Leonard EPLEY

                   BIRTH:  1800 Census of Adams County, Pennsylvania.
DEATH-SPOUSE-CHILDREN-GRANDCHILDREN:
            Abstracts of "Adams County Pensylvania Wills 1800-1826" states:
            Leonard APLEY--of Tyrone Township, Adams County, PA.--
            Children: John, Jacob, Henry, Michael, David, Catherine widow of
            William CLARK, Elizabeth wife of Silvans DAY, Sarah wife of
            Thomas GRIFFITH, Margaret wife of Jacob SAWVEL, Susanah.
            Grandchildren:  Mary CLARK, John, Jacob, George and Moses WOOLF.
            Executors:  John CLINE, Jacob SAWVEL.  Witnesses: Henry SHRIVER               and Nicholas GRIST.  Written on the Mar. 9, 1819.  Inventory of
            Leonard Apley's deceaced, estate was taken on Mar. 27, 1819.
            I Have copy of the original Will.  The birth order of the children
            were determined by the order they were named in the will.
LAND: I have a copy of a Gettysburg Newspaper called "Centinel"
            dated March 22, 1820 that states on the saturday of April 1st,
            there will be a public sale of a small Plantation containing about
            40 acres situated in Tyrone township, Adams County, late property
            of Leonard Eppley, deceased.  There are on the premises, a good log
            House and Barn, and a good Orchard.  About 20 acres are cleared;
            the residue young thriving timber.  The land is of as good quality
            as any in the settlement.  Terms will be made known on the day of
            sale.  John Kline & Jacob Sauble the executors.  March 7, 1820
SPOUSE-CHILDREN:  sources used were:
            LDS IGI Extaction of Church Records of Adam Co., PA.
            "Church Record of Adams Counties, PA" FHL film 0022176.
TAX LISTS:  I find Leonard in several of the Tax Lists of York County, PA.
            He is not listed in the 1771 Tax Lists, but in the 1779 Tax List
            is a Leonard Apple, but his township in York County is not named.
            Then in the 1780 Tax Lists a Lonhard Eppley is listed in a PD Twp.
            (which township is this?).  In the 1789 and 1790 Tax Lists a
            Leonard Appley is listed in Tyrone Township of York County,
            (Adam County is later formed out of York County sometime after
            1790 and before 1800).
POSSIBLE RELATIVES:
            Matthias Epley (son of John & Rosina Epley) has a son, John Epley
            who serves in the Revolutionary War as a guard of a prisioners of
            war camp.  In John's application for a war pension, it mentions
            that John served as a substitute for his father Matthias, and
            later his father brought a George Leonard who asked John to serve
            another 3 months as a substitute for him.  I believe that Leonard's
            full name might be George Leonard Epley.  On the internet I found
            where it talks about German naming patterns.  It says German's
            were given a first, middle, and last name.  The first name is
            usually after a saint, the second name is what they were called by,
            and then the last name.  This is why I think that possibly on the
            pension record the scribe accidentally left of Leonard's last name,
            but that John Epley actually substitued for George Leonard (Epley)
            who was a relative of his.  Of course, so far this is not PROVEN.