REV WAR SOLDIER WITH BOTH BERKS CO., MILITIA AND THE REGULAR ARMY

First born son of Joseph and Maria Christina Schnepp.
When war broke out with the Crown, Leonard and his brother Reinhardt, both young men enlisted in Braunschweig Tsp. 3rd Battalion, Berks Co., Militia under comand of Col. Lindenmuth. Roll calls included them both on April 15, 1779 so they must have stayed several years under the command of Captain Jacob Westston, 1st Let. Geoirg Brach and Let. Michael Mosser. Leonard also served in the Regular Contintental Army of Pennsylvania. Fought in the battles of Brandywine and Chad's Ford in the same days, Sept 10 & 11, 1777. Lost to the British and suffered the loss of over a thousand men. They died withing a few hours and was the highest death toll in the War.

Married in 1779 to Catherine Straub, dau of Andres Matteis Straub, another soldier in the Rev War, and his wife, Catherine DeLong. They remained married for 46 years before his death. She never remarried and lived another 13 years.

In 1800, Pennslyvania had started their list of all men who served in the war in order to receive their land grant for services in the state of Ohio. Leonards was filed under the spelling Snep and in the spring of 1805, Leonard along with other men in his church, picked up their families and moved to Ohio in anticapation of receving their land, 80 acres. Found in the Federal Land Series, a calendar of archival materials on the land patents issued by the United States Government. With Subject, tract, and name indexs, Vol 3 1810-1841. It has a map printed with each families names. The friends from his church who were fellow travelers with him were, Apple, Coy, Weaver. Straub, Gebhart to name the ones that marriages with them occureded in the Schnepp family. Thre were others you would know if you checked the map. The main library in Phoenix, Arizona has that book.

In 1807, the church group left Pennsylvania in the spring with the men and their families to claim their land. It actually did not happen until 1820 but they had well established themselves in Ohio before that.

Leonard Snep Pvt. Coninental line --Revolutionary War
Will dated 6 July 1824
Will probated 8 June 1825
(copy of will recorded on rootsweb under his name)

Daughters of American Rev. memberships already in place:
Abraham Dwight Schnepp (unknown number)
Geraldine Houghteling Lee #742283
Jean Evelyn Houghteling Stipher #775457
Karen Stipher Irby #787387
Mary Margaret King Woodward #549391
Richard King (unknown number)

Recently there has been an addition by a rather well known Coy researcher naming a Margaret 1824 as a child of Leonard & Catherine. I can hardly believe it. This is not just wrong but imposible. I also still find the two girls that married Coy boys with the spelling that their Uncle Reinhardt's family uses today, Snypp. It it is time people stop just copying and do some real research. Start with a WILL

I know I am critical and I am sorry for that. However, mistakes are almost impossible to fix let alone the ones that were done on purpose. For instance, Leonards father Joseph. He was born in the Alace region but at that time it belonged to the Austrian -Hungarian Empire. Germany did not exist until 1871 when 27 little countrise uniited. There was never an Palantate Alace. It would became France after WWI and...in the local church in Schnepp, France, there were 9 Joseph Schnepps listed aroung the time of his birth, so we will NEVER know who his parents were!

Researched solely by Linda Doile Morris 4th Great Grandaughter.