John Henry Light

LIGHT, JOHN Ancestor #: A201481 Service: PENNSYLVANIA Rank: PRIVATE Birth: 4-4-1750 LANCASTER CO PENNSYLVANIA Death: 12-1-1829 BETHEL TWP LEBANON CO PENNSYLVANIA
Service Source: PA ARC 5TH SER VOL. 7 P 152, 172
Service Description:
1) EIGHTH CLASS, CAPT CASPER STOEVER 3RD COMPANY OF 2ND BATT

DAR# A201481

His father was born in Pfalz, Bayern, Germany and his mother in Conestoga, Lancaster Co, PA.
Married ca 1772 to Mary Donnerin/Dohner.

Owned land in Lebanon twp, Lancaster (Lebanon) Co, Pennsylvania, (some 224 acres came from purchase from his father 12/22/1755), and later built with a grist mill on same, at a large bend in Little Swatara creek; yeoman; soldier in the Revolutionary war under Capt Casper Stoever, 3rd Co, Class 8., 2nd Batt; was of Bethel twp in 1815; he and wife, and much of his family, are buried on his own land, now called Light's Graveyard (detailed accounts of family, burials, dates from book The History and Geneology of Early Pioneer Families of Lebanon County, PA, pages 18 & 19)

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