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	    MY GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT-GREAT GRAMDPARENTS
	  RESEARCH INFORMATION ON OUR FAMILY OF THE LEEPERS
		     ORIGINALLY SPELLED LEPPER


	  BY WILLIAM ANDREW LEEPER OF CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA
				AND
			  WASHINGTON, D. C.

* JAMES LEEPER AND HIS WIFE MARGARET IMMIGRATED TO AMERICA FROM IRELAND
  THEY PROVED THEIR IMPORTATION IN AUGUSTA COUNTY, ORANGE, VIRGINIA ON FEBRUARY
  TWENTY EIGHT, SEVENTEEN HUNDRED THIRTY NINE.

  THEIR AUGUSTA COUNTY LAND ON CHRISTIAN CREEK HAD BEEN SURVEYED MAY 13, 1738.
  THEIR CHILDREN WERE BAPTIZED BY THE REV. JOHN CRAIG IN THE TINKLING SPRING
  MEETING HOUSE CONGREGATION, DURING THE YEARS 1741 AND 1744. BEFORE THE YEAR
  1747 PURCHASED LAND ON NAKED CREEK AT THE NORTH RIVER.  THIS WAS ON BORDER OF
  PRESENT AUGUSTA COUNTY WHERE HIS BROTHER ROBERT LEEPER'S NAME APPEARS ON THE
  MILITIA ROLL CALL OF CAPT. JOHN SMITH'S COMPANY.

	CHILDREN ON THE IMPORTATION RECORDS

* 1 NICHOLAS LEEPER (ELDEST)		 7 ISABELLA LEEPER
  2 SARA LEEPER				 8 MARY LEEPER
  3 JANE LEEPER				 9 MARGARET LEEPER
  4 ANDREW LEEPER			 10 JOHN LEEPER
  5 JAMES LEEPER JR.			 11 GEORGE LEEPER
  6 GAVIN LEEPER


  LAST THREE CHILDREN APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN BORN IN AMERICA AS THEY WERE NOT
  LISTED ON THE IMPORTATION RECORD.


  ( JAMES LEEPER, SON OF NICHOLAS AND MARY LEEPER SERVED AS HIS FATHER'S ATTORNEY
  IN A LAND SALE DURING THE YEAR 1771, AUGUSTA COUNTY RECORDS. ALSO IN GASTON
  COUNTY RECORDS HE IS SHOWN AS HIS FATHER'S ATTORNEY DURING THE YEAR 1772.)








  Information as of 1968 and 1969
  Re-typed 1980