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About Peter DeHaven
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Peter DeHaven was born in Whitpain Township, Montgomery County, PA in 1741 to William DeHaven and Hanna Cramer. In 1764, he married Abigail West in St. Michael’s Lutheran Church in Germantown, Montgomery County. The ancestors of Abigail are not known, except that she was born in 1746 in Fort Washington, Montgomery County. Peter and his son Isaac were both Revolutionary War soldiers with the rank of Private in the 4th Battalion Pennsylvania Militia. The 4th Pennsylvania Regiment, first known as the 3rd Pennsylvania Battalion, was raised December 9, 1775 at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for service with the Continental Army. The regiment was assigned to Thomas Mifflin's brigade in the main army on June 26, 1776. Part of the unit was captured at Fort Washington on November 16, 1776. The regiment fought at Brandywine (1777), Paoli (1777), Germantown (1777), Monmouth (1778) and the Sullivan Expedition (1779). The regiment was furloughed January 17, 1781 at Trenton, New Jersey and disbanded on January 1, 1783. It is not known in which battles the two DeHavens fought.
About 1790 Peter and Abigail moved with their family of eight children to Gainesboro, Frederick Co. in the Shanandoah Valley of Western VA. In one source, Peter’s occupation is that of Stonemason but he probably acquired farmland in the Valley for his service in the War. Along with the first German settlers, known as "Shenandoah Deitsch", many Scots-Irish immigrants came south in the 1730s from Pennsylvania into the valley, via the Potomac River. The Scots-Irish comprised the largest group of non-English immigrants from the British Isles before the Revolutionary War, and most migrated into the backcountry of the South.
Abigail died in 1827 at the age of 81 and Peter died in 1822 also at the age of 81. They are both buried in the Back Creek Quaker Cemetery, Gainesboro, Frederick Co., VA as well as their son Isaac. Descendents erected a modern gravestone for Peter and Abigail DeHaven in the old Back Creek Quaker Cemetery. The late Robert Unger arranged for the Veteran's Administration to donate a tombstone for this Revolutionary War veteran's grave, and Edward Shirley was responsible for erecting the stone. No one seems to know why the DeHavens were buried here, in that neither were Quakers. One of their daughters, Leanna(1772-1853) married Quaker David Adams, and this may have been a connection. The cemetery is now maintained by the United Methodist Church, and burials are still made at this site.
Members of the early generations in Pennsylvania were Calvinistic in their religious beliefs, and were associated with Dutch Reformed or Presbyterian churches. After settling in Back Creek Valley, descendants were associated primarily with Methodist Churches.
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Peter DeHaven's Timeline
| 1741 |
January 31, 1741
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Whitpain Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, Colonial America
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| 1765 |
April 25, 1765
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Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1769 |
November 30, 1769
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Whitpain Township, Montgomery County, PA, United States
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| 1772 |
1772
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Bucks County, Pennsylvania, United States
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1775
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| 1778 |
February 5, 1778
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Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States
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| 1784 |
March 31, 1784
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Frederick County, Virginia, United States
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| 1822 |
January 4, 1822
Age 80
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Gainesboro, Frederick County, Virginia, United States
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Back Creek Quaker Cemetery, Gainesboro, Frederick County, Virginia, United States
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