Maj. Daniel Leet and Wilhelmina Ballah

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Husband Maj. Daniel Leet ^{1 2 3 4}

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           Born: 6 Nov 1748 - near Bordentown, Burlington Co, NJ 2 5
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           Died: 18 Jun 1830 - Sewickley, Allegheny Co, PA 1 2 4
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         Father: Isaac Leet (      -1802) 3 6
         Mother: Rebecca [Unk] (      -      ) 5

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Wilhelmina Ballah ⁴

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Children

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1 F Eliza Leet ^{1 2 4}

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            AKA: Maria Leet 7
           Born: Abt 1784 - Washington Co, PA
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           Died: 21 Mar 1872 1
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         Spouse: David Shields (1780-1857) 1 2 4

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General Notes: Husband - Maj. Daniel Leet

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He was born March 6, 1748. [CRFP, 1457]

He was a friend of General Washington, and joined the Revolutionary forces at his request. He was appointed quartermaster of a Virginia regiment, January 1, 1777, and paymaster in October, 1777. September 21, 1778, he was commissioned brigade-major. He was at the battle of Trenton and at Valley Forge, the winter of 1777-78. He served under General McIntosh at Fort Laurens, and in 1782 was brigade-major with Crawford at the latter's defeat. He remained in western Pennsylvania after the war was ended. [CRFP, 1457]

He was commissioned surveyor of Augusta County, Virginia, April 17, 1776. He served in the Revolutionary War as quartermaster and paymaster, and on September 21, 1778, was promoted to the rank of brigade major. During and after the Revolution he was a leader of men. At Crawford's defeat he did not act as brigade major, but acted as the second in command, having been elected to the position by the volunteer force. He stood high in his profession of surveyor, acting as one of the commission in fixing the county seat of Washington County, and districting it into townships; serving as deputy surveyor before the western line of the Commonwealth was established; making the survey of the Second District of the Depreciation lands; making the survey within the reserved tract where Allegheny is located; laying out and surveying the other reserved tract at the mouth of the Beaver river, etc. He was made justice of the peace and ex officio associate judge when the county was erected, and was a representative in the General Assembly in 1791 and in 1792. [CBRWC, 1424]

1 Editor, The History of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Part II (Chicago, IL: A. W. Warner & Co., 1889), Pg 508.

2 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 226.

3 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1423.

4 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 1457.

5 Editor, Commemorative Biographical Record of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1893), Pg 1424.

6 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 226, 483.

7 Boyd Crumrine, History of Washington County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: L. H. Everts & Co., 1882), Pg 797.