Abraham LeFevre

Surname has also been reported to be the following:

• Lefevre
• le Fevre
• (erroneously) le Ferve

Date of birth might be 1632. Place of birth has also been (erroneously?) reported to be the following:

• Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France
• (Yonne Valley), Bourgogne, France

A French Huguenot who was martyred, together with his wife and six of his children, three sons, and three daughters, after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, by the Roman Catholics, because of the nobility of their character.

Another son, Isaac, born 1669, escaped death at this time, but was unable to save anything except his father's Bible, which he had with him when he settled near Strasburg, Pennsylvania, in 1712.

Place of death has been (erroneously?) reported to be Étaples, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France.

links

• FamilySearch AFN: 120V-H3X

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https://ericroots.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/the-french-connection-le...

In October 1685, during the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, at his home in Strasburg, Abraham was martyred by the Catholics, along with his wife and six of his children (Judith [born in 1660], Philip [born in 1664], Jacob [born in 1666], Mary [born in 1671], Susanna [born in 1672], and Charles [born in 1680]).

His son, Isaac (born in 1669) was the only one of his children who was able to escape. About the only possession he was able to take with him was the family Bible. It was a capital crime to be in possession of a Calvinist Bible, and legend has it that his mother had baked it into a loaf of bread so that he was able to transport it undetected. That Bible is now owned by the Lancaster County (Pennsylvania) Historical Society (http://www.lancasterhistory.org/), which has spent a large amount of time and money rebinding and preserving it, and it is one of the most requested items to view in their collection.

http://updikeandpotter.com/Updike%20Line.pdf