By J. R. Witcraft 

The Heiligh and Harley family of Philadelphia, Penna and surrounding areas. It was said that Phoebe Rabjohn was descended from a Holland Dutchess or Princess, that she fell in love with the coachman or butler and they eloped to this country. A letter dated July 25, 1898 from Harleysville, Penna. It was told that all of the Harleys of America are of German ancestry. They were of a distinguished family, but while they they did not worship with the established or National religion they were greatly persecuted, and obliged to flee from their country. A Thomas Harley purchased 5000 acres of land from William Penn in 1682. It was located partly in Hatfield and in Franconia of Montgomery County, PA.

(31p., Illus, 1914)