 Raised with his siblings on land which had been granted to his grandfather, Christopher Ley, by the sons of William Penn, Christian Ley grew up in an eight-room, two-story, Georgian-style mansion which had been built by his father on a portion of that Ley family land.Michael Ley's homestead would later come to be known as the Tulpehocken Manor Plantation; it was visited by U.S. President George Washington three times between 1777 and 1794 during the teenage years of Christian Ley.Trained in agricultural pursuits as a youth, Christian Ley subsequently became a miller during his early adult years.