James LEEPER

1740 - 1826  (86 years)

• Name	James LEEPER
  Born	1740	Muddy Creek Forks, York County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Gender	Male
  Died	16 Aug 1826	Brooke County, West Virginia, USA
  Buried	Cross Creek, Washington County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Person ID	I6133	John Robert Coburn
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2019

  
  

  Father	James McCready LEEPER,   b. 22 Mar 1719, Derry, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom ,   d. 23 Oct 1765  (Age 46 years)
  Mother	Margaret McKee SNODGRASS,   b. 1720,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	Abt 1742	Chester, PA
  Family ID	F2119	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Jane Amspoker,   b. 1740, Northern Ireland ,   d. 9 Nov 1826, Washington County, PA  (Age 86 years)
  Married	1773	Muddy Creek Forks, Lower Chanceford Township, York County, Pennsylvania.
  Last Modified	15 Feb 2019
  Family ID	F40	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  He was born in 1746 in Muddy Creek Forks, Lower Chanceford Township, York County, Pennsylvania. James Leeper and Mary Jane 'Jennie' Amspoker were both about thirty-three when they married in about 1773 in Muddy Creek Forks, Lower Chanceford Township, York County, Pennsylvania. In 1780, they moved to Brooke County, Virginia, now in West Virginia. His sister, Elizabeth married his wife's brother, Jonas Amspoker. James was forty-one when he served in the Revolutionary War in 1781 as a private 7th class under Capt. Edmund Baxter, along with his brother, Samuel and his brother-in law, Jonas Amspoker in the 8th Co. 4th Battalion in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Their known children: Anna Leeper (Dillon) (b.1775) John Leeper (b.1776 d.1849) James Leeper (b.1778 d.1860) Martha'Mattie'Leeper (b.1780 d.1850) William Alexander Leeper (b.1782 d.1858) Jane Leeper (b.1783 d.1868) Family history was recorded in the Codorus Chronicles, The History and Genealogy of York County, PA. Vol II #4 Feb 1985, and the Commemorative Biographical Record of Carroll County, Ohio, published by J.H. Beers & Co in 1891 and researched by Steve Leeper in 1997 and by Jerry D. Leeper of Glendora, CA in 1997, and later of Kansas. The Leeper Family History compiled by Laverne Leeper in the 1930s contained two letters written to Mary Leeper Long in 1900 from David Rohrer Leeper, a descendent of James's father. According to p.181 of a History of Chanceford Township, York County, Pennsylvania, 1747 - 1997, his sister Mary had a son named Alexander Smith and his sister Elizabeth had a son named John Amspoker. The two executors named in James's will were Alexander Smith and John Amspoker. If James was Mary's and Elizabeth's brother, then they would be his nephews. They had been married about fifty-three years when they both died in 1826 in Brooke County, West Virginia. James died August 16, 1826 and Mary died about three months later on November 9, 1826. They were buried in the Cross Creek Presbyterian Cemetery in Washington County, Pennsylvania. The original gravestones were replaced by a modern stone. James lived to about age 86