Benjamin F. Weaver, of the fifth generation, son of Moses S. Weaver, residing on the farm seat of the original plantation, patented in two tracts, applied for in 1721, and surveyed and allotted to George Weber, in 1726, containing together three hundred and fifty-two acres of land (352 A.) lying north, east and southeast from the present brick meetinghouse, now being operated, and cultivated from nine additional sets of farm buildings conveniently erected thereon as the larger tracts were divided and subdivided to suit the successive owners. This set of buildings, or the place occupied by them, were occupied successively by George, Henry, Benjamin, Moses S., and now the present owner.
A note of more than ordinary passing is that in the same family lives the mother of Mrs. Weaver, Mary A. Glouner Zimmerman, whose mother, Lydia Weaver Martin Newswanger, was one of the daughters of Dr. George Weaver, who was the great-grandson of the first settler Jacob Weber.
The eastern end of the original David Martin plantation was purchased from one of those descendants, and added to this plantation by Moses S. Weaver, the father of Benjamin F. Weaver, in his young manhood, and when he died his large farm was divided into sections to suit four of his children, and the western section with farm buildings along the highway, a short distance north of the Weaverland meeting houses are the home and property of one of his daughters also of the fifth generation.
Martha Weaver, who with her husband Ex-County Commissioner Samuel G., Zimmerman, and their family, gave a comfortable home to her widowed mother, Maria Wanner Weaver for many years.
Moses W. Weaver, another brother, a son of Moses S. Weaver, being of the fifth generation from George Weber, is residing on the eastern section of his father's farm, which is a part of the original plantation where he and his family are comfortably seated in a new set of buildings along the Weaverland Road , East, which were built by him.
These three farms were never out of the direct line of descent from George Weber, their ancestors all having lived and died on this plantation.
William G. Weaver, of the seventh generation in the Henry Weber line, a son of Benjamin M. Weaver, owns and occupies the northern section of the Moses S. Weaver farm which passed from the George Weber line from S. L. Weaver, in 1896.
Adam Z. Martin, of the sixth generation from George Weber, a grandson of Elizabeth, generally known as Betsy Weaver, who was born and grew to womanhood on this homestead, and became the wife of Jacob Martin owns the original farm seat of the southern end of the farm, which originally contained 153 acres with its allowances. It is occupied and cultivated by his son, Tobias W. Martin, of the seventh generation, whose wife, by the way of showing how we intermingled, belongs to the seventh generation in the Henry Weber line.
Edwin H. Martin, also of the sixth generation from George Weber through his grandmother, Anna Weaver, a daughter of Samuel Weaver, at Cedar Run, who was the wife of George Martin, owns and cultivates the middle section of the southern part of the original farm. The beautiful spring which was no doubt the cause of locating the farm buildings here, now belongs to this part of the old farm.
Levi M. Martin, of the sixth generation in the Henry Weber line of descent, through his great-grandmother, Magdalena Weber, wife of preacher Joseph Horst, of Leacock, owns the western section of the south end farm, with the farm buildings along the highway leading from Blue Ball to Weaverland meeting house.
Barton M. Horst, of the sixth generation in the line of Henry Weber, through his great-grandmother, Maria Weber, wife of Jacob Horst, owns the extreme eastern section of the southern farm, with farm buildings along Route No. 73.
Jacob G. Horst, of the seventh generation in the Henry Weber line through his grandmother Lydia Weaver, occupies a part of the eastern section, with farm buildings along the Weaverland Road, East.
Martin B. Sauder, is the owner of and occupies the extreme northern end of the original farm of the George Weber grant. His farm buildings are situate at a beautiful spring, and is one of the springs which attracted the first settler when he and his brothers explored the valley for a location. This farm was set apart for Elizabeth Weber, a daughter of Benjamin Weber, of the third generation from George Weber, when she became the wife of John S. Martin, who came back from the rest of his family in Cumberland County. (They are both noted as buried in the old graveyard.) This part of the farm passed from the Weber or Weaver lineage in, 1878, when Benjamin W. Martin sold it and moved with his family to Elkhart County, Indiana.
This part of the farm has however, now again returned to become the home of another descendant of the Weaver family, in the person of Mrs. Martin Sauder, whose great-grandmother, Anna Weber, the wife of David Horst, was a daughter of Heine Weber, and is noted as being buried in the old graveyard.