Do you have any Greathouse kith and kin who resided in Philadelphia County, PA? If so, please join us in our efforts to better document the Greathouse kith and kin who lived in this county, by sending your additions and corrections to Greathouse Point.

1744, Dec 27 – Marriage: Rebecca Greathouse and Leonard Streeper

Excerpt from Christ Church, Philadelphia, PA, Parish Registers:

Husband: Leonard Streper
Wife: Rebecca Greathouse
Date: December 27, 1744
Location: Christ Church
Minister:
Notes:
Cross Reference:
Record Book Year: 1709-1800

Excerpt from Hannah Benner Roach, "Back Part of Germantown: A Reconstruction", 2001:

In 1743 the widow Ann Streeper's son William married Mary Dawes, daughter of Isaac of Springfield, and the next year [1744] William Streeper's brother Lenart was married to Rebecca Groethause, daughter of John, also of Springfield. [42] Both William and Lenart Streeper in 1743 had made over to their brother Dennis their rights in their father's farm, [43] so that upon their marriages William, a blacksmith, settled in Cheltenham and Lenary across the Springfield line in Whitemarsh.

Footnotes:

Sources:

Christ Church of Philadelphia, PA website, 1744, Dec 27 – Marriage: Leonard Streeper and Rebecca Greathouse, Christ Church, Philadelphia. View @ Christ Church

Hannah Benner Roach, "Back Part of Germantown: A Reconstruction", Jefferson M. Moak, Editor, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 2001. ISBN 188709914x, 97817887099141. Page 11.