John's will was signed 24 February, 1778 and filed 17 March 1778 in Berkeley county, (West) Virginia. In his will he names his children as John, Joseph, Daniel, Benjamin, William, and daughters Ann, Ruth, Betty and Polly. He gives his daughters each " fifty pounds Pennsylvania currency as they arrive to the proper age by law for them to receive".
The marriage license of John Covenhoven and Lydia Pridmore is dated August 1752.
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