Gummere Family of the USA

John Gummere II

Born about 1705 in Europe, possibly French Flanders, the son of Johannes Gömere / John Gummere and his wife Anna Koch.
Married before 1738 in Pennsylvania to Sarah Deaves.
Died 1783.

Sarah Deaves

Born about 1708, the daughter of Isaac Deaves (1683-1750) from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England and Martha Cock (1681-1750) from Oyster Bay, Nassau County, New York.
Died 29 November 1770.

Children:-

1. Jacob born 18 August 1738 in Abington, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania; married 28 April 1763 at the Abington Meeting House, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania to Hannah Leedom.
2. John born 21 March 1745 at Goshen, Chester County, Pennsylvania; married 1775 at Westgrove, Chester County, Pennsylvania to Levina Wilson.
3. Isaac born in Pennsylvania
4. David born 1 April 1747 in Pennsylvania.
5. Samuel born 1749 in Pennsylvania; married 22 October 1783 at the Concord Meeting House, Chester County, Pennsylvania to Rachel James.
6. Sarah born 31 May 1754 in Pennsylvania.
7. Martha born 22 October 1756 in Pennsylvania.

Isaac and Martha Deaves came to Germantown sometime before 1714, when they signed and sealed an indenture on 21 July 1714 to take up 65 acres of land at Krisheim (Philadelphia County Deed 4D-54, dated 16 May 1715). Both the Deaves and Cock families were Quakers. John Gummere's father was a Brethren. The Brethren and Quaker beliefs are similar, so John must have joined the Quakers either in order to marry Sarah Deaves, or sometime before their marriage.

Johannes sold his land on the Wissahickon River in Germantown, Pennsylvania to his elder son, Johannes (John), who in turn sold it to Benjamin Shoemaker on 29 October 1742. A few years later Shoemaker sold it to John Gorgas on 2 March 1746/7, whose brother Joseph built the three story stone house known as the Monastery.

Up until 1741 John and Sarah Gummere attended the Abington Meeting House. In March 1741 they were received into the Concord Meeting in Chester County, Pennsylvania where they remained until Jan 1745 when they were received into the Goshen Monthly Meeting in Chester County. In May 1755 John Gomery, wife Sarah and children were granted a certificate to attend Abington Monthly Meeting. It would appear they remained in the Abington area as the tax list for 1769 for Abington Township, now in Montgomery County, lists John Gummere as a landholder there.

Sarah Gummere née Deaves died on 29 November 1770, and John Gummere died in 1783.

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References:-
Encyclopaedia of American Quaker Genealogy, by William Wade Hinshaw.
The Wissahickon Valley Within the City of Philadelphia, by Francis Burke Brandt, published 1927 by the Corn Exchange National Bank, Philadelphia.
1769 Taxlist for Abington Twp.
Records from the Ancestry.com website.
URL=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gomery/gummerejohnII.html
Last revised: 24 September 2006
© Linda Hansen 2006