John Marte LEEDY

1715 - 1760  (45 years)

• Name	John Marte LEEDY
  Birth	1715	Burgdorf, Bern, Switzerland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1739	Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA   [1]
  Immigration	Sep 1741	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America   [1]
  Name	Johannes Marte Leudi  [1]
  Name	John Lidy  [1]
  Name	Martin Leey  [1]
  _FSFTID	GTS4-XQ2
  _FSLINK	https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/GTS4-XQ2
  _UID	8F5BEBDC215147C194BADF7AB7A1433DAAB5
  Death	25 Aug 1760	Hallam, York, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America   [1]
  Person ID	I26639	Carney Wehofer July 2025
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2025

  
  

  Father	Abraham LIECHTI,   b. 1680, Wimmis, Bern, Switzerland d. 1760, Somerset, Washington, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth GRUBB,   b. 1693, Switzerland d. Aft 1720, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 28 years)
  Family ID	F536734360	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maria Elizabeth ZUKER,   b. 1710, Langnau im Emmental, Langnau im Emmental, Bern, Switzerland d. Abt 1769, York, York, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America (Age 59 years)
  Marriage	31 Jul 1739	Rüderswil, Bern, Schweiz   [1]
  Children	1. Jacob (Lidi) LEEDY,   b. 1738, Bern, Switzerland d. 1806, York, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 68 years)   2. Christiana LIECHTI,   b. 1740, Bern, Switzerland d. 1796, Hellam, York, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 56 years)   3. Barbara LEEDY,   b. Abt 1742, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA d. Dead   4. Johannah Jacobine LEEDY,   b. Sep 1744, Conestoga, Conestoga Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America d. 28 Apr 1801, Wachovia, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States (Age ~ 56 years)   5. Samuel LEEDY,   b. Abt 1746, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America d. Yes, date unknown   6. John LEEDY,   b. 29 Sep 1746, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America d. May 1820, Wytheville, Wythe, Virginia, United States (Age 73 years)   7. Samuel Aeschilmann LEEDY,   b. 29 Sep 1747, Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Colonial America d. Mar 1815, Harrisonburg, Virginia, United States (Age 67 years)   8. Abraham LEEDY, I,   b. 1748, Conestoga Township, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America d. 25 Aug 1834, Woodbury, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States (Age 86 years)   9. Eva LEEDY,   b. Abt 1752, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, British Colonial America d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F11914	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jan 2025

  
  

• Notes

  John LEEDY was of Conestoga Twp., Lancaster, Penn. He immigrated to America from Switzerland about 1738, settling in York Co. Pennsylvania. The Leedys were German Baptist Brethern, also known as Dunkards, a Plain Anabaptist sect similar to the Amish. George Lucas' third great grandfather, also named John Leedy, was known as "Big John, " weighing well over 300 pounds. He was one of the earliest settlers of Richland County, Ohio. Big John's nephew Caleb Leedy, son of Samuel Leedy and Catherine Elizabeth Litt, died in 1862 at the Battle of Shiloh and is buired in the Shiloh National Cemetery, Hardin Co., Tennessee. A view of his tombstone was featured in Ken Burns' series THE CIVIL WAR. While Lucas' Leedy ancestors moved into Ohio, Illinois, and California, my Leedy ancestor, Johanna Jacobina Leedy Binkley moved from Pennsylvania to Maryland, North Carolina and finally to Tennesse

  
  

• Sources

  [S1160] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 1 Jan 2025), entry for John Marte LEEDY, person ID GTS4-XQ2. (Reliability: 3).