DELONG

1st Generation

ABRAHAM (5) PERHAPS, and I stress the word perhaps in the probably futile hope that the suggestion will not appear as "fact" when some reader transfers the idea to his or her own personal family write-up, the founder of the DeLong family was ABRAHAM LANGER alias LE LONG who was among the Palatines to New York state in 1710.

Abraham was baptised 1668, son of Charles Le Long and his wife Marie des Marets He married 1698 Anna Barbara Dorthel. For details of these and other records, see Henry Z. Jones Jr's Palatine Families of New York. Abraham and Anna Barbara had a son Peter le lonn (the second child of the name, the first presumably had died) baptised 1707 (again see PFNY), and I suggested to Mr. Jones that he may well have been the Peter DeLang who married by 1724 Eva Elizabeth Weber, daughter of Jacob Weber another of the Palatine immigrants of 1710. While Peter Le Long would only have been 17 in 1724, it is not unreasonable as his bride was also 17.

I suggested the possibility to Mr. Jones and he replied "I think it entirely possible that you are indeed correct in your theory that [the Peter of 1707] might be the Peter DeLang who married Eva Elisabeth Weber." Mr. Jones then published the suggestion in his next volume More Palatine Families: Some Immigrants to the Middle Colonies 1717-1776 and Their European Origins, Plus New Discoveries on German Families Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710. (1991.)

I also suggested that Abraham who settled in Lehigh Co., PA could also have been a son of Abraham and Anna Barbara Lelong. Again, Mr. Jones published the suggestion. Abraham of Lehigh and Peter who was of nearby Berks Co., have long been considered brothers. There was considerable overlapping of their families in baptism sponsorships, and both reached PA from Ulster Co., NY where Peter was known from his marriage in the Palatine colony.

In both of his books, Mr. Jones calls attention to the 1731 sponsorship of Elizabeth, child of Abraham Long, by Peter and Elizabeth Long at Oley in Berks Co., Abraham did not have a daughter Elizabeth to our knowledge unless she died young; I suggest all these people were truly Langs. There has been much confusion over the occasional use of Long/Lang by Berks County DeLongs.

Children:

*5-1 PETER perhaps the son baptised 1707 to Abraham Le Long, md. Eva Elizabeth Weber.

*5-2 ABRAHAM perhaps another son of Abraham Le Long, md. Catherine. See sheet 5-2 for discussion of birth year.

There is nothing to support the DAR claim that Peter (5-1) was son of a Francis DeLong. It probably came from misreading the text of History of Lehigh Co., Vol. 2 which says Peter lived in Ulster Co., NY then mentions Francis DeLong of that place 1711 who however was of the much earlier Dutch DeLong family.