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Levering of Roxborough

Anna Amelia Miller, daughter of George Miller and Anna Sibella Levering, was born about 1700, at Germantown, Philadelphia County, PA.

In the will of her father, George Miller, dated 21 Sep 1719, her mother was named as Anna Sibilla, daughter of Wiegard Levering. The executor or guardian of her father's estate was named as Herman Grothause, whose son, Johann Adolf Grotthausen, was also named as a witness of her father's will.

She married John Adolf Greathouse at Christ Church, in Philadelphia, on 10 Nov 1720.

In the journal of Johannes Herbergs on 27 Aug 1764, Herbergs recorded the following entry regarding John Adolf Greathouse:

"He, Grothaus, said we should go to see his brother-in-law Wighard Miller. He still had letters in his possession from his father-in-law, who had been the first preacher in Germantown and written a lot, also about the settlers in Germantown."

Anna Amelia died on 1 Nov 1774 and was buried in the cemetery at St. Michael's Lutheran Church. There is a record of her burial in the records of said church, which reads as follows:

"Burials: Amelia Groethausen, November 1, 1774, aged 74 years." [She would have been born in 1700.]

Regarding Anna Amelia Miller's mother...

Anna Sibella Levering, daughter of John Wigard Levering and Magdalena Boker, was born in Sep 1684, at Mulheim, Westphalia, Prussia. She was brought to America by her parents in the summer of 1685. She married George Miller, who resided at Chestnut Hill, above Germantown. Mr. Miller died in Nov 1719. He left a will dated "Sommerhausen, 21st of September, 1719." At the office of Register of Wills in Philadelphia, is recorded "A translation of George Miller's will, the original being writ in Dutch." In the instrument he provides for his "wife Anna Sibella Miller, daughter of Wigard Levering." Mention is also made of "sons and daughters", but none are named. Mrs. Miller was buried at the Concord Burial Ground, near to Chew's House, Germantown, where on a small headstone is the following inscription: "In Memory of Sibella Millar, who died August 17th, 1764, aged 80 years."

Anna Sibella Levering was named as the daughter of John Wigard Levering in the records of his family Bible and in his will.

Records Collection
Bible Records: John Wigard Levering Family

Will: John Wigard Levering

1691/92, Mar 7 - Naturalizations, Germantown, named were John Wigard Levering and Gerhard Levering
Colonel John Levering, Levering Family: History and Genealogy

Sources:

Colonel John Levering, Levering Family: History and Genealogy, Levering Historical Association, Albany, NY: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1897. Page 51, 94 and 102. Online: http://books.google.com/books?id=GvMwAAAAMAAJ

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