Churchville, Bucks, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Gender Male 
    Tax Lists 1798  Southampton, Bucks, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    PA 
    • John Leedom - Occupant and Owner
      1 houses, value $325, Rate of Assessment: .2, Assessment: 65
    Census 1800  Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    PA 
    • John Leedom:
      1M <10,«tab»3M 10-16, 2M 16-26, 1M 26-45, 2F <10, 3F 10-16, 1F16-26, 1F 26-45
    Census 1820  Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    PA 
    • John Leedom: 2 m >45, 1 m 16-18, 1 m 10-16, 1 m <10, 1 f >45, 1 f 26-45, 1 f 16-26, 1 f 10-16
    Census 1830  Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    PA 
    • John Leedom: 1m 10-15, 1m 20-30, 1m 60-70, 1f 10-15, 2f 20-30, 1f 30-40, 1f 90-100

      John himself was 62 and his wife Rachel had died 2 years prior to this census. I don't know yet which child was living with him in 1830 but Elijah and Ruth Ann were the only ones who were the right age. Elijah wasn't married until Sep of 1830 and presumably did not have young children with him in his father's house. I do not know yet when Ruth Ann married Jacob Carncross but their only known child wasn't born until 1845.

      I am very sure that the 90-100 year old woman in his household was his mother, Hannah (Staats).
    Census 1840  Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    PA 
    • John Leedom: 2m 10-15, 1m 20-30, 2m 70-80, 1f 20-30, 1f 50-60
    Death 2 Mar 1842  Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Burial Merion Friends Burial Ground, Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Notes 
    • John's parents are named as Hannah States (Staets in another transcription), wife of Samuel Ledam, in his baptism record:
      Low Dutch Reformed Church of North and Southampton-
      1768 19 Jun: Johannes, child of Hannah Staets, wife of Samuel Ledam

      Samuel settled in Montgomery Co per family records and papers. Also referred to in "History of Delaware County, Pennsylvania", by Henry Graham Ashmead, as "a prosperous farmer in Montgomery County, PA".

      Witnesses at his marriage were his parents, Samuel and Hannah, and his brother Daniel, aged 20 years.

      Middletown MM records list the births John and Rachel's children with margin notes in a different handwriting noting their disownment or decease.

      I've only found two John Leedoms in the southeat PA 1800 census records, one in Southampton and one in Lower Merion. This John is in Lower Merion in the census records of 1820-1840 so the Lower Merion one is most likely his record. John and Rachel are both represented in correct age brackets as are their five children born before 1800. However, there are an extra three males and four females in the census so it seems another unidentified family was living wih John and Rachel in 1800.

      Merion Friends Burial Ground records give his death date as shown here, age at death as 74, buried in Row V, gravestone #28. The Leedom Family book has his birth year as 1763 but it is probably a transcription error. His age at death according to the Merion records would give a birth year of 1768, three months before his recorded baptism.

      1842 RW 13388 - OC 11521, Book 6, p344 - Index of wills & estate settlements, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 1784-1850

      Radnor MM records of deaths give the same death date for John Leedom, aged 74 years, but give his residence and his burial place as Haverford.

      John's land in Lower Merion, at the six mile stone on the Lancaster Turnpike, was placed at public sale in newspaper advertisements in Jan 1843. It was a "tract of 24 acres and 17 perches adjoining the lands of David Roberts and the late Jane Price. The improvements consist of a large two-story stone house, 35 x 45 feet, with a cellar under the whole, divided into five apartments, a pantry and large hall on the first floor, seven rooms on the second with four ceiled garrets, and adjoining kitchen, 16 x 30 feet, two stories high, three wells of water, milk house by the kitchen pump with smoke house over same; a good stone barn with sheds, corn cribs, hen-house and other outbuildings, ice-house, 16 feet in diameter and 22 feet deep filled with ice. There is on the premises two acres of woodland. The land is of excellent natural quality and is divided into convenient fields." Conditions were to be made known at sale by Charles Leedom, Joseph B. Leedom, and Samuel Leedom, John's three oldest sons and administrators of his estate.
    Person ID I36  Ives-Leedom
    Last Modified 5 May 2023 

    Father Samuel Leedom,   b. Abt 1738, prob Bucks Co, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 8 Apr 1816, Haverford, Delaware, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 78 years) 
    Mother Hannah Staats,   b. Bef 7 Oct 1739, prob Bensalem, Bucks, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 23 Feb 1831, Haverford, Delaware, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 91 years) 
    Marriage 28 Oct 1762  North and Southampton Reformed Church, Churchville, Bucks, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F17  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Rachel Bond,   b. 1766, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 May 1828, Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 62 years) 
    Marriage 2 Dec 1791  Merion Meeting House, Philadelphia Co, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [4, 5
    Children 
     1. Charles B. Leedom,   b. 26 May 1793, Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1848 (Age 54 years)
     2. Hannah Leedom,   b. 25 Jan 1795, Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Jan 1831, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 36 years)
     3. Joseph B. Leedom,   b. 8 Mar 1796, Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Mar 1864, Haverford, Delaware, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
     4. Samuel Leedom,   b. 31 Dec 1797, Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 9 Mar 1872, Cobb's Creek, Haverford, Delaware, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 74 years)
     5. Esther Leedom,   b. 18 Apr 1799, Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 Feb 1868, Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 68 years)
     6. Ruth Ann Leedom,   b. Abt 1801, Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Dec 1802, Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 1 years)
     7. John B. Leedom, M. D.,   b. 28 Aug 1803, Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Oct 1839, Manayunk, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 36 years)
     8. Elijah Leedom,   b. 22 Aug 1805, Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 6 Apr 1875, Upper Makefield Twp, Bucks, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
     9. Ruth Ann Leedom,   b. 11 Feb 1808, Lower Merion, Montgomery, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Mar 1890, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 82 years)
    Family ID F15  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Feb 2020 

    Family 2 Elizabeth Collins,   b. 20 Mar 1782, New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Jun 1866, New York Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 84 years) 
    Marriage 23 Feb 1831  Cherry Street MM, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7
    Family ID F16  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Apr 2016 

  • Sources 
    1. [S125] Sara A.L. Eachus, Leedom Family, (Dorrance & Co. 1982), CS71 .L4815 1982.

    2. [S17] Vital Records, Baptism record, 1891.

    3. [S523] Quaker Meeting record, Haverford MM.

    4. [S81] John Pitts Launey, Delaware County, Pennsylvania Church Records - Vol III The Welsh Tract, (Family Line Publications 1997), p. 62.

    5. [S523] Quaker Meeting record, Philadelphia MM, Arch Street.

    6. [S135] William Wade Hinshaw, Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, vol 2, p. 850, 1982.

    7. [S523] Quaker Meeting record, Philadelphia MM Arch Street.