Frederick Leaser

Frederick Leaser (1738–1810) was a Pennsylvanian German farmer, patriot and soldier from Lynn in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.

During the American Revolutionary War, he transported the Liberty Bell to the Zion Reformed Church in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where it was successfully hidden and protected from the British for nine months during the British occupation of Philadelphia, then the revolutionary capital of the Thirteen Colonies.

[1] After then Continental Army commander George Washington's defeat at the Battle of Brandywine on September 11, 1777, Philadelphia, then capital for the Second Continental Congress, faced imminent attack by the British Army under General Sir William Howe.

Daniel Follweiler (1769–1847) married Maria Dorothea Leaser (1769–1828) and inherited the farm after Frederick's death in 1810.

[6] On November 29, 1928, the Pennsylvania Historical Commission and the Valley Forge Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution erected a memorial monument near his home.

A watercolor painting depicting Leaser's transport of the Liberty Bell from Philadelphia to Zion Reformed Church in Allentown, Pennsylvania on September 24, 1777, during the Revolutionary War . The Liberty Bell was hidden under the Allentown church's floor boards for nine months, from September 1777 until June 1778, to avoid being seized by the British Army
Frederick Leaser Homestead in present-day Lynn Township, Pennsylvania , c. 1914
The Saving of the Liberty Bell Plaque at Zion Reformed Church
Frederick Leaser Monument at Leaser Lake