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BIOGRAPHICAL INFO:
Need proof of marriage and of his Huguenot ancestry for Mathias Ley(Lei/Loy)(1706-1783) and wife (her parents sought) Anna Maria Day (Kumpf?)(1711-1786) - emigrants to Albany Twp., Berks Co., PA, and then Loysville, Perry Co., PA.
They left Rotterdam for London with a party of French immigrants on the Ship Samuel, 17 August 1733; he was then age 28 and she age 24. [Their son Michael (1740-1823) m. Margaret Lempert (1743-1809).] {Ref. Pa. German Pioneers, by Ralph B. Strassburger and Wm. John Hinkle, Vol. 1 (1727-75), pp. 106-07.} Mathias was warantee for 100 acres in Philadelphia County in 1742 and before 1750 resided at Colebrookdale; in 1758 he was warantee for 50 acres in Berks County, residing midway between the present Bethel Zion's Church in Grimsville, Greenwich Twp. and the Wessnersville Church on the present paved road north from Krumsville (Schucker's Public School was on the farm in 1949). His will dated 22 February 1762 was proved 23 October 1783; her will was signed 16 November 1786. He was tax collector in 1763. 17 August 1733 he and his wife and his elder brother George "did this date subscribe to the oath of the Government" in court at Philadelphia. A Loy family Internet site: http://www.fortunecity.com/millenium/paddington/63/index.html
Loy names are also found in this site for Alsace: http://www.genealogy.tm.fr/acte.htm
Michael LEY (later LOY) was born July 21, 1740 in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania near Pottstown. He was confirmed in the Maxatawny church near Kutztown in 1759. He married Maria Margaretha LEMPERT (later LAMBERT) about 1762 in Berks County. He died July 19, 1823 in Perry County, Pennsylvania. Michael was mentioned in his fathers will as the second eldest son in 1762.
In the War of Independence, there two and possibly three men named Michael Ley (Loy) whose records have been somewhat confused...consensus...is that our Michael Ley was in Captain Smith's Company, 2nd Battalion, Berks County Militia, along with his brother, George and his sister's husband, Andreas Dressler...in 1788 he moved with his family to the Sherman Valley...bought piece of land about 122 acres from John and Agnes Sharp on Oct 20, 1788...most if not all of the eleven children of Michael and Margaret accompanied them...three of the Loy sisters married three Bernheisel brothers...Michael Loy and Martin Bernheisel donated land for a Lutheran church...first Lutheran church in Perry County...building committee were Michael Loy, George Hammer, and Peter Scheibley. ..used by both the Lutheran and the Reformed congregations until 1850... Michael was confirmed in the Lutheran Church in 1759 by the Rev. Daniel Schumacher...married about 1762...in 1765 paid taxes in Greenwich Township on 100 acres of land...two horses, two cows, two sheep, three Negroes, and six quit-rents...
MOVE FROM BERKS TO CUMBERLAND (PART LATER PERRY) COUNTY,PENNSYLVANIA IN 1788
It is known that Michael LOY was in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania by at least 23 March 1788 because his two daughters Barbara LOY and Margaretta Sybilla LOY were confirmed in the Lebanon Lutheran Church, Cumberland County by Rev. Frederick Miller on that date.
Michael Loy purchased 114 acres, 133 perches of land from John SHARP and Agnes SHARP, his wife, "whereon he lives in Tyrone Township, Cumberland County" (in part later to become Perry), Pennsylvania on 20 October 1788 for 405 pounds sterling (Cumberland Deed Book H, Vol. 1-596). The town of Andesville (originally called Red Hook) was built on a portion of this tract of land, and sometime after 1842, the name was changed to Loysville in honor of Michael LOY. Michael LOY'S home and farm building structures were about 300 yards south of the
crossroads and about 100 yards west on the road leading south. The structures are now all gone. On October 15, 1805 the 114 acre farm was transferred to Michael LOY Jr., and RITTER descendants later owned the property.
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