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HISTORY

BUCKS COUNTY

PENNSYLVANIA

FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE DELAWARE TO THE PRESENT TIME

BY
WILLIAM W. H. DAVIS, A.M.

President of the Bucks County Historical Society, Member of the American Historical Society, the Historical

Society of Pennsylvania, the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, the Western Reserve

Historical Society; Author of "El Gringo, or New Mexico and Her People, " " History of

Gen, John Lacey: " " The Spanish Conquest of New Mexico ; " " History of the One

Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania Regiment;" ""History of the Hart Family;"

" Life of Gen. John Davis;" "History of the Doylestown Guards;" "The

Fries Rebellion; " " History of Do3lestown, Old and New;" Etc.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED

WITH A

GENEALOGICAL AND PERSONAL HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNT\
Prepared Under the Editorial Supervision of

WARREN S. ELY

Genealogist, Member of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and Librarian of the Buck^

County Historical Society,

AND

JOHN W. JORDAN, LL.D.

Of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

'^OLUME III — ILLUSTRATED

NEW •)RK CHICAGO

THE LEWIS JL,TIBLISHING COMPANY

^?05

•,'**f

-^^ i l4Q

Entered According to Act of Congress

IN THE

Office of the Librarian of Congress, in the Year 1905,

The Lewis Publishing Company.

INTRODUCTORY

The present volume forms a fitting supplement to the ample historical nar-
rative from the pen of General W. W. H. Davis. For its preparation especial
thanks are due to Mr. Warren S. Ely, of more than merely local fame as a
genealogist and historian. Out of his abundant store of material and through
familiarity with the official records of Bucks and adjoining counties, he has been
enabled to write with care and intelligence the genealogical history of various
branches of leading families in Bucks county, and his sketches will be readily
identified by all who are familiar with the methods which he has observed so
successfully in making investigations into ancestral fields in response to many
exacting requisitions by individuals and family associations. He has also, in
this work, dealt largely with the personal history of leading men of affairs in
his native county, and his facile pen can be readily traced by the great mass of
readers in that region who for years have been familiar with his clear and cogent
writings along the lines which he has pursued with that genuine enthusiasm
becoming to one who holds in proper appreciation the sturdy race from whom
lie sprang and among whom he was reared, and who possesses the ability of
rightly weighing their lives and achievements.

An earnest effort has been made to give an authentic history of most of
the early settlers, as well as of those who later found homes in this historic
county, and their descendants down to the present time, giving special attention
to the part taken by them in its history and development. It has been impossible,
however, to give as full an account of some of the old families as might have
been desired, by reason of the paucity of data furnished, many families of more
or less prominence in the aff'airs of the county, at different periods, being with-
out exact records of their family line, and it being, of course, impracticable in
a work of this general character for the publishers to undertake extensive and
expensive researches in untrodden paths. Neither was it possible for Mr. Ely
to revise and verify all the data furnished by the representatives of the families
treated of in the work. It can be said, however, with reference to the bio-
graphical matter contained in this volume that in its preparation the publisher^
have observed the utmost care as to accuracy and authenticity, so far as lay in
their power. In all cases the sketches have been submitted to the subject, or
present representative of the family, for correction and revision, and the pub-
lishers believe that they are placing before the public, in the contents of this
volume, a valuable adjunct t,'^ the narrative history of the events in this historic
county, to which General Dcv'is has devoted nearly a lifetime of painstaking

iv INTRODUCTORY

and intelligent research, by giving some authentic account of most of the
families that have participated in those events, and following these genealogical
and historical sketches with some account of the present gei '.'ation, on whom
and their descendants the grand old county must depend for the maintenance
of the high standard of citizenship that has characterized her in the past. An
effort has also been made to give some account of the descendants of Bucks
county ancestry who have wandered from their alma mater and distinguished
themselves in the various- walks of life in other sections. We believe, therefore,
that we have rendered a lasting service to posterity in gathering together and
placing in enduring form much valuable information that would otherwise soon
have been irretrievably lost through the passing away of many custodians of
family and other records, and the consequent dispersion of such matter.

The publishers desire to express their appreciation of the assistance ren-
dered them and their editors in the preparation of this work, by various persons
wdio have placed at their disposal the result of valuable researches made on
genealogical and historical lines for private purposes. As stated therein, much
of the data in reference to the Holland families who w^ere the first actual settlers
on the Neshaminy in Northampton, Southampton and adjoining parts of War-
minster, Bensalem, Middletown and Bristol townships, is the result of more
than twenty years of research conducted on these lines by R. Winder Johnson,
of Philadelphia, very little if any of which has been heretofore published.
Again, much of the data in reference to the early German settlers in upper
Bucks, whose part in the history of the county has probably never received
proper recognition, is the result of exhaustive researches made by Mr. Ely, in
which he was materially aided by the Rev. A. J. Fretz, of ]\Iilton, New Jersey,,
who has devoted years of unselfish work to these lines. ]\Iany others have con-
tributed more or less to the value of the work by giving us the benefit of their

valuable researches.

THE PUBLISHERS.

INDE

PAGE

Abbott, Francis.' *. I95

Abbott, John I95

Abbott, Joseph 195

Abbott, Joseph D 195

Abbott, Mary S 196

Abbott, Timothy 195

Adams Family T]

Adams, James 7^

Adams, John 78

Adams, Joseph \V 80

Adams, Samuel 79

Afflerbach, Abraham 532

Afflerbach, George 531

Afflerbach, John F 531

Afflerbach, John H 532

Alderfer, John K 597

Alderfer, John Isl 597

Alderfer, Joseph 597

Allabough, David W 505

Allabough, Henry 50^

Allabough, Henry S 505

Althouse, Albert C i^d

Althouse, Arndt 34°

Althouse, Daniel 340

Althouse, Elias 341

Althouse, Elmer E 340

Althouse, Frederick 341

Althouse. "Milton D 341

Althouse, Samuel K 367

Altho ise, Tobias 366

Andalusia 1 58

Anders, Asher K 368

Anders, INIatilda 369

Anders, Solomon 369

Anders, William 368

Andres, William \\' 369

Anderse, Paul 368

Andress, Jacob 3^58

Angeny. Davis F. . . . .' 424

Angeny, Jacob 424

Angeny, John 424

Armitage, Amos 622

Armitage, Amos, Sr 622

Armitage. Samuel 622

Atkinson Family 163

Atkinson. Howard W 168

Atkinson, Silas C 166

Atkinson, Stephen K 167

Atkinson, Thomas 6

Atkinson, T. Howard 165

Atkinson, Thomas 164

\tkinson, William 6

Atkinson, William H 166

PAGE

Bachofer, John C 618

Bailey, Emily 504

Bailey, George 503

Bailey, George W 504

Balderston, Charles S 573

Balderston, David 671

Balderston, John 573

Balderston, John W 573

Balderston, Oliver 573

Balderston, Robert L 671

Banes Family '/22

Banes, Samuel T "22,

Baringer, Henry 444

Baringer, Irvin Y 410

Baringer, William 410

Barnsley Family -3^4

Barnsley, John 243

Barnsley, John 314

Barnsley, Joseph 314

Barnslej', J. Herman 243

Barnsley, Lydia H 315

Barnsley, Thomas 243

Barnsley, William .314

Barrow, John 615

Bartheman, Francis 667

Bartleman. Theodore 667

Bassett, Samuel 4*^8

Bassett, Samuel T 408

Baum, Heinrich 235

Baum Henry 235

Baum, Joseph 235

Baum, William , 234 ,

Bean, Henry W^

Bean, Wilson W 3?->

Beans, Nathan 349

Beans, Stephen 349

Beaumont, Andrew J 406

Beaumont, Charles F 406

Beaumont. John A 683

Beaumont, Thomas B 683

Beck, John B 593

Beck, Joseph 593

Bell, Frank F 264

Bell, John 265

Berger, Henry 640

Berger, J. Fennell 640

Bergey, Jonas G 645

Bergey, Wilson S 645

Beringer. Amos N 329

Beringer, Amos S \^^

Beringer, John 329

Beringer, Nicholas 32S

Betts.' Charles IM 389

INDEX

PAGE

Betts, C. Watson 5 • 5

Bctls, John . 389

Betts, Stephen 5^5

Betts, Thomas 5I5

Betts, Wilham 5i5

Biddle, Charles 15H

Biddle Family 158

Biddle, Nicholas 159

Biehn, Michael M 334

Biehn, Milton A 334

Bigley, Adam 248

Bigley. Charles. D 248

Bigley, Isaac 248

Birkey Family 625

Birkey, Henry W 628

Birkey, Isaac M 629

Birkey, John 627

Birkey, John W 629

Birkey, John Y 625

Birkey, Peter 626

Birkey, feter 625

Birkey, Samuel 625

Birkey, Thomas H 627

Birkey, William J. A., Jr 628

Birkey, William J. A., Sr 627

Bishop, John H 643

Bishop, Samuel 643

Black, Andrew A 427

Black, Clarence R 259

Black, George E 427

Black, John 258

Black, John P 258

Black. Wilmer S 259

Bloom, Peter D 598

Bloom, William 598

Bond, Cadwalader D 710

Bond, Lewis R 709

Boutcher, Benjamin 641

Boutcher, Benjamin W 64T

Boutcher, Joseph 641

Boyer, Daniel M 436

Boyer, John S 436

P.raddock, Katherine 615

Bradshaw, James 430

Bradshaw. John W 429

Bradshaw, Samuel 429

Biadshaw, Thomas 429

Bradshaw. William. Jr 43°

\ Branson, Edwin R • 693

vBranson, Isadore C 693

I'ranson, Isaiah 692

B/anson, Jacob 692

Branson, James L 692

Branson, Sarah E ; 693

Branson, William 692

Breen, James 3,^6

Breen, Patrick 336

Brinker, Aden H 588

Brinker, John 588

Broadhurst, Horace G 392

Broadhurst. Samuel E 392

Brooks, Abram 593

Brot)ks, William L 593

Brown. Benjamin 240

Brown, Charles 240

Brown, John 240

Brown, Joseph 352

Brown, Levi 352

Brown, Robert 239

Brown, Robert S ,, . . . 240

PAGE

Brown, Samuel 239

Brown, Stacy 352

Brown, William 683

Brown. William B 352

Brown, William H .- 683

Brunner, Harvey S 484

Brunner. Solomon 484

Buckman, Abden 684

Buckman, Benjamin 684

Buckman. Edward H 233

Buckman, Elihu S 233

Buckman, Franklin 232

Buckman. James R 684

Buckman. Walter 233

Buckman. Zenas 232

Buehrle, Frederick F 377

Buehrle, Josejjh 377

Buehrle, William 377

Bunting. Edwin M 185.

Bunting Family 184.

Bunting John S . . . . 186

Bunting, Joseph 185

Burges, Daniel 214

Purges, Family 214

Burges, Joseph 214

Burson. Benjamin 614

Burson, Edward 614

Burson Family 614

Burson, Joseph 614

Burton, Anthony 22S

Burton, Elwood 229

Burton, John 228

Cadwallader, Algernon S 604

Cadwallader, Charles AI 375

Cadwallader, Eli. Jr 718

Cadwallader, Franklin 588

Cadwallader. George S 588

Cadwallader. Jacob 588

Cadwallader. Jacob 663

Cadwallader. James L 663

Cadwallader. John 375

Cadwallader. Samuel C 663

Cadwallader. Washington 717

Cadwallader, Yardly 376

Candy, James B 528

Candv. Thomas D 52S

Carrel!, Ezra P 299

Carrell, Ezra R 390

Carrell, Jacob 300

Carrell. James 300-

Carrell. James .591

Carrell, Joseph ,^or

Carrell, Joseph 391

Carrell, Joseph, Jr .3«/0

Carter, James 61 g

Carter. J. Harris 619

Carver. A din (^185

Carver. Charles H 084

Carver. John 040

Carver. Mahlon '>4f>

Case. Alexander J 433

Case. Peter 433

Case. Theodore L 433

Cassel, Isaac 27 f

Cassel, Levi 271

Cassin. Isaac S \99

Cavanaugh, Francis 606

Chambers, Alexander 508

Chambers, Thomas P 5^7

INDEX

vii

PAGE

Chapman, AlM-ahani 380

Chapman, Arthur 380

Chapman Family 379

Chapman, Henry 380

Chapman, John 379

Chapman, Joseph 380

Christy, Alexander 615

Christy, Henry 615

Church, Eleazer F 501

Church, Richard 501

Church, Watson P 500

Clarendon, Thomas 550

Clarendon, Thomas, Sr 550

Claxton, George 555

Claxton, John B 555

Claxton, Thomas B 555

Clayton, Amos K 556

Clayton, William B S56

Clunn, Joseph F 652

Clunn, Robert 652

Clymer, Christian 1 236

Clymer, Christian T 236

Clymer, Eli L 270

Clymer, Henry, Jr 270

Clymer, Henry S 236

Clymer, Jacob F 88

Clymer, John H 2S^

Clymer, Lee S 86

Clymer, Robert L 282

Clvmer, William C 88

Clymer, William H 87

Comfort, Annie 203

Comfort, George 204

Comfort, George M 127

Comfort, Henry W 126

Comfort, John 203

Comfort, Samuel 204

Conrad, Charles 2,S7>

Conrad, James 257

Convent of the Blessed Sacrament.... 526

Cooley, William J 281

Cooper, Alfred M 330

Cooper, John W 686

Cooper, William B 330

Cooper, William R 330

Cope, Adam 567

Cope, Addison C 566

Cope, Amandus H _^22

Cope, B. Frank 286

Cope, Charles E 349

Cope, George B 349

Cope, Jacob 322

Cope, John 567

Cope, John 67S

Cope, John F 678

Cope, jNIilton L 678

Cope, Tobias G 567

Cope, William S 567

Cornell, Adrien 52 .

Cornell Family Sr

Cornell, George W 53

Cornell, Hiram 684

Cornell, Ira H 684

Cornell, James C 684

Cornell, John S 237

Cornell, John S., Sr 238

Cornell, Joseph M 54

Cornell, Wilhelmus 52 ~^

'Courter, Jacob 607

*Courter, Jacob H 607

PAGE

Cox, Ezekiel B ^, 623

Cox, Reeder 023

Craven, Charles 712

Craven, James R 71 j

Craven, Joseph 248

Craven, Linford R 247

Craven, Thomas 712

Cressman, Abraham S 579

Cressman, Anthony 579

Cressman, Anthony 079

Cressman, David D 579

Cressman, Henry 679

Cressman, Henry 579

Cressman, Jacob 405

Cressman, Jacolj 579

Cressman, Josiah L 405

Cressman, Philip S 679

Cressman, Tobias H 405

Crewitt, Alfred 496

Crewitt, John A 496

Crewitt, Richard C 496

Crispin, Silas 43

Croasdale, Jeremiah W 546

Croasdale, John W 546

Croasdale, Roliert 546

Croasdale, Robert M ..... 545

Crouse, Andrew J 704

Crouse Family 702

Crouse, Frederick 703

Crouse, Jacob W 703

Crouse, Michael, Jr 703

Crouthamel Family 55S

Crouthamel, George 538

Crouthamel, Jacob S.

Crouthamel, Noah O.

Crouthamel, Peter R

Crouthamel, Washington O.

Cunningham, Joseph T

Cunningham, Matthew

Cunningham, Matthew C. .

Cunningham, Thomas

Curley, John

Curley, Thomas

Dager, Charles T. . .
Dager, Frederick

Dager, John

Dana, Anderson, Jr

Dana, Richard

Dana, Robert S

Dana, Sylvester

Darlington, Edward !*>
Darlington, Hemy T.
Darlington, Thomas

Davis, John

Davis, William W. H
Deemer. Charles ...

Deemer, Elias

Deemer, George li..
Deemer, Johan G . . . .

Deemer, John

Deemer, Michael ...
Deemer, Michael ...

Deemer, Oliver J

Delp, George

Detweiler, Aaron C.
Detweilef, Christian
Detweiler, George . ,
Detweiler, Henry

67 r

558
.S58
67 1

537

5.36
536

.11)0

325
3-^5
3^5

5-'T

5-2 ^'

5-: I
522
510
510

Sro
46

45
359
470

359
358
470

47 1
3> >
47 f
358
731
68.=^
.56 r
677

-iJ

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INDEX

Delwciler, Henry . . . .
Detwciler, Isaac C...
Detweiler, Isaac H. . .
Detwciler, Jacob . . . .
Detwciler, Jacob L...
Detweiler, John A...
Detweiler, John C...
Detweiler, Joseph . . .
Detwciler, Mahlon C.
Detweiler, Martin . . .

Doan, Amos

Doan, Harry P

Doan, J. Oscar

Doan, Wilson

Dobbins, Joseph K . . .

Doll, Charles M

Dolton, Charles

Dolton, Richard L...

Dorland, John

Doron, Thomas E. . .
Doron, William E. . .
Douglass, George . . . .
Douglass, James . . . .

Doyle, Charles C

Doyle, Edward

Doyle, Henry H

Doyle, Joseph

Doyle, Lemuel H....

Doyle, Samuel

Doyle, William

Drexel, Joseph W. . '.

Drexel, Lucy W

Du Bois, Charles E.. .

Du Bois Family

Du Bois, Jacob

Du Bois, John L. . . .
Du Bois, John L., Jr.

Du Bois, Louis

] )u Bois, Peter

Du Bois, LTriah

Dungan Family

lungan, Isaac

)ungaiM /ames

Dungan, Jesse ,

Dungan, John

Dung?n, Thomas ...
Dungan, Thomas . .
Dungan, Wallace » . .
Duvner, Charles E. . .
Duiiicr, Charles F. . . .

?AGE

68 ^
677
561
631
561
561
b77
S6i
631

561
685
685

323
43S
726
348
348
496
620
620
617
617
456
454
456
455
454
455
454
525
525
194
192
192
. 194
194
192

193
193
193

~2o6
20S
206
20S
207
208
206
331
331

Eastburn, Charles T . . 19

Eastburn Family 15

Eastburn, H ugh B 17

Eastburn, Joseph ... lO

Eastburn, Moses \6

Eastburn, .Robert 16

Eastburn, Robert 15

Eastburn, Robert 17

Easlliurn, Robert K 21

Eastburn, Samuel 21

Eastburn, Samuel C ....,,.. 20

Eastburn, William T 18

Edwards, Benjamin R 335

Edwards, Hugh 335

Ellis, Charles • ■ . 5^4

Ellis. Joseph A 564

Ellis, Rowland ' 564

i*' - Daniel 426

PAGE

Ely, Edward N 451

Ely Family 127

Ely, Heman 448

Ely, Joseph 451

Ely, Justin 448

Ely, Warren S -. : 132

Ely, William L 426

Erdman, Andrew 305

Erdman. Daniel 305

Erdman, George 686

Erdman, John ' 305

Erdman, Milton K 686

Erdman. Owen 305

Erdman. William S 305

Erwin, John 313

Erwin. John 314

Erwin, Joseph 314

Erwin, Joseph J 313

Evans, Caleb 388

Evans, Wilson C 388

Everitt, Aaron 413

Everitt. David 413

Everitt. Ezekiel 412

Everitt. Jesse C 412

Everitt, Samuel 413

Fackenthal, Benjamin F 451

Fackenthal, IMichael 451

Fackenthal. Peter 451

Fackenthal, Philip 450

Faust, Alfred H 356

Fell. Benjamin 186

Fell, Benjamin 266

F"ell, Byron ,M 266

Fell, David 219 ■

Fell. David X 73

Fell, Ely 266

Fell, James. B 266

Fell, Jesse 186

Fell. Tohn 266

Fell, John A 186

Fell, Jonathan 219

Fell, Joseph y^

Fell, Joseph 218

Fell, Joseph "oo

Fell. Lewis W 218

Fell, Preston J 187

Fell. Seneca 266

Fell. Wilson D. .37

Felty. Victor H ." -^i,7

Felty, William 547

Flack. Joseph, Jr ^7Z

THack, Joseph. Sr :^72,

Flack, Roland 37?,

Flagler. George W 428

Flagler, Peter 428

Flower^, Amos S .^55

Flowers, Thomas K 554

Flowers, William 5.S4

Flum, Frank H ' . . 272

Flum, Frederic 272

Folkir. Howard 205

Forrester. George W 626

Foulke. Benjamin G 90

Foulke, Caleb 90

Foull.e. Charles E o 'i

Foulke, Eleanor ■.-. 1)

I'Vudke. Everard i... o. ■

J'oulke Family Bf <

Toulke, Hugh 9 ^

IXDEX

PAGE

Foulke. Hugh 89

Foulke. Job R 91

Foulke. Thomas QO

Foulke. William H 91

Freed. Henry 444

Freed, Henry W 444

Freed, John 444

French, Bennett M 714

French, J. Andrew 713

French, William 714

Fretz, Abraham 360

Fretz, Abraham 401

Fretz. Abraham J 401

Fretz. Alfred E 307

Fretz, Christian 401

Fretz, Clayton D 307

Fretz, Ely 433

Fretz. H. Erwin 432

Fretz. Henry L 3('r

Fretz, Jacob 3>(^o

Fretz, John 360

Fretz, John 401

Fretz, John E 146

Fretz, John S. . : I47

Fretz, Joseph H • 3f>o

Fretz, Mahlon M 43-2

Fretz, ?^Iartin 401

Fretz, Oliver H i-'O

Fretz, Philip H I43

Fretz, Philip K 43-^

Fretz, Ralph J '. i47

Fretz, S. Edward 30H

Fretz, William 120

Fulmer, Daniel 406

Fulmer. Xoah 406

Fulmer. Oliver A 406

Garges. Abraham 257

Garges. Edward 3 '6

Garges. Henry 257

Garner. Samuel 344

Garner. Sannul J ' 344

Garner. Samuel S 344

Geil, John 15-

Geil. Samuel I5-

Geil, William E 15^

George, Jacob, Jr 43'^

George, Jacob. Sr 4.^8

Gibson. Andrew 653

GibsGii. Andrew J 653

Gilbert Hiel 647

Gilbert. Maris 647

Gilke^on. Andrew W 345

Gilkeson. Franklin 345

"Gillam. Harvey, Sr 540

Gillam, Simon 540

Gilliam. Harvey H . 540

Gilliam, William 54°

Girton. Garret B 367

Girton. James 5^8

Gotwals. Daniel 581

Gotwals. Jonas 581

Gray. Dean (191

Gray. John .\55

Gray. John ]M 365

Gray. Samuel 355

Gray, Samuel S J56

Gray, Thomas H (")i

Greup, John +3'

Griffee, Howard ^I ' >5-'

PAGE

Griffee, Peter 652

Griffith, Amos 616

Griffith, Austin E 616

Griffith, John W 616

Grim, Adam 301

(irim, F. Harvey 301

(irim, George M 306

Grim, George W 301

(irim, George W 306

Grim, Webster 210

Groff. Charles S 571

Groff, Isaac S 477

(iroff, Jacob • 477

Groff, Jacob 571

Ciroff, James E 477

Groom, Ezekiel A 543

Groom, Jonathan 543

Groom, Thomas 543

Groover. Andrew 711

Gross, Daniel 209

Gross, Henry W 209

Gross, Jacob 362

Gross, John 363

r,ross, John A 362

Gross, John L ;j63

Gross, Joseph N 209

Grundy, Edmund 365

Grundy, Joseph R 365

Grundy, William H 365

Gruver, John 711

Gruver, Jonas H 711

Gulick. Christopher S 289

Gulick h'amily 288

(iulick. Hendrick 288

(iulick, Joachim 288

Gulick, Merari 289

Gulick, Samuel 288

Gulick, Samuel S 289

Gumpper, John J i' 347

(iumpper. Thomas K 347

Hagerty, James 443

Hagerty, John 44 '

Hagerty, Preston W 4'^

Haldeman, Abel G 6'^^

Haldeman, Charles (\^^

Haldeman. Daniel "^^

Haldeman. Edwin K ^^^

Haldeman. Tohn • ^~

Hall, C. Harry W2 o

Hall Family I4T '

Hall, ^ifatthias H tji;

Hall, William W 150

Hancock. Charles W 516

Hancock. John 516

Hancock, Joseph L 5f6

Hancock, Samuel 516

Haney, Anthony 051

Haney, Michael 65 1

Haney, Michael G 651

Haring, Charles C 611

Haring, Charles C, Sr 611

Harley. Jrjhn 647

Harlcy, Jonas S 647

Harpel, Amos 405

Harpel, Conrad ^.05

Harpel, Harvey F 404

Harpel, John 405

ITarrar. James S 240

1 larrar, Joel J . 249

INDEX

PAGE

Harris, Theopliilus 336

Hart, B. Frank 42

Hart, George 45

Hart, George 320

Hart, James 45

Hart, James 319

Hart. John 42

Hart, John 318

Hart, Joseph 45

Hart, josnua 2t)4

Hart, JosialT 320

Hart, William 319

Hart, William H , . 45

Hartley, George W., Jr 279

Hartley, William H 279

Hartzel, Abram G 609

Hartzel, l-'rancis D 609

Harvey, George T 158

Harvey, Joseph 488

Harvey, Lydia A . 488

Harvey, Theodore P 488

Heacock, J^oel 636

Heacock, Joel L 636

Headley, Amos B 612

Headley, Joseph J 612

Headley,
Heaney,
Heaney,
Heaton,
Heaton,
Heckler,
Heckler,
Heckler,
Heckler,
Heckler,
Hedrick,
Hedrick,
Heinlein
Heiulein,
Heller,
Heller,
Heller,
Heller,
' leller,
eller.

Thomas 612

Nicholas L 424

Thomas 424

Frank ■....; 727

Mathias 72J

Allen H 333

Calvin F 33^

John R 333

Nari F ■ ■ 333

Samuel 33o

David ■...-■ 646

John K 646

Family .' 308

George . ■ 308

David 310

el Iyer,
llyer,
llyer,
llyer,

Jacob 310

Johan M ■ • 310

Josiah B 310

William J .-• • 309

Yost 310.

Amos S 381

Anderson 381

Howard A -55^

Valmore M 381

William -55^

485

Benjamin 495

Cornelius 495

Family 494-

495

496

335

Edwin
John

D
Di
Dv

^^'-llyer,
I:cmmerly,
Hei.-rierly,
Hendricks,
Hendricks,
Hendricks
Hendricks, John C
Hendricks, Joseph A
Heritage, John B . . . .
Heritage, John F. . .
Heritage, Joseph B .
Heritage, Joseph D..
Heston, George T. .
Heston, Jesse S. . .

Hibbs, James C

Hibbs, John G . . .
Hibbs, Si)encer H
Hibbs, William . .
Hicks, Fdward I'
Hicks Family . . . .
Hicks, George A . . .

5^9
5-^9
532
53-2

576
576
576
576
1 12
no
112

PAGE

Hicks, Penrose 1 14

Hiester, Maria C 87

Hiester. William 87

Hill. Harry C 469

Hill. Humphrey 469

Hill. John H 469

llillborn, John 621

Jlillborn, William 621

Hillpot, Samuel S 231

Hinckle, Casper 380

Hinckle, Philip 380

Hines, A. J 473

Hines, William C 474

Hhikle, Albert G. B 380

Hinkle. Elias 707

Hinkle, Joseph 381

Hinkle, Tobias C 707

Hinkle, William 381

Hobensack, B. Frank 369

Hobensack, Isaac 369

Hobensack, Isaac C 720

Hobensack, Wilkins 610

Hobensack, William 719

Hogeland, Abraham 396

Flogeland, Daniel 395

Hogeland, Derrick K 39c;

Hogeland, Elias 396

Hogeland Family 395

Hogeland, Frank 396

Hogeland, Horace B 397

Hogeland, Isaac 396

Hogeland. John 397

Hogeland, JNIorris 398

Hogeland. William S 397

Hoguet, Louis A 241

Holbert, Nathan 706

Holbert, William 705

Holbert. William M 705

Holcomb. Isaac W 608

Hplcomb. John 608

Hoi combe, Charles 320

Flolcombe, John 321

Holcombe, IMary 320

Holcombe, Oliver H 320

Holcombe, Richard 320

Holcombe. Sarriuel 321

Hotchkiss, Clarence D 478

Hotchkiss, George W 478

Hotchkiss, Samuel 478

Hough. Benjamin 12

Hough. John 8

Hough. John S 8

Hough. Oliver 11

Hough, Richard 5

Plough. William H 74

Howell. David 562

Howell. Timothy ....". 562

Hunsicker. Abraham 514

Hunsicker. Isaac 514

Hunsicker. Isaac ]\f . . 514

Hunsicker. Jacob 514

Hunsicker, Valentine 514

Hutc-hinsr>tvEdward S ^44

i 'isinger. Albert 688

1 iisinger. Edward 6SS

Iredell. Charles T ■;63

Ire.loll. Robert 364

Ireland, Charles G 705

Irif land. Rachael P 704

INDEX

PAGE

Irwin, John 689

Irwin, Nathan D 637

Irwin, Mrs. N. D 637

Ivins, Aaron ^_^^

Ivins, Aaron 62T

Ivins, Edward A 344

Ivins, Edward A 343

- Ivins, Moses H 687

Ivins, William ' H 621

Jacoby, Benjamin 142

Jacoby, Edwin J 589

Jacoby, Henry S 141

Jacoby, John 589

Jacoby, Peter 142

Jacoby, Peter L 142

James Family 60

James, Henry A ' 6^

James, Howard 1 64

James, Irvin M 65

James, Oliver P 66

James, Thomas A 67

James, Wynne 64

Janney Family 54

Janney, Randle j^. . ^z,

Janney, Stephen T 50

Janney, Thomas ^6

Janney, William S 60

Jarrett, Alvin J 661

Jarrett, Solomon 661

Jenkins, John [^34

Jenkins, Joseph ^34

Jenkins, Phineas 534

Jenkins, Stcphei),' . 534

Jenkirs, Wilii^m . 5*^4

Jenkii Zirhary T 534

Jet;'-- .'ctmily .. ' -^,S

Jenks, George A \o

Jenks, John S -^

Jenks, Phineas 39

Jenks, Thomas -. 38

Jenks, William H 41,

Jenks, William P 41

Johnson, Casper ! . . . 347

Johnson, Charles ;^T^y

Johnson, Clark 242

Johnson, Edward W 98

Johnson, Elmer L 242

Johnson, H. Watson 221

Johnson, Isaac S 102 .

Johnson, Jesse L : . . . . 243

Johnson, John 237

Johnson, John R 237

Johnson, Lawrence gS

.Johnson, Martin 237

Johnson. JNlilton 347

Johnson. O. James 337

Johnson, Richard M 347

Johnson, R. Winder \36

Johnson, Robert M 266

Johnson, Samuel A 715

Johnson.' William 254

Johnson. William 266

.Tones, Catherine J 667

Jordan, Alexander 475

Jordan, A. Hayes 474

Jordan, Frederick. Jr 475

■Jordan, Henry ^75

"Kanll, George 6^8

Kaiill, John H 6,^?>

Keeler,
Keeler,
Keeler,

Eli
E.

PAGE

^ Wesley ^^q

John ,75

Kemi, Daniel D jgf,

Keim, Daniel M ig6

Keim, Nicholas 196

Keith, Sipron C ocQ

Keller, Abraham 509

Keller, Christopher "' c;o9

Keller, Joseph ;;;;' rog

Keller, Lewis cnR

Keller, Mahlon .... J',

Kelly, William F.. Jr... . 387

Kelly, William F., Sr [[[] 3X7

Kerbangh, Benjamin F 642

Kcrbaugh, Josiah ] * 642

Kilcoyne, John J . . 242

Kimble, Al)el ^^q

Kimble, Richard 51^0

Kimble, Seruch T 550

Kimble, William 550

King. John F 472

King, John G 472

King, ]\Lnrtin 472

King, ^lorton 612

King, Peter gj

King, Samuel M 612

Kirk, Amos W: 551

Kirk, Charles '^-y

Kh-k, Edward R ^^j

Kirk, Isaac ^'c^i

Kirk, Thomas \'^i

Kiser, Edwin 479

Kiser, Harvey S 478

Kiser, Samuel 47Q

Kline, George H 342

Kline, Henry K 341

Kline, Isaac 347

ynight, Alfred ggi

H-o -'ht, 'Amos 5g8

KniglK r A iiej-, ggj

Knight. 1 sirlc 7 s^gg

Knight. Jonathan * . . c;gg

Knight. ., Sarah J 660

Knoll, Frank L ^4^

Knoll, Lewis ' / _ ,^^'-

Kolb. Henry \j]

Kooker, Henry ., ^j

Kooker, Jacob , - , . 442 .^

Kooker, Peter ' 442 ^l^

Kramer, Abraham ,, '

Kramer, Samuel R

Krause, Carl G

Krause, Charles B 680

Krauskopf, Joseph 276

Kratz. Abraham 268

Kratz. Abraham 689

Kratz. David N 577

Kratz. Henry M 268

Kratz. Henry R 648

Kratz. Jacob 268

Kratz. John c,yj

Kratz, John S . . 68g

Kratz. Philip 1577

Kratz. Valentine 268

Kratz. William 648

Kratz. William D 348

Kreiss, Peter 5 f8

Kreiss, Peter L 518

Krusen, Wilmer 261

•5" .
()8o

INDEX.

PAGE

Kulp, Abraham 316

Kulp, Abraham' M 587

Kulp, Harry N 410

Kulp, Harvey S 586

Kulp, Jacob H 586

Kulp, Jacob S 411

Kulp. John L 316

Kunser, Andrew 553

Kunser, Henry 553

Kunser, ]\Iichael 553

Lampen, Garret H 407

Lampen. Michael 407

Lampen, Michael, Jr 407

Lamnen, Simon 407

Landis, Isaac M 619

Landis, George 354

Landis, George M 354

Landis, Henry 436

Landis, Jacob 354

Landis, Jacob S 619

Landis, John M 693

Landis, Michael A 436

Landis, Samuel B 353

Lapp, Abraham 594

Lapp, Henry B 594

Lapp, Jacob 594

Large, Henry C 484

Large, William M 484

Larue, Albert C 282

Larue. John B 282

LaRue Family 180

LaRue, Moses 182

LaRue, Nicholas 183,

LaRue, William H 183

Larzelere, Benjamin 446

Larzelere, Jacob 446

Larzelere, Nicholas 446

Larzelere, William 446

Laubach, Anthony 499

Laubach, Charles -, ■• 500

Laubach, Christian . . /T" 498

Laubach Family • • ' 49^

Laubach, Fredenv k 385

Laubach. Joha/i ' G 499

Laubach. Jobh G 499

Laubach, Samuel H 498

Lauderbach, Charles J 659

Lauderbach, Harris V 659

Li ar, George 385

i.ear. Henry 386

1 eatherman. Aaron 690

Lcatherman. Eli 440

Leatherman. Henry L 361

.[>eatherman, Jacob 41S

l-eatherman, Jacob Y 361

Leatherman, Joseph 690

Leatherman. Joseph 418

Lehman, Arthur C 483

Lehman, Harry C 483

Lehman, Michael 483

Lehman & Sons : 483

Leidy. Cornelius W 4.15

Leidy Family S87

Leidy, H. Frank 588

Leidy. Levi 435

Leidv, Samuel G 587

Leigli. Thomas 306

Leigh, Wiliiam B 306

Leister, John 53S

P.^GE

Leister, Johnas 539

Leister, Thomas R 538

Lengil, Peter 542

Lengel, Samuel R 542

Lerch, David 429

Lerch, George W 429

Lerch. Samuel 429

Lewis, David M 324

Lewis, Joseph M 324

Lippincott, Joshua 668

Lippincott, Theodore 668

Livezey, Edward 728

Livezey, Edward, Sr 728

Lodge, Abel 607

Lodge, John 607

Longstreth, Daniel 302

Longstreth, Edward 302

Loux, Andrew 439

Loux, Mathias i 439 .

Loux. Mathias J 4.S9

Lovett, Daniel 661

Lovett, Henry 307

Lovett. Jonathan 307

Lovett, R. Pittield 661

Lovett, William 307

Lundy, J. Wilmer 114

Lundy, Richard 114

Lynn. Alexander 574

Lynn, Lewis M 574

Lynn, Victor V 574

IMacKenzie, Farrell 610

MacKenzie. Richard 610

Alagill, Alfred 602

Magill, Edward W 449

iSIagill, C. Howard 601

Magill, w atsoi. r" 4;

M -.gill. William 449

Magill, William 602

IMarple, Alfred . 283

]\[arple, Frank H 284

^Larple, F. M 2^i

Marshall, Alfred 501

Marshall, Caleb H 502

]\Iarshall, George M 447

Marshall, Harriet P 44S

]\Iarshall. Robert 502

]\Iarshall. Se.th 447

Marshall, Thomas 501

Jklartin, Adam 37-

Martin, A. Oscar 4S2

:Martin, Allen S -'S'8

Martin, George ,-72

^Lartin, George ' ■r)2

Martin. Jonas iSj

]\Iartin, Michael '02

Martin, Reul)en A r -

Martindell, Edwin W -N i

Martindell, John 507

Martindell. Jonathan \V 580

Mason, Ernest ' 3.^8

]\Iason, Joel v-^

Mason, Joel M ...v^

]\rathew, Simon I'li

^ilathews, Charles H i^'O

]\Iathews, Charles H 1 ' 3

Mathews. Charles J 417

Matliews, Lawrence J 417

Matlack. William .i<io

Matlack. \\'i]liam. Jr 490

INDEX

PAGE

Mawson, John B 654

Mawson, William 654

INIayne, David C 657

jMayne, William C '57

JMcbowell, Major 3>.|

McDowell, Robert 374

McDowell, William 374

McTlhatten, D. J 3H7

;McIlhatten, Samuel P 387

]\IcKinstry, George 327

McKinstry, Henry 246

INIcKinstry, H. Martyn 247

jMcKinstry, Jesse 328

McKinstry, Nathan 246

McKinstry, Nathan 327

IMcKinsfry, Oliver 328

McKinstry, Robert 246

IMcKinstry, Samuel 328

McKinstry, Wilson B 246

McNair, James 637

IMcNair, James M 637

INIcNair, Solomon 637

Mershon, Joab C 644

Mershon. William C 644

]\feyer. Christian 269

jMeyer, Hans 224

IMeyer, Henry 440

Meyer, John 224

IMeyer, "Samuel 269

Meyers, Isaac 441

IMeyers, John H 440

IMeyers. John 44T

Michener, Burroughs 367

jMichener, Ezra 584

INIichener, Isaiah 584

]\Iichener, IMarmaduke 367

Michener, Meschach 367

IVIichener, Samuel 367

]\Iiles Family 665

Miles, Griffith 665

Miles, Joseph 665

Miles, Sanmcl 665

Miles, William G 665

TMill. George 589

Mill, George G 589

Mill, Solomon 589

Miller, A. J 281

Milnor, J. Cambv S7S

Milnor, William "B 575

Mininger, William H 232

Minster, Ell wood W , 362

INTinster, Nicholas 362

INIinster, William S 362

Mintzer, St. John W 411

iMitchell, Allen R 520

Mitcliell. Gove 520

INIitthell, Henry 520

IMitchell, Joim 520

Mitchell, Pearson 520

Moll, James D 435

]\[oll. John 435

Moll, John G 435

Mollov, Harry F 262

Molloy, John B 581

TMolloy, Nicholas E 262

Moon, Charles 602

Moon, Daniel 215

TMoon Familj . . 212

Moon, James .... 602

PAGE

Moon, Mahlon 213

Moon, Moses 213

Moon, Moses 602

Moon, Owen, Jr 214

Moon, Roger ' 212

Moon, William 214

Moore Family 440

Moore, Henry ■ 449

Moore, Henry 11 579

Moore, Jesse H 579

Moore, Jesse P 579

Moore, Mordeci 449

Moore, Richard 449

Morgan, Daniel 308

Morgan, David 416

Morgan, Enoch 416

Morgan Family 308

Morgan, John M 416

Morgan, j^Irs. Lizzie Bell 311

Morris, Effingham B 456

Morris, Israel W 456

Morris, Mrs. Robert J , 180

Morris, Peter H 601

Morris, Theodore 601

Morris, William T 601

Morrison, A. J 137

Morrison, Joseph 138

Morwitz, Edward 463

Morwitz, Joseph 464

Moyer, Abraham '. 269

Moyer, Abraham D 234

Moyer, Abraham G 220

Moyer, Abram F 708

Moyer, Allen G 219

IMoyer, Christian 219

Moyer, Harvey W 221

Moyer, Henry A 1 70

Moyer, Henry G 169

Clover, Flenry 269

IMoyer, Isaac H 708 ^ —

Moyer, Levi S 2Sj

Moyer, Peter 233

Moyer, Samuel 220

Moyer, Sanniel B 269

IMoyer, William G 245

Murphy, Felix A 67S

Murphy, John 676

Murray, Charles 357

[Murray, Joseph D 331

Murray, Mahlon 357

Murray, William H 33^

T^Iyer, Benjamin 630

Myer Family • 630

Myer, Isaac 630

Myer, Isaac, Jr 630

Myers, Aaron F 359X-_

Myers. Abraham F 431

Myers, Abraham G 25T

Myers, Abraham M 2ST

Myers, Christian 582

Myers, Christian M 224

Myers, Eliza B 226

Myers, Emma E. B 259

Myers, Francis F 25T

IMyers, Henry 251

Myers. Henry 431

Myers, Henry F 725

Myers. Jacob 582

IVfycrs, Joseph F 359

INDEX

PAGE

Myers, Newton 582

Myers, Oliver 725

Myers, Samuel 225

Nase, Barndt 574

Nase, Herbert S 574

Nash, Abraham 423

Nash, Abraham 571

Nash, Abraham D 571

Nash, Mary A 423

National Farm School 276

Naylor, Jesse P 662

Naylor, William 662

Neamand. Harry 403

Neamand, John 403

Neamand. William 403

Negus, John 426

Negus, Stephen W \ . . . 426

Negus, Thomas C 426

Newell, William C 157

Nichols, H. S. P 138

Nightingale, Charles R 464

Nightingale, Henry B 465

Nightingale, Samuel 464

Nonamaker, Aaron 239

Nonamaker, Henry 239

Nonamaker, Noah S 239

Ozias. George 700

Ozias, John A 700

Paddock, Naomi A 635

Paddock, Phineas 635

Paist, Andrew C 554

Paist, James ]\I 553

Paist, Jonathan 553

Paist, Joseph H 553

Parry, Benjamin 68

Parry, Daniel yi

Parry, Edward R 70'

"^arry Family 67-

Parry, George R 70-

Parr}% Henry C 287

Parry, Isaac 226-

Parry, Isaac 227

Parry, Isaac C 25(?

Parry, Jacob 227'

Parry, John , ; . . 68^

Parry, John 287

Parry, Old Mansion 71

Parry, Oliver 69

Parry. Oliver P 71-

Parry, Philip 287

Parry. T?icliard R 70

Parry, Thomas 67-

Parry, Thomas 227

ifarry, Thomas 287

Parry. Thomas F 287

Parry. William B 288,^

Parsons, Charles A > . 400

Parsons Family 400

Parsons, Isaac 400

Patterson, Daniel T 50

Patterson, James 513

Patterson, James 411

Patterson, Jesse 41 r

Patterson, Samuel A. W 50

Patterson, ThoiDas H SO

P^.xsnn, AMiert S 693

Paxson, Charles 693

PAGE

Paxson, Edward M 154

Paxson, Jacol) 155

Pax=on, James 154

P' son, J. Warren 350

xson, Mrs. J. Warren 349

1 axson, Phineas 693

Paxson, Thomas 754

Paxson, Thomas 155

Paxson, William 154

Pemberton Family i

Pemberton, Henry 4

Pemberton. Phineas 4

Penrose, Evan 699

Penrose Family 293-

Penrose, Jarret 294

Penrose, Jonathan 382

Penrose, Robert 293

Penrose, Robert 294.

Penrose, Samuel 294

Penrose, Samuel J 296-

Penrose, William 294

Penrose, William 295

Penrose, William 699

Percy, Frank 434

Percy, Thomas ^ 434

Phillips, Francis M 339

Phillips, Horace G 339

Pickering, H. Augustus 530

Pickering, Henry Y 517

Pickering, Henry Y 669

Pickering, Isaac, Jr 530

Pickering, John 517

Pickering, John 669

Pickering, Jonathan C 531

Pickering, Joseph 531

Pickering, Thomas E 670

Pickering, Yeamans 317

Pickering. Yemans 670

Pollock, James 480

Poore, Daniel 697

Poore, John B 696

Poore, Robert A 698

Praul, Amos T 447

Praul, Elias 662

Praul, Elisha C 569

Praul, Francis 447

Praul, Isaac 447

Praul, John 447

Praul, John 569

Praul, William 662

Preston, Albert W 666

Preston, Joseph G 666

Preston, Paul 666

Preston, Silas 666

Price, Daniel B 213

Price, David 260

Price, David 40^

Price Family - 1 3

Price, James j.'v

Price, John i .^

Price, John ^^^ 260-

Price, John ^^^5

Price, John N ^JBfck.

Price, Nathan

Price, Nathaniel

Price, Samuel G .^o

Price, Samuel G , 466

Price, Smith 2U0

Price, William H 665

Purdy Family 45?

IXDEX

PAGE

Purely, Harry R 460

Purely, John 458

Purdy, John M 459

Purdv, Thomas 459

Purdy, William 458

Pursell, Brice 151

Pursell, Howard 150

Pursell, John 151 _

Quick, Armitage B 546

Quick, Ezekiel 546

Quick, Joseph G . 5.16

Quinby, George H 386

Quinby, Henry R 597

Quinby, Isaiah 386

Quinbj', James 386

Quinn. Hiel G 55^

Quinn, John 558

Radcliff, Elisha 453

Radcliff, George W 660

Radcliff, James 453

Radcliff, Jarrves 660

Radcliff. John 452

Radcliff, John L 704

Radcliff, Rachael P 705

Radcliff, Samuel K 452

Radcliff, Thomas S 704

Ramsey, Edward 425

Ramsey, John. Jr 425

Ramsey, John, Sr 425

Ramsey, William 425

Randall. Amos 2^2

Randall, Eber 253

Randall, James V 2^2

Reed, Andrew 468

Reed, David 600

Reed, George I\I 694

Reed, Jacob 467

Reed, Johann P 467

Reed, Michael H 468

Reed, Robert 600

Reed. Willoughby H 467

Reeder, Eastburn 22

Reeder, Frank K 694

Reeder. Joseph E 23

Reeder, Mahlon H 694

Reeder, Merrick 2,^

Renner, Adam 422

Renner, Jr.cob • 422

Renner, John 422

Renner, William 422

Rhoades. Charles H 25S

Rice, Charles 569

Rice, Hampton W 506

Rice, Joseph 506

Rice, Oliver J 568

Rice, Robert 568

Rice, Samuel H 506

Rice, William 506

RicharcKf .n, Edward 256

Rich" -d -en, Joseph 256

Richardson, Joshua 255

Richardson Mary ; 256

Rickert. Hei v R 713

Rickert, Isasf^ 713

Rickert. John • : 44°

Rickert, Mary L 440

Rickert. Reuben 1 713

Rickey, John ' 727

PAGE

Rickey, ^largaret W 727

Ricke}', Randal ^27

Rickey, Randal H ^^27

Ridge. Daniel 585

Ridge, Lloyd 585

Ridge, Louis A 355

Ridge. William W 585

Riegel, Ida J 423

Riegel, John L 423

Riggs Family 631

Riggs, Joseph 631

Riggs. Samuel 631 X^

Robbins, Isaac 1 570

Robbins, John 57a

Robbins, Joseph 570

Roberts, Annie E ;i26

Roberts, Edwin 326

Roberts Family ;^26

Roberts, Lewis 251

Roberts, Robert ^^26

Roberts, William P 251

Rockafcllow, William 657

Rockafellow, William H 657

Rodman, John 162

Rose, Edward B 712

Rose, John 658

Rose. OHver P 658

Rose, Thomas 658

Rosenberger, Abraham B 675

Rosenberger, Artemus 418

Rosenberger. Daniel 563

Rosenberger. Harrington B 563

Rosenberger. Henry 418

Rosenberger. Isaac 67^ ■

Rosenberger, Isaac R }.6t,

Rosenberger, Jacob D 419

Rosenberger, Joseph 563

Ross, George 81

Ross, George 83

Ross, Henry P 82

Ross, John 82

Ross, Thomas 81

Ros^, Thomas S2

Roth, Jacob B 258

Rubinkam, G. W 393

Rubinkam. Nathaniel 393

Rufe. George 302 -

Rufe, John 30::

Rufe, John Z 596

Rufe, Reden 302 —

Ruff. Jacob ^02 ^

Rumpf. Frederick 055

Rumpf, Joseph F 655

Rush, Jacob ^i 293

Rush, William 293

Ruth, Henry P 539

Ruth. Joseph S 539

Ryan, John 476

Ryan, William C 4/6

Satterthwaite. Giles 646

Satterthwaite, Henry W 646

Savacool, Aaron 291

Savacool, Enos 291

Savacool Family 290

Savacool. Jacob 290

Savacool, Jacob 291

Savacool. W. Elmer 292

Savacool. William P. 291

Scarborough, Enos T) . I7S>'

XVI

INDEX

PAGE

Scarborough Family 1/5

Scarborough Family 178

Scarborough, Henry W 178

Scarborough, Hiram 179

Scarborough, Isaac 180

Scattergood, Caleb 578

Scattergood, William A 578

Schaeffer, Andrew '. 624

Schaeffer, John .' 624

Schaffer, Conrad ' 681

Schaffer, Gotfrey '575

Schaffer, John . ' 575

Schaffer, Joseph B 575

Schaffer, Samuel 68r

Scheerer, Christian 238

Scheerer, Jacob 238

Scheetz, Albert F 384

Scheetz, Conrad 383

Scheetz, Erwin 385

Scheetz Family 383

Scheetz, George 383

Scheetz, Harvey '. 385

Scheib, John 541

Scheip, George \V 541

Scheip, John L 541

Schenck, Courtland 660

Schenck, Joseph H 660

SchloUer, Abraham 565

Schmitt, Harry B 488

Schmitt, Leonard 488

Schneider, Jacob 583

Scott, Abraham 512

Scott. Joseph ]M 547

Scott, Josiah 512

Scott, Josiah E 512

Scott, Josiah N 513

Scott, Rachel 513

Scott, Samuel 512

Scoit, Thomas 346

Scott, Wilford L 547

Scott, William 346

Search, Christopher 592

Search, Jacob M 326

Search, Jacob ]\I 592

Search, Theodore C 592

Sells, Holmes T,2y

Sells, John D 327

Shaddingcr. Abraham 653

Sbaddinger, Andrew 653

Shaddingcr, Edward E 572

Sh;ddineer, Hannah G 653

-iliacidinger. Henry R 572

Sbaddinger, Jacob L 572

Sbaddinger. John W 675

Shamp, David 429

Sliamp, Jonathan 429

Shari)loss. Charles W 669

Shearer, Jesse 488

Shellenberger. Conrad 292

Shellenberger Family 292

Shellenberger, John L 292

Shellenberger, Jacob S 293

Shelly, Andrew B 200

Shel ',y, Emanuel N 353

Shcilv, PTenry S 58^

Shelly, Henry S 682

Shelly, Jacob L 585

Shell}', Joseph W 200

Shell} , Samn. i t,^t,

Sboll\ S;:mml qS;

PAGE

Shelly, Samuel D 353

Shelly, Samuel M 682

Shepherd, Carlile 480

Shepherd, Cornelius 481

Shepherd, Henry C 481

Shepherd, John C 481

Shepherd. Joseph 481

. Sherm, John 677

Sherm, John B 677

Sherm, William H 577

Sherwood Catharine J 667

Sherwood, Harry M 596

Sherwood, John 667

Sherwood, William 595

Sherwood, William E 595

Shoemaker, Harry J 296

Shoemaker, Isaac 297

Shoemaker, James 297

Shoemaker, James 298

Shoemaker, Jesse 298

Shoemaker, Peter 296

Shoemaker, Peter, Jr 297

Siddall, John E 556

Siddall, Joseph H 556

Siegler, Charles L 304

Siegler, C. Louis 304

Siegler Family 303

Siegler, INIathevv .' 303

Siegler. Peter 304

Sine, Darius 542

Sine, John 542

Sine, Joseph 542

Slack, Abraham 562""

Slack, Abraham 654 -

Slack, Abraham 673 ,

Slack, Abram K 562 -

Slack, Albert 6^9 -

Slack, Albert E ■. . 673

Slack, Cornelius 562 -

Slack, Cornelius 654-

Slack, David 639 .

Slack, Edward M 654 -

Slack, Edward T 639 _

Slack, Elijah T 673 ^

Slack, John 639 -

Slotter. Jacoh 674*

Slotter, J. Titus 67^

Slotter, John F 565

Slotter, Samuel 565

Smith, Charles J (134

Smith, Charles B . 511

•Smith, Fdnumd 618

Smith, Elias E 5tt

Smith, Horace T 6\y

Smith, James 656

Smith, James P 656

Smith, John D 339

Smith, Jonathan 635

Smith Joshua ^118

Smith, Joseph L 2O,-

Smith. i\Iartin H. 339

Smith, Robert fnr

Smith, Thomas M>'

Smith, Thomas S fii.^

Smith, William -'03

Smith, William 635

Snyder, y\mos H 591"

Snyder, George 583

Snydev, Henry H 583

Snvdcr, John 19S

INDEX

xvu

Snyder, John H

Snyder, Martin L

Snyder, Robert B

Solliday, Jacob

Solliday, Peter

Souder, Cliristopher

Souder, Henry

Souder, Henry H

Springer, John

StackhoTise, Amos

Stack-house, Asa INI

Stackhouse, Benjamin

Stackhouse, Charles

Stackhouse Family

Stackhouse, Henry

Stackhouse, Henry W

Stackhouse, Isaac

Stackhouse, James R

Stackhouse, John H

Stackhouse, Robert

Stackhouse, Thomas, Jr

Stackhouse, Thomas, Sr

Stapler, John

Stapler, John M

Staplery Stephen

Stapler. Susanna ,

Staplerl Thomas,

Staveley, William

Staveley, William R

Steeb, Friedrich

Stever, Abraham

Stever, John

Stever, John H

Stever, Reuben B

St. Francis Industrial School.

Stintsman, Samuel

Stintsman, Silas

Stintsman, Thomas

Stockton, Isaiah V

Stockton, John

Stockton. Lendrum

Stonebach, Jacob T

Stonebach, Sylvester H

Stoneback, Robert

Stoneback, Worman

Stout, Abraham

Stout, Abraham B

Stout, Enos

Stout, Jacob B

Stout, Harrison C

Stout, Henry H

Stout, Jacob

Stout, Lewis K

Stout, Mahlon H

Stout, Oliver

Stout, Oliver A

Stover, Abraham F

Stover, Henry S

Stover, Jacob

Stover, John J

Stover, Ralph

Stover, Samuel . .

Strawn, Charles F

Strawn, Daniel

Strawn, Johnson

Strawn, Thomas ... ......

'AGE

198
197
198

591

730 ■

730

613

61S

686

489-

489^

420

419

682

6S2

419

420

682

■420

420

490 '

419

4S6

486

4S6

604

486

649

.^56

402

40.>

402

414
232
232
232
600
600
600
63s
635
676
676
84
345
203

85
345
202

84
203

84
20 r
203
428
582
226

583
582
428
226
590
=;9o
678
500

PAGE

Strawn, Thomas 678

St. Stephen Reformed Church 531

Stuckert, Amos 278

Stuckert, Henry 277

Stuckert, Henry C 277

Stuckert, William H 277

Stuckert, William R 27S

Summers Family 490

Summers, ]\Iartin 491

Summers, Philip 491

Summers, Samuel 491

Summers, William 492

Swallow, Charles R 313

Swallow, Francis R 313

Swartley, Abraham M 267

Swartlej^, George 439

Swartley, Henry D 241

Swartley, Henry S 267

Swartley, John 222

Swartley, John 223-

Svvartley, John C 85

Swartlc3% Levi 222

Swartley, Levi M 223

Swartley, Philip R 85

Swartley, Philip 222

Swartley, Philip 439

Swartley, Philip C 240

Swartz, Abram 680-

Swart /c, Abram V 679

Swart/C, Andrew 670

Swartz, Jacob i I ! 230

Swartz. Thomas I' 230

Swartzlander. Frank 187

Swartzlander. Frank B 189

Swartzlander, Gabriel 18S

Swartzlander, Jacob 188

Swartzlander, Joseph R 190

Swope, Reuben 276

Taylor. Benjamin • 536

Taylor, Benjamin J 109 ■

Taylor, Charles L 104-

Taylor, Joseph ^;^~

Taylor, Timothy ^t,/ ■

Taylor, Thomas 104 •

Taylor, William S 267

Terry. Charles B, 603

Terry, Millard F 603

Terry, William 603

Thatcher, Samuel B 716

Thomas, .Abiah 494

Thomas, Hiram 494

Thomas, Job 40 .^

Thomas, Joseph 223

Thomas, Oliver M 492

Thomas, Thomas 403

Thompson, Albert 66ji

Thompson, Albert J 663

Thompson, John 502

Thompson, Warner C 663

Tierney, J. J., Country Home 44S

Titus, PYancis, Jr 437

Titus, Jacob 437

Titus, Oliver P 437

Titus, Tennis 437

Titus. William 437

Tomlinson. Aaron 342

Tomlinson, B. Palmer 714

Tomlinson, George 343

Tomlinson, Homer 675

xvm

INDEX

PAGE

Tomlinson, John 6y^

Tomlinson, Joshua 342

Tomlinson, Richard 342

Tomlinson, Robert K 714

Tomlinson, William 342

Torbert Family 724

Torbert, James 72 y

■Torbert, James, Jr 724

Torbert, John K 725

Trauch, Edward H 323

Trauch, Peter . 434

Trauch, William H 322,

Trauch, William H 434

Trauger, Elias 368

Trauger, Xoah G 36S

Trego, Amos K 35^

Trego, Edward 398

Trego, Harry R 350

Trego, Jacob 350

Trego, James 35^

Trego, John 2,31

Trego, John K 351

Trego, Mahlon 398

Trego, William 351

Trego. William . . . .' 35 1

Troemner, Eliza B 427

Trumbauer. George 43 ^

Trumbauer, Henry 431

Trumbauer, John 695

Trumbauer, Micliael S 695

Trumbauer, William P 43^

Turner. Mary A 166

Twining, Amas H 7or

Twining, Charles 4.09

Twining, Cyrus B 624

Twining, David 70 r

Twining, Edward W 410

Twining, F. Cvrus 624

Twining, Jacob, Jr 62},

Twining. Sara E 701

Twining, Stephen 409

Twining, Stcohen B 408

Twining, William. Jr ! 408

Twining, Wilmcr A 623

Umstead. David R 445

Umstead. Jonathan R 445

Umstead, William 4J5

L'ndcrwood. Owen L 360

Underwood, Reuben L 360

V'anarlsdalen, Cyrus T 279

^'an Artsdalen, Garret ?8o

Van Artsdalen, Henry H 2X1

Van Artsdalen, Isaac 28c

Van Art-dalen, Tames 28r

Van Artsdalen. James, Jr 281

Van Artsdalen, John 2S0

Van Artsdalen. Silas 2.8r

Van Artsdalen, Simon 279

Vandegritt. Charles S. 2>3

Vandea:rift Family 3'^

Vandegrift Frederic B ?,?,

Vandegrift, George V .36

Vandegrift. John G 34

Vandegrift. J. Wilson },7

Vandegrift. Lewis H 3(J

Vandegrift. Lemuel 34

Vandegrift. Moses 34

\'andegrift. Sanuiel A 35

PAGE

Van Hart, Charles 430

Van Hart, Charles 670

Van Hart, David 430

Van Hart, Frank W 645

Van Hart, Jacob 570

\'an Hart. Jacob 645

\'an Hart, IMichael A 570

Van Hart. Michael A 645

\3.n Horn. Christian 94

Van Horn Family 92

Van Horn. Henry 96

Van Horn. Isaiah 96

\"an Horn, Richard H 97

\'an Horn, Samuel S 97

Van Pelt Family 102

Van Pelt. Joseph 104

Van Pelt. Seth C 103

\'an Pelt. William 104

Van Sandt. Albert 26

Van Sandt, Cornelius 25

Van Sandt, Garret ■ 27

Van Sandt, George 27

Van Sandt, Jacobus . . . 26

Van Sandt, Johannes 26

Van Sandt, Stot^el 24,

\'ansant Family 24-

Vansant, Howard 28

Vansant, James T 28

Vansant, John F 261

Vansant, John H 261

Winsant, Martin Y. ^ 29

Vansant. Nathaniel 29

Void, Frederick R 329

Void, Frederick, Sr 329

Waidelich, John H 544

\\'aidelich, Michael F 544.

Walker. Edwin C 542

Walker. Elias 542

Walker. Holcombe 633

\\'a!ker. Peter 542

Walker. Phineas 633

\\'alker, Rober-t 633

Walker. William L 6,^2

Wallace, James 462

Wallace, James 463

Wallace, John B 463

AN'allace. Robert 462

Wallace. William S j6r

Walter. John 672

Walter. John B 317

Walter. Jo^^enh B 672

WaUcr, Michael 672

Walton. Heston J54

Walton. Isaiah 255

Walton. Jeremiah 254

Walton. Thomas 25,=;

Walton. William 298

Wambold, Abraham H 404

Wambold. Xoah 404

Wanger. George 1.34

Wans ?r. Irvinsr P 133

Washhvrn. J. H 277

Watson. Henry 1^7

Watson. Henr}- ^^' 664

Watson. Jenks G 620

Watson. Josep'i 66a

Watson, John 136

Witson. Samuel \ 620

\\'atson, William 136

INDEX

XIX

PAGE

Weaver, Brice 382

Weaver, Isaac 382

Weaver, Stacy L 382

Weber, Frank 560

Weber, George . . . ^ 560

Webster, Hugh B.. 557

Webster, Jesse G 557

Weisel, Ehner P 729

Weisel, Francis S 7:^^

Weisel, Henry 730

Weisel, Oscar W 731

Weisel, Samuel 730

Weiss, George 44'

Weiss, Henry W 441

Wharton, Thomas L 525

White,-^ Charles A 726

White, George 698

White, Howard P 244

White, James , 638

White, Jonathan 244

White, I,ednum L 726

White, Thdmas 658

White, William 244

White. William H 698

Wildman, Alfred M 651

Wildman. Charles 648

Wildman, George K 315

Wildman, John 657

Wildman, Joshua 315

Wilkinson, Abraham 421

Wilkinson, Charles T 420

Wilkinson, Eleaser 421

Wilkinson, Frederick R 174

Wilkinson. John 421

Wilkinson, Lawrence 420

Wilkinson. Ogden.D '. 171

Wilkinson, Samuel 420

Wilkinson. William 420

Willard Family 398

Willard. Jacob 695

Willard, James V ^()S

Willard, James V 399

Willard, Jes-e 399

Willard. J. Monroe 399

Willard, Lewis ()95

Williams, Anthony 701

Williams, Barzilla \* 2~s

Williams, Benjamin 272

Williams, Benjamin 274

Williams, Carroll R 273

Williams. Charles 701

Williams, Cyrenious 497

Williams, Edward 272

Williams Family 27 ^

Williams, Henry T 72S

Williams, Jeremiah 273

Williams, John 275

Williams, John 728

W^illiams, John S 272

Williams, Neri B 497

Williams. Samuel 272

Williams, Thomas 497

Williamson, Edward C 664

Williamson Family 216

Williamson. Jesse 664

Williamson, John 218

Williamson, Josephus 218

PAGE

Williamson, Mahlon 217

Williamson, Mahlon . 664

Williamson, Peter 217

Williamson, William 217

Wilson, Ebenezer C 378

Wilson, Isaac 378

Wilson, John D 205

Wilson, Joshua ^78

Wilson, Joseph H 378

Wilson, Samuel 519

Wilson, William E 519

Wilson, William E 520

Winder Family 100

Winder. Jacob M loi

Winner, Samuel 565

Winner. William P 565

Wismer. Christian 505

Wolfingcr, Jacob D 6og

Wolfinger. Reuben S 6og

Wood. Benjamin G 715

Wood, George 715

Wood. Joseph 715

Woodman, Edward 548

Woodman. Henry 549

^Voodman. Isaac N 548

Worstall. Edward D 371

Worstall, Edward H 191

Worstall. George C 190

Worstall. John igo

Worstall, Joseph 190

Worstall, Joseph 191

Worstall. Josepli. Tr 371

Worstall, Joseph, Sr 371

^X^irthineion. Amasa 721

Worthington, Amos S 352

Worthington, Amy 672

Worthington, Benjamin M 672

Worthington. Elisha 559

Worthington. Harriet L 559

Worthiifgton, John 710

Worthington. Joseph 559

Worthington. Lewis 352

Worthington. Lewis 710

\\'orthington. T. S 721

Wright. William P 650

Wynkoop, Garrett 354

Wynkoop, John 354

Wynkoop. Philip 354

Wynkoop, \Villiam 118

Yardley, Achsah 604

Yardley, Charles G88

Yardley Family 122

Yardley, John 122

Yardley. Mahlon 688

Yardley, Robert ^[ 125

Yardley, Samuel 124

Yardley, William 604

Yardley. William 688

Yardley. William W 688

Yerkes, Harman 75

Yerkes, Herman 75

Yerkes, Stephen 76

Yocum. Israel 599

Yocum. Jonathan 599

Yocum, William D 599

BUCKS COUNTY.

THE PEMBERTON FAMILY. Four
miles south of Morrisville, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, on the mainland, near the
Delaware river, opposite Biles' Island,
there is an old family graveyard, dating
back to the ninth decade of the seven-
teenth century. It is one of the oldest
graveyards in the county, if not in the
state. Within its walls, measuring two
rods square, lies the remains of four gen-
erations of one family, all of whom died
in the short space of fifteen years. There
rest the five j'oung children of Phineas
and Phebe (Harrison) Pemberton, as well
as both the parents of these children. Near
them also repose their grandparents. Ralph
Pemberton, and James Harrison and Anne
his wife; and adjoining lies the remains of
their great-grandmother, Agnes Harrison,
born in one of the last years of the reign
of Queen Elizabeth. Not often, even in a
well settled and long established country,
is found such a number of generations, en-
compassed by one enclosure. The early
history of the family that lies buried in this
ancient burying ground is so closely inter-
woven with the history of the founding
of Penn's colony on the Delaware and
the causes that led up to that event, and
so typical of that of most of the early
families that formed the van guard of the
Quaker emigrants to Pennsylvania, — ex-
plaining, as it does, the motive that led
these early settlers to leave the land of
their birth' and seek homes in an unknown
wilderness — that we wish to preface a brief
account of the family with some account
of the early sutTerings of the Society of
Friends, of which they were representa-
tive members. Let us take a glance at the
condition of the Friends in England, prior
to Penn's establishment of his colony in
America.

The development of Quakerism in Eng-
land under, let us say, the reign of Henry
VIII, would have been an impossibility:
but the growth of popular government and
freedom of thought which were so firmly
established by the genius and power of
Oliver Cromwell, rendered possible that
which would have been entirely impossible
a century earlier. All the force of gov-
ernment, however, and all the power of
the church were thrown against the So-
ciety of Friends, and no means were spared
1-3

to persecute them and subject them to
ignomy and contempt. No class of life- or
society was spared in these persecutions.
Many of the early converts to Quakerism
were of noble birth or people of power
and influence in the realm. William Penn
was "the companion of princes and the
dispenser of royal favors." Thomas El-
wood was «of gentle birth, being nearly
related through his mother to Lady Wen-
man. George Barclay was of good stock
and a fine classical scholar. Yet all these
men, because of their religious convictions,
were frequently imprisoned, sometimes
herded with the lowest felons and vilest
prostitutes — "nasty sluts indeed they were,"
says Elwood in his autobiography. "Re-
member," said Phineas Pemberton, in an
epistle that was intended as a preface to
the "Book of Minutes of the Yearly Meet-
ing of Friends," on the setting up of that
body at Burlington, New Jersey; "Remem-
ber, we were a despised people in our
native land, accounted by the world scarce
worthy to have a name or place therein ;
daily liable to their spoil ; under great
sufferings, by long and tedious imprison-
ments, sometimes to the loss of life — ban-
ishment, spoil of goods, beatings, mock-
ings, and ill treatings ; so that we had not
been a people at this day had not the Lord
stood by us and preserved us." (Friends'
Miscellany, vol. vii, p. 42.) His descrip-
tion is not overdrawn : "Come out," they
cried before Phineas Pemberton's door in
1678 ; "Come out, thou Papist dog, thou
Jesuit, thou devil, come out." He was
several times imprisoned in Chester and
Lancaster castles, being confined in the
latter prison in 1669 nineteen weeks and
five days, and this, too, before he was
twenty-one years of age.

James Harrison, who lies buried beside
Phineas Pemberton and who was his
father-in-law, was very active as a minis-
ter among Friends and was imprisoned in
1660, in Burgas-gate prison for nearly two
months; in 1663 in the county jail of Wor-
cester; in 1664, 1665 and 1666 in Chester
castle : "But none of these things," says
Phineas. were done unto us because of our
evil deeds, but because of the exercise of our
tender consciences towards our God." Nor
were these cases exceptional ; to such a
pitch of nervousness had the government

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTV.

been wrought by the various plots, and
so great was the fear of Catholic ascen-
dency among the people at that time, that
later, in t6S6, when James 11 issued the
general pardon to all who were in prison
on account of conscientious dissent, over
twelve hundred Quakers — perfectly inof-
fensive and harmless subjects as they were
— were released, "many having been im-
mured in prison, some of them twelve or
fifteen years and upwards, for no crime but
endeavoring to keep a good conscience to-
wards God."

It was from this English barbarism and
English oppression that William Penn in-
vited his fellow Friends to join him in
what he called his "Holy Experiment" in
America. Accordingly, on the sth of the
7th month (September), 1682, the Pember-
tons and Harrisons, with other families,
sailed from Liverpool in the ship "Sub-
xnission" for Pennsylvania. As it may be
of interest to their descendants we give
below the list of passengers on the "Sub-
mission." This list is taken ,from James
Pemberton Parke's mss. account of the
Pemberton family, 1825. It is from this
>manuscript that the account of the family
^published in the Friends' miscellany, vol.
vii, is drawn. The latter, however, con-
tains only a partial list of the passengers
given below. Our list also contains some
particulars not included in the list given
:in the "Sailing of the Ship Submission"
in vol. i, no. i, of the "Publications of
the Genealogical Society of .Pennsylvania,"
Philadelphia, 1895.

Passengers on board the ship "Sub-
xnission."

Ralph Pemberton, Bolton, Lancashire,
age 72; servants, Joseph Mather, Eliza-
beth Bradbury.

Phineas Pemberton, Bolton, Lanca-
shire, age 33 ; servants, William Smith,
servant of Phineas Pemberton, came in
Friends' Adventure, arrived 7th mo. 28,
:l682.

Phebe Pemberton, wife of Phineas,
daughter of James Harrison, age 23

Abigail Pemberton, daughter of Phineas,
age 3 years.

Joseph Pemberton, son of same, aged
pne year.

James Harrison, Bolton, Lancashire,
age 57 years: servants, Joseph Steward,
Allis Dickerson, Jane Lyon.

Agnes Harrison, Bolton, Lancashire,
mother of James, age 81.

Ann Harrison, his wife, Bolton, Lanca-
shire, age 61.

Robert Bond, son of Thomas Bond, of
Waddicar Hall, near Garstang, Lancashire,
age 16; being left by his father to the tu-
ition of sd. James Harrison.

Lydia Wharmsby, of Bolton afsd., age

42-

Randolph Blackshaw, Hollingee, in the
Co. of Chester, servants, Sarah Brad-
bury. Roger Bradbury, and Elinor his
wife and their children Hager, Jacob,
Joseph, Martha, and Sarah.

Alice Blackshaw, his wife, and their chil-
dren, l^liebe, Sarah, Jacob, Mary, Neiie-
miah, Martha and Abraham, the latter
died at sea, 8 mo. 2d, 1682.

Ellis Jones, and Jane his wife. Coun-
ty of Denby or Flint, in Whales, and
their children, Barbara. Dorothy, Mary
and Isaac Jones. "Servants of the Gov-
ernor Penn these came."

Jane Mode and Margery Mode of Wales.
daughters of Thomas Winn, and the wife of
sd. Thomas Winn ; servants, Hareclif Hod-
ges, servant of Thomas Winn.

James Clayton, of Middlewitch, Chester,
blacksmith, and Jane his wife, and cliil-
dren James, Sarah, John, Mary, Joshua
and Lydia.

The list conforms to the account given
in the original "Book of Arrivals" in the
handwriting of Phineas Pemberton, now in
possession of the Bucks County Historical
Society. The list given in the Publications
of the Genealogical Society, above referred
to, gives, in addition to the above, "Rich-
ard Radclif, of Lancashire, aged 21," and
Ellen Holland, whose name adjoins that of
Hareclif Jones ; "Joseph* Clayton, aged 5,"
and omits Joshua Jones ; and gives age of
Barbara Jones as 13, gives "Margery and
Jane Mede, aged 11 1-2 and 15, respective-
ly. It also gives "Rebeckah Winn. 20 years,"
but omits the name of — Winn, wife of
Thomas. In re, Winn and Mode, see "Pen-
na. Magazine of History and Biography,"
vol. ix, p 231, also "Genealogy of Fisher
Family, 1896, pp. 15, 199, and "Ancestry of
Dr. Thomas Wynne," 1904.

James Settle, captain of the ship "Sub-
mission," was by the terms of his agree-
ment to proceed with the ship to the "Del-
aware River or elsewhere in Pennsylvania,
to the best convenience of the freighters,"
but through his dishonesty they were taken
into Maryland, to their very great disad-
vantage where after a severe storm they had
enconntered at sea, on 8 mo. 2. 1682, they
arrived in the Patuxent river, on the 30th
of October, and unloaded their goods at
Choptank. Here James Harrison and Phin-
eas Pemberton, his son-in-law, left their
respective families, at the house of Will-
iam Dickenson, and proceeded overland to
the place of their original destination, the
"falls of the Delaware," in Bucks county.
William Penn, who had arrived on Octo-
ber 24, was at that time in New York ;
Harrison and Pemberton had hoped to meet
him at New Castle. When they arrived
at the present site of Philadelphia they
could not procure entertainment for their
horses, and so "spancelled" them and turned
them into the woods. The next morning
they sought for them in vain they having
strayed so far in the woods that one of
them was not found until the following
January. After two days searching they
were obliged to proceed up the river in a
bont. Philadelphia was not then founded,
and the country was a wilderness.

James Harrison had received grants of
5,000 acres of land of Penn, when in Eng-

,GNES WIFE OF.iMMAilllEL,liAKHjSQ^„

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HER SON-- JAMES HARRISON .

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ASTON, LENOX AND
TILCEN FOUNDATlCNS.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY,

land, a short time before his departure
for America. Most of this land was sub-
sequently located in Bucks county. In the
following spring, 1683, Harrison and Pem-
berton brought their families and house-
hold goods from Maryland to this county,
Harrison stopping at Upland, now Ches-
ter, on the way south, to attend the first
Assembly, to which he had been elected.
Until Phineas could erect a house in Bucks
county, he and his family stayed at the
house of Lyonel Brittian, who had arrived
in Bucks, 4 mo. (June) 1680. On 11 mo.
ly, 1683, Phineas Pemberton purchased a
tract of 500 acres on the Delaware, oppo-
site Grecian's (later Biles') Island and
built a house there. It must have been a
satisfaction to him, after the storms at sea
and wanderings on land, to have his fam-
ily at last under his own roof-tree. This
plantation he called "Grove Place." He
appears, however, at first to have called
it "Sapasse." since letters to him from
friends in England in 16S4 were addressed,
. "Sapasse, Bucks County." It was part of
a tract of over 8,000 acres of land, pur-
chased by Penn from an old Indian king,
and had once been a royalty called "Sep-
essain." (On Peter Lindstrom's map of
1654, in Sharp and Westcott's "History of
Philadelphia," vol. i, p. 75, the name ap-
pears as "Sipaessing Land"). The old bury-
ing ground before referred to was located
on this tract. Being desirous of erecting
• a more comfortable home for his family,
Phineas Pemberton finished one in 1687.
•On the lintel of the door was this inscrip-
tion :,

'P.

P. 7 D. 2 mo. 1687.

The initials signifying Phineas and Phebe
Pemberton. This lintel is now in the pos-
session of the Historical Society of Penn-
sylvania, Philadelphia. This house Pem-
berton moved after his second marriage to
another tract of land five miles distant
and more in the interior. It was taken
' down in 1802 by his grandson, James Pem-

■ berton. In the year 1687 a great deal of
sickness prevailed in the colony, and Phin-
eas Pemberton lost his father, Ralph Pem-
berton, and his father-in-law, James Harri-
son. Agnes Harrison, the mother of James,
also died. Three years later Anne (Heath)
Harrison, the widow of James died; and in
1696 Phineas lost his wife Phebe, who
died 8 mo. 30, i6g6, exactly fourteen years
after her arrival in Patuxent river, Mary-
land.

On the i8th day of May, 1699, Phineas

■ Pemberton married, at the Meeting House
at Falls. Alice Hodgson, "of Burlington,
in the Province of West Jersey, spinster,
daughter of Robert Hodgson, late of Rhode
Island, deceased." The following names,
as witnesses appear on the marriage certifi-
•cate :

Ann Elett,
Ann Jennings,
Elenor Hoopes,
Mary Baker,
Abigail Sidwell,
Eliz. Browdon,
Sarah Surket,
Mary Webster,
Phebe Kirkbride,
Sarah Jennings,
Grace Lloyd,
Mary Badcoke,
Elizabeth Badok,
Ann Borden,
Elizabeth Stacy,
Sarah Stacy,
William Croasdell,
George Browne,
John Surket, Junr.,
Joseph Large,
Peter Webster,
Seth Hill,
Edwd. Penington,
Tho. Brock,
Joseph Kirkbride,
John Jones,
Jeremiah Langhorn
William Ellett,
John Biles,

Saml. Beakes,
Arthur Cooke, '
John Simcocke,
Saml. Jennings, •
Thos. Duckett,
Jos. Growdon,
Mahlon Stacy,
Henry Baker,
Richard Hough,
Will. Dunkin,
Isaac Mariott,
Peter Worrall,
Edward Lucas.
Abraham Anthony,
John Cooke, -^
John Sidwell,
Robert Hodgson,
Philip England,
Mary Yardley,
Abell Janney,
Jos. Janney,
Mary Williams,
Abigail Pemberton,
Eliz. Janney.
Joseph Pemberton,
Israel Pemberton,
Thomas Yardley,
Rand'l Blackshaw,
Joseph Mather.

Alice Dickerson,
Martha Drake,

Joseph Borden,
John Borradaill,

The original certificate is in the posses-
sion of p descendant. Mr. Henry Pember-
ton, of Philadelphia. Phineas had no chil-
dren by his second wife. After his death
she married, in 1704, Thomas Bradford,
being also his second wife. She died Au-
gust 28, 1711.

James Harrison was at an early date the
friend and confidant of Penn. "He was,"
says Proud, "one of the Proprietor's first
Commissioners of Property, was divers
years in great esteem with him, and his
agent at Pennsbury, being a man of good
education and a preacher among the Quak-
ers." In the library of the Historical So-
ciety of Pennsylvania at Thirteenth and
Locust streets, Philadelphia, (Penn mss.
Domestic Letters) there are many original
letters from Penn to Harrison, some of
them written before Penn left England.
They undoubtedly belong to the collection
of Pemberton mss.* now owned by the His-

*This collection, mounted in about one hundred
volumes, extends over a period of about two hundred
years from a date before the birth of Penn to within
modern times. It was presented to the Society in
1891 by Henry Pemberton, of Philadelphia, and com-
prises mss. of the Pemberton, Harrison, Galloway,
Rawle, Shoemaker, Clifford and other families. Two
volumes of letters now in the " Etting Collection" of
the same Society, belonged originally to this collec-
tion as they are docketed on the outside in the liand-.
writing of James Pemberton. Harrison was a member
of the first provincial council, which met in Philadel-
phia on tlie tenth day of the first month, 1682-3. In
the same year lie was a member of the committee to
draw up the charter of the colony. In 168.5 he was
appointed by Penn as chief justice of the supreme
court, but declined to serve: but the following year he
accepted the position of associate justice. He was
Penn's steward and agent in Pennsylvania until his
death, on October 6, 1687. His daughter Phebe mar-
ried Phineas Pemberton, the 1st day of 11 mo. ( Janu-
ary ) 16T6-7. at the house of John Haydock, in Coppull,
near Standish. Lancashire. England, under the super-
vision of Hardshaw Monthly Meeting of Friends.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

torical Society, since they contain an index
drawn in the handwriting of Phineas Pem-
berton. Many of these letters from Penn
are interesting in that they contain refer-
ence to matters current in the earliest days
of the colony, and also occasionally give a
picture of political life in England.

Phineas Pemberton took an active part
in the public affairs of the colony as well
as of Bucks county. He was a member of
provincial council in 1685-7, 1695, and 1697-
9; was a member of assembly 1689, 1694,
1698 (the latter year he was speaker), and
in 1700, and a member of Penn's council
of state in 1701. But it was in the affairs
of Bucks county, where he lived, that his
activity and usefulness was the greatest
and his work of the most value. He was
beyond doubt the most prominent man of
his time in the county and the most ef-
ficient, as shown by the mass of records
he has left behind him in his own hand-
writing, and by the number of official po-
sitions he filled. In addition to filling the
local positions of register of wills, recorder,
and clerk of all the courts, he held for a
time the positions of master of the rolls,
register general, and recorder of proprie-
tary quit-rents for the province ; and the
records of the county up to the time of his
fatal illness are entirely in his handwrit-
ing, and are models worthy of imitation
by officials of our day. The records of the
different courts left by him are invaluable
to the historian, and greatly superior to
those of his successors in office in the matter
of lucidity and completeness. Many of our
historians have noticed and acknowledged
this fact, which is apparent to all that have
had access to them. Buck, in his "His-
tory of Bucks County," referring to the
records left by Pemberton, ;says, "they
comprise the earliest records of Bucks coun-
ty offices, and, though they have been re-
ferred to by different writers, comparative-
ly little has been heretofore published from
them. To us they have rendered valuable
aid and we must acknowledge our indebt-
edness for information that could, possi-
bly, from no other source have been ob-
tained." In like manner Battle, in his "His-
tory of Bucks County," writing on the same
subject, states. "From that period (i. e.
1683) until disabled by a fatal illness, save
an unimportant interval, the records of the
county were written wholly by his hand;
and in them he has left a memorial of him-
self that will not be lost so long as the his-
tory of the commonwealth which he helped
to establish shall be read."*

Phineas Pemberton died March i, 1701-
2, at the age of fifty-two years, and was_

*The Records of Arrivals " published in vol. ix. of
Penna. Mae. of History and Biography, was compiled
by Phineas Pemberton. although through an editorial
oversight it is not accredited to him therein. Tin's
record has proved very vahiable in Keneali^siral and
historical research. The original Kecord of .<\rrivals
in Bucks County in Pemberton's handwritinK is in
possession of the Bucks County Historical Society,
while that of Philadelphia and elsewhere is in the
possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

buried in the old graveyard above referred
to. "Poor Phineas," wrote Penn to Lo-
gan on September 8, 1701, "is a dying man,
and was not at the election, though he
crept, (as T may say) to Meeting yester-
day. I am grieved at it ; for he has not
his fellow, and without him this is a poor
country indeed." Again, in a letter from
London to Logan in 1702, Penn writes, "I
mourn for poor Phineas Pemberton, the
ablest as well as one of the best men in the
Province. My dear love to his widow and'
sons and daughters." Samuel Carpenter, in
a letter to Penn. quoted in J. Pemberton
Parke's niss., writes, "Phineas Pemberton-
died the ist mo. last, and will be greatly
missed, having left few or none in these
parts or adjacent, like him for wisdom, in-
tegrity, and general service, and he was
a true friend to thee and the government.
It is a matter of sorrow when I call to mind
and consider that the best of our men are
taken away, and how many are gone and
how few to supply their places."

()f the nine children of Phineas and
Phebe (Harrison) Pemberton, but three
survived him for any length of time : Abi-
gail, who married, November 14, 1704,
Stephen Jenkins, and settled in Abington
township — her descendants being the
founders of Jenkintown — Priscilla, mar-
ried, 1708-9, Isaac Waterman, and set-
tled at Hohnesburg; and Israel, the
only son, who lived to manhood, mar-
ried 2 mo. 12, 1710, Rachel Read,
daughter of Charles Read, a provincial
councillor. He was an active and in-
fluential Friend, and for nineteen consecu-
tive years a member of colonial assembly.
He left three sons: Israel Jr., born 1715;
James, born 1723; and John, born 1727. Of
these, John, who was a prominent preacher
among Friends, left no issue, and James
left only daughters, one of whom married
Dr. Parke, and another Anthony Morris.
Israel Jr. married Sarah Kirkbride of
Bucks county, and had two* daughters, and
one son, Joseph, who married Ann Gallo-
way of Maryland, first cousin of Joseph
Galloway, the Bucks county loyalist, and
died at the early age of thirty-six, leaving
a large family, of whom John Pemberton'
born in 1783, was in 1812 the only male
representative of the family in America.
He married Rebecca Clifford, and left a
large family, of whom Henry Pember-
ton, of Philadelphia, referred to in this
sketch, was the fifth. A complete geneal-
ogy of the descendants of Phineas Pem-
berton will be found in Glenn's "Geneal-
ogy of the Lloyd, Pemberton and Parke
Families," Phila., 1898. Isreal, James and
John, the sons of Israel and grandsons of
Phineas. were prominent in the religious,
political, social and business life of Phlia-
dclphia, where their descendants are still
found.

Further accounts of the Pemberton Fam-
ily, may be found in Appleton's "Cyclo-
paedia of American Biography," vol. iv,
p. 706; Westcott's "Historic Mansions of

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

Philadelphia," p. 494; Sarah E. Titcomb's
"Early New England People," p. 52 j
"Glenn's Genealogy;" and "Friends' Mis-
cellany," vol. vii, both before referred to.

RICHARD HOUGH AND SOME OF
HIS DESCENDANTS. Richard Hough,
Provincial Councillor from Bucks county,
for many years one of the most prominent
figures in the Provincial Assembly, as well as
in all the affairs of the Province and Bucks
county, justice of the county court, etc..
was a native of Macclesfield, in the county
of Chester, England, and came to Pennsyl-
vania in the "Endeavor" of London, arriving
in the Delaware river 7th mo. 29, 1683 (O.
S.), bringing with him four servants nr de-
pendents — Francis Hough, (probably a
younger brother or nephew), Thomas Wood
(or Woodhouse) and Mary his wife, and
James Sutton. He settled at once in Bucks
county on land doubtless previously pur-
chased, though patented later. This land
consisted of two tracts fronting on the
Delaware in Makcfield township, one of
them in what became later Upper Make-
field and covered the present site of Tay-
lorsville, and the other' lying along the
original (bift not the present) line of Falls
township in Lower Makefield. On the lower
tract fronting on the river about one-
fourth of a mile and extending inland about
three miles, Richard Hough made his home
and erected his tirst and only I'ucks county
home, a stone house, (one of the earliest
to be erected of that material) from a
quarry on his plantation which Penn con-
sidered of so much importance that he or-
dered a memorandum be entered in the
land-office, "that ye great quarry in Rich-
ard Hough's and Abel Janney's lands be
reserved when they come to be confirmed,
"being for ye public good of ye county."
On this plantation lived six generations
of the eldest male branch of the family,
part of it remaining in their possession
until about 1850, when they removed to
Ewing township, Mercer county, New Jer-
sey.

Richard Hough took an active part in
all the affairs of the county, political, so-
cial and religious. He was a member of
Falls Meeting of Friends and his character
and attainments gave him an important
place in its proceedings. Prior to the erec-
tion of the Falls Meeting House, the Bucks
Quarterly Meeting as well as meetings for
worship were frequently held at his house.
He was there, as elsewhere, intimately as-
sociated with Phineas Pemberton, Thomas
Janney, William Yardlej-, William Biles,
Nicholas Wain, Joseph Kirkbride and
others, who, with him, were the leaders in
the affairs of the county and province,
though some of them, notably William Biles,
with whom he was intimately associated in
private affairs, differed from him in provin-
■cial politics. Biles being the Bucks county
leader of the Popular party, with strong

Democratic tendencies, while Richard
Hough was a strong adherent of the Pro-
prietary party headed by James Logan.
Richard Hough began early to engage in
public affairs, and represened Bucks county
in the Provincial Assembly in 1684, 1688,
1690, 1697, 1699, 1700, 1703, and 1704-5;
and member of Provincial Council, 1693
and 1700. He was one of the commission
to divide the county into township in
1692; was one of the justices of the coun-
ty count, and appointed in 1700, with Phin-
eas Pemberton and William Biles, by Will-
iam Penn, a "Court of Inquiry" to inves-
tigate the affairs of the province. This bare
record of the positions filled by Richard
Hough can give but a very inadequate
idea of the real position he filled in the af-
fairs of the county and province, careful
perusal of the records of both disclosing
that he was one of the foremost men of
his day. William Penn in a letter to Lo-
gan, 7 mo. 14, 1705, replying to one of Lo-
gan reporting the death of Hough, says :
"f -lament the loss of honest Richard Hough.
Such men must needs be wanted where
selfishness and forgetfulness of God's mer-
cies so much abound." Richard Hough was
drowned in the Delaware March 25, 1705,
while on his way to Philadelphia from his
home in Bucks county. By his will dated
May I, 1704, his home plantation of 400
acres was devised to his eldest son, Rich-
ard, one half to be held by his wife Mar-
gery, for life. His upper plantation, next
the Manor of Highlands, went to his sec-
ond son John ; 350 acres and his Warwick
plantation mentioned as 570 acres, but real-
ly nearly 900 acres, was devised to his
youngest son Joseph; 271 acres, "next to
John Palmer's," and 475 acres in Bucking-
ham, purchased of his brother John, in
1694, were to be sold. The Warwick tract
was one originally taken up by his father-
in-law, John Clows, and purchased by Rich-
ard Hough of the heirs, and remained the
property of his descendants for many gen-
erations, some of it for nearly two centu-
ries. His daughters Mary and Sarah were
given their portions in monej'. His wife
Margery, son Richard, and "friend and
brother," William Biles, were made execu-
tors.

Richard Hough married 8 mo. 17, 1683T
4, Margery Clows, daughter of John and
Margery Clows, theirs being the first mar-
riage solemnized under the control of Falls
Meeting. John Clows and Margery his
wife and their children, Margery, Rebec-
ca and William, came to Pennsylvania in
the same ship with Richard Hough, from
Gawsworth, Cheshire. Three other chil-
dren, John, Joseph and Sarah, had pre-
ceded their parents, arriving in the "Friends'
Adventure" 7 mo. 28, 1682. John Clows be-
came a large landowner in Bucks county
and represented the county in the Pt-ovin-
cial Assembly in 1683 and 1684. He died
7 mo. 4, 1687, and his widow Margery ''
mo. 2, 1698. The eldest son John fV '^'"~

1683; Joseph married ElizabetK^^ ^ ^ ^^~
"" -^ ^ .800-67; was

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

William. Sarah ITanfield; Sarah, John
Bainbridffe, of New Jersey; Margery, Rich-
ard Hough ; and Rebecca, John Lambert^
of Nottingham, New Jersey.

The children of Richard and IMargery
(Clows) Hough were:

2. Marj' Hough, born 6 mo. i, 1685, died
November ii, 1720; married April 6, 1690,
William Atkinson, of Bristol, Bucks coun-
ty, 'Pennsylvania.

3. Sarah Hough, born 4 mo. 7, 1690,
married first, 4 mo. 23. 1708, Lsaac Atkin-
son, brother of William; and (second)
Leonard Shallcross. in 1724.

4. Richard Hough, married first, 171 1-
12, Hester Browne, and (second) 7 mo.
27, 1717, Deborah Gumley.

5. John Hough, born 7 mo. iS, 1693,
married, 1718, Elizabeth Taylor.

6. Joseph Hough, born 8 mo. 17, i695_.
died Mav 10, 1773; married 1725, Elizabeth
West, daughter of Nathaniel and Eliza-
beth (Dungan) West.

Thomas Atkinson, father of William and
Isaac Atkinson, was a minister of the So-
ciety of Friends, and was born at Newby_.
Parish of Ripon, West Riding of Yorkshire.
England. He married Jane Bond at Knar-
esborough Meeting. 4 mo. 4, 1678, and in
1681, with his wife and son Isaac, born
March 2, 1679, came to America and set-
tled for a time in Burlington county. New
Jersey, but soon after removed to Bristol
township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
where he bought a plantation. Thomas died

9 mo. I, 1687, and the following year his
widow Jane became the second wife of
William Biles, before mentioned in this
narrative. Another son, Samuel Atkin-
son, married Ruth Beakes, widow of Will-
iam Beakes and daughter of Mahlon Stacy_,
of West Jersey. This family of Atkin-
son held high rank in colonial times. An
account of Thomas Atkinson was published
in a "Collection of Memorials of Deceased
Ministers and others" (Phila. 1787) and
also in "The Friend." vol. 27. In vol. 28
of "The Friend" is also a memorial of his
wife, under the name of Jane Biles.

William Atkinson was a resident of Bris-
tol borough and a member of town council
there ; was collector of excise eleven years,
1738-1749. coroner of Bucks county 1721,
I73I-5' and 1737-1740; county commissioner
1722. He was for nearly thirty-three years
an elder of Falls Monthly Meeting and a
trustee for its real estate. He died in Bris-
tol, October 29, 1749. The children of
William and I\Iary (Hough) Atkinson
were as follows :

(l). Sarah, born i mo. 10, 1704-S, died

10 mo. 1706.

(2). Hannah, born January 25, i7o6-7_,
died December 9. 1760; married May, 1734.
John Hall, of Bristol, his third wife. John
Hall was a son of Robert Hall from the city
of Westminster, England, who was the first
coroner of Bucks county, and by his sec-
d. .jvife, Elizabeth, daughter of George
possessu-om Buckleburv. Berkshire, Eng-

while thai , ,- ,,„ . , ., ",

possession d.cestor of the WhUe family of

Bucks county. John Hall was a councilman
of Bristol; member of Assembly 1717 and
7740 to 1750; several times sheriff of
Bucks county; a justice of the county
courts, and succeeded his father-in-law,
William Atkinson, as collector of excise.
He was born 6 mo. 12, 1686. and died 11
mo. 10, 1768; married first Rebecca Rad-
cliffe, daughter of James Radcliffe, an emi-
nent minister among Friends and an early
settler in Bucks county, for whom Radcliffe
street in Bristol is named. He married
(second) January, 1715, Sarah Baldwin^
daughter of John and Sarah (Allen) Bald-
win, and granddaughter of Samuel Allen,
who came from Chew Magna, Somer-
set, England, and founded a family of high
standing in Bucks county and Philadel-
phia.

(3). William Atkinson, born 9 mo. 19,
1707. married 7 mo. 24, 1734. Sarah Pawley,
daughter of George and Mary (Janney)
Pawley, of Philadelphia (see Janney fam-
ily). William Atkinson, Jr., was one of
the early shipbuilders of Philadelphia, an
industry for which that city is famous.

(4). Mary Atkinson, born 7 mo. 19, 1713,
married July 9, 174S, at the First Presby-
terian Church, Philadelphia. Daniel Bank-
son, of Bensalem, son of Daniel and grand-
son of Captain Andreas Bankson, one of
the leading men among the early Swedish
settlers at Philadelphia, whose descendants
still hold a high place among the old
families of that city.

(5)- Joseph Atkinson, born 10 mo. 5,.
1716, married first, 10 mo. 8, 1743, Janet
Cowgill and (second) in 1762 Sarah Silver.
He was a prominent man in Bristol borough,
where his descendants are still people of
high social standing. He succeeded his
father as trustee of the real estate of
Falls Meeting.

(6). Sarah Atkinson, born 9 mo. 4. 1719,
died 2 mo. 7, 1726.

William Atkinson married (second) June
5, 1722, Margaret Baker, daughter of Henrv
Baker, well known in the early annals of
Bucks county and had five children : Ra-
chel, Rebecca, Samuel, Isaac, and Thom-
as. Rachel, the eldest, born 2 mo. 23^
1723, died 5 mo. 8, 1803, married 10 mo.
18. 1750, Thomas Stapler, son of John and
Esther. (See Stapler Family).

3. Sarah Hough married Isaac Atkinson,,
another son of Thomas and Jane, born in
Yorkshire, March 2, 1679, died in Bris-
tol township, Bucks county, January 3,.
1720-1, where he was a landowner. They
had issue : Jane, born 6 mo. 6, 1709, married
172S. John Wilson, of Middletown. son-
of Stephen and Sarah (Baker) Wilson,
and grandson of Henry Baker above men-
tioned, and left numerous descendants in
Bucks: (2) John; (3) Thomas. Sarah
(Hough) .Atkinson married second in 1724,
Leonard Shallcross, by whom she had nO'
children.

4. Richard Hough, eldest son of Richard
and Margery, (Clows) Hough, inherited
his father's home plantation of 416 acres

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

and lired thereon during his life. He sold
ICO acres and his heirs about lOO acres
more, the remainder going to his son Hen-
ry, and from him it descended to his grand-
son Phineas Hough, who sold it about 1850.
Richard Hough, Esq. was one of the lead-
ing men of his time in Bucks county and
took an active part in public affairs at a
time when they were almost entirely in the
hands of his cla.ss of gentlemen of landed
estate. He was a justice of the peace and
of the county courts for many years, and a
member of Falls Meeting. He married
February, 1711-12, Hester Brown, daughter
of Henry and Margaret (Hardman) Baker,
before mentioned, who had been the widow
of Thomas Yardley, and of William Brown
of Chichester, Chester county, Pennsylvania.
Richard and Hester had one child, Richard,
who died young. He married (second) 7 mo.
27, 'ijf?, Deborah Gumley, (widow of John
Gumley, of Philadelphia, formerly New
Castle county) and had issue as follows :

8. William Hough, died without issue
prior to 1755. 9. Deborah, married Thomas
Davis, of Lower Makefield. 10. Margery,
married Jonathan Saults, of Philadelphia.

11. Henry Hough, born 8 mo. 11, 1724 (O.
S.) died 8 mo. 27, 1796, married 10 mo.
22, 174S, Rebecca Croasdale: see forward.

12. Mary, born 1726, died 1802 ; married 2
mo. 12, 1752 (O. S.) Anthony Burton, Jr.,
of Bristol. (See Burton Family).

II. Henry Hough, son of Richard and
Deborah, inherited 215 acres of the Make-
field homestead and lived thereon the life of
a country gentleman, taking little part in
public affairs. He was a member of Falls
Meeting. He married 10 mo. 22, 1748, Re-
becca Croasdale, born 1727-8, died 1800,
daughter of William and Grace (Harding)
Croasdale of Newton township and had
eight children as follows: 13. Sarah, born
1751, married 1775, John Watson. 14. John,
born 1753, married Hannah Watson and
Mary Yardley. 15. Deborah, born 1755,
died 1773, unmarried. 16. Mary, born 1759-
17. Jesse, born 1761, died 1794, married
Mercy Merrick. 18. Rachel, born 1764,
died 1793, married David Heston. 19.
Rebecca, born 1766, married Isaiah Ross,
grandson of Thomas Ross, an eminent,
minister among Friends and the ancestor
of the eminent jurists, an account of whose
family is given elsewhere in this work.
20. Henry, born 1768.

14. John Hough, born 9 mo. 16, 175,3.,
eldest son of Henry and Rebecca (Croas-
dale) Hough, lived on his father's planta-
tion in Lower Makefield. He was a mem-
ber of Falls Meeting, but was married by
the Rev. William Frazer, a Church of Eng-
land minister, in 1782, to Hannah Watson,
and they had one child, Beulah. He mar-
ried (second) about 1790, Mary Yardley,
daughter of Richard and Lucilla (Stack-
house) Yardley, and a great-granddaughter
of Thomas Janney, Provincial Councillor.
(See Yardley, Stackhouse and Janney fam-
ily sketches in this volume.) The children
of John and Mary (Yardley) Hough, were:

22. Phmeas, born 12 mo. 20, ijdo, died
5 mo. 6, 1876; 23. Lucilla, born 12 mo. 24,
1788, died 2 mo. 9, 1883, married Abraharti
Bond nf Newtown, son of Levi and Hannah
(Merrick) Bond, and a descendant of
Phineas Pemberton, whom James Logan
styles "The Father of Bucks County." (See
Pemberton Family).

Phineas Hough (22) inherited a part
his grandfather's plantation in Lower Make-
field and lived thereon until sixty years
old ; selling it in 1850 he removed to Ewing
township, Mercer county, and resided with
his son William A. Hough until his death
in 1875. He married Elizabeth Carlile,
by whom he had no issue. On February

25, 1819, he married Deborah Aspy, daugh-
ter of William and Elizabeth Aspy, of
Makefield, and had the following children:
24. William Aspy Hough, born December
4, 1819, died December it, 18S8, married
Eleanor Stockton ; see forward. 25. John
Hough, born November 26, 1879, became
a Methodist minister and removed to Dela-
ware, where he married Rebecca E. Dukes.

26. Mary S., born July 7, 1824, married Ja-
cob Hendrickson, of Mercer county. New
Jersey. 27. Samuel Yardley Hough, born,
February 14, 1827, died August, 1862, mar-
ried Wealtha Allen, from Massachusetts,
and removed to Kansas, where he died.
28. Phineas, born January 24, 1830, died
May 28, 1869, . in Philadelphia ; married
Lizzie E. Lynn. 29. Benjamin Franklin,
born March 16, 1833, lived in Philadelphia,
unmarried 30. Edwin W., born April 27,
1837, died in Philadelphia, April 30, 1863,
of disease contracted in the army, having
served in the celebrated Anderson Cavalry,
i6oth Regiment, P. V.

William -Aspy Hough (25) was born on
the old homestead near Yardley, but in
early life removed to property purchased in
Ewing, New Jersey, and died there. He
married Eleanor Stockton, of the disting-
uished family of that name in New Jersey
and they were the parents of five children :
31. John Stockton, see forward.- 32. Will-
iam Henry, died while a student at Rut-
gers College. S3. Horace G., who inher-
ited and is living on his father's plantation
in Ewing. 34. Thomas J., and 35. Mary
Emma, both died young.

John Stockton Hough, M. D. (31) eldest
son of William A. and Eleanor (Stockton)
Hough, was born on the old Hough planta-
tion in Lower Makefield, Bucks county,
December 5, 1845, and while a child removed
with his parents to New Jersey. His edu-
cation was obtained in the Ewing school,
1850-58; Trenton Academy, 1858-60; Mod-
el School, Trenton, 1860-61 ; Fort Edward
Institute, New York, 1861-62; Eastman's
Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y.,
iS-'6?-63: Polvtechnic College, Philadelphia,
civil engineering course, 1864-67; Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, Medical Department,
1865-68 ; received degree of M. D. at the
University in 1868, and of Master of Chem-
istry at the Polytechnic in 1870. He lec-
tured on botany, Philadelphia, 1866-67; was

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appointed adjunct professor of Chemistry.
Central High School, Pheladelphia. i868_^
resident physician, Philadelphia Hospitalj
1868-9; lecturer on Physiology, Wagner In-
stitute, Philadelphia, 1868-69 Philadelphia
Dispensary, 1869; Lying-in Charity Hospit-
al, 1869; medical adviser U. S. Life Insur-
ance Company, 1869-73 ! Berkshire Life In-
surance Company. 1875 ; and practiced medi-
cine in Philadelphia 1S69-74. While physi-
cian at Philadelphia Hopsital he made orig-
inal discoveries in reference to trichinae.
He invented a plan for fireproof huilding
construction in 1870, and was the inventor
of various surgical instruments in 1868-
70. He was the author of about thirty pa-
pers and pamphlets on hygiene, biology,
speculative physiology, social science, vital
statistics, population and political economy,
published in medical and scientific journals
in this and foreign countries, from 1868
to 1886. These papers attracted much at-
tention, and some were translated, and
published in foreign languages, and through
them membership in various learned socie-
ties was conferred on him. and a sketch of
his life was published in Johnson's and
Appleton's Encyclopaedias, and in the En-
cyclopaedia Britanica. His magnus opus
was a bibliography of medical literature
of the fifteenth century, intended to be en-
titled ''Incunabula Medica." He had lists
printed of all the known medical books oj
that time, of which there were about 1.500,
and sent copies of it to public libraries
and private collectors all over the world,
with the request to mark on the list such
books as they had copies of. and to make
certain remarks about them and return the
lists. He also visited many important li-
braries and most of the famous Universi-
ties in France, Germany, and Italy, and mas-
tered the languages of these countries, mak-
ing eleven voyages to Europe in connection
with this mammoth work, and traveled
extensively in this country. Before his
death nearly all the lists sent out had been
returned, but he had not finished the com-
pilation (which, besides the matter con-
tained in the lists, was to include biogra-
phies of all the authors) when death over-
took him. It is to be sincerely hoped that
some day the work so well begun will be
taken up and finished. During this period
of his life he also gathered together a li-
brary on medical and related subjects es-
timated to contain lo.ooo titles. It was
his desire that this library should be kept
intact. I-iut leaving no will, it was sold by
his administrators to the College of Physi-
cians, who transferred about 1,900 volumes
to the library of the University of Pennsyl-
vania. He was much interested in local
history and the history of old Bucks county
families, and furnished considerable mater-
ial for Davis's "History of Bucks County,"
first edition. 1876. In 1890 he purchased
a property in Ewing township, where he had
always retained his voting residence, and
named it Alillbank, and spent the remainder
of his life there. He also owned, with his

brother Horace, a farm in Hopewell town-
ship, and a half interest in the Ewing flour
mill near his home. He took a deep interest
in that section where his boyhood was spent,
and devoted great efforts for work of road
improvements in that section, capably serv-
ing in the capacity of county supervisor of
roads.

John Stockton Hough. M. D., as eldest
son, back to Richard Hough. Provincial
Councillor, was the head of the Hough fam-
ily of Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He was
one of the revivers of the Aryan "Order of
St. George, of the Holy Roman Empire in
the Colonies of America, which was found-
ed by Sir Thomas Forsythe, Viscount de
Fronsac, a British-American officer, with
the allies fighting the Revolution in France,
who in 1798 was given authority by Em-
peror Joseph II to organize the American
families who were descended from noble
European blood, or from officers holding
royal commissions in the colonies. A num-
ber of persons were admitted during the
early j'ears of its existence, but it was not
thoroughly organized until 1879. when some
of the members met in Boston for that pur-
pose, and it was more formally organized
in the rooms of the IMaryland Historical
Society. October 28, 1880.

Dr. Stockton-Hough, as he styled himself,
was a member of the Protestant Episcopal
Church, being confirmed by Bishop Stev-
ens in Philadelphia in 187^. He married
first, January 29, 1874. Sarah Macomb
Wetherill. daughter of Dr. William Weth-
erill, of Fatland. Montgomery county. Penn-
sylvania, a descendant of Christopher
Wethrul. of West Jersey, ancestor of the
well known Philadelphia family of that
name. She died in Florence, Italy, in 1875,
leaving an only daughter, Frances Eleanor
Agrippina Etrusca Hough, who was born in
Florence, December 30, 1874, and died un-
married at Millbank, April 4, 1893. Dr.
Hough married (second) June 30. 1887, in
New York City, Edith Reilly, daughter of
Edward and Anna Russun (Rogers) Reilly,
of New York. Her father was a graduate
of Yale, and a large mine owner in the west,
and her mother's ancestors were prominent
in Delaware and the eastern shore of Mary-
land. Dr. Stockton-Hough was a member
of the Grolier Club and University Club
of New York. He died at Millbank, May
6, 1900.

DESCENDANTS OF JOHN HOUGH.
SECOND SON OF RICHARD AND
MARGERY HOUGH. 5. John Hough,
second son of Richard and Margery
(Clows) Hough, born 7 mo. 18, 1693. in-
herited his father's upper tract adjoining
the Manor of Highlands and included in
Upper Makefield in 1737. It comprised 359
acres. It is not known how he disposed
of it, and he left no will, and none of his
children are known to have resided upon
it in later years. It is probable that he
conveyed a portion of it to the Taylors,
his wife's brothers, as a descendant of Mah-
lon K. Taylor, who married Elizabeth

JOHN STOCKTON HOUGH

TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

Hough, a great-granddaughter of John_
Hough, inherited it and founded Taylors-
ville. John Hough was a justice of the
Bucks county courts for several years, and
his death is said to have occurred while
filling this position some time after 1733.
He married 11 mo. 1718, at Falls Meeting.
Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Philip and
Julianna Taylor, of Oxford township, Phila-
delphia county. Her brothers removed to
Bucks county and founded a wealthy and in-
fluential family there. The children of John
and Elizabeth (Taylor) Hough were:

40. John, born 11 mo. 3, 1720, died 1797,
married Sarah Janney ; see forward.

41. Joseph, born 5 mo. 20, 1722, died
1777; married 1746, Lydia Hurst, and their
descendants removed to Loudoun Coun-
ty, Virginia, w'here one of his children
married a Washington.

42. Benjamin Hough, born 4 mo. 14,
1724, died 2 mo. 10, 1803, removed to Phila-
delphia when a young man, accumulated a
fortune, and spent the latter part of his
life in traveling in the interests of religion.
He lived for a time in Wilmington, Dela-
ware, later at Nottingham, Cecil county,
Maryland, and about 1771 located in Little
Britain township, Lancaster county, where
he died. He married first, 1748, Elizabeth
West, daughter of Thomas, of Wilmington^
by whom he had three children, of whom
only Benjamin survived his father. He mar-
ried (second) 1781, Sarah Janney. widow
of Isaac Janney, of Cecil county, Maryland.
Their only child, John, died at the age of
seven years.

43. Isaac Hough, born 9 mo. 15, 1726,
died 4 mo. 13, 1786, married Edith Hartj
see forward.

44. William Hough, born 11 mo. i,
1727-8, married 1749, Sarah Blaker. daugh-
ter of Samuel and Catharine of Warwick,
Bucks county.

45. Thomas Hough, born 11 mo. 2,
1729-30, died 5 mo. 18, 1810; married 1857,
Jane Adams; 1784, INIary (Bacon) Wistar.
He removed to Philadelphia in early life
and became one of the wealthy men of that
time. He lived at No. 20 Pine street. By
first wife had six children, all except two
of whom died young; Elizabeth married
James Olden, of the New Jersey family, and
"Betsy Hough's wedding" is referred to in
the "Journal of Elizabeth Drinker," one of
Mrs. Drinker's daughters being a brides-
maid. Jane, the other daughter, married
Halladay Jackson, of the Chester county
family, well known in Friends' annals. One
of her sons was John Jackson, the min-
ister. One of her descendants is Mrs. Isaac
H. Clothier. Mary (Bacon-Gilbert) Wis-
tar, the second wife of Thomas Hough, was
a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Test)
Bacon, of Bacon's Neck, Cumberland
county. New Jersey. She married first,
Thomas Gilbert, of Northern Liberties,
Philadelphia, and (second) Richard Wistar,
whose family is prominent in the social
life of Philadelphia to this day. There
was no issue by the second marriage.

46. Septimus Hough, born 4 mo. 21,
1731, died in Philadelphia 9 mo. 3, 1749.

47. Elizabeth, born 12 mo. 15, 1732-3,
married Nathan Tomlinson.

48. Bernard, born ir mo. 15, 1734-Sj
said by an old record to have died "in
France."

49. Martha, born 4 mo. 22, 1737, married
David Bunting, son of Samuel and Priscilla
(Burgess) Bunting, of the Bucks county
branch of the descendants of Anthony
Bunting, who came from Matlock, Derby-
shire, and settled in Burlington county.
New Jersey.

50. Samuel, born 2 mo. 15, 1739.

John Hough (40) eldest son of John and
Elizabeth (Taylor) Hough, removed to
Loudoun county, Virginia, where he became
a very large landed proprietor, and built a
fine mansion known as "Corby Hall." He
was an elder of Farfax IMonthly Meeting,
and represented his Quarterly Meeting in
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting; was well
known in northern Virginia, and held in
high esteem not only by the members of
the Society of Friends but by the "cava-
lier" gentry of that section, with whom some
of his children and grandchildren intermar-
ried. When a number of prominent Phila-
delphia Quakers were exiled to Winchester.
Virginia, during the Revolution, by or-
der of the supreme executive council, John
Hough visited them and was active in se-
curing their release. A number of his let-
ters on this subject are preserved in the
Pemberton mss. collection in the library of
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He
is mentioned in the diary of George Wash-
ington, on the occasion of the latter spend-
ing a night at Corby Hall, and in other
places. John Hough married, in 1742, in
Bucks county, Sarah Janney, daughter of
Joseph and Rebecca (Biles) Janney, a
granddaughter of Thomas Janney and of
William Biles, both provincial councillors
from Bucks county, and among the greatest
of the founders of the county. Their nine
children all married and reared families,
most of them intermarrying with Virginia
families, though some of the married into
Bucks county families who had migrated
to Virginia. They have left many disting-
uished descendants, among whom may be
mentioned, Emerson Hough, of Chicago,
novelist, historian and journalist, author
of "Mississippi Bubble," and "The Way
to the West," etc.

Isaac Hough (43) fourth son of John
and Elizabeth (Taylor) Hough, removed
early in life to Warminster township. Bucks
county, where he purchased about 236 acres
of land. He married, September 24. 1748,
Edith Hart, born May 14, 1727, died March
27, 1805, daughter of John and Eleanor
(Crispin) Hart, of Warminster, and sister
of Colonel Joseph Hart, of the continental
army, county lieutenant ; member Bucks
County Committee of Safety, etc., one of
the most prominent figures in the Revolu-
ionary struggle in Bucks county. (See Hart
family). Her father, John Hart, was sheriff

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXrV.

of Bucks county, justice of the county
courts, coroner, etc. She was a granddaugli-
ter of Thomas Holme, surveyor-general of
Pennsylvania and sometime president of
Provincial Council. of Pennsylvania, former-
ly of the Parliamentary army in the civil
war in England. Also great-granddaughter
of Captain William Crispin, acting rear
admiral in the British navy, and one of
Penn's commissioners for settling the Col-
ony in Pennsylvania ; and of Captain John
Rush, also of the Parliamentary army, an-
cestor of the celebrated Dr. Benjamin Rush,
signer of the Declaration of Independence,
etc. She was granddaughter of John Hart,
from Witney, Oxfordshire, an early minister
among Friends who joined the Keithians,
and finally became a Baptist preacher, one
of the most learned men of the colony, and
of Silas Crispin who, through his mother,
Anne Jasper^ was a first cousin to William^
Penn. Isaac Hough left the Society of
Friends and joined the Baptists, to which
sect his wife belonged. In 1775 he joined
the Warminster Company of Associators, in
the Second Battalion of Bucks County Mi-
litia, Colonel John Beatty. In July, 1776,
he was appointed by the County Committee
of Safety one of the committee to distribute
allowances to families in need whose hus-
bands were in the military service. On Au-
gust 29, 1777, he was appointed one of the
members of the committee from Warminster
to attend to the driving off of cattle to pre-
vent them from falling into the hands of the
British. The children of Isaac and Edith
(Hart) Hough were as follows:

60. Eleanor, born August 20, 1749, died
March i, 1802; married 1766, Thomas Cra-
ven, and had nineteen children. The fam-
ily removed to Virginia during the Revo-
lution.

61. Elizabeth, born August 21, 1751;
married 1771, Silas Gilbert, her first cousin,
son of William and Lucretia (Hart) Gil-
bert, and removed to Maryland. He was
lieutenant in ist Battalion, Bucks County
Militia, 1777.

62. Susannah, born June 28, 1753 ; mar-
ried 1773, Benjamin Jones, whose family
furnished several members of Assembly
and justices of Bucks county in colonial
times.

63. John Hough, born March 12, 1755 ;■
married 1774, Charity Vandoren. He was
a member of Warminster Associators 1775,
and afterwards in Virginia militia. He
moved to Philadelphia after the Revolution,
and .later to Moreland, Montgomery county.

64. Mary, born May 19, 1757, died un-
married.

65. Isaac Hough, born September 15,
1759, died March 17, 1801 ; member Warm-
inster Associators; removed to Philadelphia
after Revolution ; many years chief clerk
of United States Mint. One of his descend-
ants is Judge Robert T. Hough, of Hills-
borough, Ohio, sometime solicitor of Intern-
al Revenue at Washington, D. C, recently
candidate for the Democratic nomination
for governor of Ohio. Isaac married first

Elizabeth Houghton ; second, Mrs. Elizabethi
Eberth.

66. Thomas Hough, born October 7,
1761 ; removed to Philadelphia ; said to
have been on otlficer in war of 1812; married'
1790, Hannah Tompkins.

67. Oliver Hough, born August 27, 1763^
died January 18, 1804; see forward.

68. Rev. Silas Hough, born February-
8, 1766, died May 14, 1823. Baptist minister^
also practiced medicine in Bucks and Mont-
gomery counties. Married his cousin, Eliza-
beth Hart, daughter of County Treasurer
John Hart.

69. Joseph Hough, born June 17, 1768,
died July 3, 1799: married Elizabeth Marple.

70. William Hough, born September 12,
1770; died unmarried.

Oliver Hough (67) son of Isaac and
Edith (Hart) Hough, became a large land-
owner in Upper Makefield, Bucks county.
Hough's Creek, (formerly Milnor's Creek)
took its name from him. In the latter part
of his life he resided in Dolington. He mar-
ried at Horsham Meeting, 4 mo. 16, 1790,
Phebe Cadwallader, born 11 mo. 5, 177^,
died 7 mo. 13, 1842, daughter of Jacob and
Phebe (Radcliffe) Cadwallader, of War-
minster. She was a descendant of Henry
Baker before alluded to in this narrative,
and from John Cadwallader, one of the
prominent ministers among Friends, who
died while on a religious visit to the Island
of Tortola in 1742; also of Johannes Cas-
sel and Thones Kunders, two of the princi-
pal founders of Germantown, and from
Jan Lucken, the founder of the Lukens
family in America. Her brother, Hon.
Cyrus Cadwallader, before referred to in
this volume, was in state senate 1816-25.
The children of Oliver and Phebe (Cad-
wallader) Hough were; 71. Elizabeth, died
young. 72. Rebecca, born 1792, married
1820, Joseph Johnson. 73. Mary, born
1794; married 1822, Samuel Yardley, a well
known merchant of Doylestown, later of
Philadelphia. 74. Elizabeth, born 1796,
married 1817, Mahlon Kirkbride Taylor,
founder of Taylorsville. 75, 76, 77. Isaac,
Rachel and Phebe, all died young. 78.
Oliver, born 2 mo. 14, 1804, died 7
mo. 20, 1855 ; born at Dolington, lived
there until his marriage, when he
removed to the Doron farm in Middle-
town township ; soon after removed to
a farm just outside Newtown borough on
Yardley turnpike, where five of his chil-
dren were born. In 1842 removed to Doy-
lestown, and in 1846 to Philadelphia. Dealt
largely in real estate, owning besides Bucks
county property, coal and timber lands in
Upper Lehigh Valley, also in Michigan,
Tennessee and elsewhere. He died in Au-
gusta. Georgia, July 20, 1855, while on a
trip to Louisiana to view the property of
the Louisiana Canal Company, of which
he was a director. He was a member of
Spruce Street Friends' Meeting, Philadel-
phia.

Oliver Hough married. 3 mo. 15, 1832.
Martha Briggs, daugiiter of Joseph and

YORK

ASTON, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

OLIVER HOUGH

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

1 1

Martha (Dawes) Briggs, of Newtown,
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and had issue :
Rebecca Jarrett Hough, died unmarried ;
Phebe Alice, unmarried, member Civic
Qub and Browning Society, Philadelphia,
and of Bucks County Historical Society ;
managing committee of Friends' Central
School, Philadelphia ; ]\Iary Yardley Hough,
unmarried; from 1876 to 1897 proprietor
and editor of "The Children's Friend," a
juvenile magazine; author of numerous
short stories for children; Elizabeth Tay-
lor, died in childhood. Martha Dawes
Hough, unmarried, elder of Spruce Street,
Meeting, manager of Friends' Home for
Children. Philadelphia, and Friends' Board-
ing House Association, Philadelphia. Oliver,
died 1863 at Nashville, Tennessee, of camg
fever, was a private in i6oth Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunters, 15th (Anderson's)
Cavalry. Isaac, see forward. The Misses
Rebecca J., Phebe A., Mary Y. and Martha
D. Hough lived for over forty years at 1340
Spruce -street. Philadelphia. In April, 1904,
they removed to the old William Linton
Mansion, 24 South State street. Newtown,
Bucks county, a picture of w'hich ap-
pears in this volume. They inherited this
house from their aunts Letitia and Fran-
cenia Briggs.

Isaac Hough, son of Oliver and Matha
(Briggs) Hough, was born in Doylestown,
Bucks county, Pennsylvania and moved to
Philadelphia, with his parents when a child.
He was a merchant, and engaged in the
shipping trade with the West Indies. He
was a charter member and director of the
Maritime Exchange of Philadelphia, is a
member of the Philadelphia Bourse ; direc-
tor of the Finance Company of Pennsjd-
vania, and member of the Philadelphia
Fencing Club, the Merion Crick-
et Club, of Haverford, Pennsylvania,
and of the Union League. He married
first, in 1867, Anna Alexander Duff, daugh-
ter of Edward Duff, common councilman,
and member of the board of health of Phila-
delphia, by his wife, Mary Jane Diehl, a
descendant of Captain Nicholas Diehl, a
Revolutionary soldier and a member of the
Committee of Safety of Chester county, of
noble birth in Frankfort, Germany. Isaac
and Anna A. (Duff) Hough were the par-
ents of one child, Oliver Hough, 2d
Lieutenant. Company 8.. 3d Regiment,
Infantry. Penna. Vol. Spanish American
war, T898. to whom we are indebted for
the foregoing history of the Hough
fam.ily as well as data on numerous
other 'families published in this volume.
He is a member of the Bucks county
Historical Society and has contributed
a number of valuable papers to its Ar-
chives. He is the author of a number
of papers on genealogy and local his-
tory and is now- at work on an exhaust-
ive history of the Hart and Atkinson
families. Is a member of a number of
patriotic Societies. Isaac Hough mar-
ried (second) in 1877. Emilia Antionette,
vsndow of Francis Thibault, of Phila-

delphia, and had one son, John Boyd, who
died in 1895.

OLIVER HOUGH, son of Isaac and
Anna A. (Duff) Hough, was born in
Philadelphia, September 3, 1868, has lived
in that city until the present time, and
for about two years past has had a
transient residence with his aunts, the
Misses Hough, at the William Linton
Mansion, at 24 South State street, New-
town. He received his early education
at private schools, and entered the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania in the class of '88, re-
ceiving the degrees of B. S. and P. C. on
completion of course. He has been presi-
dent, vice-president, secretary and treasurer,.
Class of '88, and two terms secretary of
the University of Pennsylvania Cricket As-
sociation. For thesis required for technical
degree (P. C.) he made three original re-
searches in chemistry, described under the
titles : I. "An Attempt to Introduce Iodine
into Parabroma-benzoic Acid"; II. Some
Salts of Meta-nitro-para-bromo-benzoic
Acid" ; HI. Some Compounds of Monochlo-
ro-dinitrophenol". Nos. I and II were pub-
lished in the "Journal of the Franklin In-
stitute," December, 1891. No. HI resulted
in the discovery of twelve previously un-
known chemical compounds.

.He has written a number of magazine
and newspaper articles of historical or bio-
graphical character, the principal ones be-
ing: "Richard Hough, Provincial Council-
lor," (Penna. Mag. Hist, and Biog., XV-
III, 20) ; "Captain Thomas Holme, Sur-
veyor-General of Pennsylvania and Provin-
cial Councillor,"' (Penna. Mag. Hist, and
Biog., XIX, 413. XX 128, 248) : "Cap-
tain William Crispin, Proprietary's Commis-
sioner for Settling the Colony in Penna."
(read before the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania, January 10, 1898, and pub-
lished in Penna. Mag. Hist, and Biog..
XXII, 34) ; and "Thomas Janney. Provin-
cial Councillor," (read before Bucks Coun-
ty Historical Society, July 20, 1897, and
published in Bucks county newspapers).

In politics Oliver Hough has been secre-
tary and chairman of the Seventh Ward
Association, Municipal League of Philadel-
phia ; a member of several committees in
charge of independent candidates' cam-
paigns (one of which resulted in the elec-
tion of Alexander Crow, Jr., as sheriff of
Philadelphia county) ; and from 1896 to
date has represented the Fourteenth Divis-
ion, Seventh Ward, in many conventions of
the Republican party. ]\Ir. Hough joined
the National Guard of Pennsylvania as a
private in Company D, First Regiment, In-
fantry, August 10, 1893 ; elected second
lieutenant Company G, Third Regiment,
Infantry, June 10, 1897. Served again
with Company D, First Infantry, on
riot duty at Hazelton, Pennsylvania,
October, 1902. Is a member of the
"Old Guard" of Company D. He was
mustered into the United States service
for the Spanish War as second lieutenant.
Third Penna. Volunteer Infantry, July

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

22, 1898; detailed as acting assistant quar-
termaster, A. A. commissary of subsis-
tence, and A. A. ordinance officer ; served
in camps at Fernandina, Florida, and Hunts-
ville, Alabama ; mustered out October 22,
1898.

Mr. Hough is or has been a member of
the following organizations : Society of Co-
lonial Wars (by descent from Richard
Hough, Thomas Janney and other early
Bucks countians) ; Sons of the Revolution
(by descent from Isaac Hough of the
Bucks County Associators) ; Historical
Society of Pennsylvania, and local historical
societies of Bucks county, Montgomery
county, Pennsylvania, and Harford county,
Maryland ; Genealogical Society of Penn-
sylvania (historian and member board of di-
rectors) ; American Catholic Historical So-
ciety of Philadelphia ; Friends' Historical
Society (England) ; Society of Chemical
Industry (Great Britain) ; Franklin Insti-
tute of the State of Pennsylvania ; ]\Ierion
Cricket Club of Haverford, Pennsylvania ;
and Markham Club of Philadelphia.

ANCESTRY OF BENJAMIN HOUGH,
OF WARRINGTON.

Joseph Hough, youngest son of Richard
and Margery (Clowes) Hough, a sketch
of whose life and distinguished services
is given in the preceding pages, was born
in Lower Makefield, Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania, September 19, 1693, and died in
Warwick township, now Doylestown, May
10) '^773- By the will of his father he inherit-
ed the Warwick plantation, originally taken
up by his grandfather, John Clows, and pur-
chased by his father in 1702. It comprised
841 acres as shown by a survey when di-
vided between his two sons Joseph and John
by deeds dated May 2, 1761, and lay on
"both sides of the Neshaminy, on the lower
line of the present township of Doyles-
town, extending from the Bristol road to
Houghville, or "The Turk." It was divided
almost equally between the two sons in
1761, the Neshaminy being the dividing
line for about one-third of the distance.
John getting the end next Houghville, and
Joseph the western end. Joseph Hough,
Sr., married "out of meeting," his wife
being Elizabeth West, daughter of Nathan-
iel and Elizabeth (Dungan) West, and
granddaughter of the Rev. Thomas Dun-
gan, who came from Rhode Island to Bucks
county in 1683, and of Nathaniel West, of
Rhode Island. Nathaniel West, Jr., was
living at the time of the marriage of his
daughter, on the Rodman tract, adjoining
the Hough farm, which would imply that
Joseph Hough had taken up his residence
in Warwick prior to his marriage. A Jo-
seph Hough was dealt with at Falls Meet-
ing for marrying out of unity May 9, 1726,
but whether Joseph of Warwick, or Joseph
Hough, son of John and Hannah, who was
about the same age, cannot be ascertained
from the records. He evidently retained

a nominal membership, as his son Joseph
was considered a member at Buckingham at
the time of his marriage in 1756. The
children of Joseph and Elizabeth (West)
Hough, were as follows :

1. Sarah, married James Radcliffe. son
of Edward and Phebe (Baker) Radcliffe,
and grandson of James Radcliffe, the
preacher, and of Henry Baker, whose dis-
tinguished services have been previously
referred to.

2. Martha, born 1728, died 1785, married
William Evans, son of Lewis Evans, a
trooper in the battle of Boyne. For their
children, see "Fox, EUicott & Evans Fami-
lies," Chas. W. Evans, Buffalo, N. Y., 1882.
Four married Ellicots.

3. Mary, married Samuel Gourley, of
Wrightstown, Bucks county.

4. Rebecca, married (first) a George, and
(second) Samuel Williams, of Gwynedd.

5. Joseph, born 1730, died January 6, 1818.

6. John Hough, second son of Jeseph
and Elizabeth (West) Hough, lived on the
414 acre tract conveyed to him by his father
in 1761, as before recited, in Warwick
township. Was probably not a member of
the Society of Friends, though he adhered
to their principles. His name appears on
the roll of "Non-Associators" in 1775. He
married, October 31, 1767, at St. Michael's
and Zion Church, Philadelphia, Ruth Will-
iams, and' had issue five children, viz: Jo-
seph, who married Eleanor Miller, who
after his death married John Meredith ;
Thomas married (first) Ann Mathews,
and (second). Lydia (Mathews) Drake,
her sister: John, married Rebecca Thomp-.
son ; Mary, married Robert Walker of War-
rington; and Charlotte, died January 14,
1 81 5, married John Meredith, who after
her death married her brother's widow,
Eleanor (Miller) Hough. John Thompson
Hough, the wealthy inventor and manufact-
urer of safes, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, is a
descendant of John and Rebecca (Thomp-
son) Hough.

7. Margery Hough, married Hugh Shaw.

8. Elizabeth Hough, married Robert
Tompkins.

9. Hannah Hough, died April 18, 1819,
married Simon Meredith, an uncle to John",
who married Charlotte, daughter of John
Hough. A grandson of Simon and Han-
nah married Rebecca, daughter of Joseph
Hough ; see below.

5. Joseph Hough, Jr.. eldest son of Jo-
seph and Elizabeth (West) Hough, born
1730, lived on the 420 acres conveyed to him
by his father in Warwick. He was a -mem-
ber of the Society of Friends and was dis-
owned for marrying out of meeting in 1756,
but continued to adhere to their principles
and was a "Non-Associator" in 1775. He
married, in November, 1756. Mary Tomp-
kins, daughter of Robert Tompkins, Esq.,
of Warrington. She died August 8, 181 1,
at the age of seventy-five years. They had
issue: i. Joseph, died 1796, married Re-
becca Radcliffe, daughter of John and Re-
becca (West) Radcliffe, niece of his aunt

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTV.

Sarah's husband, and a descendant of Na-
thaniel West, as was her husband. 2. John
who died young. 3. Richard, who married
Pamela Walton. 4. Elizabeth, who married
Henry Ditterline. 5. John, who married
Mary Meredith. 6. Robert, who married
(first) Francis Martin, of Maryland, and
(second), Rachel Hopkins, of the Johns
Hopkins family of Maryland, lived and died
in Baltimore, and has left many distin-
guished descendants there. 7. Septimus
Hough married Edith Wilson, daughter
of Robert and Mary (Lundy) Wilson, of
New Jersey. See Lundy Family. 8. Ben-
jamin Hough. See forward. 9. Jacob, died
young. 10. Lydia, who married Elias
Anderson. 11. Charlotte, died unmarried.
12 and 13. Isaac and Jacob died young, and
14. Mary, married (1808) Dennis Con-
rad, a descendant of Thomas Kunders,
one of the founders of Germantown.

John Hough, son of Joseph and Mary
(Tompkins) Hough, was a prominent man
in the community. He inherited a part of
his father's plantation near Houghville.
generally known as "The Turk," and when
the county seat was about to be removed
from Newtown laid out streets there and
made a plan of a town, and offered the site
for the court house and public buildings.
He was a large land owner and owned
the Turk Mills at Houghville, and exten-
sive warehouses in Philadelphia. He donat-
ed the land on which the Doylestown Acad-
emy was built, and was one of the commis-
sioners of the lottery authorized by the
legislature to raise $3,000 to complete the
Academy. He married Mary Meredith,
daughter of Thomas and Rachel (Mathew)
Meredith, and niece of Simon Meredith,
who married Hannah Hough, and had
issue : John, who married Eliza Stuck-
ert, and Harriet Ann Pierce, and Mary,
who never married.

8. Benjamin Hough, son of Joseph and
Mary (Tompkins) Hough, was born Janu-
ary 25, 1770, and died May 16, 1848. He
purchased from his father in 1797 and 1806,
and later of his brother, Septimus Hough,
portions of the old ancestral homestead,
and at his death owned the greater part of
the 400 acre tract, and lived thereon all
his life. He was a prominent man in the
community and filled many positions of pub-
lic trust. He was a director of the poor
in 1818, and served as a director of Doyles-
town Bank in 1832. He married, August
24, 1791, Hannah Simpson, born July 26,
1770, died April 3, 1848, daughter of John
and Hannah (Roberts) Simpson, of Hors-
ham, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania,
and a sister to John Simpson, the grand-
father of General Ulysses Sirnpson Grant.*
John Simpson, her father, was iDorn in 1738,
and died August 16, 1804. His wife, Hannah,

was a daughter of Lewis Roberts, of Ab-
ington, and a sister to Colonel William
Roberts, of New Britain, colonel of milit-
ia during the Revolution and a sheriff of
Bucks county. Hannah (Roberts) Simp-
son died at the residence of her son-in-
law, Benjamin Hough, in Doylestown
township, January 22, 1821, aged seventy-
nine. The children of Benjamin and Han-
nah (Simpson ) Hough, were as follows:
I. John Simpson, born 1792, married, 1818,
Elivia Lunn. 2. Joseph, born 1798, mar-
ried Jane Cowell, and lived for many years
in Tinicum ; was brigadier general of Penn-
sylvania Militia. 3. Anne, born 1794, mar-
ried George Stuckert. 4. Benjamin, see
forward. 5. Silas, born 1804 married
Sophia F. Moser, and their son, John
S. Hough, was a candidate for governor
of Colorado on its admission in 1876. 7.
Hannah, born 1807, married, November 16,
1826, Daniel Y. Harman, member of Penn-
sylvania legislature in 1836, etc. 8. William
Simpson, born i8og. married Elizabeth
Neely. 9. Samuel Moore, born 1812, mar-
ried Elizabeth N. Harman, sister of Dan-
iel Y., and (second) his wife's niece, Ara-
minta Beans, daughter of Isaac and Biie»-'M7a^
U»^ (Harman) Beans. He was adjutant
of 33d Pennsylvania Regiment, of which
his brother, Joseph, was colonel. 10. Mary_,
born 1814, married John Barnsley, of New-
town. See Barnsley Family in this work.

Benjamin Hough, Jr., son of Benjamin
and Hannah (Simpson) Hough, was born
on the old homestead in Warwick, now
Doylestown township, January 25, 1801. He
was a merchant and farmer, and at one
time owned and conducted the store at
Buckingham. He later purchased the Bar-
clay farm, later the Radcliffe farm at War-
rington, which then included the site of the
present store at Warrington, across the
turnpike from the farm, a small triangular
piece of land, whereon he erected a store
building and conducted the mercantile busi-
ness there for many years. He also pur-
chased the farm now occupied by his grand-
son, Benjamin Hough, where he died in
1853. He was married by the Reverend
John C. Murphy, February 5, 1824, to Ma-
ria Wentz, of New Britain, and they were
the parents of ten children, viz : John, who
removed to Valva, Illinois; Ellen, who
married John S. Bryan; Silas, see forward;
J. Finlay, who was a miller, lived first in
Bedminster, later in Buckingham, died at
Atlantic City, was the father of Dr. Hough
of Ambler ; Mary Jane, who married Ed-
ward Buckman, of Newtown, she died Sep-
tember 27. 1905; Anna, for many years a
school teacher, died at Newtown in Septem-
ber. 1900; Simpson and Samuel H., twins,
the former removed to Illinois and the latter
for many years a miller in Warwick, War-

*General U. S. Grant twice visited the section
where his maternal ancestors resided, the first time
soon after his graduation at West Point in 1843. The
young cadet then was entertained at the liouse of his
great-uncle and aunt, Benjamin Hough, Sr., and wife
Hannah Simpson, and was conveyed thence to visit

the old Simpson homestead in Horsham, where his
grandfather , John Simpson, was born. In 1J<,53 he re-
visited Bucks county and' stopped at the house of his
relative, Robert McKinstry, vihose mother, Mary
Weir, was a sister to Grant's grandmother, the wife of
John Simpson.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

minster and Hatboro, died in Hatboro in
1903; Benjamin, a soldier in the civil war,
died at Leadville, Colorado, March 13, 1890;
Henry, for many years a teacher in Doyles-
town and elsewhere, was appointed during
President Grant's term to a position in the
Pension office at Washington, D. C, and
died there in 1901 ; and George, still liv-
ing in Valva, Illinois.

Silas Hough was born and reared on the
Warrington homestead, and on his marri-
age removed to the farm on which his
son Benjamin now resides. He was a
successful and prominent farmer, and filled
many positions of public trust, frequently
acting as guardian of minors and as execu-
tor and administrator in the settlement of
estates. In politics he was a Republican^
and took an active interest in the questions
of the day, but never sought or held pub-
lic office. He married, March 3, 1855, Han-
nah Horner, daughter of James and Ann
(Long) Horner, of Warminster, Bucks
county, both of Scotch-Irish ancestry. Si-
las and Hannah (Horner) Hough, were the
parents of four children, of whom three
died in childhood, leaving Benjamin Hough
as only surviving heir. Hannah Hough
died in 1890, and Silas in 1892.

Benjamin Hough, only son of Silas and
Hannah (Horner) Hough, was born on the
farm on which he still resides, in Warring-
ton township, March 12, 1854, and it has
been his place of residence almost continu-
ously to the present, covering over half a
century. He acquired a common school
education, supplemented by a course at the
Doylestown English and Classical Seminary.
He was reared to the life of a farmer, and
on his marriage he brought his bride to the
old farm which he conducted until 1883,
when he removed to Chester county and
spent two years there on an experimental
farm. After the death of his father he re-
turned to the homestead, having in the
meantime gained new knowledge of modern
farming methods which he adapted to the
use of the home place. He made substantial
improvements and greatly improved the ap-
pearance of his beautiful home on the
Doylestown and Willow Grove Turnpike
and Trolley line, overlooking the beautiful
valley of the Neshaminy. Mr. Hough is a
Republican in politics and takes a keen in-
terest in public affairs, but has never been
an aspirant for office. He has filled the
position of school director and other town-
ship offices. He married, September 28,
1876, Sarah Patterson, daughter of Jesse
R. and Mary (Myers) Patterson, both na-
tives of Bucks county, and granddaughter
of William and Sarah (Rubinkam) Patter-
son, the former a native of Pittsburg, and
the latter of Bucks county. William Patter-
son was of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian
stock, and inherited the sterling as well as
the genial qualities of his ancestors. He
was a farmer in Bucks county, and reared
a family of seven children, viz : Jesse, the
father of Mrs. Hough; Mrs. Susan Bolin-
ger, Margaret, William, of Doylestown :

Sheridan T., a farmer near Peoria. Illinois;
Joseph, who died in the army during the
civil war; and Thomas, who died in Illi-
nois. Jesse Patterson, father of Mrs.
Hough, was reared on his father's farm and
early in life learned the miller's trade which
he followed for many years. He was at
one time the owner of the mills at Edisob,
Bucks county, which he operated when the
mill was destroyed by fire. He rebuilt and
operated the mill during the civil war, and
later turned his attention to farming. In
1880 he removed to Chester county, where
he bought a farm and carried on agricul-
tural pursuits until his death in 1885, at
the age of fifty-eight years. His wife, Mary
Myers, who was a daughter of Tobias My-
ers, of German descent, died in 1901. Her
mother, a Miss Puff, was of English de-
scent, and her brothers were Philip Puff, a
merchant of Philadelphia, and Henry Puff,
a carpenter. Jesse and Mary Myers Pat-
terson were the parents of three children,
of whom the youngest died in infancy, Sa-
rah, Mrs. ^ Hough, was the eldest. Her
brother William is a prominent farmer in
Chester county. Mrs. Hough is a member
of the Baptist Church of Doylestown.

Benjamin and Sarah (Patterson) Hough,
are the parents of two children, Frederick
F., born September 27, 1879, at present a
school teacher in Bucks county, who was
born on the old homestead in Warrington,
and William P., who was born in Chester
county, September 7. 1885.

WILLIAM H. HOUGH. More than a
century has passed since the Hough family
was established in Bucks county, for here
occurred the birth of Charles Hough, the
grandfather of William H. Hough, his na-
tal year being i8or. He followed farming
throughout his entire life and gave his
political support to the Republican party.
He held the office of supervisor for a num-
ber of years and was always faithful in
matters of citizenship. The moral develop-
ment of the community was also of deep
interest to him. and his life was in harmony
with his professions as a member of the
Society of Friends. He married Miss Sus-
an Neal, and they became the parents of ten
children, six of whom have passed away.
The living are: Rachel, the wife of Tames
Lonsdale; Jasper, a carpenter of Lang-
horne. Pennsylvania: Henry; and Martha,
the wife of James Subers.

Henry Hough, son of Charles Hough,
was born in Edgewood, Pennsylvania, in
1838, and when a lad of twelve j-'ears went
with his parents to the farm upon which
his son William now resides. There he as-
sisted in the development and cultivation of
the fields and continued to engage in agri-
cultural pursuits until 1861, when he estab-
lished a hardwnre business in Yardley. con-
tinuing it for thirly-three years. In 1894 'le
sold this and removed to Solebury. where
he has since given his attention to farming.
Throughout his mercantile career he en-
joyed an unassailable reputation, and his
business life has ever been characterized by

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

.straightforward dealing and persistency of
purpose. His efforts, too, have been directed
along lines that have proved of value to his
community, and at the same time have pro-
moted individual success. He was one of
the organizers of the Yardley Building and
Loan Association, and for twenty-five years
served as its treasurer. He was also one
of the organizers of the Yardley National
Bank. He held the office of school director
for a number of years, the cause of educa-
tion finding in him a warm friend; and his
political allegiance has ever been given to
the Republican party. He married Miss
Elizabeth Parent, of New Jersey, and they
l)ecame the parents of two children : Mar-
tha, deceased; and William H.

William H. Hough was born November
17, 1856, and acquired his education in the
•common schools of Yardley. When not
occupied with his text books he assisted his
father in the store, and was thus identiefid
with mercantile interests for twenty-four
years. In 1880 he opened a grocery store
in Yardley, which he conducted with fair
success for ten years. Since that time he
has been engaged in the butchering busi-
ness in connection with farming, and his
"keen discernment and enterprise have
brought to him very creditable and grati-
fying success. Socially he is connected
with the Improved Order of Red Men, No.
170, of Trenton, New Jersey, in which he
has passed all of the chairs, a fact which
indicates his popularity with his brethren of
the fraternity. William H. Hough was
married to Miss Anna Ford, a daughter
of George and Anna Ford, of West
Chester, Pennsylvania. They becarne the
parents of seven children, of whom one
died in infancy. The others are : Bertha
J., wife of William J. Wilson ; Edward T.,
Lillian I., Mabel C, Elsie and Bess, all at
home.

EASTBURN FAMILY. The name
of Eastburn is an old and honorable one.
It originates in Yorkshire, England,
where the Manor of Esteburne, (East
stream) was created early in the Elev-
enth century. It comprised the par-
ishes of BingJey and Thwaite-Keighly,
from whence the Eastburns emigrated
to America six centuries later. The
name "de Eastburn" appears as a sur-
name as early as 1200, and the more
familiar names of Robert and John East-
burn in 1583. The first of the name to
migrate to Penn's Province was John
Eastburn. of the parish of Bingley. who
brought a certificate from Brigham
Monthly Meeting of Friends to Phil-
adelphia, dated 5 mo. 31, 1682. He pur-
chased 300 acres of land in Southamp-
ton towMiship, Bucks county, in 1693, and
married Margaret Jones, of Philadelphia
5 mo. 2, 1694. He died in Southampton
about 1720. His children were: Eliza-
beth, born 8 mo. 16. 1695: John, born
■ 6 mo., 22, 1697; Peter, born i mo. 5, 1699;

Thomas, born 9 mo. 22, 1700. Their
mother died in 1740. There was also a
daughter Mary, who married Thomas
Studham. Elizabeth married Thomas
\Valton. of Southampton. Thomas died
in 1748, leaving a widow Sarah and
daughter Margaret. The eldest son John
left several descendants.

ROBERT EASTBURN, probably a
brother of John, at least son of another
John, of the parish of Thwaite-Keighley,
Yorkshire, married Sarah Preston,
daughter of Jonas, of the parish of
Rostick. near Leeds, England, 3 mo. 10,
1693. Their children were:

Esther, born 8 mo. 27, 1694, married
1717. Jonathan Livezey, ancestor of the
Solebury family.

Benjamin, born 7 mo. 15, 1695, died
,1741; surveyor general of Pennsylvania
from 1733 to 1741, w'ho married Ann
Thomas in 1722, but left no issue.

John, born i mo. 12, 1697, married
Grace Colston, and settled in Norriton,
Montgomery county, Pennsj-lvania,
where many of his descendants still re-
side.

INIary, born 11 mo. 17, 1698, died un-
married.

Samuel, born 2 mo. 20, 1702, died
1785 in Solebury, Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania; married Elizabeth Gillingham.

Joseph, born l mo. 21, 1704, died un-
married.

Sarah, born 12 mo. 10, 1706; married
1734, Hugh Thomas, of Philadelphia
county, Pennsylvania.

Robert, born 2 mo. 7, 1710; married
1733, Agnes Jones; was captain in
French and Indian w-ar of 1756-8 under
General Forbes, and was captured by the
Indians in March, 1756, and carried to
Canada and held until November, 1757.
He, however, lived to render valuable
service to Philadelphia Committee of
Safety at the outbreak of the Revolu-
tion. He was the father of Rev. Joseph
Eastburn, founder of the Mariners'
Presbyterian Church, in 1818, and sev-
eral other children.

Elizabeth, the youngest child of Rob-
ert and Sarah (Preston) Eastburn, was
born after the arrival of her parents in
Philadelphia.

The family as above given brought a
certificate from Brigham Friends' Meet-
ing in Yorkshire to Philadelphia, dated
12 mo. 6, 1713, and removed to Abing-
. ton in 171.-;. Robert died 7 mo. 24, 1755,
and Sarah 8 mo. 31, 1752.

Samuel Eastburn, third son of Robert
and Sarah, born in Yorkshire, 2 mo. 20,
1702, came to Philadelphia with hi^ pa-
rents in 1713. In 1728 he married Eliza-
beth, daughter of Yeamans Gillingham
of Oxford, Philadelphia county, and re-
moved to Solebury township, Bucks
county, near Centre Hill, where he fol-
lowed' his trade, that of a blacksmith,
as well as the conduct of a farm of 250
acres which he purchased in 1734. He

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

brought a certificate from Abington
Meeting, dated March 6, 1729, to Buck-
ingham Meeting, of which he became
one of the most active members, serving
as overseer and clerk for several years.
He was recommended as a minister m
1770, and travelled in that capacity
through various parts of this state, as
well as in New Jersey, New York and
New England. He was also a prom-
inent man in the community in which he
lived. He donated the land upon which
the first school house was built at Cen-
tre Hill, which was known for many
years as "The Stone School House" be-
fore Centre Hill was known as a vil-
lage. He died in 1785. His children
were:

Benjamin, born 2 mo. 11, 1729, died
II mo. 21, 1735.

Joseph, born 12 mo. 18, 1730, died 10
mo. 29, 1780; married 1753, Mary Wilson.

Ann E., born 12 mo. 18, 1732; married
1754, Joseph Pugh, son of Daniel, of
New Britain.

Mary, born 2 mo. 16, 1734; married
William Edwards.

Sarah, born 3 mo. 23, 1736; married
1756, Benjamin Smith.

Robert, born 6 mo. 23, 1739; married
1763, Elizabeth Duer; 1784, Rachel Pax-
son.

JOSEPH EASTBURN, born 1730,
died 10 mo. 23, 1780, inherited from his
father one-half of the homestead, 125
acres, and purchased considerable other
land in Solebury, part of it being a tract
of land purchased of Richard Pike in
1763, a portion of which is still in the
tenure of his great-great-grandson,
Eastburn Reeder. He married, i mo.
17, 1753. Mary, daughter of Samuel and
Rebecca (Canby) Wilson, of Bucking-
ham, and had by her eleven children, as
follows:

Joseph, born 7 mo. 16, 1754; married
^777, Rebecca Kitchin, daughter of Will-
iam and Sarah Ely Kitchin.

Benjamin, born 7 mo. 4, 1756; married
1778, Keziah Ross and removed to
Maryland.

Samuel, born 6 mo. 20, 1759; married
1781, Macre Croasdale, and in 1786, Han-
nah Kierkbride.

John, born 4 mo. 28, 1760; married
1788. Elizabeth Wiggins, and in 1808,
Hannah Hillborn.

Rebecca, born 4 mo. 4, 1762; married
i8to. George Pierce.

Thomas, born 5 mo. 14, 1764; married
1795, Mercy Bailey.

Mary, born 6 mo. 22, 1766; married
1790. Joseph Phipps.

James, laorn 8 mo. 27, T768, married
1/91, Merab, daughter of John and Sarah
(Simcock) Ely.

Amos, born 12 mo. 25, 1770; married
T7QS. Mary Stackhouse.

David, born 4 mo. 7. 1773; married
1801. Elizabeth Jeanes and removed to
Delaware.

Elizabeth, born 1776, died 1777. Mary,
the mother, died 11 mo. 19, 1805.

JOSEPH EASTBURN, born I7S4,
died 5 mo. 16, 1813, inherited from his
father the Pike tract of land in Sole-
bury, and lived and died thereon. He
married Rebecca Kitchin, 9 mo. 19, 1777,
and had seven children, of whom only
five, all daughters, grew to maturity, and
only the eldest, Elizabeth, born 9 mo.
13. 1778, married. She became the wife
of Merrick Reeder, Esq., in 1802. An
account of their descendants is given on
another page of this work.

ROBERT EASTBURN, youngest
son of Samuel and Elizabeth Gillingham
Eastburn, born 6 mo. 23, 1739, died 1816,
married (first) 11 mo. 22, 1763, Eliza-
beth Duer, and took up his residence on
a part of the homestead farm where he
was born, and spent the rest of his life
there. His children by Elizabeth were:
Sarah, born i mo. 12, 1766; married
Thomas Phillips. Moses, born 4 mo. I,
1768; married 1790, Rachel Knowles.
Elizabeth, born 1770, died 1775. Aaron,
born I mo. 10, 1773; married 1796, Mercy-
Bye. Ann, born 12 mo. 27, 1775, married
1798, John Comfort. Robert married
(second) Rachel Paxson, a widow on 9
mo. 16, 1784, and had two children:
Letitia, born 1793. married 1816, Samuel
Metlar; Samuel, born 1800, married 1821,
Mary Carver.

MOSES EASTBURN, born 4 nio. i,
1768, died 9 mo. 28, 1846, married 10 mo.
21, 1790, Rachel, daughter of John and
Mary Knowles. Mary Knowles, the
elder, was a daughter of Robert and
Mercy (Brown) Sotcher, and grand-
daughter of John and Mary (Lofty)
Sotcher, Penn's faithful stewards at
Pennsbury, and also granddaughter of
George and Mercy Brown, and a cousin
to General Jacob Brown. The children
of Moses and Rachel Knowles Brown
who grew to maturity were: John, born
1791, removed to the west; Elizabeth,
born 1793, married 1813, Samuel Black-
fan; Robert, born 1794, removed to the
west; Jacob, born 9 mo. 14, 1798, married
1829, Elizabeth K. Taylor; Mary, born
9 mo. 15, 1800, married 1829, Thomas F.
Parry; Sarah, born 1804, married John
Palmer; and Moses, born 5 mo. 9, 1815,
married 1845, Mary Anna Ely. Rachel
Knowles Eastburn died 4 mo., 1843.

Moses Eastburn, son of Moses and
Rachel, born 5 mo. 9, 1815, died 9 mo.
27, 1887, was a worthy representative of
this old family. He was possessed in a
marked degree of the best elements of
good citizenship, quiet and unassuming
in demeanor, but determined and un-
swerving in his devotion to principle
and right. Though never holding any
political office he held many positions of
trust, and was always active in promot-
ing and maintaining local enterprises
for the benefit of the people of his na-
tive county. He was for many years a

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

manager and afterwards president of the
Bucks County Agricultural Society; one
of the organizers and most active mem-
bers of the Solebury Farmers' Club; a
manager of the Farmers' and Mechanics'
Mutual Insurance Association of Bucks
County, probably the largest local in-
surance company in the county, and
for many years its president, (1877 to
1886); a manager of the Lahaska and
New Hope Turnpike Company, and its
president for many years prior .to his
death; a manager of the Doylestown and
Buckingham Turnpike Company from
1864 until his death; a manager of the
Lambertville National Bank, and school
director for many years. He was an
active member of Solebury Monthly
Meeting of Friends, being for thirty-tive
years clerk of the Meeting, and in every
position he discharged its duties with
ability and fidelity. Few men have been
more honored and respected for sterling
qualities than he. He was married 4
mo. 16, 184s, to Mary Anna, daughter of
Hugh B. and Sarah M. Ely, of Bucking-
ham, where she was born, 11 mo. 30,
i8t6. She died in Solebury, 7 mo. 2,
1879. Moses Eastburn inherited the
farm upon which he was born and spent
nearly his whole life there. It is now
the property of his only son, Hugh B.
Eastburn. The children of Moses and
Mary Anna (Ely) Eastburn were: Hugh
B., born 2 mo. 11, 1846; and Fannie, born
10 mo. 27, 1847, died 1851.

HUGH B. EASTBURN, of Doyjes-
town, lawyer and banker, was born on
the Solebury farm, 2 mo. 11, 1846. He
attended the public schools of the neigh-
borhood until 1859, and then entered the
Excelsior Normal Institute at Carvers-
ville. graduating in 1865. For two years
he taught in the Boys' Grammar School
at Fifteenth and Race streets, Philadel-
phia, and subsequently in the Friends'
Central High School. While there he
began the study of law under the pre-
ceptorship of Hon. D. Newlin Fell, now
justice of the supreme court, and was
admitted to the Philadelphia bar in the
spring of 1870. In June, 1870, he was
appointed by State Superintendent Wick-
ershani to fill a vacancy in the office of
county superintendent of schools in
Bucks county, and was elected to that
position in 1872, and re-elected in 1875.
Mr. Eastburn resigned the office of
county superintendent in 1876 and en-
tered the law department of the Univj^r-
sity of Pennsylvania, and was admitted
to' the Bucks County bar in August,
1877. In 1885 he was elected district at-
torney on the Republican ticket, receiv-
ing a handsome majority, though the
county was at that time Democratic.
Mr. Eastburn was one of the organizers
of the Bucks County Trust Company in
1886, and has been one of the board of
directors since organization and its pres-
ident since 1895, and trust officer since
2-3

1892. He has always been deeply inter-
ested in educational matters, and his
voice and pen have been potent in every
movement for the advancement of -edu-
cation in his native county and state.
He was for several years a member of the
board of trustees of the West Chester
Normal School, and has been a member
of the Doylestown school board since
1890, and is now its president. In poli-
tics he is an ardent Republican, and has
taken an active interest in the councils
of his party. He has been its represen-
tative in many district, state and national
conventions.

He was married 12 mo. 23, 1885, to
Sophia, daughter of John B. and Eliza-
beth S. (Fox) Pugh, of Doylestown, and
has two sons: Arthur Moses, born 9
mo. 27, 1886; and Hugh B., Jr., born 2
mo. II, 1888.

ROBERT EASTBURN, of Yardley,
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in
Solebury township, Bucks county, 3 mo.
-J 1833, is a son of Jacob and Elizabeth
K. (Taylor) Eastburn. Jacob Eastburn
was a son • of Moses and Rachel
(Knowles) Eastburn, mentioned in a
foregoing sketch, and was born oh the
old Eastburn homestead in Solebury,
September 14, 1793. He married in 1829
Elizabeth K. Taylor, who, like Rachel
(Knowles) Eastburn, was a descendant
of John and Mary (Lofty) Sotcher,
through the marriage of their daughter
Mary to Mahlon Kirkbride.

On the marriage of Jacob Eastburn
his father purchased for him the farm
now owned by John H. Ely, adjoining
the homestead, and he spent the re-
mainder of his life thereon. Jacob East-
burn was a prominent and successful
business man and farmer. His elder
brother Robert had heired a farm at
Limeport, but, going west when young,
had died without issue, whereby the
farm descended to his brothers and sis-
ters, subject to the life estate of the
father, Moses Eastburn. During the life-
time of Moses the farm, which was a
valuable one, as it included the then
profitable lime kilns, quarries and
wharfage on the canal, was occupied by
Phineas Kelly. At the death of Moses
Eastburn, in 1846, Jacob, as the eldest
surviving son, was induced to take
charge of this valuable plant and man-
age it for the heirs. He entered into a
partnership with the late George A.
Cook, who had been a clerk under Mr.
Kelly, and the new firm built up a pros-
perous and profitable business. They
eventually purchased the interest of the
other heirs and continued the business
until the death of Jacob Eastburn, which
occurred August 26, i860. Jacob East-
burn was an active and prominent man
in the community, though never holding
any elective office other than school di-
rector and was frequently called upon
to act as guardian.' trustee or executor

HISTORY Of BUCKS COUNTY.

in the sclllcniciil of estates, ami held
many positions of trust, lie was an ac-
tive anil consistent member of Sole-
bury Friends' Meeting. Jacob and Eliz-
abeth Eastburn were the parents of ten
children, viz.: William T. and Anna,
both of whom died in infancy; Robert,
the subject of this sketch; Ellen Y.,
wife of Samuel Hart, of Doylestown
township, born 10 mo. 27, 1834; Mary
Anna, born 2 mo. 29, 1837, now widow of
J. Simpson Belts; George, born 11 mo.
25, 1838, a prominent educator of Phil-
adelphia; Elias and Timothy, twins,
born 12 mo. 28, 1840 — the former, now
deceased, was a sheriff of Bucks county,
and the latter is still living in Solebury;
Rachel, died in infancy; Sarah, born 10
mo. 15, 1845, now deceased, was the wife
of Mark Palmer, of Lower Makefie'ld.
Elizabeth K. Eastburn the mother, died
8 mo. 21, 1877.

Robert Eastburn was born and reared
on the Solebury farm, and received a
good education. Arriving at manhood,
he was married, 2 mo. 12, 1857, to Eliza-
beth, daughter of Joseph E. and Letitia
(Betts) Reeder, and in the following
spring began farming on the Pownall
farm at Limeport, purchased by his
father-in-law. His wife Elizabeth died
there 11 mo. 6, i860, and the following
spring he sold oi.it and returned to the
homestead. His father having died the
preceding summer, he as eldest son and
executor was occupied in the settlement
of the estate and the conduct of the
business for the next two years. These
were trying times for the Quaker-bred
youth of our section, the civil war hav-
ing broken out, and excitement ran. high.
Though bred and trained as non-com-
batants, religious principles and parental
injunction and restraint were insufficient
to restrain many from responding to the
numerous calls for men to go to the
front in defense of our country. This
family of four grown-up sons was no
exception to the rule, and only the con-
tention as to who should go and who
remain at home to care for the widow
and faim, probably prevented their early
enlistment. Finally, when the rebels
had entered our own state, the strain
was too great, and three of the boys
(Robert, George and Elias) enlisted in
an emergency company formed at
Doylestown, and started for the front,
leaving Timothy to care for the home
interests. Fortunately the tide of in-
vasion was turned and the boys were
gone but a few weeks, and came home
to make peace with the grim elders of
the meeting for their transgression of
the discipline. In' 1866. one year after the
close of the war by the active work of
our late friend, John E. Kenderdine, a
prominent and active worker in Sole-
bury Meeting, assuming the position that
the boys going to the front were no

more guilty than those at home con-
tributing to the war, an acknowledg-
ment of their deviation from one of the
cardinal points of their faith (that of
opposition to war) by in any way giv-
ing encouragement to the government
in its armed support, was prepared and
signed by forty-seven of the fifty male
members of that meeting. Of that list
but fourteen are living at this time.

In the summer of 1863 Robert East-
burn purchased the interest of his father
in the lime business and removed to
Yardley, where an ofifice for the sale of
the lime had been long established, and
formed a partnership with George A.
Cook, under the firm name of Eastburn
& Cook, which lasted several 3^ears.
Later he embarked in the coal and fer-
tilizer business at Yardley, which he
continued until 1897. In addition to this
business, having been elected a justice
of the peace in 1874, he started a real
estate and general business agency,
which he has continud to the present
time in connection with the settlement
of many estates and the transaction of
official business, Mr. Eastburn having
held the oftice of justice until the pres-
ent time, a period of thirty years,

Robert Eastburn married (second) on
Octootr 1:0, 1863, Elizabeth, daughter of
Charles White, of Solebury, and took
up his permanent residence in Yardley.
His wife died 11 mo. 5, 1866, and on 8
mo. 12, 1875, he married (third) Anna
Palmer, who died 3 mo. 8, 1901. By his
first marriage, with Elizabeth Reeder,
Mr. Eastburn had two children: William
T., born 8 mo. 31, 1859, married Alada
Blackfan, and is now living at New
Hope; and Jacob, born 11 mo. 6. i860,
now living in New York city. By his
marriage with Anna Palmer he has one
son, Walter N., born 2 mo. 6, 1881, mar-
ried II mo. II, 1902, Isabel Frances
Stanbury, and now living in New York.

WILLIAM T. EASTBURN, of New
Hope, son of Robert and Elizabeth
(Reeder) Eastburn, was born in Sole-
bury, 8 mo. 31, 1859. At the death of
his mother, 11 mo. 6, i860, he went to
live w'ith his grandparents, Joseph E. and
Letitia Reeder, and was reared in their
h-^me in Solebury. He received a good
ec'ucj.tion. and upon his marriage began
farming at his present residence, where
he has ever since resided. At the death
of his grandfather in 1892 he was devised
this pronerty and the farm upon which
he was born at Limeport. Mr. Eastburn
is a progressive and intelligent farmer, and
has gradually improved the propertv since
it came under his tenure. He is a
member of Solebury Friends' Meeting.
He was married 10 mo. 5, 1887. to Alada
E., daughter of the late'William C. and
Elizabeth (Ely) Blackfan, a lineal de-
scendant of Edward Blackfan and Re-
becca Crispin, the latter being a first

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

cousin to William Penn. William T.
and Alada E. B. Eastburn have four
children; viz.: Sybil Ethel, born 4 mo.
6, 1890; William B., born 4 mo. 30, 1894;
Edward B., born 2 mo. 9, 1898; and Jo-
seph Robert, born 10 mo. 20, 1901.

CHARLES TWINING EASTBURN,
■of Yardley, Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
one of the most active and successful
young business men of Bucks county,
w^as born in Newtown township, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, October 9, 1873,
and is a son of Franklin and Mary Eliza-
beth (Twining) Eastburn, both of whom
-are descendants of the earliest English
settlers in Lower Bucks. Mr. Eastburn'
is a descendant in the seventh genera-
tion from Robert and Sarah (Preston)
Eastburn, who migrated from Yorkshire,
England, in 1713, through their son
Samuel, who settled in Solebury town-
ship, Bucks county, in 1729. An account
of the first three generations of this
family is given above.

Amos Eastburn, son of Joseph and
Mary (Wilson) Eastbtirn, and grandson
of Samuel, above mentioned, was born in
Solebury township, 12 mo. 25, 1770, be-
ing the ninth of eleven children. His
father died when he was ten years of
age. Early in life he learned the trade
of a carpenter and joiner, and followed
that vocation in connection with' fafm-
ing in Buckingham and Solebury town-
ships, until 181 1, when he removed to
Middletown township and settled upon
135 acres of land that had been the prop-
erty of the ancestors of his wife since
1699, nearly the whole of which is now
included in the borough of Langhorne
Manor, where he died 10 mo. 16, 1823.
He married, 4 mo. 23, 1795, Mary Stack-
house, born in- IMiddletown township,
■daughter of Jonathan and Grace (Com-
fort) Stackhouse. granddaughter of
Isaac and Mary (Harding) Stackhouse,
and great-granddaughter of Thomas and
Ann (Mayos) Stockhouse, an account of
whose arrival in Bucks county in 1682
is given in another part of this work.
The land upon which Mrs. Eastburn
spent nearly her whole life was part of
a tract of 350 acres taken up by her
great-grandfather (the last named
Thomas Stackhouse) in 1699. and had
been successively occupied by her di-
rect ancestors down to the death of her
father, Jonathan Stackhouse, in 1805,
when fifty-five acres thereof was set
apart to her as her share of her father's
estate. Her husband later purchased of
the other heirs an additional seventy-six
acres adjoining, and it was her home
from 181 1 until her death, i mo. 31.
1831. Amos and INIary (Stackhouse)
Eastburn were the parents of three chil-
■dren: Grace, born in Buckingham, i mo.
29. 1796, died in Fallsington in 1875,

unmarried; Jonathan, born in Bucking-
ham, 12 mo. 25, 1797, died in Middle-
town, 4 mo. 9, 1840, married Sidney Wil-
son and had children: Mary Ann, Amos,
Joseph Wilson and Isaac S.; and Aaronj
born m Buckingham, 8 mo. 23, 1804, died
in Newtown township, 2 mo. 6, 1889.

Aaron Eastburn, grandfather of the
subject of this sketch, was reared from
the age of seven years on the Langhorne
Manor farm. His father died when he
was nineteen years of age, and he re-
mained with his mother until 1828. when
he purchased the farm where the subject
of this sketch was born, in Newtown
township, and spent his remaining days
thereon, dying 2 mo. 6, 1889, in his
eighty-fifth year. He was an active
member of the Society of Friends, and
a trustee of P^alls Meeting. He married
5 mo. 22, 1831, Sarah Cadwallader,
daughter of Cyrus and Mary (Taylor)
Cadwallader of Lower Makefield town-
ship, granddaughter of Jacob and Phebe
(Radclifife) Cadwallader, great-grand-
daughter of Jacob Cadwallader, and
great-great-granddaughter of John Cad-
wallader. a native of Wales, who wa= an
early settler in \\'arminster township and
a noted minister among Friends. Through
her mother, Mary Taylor, she was a
great-granddaughter of John and Mary
(Lofty) Sotcher, William Penn's trust-
ed stewards at Pennsbury. the former of
whom was for many years a member of
colonial assembly.

Aaron and Sarah (Cadwallader) East-
burn were the parents of five children:
Mary C, born 5 mo. 10, 1832, married
Charles Moon; Cyrus, of Lower Make-
field, born 12 mo, 2, 1833, married Ase-
nath Haines; Charles, died in infancy:
Mercy, born 7 mo. 11, 1838, married
Charles Albertson; and Franklin.

Franklin Eastburn; father of the sub-
ject of this sketch, was the youngest
child of Aaron and Sarah, and was born
on the Newtown homestead, 11 mo. 2,
1842, and resided thereon until 1896
when he moved to 2107 Chestnut street,
Philadelphia, where he now resides. He
married. 10 mo. 28, 1869. Mary Elizabeth
Twining, daughter of Charles and Eliza-
beth (West) Twining, of Yardley, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, and they are the
parents of two children: Sarah C, born
in 1871, now the wife of George William
Balderston. of Trenton, New Jersey, and
Charles.

Charles Twining Eastburn was born
and reared on the old homestead in
Newtown township, and acquired his
education at the public schools and at
Friends' Central School at Fifteenth and
Race streets. Philadelphia, and Stew-
art's Business College at Trenton, New
Jersey, leaving the latter February 28,
1892. The day following his leaving bus-
iness college he entered the employ of
Stephen B. Twining, in the stone quarry
business, at Stockton. New Jersey. Upon

IIISrONV Of BUCKS COUXTY.

the death of Mr. Twining, in July, 1894,
he assumed charge of the entire opera-
tions. The following year he purchased
the business, and has increased and ex-
panded it from year to year until he is
now the largest cleaier in his line of trade
in Eastern Pennsylvania, operating ex-
tensive quarries at Stockton, New Jersey,
Lumberville, Yardley, Neshaminy Falls,
and in Clearrteld, Elk and Jefferson
counties, Pennsylvania, and filling large
contracts for furnishing stone to the
Pennsylvania and other railroad com-
panies, and for many large public and
private building operations all over the
country, employing from four hundred
to seven hundred men in the conduct of
his business. He also owns and con-
ducts the homestead farm in Newtown
township.

Mr. Eastburn married, January 8, 1903,
Margaret B. Phillips, daughter of Theo-
dore F. and Emma B. Phillips, of Lang-
horne, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and
they are the parents of one child, Sarali
P., born June 17, 1904- Mr. and Mrs.
Eastburn are members of the Newtown
Presbyterian church. Mr. Eastburn is a
Republican in politics, and has taken an
active interest in the success of his
party. He is a member of Newtown
lodge, No. 426, F. and A. M.

SAMUEL COMFORT EASTBURN.
Among the most enterprising business
men of lower Bucks county is Samuel
Comfort Eastburn, of Langhorne bor-
ough. He is a son of Joseph and Eliza-
beth (Comfort) Eastburn, and was born
in Middletown township, Bucks county,
August 2, 1848. An account of the first
three generations of the paternal ances-
tors of the subject of this sketch is given
in other pages, he being a descendant in
the sixth generation of Robert and Sarah
(Preston) Eastburn, who came from'
Yorkshire to Philadelphia in 1713. and
settled near Abington. Montgomery
county, Pennsylvania, a year later. Sam-
uel Eastburn, the great-great-grand-
father of Samuel C, removed to Sole-
bury township, Bucks county, in 1729.
His son, Robert Eastburn, and his first
wife, Elizabeth Duer, were the great-
grandparents of both the subject and
his wife, Elizabeth (Maule) Eastburn.

Aaron Eastburn, youngest son of Rob-
ert and Elizabeth (Duer) Eastburn,
born I mo. 10, 1773, married in 9 mo.,
1796, Mercy Bye, of Buckingham, and
lived in Solebury, dying at the age of
seventy-three years, 3 mo. 24, 1846, and
Mercy, his widow, dying 2 mo. 21, i8j8.
aged seventy-four years. They were the
parents of ten children, seven daughters
and three sons. Joseph Eastburn, the
ninth child of Aaron and Mercy, and
the only son who married, was born in
Solebury township, 4 mo. 18, 1814. He

was reared in his native township of
Solebury, but on his marriage, 11 ma.
19, 1846, to Elizabeth, daughter of Sam-
uel and Elizabeth Comfort, of Middle-
town, settled on a portion of his fath-
er-in-law's farm in Middletown. At the
death of Samuel Comfort in i860 this
farm descended to his daughter, Eliza-
beth C. Eastburn, and a part of it is
the present home of the subject of this
sketch. The children of Joseph and
Elizabeth (Comfort) Eastburn were:
Samuel C, born 8 mo. 2, 1848; Anna^
born 6 mo. 24, 1852, married John G.
Willetts; and Thomas, born 8 mo. 21,.
1853. Joseph Eastburn, the father, died
10 mo, 31, 1891.

The maternal ancestors of the subject
of this sketch were among the early
Quaker settlers of this section. John
Comfort was a resident of Amwell tovvn-
ship, Hunterdon county, where he died'
in 1728. He brought a certificate from
Flushing, ■ Long Island, to Falls Meet-
ing, 12 mo. 3, 1719. In 1720 he married
Mary, daughter of Stephen and Sarah
(Baker) Wilson, and had by her three
children: Stephen, Sarah and Robert.
Stephen Comfort married Mercy Croas-
dale, and settled in Middletown town-
ship, where he acquired several large
tracts of land. He died in 1772, leaving
sons Stephen, John, Ezra, Jeremiah,
Moses, and Robert; and daughters Grace
and Mercy. Stephen Comfort (2), mar-
ried Sarah Stevenson, and settled on his
father's farm on the Neshaminy, near
Parkland, and later purchased consid-
erable adjoining land, most of which be-
came the property of his son Samuel at
the death of his father in 1826. The other
children of Stephen and Sarah Comfort
were, Stephen, David and Jeremiah.
Samuel Comfort lived upon the Nesh-
aminy homestead until about 1850, when
he removed to the village of Attleboro,
where he died in i860, leaving children:
Mary Ann; Jesse; Elizabeth, wife of Jo-
seph Eastburn, and Samuel. He was a
prominent man in the community and
filled many positions of trust.

Samuel Comfort Eastburn was reared
on the Middletown farm, and received
his education at the Langhorne Acad-
emy and at Westtown Boarding School.
He later took a course at Crittenden's
Commercial College, Philadelphia. He
engaged in railroad surveying for a few-
years, and then in the dry goods busi-
ness in Philadelphia, where he remained
for ten years. In 1880 he took an agency
for the Provident Life and Trust Com-
pany of Philadelphia, in the life in-
surance department, and has been con-
nected with it ever since, now holding"
the position of general agent for Cen-
tral Pennsylvania. Mr. Eastburn is an
enterprising and successful business
man. and has been closely identified with
most of the vast improvements in and
about his native town of Langhorne in

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

the last twenty-five years. In 1886 he
organized and developed the Langhorne
Improvement Company, purchasing for
it the 620 acres of land upon which the
present borough of Langhorne Manor
is built. In 1887 he built the Langhorne
water works, which now supply water
to the three boroughs of Langhorne,
Langhorne Manor and Attleboro, and
in the same year he built the Langhorne
brick works. In 1888 he organized the
Langhorne Electric Light Company. He
was treasurer and superintendent of the
Langhorne Manor Inn, now the Foulke
and Long Institute. Me has been largely
instrumental in the sale and development
of suburban real estate, and has been for
many years a foremost advocate of the
improvement of the public roads. He
has always been an ardent advocate of
progress and improvement, and has been
a potent force along these lines in the
communit)^ in which he lives. In religion
he is a member of the orthodox branch
of the Society of Friends. In politics he
is a Republican, though never a seeker
or holder of other than local office, be-
ing for some years a justice of the peace,
and filling other local offices.

He married May 3, 1876, Elizabeth L..
daughter of Joseph E. and Sarah (Com-
fort) Maule, of Philadelphia, who was
torn 2 mo. 10, 1851. She is a grand-
daughter of John and Ann (Eastburn)
Maule, the latter being a daughter of
Robert and Elizabeth (Duer) Eastburn,
and a sister to Aaron Eastburn, the
grandfather of the subject of this sketch.
The children of Samuel C. and Eliza-
beth (Maule) Eastburn are: Herbert
Maule, born 3 mo. 25. 1877; Samuel
Arthur, born 10 mo. 3. 1878; Joseph
Maule, born 4 mo. 25, 1880: and Howard
Percy,' born 2 mo. 15, 1887. Herbert is
the general agent of the Penn Mutual
Life Insurance Company at Trenton,
New Jersey; Samuel A. is district agent
for the Provident Life and Trust Com-
pany at Williamsport. Pennsylvania; Jo-
seph M. is superintendent of the Red-
wood Lumber Manufactory, at Samoa,
California, for Hammond & Co.; How-
ard P. is a civil engineer in the em-
ploy of the Good Roads Commission of
Pennsylvania. All of the brothers are
successful in their chosen careers, and
all are single.

ROBERT KIRKBRIDE EAST-
BURN, Decea.sed, of Langhorne. Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, was born in Mor-
Tisville, Bucks county, January 20, 1825,
and was a son of Samuel and Huldah
(Wooley) Eastburn and grand-on of
Samuel and Hannah (Kirkbride) East-
burn, the last named Samuel being
a son of Joseph and Mary (Wilson)
Eastburn, of Solebury, Bucks county,
g-randson of Samuel and Elizabeth (Gil-

lingham) Eastburn. and great-grandson
of Robert and Sarah (Preston) East-
burn, who were married in Yorkshire,
England, 3 mo. 10, 1693. An account of
the first three generations of the de-
scendants of Robert and Sarah (Pres-
ton) Eastburn, and some account of
their earlier antecedents in England, is
given in the preceding sketches.

Samuel Eastburn, son of Joseph
and Mary (Wilson) Eastburn, of Sole-
bury, was born in that township, 6 mo.
20, 1759. He was reared on the old
Solebury homestead, still in the tenure
of the descendants of Joseph and Mary,
and early in life learned the trade of a
blacksmith, which he followed during
the active j^ears of his life, in connec-
tion with farming in -various parts of
the county. His father died when Sam-
uel had just arrived at the age ot twen-
ty-one years, and prior to the death of
the grandfather, who died in 1785. Under
the will of the latter, Samuel acquired
title to a part of the old homestead on
the borders of the present borough of
New Hope, and he followed his trade
there until 1787, when he purchased a
farm of loi acres adjoining the home-
stead, which he conducted in connec-
tion with his trade until 179^- At about
this time, having sold his farm, he re-
moved to White Marsh, Montgomery
county, where he operated a smith shop
until 1803, when he removed to Morris-
ville, Bucks county, and purchased a
portion of the Robert Morris tract and
located thereon. He followed his trade
in connection with farming at Morris-
ville for some years, and died at that
place, 4 mo. S, 1822, at the age of six-
ty-four years. He was twice married,
having married 4 mo. 12, T781, Macre
Croasdale, who died 4 mo. 31, 1782; his
son Joseph, by this marriage, horn i nio.
13, T782, died in infancy. He married
again, 5 mo. 15. 1788, Hannah Kirk-
bride, daughter of Robert and Hannah
(Bidgood) Kirkbride, of Doylestown,
granddaughter of Mahlon and Mary
(Sotchcr) Kirkbride, and great-grand-
daughter of Joseph Kirkbride and John
Sotcher. both of whom, as well as Mah-
lon Kirkbride, were provincial pustices
and assemblymen for many years, and
the most prominent men of their time
in Bucks countv. Samuel and Hannah
(Kirkbride) Eastburn, were the parents
of nine children, viz.: Robert, born i mo,
31, 1789. died 7 mo. 28, 1796; Samuel, see
forward: Jonathan, born 9 mo. 2, 1792.
married first Beulah Gaskel. and second
Sarah Crozier; David, born 2 mo. 23,
1795, married Louisa Willing; Mahlon.
born 9 mo. 9, T797. died unmarried, 12
mo. 7, 1870; Hannah, born 12 mo. 7,
1799, married Aaron Ivins, in 1839;
Kirkbride, born i mo. 23, 1803, married
Ann Reeves; Macre, born 2 mo. 14, 1806,
died unmarried; and Ruth, born i mo.
20, 1810, also died unmarried.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

Sanuul Eastbiini. son of Sam-
uel and Hannah, was born in Solebury,
Bucks county, lo mo. 7, J 790. His early
boyhood days were spent at White
Marsh, where his parents resided until
he was in his thirteenth year, the re-
mainder of his life being spent in Falls
township and Morrisville borough,
Bucks county. He married, in 1813,
Huldah Wooley, and they were the pa-
rents of seven children, viz.: Lewis, born
8 mo. 5, 1814; Elwood, born 11 mo, 22,
1816; Robert K., the subject of this
sketch; Caroline, born 3 mo. 17, 1832;
Maria Ann, who married and removed to
the west; Hannah K., born g mo. 13,
1835; and Edward.

Robert Kirkbride Eastburn, third
son of Samuel and Huldah, was
born and reared at Morrisville.
At the age of nineteen years he
became a school teacher and taught in
the nearby townships of Bucks county
for several years. He later removed to
Philadelphia, and w-as engaged in the
manufacture of furniture, after some
years becoming a member of the firm
of Reeves & Eastburn, in which he con-
tinued for a member of years. His
health failing, he was induced to accept
a position as book-keeper for a mining
company in New IMexico, and removed
there with his family, and remaiped
twelve years, entirely regaining his
health in that delightful climate. While
in New JNIexico his duties required him
to make his home in a rough mining
camp among a turbulent element, not al-
ways controlled or animated by the re-
fining influences of civilization, where
every one except he went armed, and
human life was held exceedingly cheap.
Mr. Eastburn always refused to carry
arms, and, by his fearless though kindly
defense of right and justice, won an in-
fluence among the rugged miners, and
successfully enacted the role of peace-
maker in many little disturbances in the
camp, where he had the respect of all who
knew him. He returned to Bucks county
in 1894 and purchased a handsome
home on Richardson Avenue, Langhorne,
where he lived until his death on Febru-
ary 26, 1897, and where his widow still
resides. He held to the faith of the So-
ciety of Friends, in which he and his
ancestors had been reared, and his firrn
though kindly disposition won the re-
spect and esteem of all who knew him.
Mr. Eastburn married, April 12, 1859,
Aliriam Ivins, daughter of George Mid-
dleton and Sarah (Buckman) Ivins, of
Penns Manor, Bucks county, where her
paternal ancestors had resided for sev-
eral generations, she being a grand-
daughter of Aaron and Miriam (Middle-
ton) Ivins, and great-granddaughter of
Aaron and Ann {"Cheshire) Ivins. On
the maternal side she is a granddaughter
of James and Sarah (Burroughs) Buck-
man, the former of whom was a son of

William and Jane I'uckman, and a de-
scendant of William Buckman, who*
came from England and settled at New-
town in 1684, and the latter a daughter
of John and Lydia Burroughs, and
granddaughter of Henry and Ann
(Palmer) Burroughs, who came from
New Jersey and settled in Lower ]\Iake-
field, being a son of John Burroughs,,
who was born at Newtown, Long Island,
in 1684, and died in Ewing, New Jersey,,
in 1772, and the last named John being
a son of John and Margaret (Wood-
ward) Burroughs, of Long Island and
a grandson of John Burroughs, who
came from England to Massachusetts
prior to 1639, and died at Newtown,
Long Island, in 1678, at the age of sixty-
one years. To Mr. and Mrs. Eastburn
were born two children, both born in
Philadelphia, viz.: Henry Kirkbride,
born November 19, i86i; and Edward
Ivins, born March 17, 1866. Henry K.
Eastburn is now engaged in the wool
business in Philadelphia; he married,
January 17. 1884, Carrie Gideon, of Phil-
adelphia. Edwin I. is also a resident of
Philadelphia.

Mrs. Eastburn, accompanied her hus-
band to New Mexico, and spent twelve
years in that territory. She now resides
in Langhorne borough where she is
highly esteemed by a large circle of
friends.

EASTBURN REEDER, one of 4he
most prominent farmers and dairymen-
in Bucks county, was born June 30,
1828, upon the farm on which he now
resides, and which had been the prop-
erty of his ancestors for five generations
from 1763.

Charles Reeder, great-great-grand-
father of the subject of this sketch, born
in England, 6 mo. 24, 1713, came to
America in 1734 and settled first near
Philadelphia, removing later to Upper
Makefield township, Bucks county,
where he purchased 200 acres of land
in 1765; he died there in 1800. He mar-
ried in 1737, Eleanor Merrick, daughter
of John and Eleanor (Smith) ]\Ierrick,
of Lower Dublin township, Philadelphia
county. John Merrick was a Friend, a
native of Herefordshire, England, v«ho
came to Pennsylvania and settled in
Lower Dublin township. In first month,
1702. he declared intentions of marriage,
at Abington Friends' Meeting, with Elea-
nor Smith, and was married the follow-
ing month. He died in 1732. His eldest
son John subsequently removed to
Wrightstown, having married Ilananh
Ilulme. and was the ancestor of the
Merricks of lower Bucks. Charles and
Eleanor (Merrick) Reeder were the pa-
rents, of eleven children, viz.: Joseph,
born mo. 3, 17.18, removed to New Jer-
sey, (his son John is supposed to be the
ancestor of the Rceders of Easton,

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Pennsylvania) ; Charles, born 6 mo. 15,
1743; Benjamin, born 3 mo. 29, 1746,
settled in NorthumberlancJ count3% Penn-
sylvania; Jesse, born 8 mo. 25, 1748, was
drowned in the Delaware river when a
young man; David, born S mo. 3, 1750,
married, in 1776, Elizabeth Montgom-
ery; Abraham, born 7 mo. 8, 1752, mar-
ried in 1780; Elizabeth Lee, of Wrights-
town; Merrick, born 7 mo. 31, 1754, mar-
ried in 1773, Elizabeth Collins; Hannah,
born 8 mo. 15, 1756; Eleanor, born 2 mo.

3. 1758; John, born li mo. 29, 1761; and
Mary, born 9 mo. 15, 1764.

Merrick Reeder, seventh son of
Charles and Eleanor, was reared on the
Makeficld farm, and on arriving at man-
hood married Elizabeth Collins, and
followed the vocation of a farmer. He
was a tenant on the "Canaan Farm" in
Upper Makefield for several years. Hi
t8io he and several of his children re-
moved to Muncy, Lycoming county,
Pennsylvania. He had thirteen children,
viz.: Benajah, born 11 mo. 30, 1774, mar-
ried Elizabeth Pownall, of Solebury, and
removed to Muncy, in 1810; Merrick,
born 2 mo. 8, 1776, .was the grandfather
of the subject of this sketch; Jonathan,
born 6 mo. ID, 1777, married Sarah
Palmer, and removed to Muncy; David,
born 8 mo. 23, 1778, married Rachel
Pownall, and removed to Muncy; Han-
nah, born 4 mo. 11, 1780, married Sam-
•uel Winder, and removed to Muncy;
Mary, born 10 mo. 29, 1781, married John
Robinson; Rebecca, born 5 mo. 20, 1783,
died unmarried; Elizabeth, born 4 mo. 3,
1785, married Thomas Osborn and re-
moved to ]\Iuncy; Charles, born 4 mo.
18, 1787, married Elizabeth Clark and re-
moved to Baltimore. Maryland, where
he has descendants; Andrew, born 6 mo.
12, 1789, married Anna Kemble, and re-
moved to Muncy: John, born 5 mo. 18,
1791, married Rebecca Ellis, and re-
moved to Muncy; Eleanor, born 11 mo.

4, 1793, married John Ross, and re-
moved to Muncy, Lycoming county, with
her parents; Jesse, born 8 mo. 19, 1796,
married first Elizabeth Fell, and (sec-
ond; Mary Fell, her sister; settled in
Buckingham and is the grandfather of
E. Wesley Keeler, Esq., of Doylestown,
Pennsylvania.

Merrick Reeder, Jr., second son of
Merrick and Elizabeth, born in Make-
field, 2 mo. 8, 1776, was the grandfather
of the subject of this sketch. He was
reared on a farm in Upper Makefield,
and received a good education. He came
to Solebury as a school teacher in 1800,
and in 1802 married Elizabeth, daughter
of Joseph and Rebecca (Kitchin) East-
burn. He was a man of good business
ability, and was for many j^ears a justice
of the peace in Solebury and New Hope
borough. Soon after his marriage he
settled on a portion of the Eastburn
farm, (purchased by Joseph Eastburn,
Sr., in 1763), and at the death of his

father-m-law, Joseph Eastburn, Jr., in
1813, it was adjudged to him in right
of his wife, and is now the property and
home of Simpson B. Michener, of New
Hope. Merrick Reeder was a surveyor
and scrivener, and an active and useful
man in the community. P^is wife, Eliza-
beth Eastburn, died 9 mo. 7, 1833, and
he married (second) in 1836, Sarah
Simpson. He died in i mo., 1851, aged
seventy-five years. (For Eastburn an-
cestry of subject of this sketch, see East-
burn Family). Merrick and Elizabeth
(Eastburn) Reeder were the parents of
three children: Joseph E., born 3 mo.
28, 1803; David K., born 10 mo. 29, 1804,
married Elizabeth M. Reeder, a daughter
of Charles M. Reeder; and William P.,
born 4 mo. 26, 181 5, married Mary
Reeder, also a daughter of Charles M.
Reeder. David K. Reeder heired his
father's portion of the old plantation in
Solebury and lived and died in that
township in 1887. William P. removed to
Philadelphia, and died in 1885.

Joseph E. Reeder, son of Merrick and
Elizabeth, born in Solebury township, 3
mo. 28, 1803, was a farmer, and resided
during his whole life on the parental
acres. He married 4 mo. 11, 1827, Le-
titia, daughter of Stephen and Hannah
(Blackfan) Betts, of Solebury, who bore
him two children; Eastburn, the subject
of this sketch; and Elizabeth, born i mo.
20. 1831, died November 7, i860, married
Robert Eastburn in 1857. Joseph E.
Reeder died 7 mo. 28, 1892. aged eigh-
ty-nine years, and Letitia, his wife, died
12 mo. 2, 1892, aged ninety-one years.

Eastburn Reeder, born on the old
homestead of his ancestors, June 30,
[828, has spent his whole life thereon.
He received a good education, and on
arriving at manhood turned his whole
attention to the farm. He married, 12
mo. 15 1853, Ellen, daughter of John E.
and Martha (Quinby) Kenderdine, and
the following spring took charge of the
home farm, which he conducted person-
ally until 1898 a period of forty-four
years, since which time he has retired
from its active management. In 1872 he
becv.me interested in the breeding of Jer-
sey cattle, and his handsome herds were
the pride of the county for many years.
He has always taken an active interest
in the elevation of the calling of a farrner
and the improvement of methods of till-
ing and utilizing the soil- He was one
of the original thirty-three members of
the Solebury Farmers' Club organized
in 1871, and its first secretary, and is
still one of its most active members. He
was the representative of Bucks county
in the State Board of Agriculture from
1877 to 1893, sixteen years; was ap-
pointed by Governor Robert E. Patti-
son. May, 1893, State Dairy and Food
Commissioner, the first commissioner
under the law creating the office, and
served until JuJy, i89S. He was active

HISTORY or BUCKS COUNTY.

in the prosecution of the manufactures
of oleomargarine and other imitations
of pure food, and placed the office on a
high plane of usefulness to the farmer.
He is also the author of numerous pa-
pers on farming and dairying, and has
done much to influence legislation for
the protection and betterment of the
farmer. He was a member of the Sole-
bury school board for nine years, from
1865 to 1874, and its secretary for six
years. In politics he is a Republican of
the independent type. In religion is an
active and earnest member of Solebury
Meeting of Friends, as were his ances-
tors. Since his retirement from the ac-
tive management of his farms he has
devoted considerable time to literary
pursuits, and has published a book en-
titled "Early Settlers of Solebury," and
also a "History of the Eastburn Earn-
ily."

Eastburn and Ellen K. Reeder are the
parents of four children: Watson K.,
born October 3, 1854, the present sta-
tion agent for the P. & R. R. R. at New
Hope, who married 1879, Mary C.
Beans, of Johnsville, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania; Elizabeth, born 6 mo. i,
1857. married in 1880, Newton E. Wood,
of Moreland, Montgomery county, Penn-
sylvania; Letitia, wife of Dr. George
W. Lawrence, of East Berlin, Connecti-
cut, married in 1892; and Martha, wife
of Charles Janney, of Solebury, married
in 190.3.

THE VANSANT FAMILY. The
Vansants of Bucks county are descend-
ants of a common ancestor, Gerret Stof-
felse Van Sandt or Van Zandt,* (other-
wise Garret Van Sandt, son of Stoffel
or Christopher), who emigrated from
the Netherlands, probably from Zaan-
dani in North Holland, or Zandberg in
Drenthe, in or about the year 1651, and
settled in New Utrecht, Long Island, on
the records of which town he is fre-
quently mentioned as Gerret Stoffellse.
He was one of the fourteen patentees
mentioned in the patent from Governor
Thomas Dongan, May 13, 1686, for the
Commons of New Utrecht, "on behalf
of themselves and their associates, the
present freeholders and inhabitants of
the said towne." His land was located
at Yellow Hook, "under the jurisdiction
of the town of New Utrecht." He was
a magistrate of New Utrecht in 1681.

* For much of the information contained in this
sketch, more especially that pertaining to the early
generations of the family, we are indebted to R. Win-
der Johnson of Philadelphia, who has made extensive
researches covering nearly twenty-five years pertain-
ing to the ancestry of the Vansants and other Holland
families from whom he is descended. He is himself
a descendant of Garret Vansandt, through liis son,
jacobus (') . and his fourth son, Isaiali X'iinsant. who
married Charity VanHorn, and their daugliter. Sarah,
who married Christian Van Horn, tlie descent being
shown more in detail in the article in this volume on
the VanHorn Family.

By deed dated July 31, 1695, lie con-
vej'ed his Yellow Hook plantation to
Derick Janse Van Zutphen, and re-
moved to Bucks countj', where Joseph
Growdon on 12 mo. 10, 1698-9, conveys
to him 150 acres in Bensalem township,
and on the same date conveys a like
tract adjoining to his son Cornelius. It
is probable that he was located for a
time in New York, as he had two chil-
dren baptized at the Dutch Reformed
church there in 1674 and 1676, respec-
tively. It is generally conceded that he
was twice married, as the record of the
baptisms above mentioned gives the
name of his wife as L3'sbeth Gerritz,
while the later baptisms at New Utrecht
and Flatbush churches give it as Lys-
beth Cornelis. It is, however, possible
that in one instance her father's sur-
name is used and in the other his first
name as was common on the Dutch
records. Cornelius Gerrets was a mem-
ber of the Dutch church at New Utrecht.

Garret Vansand died intestate in Ben-
salem township, Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania, prior to June 5, 1706, the date
upon which his ten children make a con-
veyance of his land purchased as before
stated in February, 1698-9. The record
of baptism of seven of his ten children
appears at the Dutch church of New
Netherlands, and will be given in con-
nection with a sketch of each child, ta-
ken in regular order of birth, later in
this article. The names of the ten chil-
dren were: I. Stoffell; 2. Cornelius; 3.
Josias; 4. Harman; 5. Albert; 6. Johan-
nes; 7. Jacobus; 8. George; 9. Jesina,
and 10. Garret. (Harman was really the
third child in order of birth, and Josias
fourth).

I. STOFFEL VAN SANDT, eldest
son of Garret, was born in the province
of New York about the year 1670, and
took the oath of allegiance at New Ut-
recht, Long Island, as a native of New
Netherlands, in 1687. He probably re-
moved to Bucks county at the same
time as his fatlier, in 1699. He was a
member of the Bensalem Dutch Re-
formed church, with wife Rachel Cour-
son ; having joined by certificate in 1710.
He seems, however, to have become a
member of Abington Presbyterian
church at its organization in 1714,
and was made one of its elders.
He purchased of Henry Paulin on
May 23, 1706, 300 acres of land in
Middletown, 200 acres of which he con-
veyed to his sons Garret and John, and
died seized of the balance in 1749. He
was a justice of Bucks county. 1715-18,
1723-27, and a member of colonial as-
sembly, 1710, 1712, 1714, 1719. His chil-
dren were: i. Jannctje. baptized at
Brooklyn, September 3. 1693, married
November 3. 171 1, William Renherg. 2.
Garret, baptized at Brooklyn. May 4,
1695. probably died young, as the soii
Garret, mentinned later, was ceriai^ily

HISTORY OP BUCKS COUNTY.

a younger man. (These children above
were by Stoffel's first marriage with An-
netje Stoffels, who probably died prior to
the removal to Bucks county.) The chil-
dren of Stoffel by his second marriage
with Rachel Corson, daughter of Hen-
drick Courson, were eight in number
and as follows:

3. Joshua, married February 20, 1728,
Catharine Johnston, and settled in Kent
county, Maryland, on land conveyed to
him by his father, October 28, 1728.

— >4. John, who married Rebecca Cox, of
Philadelphia, August 19, 1728, and set-
tled in Middletown, on land conveyed
to him by his father in 1738, and died
there in 1750. leaving daughters Ann,
Elizabeth, Catharine, Rebecca and Mary
and one son, John.

S. James, who was baptised at Abing-
ton as an adult September 16, 1716, and
had children, i. Rebecca, 2. Flora, 3,
John, 4. Jacobus, baptized there 1719-
1733-

— 6. Garret, purchased land of his fath-
er in Middletown in 1742, died there in
1789. leaving large family of children;
see forward.

7. Elizabeth, who married John Enoch
in 1718, and left a large family.

8. Alice, or Alshe, married Samuel
Rue and left a number of children.

9. Rachel, married Lewis Rue, March
24. 1736, and left children.

ID. Je.sina. who never married.

II. CORNELIUS VAN SANDT, son
of Garret (i) was born in New York,
probably about the year 1672. On 12 mo.
ID, 1698-9. he purchased 150 acres of
land adjoining his father in Bensalem
township. Bucks county. On May 4,
1714. he conveyed this tract to Thomas
Stevenson. It was probably in exchange
for land in Cecil county, Maryland, as
on the same date Stevenson conveyed
to him 1,035 acres on the west side of
Elk river, in New Mnnster township,
Cecil county, Maryland. He was bap-
tized at Pennypack Baptist church, Sep-
tember 14, 1712, and in 1714, with wife
Dericka. was "dismissed to Welsh
Tract" Baptist church in Pencader Hun-
dred, New Castle county. This church
was organized by a colony of Welsh
Baptists at Milford Haven, wdien about
to embark for America, in 1701. On ar-
riving in America they located at Pen-
nypack. where they remained until 1703.
when they located in New Castle on
land donated to them by James James,
and were ever after known as the
"Welsh Tract Baptist Church." Cor-
nelius Vansarjt remained a member of
this church, and was buried there May
I. 1734- His will, probated in Cecil
county, mentions wife Mary and chil-
dren Cornelius, Garret and Rebecca, all
apparently minors. He evidently mar-
ried a second time after his removal.

III. Harman' Van Sandt, son of Gar-
rett and Lysbeth Gerritz, was baptized

at the Dutch Reformed church of New
York, June 10, 1674, and died in Bensa-
lem township, Bucks county, in 1759. He
purchased August i, 1704, 250 acres of
land in Bensalem of Thomas Stevenson,
and on April 26, 1712, 250 more. On May
26, 1713, he purchased 125 acres which
had belonged to his brother Johannes,
and devised it in his will to his daughr
ter Catharine, wife of Daniel Severns.
On May 20, 1741, he purchased 100 acres
for his daughter Gazina, wife of Jacob
Titus. He also purchased in 171 1 56
acres in Southampton, which he con-
veyed to his brother Jacobus. Harman
Vansant was three times married. His
first wife, whom he married in New
Utrecht, was Elizabeth Brouwers. He
married (second) in 1733 Jane Joudon,
and (third) oji November 9, 1738, Judith
Evans, who survived him. She had been
twice married before becoming the wife
of Harman Vansant, first to Cornelius
McCarty, and second to John Evans,
both of Basalem township. The children
of Harman Vansant were as follows, all
probably by Elizabeth, his first wife:

I. Garret, who died in 1755, leaving
a widow Mary and four children — Har-''
man, Peter, Elizabeth and Garret. Har-"
man, who married Eleanor Vandegrift,
was the administrator of his father in
I7SS> and executor of the will of his
grandfather in 1759. He was devised by
the latter 125 acres of the land whereon
his father had lived, and subsequently
purchased considerable other land in
Bensalem where he died in 1815. His
children were: Jacob, baptized at South-
ampton church, July 7, 1754: Joseph;
Mary Van Horn; Eleanor, wife of Rob-
ert Wood; Sarah Cox; Ann Pleamess
and Garret. Peter was devised 100 acres
of land by his grandfather. Elizabeth and
Garret were the ancestors of practically
all the Vansants of Bensalem.

2. Gazina, who married Jacon Titus
and lived on land devised to her by her
father. She died prior to April 30, 1772,
leaving children; Elizabeth, who mar-
ried Ephraim Phillips, of Burlington,
New Jersey; Olshe. who married Joseph
Seaborne, of Warwick, Bucks county;
Catharine, who married John Baker, of
Mt. Holly, New Jersey; Charity, wife of
Samuel Sutton, of Byberry, Jacob. Se-
ruch and William, of Bensalem; and Sa-
rah of Byberry.

3. Elizabeth, who married May 6, 1719,
Volkert Vandegrift, and had nine chil-
dren, and died before her father. See
Vandegrift Family.

' 4. Katharine, who married Daniel
Severns and lived on land in Bensalem
devised to her by her father.

5. Harman, who married Alice Craven,
daughter of James Craven, of Warmins-
ter, Bucks county, and died in 1735,
leaving four children, mentioned in his
father's will in 1755. three of whom were
James, Harman and William. James

HISTORY OP BUCKS COUXTY.

was born in 1731, and died in Nortlianip-
ton, January 31, 1798; he married Aug-
ust 23, 1756, Jane Bennett, daughter of
William and Charity Bennett, and set-
tled in Northampton in 1764; James and
Jane were the ])arents of thirteen chil-
dren: Harman, married Alice Ilogeland
and settled in Warminster; Charity, wife
of John Corson, Esq.; William; Charles;
Elizabeth; Eleanor, wife of John Brown;
Richard; Isaac; John; Alice; James;
Aaron, and Mary. Harman, son of Har-
man and Alice (Craven) Vansant, mar-
ried Catharine Hogeland, and died in
Warminster in 1823; was many years a
justice; he left but one child, Elizabeth,
wife of James Edams. William died in
Warminster in 1805

IV. Josias Van Sandt, son of Garret
and Lysbeth Gerritz, was baptized at
the Dutch Reformed church of New
York, October 29, 1676. but as we find
no further record of him he probably
died in childhood.

V. ALBERT VAN SANDT, son of
Garret (i) was baptized at Flatbush,
May 13, 1681. He married November 8,
1704, Rebecca Vandegrift, daughter of
Leonard and Gertje (Ellsworth) Van-
degrift. He probably removed with
the rest of the family to Bensalem,
Bucks county, as he joined in the deed
conveying his father's real estate, but
in 1708-9, in connection with his bro-
ther-in-law, Jacob Vandegrift, purchased
500 acres of land in St. George's Hun-
dred, New Castle county. He seems also
to have purchased land in Georgetown,
Kent county, Maryland, which he con-
veyed to his brother George, May 14,
"^737- 111 1743 lie and his wife Rebecca,
of St. George's Hundred, New Castle
county, Delaware, joined in the deed for
his father-in-law's real estate in Bensa-
lem. After this date and prior to De-
cember 16, 1751, the date of his will, he
married a second wife, Sarah, who is
named as executrix. His children were:
Elizabeth, baptized October 3, 1705, mar-
ried a Joudon; Leonard, baptized No-
vember 5, 1707, probably died young,
not mentioned in will; Harmanus;
James; John; Garret; Christina, mar-
ried a Dushane; Rebecca, married a Mar-
tin; and Ann, who married a Brown.

VI. JOHANNES (or John) VAN
SANDT, born on Long Island, son of
Garret (i), married at the First Pres-
byterian church of Philadelphia, 12 mo.
17, 1702, Leah Grocsbeck, probably
daughter of Jacob Groesbeck, who ac-
companied the Vansants from Long Isl-
and .to Bensalem and purchased land
there. John Vansand, as he signed his
name, purchased August I, 1704, 125
acres of land in Bensalem of Thomas
Stevenson, but reconveyed it to Stev-
enson, May 17. 1714, and the latter im-
mediately conveyed it to Harmon Van-
Sandt before mentiontd. On the same
date Stevenson conveyed to him 500

acrs of land on Elk River, Cecil county,
Maryland. It is probable that his in-
tention to move to Maryland was-
frustrated by his sickness and death.
His will is dated October 30, 1714, and
was proved the sixth of the following
January. It devises to son John forty
shillings, and to his wife Leah his per-
sonal estate and the use of his Mary-
land real estate, if not sold, during life
for "the educaticui and maintenance of.
herself and children." Believing that it
will be necessary to sell his Maryland
real eistate, he empowers Stofifel Van-
sand and Bartholomew Jacobs to sell it.
If not sold, to be valued and divided
between the two boys, they paying their
sisters their equal shares. The only child
mentioned was John. It is possible that
the other of "the two boys" was Gar-
ret, who had a number of children bap-
tized at St. Stephen's church, Cecil
county, beginning with 1721. A daughter
Rachel was baptized June 5, 1711.
TJ^'-ijACOBUS (or James) VAN SANDT,
son of Garret (i), was baptized at Flat-
bush, Long Island, February 15, 1685,
and removed with his father to Bensa-
lem, Bucks county, in 1699. He married
at the First Presbyterian church of
Philadelphia, on January 7, 1707-8, Re-
becca Vandegrift, daughter of Nicho-
las and Barentje (Verkerk) Vandegrift,
who had come to Bensalem from Long
Island at the same date as the Vansants,
(See Vandegrift Family). Jacobus and
his wife joined the Bensalem church,
Neshaminy branch, at its institution in
1710. On April 7, 1711, Benjamin Hop-
per conveyed to Jacobus Vansand, of
Bensalem, yeoman, 100 acres of land in
Southampton, and on January I, 1712,
his brother Harman Vansandt and Eli-
zabeth his wife conveyed to Jacobus fif-
ty acres adjoining the 150 which had
been purchased by Harman of Ezra
Bowen, June 13, 171 1. He later purchased
144 acres of land of Cornelius Egmont,
which he devised to his son Nicholas.
The will of Jacobus Vansandl, of South-
ampton, is dated December 12, 1744. a"fl
was proven January 9, 1745- It devises
to son Jacob the 150 acre farm on which
he dwelt, reserving certain p-ivileges to
his wife Rebecca: the Egmont farm to
son Nicholas: mentions daughters Eliza-
beth and Rebecca as having received
their shares, the latter being ceceased;
sons Jacobus, Garret and Isaiah, and
grandson Charles Inyard, to have equal
shares. The will names "kinsman John
Vansand" and friend Nathaniel Brittian
as executors, but they renouncing, as
also did the widov/, letters were granted
to the sons James and Nicholas. The
will is signed "J. V." His widow Re-
becca survived him two years, leaving
will dated November 18, 1746, and
])roved January 13, 1746-7. and men-
tions the sanfe children, and grandson
diaries Inyar<l. The cliildren of Ja-

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

cobus and Rebecca Vandegrift Vansandt
were: Jacobus (or James) baptized De-
cember I, 1708; married 10 mo, i, 1732,
Margaret Rreece. daughter of Hendrick
and Hannah (Field) Breece of Bensalem;
see ancestry of Lewis R. Bond, in this
volume.

2. Elizabeth, baptized May 21. 17 10;
married 4 mo. i, 1732, Charles Inyard,
ef Warminster, and left one son, Charles
Inyard.

3. Garret, married May 13, 1739. Ann
Groome of Southampton.

4. Nicholas, baptized January i, 1711-12,
married May 18, 1744, Mary Brittian.

5. Rebecca baptized August 7, 1716,
married Isaac Larue.

6. Isaiah, married June 6, 1732, Char-
ity (or Gertrude) VanHorn.

7. Jacob.

James, who married Margaret Breece.
was a mason, and in 1734 purchased of
Gidean de Camp 100 acres in Warmin-
ster, which he sold in 1748. At about
the same date he signed a release to his
brothers-in-law, Hendrick, and John
Breese for legacy left his wife by her
father, and probably accompanied his
brother-in-law Hendrick Breece to Har-
ford county, Maryland. Garret, the sec-
ond son, was a blacksmith in Southamp-
jton. His will dated 9 mo. 29, 1779, is on
file in the register of wills' office of
Bucks county, but does not appear to
have been proven. It mentions wife
Ann and the following children: Will-
iam; Phebe, who married ]\Iiles Strick-
land, December 24, 1760; Mary and Re-
becca Walton; Margaret Foster; "daugh-
ter Elizabeth's three sons, Amos, Breece
and Mahlon Vansant; John; Ann Rich-
ardson; Esther Vansant and James.

Nicholas, the third son. married Mary
Brittian and had two children. Captain
Nathaniel Vansant, of the Revolution;
and Rebecca, who married January 9,
1768, Daniel Boileau. Nicholas died
about May i, 1801, and his widow Mary
in March, 1808.

Isaiah, the fourth son, rr\arried Gertje
(or Charity) Van Horn, daughter of
Peter and Elizabeth Van Horn of Mid-
dletown. On March 18, 17^6-7, he pur-
chased at sheriflf's sale 178^4 acres of
land in Makefield township. In 1754 he
purchased a small tract adjoining, and in
1768 purchased of John Scott 100 acres
in Upper Makefield. His children w^ere:
Isaiah; Elizabeth, wife of Cornelius Van-
degrift; Rachel, wife of George Merrick,
married 4 mo. T2. 1769; Charity; Sarah,
who married Christian VanHorn, June
14, 1764; Mary, who married Gabriel
VanHorn, January 18, 1772; Joshua;
Peter, who married Elizabeth W^ollard
April 8. 1778, and (second) Alethia Cur-
tis; Gabriel; and Cornelius, who married
Mary Larzelere. The will of Isaiah Van-
sant is dated April 15, 1786, and
was proved September 28, 1786. It

devises to son Joshua the land
bought of John Scott in Upper Make-
field, and to Gabriel and Cornelius the
home plantation, "reserving one-fourth
of an acre for a graveyard, where I have
began to bury, for myself and my rela-
tions;" mentions Elijah, eldest son of
Isaiah, daughter Rachel's three children;
daughter Charity's four children, and
daughter Mary, and her daughter Char-
ity; and daughter tElizabeth.

Jacob, the youngest son of Jacobus
and Rebecca Vansant, inherited from his
father the homestead in Southampton,
and died there in 1812, devising ninety
acres thereof to his daughter Elizabeth
Vansant. His other children were: Jane,
who married Samuel Dickson; and Mar-
garet, wdio married Jacob Roads.

VIII. GEORGE VAN SANDT, son
of Garret (i) was baptized at Flatbush,
Long Island, April 24, 1687, and re-
moved with the family to Bensalem,
Bucks county, in 1699. He married 12
mo. 17, 1706, Micah Vandegrift. He
joined his brother Jacobus in the pur-
chase of his father's Bensalem farm in
1706, and purchased his brother's inter-
est on- April 2, 1711. On May 17, 1714,
he and wife Micah conveyed this 150
acres in Bensalem to Thomas Stevenson,
and removed to Cecil county, Maryland,
where he purchased of Gideon Pearce,
February 20, 1721, a tract of land called
"Forks and Revision," and in 1737 pur-
chased of his brother Albert part of a
tract called "Tolchester." On October
17, "^733, he and wife "Mary" convey to
his son Nicholas, a tract called "Nich-
olas' Inheritance," and on same date,
they convey to son George other lands.
In 1745 they convey parts of "Tolches-
ter" to sons Ephraim and Benjamin.
From the w-ill of George Vansant, proven
:\Iarch 22, 1755, we learn that his chil-
dren were Nicholas, Cornelius, George,
Benjamin, Ephraim, John; Elizabeth,
wife of Peter Cole; Hester Newcombe,
Resultah Salisbury, and Ann Smith.

X. GARRET VAN SANDT, young-
est son of Garret (i) was a minor when
his father's real estate was conveyed in
1706. He settled in Wrightstown town-
ship, near Penn's Park, where he had a
large plantation. He died in 1746, leav-
ing a widow Claunchy, sons Garret and
Cornelius, to whom he devised the plan-
tation; and daughters Sarah Sackett,
Rachel Dungan and Rebeclcah Vansant.
the latter a minor. Cornelius married
Mary Lee, December 6, 1748, and died in
March, 1789, without issue. His wife
Mary died in August, 1808. Garret, eld-
est son of Garret and Claunchy, inher-
ited one-half of the Wrightstown home-
stead, and died there in June; 1806. He
married April 30, 1760, Rebecca Evans,
who survived him. She was possiblv his
second wife. Their children were Eliza-
beth Addis, Rebecca McClellan. and
Marv, wife of Joseph Carver. Rebecca^

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

daughter of Garret, Sr.. married a Brit-
tian, whose son Joseph and grandson
Cornelius are mentioned in the will of
Cornelius Van Sant.

Garret Vansant of Middlctown. son of
Stophel, received by deed of gift from
his father on October 21, 1742, gsYj acres
of land, part of 300 acres purchased bj'
Stophel of Henry Paulin in 1706, and on
January 10, 1748, purchased 214 acres in
Middletown of Charles and Ann Plumlj'.
On June 25, 1789, he conveys the last
mentioned tract in about equal parts to
his sons, Garret, Jr., and John, and on
July 31, 1789, he convej'ed to his son
George the 95^ acres conveyed to him
by his fatliei. No record appears of the
name of his wife. A Garret Vansant
married Leah Nixon at Churchville,
April 15, 1747, which was probably this
Garret, although it may have been his
cousin Garret, of Wrightstown. The will
of Garret Vansant is dated July 7, 1789,
and was proven August 7, 1789, only a
week after the couA'eyance of his land.
It mentions the children of his son
Jacob, and their mother Mary Vastine;
daughters Rachel Harrison, Keziah
Sweetman, Vashti Vansant and Sarah
Hise; sons John, Garret and George, and
grandson James Vansant. Jacob, the
eldest son. married Mary Richardson,
daughter of Joseph Richardson, and set-
tled in Falls township, Bucks county,
where he died in April, 1785. leaving chil-
dren: Elizabeth, James, Catharine and
Garret. His widow married Benjamin
Vastine prior to 1789. George Vansant
married Sarah Johnston, December 24,
1783. He sold the old homestead to
Joshua Woolston in 1794, and removed
to Bristol township. John married Le-
titia Leaw and died in Middletown in
1812, leaving a son John, and daughters
Ann Leah Lovett and Amelia Booz. Gar-
ret Vansant. Jr.. remained on the home-
stead purchased of his father in 1789 un-
til 1822, when he convej^ed it to his sons
James and John, and soon after removed
to Newtown, where he died in 1842 at an
advanced age. His wife Mary had died
many years previously. The children of
Garret and Mary Vansant were John,
James, Martha: Jane, wife of Isaac Ran-
dall; Rachel wife of Eber Randall; and
Mary, wife of Jonathan Hunter. James
died in Middletown in 1833, leaving a
widow Amy and two children. Elizabeth,
born March 11, 1821, and James born
May I. 1826.

JAMES TITUS VANSANT, of Mid-
dletown township, son of John and Mary
(Hunter) Vansant. and grandson of Gar-
ret and Mary Vansant, last mentioned,
was born in MiddletowMi township May
-^• ^837. where he was educated at the
public scliools. and has spent his whole
life on the farm that has been the prop-
erty of his direct ancestors since 1748,
and part of it since 1704. On January
21, 1863. he married Lucy Ann Carman,

daughter of Samuel and Mary Ann
(Brown) Carman, of Bensalem townships
and granddaughter of Barzilla and Beu-
lah Carman. Her maternal grandparents
were Israel and Sarah (Hellings) Brown,
the latter being a daughter of Nathan
and Rachel Hellings, of an old Middle-
town, Bucks county, family whose pro-
genitor was Nicholas Hellings, an early
settler in Northampton. Mr. and Mrs.
Vansant are the parents of eight chil-
dren, viz.: Samuel Jennings, born Au-
gust IS, 1865. died February 28, 1904;
William Carman, born May 14, 1867;
John Andrew, born August 11, 1869;
Howard, born September 12. 1871; Clar-
ence, born August 22, 1873; James Mer-
ton. born November 15, 1875. Joseph
Winder, born January 10, 1879; Lucy
Ann. born June 16. 1883. Samuel Jen-
nings Vansant married August, 1891,
Martha A. Tomlinson of Fox Chase, and
they are the parents of three children —
Roy. Arthur and Frederick. William
Carman Vansant married January I,
•1894, Melvina Search, and they have
four children — Charles Search, James
Merton, Mary, and Edward. Mrs. Mel-
vina Search died in December, 1904.
John Andrew Vansant married April 13,
1900, Ella. Sickle, and had one child
Esther Helen. Clarence Vansant married,
January 25, 1898, Clara Worthington,
and their children are: Harriet, born Oc-
tober 21. 1898; and Samuel, born Octo-
ber 19. 1901. James M. Vansant married,
March 6, 1900, Ada K. Hibbs, and their
children are: Albert Hunter, born De-
cember 31, 1900; and Clifford Randall,
born July 31, 1903. Joseph Winder Van-
sant married June i, 1904, Matilda Pre-
vost McArthur.

Mr. Vansant is one of the prominent
and successful men of the county, and
has held many positions of trust. He
owns a large amount of real estate, in
dwellings and farms and takes a lively
interest in the affairs of the county. He
and his family are members of the Meth-
odist church. In politics he is a Re-
publican. He is a member of Nesha-
miny Lodge, No. 422, I. O. O. F., of
Hulmeville.

HOWARD VANSANT. fourth son of
James T. and Lucy Ann (Carman) Van-
sant. was born in Middletown township,
September 12, 1871. and received his ele-
mentary education at the public schools.
He graduated from Pierce's Business
C>)llege in 1891. and for one winter filled
the position in that institution as teacher
in the banking department. He then
accepted the position of bookkeeper for
.Augustes Beitney, which he filled for
six j-ears. and then entered into the em-
ploy of Walton Bros., grain merchants
of Philadelphia, as bookkeeper, and after
a short time was promoted to the posi-
tion of general superintendent, haying
general charge of their large warehouse.
The firm has for many years done a

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

large business, and is one of the largest
dealers in that line in Philadelphia. In
politics Air. Vansant is a Republican,
and takes an active interest in the af-
fairs of the town in which he lives. He
has been for many years a member of the
borough council, and is now filling the
position of clerk of that body. He is a
member of the Masonic fraternity, being
affiliated with Bristol Lodge No. 25, F.
and A. M. He is also a member of
Neshaminy Lodge, No. 422, L O. O. F.,
of Hulmeville, of which he is a past
grand. He married, November 12, 1895.
Cora Wilson, daughter of Charles and
Sarah (Snyder) Wilson, of Trenton, New
Jersey, and a granddaughter of Chris-
topher and Sarah (Snyder) Wilson. They
are the parents of two children, Ella
Praul, born February 23, 1900; and
Elisha Praul, born March 9, 1904-

ANCESTRY OF MARTIN V. B. and
NATHANIEL VANSANT, of South-
ampton.

Captain Nathaniel Vansant, only son
of Nicholas and Mary (Brittian) Van-
sant, of Southampton, was born on the
old homestead in that township, March
13- 1745- At the outbreak of the Revolu-
tion he was a resident of Bensalem town-
ship having purchased a farm there in
1777. He was commissioned first lieu-
tenant of the Associated company of that
township. From the very beginning of
the arming for the conflict with the
mother country, the Vansants were fore-
most in oft^ering their services for home
defense and militia service. Garret and
Peter were members of the Bensalem
company; Garret. of Southampton,
brother of Nicholas, ^.nd uncle to Cap-
tain Nathaniel, was second lieutenant of
the Southampton company in 1775. and
was second lieutenant of the Fifth Com-
pany of the First Battalion in the re-
organization of 1777- Nicholas, father
of Captain Nathaniel, and Jacob, his
brother were both members of the
Southampton company in 1775. In i\Iid-
dletown. George and John, sons of Gar-
ret and grandsons of Stophel, were mem-
bers of the Associated company of that
township. James, son of Harman and
grandson of Harman. Sr.. the only mem-
ber of the family in Northampton, joined
the Associated company there in 1775.
Peter, of Lower Makefield, son of Isaiah
and grandson of Jacobus, was captain of
the company of that township, and his
brother Cornelius was second lieutenanh^

The member of the family, however,
who rendered pre-eminent service and
suffered untold hardships in the defense
of his country was Captain Nathaniel
Vansant. of Bensalem. He was commis-
sioned a captain January 5, 1776. in Col-
onel Robert Magaw's Fifth Pennsylvania
Battalion of the Flying Camp, in which
there was a large number of Bucks coun-
tians. who through the treachery of Ma-

gaw's adjutant, were badly routed at
Fort Washington, New York, on No-
vember 16, 1776, and 2,700 American sol-
diers were taken prisoners, including
Magaw and almost his entire command.
Captain Vansant was captured with the
rest, and for two years suffered the hor-
rors of imprisonment in the floating hells
in New York harbor and the loathsome
warehouses in the city. Many of the let-
ters written home to his wife while a
prisoner are in the possession of the
Bucks County Historical Society and of
members of the family. The quaint
chapeau worn by him in the service is
also in possession of the Historical So-
ciety.

Captain Vansant married August 27,
1768. at the Dutch Reformed church of
Southampton, Hannah Vansandt. There
seems to be some dispute about the
maiden name of Hannah Vansant; both
the church records and that of the grant-
ing of the license by the civil authorities
give it as Vanzandt, while his descen-
dants claim that her name was Brittian,
the same as that of the Captain's mother.
It seems to be conceded that she was
his cousin, and it is probable that she
was the daughter of his uncle, James
Vansandt. who married Margaret, daugh-
ter of Hendrick and Hannah (Field)
Breece. Hannah was born January 16,
1746, and died August 19, 1818. The chil-
dren of Captain Nathaniel and Hannah
Vansant were as follows: Harman, who
died of yellow fever in Philadelphia dur-
ing the epidemic of that disease in the
city, about the close of the century; and
Nicholas, born February 25, 1771. died
April 19. 1850.

Nicholas, as only surviving child of
Nathaniel and Hannah Vansant, inher-
ited the real estate of his father, who
died August 8, 1825. intestate. He lived
and died on the old homestead in South-
ampton, which remained in the family
for six generations and until 1889, when
it was sold, a period of at least one hun-
dred and fifty years. Nicholas married
Alary Larzelcre. daughter of Nicholas
and Hannah (Brittian) Larzelere of Ben-
salem township. She was born Septem-
ber 8, 1772, and died October 27, 1863.
The children of Nicholas and Mary
(Larzelere) Vansant were:

1. Alary, born September 6. 1795, mar-
ried Jacob Vansant, and had two chil-
dren, Franklin, who married a Hogeland,
and Angelina.

2. Nathaniel, born April 14, 1797, mar-
ried z\lice Vanartsdalen; see forward.

3. Elizabeth, born February 24. I799,
married Silas Rhoads, and had one child,
Alary Ann, who married William Go-
forth.

4. Benjamin, born February 14, 1803.
died June. 1869; married (first) Sarah
Campbell, born Alarch 7. 1810, died
Alarch to. 1853: and (second) Jane Lu-
kens. The children of the first marriage

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

were: Lendrum L., born October 4,
1832; Elizabeth R., who married J. Paul
Knight; Harriet P., who married George
Shoemaker; and Charles R., who mar-
ried Carrie Saurman. The only child of
the second marriage was Dr. Benjamin
Vansant.

5. Nicholas L., born September 7,
1807; married Margaret Vandegrift, and
had two children, Mahlon and Marj^ Ann.

The children of Nathaniel and Alice
(Vanartsdalen) Vansant, were:

1. Mary Amanda, born March 26, 1824,
married Anderson Leedom, and had
three children: Thomas, deceased; Alice,
wife of John Tomlinson; and Nathaniel,
who married Martha Comly.

2. Casper R., born April 3, 1826, died
June 26, 1881, married Ellen Field, and

had two children: Nathaniel, born Oc-
tober 12, 1859; see forward; and Levi,
who married Ida Sickle.

3. Nicholas B., born January 28, 1828,
went to California, where he probably
died.

4. Hiram R., born January 12, 1831,
•died September 19, 1888.

5. Jacob W., born March 7. 1833: mar-
ried Esther Buckman, and had five chil-
dren: Alice, who married William Brad-
field; Watson, who married a VanReif;
Howard, who married Lydia Stout;
Leonard, who married Sarah Yerkes; and
Mary who married Horace Blaker.

6. Howard S., born February 13.
1835; married Elizabeth Fetter. He died
July 9, 1866.

7. MARTIN VAN BUREN VAN-
SANT, born on the old homestead in
Southampton, February 4, 1839. He was
reared on the old homestead and edu-
cated at the public schools. He learned
the trade of a miller, and was engaged in
the milling business at Churchville for a
number of years. At his father's death
in 1883 he purchased the old homestead
in Southampton, and subsequently sold
it to Dr. Benjamin Baer, of Philadelphia.
Mr. Vansant was never married. In pol-
itics he is a Democrat. He never held
other than local offices, having filled
that of assessor, which office, by the way,
was held by his great-great-grandfather
under Colonial authority, the original
commission being in possession of the
Bucks County Historical Society.

NATHANIEL VANSANT, son of
Casper (4) and Ellen (Field) Vansant.
was born at Somerton. Philadelphia
county. October 12,. 1859, but was reared
in Southampton township, Bucks county,
and educated at the local schools. His
father purchased a farm in Southamp-
ton in 1870, which he conveyed to Na-
thaniel in 1888, and he has always fol-
lowed the life of a farmer. In politics
he is a Democrat. He has filled the of-
fice of school director for several years.
He was married in September, 1888. to

Wilhelmina Depew, and they are the
parents of two children: Blanche, born
March 10, 1890; and Viola E., born Oc-
tober 8, 1892.

THE VANDEGRIFT FAMILY is of
Holland descent, their progenitor being
Jacob Lendertsen Van der Grift (that is,
son of Lenerd) who with his brother
Paulus Lenertsen Van der Grifc, came
from Amsterdam about 1644 and settled
in New Amsterdam. Both of the Van
der Grift brothers were in the employ of
the West India Company. Paulus was
skipper of the ship "Neptune" in 1645,
and of the "Great Gerrit"' in 1646. He
was a large landholder in New Amster-
dam as early as 1644. He was a member
of council, 1647-1648; burgomaster 1657-
1658, and 1661-1664; orphan master 1656-
1660; member of convention, 1653 and
1663. On February 21, 1664. Paulus
Leendersen and Allard Anthony were
spoken of as "co-patroons of the new
settlement of Noortwyck, on the North
River." He had five children baptized ai
the Dutch Reformed church, and he and
his wife were witnesses to the baptism of
five of the eight children of his brother
Jacob. Paulus Leendertsen Van der
Grift sold his property in New Amster-
dam in 1671, and returned with his fam-
ily to Europe.

Jacob Lendertsen Van die Grifte, bot-
tler, of New Amsterdam, in the service
of the West India Company, on Septem-
ber II, 1648, granted a power of Attor-
ney to Marten IMartense Schoenmaker, of
Amsterdam, Holland, to collect from the
West India Company such amounts of
money as he (Van die Grift) had earned
at Curocoa, on the ship "Swol". em-
ployed by that company to ply between
the island of Curocoa and New Nether-
lands. The early records of New Am-
sterdam give a considerable account of
this ship "Swol." It carried twenty-two
guns and seventy-six men. In 1644 it
was directed to proceed to New Amster-
dam, and on arriving, "being old." it
was directed to be sold. Another boat
was', however, given the same name, be-
ing sometimes mentioned as the "New
Swol."

On July 19, 1648. Jacob Lendertsen
Van der Grist was married at New Am-
sterdam to Rebecca Fredericks, daugh-
ter, of Frederick Lubbertsen. On March
7. 1652, he sold as attorney for his
father-in-law, fifty morgens and fifty-two
rods of land on East river. On Febru-
ary 19, 1657, Jacob Leendersen V.nn die
Grift was commissioned by the burgo-
masters and schepens of New Amster-
dam as a measurer of grain. To this ap-
pointment was affixed instructions "that
from now nobody shall be allowed to
measure for himself or have measured
by anybody else than the sworn meas-
urers, any grain, lime or other goods

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

which are sold by the tun or schepel. or
come here from elsewhere as cargoes
and in wholesale, under a penalty of £3
for first transgression, £6, for sec-
ond and arbitrary correction for the
third." In 1656 Jacob Leendertsen Van-
dergrift was made a small burgher of
New Amsterdam. In 1662 he was a resi-
dent of Bergen, New Jersey, where he
subscribed toward the salary of a min-
ister. On April 9, 1664, he and his wife,
Rebecca Fredericks, were accepted as
members of the church at "Breukelen,"
upon letters from Middlewout, (now
Flatlands); his residence on the west
side of the river must, therefore, have
been of short duration. On May 29,
1664. then living under the jurisdiction
of the village of Breukelen, Long Island,
he applies to council for letters of ces-
sion with committimus to the court, to
relieve him from his creditors on his
turning over his property in their be-
half, he being "burdened with a large
family, and on account of misfortune be-
fallen some years ago, not having been
able to forge ahead, notwithstanding all
efforts and means tried by him to that
end, etc." There are records of a num-
ber of suits prior to this date, in which
he appears either as plaintiff or defen-
dant. In 1665 he was living on the
strand of the North river, New Amster-
dam, where he is assessed towards pay-
ing the expense of quartering one hun-
dred English soldiers on the Dutch
burghers. On. October 3, 1667, he re-
•ceived a patent from Governor Nicolls
for land on the island of Manhattan, on
the north side of the Great Creek, which
he sold to Isaac Bedloe, in 1668. He
probably removed at this date to Noord-
wyck. on the North river, where he pur-
chased in 1671 the land of his brother
Paulus, who had returned to Amster-
dam. In 1686 he appears as an inhabi-
tant of Newton, Long Island, where he
probably died, though the date of his
death has not been ascertained. His
widow removed with her children to
Bensalem, Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
in 1697, and was living there in 1710. The
children of Jacob Lendertsen and Re-
becca Fredericks Van der Grift, baptised
at the Dutch Reformed Church of New
Amsterdam, were as follows:

1. IMartje. baptised August 29. 1649,
married Cornelius Corsen. March^ 11,
1666. He was baptised at New York,
April 23, 1645. being the son of Cor-
nelius Piterse Vroom. and Trynt.ie Hen-
dricks. After the death of Vroom,
Tryntje had married Frederick Lub-
bertsen. the grandfather of Marytje,
father-in-law of Jacob Lendeert=en Van
der' Grift. Many descendants of Corne-
lius Corssen and Marytje Van de Grift
still reside in Bucks county.

2. Christina Van de Grift, baptised
February 26, 1651, married (first) Oc-

a widower, by whom she had two chil-
dren, Abraham and Jacobus. She mar-
ried (second) April 14, i68r, Daniel
Veenvous, from Beuren, in Gelderland,
by whom- she had five children — Wil-
helmina, Rebecca and Contantia; two
others also named Rebecca died in in-
fancy.

3. Anna Van de Grift, baptised March
16, 1653, married, September 29, 1674.
*Jacob Claessen Groesbeck. They re-

;^tober 9, 1678, Cornelius Jacobse Schipper,
moved to Bucks county with the rest of
the Vandegrift family in 1710, but little
is known of them other than that he pur-
chased land in Bensalem adjoining that
of his brothers-in-law, and that two of •
his daughters married into well known
families of Bucks. Their children were;
Rebecca, baptised June 23, 1673; Eliza-
beth, baptised September 4, 1677; Leah,
baptised February ir, 1680, married 12
mo. 17, 1702, Johannes Van Sandt;
Rachel, baptised November 21, 1682, mar- '
ried November 8, 1704. James Biddle; and •'
Johanna, baptised August 9, 1685.

4. Leendert (Leonard) Van de Grift,
baptised December 19, 1655, died in
Bensalem, Bucks county, 1725; married,
November 20, 1678, Styntje Ellsworth.
He, with his three brothers and two
brothers-in-law, purchased land in Ben-
salem in 1697 of Joseph Growdon, Leon-
ard's purchase being two tracts of 135
and 106 acres respectively. He subse-
quently purchased seventy-four acres of
his brother Frederick. He and his wife
were received at Bensalem church in
1710, and he was appointed junior elder.
On December 30, 1715- he was commis-
sioned a justice of the peace. Letters
of administration were granted on his
estate February 18. 1725, to his eldest
son Abraham, known as "Abraham. Van-
degrift, by the River." The children of
Leonard and Styntje (Ellsworth) Van-
degrift were: i. Jacob, baptised Septem-
ber 20, 1679; 2. Christoffel, baptised Au-
gust, 1681, married July 7, 1704, Sarah
Druith; 3. Rebecca, baptised December
15, 1683, married November 8, 1704, Al-
bert Van Sandt; 4. Abraham, baptised
July 4, 1686, married October 17, 1716,
Maritje Van Sandt, died March, 1748,
leaving six children — Leonard, of Ben-
salem; Garret and Abraham, of Philadel-
phia: Christine, wife of Yost Miller, of
Salem county. New Jersey; Mary, wife
of Mathew Corbet, and Jemima, wife of
George Taylor, of Chesterfield, New Jer-
sey. 5. Anneken, baptised April 7, 1689,
married Andrew Duow. 6. Elizabeth,
baptised at Brooklyn, October 8. 1691,
married May 23, 1710, "Francis Kroeson.
7. Annetje, baptised June 12, 1695, mar-

*Nicholas (or Claes^ Groesbeck. father of Jacob:
was a carpenter of Albany. New York, in 1662. On
October 10. 1696 deoosed th^t he was seventv-»wo
years old. His will dated January 3. 1706-7, mentions
wife Elizabeth, son Jacob and others.

HISTORY Of BUCKS COUNTY.

ried December 22, 1715, Cornelius King.
Ail of the above children of Leonard
Vandegrift removed to New Lastle
count}', Delaware, prior to the dealh of
their father, except Abraham, to whom
they conveyed the real estate in Bensa-
leni in 1743. The above named heirs of
Abraham conveyed the same to Leonard,
eldest son of Abraham, in 1761.

5. Nicholas Vandegrift, baptised May
5, 1658, married at New Utrecht, Long
Island, August 24, 1684, Barentje Ver-
kirk, daughter of John Verkerk. They
settled at New Utrecht, where he took
the oath of allegiance to James II in
1687, and where he purchased land in
. 1691. He removed to Bucks county with
his brothers and bothers-in-law in 1697,
conveying his Long Island land after his
removal. On July i, 1697, Joseph Grow-
don conveyed to him 214 acres in Ben-
salem. He joined the Bensalem church
in 1710, and became a junior deacon. The
records of the Dutch Reformed church
show the baptism of three children, viz.:
Rebecca, baptised July 26, 1685, mar-
ried II mo. 7, 1707, Jacobus Van Sandt;
Jan, baptised January i, 1691, married
]\Iay 5, 1721, at Abington Presbyterian
church, Anna (or Hannah) Backer; and
Deborah, baptised April l, 1695, mar-
ried Laurent Jansen,* or Johnson. Nich-
olas Van de Grift removed to Sussex
county, Delaware, conveying his land in
1713 to Jacob Kollock, whose .w'idow
Mary in 1722 conveyed it to Folert, son
of John Vandegrift.

6. Frederick Vandegrift, baptised Au-
gust 20, 1661. purchased of Joseph
Growdon on July i, 1697, 106 acres ad-
joining that of his brothers in Bensalem
township, Bucks county, a part of which
he conveyed a year later to Leonard
Vandegrift. If ever a resident of Bucks
count}', he probably remained but a
short time.

7. Rachel Vandegrift. youngest daugh-
ter of Jacob, was baptised at New York,
August 20. 1664, and. married, in 1689.
Barent Verkerk, son of Jan, and brother
to his brother Nicholas's wife. Barent
Verkerk purchased in 1697 a tract of
land in Bensalem adjoining his brothers-
in-law, all the deeds being from Joseph
Growdon. and bearing the same date,
July I. 1697. He died in 1739, leaving
children: Jacob: John; Mary, married
Niels Boon; Constantina. married James
fitchet; Dinah, married James Keirll;
and another daughter, who married an
Underwood.

8. Johannes Vandegrift, youngest son
of Jacob Lendertsen and Rebecca Fred-
erics Van der Grift, was baptised at New
York. June 26. 1667, and died in Ben-

*Laurent Jansen, or Lawrence Johnson, was doubt-
less son of Clans Jansen. who purchased several
tracts of land in Bensalem some years earlier than
the Vandegrifts. He died in 1723. 'devising his lands
to his sons Lawrence, John and Richard. The fami-
lies later intermarried. •

salem township, Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania, in 1745- He married, September
23, 1694, Nealkie Volkers, widow of Cor-
nelius Cortelyou, who was living at date
of his will in 1732, but died before 1740.
He married (second) July i, 1741, Eliza-
beth Snowden, a widow. He purchased
196 acres in Bensalem of Joseph Grow-
don, adjoining the tracts of his brothers
and brothers-in-law, the deed bearing
date July i, 1697. He was an elder of
the "Sammeny" church, having joined it
at its organization in 1710. His will
dated March 16, 1732, proved March 28,
1745, devises to son Abraham the farm
he lives on, for life, and if he die with-
out issue it is to go to his surviving
brothers and sisters. Some years later
the children of Johannes entered into an
agreement by which the land was to
vest in the heirs of those deceased, even
though they did not survive Abraham,
and inasmuch as Abraham died without
issue in 1781, the subsequent conveyances
of the land throw light on the family
connections. In 1786 the representatives
of Jacob, Rebecca, Christana, and Hel-
ena conveyed the land, 160 acres, to Jacob
Jackson and later a partition thereof
was had between Jackson and Abraham
Harman and Cornelius, sons of Fulkert.
The children of Johannes and Nealke
(Volkers) Vandegrift were: i. Fulkert,
born 1695, died 1775; married May 6,
1719, Elizabeth Vansandt. and (second)
August 10, 174^, Marytje Hufte. He was
a considerable landholder in Bensalem.
He had five sons: Folkhart, Harman,
Abraham, Cornelius and John; and three
daughters: Alice LaRue, Elizabeth
Krusen and Elinor, most of whom have
left descendants in Bucks county. 2.
Jacob, baptised at New York, October
14, 1696, died in Bensalem in 1771, mar-
ried Choyes Toulej^ October 23, 1716.
3. Abraham, born 1698, died 1781, mar-
ried, but had no issue. 4. Rebecca, mar-
ried John Van Horn, died 1786. 5. Chris-
tiana, married November 8. 1722, Joseph
Foster. 6. Lenah, married a Fulton. 7.
Esther, baptized in Bucks count}'. May
10. 1710.

Most of the Vandegrifts of Bucks
county are descendants of Johannes and
Nealke (Volkers) Vandegrift. Leonard,
grandson of Leonard, remained in Ben-
salem, and the land originally settled by
his grandfather descended to his son.
Captain Josiah Vandegrift. John, son of
Nicholas, became a large landholder in
Bensalem; he died in 1765, leaving sons:
Nicholas. Jacob, John. Joseph, for many
years an innkeeper in Bensalem; and
daughters: Catharine Sands; Esther, who
married John Houten; and Rebecca
Vansciver. Of the sons, John married'
Ann Walton, May 28. 1761. and had chil-
dren: Joshua. Joseph, John, Jonathan,
and ]\Iary. The father died in 1777. and
the widow Ann married Charles Fetters
a jear later.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

Jacob Vandegrift, son of Johannes and
Nealke (Volkers) Vandegrift, baptized
at New York, October 14, 1696, was but
an infant less than a year old when his
parents settled in Bensalein township,
Bucks county. He married, October 2;^,
■ 1716, Charity Touley. He became a
large landholder and a prominent man in
the community. He died in 1771. His
children were,! John, died 1805, in Ben-
salem, leaving live children, viz. :i Jacob,
who settled in Northampton township;
( John;VjJane, who married a Johnson;
_, Bernard, settled in New Jersey; and Ab-""
' raham, who married Catharine Vande-
grift a granddaughter of Fulerd. 2. Ber-
nard, who was devised 200 acres in Up-
per Dublin township, and settled there-
on; 3. Jacob, who was devised by his
father 200 acres of land whereon he was
living at his father's death. 4. Charity
(or Catharine) who married John Praul,
January 20, 1757. 5. Helen (or Elinor)
who married Harman Vansant.

Jacob Vandegrift, third son of Jacob,
married first Catrintje Hufte, May 19,
1753. and (second) Sarah Titus, Febru-
ary 5, 1775, as before stated he settled
on 200 acres belonging to his father
which descended to him at his father's
death. He died in May, 1800, leaving

five children; Jacob, married Elinor ;

David, married Sarah — '■ ; William

Bloomfield, the grandfather of Senator

Vandegrift; Mary married Bennett;

and Elizabeth, who married Daniel La-
Rue. William Bloomfield Vandegrift in-
herited from his father considerable real
estate. He was the youngest son, and
had just arrived at his majority when
the will of his father was proved in 1800.
He married Christiana Saund ers. His
death occurred in 1854! HTs' children
were seven in number, viz.; Sarah Ann,
married Charles Tomlinson; Eliza L.,
married Jacob Johnson ; Eleanor, married
Enos Boutcher; Alfred; Charles Souders ;
William M., married Eliza Boutcher and
Susan, married Peter Conover.

Alfred Vandegrift was born in Ben-
salem township in 1807, and died there
' in 1861. In 1849 his father conveyed to
him and his brother jointly a store prop-
erty at Eddington, where they conduct-
ed a mercantile business until the death
of Alfred in 1861. In 1849 he also pur-
chased of his father 31^^ acres on the
Buck road, which had been the prop-
erty of his ancestors for several genera-
tions. He married Catharine Gibbs,
daughter of John Gibbs, and granddaugh-
ter of Richard Gibbs, who was sheriff
^of Bucks county in 1771, and a promi-
nent public man. His children were:
John Gibbs, born September 2, 1834;
William Bloomfield; Elinor, wife of
William Lynesson Sayre; Charles Soud-
ers, Jr.; Augustus: Henry S.; Lewis H.;
Susan ; Mary : Christina ; Alfred and Eliza-
beth LaRue.

HON. CHARLES SOUDERS VAN-
DEGRIFT, son of Alfred and Catherine
(Gibbs) Vandegrift, is a worthy representa-
tive of an old and eminent family. He was
born in Bensalem township, August 20,
1839. He was reared on his father's farm,
and attended the public schools until fifteen
years of age, when he entered Captain
Alden Partridge's Military School at
China Hall, in Bristol township, where
he remained for two years. At the age
of seventeen he entered the employ of his
uncle and namesake, Charles S. Vande-
grift, Sr., in the country store at Ed-
dington, where he remained as clerk and
proprietor until 1873, when he sold out
the store, and in connection with J. and
E. Thomas opened a lumber yard on the
Delaware at Eddington. This partner-
ship continued until 1890, when he re-
tired from the firm. Since that time he
has been employed in the settlement of
estates and the transaction of public
business. In 1882 he was elected to the
state senate and served four years. He
was an active member of the upper
house, and served on the ways and
means, agriculture and other important
committees. In politics he is a Democrat,
and has served as representative to Dis-
trict, State and National conventions. He
has always taken an active interest in
local matters, and served his township
officially at dififerent periods. He is presi-
dent of the Good Roads Association of
Bensalem township, and one of its most
active and efficient members. He is a di-
rector of the Farmers' National Bank;
president of the Farmers' and Mechanics'
Mutual Insurance Company of Bucks
and Philadelphia counties; president of
the Doylestown Publishing Company;
and treasurer and trustee of the Vande-
grift Burial Ground at Cornwells. He is
a past master of Bristol Lodge, No. 25,
A. Y. F. and A. M.; of Harmony Chapter,
No. 52, R. A. M.: and St. Johns Coni-
mandery. No. 4, K. T., of Philadelphia,
and is the district deputy grand master
for the eighth district. He is a member
of The Netherlands- Society of Phila-
delphia.

Mr. Vandegrift married, March ir,
1862, Mary Hannah Rowland, daughter
of Charles Rowland, of Chester county,
Pennsylvania. To this marriage have
been born two children : Frederic Beas-
ley, born December 22, 1862: and George
Bloomfield, born May 22, 1864. The lat-
ter died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs. Van-
degrift are members of the Presbyter-
ian church.

FREDERIC BEASLEY VANDE-
GRIFT, son of Senator Charles S. Van-
degrift, was educated at the public
schools of Philadelphia, and at Smiths'
Commercial College, after which he en-
tered the office of John W. Hampton, Jr.,

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

custom house broker of Philadelphia,
where he remained for eight years. He
then entered into the business himself
with offices in Philadelphia, New York
and Chicago, and was also import freight
agent. He continued to conduct the busi-
ness of a custom house broker until his
death. In 1893, feeling the necessity of
a technical knowledge of the law in the
transaction of his business, he entered
himself as a student at law in the office
of William S. Stanger, Esq., in Phila-
delphia, and was admitted to the Phila-
delphia bar in 1897, and was admitted
to practice in the United States courts
in January, 1899, but died on March 7,
1899.

Frederic B. Vandegrift made a close
study of the tariflf on imports and be-
came an expert on that subject. Among
the papers prepared and published by
him on the subject was one on the Mc-
Kinley Tariff, and another on the Ding-
ley Tariff. He received an order for 1,500
copies of his work on the Dingley Tariff
from the United States government, a
copy of which was to be sent to every
United States consul throughout the
•world. He received the prize offered
by the United States government for
the most perfect paper on the tariff. Mr.
Vandegrift became a distinguished mem-
ber of the Masonic fraternity. He was
made a Mason on March 8, 1884, by his
father, Past Master Charles S. Vande-
grift, and became master of Bristol
Lodge, No. 25, in 1888; joined Harmony
Chapter, R. A. M.. in 1889, and was
elected king in 1899, which office he
held at the time of his death. He joined
St, Johns Commandery, K. T., in 1894,
and held the office of captain general
at the time of his death. He joined the
Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite,
January 18, 1895. and on June 21st re-
ceived his thirty second degree, S. P. R.
S. He was also a member of Lulu Tem-
ple^ A. A. O. N. M. S., and was repre-
sentative of University Lodge in the
Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania at the
time of his death. On November 16.
1887, he married Harriet Elizabeth Har-
vey, of Philadelphia. This marriage was
blessed with four daughters: Gertrude,
Evelina, Lorame and Genevieve, all of
whom are being educated at the Friends'
Schools of Philadelphia.

JOHN GTBBS VANDEGRIFT, eldest
son of Alfred and Catharine (Gibbs)
Vandegrift, and brother to Hon. Charles
S. Vandegrift. the subject of the pre-
ceding sketch, was born in Bensalem
township, Bucks county, September 2,
1834. He was educated at the public
schools, and later received an academic
education. He was reared on the farm,
^nd for several j'cars followed the vo-

cation of a farmer. In /§73 he pur-
chased the store at Eddington and fol-
lowed the mercantile business there for
the rest of his life. He was a 'justice
of the peace for twenty years, and filled
many positions of trust. He took a
deep interest in educational matters, and
was for many years a member of the
school board, acting as its secretary. He
was a vestryman of the Episcopal church.
In politics was a Democrat, but never
sought or held other than local office.
He was a member of Bristol Lodge, No.
25, A. Y. F. and A. M.; of Harmony
Chapter, R. A. M.; and St. Johns Com.-
mandery, K. T. Mr. Vandegrift married
March 27, 1861, Mary Jane Creighton,
daughter of Thomas and Rebecca Ash-
ton Creighton. She was born May 10,
1832, at Holmesburg, Philadelphia, and
died May 4, 1895. John G. Vandegrift
died April 11, 1901. Two children were
born to Mr. and Mrs. Vandegrift, Kath-
erine and Lemuel.

Lemuel Vandegrift was born August
13. 1864. He was reared on a farm and
attended public school. At the age of
seventeen years he entered his father's
store to assist him in the business, and
at his death succeeded him in its con-
duct. He was also elected a justice of
the peace to succeed his father. He is
a vestryman of the Episcopal church. In
politics he is a Democrat. He is a mem-
iaer of Bristol Lodge, No. 25, A. Y. F. and
A. M., Philadelphia Chapter, R. A. M.,
and St. Johns Commanderj^ K. T. Mr.
Vandegrift was married, April 6, 1893,
to Mary Ella Carey, daughter of Seneca
and Mary Ella (Moore) Carey. They
are the parents of two children: Lem-
uel Creighton, born July 26, 1895, and
Marian Katharine, born July 8, 1897.
Their eldest child, John G.. Jr., died in
infancy. These children are being edu-
cated in the public school of Bensalem.

MOSES VANDEGRIFT. In the pre-
ceding sketch of the descendants of Ja-
cob Lender tsen Van der Grifte, who
came from Holland in 1644 to New Am-
sterdam, where he married in 1648, Re-
becca Fredericks Lubbertsen. is given an
account of the baptism and marriage of
Johannes Van De Grift, youngest son of
Jacob and Rebecca, and of the birth and
marriage of his children. From two of
the sons of Johannes and Nealkc (Volk-
ers) Vandegrift is descended the subject
of this sketch. Folkhart, the eldest, and
Jacob the second son.

Folkhart (or Fulkerd) Van de Grift,
eldest son of Johannes, was born in the
province of New York in 1695. and was
therefore but an infant when brought
into Bucks county by his parents in 1697.
He became a large landholder in Ben-
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colony in Bucks, and a member of the
Bensalem church. He was twice mar-
ried, first on May 6, 1719 to Elizabeth
Van Sandt, and second on August 10,
1742, to Marytje Hufte. Neither wife
survived him. He died in November,
1775. Of his nine children, Fulkhart,
Elizabeth, Harman, Alshe, Abrahaiii,
John, Cornelius and Elinor, the first
eight are mentioned in his will.

Abraham Vandegrift, borrt about 1725
married Femmentje Hufte about 1752
and had six children. He died in Ben-
salem township about 1800. The children
were: Elizabeth, baptized at Southamp-
ton church August 18, 1754, married John
DeCoursey, and had eight children;
Mary, married Benjamin Severns; Ab-
raham; and Catharine, who married Ab-
raham Vandegrift, her second cousin.

Jacob Van de Grift, second son of Jo-
hannes and Nealke, baptized at New
Amsterdam, October 14, 1696, was the
grandfather of Abraham above mention-
ed. John Vandegrift, eldest son of Ja-
cob, known as "John Vandegrift, Es-
<iuire," to distinguish him /rom his cous-
ins of the same name on the records,
married November 14, 1750, Maria (or
Mary) Praul, who died prior to 1786.
He died in 1805; his will dated Septem-
ber 7, 1804, proved May 3, 1805, devised
to his eldest son Jacob, (baptized at
Southampton, April 18, 1753) a stone
house "I am now erecting"' and one
acre of land, he having been "advanced
400 pounds towards purchasing a plan-
tation." This plantation was in North-
ampton, where Jacob removed in 1783
and died leaving a large family. The will
of John Vandegrift further devises to
his son John, \62Y2 acres on the Dunk's
ferry road where the testator lived; to
his daughter Jane Johnson a lot on same
road; to son Bernard a tract of land in
New Jersey purchased of John Long-
streth, and to his son Abraham seventy-
two acres, "part of the land where he
now lives, beginning at brother Jacob's
lane end." etc.

Abraham, son of John and Maria
(Praul) Vandegrift, was born in Bensa-
lem in 1766. On his marriage his father
set apart to him seventy-two acres of
land and built a house for him thereon
which has since been the home of his
descendants. He was twice married; by
his first wife he had a daughter Mary
who married John Brodnax. His second
wife was Catharine Vandegrift, daughter
of Abraham and granddaughter of Fol-
hart, as previously shown. By this mar-
riage Abraham had two sons, John and
Samuel, and two daughters: Elizabeth,
who married Joseph Myers; and Phebe,
who married Thomas Darrah. Abra-
ham died in .May, 1800, leaving a will
made eleven ' years previously, which
was contested by the widow and daugh-
ter Phebe, but proved in the court of
common pleas in December of the same

year. The bulk of the landed property
mcluding the homestead descended to
the son John.

John Vandegrift was born on the old
homestead August 12, 1806, and died
there m March. 1878. He was a success-
ful farmer, a Democrat, and a member
of the Presbyterian church. His wife
was Susanna Sipler. She died July 3,
1898. John and Susanna (Sipler) Van-
degrift were the parents of eight chil-
dren: Jesse, who died young; Jesse (2);
Moses; John; Philip, who served three
years in the civil war and died January
12. 1900, in his fifty-eighth year; Sam-
uel; Letitia; and George W.

Moses Vandegrift, the subject of this
sketch, was born on the old homestead
June 5, 1840. He was reared on the old
farm and received his education at the
Eddington school. On arriving at man-
hood he settled on the old homestead
that had been the property of his an-
cestors for many generations, and has
spent his whole life there. He is a mem-
ber of the Presbyterian church and po-
litically is a Democrat. He was elected
supervisor of Bensalem township in
1888 for two years and was re-elected in
1900 for an additional term. He married
January 26, 1879, Sarah Knight, daughter
of Strickland and Caroline (Briggs)
Knight, by whom he has six children:
Eugene, born January 4. 1880; Walter,
born January 5, 1882; Roland and Oscar,
twins, born Maj^ 27, 1884, (Oscar died in
infancy) ; Fannie, born November 4, 1885,
and Russell, born November 8, 1887.

SAMUEL ALLEN VANDEGRIFT.
eldest son of the late George V. and
Mary Ann (Allen) Vandegrift, was born
at Bridgevvater, Bensalem township,
Bucks county. Pennsylvania, March 21,
18,30.

The educational advantages enjoyed
by Samuel A. Vandegrift were obtained
in the common schools of the neighbor-
hood, and he remained a resident on the
paternal homestead until he attained his
majority. He then settled on the Jon-
athan Paxon farm in Bensalem town-
ship, and after a residence of twenty
years there located on the farm owned
by his brother William A., remaining
nine years, and the following six years
he resicj'ed on the Thomas Hamilton
farm. He then took up his residence on
the farm in Byberry, owned by Colonel
Morrell, remaining three years, after
which he located on the farm in Ben-
salem owned by his brother Frank, and
in 1903 removed to the old Black farm
in Bensalem township, owned by his
son Charles, where he has since resided.
Being practical and progressive in his
methods of management, he met with
a large degree of prosperity in the va-

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

rious localities where he resided, and
his honorable and reliable transactions
won for him an enviable reputation
which he has always fully sustained. He
is a firm advocate of the principles of
Republicanism, and his support has al-
ways been given to the candidates and

^ measures of that party.

On March 12, 1857, Mr. Vadegrift mar-
ried Julia Ann Luck, born in Philadel-
phia but reared in Bucks county, a
daughter of Joseph and Margaret (Les-
lie) Luck. Joseph Luck was a native of
England, from whence he emigrated to

y\ the United States, entered the service
of the United States government, and
for many years had, charge of the United
States arsenal at Frankford, Pennsyl-
vania. Four children were born to Mr.
and Mrs. Vandegrift: George, born Jan-
uary 28, 1858, engaged in agricultural
pursuits in Bensalem township, married
Julia Miller, of Philadelphia, and they
are the parents of one child, Frederick
Vandegrift; Joseph, who died at the age
of four years; Mary Ann, born P'ebru-
ary 19. 1863; Charles W., born December
16. 1865. The mother of these children,
who was a most excellent' woman in
every respect, faithful and conscientious
in the performance of her duties as wife
and mother, died June 9, 1902.

LEWIS HERBERT VANDEGRIFT,
of Bensalem, Pennsylvania, was born at
that place, October i, 1845, the son of
Alfred and Catherine (Gibbs) Vande-
grift. He was educated in the public
schools of Bensalem, after which he en-
gaged in farming, as an employe of his
brother, John, with whom he remained
until 1870, when he removed to the old
homestead farm in Bensalem, which he
purchased in 1892. After thirty years
of farm life, he sold his farm and re-
moved to Philadelphia, when he entered
the employ of the Western Union Tele-
graph Company, with whom he is still
engaged. Mr. Vandegrift has been twice
married — first, January 7, 1874, to Mar-
garet, daughter of James and Margaret
(Ballantyne) Harvinson. By this union
four children were born: i. Alfred Eu-
gene, born November 22, 1874, married,
February 20, 1901, to Susannah Keifer,
of Brooklyn, New York, daughter of
John Colder and wife, Susannah (Jen-
ninker) Keiffer. and they have one child,
Margaret Susannah, born November 10,
1902; 2. Clara May, born January 29,
1877. married March 7, 1905, Eugene
Gaskill, of Philadelphia; 3. Maud, born
May 13, 1882; married, first Elwood E.
Porter, by whom the issue was Milton
Harvinson, born December i. 1899; sec-
ond, to Frank Peabody Hedges, of
Trenton, New Jersey, May i. 1904; 4.
Bertha Irene, born May 20. 1883. Mrs.

Vandegrift died February 13, 1888, andl
for his second wife Mr. Vandegrift mar-
ri-ed, January 14, 1892, Margaret Brown^
of Eddington, who was born May 4^
1854, daughter of Henry Jackson and
Sarah (Staats) Brown, and the grand-
daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth
(Darrah) Brown; also the granddaugh-
ter of Jacob and Maribel (Shaw) Staats.
By his second marriage Mr. Vandegrift
has one child — Lucy Eccleston, born Oc-
tober 13, 1893. Each of the above chil-
dren, except Lucy, were educated in Ben-
salem. Alfred was graduated from
Pierce's Business College of Philadel-
phia, and Lucy is attending Lincoln^
Grammar School in Philadelphia.

Mr. Vandegrift is a member of the
Masonic fraternity, and affiliates with-
Newton Lodge, No. 427, A. F. and A.
M. Both Mr. and Mrs. Vandegrift are
members of the clmirch of Christ (Epis-
copal) of Eddington, where they are ef-
ficient, earnest workers. Mr. Vandegrift
has served on the school board very
ably for three years, and has been its
secretary. He has ever been much in-
terested in educational matters, and is
counted among the loyal citizens of his
place.

GEORGE V. VANDEGRIFT. The
death of George V. Vandegrift, April
24, 1853, removed from Bensalem town-
ship, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, where
he resided all his life, one of its promi-
nent, influential and public-spirited citi-
zens. His birth occurred in 1804, a son'
of Joseph and Sarah (Byson) Vande-
grift, and grandson of John Vandegrift.
Joseph Vandegrift (father) was also a
native of Bensalem township, Bucks
county, the year of his birth being 1776.
In early life he served an apprentice-
ship at the trade of weaver, and this
he followed successfully throughout his
active career. He was a member of the
Episcopal church, the service of which
he attended regularly. By his marriage
to Sarah Bankson the following named'
children were 'born: Lydia, Rebecca,
Mary, Amy, George V., Frances, Sarah
Ann, Joseph, Julia Ann, and Jane. Mr.
Vandegrift died in 1839, survived by his
wife, who passed away in 1857.

George V. Vandegrift attended the
common schools adjacent to his home,
after which he learned the same trade
as his father, that of weaver, but after
following this for a nimiber of years
turned his attention to farming, which
proved both a pleasant and profitable
occupation. Upon attaining his majority
he cast his vote with the Whig party,
to whom he gave his allegiance up to
the formation of the Republican party,
and from that time up to his decease he
advocated the principles of that great
organization.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

Mr. Vandegrift married, May 17, 1828,
!Mary Ann Allen, who wasjjorn in Ben-
salem township, October 26, 1808. and
they were the parents of nine children,
namely: Samuel Allen, born March 21,
1830, a sketch of whom appears in this
work; Joseph T., born August 24, 1832,
was twice married and had two children
ty each marriage, and died February
16, 1904; Jesse S., born August 24, 1836,
resides in the western section of the Uni-
ted States; Georgianna, born September
23, 1839, resides on the old Allen farm
with her brother; William Allen, born
June 23, 1841, resides in Philadelphia;
Israel Thomas, born August 24, 1843. and
resides in Philadelphia; George W., born
August 24, 1845; Jonathan, born March
25, 1848, died September I, 1888;
and Benjamin Franklin, born June 18,
1853, and resides in Philadelphia. Mr.
Vandegrift and his wife held member-
ship in the Neshaminy Methodist Epis-
copal church. Their deaths occurred re-
spectively April 24, 1853, and March 19,
1864.

Mrs. Vandegrift was a daughter of
Israel Allen, born May 29. 1766, and his
wife Elizabeth Titus, born December 14,
1771. Isreal Allen was a son of Joseph
and Sarah (Plumley) Allen. Joseph Al-
len was a son of William and Mary
(Walsh) Allen. William Allen was born
at what is now Bridgewater, Bensalem
township, on the site of the Bridgewater
Inn, a son of Samuel and Jane (Wain)
Allen. 'Samuel Allen was a son of Sam-
uel and Mary Allen, who came from
England in 1681 and settled on the farm
now owned by William Allen Vande-
grift, in 1682, and one hundred acres of
the original tract has never passed out
of the possession of the family. The
members of the Allen family have al-
ways adhered to the tenets of the Society
■of Friends.

J. WILSON VANDEGRIFT. Among
the successful agriculturists of Bucking-
Tiam is J. Wilson Vandegrift, who was
born in that township January i, 1863,
being a son of Bernard and Mary Ann
(Folker) Vandegrift, and a grandson of
Lawrence Vandegrift of Northampton
township, Bucks county, where his fath-
er Bernard was born June 30, 1829. The
family is of Holland descent, being de-
scendants of Jacob Lendert Van de Grift,
who migrated from Holland in 1644,
and settled on Long Island, from whence
three of his sons (Leonard, Nicholas
and John,) came to Bucks county in the
latter part of the same century and set-
tled in Bensalem, descendants of the last
mentioned of whom settling in Northamp-
ton township a century later.

Bernard Vandegrift was a farmer all
■his life. In 1877 he purchased the farm
now owned and occupied by the subject

of this sketch, and resided thereon un-
til his death, in September, 1900. He
married, December 27, 1851, Mary Ann
Folker, daughter of James and Mary
(Herlinger) Folker, of Buckingham,
where she was born August 8, 1829. Her
parents were both natives of Bucking-
ham, her mother being a daughter of
Captain Mathew Herlinger, who married
the widow Else, whose husband died at
sea on the voyage to America. Bernard
and Mary Ann (Folker) Vandegrift
were the parents of six children; Harry,
of Elizabeth, Colorado; Susanna, wife of
William Orem, of Buckingham; Wilmer,
a wholesale commission merchant of
Philadelphia; Mary, wife of William H.
Atkinson, of Forest Grove, Bucking-
ham township; J. Wilson; and Theodore,
of Warwick township, Bucks county.

J. Wilson Vandegrift was reared on the
farm and acquired a good common
school education. In 1885 he purchased ,
the home farm, which he has since suc-
cessfully conducted. By industry and
careful business methods he has acquired
a competence. In 1899 he purchased an
adjoining farm of 102 acres and in 1903,
purchased a farm of 160 acres in War-
wick township. He married, in Novem-
ber, 1894, Olive M. Fell, daughter of
Wilson D. and Mary Jane (Trunibower)
Fell, of Buckingham. She was born on
the Fell homestead in Buckingham that
had been in the tenure of her ancestors
for over a century, January 19, 1863. She
is still the owner of the farm, which is
a portion of a tract purchased by her
great-great-great-grandfather. Benjamin
Fell, in 1753. This Benjamin Fell was
born in 1703 in Cumberland, England,
and came with his parents Joseph and
Bridget (Wilson) Fell to America when
an infant. His son John, born in 1730,
married Elizabeth Hartley, and their son
Seneca born 4 mo. 5, 1760, married Grace
Holt of Horsham, among whose chil-
dren was Stacy Fell, the grandfather of
Mrs. Vandegrift. He was born in Buck-
ingham in 1790, and died there in 1864,
He married 10 mo. 14, 1812, Elizabeth
Kinsey, of Buckingham, who was born
in 1791 and died in 1863. They were the
parents of seven children, the young-
est of whom was Wilson D., father of
Mrs. Vandegrift, who was born 12 mo.
2, T832, and died April 28, 1895.

To Mr. and Mrs. Vandegrift have
been born five children, Harry E. W.,
William Orem, Edwin Taylor, Wilson
Fell and Gladys. Mrs. Vandegrift is a
member of Doylestown Presbyterian
church.

Wilson D. Fell married Mary Jane
Trunibower December i, 1854. She was
the daughter of Philip and Catharine
Trumbower of Bridge Point, nOvv' Edi-
son, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. She
was born April 11, 1833. and died April
15, 1904.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

^J^l^K^

JENKS COAT-OF-ARMS.

THE J E .\ K S
FAMILY is of
Welsh origin and can
be clearly traced in
the county of Mont-
gomery, Wales, and
the adjoining couniy
of Salop, or Shrop-
shire, England, from
A. D. 900 down to the
middle of the seven-
teenth century. On
the records of the
College of Arms, Lon-
^j^ don, England, there
'^ is an Act in the
year 1582, during
*i\\Q reign of Queen
Elizabeth, by which
"The Coat of Arms
of the Anciente Family of Jenks,
long in the possession of the same" at
Wolverton Manor, Wales, was confirm-
ed to them in the person of their repre-
sentative. Sir George Jenks. of Salop,
Gentleman, as certified by Robert Cooke,
alias Clarencieux. one of the two first
Provincial Kings-of-Arms, in England,
whose jurisdiction of Clarenceux ex-
tended to all of England south of the
Trent, Norroy holding a like jurisdic-
tion north of the Trent.

The Jenks family of Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, trace their descent from
Thomas Jenks, of Shropshire, who, as
shown by the will of John Penn. of the
adjoining county of Montgomery, Wales,
dated 1660. was a son of Thomas Jenks.
Thomas Jenks the elder died 10 mo. 19,
1680, as shown by the records of the
Monthly Meeting of Friends in Shrop-
shire. He was one of the earliest con-
verts to the principles of George Fox,
and "Besse's Sufferings'' gives a rec-
ord of his arrest in 1656 as one of a
party of Friends while attending a meet-
ing of people of his faith. He was
again arrested and fined in 1660. Thomas
Jenks, son of the above, born in Shrop-
shire, was married there and is supposed
to have embarked for America with his
wife Susan, and infant son Thomas, born
January, 1699-1700. All that js definitely
known, however, is that Susan Jenks.
his widow, and her young son, Thomas,
arrived in Bucks county soon after 1700,
and located in Wrightstown. Susan
Jenks married Benjamin Wiggins, of
Buckingham, in 1708. and died soon after
the birth of her son, Bezeleel Wiggins,
in 1709.

. Thomas Jenks was reared in the neigh-
borhood of Wrightstown. We have little
record of him until i mo. t, 1725-6. when
he applied for membership in Wrights-
town Meeting. He was doubtless a birth-
right "member of the Society, but the
death of his father while on the voy-
age to America, or immediately preced-
ing their sailing and the subsequent mar-
riage of his mother to a non-member

and her early death leaving him an or-
phan at ten years of age, his birth-
right privilege was no doubt neglected
to be recorded. It was therefore neces-
sary for him to be regularly admitted
when he desired to become a member or>
reaching manhood.

Thomas Jenks married, 3 mo. 19, 1731,
Mercy Wildman, daughter of John and
Marah (Chapman) Wildman, of Middle-
town. The former, born in Yorkshire,
England, in 1681, came to America with
his parents, Martin and Ann Wildman,
in 1690, and the latter, a daughter of
John Chapman, the pioneer settler of
W'rightstown, had married first John
Croasdale, John Wildman being her sec-
ond husband. Thomas Jenks, on his mar-
riage, settled first in his home in Buck-
ingham and three years afterward re-
moved to a tract of land in Middletown
township, two miles southeast of New-
town, along Core creek, containing 600-
acres. Upon this tract he erected prior
to 1740, a fulling mill one of the
first in the county which was operated
(by the family) until his death, doing a
large business in dyeing, fulling and
finishing the homespun goods of his
neighbors, the early settlers of lower
and middle Bucks. His ledger "C," ex-
quisitely written and kept still in good
preservation, is now in possession of his
great-grandson, William H. Jenks. of
Philadelphia. It covers the years 1743-
56, and contains his accounts with near-
ly all the early families of Bucks east
of the Neshaminy. He was an active
and energetic business man, and retained
his mental and physical faculties in a re-
markable degree to extreme old age. He
died at Jenks Hall (erected by him ir»
1734) from the effects of injuries re-
ceived in being thrown from a wagon, 5
mo. 4, 1797, in the ninetj'-eighth year of
his age. He had in the truest sense of
the word "grown up with the country.""
Arriving in Bucks county w^hen far the
greatest part of it was a primeval w-il-
derness, still inhabited bj' the Indians,,
he lived through its entire colonial per-
iod, and saw his country recover frorr»
the shock and trials of its war for in-
dependence, and become a thickly settled
prosperous and enlightened community.
He w-as six years older than Dr. Frank-
lin, and thirty-two years older than
George Washington, yet he survived the
former seven 3'ears. and the latter sur-
vived him but little over two years,
though both had lived to see the fruition
of their long and noble struggle for
their country's good. His wife Mercy
died 7 mo. 26. 1787. aged seventy-seven
years, after a married life of over fifty-
six years. They were the parents of six
children, as follows:

T. Mary, born 4 mo. 20. ^JH- died
1803: married Samuel Twining.

2. John, born 5 mo. I. 1736. died 1791,
married in 1785, Sarah W^eir. His son

HISTOR]^ OF BUCKS COUNTY.

John Wildman Jenks, born 6 mo. 21,
1790, studied medicine and removed to
Jefiferson county, Pennsylvania, where he
died 4 mo. 4. 1S50. He married in 1816,
Mary Day Barclaj', who bore him ten
children, most oi whom were distin-
guished in their professions, the young-
est, George Augustus Jenks, being a
member of the Forty-fourth United
States Congress, and the Democratic
nominee for governor of Pennsylvania
in 1898.

3. Thomas, born 10 mo. 9. 1738. died
5 mo. 30, 1799, married, in 1762, Rebec-
ca Richardson, daughter of Joseph and
Mary (Paxson) Richardson, of Middle-
town.

4. Joseph, born 12 mo. 22, 1743, died
5 mo. 1820; married 6 mo. 22, 1763, Eliza-
beth Pearson, daughter of William and
Elizabeth (Duer) Pearson; see forward.

5. Elizabeth, born 3 mo. 15, 1746, died
12 mo. 30, 1808; married 12 mo. 23. 1762,
William Richardson, son of Joseph and
Mary (Paxson) Richardson.

6. Ann. born 9 mo. 8, 1749. died about
1812; married 2 mo. 20, 1770, Isaac Wat-
son.

Thomas Jenks, second son of Thomas
and Mercy, was born and reared on the
homestead in Middletown, and spent his
whole life there. He was a prominent
and influential man in the community.
He served as a member of colonial as-
sembly for the year 1775, and w^as a
member of the constitutional convention
of 1790, and was the first member of the
state senate from Bucks under the con-
stitution then adopted, and served con-
tinuously in that body until his death.
May 4, 1799. For the first six j^ears of
his service the district which he repre-
sented was composed of the counties of
Delaware, Chester and Bucks, while dur-
ing his last two terms the district con-
sisted of Chester, IVIontgomery and
Bucks. He was an active member of the
upper house and served on many im-
portant committees. He married, in 1762,
Rebecca Richardson, and they were the
parents of nine children, eight of whom
lived to mature age. They were as follows :

1. Rachel, born 5 mo. 23, 1763, died
2 mo. 12, 1830; married 10 mo. 19, 1786,
Thomas Story.

2. Mary, born 3 mo. 12, 1765, died in
infancy.

3. Joseph R., born 9 mo. 16. 1767, died
6 mo. 26, 1858: married first to mo. 10,
1792, Sarah Watson; second, 6 mo. 6,
1809, Ann West; and third. 2 mo. 29,
T844, Ann Ely of Philadelphia, a widow.
Joseph R. Jenks was a prosperous and
prominent merchant in Philadelphia.

4. Mercy, born 10 mo. 20. 1769. died
10 mo. 19. 1836; married 10 mo. 18, 1792,
Abraham Carlile.

5. Thomas, born 2 mo. 4. 1772- died 2
mo. 27. 1828: married first, in I797.
Thomazine Trimble, and second, in 1816,
Rachel Wilson.

6. Rebecca, born i mo. i, 1775, married
I mo. 15, 1801, Jonathan Fell.

7. Mary, born 7 mo. 9, 1777, died in
1854, unmarried.

8. Phincas, born 5 mo. 3, 1781, died
8 mo. 6, 1851, married first, Eliza Mur-
ray, and second, Amelia Snyder, see for-
ward.

g. Ruth, born 8 mo. 19. 1788. died 2 mo.
16, 1843, married 11 mo. 8, 1810, Joseph
Dickson.

DR. PHINEAS JENKS, eighth child
of Thomas and Rebecca (Richardson)
Jenks, was reared on the old homestead
in Middletown. He chose the medical
profession, and was a student of the cele-
brated Dr. Benjamin Rush, and a gradu-
ate of the University of Pennsylvania.
He began the practice of medicine in
Newtown, and continued to practice
there until his death in 1851, becoming
one of the eminent physicians of his day.
He was the first president of the Bucks
County Medical Association, and con-
tinued at its head until his death. He took
an active interest in the affairs of his
county; state and neighborhood, and was
one of the influential and prominent men,
outside of his profession. He was a
member of the state legislature for five
years, 1815-19, and a member of the con-
stitutional convention of 1837-38. He
was one of the organizers of the St.
Lukes Protestant Episcopal church at
Newtown, of which he was rector's war-
den for many years. He was a good
extemporaneous speaker, and was al-
ways counted on to lend his aid to any
meritorious project in the neighborhood.
He was twice married. His first wife
was Eliza Murray, daughter of General
Francis Murray of Newtown, wdiom he
married 3 mo. 20, 1806. She died 3 rno.
16, 1807, leaving one daughter, who died
in' infancy. He married (second) on 3
mo. 28, 1820. Amelia Snyder, daughter of
Governor Simon Snyder. She was born
June 21. 1791. and died August 6, 1859.
They were the parents of seven chil-
dren, three of whom, (Simon Snyder,
Frederick A. and Henry L.) died in
childhood, the latter being a twin broth-
er of General A. Jenks. Esq. Those who
survived were: Elizabeth M.. born July
29. 1822, died March 29, 1887; married
Rev. Joseph I. Elsegood, rector of Trin-
ity Protestant Episcopal church of East
New York, Long Island, who died in
1884. William Wallace Jenks, born il
mo. 2, 1825, a merchant in Philadelphia;
he died 7 mo. 20. 1857. P. Frederick
Jenks. born February 27. 1832, studied
medicine and located at St. Louis, Mis-
souri, soon after his graduation. At the
outbreak of the civil war he enlisted in
the First Missouri Light Artillery, and
was in the battles of Fort Henry, Fort
Donelson and Pittsburg Landing. He

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY

died at St. Louis, t mo. 9. 1863, from
diarrhoea contracted in the service.

George A. Jenks, Esq., the only surviv-
ing child of Dr. Phineas and Amelia
(Snyder) Jenks, was born at Newtown,
October 9, 1829. He received his ele-
mentary education at the Newtown
Academy, and then entered the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, from which he
graduated July 4, 1850. He entered him-
self as a student at law with James C.
Van Dycke, Esq., of Philadelphia, then
United States district attorney, and also
entered the law department of the Uni-
versity, where he took a full course, and
on July 3, 1853, the degrees of Master
of Arts and Bachelor of Laws were con-
ferred upon him.

On April 16, 1853. he was admitted to
the bar of Philadelphia, and on October
8, 1855, was admitted to practice in the
circuit and district courts of Pennsyl-
vania, having. been admitted to practice
in the supreme court on January 13,
1854. He practiced law in Philadelphia
from 1853 to '1859, when he removed to
Newtown, and was admitted to the bar
of his native county, of which he is now
the senior member. He is a careful stu-
dent, and his thorough knowledge of the
law and sound judgment have made him
a safe counselor. In his long practice
he has had many intricate cases to un-
ravel, and in the vast number of dis-
puted cases as to questions of law, re-
ferred to him by the courts as auditor,
he has seldom been reversed in either
the lower or upper courts. He has filled
the office of justice of the peace for
forty-four years, and has served his bor-
ough in the position of school director
for nineteen y^ears ; and filled the ofiice of
chief burgess for seven years. He has
always been actively interested in all
that pertains to the interest of the local-
ity in which he lived, and has been con-
nected with nearly all the meritorious
local enterprises of his town. He is
president and one of the directors and
active supporters of the Newtown Li-
brary, as was both his father and grand-
father, George A. Jenks having served as
a director for over forty years, and presi-
dent for about thirty years. He is a
member of the Bucks County Historical
Society, and has always been actively
interested in its work, and has furnished
several historical papers for its archives.
He is a member of Newtown Lodge,
No. 427, F. and A. M., of which he was
the first master, and Newtown Chapter,
No. 229, R. A.-M., of which he was the
first high priest, and served as district
deputy grand master for the district for
five years. He is a member of St.
Luke's Protestant Episcopal church of
Newtown, of which his father was one of
the founders. He was married, June 15,
i860, to Ella Davis, daughter of Jesse
and Susan B. Davis, and they have been
the parents of two children, Sylva P.

and Elizabeth M., both of whom died in
early childhood. In politics he has been
a lifelong Republican, but has never
sought or held other than local office.

Joseph Jenks, third son of Thomas
and Mercy (Wildman) Jenks, was boni
and reared on the old homestead in
Middletown. He married, 6 mo. 22,

1763, Elizabeth Pearson, born in 1744,
died 1768, daughter of William and Eliza-
beth (Duer) Pearson, and granddaugh-
ter of Enoch and Margaret (Smith)
Pearson, of Buckingham, Enoch Pearson
being a native of Cheshire, England, hav-
ing come to Bucks county with his par-
ents, Edward and Sarah (Burgie) Pear-
son, in 1687. Joseph and Elizabeth
(Pearson) Jenks were the parents of
three children: Margaret, born 6 mo. 6,

1764, died 1841; married li mo. 12, 1783,
Samuel Gillingham. William, born 8
mo. 12, 1766, died 12 'mo. 5, 1818; mar-
ried 10 mo. 28, 1790, Mary Hutchinson.
Elizabeth, born 10 mo. 21, 1768, died 1828,
married, in 1787, Isaiah Shinn, of New Jer-
sey, who was a general in the war of
1812. Joseph Jenks married a second
time, 4 mo. 25, 1770, to Mary Ingham,
who lived but a few years after tlTe mar-
riage, and he married a third time, on
5 mo. 30, 1776, Hannah Davids; neither
of the last two wives left issue.

William, only son of Joseph and Eliza-
beth (Pearson) Jenks, was a lifelong
.resident of Bucks county, following the
vocation of a farmer and miller on the
homestead. He died at the early age of
forty-two years, leaving a widow and
ten children, six of whom were minors
at the time of his death. His wife Mary
was a daughter of Michael and Margery
(Palmer) Hutchinson, of Lower Make-
field township, a descendant of two old
and prominent families of Makefield.
The children of William and Mary
(Hutchinson) Jenks, were:

1. Joseph, born 9 mo. 12, 1792, died il
mo. 19, 1869, married 5 mo. 29, 1827,
his second cousin, Eliza Jenks, daughter
of Joseph R. and Sarah (Watson) Jenks.

2. Rebecca H., born I mo. 30, 1794,
died 4 mo. 21, I797-

3. Michael Hutchinson Jenks, born S
mo. 21, 179s, died 10 mo. 16, 1867. He
was a surveyor and conveyancer, as well
as a justice of the peace, for very many
years, and did an immense amount of
local business, and was a very fine pen-
man and draughtsman. He was county
commissioner for the term of 1830-2,
county treasurer in 1834, ^n associate
judge of the county, and represented his
district in the twenty-eighth congress, as
well as filling a great number of other
positions of trust. He was four times
married; first, in 1821, to Mary Ridg-
way Earl, who was the mother of his
nine children. His third daughter, .^.nna
Earl, became the wife of Alexander
Ramsey, first governor of Minnesota,
and United States senator from that

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

rstate. His other wives were Mary Can-
by, Ann Higgins and Sarah Leeclom.

4. Eliza Pearson Jenks, born 2 mo. 14,
1797, died 12 mo. 13, 1884; married 10
mo. 13, 1825, George Yardley.
• 5. Charles, born 12 mo. 31, 1798, died
8 mo. 5, 1823; married 4 mo. 16, 1823,
Mary Ann Newbold.

6. Margery, born 8 mo. 5, 1800, died
I mo. 31, 1802.

y1 Hannah, born 6 mo. 17, 1802, died 9
Ano. 17, 1822, unmarried.

8. Mary Palmer Jenks, born i mo. 25,
1804, died 2 mo. 15. 1875; married 12 mo.
27, 1827, Edmund Morris.

9. Margaret, born 9 mo. 24, 1806, died
12 mo. 20. 1825, unmarried.

ID. William Pearson, born 12 mo. 17,
1807, die*d 9 mo. 17, 1886, married 5 mo.
t6, 1837, Elizabeth Story; see forward.

11. Ann, born 2 mo. 26, 1810, died 4
mo. 15, 1870, married 10 mo. 12, 1831,
Charles M. Morris.

12. Susan W., born 6 mo. 3. 1812, died
7 mo. 25. 1857; married 7 mo. 4, 1838,
Franklin Fell.

WILLIAM PEARSON JENKS, the
tenth child of William and Mary (Hutch-
inson) Jenks, was born and reared in the
old homestead at Bridgetown, in Middle-
town township. After finishing school he
went to Paterson, New Jersey, where
he learned the trade of a machinist. In
1828 he became interested in the manu-
facture of cotton yarns at New Hope,
where he remained until 1832. In 1833
he went to Madison, Indiana, in the in-
terest of the firm in Paterson with whom
he had learned his trade, and remained
there two years, establishing a factory
-for the manufacture of cotton goods. In
1835 he accepted the position of man-
ager of the Union Factories near Elli-
cott's Mills, Maryland, then the largest
plant for the manufacture of cotton
goods south of New England. He re-
mained there until the autumn of 1846,
when he was obliged to resign his posi-
tion on account of failing health, and
took a trip to Brazil to recruit. He re-
turned in the summer of 1847 and joined
Tiis wife and three children in Phila-
delphia. Having regained his health, he
was desirous of again engaging in busi-
ness, and in the fall of that year joined
Evan Randolph and formed the firm of
Randolph & Jenks, cotton merchants,
and did an extensive and prosperous bus-
iness. He retired from active participa-
tion at the close of the year i860. The
firm continued, however, under the same
name, the present members being his
two sons. John Story Jenks and William
H. Jenks, Evan Randolph, his partner,
who married his only daughter, Rachel
Story Jenks, in 1864, having died 12 mo.
3, 1887. William Pearson Jenks died 9
mo. 17, 1886, aged nearly seventy-nine
years. He was a man of marked ability

as a merchant, and his life was full of
active and intelligent energy. He pros-
pered in his business and business enter-
prises, and took an interest in many of
the financial institutions in Philadelphia.
His wife, Elizabeth Story, born 3 mo. 6,
1807, was a daughter of David and
Rachel (Richardson) Story, of New-
town, and a great-granddaughter of
Thomas Story, a native of Northumber-
land, England, who came to Pennsyl-
vania with William Penn on his second
visit, in the ship "Centerbury," arriving
at Chester 10 mo. i, 1699. He settled in
Bucks county, and in i mo., 1718, mar-
ried Elizabeth (Wilson) Buckman, widow
of William Buckman, of Newtown, who
bore him one son, John Story. Thomas
Story died 9 mo. 10, 1753, at the age of
eighty-two years. His son, John Story,
was born 11 mo. 26, 1718-19. He married
5 mo., 1747, Elizabeth Cutler, daughter of
Thomas and Eleanor (Lane) Cutler, and
lived all his life in the neighborhood of •
Newtown. He died 11 mo. 10, 1804, at
the age of eighty-six, and is buried at
Wrightstown. His son, David Story,
was born 4 mo. 20, 1760, and died 2 mo.
23, 1833. He married 4 mo. 19, 1792.
Rachel ^Richardson, daughter of William
and Elizabeth (Jenks) Richardson. They
had six children: i. Rebecca, born i mo.

15, 1793. died 9 mo. 22, 1870; married 5
mo. 20, 1824, Dr. Ralph Lee, of Newtown.
2. Hannah, born 3 mo. 23, 1794, died 4
mo. 13, 1876: married 5 mo. 16, 1837, John
C. Parry, of New Hope. 3. John, born i
mo. 15, 1796, died 10 mo. 22, 1844:. mar-
ried 4 mo. 28, 1831, Esther A. Allibone. 4.
William Story, born 9 mo. 10, 1797, died
9 mo. 16, 1822. unmarried. 5. Mary, born
3 mo. 23, 1800, died 5 mo. 22, 1846, un-
married. 6. Elizabeth, born 3 mo. 6.
1807, died I mo. 11, 1878, married 5 mo.

16, "1837, William Pearson Jenks.

John Story Jenks was born near Elli-
cott City, Maryland,' 10 mo. 29, 1839, and
came with his parents to Philadelphia
in 1846. He married, 10 mo. 27, 1864,
Sidney Howell Brown, and has three
daughters, all of whom are married and
reside in Philadelphia.

William H. Jenks was born in Mary-
land, II mo. II, 1842, and married in
Philadelphia, 9 mo. 9, 1869, Hannah Mif-
flin Hacker He has two sons, William
Pearson Jenks and John Story Jenks,
both of whom are business men of New
York City, and two daughters who are
married and reside in Philadelphia.

John Story Jenks and William H.
Jenks, as before stated, succeeded their
father, William Pearson Jenks, in the
firm of Randolph & Jenks, and now com-
prise that firm. They have been pros-
perous merchants, and are interested in
many of the financial, beneficial, social
and political institutions of the city.
They are worthy descendants of their
Bucks county ancestors, for whom they
entertain the most profound love and re-

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

spect. They are both members of the Bucks
County Historical Society, and take a lively
interest and pride in the county where
their first ancestors on all branches were
early settlers, and where all their later
ancestors were born and reared.

B. FRANK HART, of 2010 Wallace
street, Philadelphia, retired manufacturer
and business man. was born in Warminster,
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, March 22,
1825, and removed to Philadelphia when a
young man and engaged in manufacturing
interests there, where he has since resided.
He has, however, always kept in touch
with the county of his birth, and takes spe-
cial pride in his distinguished Bucks county
ancestry. On the paternal side all his direct
ancestors from his father, John Hart, to
his great-great-great-grandfather, John
Hart, were prominent officials of the countv
and members of the law making body of
the province and state, from Bucks county,
making five successive generations to serve
in tliat capacity.

John Hart, the ancestor of the Warmins-
ter (Bucks county) family of the name,
was a son of Christopher and Mary Hart,
of Witney, Oxfordshire, England, where he
was born November 16, 1651. A brother,
Robert, remained in England, a younger
brother Joseph migrated to Jamaica, and
the only sister Mary, born April i, 1658,
accompanied her brother to Pennsylvania
in 1682. The family were members of the
Society of Friends, and John brought a
certificate from Friends at Witney. He
had purchased of William Penn, July 16,
1681, 1,000 acres of land to be laid out in
Pennsylvania. Of this 480 acres were lo-
cated on the Poquessing, in Byberry, Phila-
delphia county, and the balance in War-
minster township, Bucks county. The for-
mer was surveyed by virtue of warrant
dated September i, 1681, and on this John
Hart located on arriving in Pennsylvania,
and erected a house on the banks of the
Poquessing. The Warmin,ster tract was
surveyey 7 mo. 25, 1684, and lay along the
north side of the street road near Johns-
ville. It became the residence of John Hart
in 1697 and remained the home of his des-
cendants for several generations. John
Hart was early identified with public af-
fairs. He was a member of the first as-
sembly of the province, from Philadelphia
county, and his name is attached to the first
charter of government, granted by Penn to
his colonists, dated at Philadelphia, Feb-
ruary 2, 1683. He was a minister among
Friends, and the earlj' meetings of the So-
ciety were held at his house from 1683 to
1686, when the meeting house was erected
"near Takony." He was clerk of the meet-
ing for many years. In i6gi he joined
George Keith in his famous schism against
Friends, and was one of his ablest advo-
cates, and, when Keith's radical doctrines
had carried him and his followers out of
the Society, he united with the Baptists in

1697, and became their preacher at the
meeting house originally erected by the
Friends. He later became assistant preach-
er at Penncpack Baptist church, but was
never ordained. He removed to Warmins-
ter in 1697. selling his land in Byberry, ex-
cept one acre which was reserved as a
burying ground. He died in Warminster,
September, 1714. in his sixty-third year. He
had married in the fall of 1683, Susannah
Rush, daughter of William and Aurelia
Rush, who had come to Pennsylvania in
1682 and settled in Byberry, and a grand- ■
daughter of John Rush, who commanded
a troop of horse in Cromwell's army. Sus-
annah, after the death of her husband, re-
turned to Byberry and died there February
27, 1725. John and Susanna (Rush) Hart
were the parents of five children ; John, the
ancestor of all of the name who remained
in Bucks county ; Joseph who married
Sarah Stout, April i, 1713, and died in
1714, without issue; Thomas, who inherited
a portion of the land and conveyed it to his
cousin, James Rush, in 1731, and left the
county ; Josiah, who removed to New Jer-
sey, and ]\Iary, who died unmarried.

John Hart, eldest son of John and Sus-
annah (Rush) Hart, wa^ born in Byberry;
July 16, 1684. He does not appear to have
occupied so important a place as his father
in public affairs, though he held many posts
of honor and responsibility. He was sheriff
of Bucks county, 1737-8-9. and 1743-4-5,
and 1749; coroner of Bucks county, 1741
and 1748; was commissioned justice June g,
1752, and was succeeded by his son Joseph
in 1761. When he was sworn in 1757, the
record states he was "old. and impaired by
apoplexy." He followed his father in mat-
ters of religion and united with the Bap-
tists and was baptized at Pennepack
November 15, 1706, by the Rev. Evan Mor-
gan, and was thereafter closely associated
with the sect. He was one of the organ-
izers of Southampton Baptist church in
1746, and served as clerk, deacon &nd
trustee, until his death ]\Iarch 22, 1763.
He inherited from his father a large por-
tion of the Warminster homestead and
erected the family mansion there in 1750.
He married November 25. 1708. Eleanor
Crispin, daughter of Silas and Esther
(Holme) Crispin, and grand-daughter of
Thomas Holme, Penn's surveyor general,
and oi Captain William Crispin, one of
Penn's commissioners for settling the col-
ony of Pennsylvania. Though the latter
never reached Pennsylvania, he was so
closely identified with Penn and his family
as to be of interest to Pennsylvanians.
He was born in England in 1610, and was
commander of the ship "Hope" in the ser-
vice of the Commonwealth, under Crom-
well, in 1652. In May. 1653. he was sent
with the expedition against the Dutch, as
captain of the "Assistance." under Rear
Admiral William Penn. the father of the
founder, and remained the remainder of
that year cruising on tlie Dutch coast and
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was captain of the "Laurel," in the British
squadron, sent against the Spanish pos-
sessions in America, arriving at Bar-
badoes, January 29, 1654-5. He partici-
pated in the capture of jamica, May 17,
1655, was named as one of the commis-
sioners for supplying Jamica, and remained
there when Penn returned to England, but
following him soon after, and with him
retired to Kinsale, Ireland, where he lived
for about twenty years. On Penn re-
ceiving the grant of Pennsylvania he
named Captain Crispin as one of the three
"Commissioners for the Settleing of the
present Colony this year transported into
ye Province," as stated in his letter of in-
structions, dated September 30, 1681. Cap-
tain Crispin, with his fellow commissioners
John Bezar and Nathaniel Allen, sailed
for Pennsylvania, but in different ships,
Crispin sailing in the "Amity," which was
blown off after nearly reaching the Dela-
ware capes and put into Barbadoes for
repairs. Crispin died there, and the
"Amity" returned to England, and, return-
ing to Pennsylvania in April, 1682, brought
over Thomas Holme, Penn's surveyor gen-
eral, who also succeeded Crispin as com-
rnissioner. Captain William Crispin mar-
ried Anne Jasper, daughter of John Jasper,
a merchant of Rotterdam, and a sister to
Margaret, wife of Admiral Sir William
Penn, and mother of the great founder.
William and Anne Crispin were the parents'
of four children: Silas, above referred to,
who came to Pennsylvania^ with Thomas
Holme, and later married his daughter
Esther; Rebecca, who married. August 24,
1688, Edward Blackfan, son of John Black-
fan, of Stenning, county of Sussex, Eng-
land ; Ralph, who remained in Ireland
and Rachel who married Thomas Arm-
strong and also remained in Europe.
Edward Blackfan prepared to come to
Pennsylvania, where William Penn had
directed land to be laid out to him, but
died before sailing, in 1690. His widow
Rebecca and their only son William came
to Pennsylvania and located in Bucks
county at Pennsbury, where she lived for
a number of years. She married, in 1725,
Nehemiah Allen, son of Nathaniel, the com-
missioner. William, the son, married Elea-
nor Wood, of Philadelphia, and located in
Solebury, Bucks county. They are the
ancestors of the now numerous family of
Blackfan. Captain Crispin married a second
time, and had eleven children, most of
whom located in the West Indies.

Silas Crispin, only son of the Captain
by his first marriage, in 1684 located in
Upper Dublin township, Philadelphia
county, where he lived the rest of his life,
dying May 31, 171 1. He married a second
time. Mary, daughter of Richard and Abi-
gail Stockton, and widow of Thomas Shinn,
who after his death married a third time,
September 11, 1714. Richard Ridgway, Jr..
son of Richard Ridgway, who was one of
the earliest English settlers on the Delaware
in Bucks county. Silas and Esther (Holme)

Crispin were the parents of eight children^
six of whom lived to maturity: Sarah,
married Lesson Loftus, of Philadelphia;
Rebecca, married Joseph Finney ; Marie^
married John Collett ; Eleanor, married
John Hart; Esther, married Thomas Rush;
Thomas, married Jane Ashton, and lived
on his father's plantation in Lower Dublin ;
and William and Susanna who died young.
By the second marriage Silas Crispin had
six children ; Joseph, who removed to Dela-
ware ; Benjamin, of Chester county; Abi-
gail, married John Wright, of Chester
county ; Silas ; Mary, married Thomas
Earl, of New Jersey; and John.

John and Eleanor (Crispin) Hart were
the parents of ten children, viz :-

T. John, born September 10, 1709, went
to Virginia, where he was killed June ir,
1743 by the accidental discharge of a gun.

2. Susanna, born April 20, 171 1, mar-
ried March 31, 1731. John Price, and died
two years later, leaving an only child^
Joseph Price.

3. William, born JMarch 7, 1713, died
October 7, 1714.

4. Joseph, born September r, 1715. died
February 25, 1788; see forward.

5. Silas, born May 5, 1718, removed in
early life to Augusta county, Virginia. • At
the organization of Rockingham county ht
became a resident of that county, filling
the position of judge, sheriff, etc. He
died without issue October 29, 1795.

6. Lucretia, born July 22. 1720, died
December 15, 1760; was twice married,
first, October 15, 1741, to William Gilbert,
who died about 1750, and on March 5, 1752,
to John Thomas ; had three sons by first
marriage, and a son and two daughters by
the last.

7. Oliver Hart, born July 5, 1723, was
for thirty years pastor of a Baptist
church at Charleston, South Carolina,
1749-80, and fifteen years at Hopewell,
New Jersey; died December 31, 1795.

8. Edith, born 1727, married Isaac
Hough ; — see Hough Family.

9. Seth, died at age of nine years.

10. Olive, died in infancy.

Colonel Joseph Hart, fourth child and
eldest living son of John and Eleanor
(Crispin) Hart at the death of his father,
was born in the old family mansion in
Warminster. September i. 1715, and died
there February 25. 1788. He was an active
member of the Baptist church of South-
ampton, and a deacon from its organiza-
tion in 1746. and succeeded his father as
clerk and trustee in 1763. He entered into
public life at an early age; was sheriff of
Bucks county 1749-51 : justice of the county
courts 1764 to the time of his death. He
was ensign of Captain Henry Kroesen's
company of Bucks County Associators in
1747, and captain in 1756 of a Bucks county
company. His most valuable services were
however rendered during the Revolutionary
contest, during which period to write of
him is to write the history of the struggle
in Bucks county, where he was in the fore-

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY

front from the "protest" at Newtown. July
9, 1774, when lie was appointed one of the
committee from Bucks to meet the "Com-
mittee from the respective counties of Penn-
sylvania" at Philadelphia, July 15, 1774.
until independence was established, almost
always representing his county in the var-
ious conferences and conventions, serving
as chairman of the committee of safety,
county lieutenant, etc. He was commis-
sioned colonel of the first battalion raised
by the committee of safety, and took it
through the Jersey campaign of 1776. He
was vice-president of the convention that
met in Carpenter's Hall. June 18, 1776, and
was twice chairman of the committee of
the whole in that famous convention. In
1777 he was elected to the supreme exe-
cutive council, and served until October,
1779, when he became lieutenant of Bucks
county. He was register of wills and re-
corder of deeds of Bucks county, 1777 to his
death in 1788, being the first person com-
missioned for these offices by the surpreme
•executive council. He was elected in 1782
to represent Bucks county on the "board
of censors," and on June 7, 1784, was
commissioned by council as judge of the
courts of common pleas and quarter ses-
■sions. The records fully verify the truth of
the lines inscribed on the tomb erected to
the memory of him and his wife at South-
ampton; "His long and useful life was
almost wholly devoted to the public ser-
vice of his country; while the lives of both
■were eminent for piety and virtue."

He married October 8. 1740, his cousin
Elizabeth Collett, daughter of John and
Marie (Crispin) Collett. and granddaughter
of Richard and Elizabeth (Rush) Collett.
She was born in Byberry, May 14, 1714,
and died February ig, 1788, six days be-
fore her husband's death. They were the
parents of six children, all sons, William,
John, Silas, Josiah. Joseph, and another
Joseph, the first having died in infancy.
William, the eldest died in 1760, at the
age of nineteen, unmarried.

John the second son of Colonel Joseph
and Elizabeth Hart, born November 29,
1743, was treasurer of Bucks county during
the revolution, and was filling that position
when the treasury at Newtown was robbed
by the Doans and their gang of outlaws,
October 22, 1784. He died at Newtown
June 5, 1786. He married, September 13,
1767, Rebecca Rees, daughter of David and
Margaret Rees, of Hatboro, and they were
the parents of five sons and two daughters,
of whon three died in youth. His son
William was a physician in Philadelphia;
John was a merchant at Jacksonville for
many years, married Rachel Dungan and
left numerous descendants; Elizabeth mar-
ried Dr. Silas Hough, see Hough family ;
Joseph died unmarried.

Silas, the third .son of Joseph and Eliza-
beth (Collett) Hart, born October 4, 1747,
was a farmer and lived and died in War-
minster; married Mary Daniel, and had
ten children :

Joseph, the sixth son of Colonel Joseph
Hart, born July 17, 1749, is treated of in
the sketch of General W. W. H. Davis,
whose grandfather he was.

Joseps, the sixth son of Colonel Joseph
and Elizabeth Hart, and the ancestor of B.
F. Hart, was born in Warminster, December
7, 1758. He was a man of liberal education
and extensive information on public affairs,
in which he took a deep interest, and always
enjoyed the confidence of his fellow-citi-
zens. During the famous Whiskey Insur-
rection he was paymaster of Colonel Han-
na's brigade, and accompanied the army
in its march to western Pennsylvania. He
was a member of the state senate 1804-
1809, and as such in 1805 was chairman of
the committee which reported favorably the
bill for building an alms-house in Bucks
county, and in 1808 introduced the first
resolution in the senate for the removal
of the county seat from Newtown to a
more central part of Bucks county, and
which resulted in the location at the pres-
ent site, Doylestown, two years later. He
enjoyed a wide acquaintance with the dis-
tinguished men of his time in the state, as
is evident by his correspondence. He mar-
ried, December 25, 1783. Ann Folwell, of
Warminster, whose family was one of the
most respectable and influential in the
county, and they were the parents of seven
children, viz : Thomas, John, Charles,
Lewis Folwell, Thomas, Eliza Ann, and
Clarissa Maria. The first Thomas and
Charles died in childhood. At the death
of the father, on April 15, 181 1, the home-
stead buildings and part of the home farm
became the property of Thomas, the fifth
son, who died in 1838, the balance being
divided between John and Lewis F., who
erected buildings thereon. The mother,
Ann, died March 11, 1843. Eliza Ann, the
eldest daughter, born December 8, 1797,
married December 2, 1817, David Marple;
and Clarissa Maria, the other daughter,
married Joseph Carver.

John Hart, the eldest son of Joseph and
Ann (Folwell) Hart, born in Warminster,
April 9, 1787, was a man of prominence
in the county, and for many years had a
considerable political influence. When the
British threatened Philadelphia in 1814 he
and his brothers, Thomas and Lewis, en-
listed in Captain William Purdy's com-
pany in Colonel Humphrey's regiment, and
served in the fleld until December, when
the danger having passed, they were mus-
tered out of service. After the return of
peace he took an active interest in the
military of the county, serving at one time
as colonel of militia. He served one ses-
sion in the state legislature. 1832, and filled
a number of local offices. He was a warm
patron of Hatboro Library, founded in
1755 by his grandfather and others. He
married, IMarch 10. tSio, Mary Horner,
daughter of John and Mary Horner, of
Warminster, who was born May 3, 1790,
and they were the parents of eight children
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Joseph, the oldest son of John and Mary
(Horner) Hart, born January 21, 1811,
receiving a liberal education and grad-
uated at Jefferson College, Cannonsburg,
Pennsylvania. He followed the profes-
sion of teaching for many years, and was
deeply interested in public affairs up to
the time of his death in 1898. He married
Jane, daughter of William and Ellen
Vansant, and had four children, — George
W., Charles H., Mary E., and Ella S.
George W. followed the vocation of a
farmer, married Jennie Valentine, had one
child, Charles Vincent, who received a
public school education, then graduated
from West Chester Normal school, re-
ceiving a scholarship to Dartmouth, grad-
uated from that institution and afterward
from Jefferson University, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and is now practicing in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Charles H. was
also a teacher, and at the time of his
death, in 1881, was principal of a school
in the Twenty-third Ward, Philadelphia.
He was also connected with several news-
papers, and enjoyed the reputation of being
a deep thinker. Mary E. died in infancy.
Ella S. taught school in Horsham. Mont-
gomery county, for a few years, then re-
turned home to attend her father in his de-
clining years. She now lives in Hatboro,
Pennsylvania.

William H., second son of John and
Mary (Horner) Hart, was born April 23,
1813. In 1845 he married Rachel Ayers, of
Moreland, Tvlontgomery county. They had
three children, all of whom died in
infancy.

James, the third son of John and Mary
(Horner) Hart, born December 15, 1820,
married Rachel, daughter of Isaac and
Emilie Hobensack. With his family he
moved to jNIaryland and located near IBalti-
more, where as a farmer he continued to
reside until the beginning of the civil war.
Owing to the hostile feeling entertained
toward northerners he was obliged to
sacrifice his property and return with his
family to Bucks county. He then enlisted
in the First New Jersey Cavalry Regiment,
in the company commanded by his cousin,
Captain John H. Shelmire. In recognition
of his bravery and courage he was
promoted to major of the regiment, and at
the same time held the commission as
major in the United States army. He was
repeatedly wounded, and finally killed, after
the evacuation of Richmond, at the battle
of Five Forks, Virginia, April i, 1865.
His remains were brought home and in-
terred in the Southampton Baptist burial
ground, along with his kindred. He left
a widow and six children, all of whom
are living.

George, the fourth son of John and J^Iary
(Horner) Hart, born April 18, 1823, re-
ceived a good thorough home education,
and afterwards graduated at YalQ. In 1849
he went to California, returned to Phila-
delphia, became a partner in the mercantile
house of Shunway, Hart & Co., married

Louisa Webb, and had four children, one
of whom is still living.

B. Frank, the fifth son of John and
Mary (Horjaer) Hart, and the subject of
our sketch, born March 22, 1825, like-
wise received a liberal education and
taught different schools in his native county
and also in Philadelphia. He then located
in Philadelphia, and was for many years
associated with John P. Veree's rolling
mill in Kensington, then became exe-
cutive officer and general manager of one
of the city passengers railways. After
many years of close attention to business
he retired from active life, and now resides
with his family at 2010 Wallace street,
Philadelphia. He is a member of the
Bucks County Historical Society, and takes
a lively interest in the affairs of the county
with whose history his distinguished an-
cestors were so closely identified. April
9, 1867, he married Anna H., daughter of
Thomas Barnett, Philadelphia, and had
five children. John Davis, born March 25,
1868, died in infancy; Sarah, born May 23,
1869; Mabel, born November 10, 1870,
died March 14, 1873; Walter, born October
5, 1874; and Lydia, born September 11,
1876. Sara, daughter of B. Frank and
Anna (Barnett) Hart, married Rev. Madi-
son C. Peters, the distinguished preacher,
author and lecturer of Philadelphia, and
has three children, Dorothy, Anna and
Frank H. Walter Horner, son of B.
Frank and Anna (Barnett) Hart, gradu-
ated from Colonel Hyatt's [Military School
and is now one of Philadelphia's rising
business men. Lydia, daughter of B. Frank
and Anna (Barnett) Hart, remains at
home with her parents.

Thompson Darrah, sixth son of John
and Jilary (Horner) Hart, born August
14. 1827, went to Philadelphia, where he
engaged in business. He married Susan
Snedecar, and had one child. At the be-
ginning of the civil war he enlisted as
first lieutenant in his cousin's (Colonel
Alfred Marple's) company in Colonel W.
W. H. Davis's 104th Regiment, Pennsyl-
vania Volunteers, and was later commis-
sioned as lieutenant-colonel and commanded
a brigade at the siege of Charleston, South
Carolina.

Ann Eliza, daughter of John and Mary
(Horner) Hart, born January 17, 1817,
died June, 1900.

Mary Darrah, daughter of John and
]\Iary (Horner) Hart, born July 18, 1818,
died.

GENERAL WILLIAM WATTS

HART DAVIS, a veteran of two wars,
author, journalist and historian, was born
at Davisville, Southampton township, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, July 27, 1820, and
comes of English, Welsh and Scotch-Irish
ancestry, representing the commingling of
the blood of these different nationalities to
which we are indebted for many of the
finest types of American citizenship.

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY

father, William Davis, was an early settler
in Solebury or Upper Makefield township,
Bucks county, and while tradition makes
Tiim of Welsh descent, his environment and
associations indicate very strongly to the
the writer of these lines that he was either
a native of the north of Ireland, or a son
of an Ulster Scot, who had made his way to
Pennsylvania with the great army of Scotch
Covenanters from the province of Ulster in
the first quarter of the eighteenth century.
He married, about 1756, Sarah Burleigh (or
Burley) daughter of John Burley, of Upper
Makefield, an Ulster Scot, who had settled
in Upper Makefield about 1735 with the
Torberts, IMcNairs and others with whom
his family later intermarried. Little is
known of the life of William Davis other
than that he was a farmer in Solebury and
Upper Makefield, and died in the latter
part of the century. William and Sarah
(Burley) Davis were the parents of seven
children, viz : Jemima, born December 25,
1758, married John Pitner, and removed
with him first to Maryland and later to
New Castle. Delaware ; John, the grand-
father of General Davis, born September 6,
1760; Sarah, born October i, 1763, married
Lott Search, of Southampton, Bucks
county; William, born September 9, 1766,
became a sea captain and died at sea ;
Joshua, born July 6, 1769, removed to
Maryland about 1800; Marv, born October
3, 1771, and Joseph, born March i, 1774, of
whom we have no further record.

John Davis, second son of William and
Sarah (Burley) Davis, the grandfather of
the subject of this sketch, was born and
reared in Solebury, and at the age of six-
teen years became a member of William
Hart's company in the Bucks county bat-
talion of the Flying Camp, under Colonel
Joseph Hart, and participated with it in the
New Jersey and Long Island campaign of
1776. Returning with the battalion to
Bucks county he participated with General
Washington in the Christmas night attack
on Trenton. In 1777 he enlisted in Caotain
Thomas Butler's company in the Third
Pennsylvania Regiment, later becoming a
part of the Second Pennsylvania Regi-
ment ; then transferred to Captain Joseph
McClelland's company, was at the storming
of Stony Point, and wounded in the foot at
Fort Lee on the Hudson. 1780. He was in
the Ninth, under IMcClelland. at the time of
revolt in New Jersey, proceeded from there
to York in January. 1781, and from there
the company was ordered south under
Lafayette and participated in the battle of
Yorktown.- after which Davis was dis-
charged on account of his disabled foot
and returned to Bucks county. In 1782 he
was commissioned ensign of Captain
Neclev's company. Colonel John Keller's
battalion, Bucks county militia, and was one
of the members of that battalion to enter
into active service for seven months. At
the close of his military service John Davis
married. June ■ 26. T783. Ann Simp'^on.
daughter of William and Ann (Ilines)

Simpson, of Buckingham, and rented the
Ellicott farm in Solebury, where he lived
until 1795, when he removed with his fam-
ily to Ellicott's Mills, Maryland, where
they resided until 1816, when he removed
to Franklin county, Ohio, where he died
January 25, 1832, at the age of seventy-two
years. His wife, Ann, survived him, dying
June 6, 185 T, in her eighty-seventh year.
Her father, William Simpson, was born in
Ireland in 17,32. and is said to have come
to Pennsylvania about 1740 with his
widowed mother and a- brother John, who
was the great-grandfather of General U. S.
Grant. William Simpson married Ann
Hines, daughter of Mathew Hines, of New
Britain, and lived for a time in that town-
ship, removing later to Buckingham, where
he died in 1816. The children of John and
Ann (Simpson) Davis were: Sarah, born
in Solebury, October 12, 1784; William
born August 22, 1786; John, born August 7,
1788; Ann, born November 6, 1790;
Samuel, born 1792, died in infancy; Joshua,
born in Maryland, June 27, 17^\ Samuel
S., born September, 1798 ; Joseph, born
January 27, 1803, and Elizabeth, born
November 18, 1805. Most of these children
removed with their parents to the banks of
the Scioto, where they became useful and
active members of the community and en-
gaged in different • branches of business
and professions.

John Davis, the second son of John and
Ann. born in Solebury. August 7. 1788. was
the father of the subject of this sketch. He
removed with his parents to Rock Creek, on
the banks of the Potapsico, Maryland, at
the age of seven years, and was reared' to
the life of a farmer. At the age of sixteen
years he began to drive his father's Cone-
stoga wagon with produce to Baltimore,
and before he was seventeen was sent with
his father's team to remove the goods of a
neighbor to Pittsburg, crossing the Alle-
ghenies and passing through what was then
a wilderness with scattering settlers ; tUe
trip occupying about sixty days. In 1808,
at the age of twenty, he bought his time
of his father and began farming for him-
self. His opportunities for an education
being limited, he supplemented what schol-
astic knovvledge he had gained in his boy-
hood bv the reading of books and period-
icals of the day in the midst of a life of
business activity. He had a thirst for
knowledge, and. possessing a retentive
memory, became exceptionally well in-
formed on history and the issues of Amer-
ican politics of the day. On one of his
visits to his uncle. Lott Search, in South-
ampton township, he made the acnuain-
tance of his future wife, Amy Hart, daugh-
ter of Josiah and Ann (Watts) Hart, who
was living with her widowed mother on the
old Watts homestead in Southampton, and
from that time until March 13. 1813. the
date of his marriage, was a frequent vis-
itor at his uncle's house. '

.^my Hart was born June 30. T784. and
came of distinguished ancestry, her father.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

Josiah Hart, being the fourth son of
Colonel Joseph* and Elizabeth (Collet)
Hart, born July 17, 1749, and died October
25, 1800. He was captain of one of the
Bucks county companies of militia during
the Revolutionary war, under his father,
who was commissioned colonel of the first
battalion organized in Bucks county, in
1776, for the Jersey campaign. Colonel
Hart was one of the most prominent men
of his day in Bucks county, serving as
sheriff, 1747-1751 ; justice of the courts of
Bucks county, 1764, to the time of his death
in 1788, ensign of militia, 1747. In the
Revolutionary struggle he was one of the
leading spirits from the time he was ap-
pointed on the committee of Bucks county,
July 9, 1774, to attend "a meeting of the
several committees of the respective coun-
ties of Pennsylvania, to be held in Phila-
delphia the 15th of July, instant," until
independence was achieved. He was born
September i, 1715, and died February 25,
1788, and was a son of John and Eleanor
(Crispin) Hart, grandson of John Hart,
who came from Witney, Oxfordshire, in
1682, and married Susanna Rush, of
Byberry. On the maternal side Mrs. Davis
was a granddaughter of Stephen, and great-
granddaughter of Rev. John Watts, born
at Leeds, England, 1661 ; came to Lower
Dublin, Philadelphia county, 1686, and
married Sarah Eaton. He become pastor
of the Pennepack Baptist church, 1690, and
died 1702. William Watts, brother of Mrs.
Josiah Hart, was prothonotary, clerk of
quarter sessions, and associate justice of
Bucks county. Mrs. Hart, mother-in-law
of John Davis, died in 1815, at Doylestown,
of typhoid fever ; also William W. Hart, a
young member of the bar, her son, and
Mrs. Miles, another daughter of Mrs. Hart,
all dying in the George Brock house,
Doylestown, within a few days, of the
same fever.

Soon after his marriage John Davis
settled on his mother-in-law's farm in
Southampton, and, at her death, in 181 5,
it was adjudged to him in right of his wife,
and he resided in that immediate neighbor-
hood the remainder of his long and active
life. He at once became active in the af-
fairs of his native county, to which he re-
turned while the second war with Great
Britain was in progress. On news of the
burning of Washington reaching Bucks
county, a meeting was called at Hart's
Cross Roads, now Hartsville, on Thursday,
September i, 1814, to raise volunteers to
take the field. The list of the men enrolled
is in the handwriting of William Watts
Hart, brother of Mrs. John Davis, and John
Davis's name heads the list. He became
ensign of the company then formed, which,
after two months' camp and drill at Bush
Hill, Philadelphia, proceeded to Camp
Dupont, in Delaware, where their three
months' service was completed. Ensign
Davis, soon after his discharge, entered

* See preceding sketch.

the volunteer militia of the county, became
active therein, and was in constant commis-
sion for thirty-four years, holding in suc-
cession commissions as captain, brigade in-
spector, major, lieutenant-colonel, colonel,
and was three times elected major-general
of the division composed of Bucks and
Montgomery counties. General Davis was
a natural politician, a Democrat from con-
viction, and became a power in that party
in Bucks county. Sturdy in the advocacy
of what he conceived to be right and strong
in the reasons and facts on which his con-
clusions were founded, he became a strong
and eloquent advocate and was "on the
stump" in many of the political campaigns
of his day. He was appointed by Governor
Wolf, 1833, a member of the board of ap-
praisers of public works and held the office
three years. In 1838 he was elected to
congress from the Bucks county district,
and made a splendid record as a congress-
man. His speech in favor of the passage
of the Independent Treasury Bill, June 2/,
1840, was commented on throughout the
country as a masterly and able one. He
served on many important committees and
took an active interest in all that pertained
to the best interest of his district and ,the
country at large. On March 4, 1845, he
was appointed surveyor of the port of
Pniladelphia, and filled that position for
four years. During the forty years from
1820 to i860, General John Davis's
position in the political arena was a
prominent one and he was closely
associated and in constant correspondence
with the leading political lights of that time,
A lifelong friend of James Buchanan, he
used strenuous efforts to accomplish his
election to the presidency. He, however,
disapproved of Buchanan's Kansas and
Nebraska policy, and refused to indorse it,
and became estranged from many old-time
comrades in the party.

During all these years General Davis
remained a resident of Davisville, where he
operated a farm and saw mill for many
years. In 1829 he built a store building
there, and conducted a general merchan-
dise store for many years, and filled the
position of postmaster. He was an ex-
cellent business man, frank and straight-
forward in his dealings, and of unswerving
public and private integrity. He and his
family were members of the Baptist church,
and he took a deep interest in religious and
educational matters. At the outbreak of
the Civil war he was amongst the very first
to raise his voice in favor of maintaining
the Union and putting down the rebellion
with a strong arm. Had his age permitted
would have gone to the front, as did his
only son, in defense of the government he
loved and served.

Amy, the wife of General John Davis,
died August 17, 1847, and he on April 8,
1876, and both are buried in the old graver
yard at Southampton Baptist church. Their
children were : Ann, who married, Decem-
ber 10, 183s, James Erwin, of Newtown,

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

whose only surviving child married Henry
Mercur, of Towanda, Pennsylvania ; Re-
becca, who married, January 5, 1840, Alfred
T. Duffield, who succeeded the General as
storekeeper at Davisville, and died in
September, 1871, and his wife in 1884, leav-
ing three children : J. Davis Duffield, T. II.
Benton Duffield, and Amy, wife of Judge
Gustav A. Endlich of Reading; Sarah, who
married Ulysses Mercur, of lowanda, later
chief justice of the supreme court of Penn-
sylvania; Amy, who married Holmes Sells,
a practicing physician at Dublin, Ohio,
later a prominent physician and druggist
at Atlanta, Georgia, where they resided
during the Civil war; Elizabeth, who never
married, and resides at the old homestead
at Davisville; and an only son, William
Watts Hart Davis, the subject of this
sketch, who was named for his mother's
brother, William Watts Hart, a member of
the Bucks county bar, who was clerk of
the orphans' court of Bucks county in 1814,
and resigned to go in defense of his country
when Washington was burned, and was
adjutant of Colonel Humphrey's Bucks
county regiment. At the close of the war
he returned to Doylestown and died m 1815
of typhus fever.

William Watts Hart Davis was born at
at Davisville, July 27, 1820. He was
reared on ttie old homestead and his
earliest educational advantages were ob-
tained at a private school Kept by Miss
Anna Longstreth, at the Longstreth home-
stead nearDy; later he attended the cele-
brated classical school at Southampton
Baptist church, and the day school, a mile
from Davisville, on the Bucks and Mont-
gomery county line road. In 1832 he came
to Doylestown and attended the Academy
there, boarding at the public house of his
father's old captain and friend, William
Purdy; a few years later he attended the
select school of Samuel Long, near Harts-
viUe, and the Newtown Academy, finishing
his elementary education at the boarding
school of Samuel Aaron, Burlington, New
Jersey. From the age of ten years the time
not spent in school was spent behind the
counter in his fathers' store, where he
learned practical business methods and
habits of industry from the best of teachers,
by both example and precept. In 1841 he
entered Captain Alden Partridge's Univer-
sity and Military School at Norwich, Ver-
mont, and concluded a three years' course
in sixteen months, graduating in 1842 with
the degrees of A. M. and M. M. S. In
the same year he was appointed an instruc-
tor of mathematics and commandant of
cadets in the military academy at Ports-
mouth, Virginia, where he remained three
years.

He then began the study of law in the
office of Judge John Fox, at Doylestown,
and in 1846, after his admission to the bar,
entered the law department of Harvard
University. On December 5, 1846, while a
student of Harvard Law School, at Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts, he enlisted in the

First Massachusetts Infantry for the Mex-
ican war ; was commissioned first lieutenant,
December 31, 1846, of Captain Crowning-
shield's company, Colonel Caleb Cushing's
regiment; adjutant, January 16, 1847; aide-
de-camp June I, 1847; acting assistant ad-
jutant general, July 18, 1847; acting com-
missary of subsistence, October 9, 1847; act-
ing qtiartermaster and inspector, October
29, 1847; captain. Company I, First Massa-
chusetts Infantry, March 16, 1848, spending
the winter of 1847-1848 with Scott's con-
quering army in the Valley of Mexico.
He was one of the officers who participated
in the capture of General Valencia, in a
night ride of seventy miles. He was mus-
tered out July 24, 1848, at the close of the
war.

He now returned to Doylestown, where
he practiced law until 1853, when he was
appointed by President Franklin Pierce
(with whom he had served in the Mexican
war) to the position of United States dis-
trict attorney of the territofy of New
Mexico, and spent the next four years in
that territory, during which time he filled
the offices of attorney-general, secretary of
the territory, acting governor, superintend-
ent of Indian affairs and of public build-
ings. While there he also published a
newspaper at Santa Fe in Spanish and
English, and, with the assistance of an in-
terpreter and his clerk he saved the valuable
Spanish manuscript in the secretary's office
which afterward furnished him the material
from which he wrote "The Spanish Con-
quest of New Mexico," that was issued
from the press of the "Doylestown Dem-
ocrat" in 1869. While at Santa Fe he wrote
his first work on New Mexico, entitled
"El Gringo, or New Mexico and Her
People," which Harper & Brothers puD-
lished in 1857. While exercising the func-
tions of government in our new territory,
Mr. Davi^ met with some unique experi-
ences. On one occasion, himself and party,
while traveling on the plains, were cap-
tured by the Arapahoe Indians, but, by the
exercise of a little diplomacy, escaped seri-
ous molestation.

Returning to Doylestown in the fall of
1857, lie purchased the "Doylestown Dem-
ocrat," then as now the organ of the Demo-
cratic party in the county, and owned and
edited it until 1890, when he sold out to
the Doylestown Publishing Company, but
continued as its editor until 1900, since
which time he has devoted his time to his-
torical and literary work.

General Davis raised and took to the
front the first armed force in the county for
the defense of the country in the civil war,
known as the "Doylestown Guards," of
which he had been captain since 1858 as a
volunteer militia organization. He served
with this company through a campaign in
the Shenandoah Valley under General
Robert Patterson, an account of which cam-
paign he later published, and which is con-
sidered an authority on that subject. The
company was ordered to Washington in

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

1861, and was the first military force to
pass through Baltimore after the riots of
April 19, 1861. The company being mus-
tered out at the end of their three months'
service, Captain Davis, by order of the
secretary of war, raised at Doylestovi^n the
One Hundred and Fourth Regiment, Penn-
sylvania Volunteers, and a battery known
at its inception as the "Ringgold Battery,"
but later as "Durell's Battery," an excel-
lent history of which has lately been writ-
ten and published by Lieutenant Charles A.
Cuffel, of Doylestown. Colonel Davis went
to the front with his regiment November 6,
1861, and served throughout the war as its
colonel, though frequently filling positions
and exercising commands commensurate to
a much higher rank. His military record
during the civil war, as briefly summed up
from the records of the War Department,
is as follows : Captain Company I, Twenty-
fifth Pennsylvania Regiment (Doylestown
Guards), April 16, 1861, in the Shenandoah
Valley campaign; mustered out July 26,
1861 ; colonel One Hundred and Fourth
Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers, Sep-
tember 5, 1861 ; provisional brigade com-
mander, November 11, 1861 ; commanding
First Brigade, Casey's Division, Fourth
Corps, November 30, 1861 ; wounded at
Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862 ; commanded First
Brigade, Second Division, Eighteenth
Corps, January II, 1863 (Second Division,
First Corps, March 10, 1863; commanded
United States forces at Port Royal Island,
South Carolina, May 27, 1862, post of Beau-
fort, South Carolina, June 14, 1863; First
Brigade, Terry's Division, July 8, 1863, at
siege of Charleston, S. C. ; commanded U.

5. forces at Morris Island, South Carolina,
January 19, 1864; District of Hilton Head,
Port Pulaski, St. Helena and Tybee
Islands, South Carolina, April 18, 1864;
First Brigade. Hatch's Division, July 4,
1864; wounded at siege of Charleston, July

6, 1864, losing fingers of right hand ; mus-
tered out September 30, 1864; brevetted
brigadier-general. United States Volun-
teers, March 13, 1865, "for meritorious ser-
vices during the operations against Charles-
ton, South Carolina." In connection with
the distinguished services rendered by Gen-
eral Davis in the operations before Charles-
ton we publish below a letter written by
Major General Gilmore, then in command
of the forces there, which shows in what
light his services were held by his superior
officers :

"Headquarters, Department of the South,
"Folly Island, S. C, Nov. 26, 1863.
"Col. W. W. H. Davis. 104th Pa. Vol. Inf.,
Commanding Brigade, Morris Island

S. C.

"Dear Sir :— Although entirely unsol-
icited by you, directly or indirectly, I deem
it my duty, as it is certainly a pleasure, on
the eve of your departure for a short leave
of absence in the North, to express to you,
officially, my high appreciation of the zeal,
intelligence, and efficiency which have
marked your conduct and service during
4-3

the operations against the defences of
Charleston, still pending. Much of our
service here has been trying, indeed, upon
both officers and men, but I have been most
nobly sustained by all, and by none more
zealously than yourself. I wish you a suc-
cessful journey and a safe return to us.

Very Respectfully, Your Obt. S'vt.,
(Signed) Q. A. Gilmore,

"Maj. Gen'l. Com'd'g."

The above letter, received on the eve of
his departure for a short visit to his family
and friends in Bucks county, was an en-
tire and gratifying surprise to the general
and is -much prized by him.

The One Hundred and Fourth passed
through the thick of the fight, and rendered
valiant service in the defense of the Union,
and left many of its numbers in their last
sleep under Southern skies. General Davis
was largely instrumental in securing the
erection of a monument to the memory of
his fallen comrades at Doylestown.

At the close of the war General Davis re-
turned to the management and editorship
of the "Democrat." He was honorary com-
missioner of the United States to the Paris
Exposition in 1878; was Democratic candi-
date for congress from the seventh district
in 1882, and for the state at large in 1884.
In 1885 he was appointed by President
Cleveland United States pension agent at
Philadelphia, and filled that position for
four years. In the midst of a life of busi-
ness activity General Davis has devoted
much time to literary and historical work.
In addition to numerous lectures, addresses
and papers on historical and other subjects,
he is the author of the following publica-
tions, "El Gringo," 1857 ; "Spanish Con-
quest of New Mexico,"* 1869; "History of
One Hundred and Fourth Regiment, Penn-
sylvania Volunteers," 1866 ; "History of the
Hart Family of Bucks County," 1867 ; "Life
of. General John Lacev," 1868; "History of
Bucks County," 1876; '"Life of John Davis,"
1886; "Doylestown Guards," 1887; "Cam-
paign of 1861. in the Shenandoah Valley,"
1893; "The Fries Rebellion." 1899: "Doyles-
town, Old and New," 1904, and a revised
edition of the "History of Bucks County,"
1905. All of these publications are consid-
ered the best authorities on the subjects
treated and most of them now bring in
the market double and treble their original
subscription price. General Davis has been

*The eminent historian, George Bancroft, read the
entire manuscript of the " Spanish Conquest of New
Mexico" prior to its publication, and in a letter to
General Davis, from Berlin, under date of February
17, 1869, said: "You are the only American I know
who had the opportunity and the curiosity to investi-
gate the subject, and our new acquisition is rising so
rapidly in greatness and value that a new interest
attaches to the romantic career of the adventurers who
discovered it, and I trust that you will publish your
valuable work." Thomas A. Janvier, author of the
" Mexican Guide," and an extensive contributor to
Spanish-American literature, in a letter to the General
says: "Your history is one of the most scholarly and
thoroughly satisfying works in the whole range of
Spanish-American literature. It has the charm of
style of the old chroniclers, and much of their charm
of quaintness. with an exactneFS that is not, in all
cases, an old chronicler's characteristic."

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTV.

president of the Bucks County Historical
Society almost from its organization, and
its success as an organization .is largely due
to his untiring efforts in its behalf. Nearly
his whole time since his retirement from
the editorship of the "Democrat," in 1900,
as well as a large part of his time prior to
that has been spent in its rooms and in its
service, and hundreds of books, pamphlets
and curios on its shelves are of his con-
tribution. At the age of eighty-five years
his highest ambition is to live to see the
Society successfully installed in its hand-
some new building, for which it is largely
indebted to his untiring zeal in that behalf.

General Davis was married, June 24,
1856, to Anna Carpenter, daughter of Jacob
Carpenter, of Brooklyn. New York, and of
their seven children three survive: Jacob
C, of Doylestown, now in the employ of
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
Company ; Margaret Sprague, wife of Cap-
tain Samuel A. W. Patterson, of the U. S.
Marine Corps, son of Rear Admiral
Thomas H. Patterson, U. S. N.. and grand-
son of Commodore Daniel T. Patterson,
U. S. N., who commanded the Naval forces
at the battle of New Orleans, 1865; and
Eleanor Hart, residing with her father.

General Davis is a companion of the mil-
itary order of the Loyal Legion, a member
of the Aztec Club, Survivors oi the Mex-
ican War, of the Pennsylvania Society of
the Sons of the Revolution. Post No. i,
G. A. R., Philadelphia, the American
Historical Association and the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania, and a member
and one of the founders of Historical So-
ciety of New Mexico.

CAPTAIN SAMUEL AUCHMUTY
WAINWRIGHT PATTERSON. U. S.
Marine Corps, on board the United States
battleship "Kentucky," of the North At-
lantic squadron, U. S. N., was born at
Washington, D. C, December 3. ^^>9, and
is a son of Rear Admiral Thomas Harman
Patterson. U. S. N., by his wife. Maria
Montresor Wainwright. daughter of Colonel
Richard D. Wainwright. first colonel of
the United States Marine corps : and grand-
son of Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson,
U. S. N.

Commodore Daniel Todd Patterson was
born on Long Island. New York, in 1786.
He entered the U. S. navy in t8oo, and was
a mid'^hipman on board the frigate "Phila-
delphia" in the expedition commanded by
Captain William Brainbridge, engaged in
the blockade of Tripoli. October 31. 1803,
when the frigate ran upon the rocks and
the vessel and entire crew were captured
and held prisoners in Tripoli for three
years, until peace was declared. On Janu-
ary 24. TS07. he was promoted to the rank
of lieutenanl, and on July 24. 1813. to
master-commander. As commander of the
naval forces he co-operated with General
Andrew Jackson in 1S14-15 in the defense

of New Orleans, lending such support as
to assure the victory over the British, and
received the expression of their apprecia-
tion from the U. S. congress. He com-
manded the expedition sent to capture the
defenses of the corsair Lafitte, on the is-
land of Grand Terre, in Batavia Bay, hav-
ing been made captain February 28, 1815.
He commanded the frigate "Constitution,"
1826-29, and was appointed navy-commis-
sioner in the latter year, holding the posi-
tion for four years. In 1832-36 he was in
command of the Mediterranean squadron,
and on his return was made commandant
of the navy yard at Washington, which he
held at the time of his death in 1839.

Rear Admiral Thomas Harman Patter-
son was born at New Orleans, May 10,
1820, entered the navy from Louisiana as
actmg midshipman April 5, 1830, was pro-
moted midshipman March 3, 1837, passed
midshipman July i, 1842. He spent the
next five years on the frigate "Macedonia "
the sloop-of-war "Falmouth," acting mas-
ter and lieutenant on the brig "Lawrence,"
West India squadron, and on the brig
'Washmgton," Coast Survey, from April
17, 1844, to October, 1848, when he was
commissioned master. He was commis-
sioned lieutenant June 23, 1849. and served
on the sloop-of-war "Vandalia," Pacific
Squadron, until October 12, 1852.

At the breaking out of the civil war he
was serving on the steam sloop -'jMohickan,"
on the coast of Africa; returning home he
was put on active duty; was commissioned
commander of sham gunboat "Chocura,"
July 16, 1862, in Hampton Roads, Vir-
ginia; and was present .at the siege of
iorktown, and opened up the Pamunkey
river for McClellan's army, co-operating
with the Army of the Potomac. In Novem-
ber, 1862, he was ordered to the South At-
lantic Blockading Squadron in the steamer
"James Adger," which he commanded untjl
June. 1865. participating in the capture of
a flying battery near Fort Fisher, in Aug-
ust. 1863; captured the "Cornubia" and
"Robert E. Lee," and the schooner "Ella"
off the North Carolina coast. He 'was
senior officer in the outside blockade off
Charleston. South Carolina, September 15,
1864; commanded the steam-sloop "Brook-
lyn," flagship of the South Atlantic Squad-
ron, from September 19, 1865. to Septem-
ber 18, 1867. being commissioned captain
July 25, 1866; promoted to commodore
November 2. 1871, and commanded Wash-
ington Navy Yard 1873-6; was commis-
sioned rear admiral March 28. 1877. and
commanded the Asiatic Squadron until
1880, which completed his twenty-five years
of active sea duty. He retired May ro,
1882. He was elected Januarv 2. 1868. a
member of the Military Order of the
Loyal Legion of the United States. He
died at Washington. D. C. after a, long
and painful illness, April 9. 1889. He mar-
ried Maria Montresor Wainwright. daugh-
ter of Colonel Richard Wainwright. of the
United States Marine Corps, who died in

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

1881. They were the parents of three sons
and one daughter.

Captain Samuel A. VV. Patterson entered
the Naval Academy at Annapolis in 1876,
and graduated in 1882, after making sev-
eral cruises as a student. After gradua-
tion he was attached to the flagship "Hart-
ford," of the Pacific Squadron, where he
served twcr years. He left the navy in 1884,
and in 1885 was appointed as a clerk in
the United States Pension Office at Phila-
delphia under General W. W. H. Davis,
pension agent, and filled that position for
four years and six months. From 1886 to
1896 he resided in Doylestown, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania. In May, 1896, he
entered the U. S. Revenue Cutter service,
where he served until January 17, 1900. He
Vfas in the blockading squadron at Cuba
during the Spanish- American War. He re-
entered the U. S. navy in January 1900,
and was stationed at the Boston Navy
Yard until ordered to China, June, 1900,
as second lieutenant of the U. S. Marine
Corps, and was promoted to first lieuten-
ant, July, 1900, during the Boxer troubles
in China, where he participated in the
famous march to Pekin to relieve the im-
prisoned legations. At the close of the
Chinese imbroglio he was ordered to the
Philippines, and served on the U. S. S.
"New Orleans," at China and Japan, and at
Cavite and Olongapo, Philippine Islands.
After two years and eight months' service
abroad he was stationed for a time at the
New York Navy Yard, from whence he
was ordered to the Isthmus of Panama,
where he served for six months. Return-
ing to the New York Navy Yard he was
promoted captain in November, 1903, and
is now (1905) cruising on board the U. S.
battleship "Kentucky," of the North At-
lantic Fleet.

Captain Patterson. February 18, 1886,
married Margaret Sprague Davis, daugh-
ter of General W. W. H. Davis, of Doyles-
town. Bucks county. Pennsylvania, a
sketch of whose distinguished career and
ancestry is given in this volume. Captain
and Margaret (Sprague) Davis Patterson
have been the parents of three children,
Anna Davis, born December 27, 1886,
died December i. 1894: Thomas Harman,
born April 15. 1889. died August 12, 1889;
and Daniel Walter, born April , 14, 1891,
who survives.

CORNELL FAMILY. Gulliame Cor-
neille, (variously spelled. Cornele, Cor-
nale, Cornelise. in the Dutch records
of New Netherlands) wa<: of un-
doubted French origin, probably a Hue-
guenot. and possibly of the same family
as Pierre and Thomas Corneille, the
noted dramatists and poets of Rouen, a
supposition strengthened by the fact that
he named his eldest son Peter, the
French of which would have been
'"Pierre." He settled on Long Island
•early in the seventeenth century, and

died at Flatbush prior to July 17, 1666,
at which date his son Pieter Guilliamse
paid for the burial of both his father
and mother, as shown by the town rec-
ords. On August 9,-1658, he procured
from Director Stuyvesant, a patent for a
large plantation at Flatbush, and in
i66r he and his son Pieter purchased a
"bouwery" and several building lots in
Flatbush. He left five children Pieter,
Gulliam or Gelyam, Cornelis, Jacob and
Maria, who have left numerous descen-
dants in Kings county. Long Island,
New York, New Jersey, and in Bucks
county and other parts of Pennsylvania.
The name for nearly a century was
spelled Cornele, with the accent on the e.

Pieter Wuellemsen, as he wrote his
name, the eldest son of Guilliam Cornele,
was a prominent man in the early history
of Flatbush and Kings county. As above
stated he was joint purchaser with his
father of a large plantation in Flatbush,
and later was alloted other building lots
in the town. He was commissioned as
"Pierre Guilleaum" on October 8, 1686,
a lieutenant of the Flatbush company of
Kings county militia. His will is dated
May 23, 1689. He married in 1675 Mar-
gueritie Vercheur, or Vernelle, as the
marriage record gives it. and they were
the parents of at least five children:
Gulliame. born 1679; Cornelis, 1681 ; Ja-
cob, 1683; Maria, 1686, and Pieter.
Cornelis, the second son, married Jan-
netje — and had children: Johannes, bap-
tised September 21, 1718; Adrien, bap-
tised November 19, 1721; Cornelis, mar-
ried Anne Williams in Philadelphia in
1746. and probably several others, some
of whom are said to have settled in Bucks
county. Pieter, the j^oungest son of
Pieter and Margaret, married Catharine
Lanning and settled in New Jersey.
Adrien, son of Cornelis, is erroneously"
confounded with Adrien, son of Guilliam,
who settled in Bucks county; the former
probably never lived in Pennsylvania.

Gilliam Cornell, eldest son of Peter
and Margaret, was born at Flatbush,
Long Island, in 1679, married November
4, 1714. Cornelia Van Nortwyck, daugh-
ter of Simon and Folkertje Van Nort-
wyck, of Blanckenbufg, in the Nether-
lands, and remained until 1723 at Flat-
bush. removing from there to New
Utrecht, and is said to have accompan-
ied some of his children to Bucks county
prior to 1750. of which latter fact we
have no proof, unless a tombstone, be-
side those of his sons Gilliam and Wil-
helmus. in the old Dutch Reformed
burying ground near Feasterville. marked
"Q x C," maybe considered as such. He
purchased a. "house and lot in Flatbush as
early as 1708. His children as shown
by the records of the Dutch Reformed
churches of Flatbush and New Utrecht
and from the Bucks county records,
were: Adrien: Jacobus, baptised October
2, 1720: Wilhelmus, baptised July 29,

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

1722; Gilliam, baptised October 23, 1724;
Johannes, baptistnl June 16, 1727, married
May 23. 1750, Maria Lott, and remained
in Flatbush; Simon, baptised July 13,
1729; and Abraham, baptised October 10,
1731. Margaretta Cornell, who married
Rem Vandcrbclt, of Southampton, and
had a son Gilliam baptised at South-
ampton in 1742, is also supposed to have
been a daughter of Gilliam. Of the above
named sons of Gilliam and Cornelia Cor-
nell, four (Adricn, Wilhelmus, Gilliam
and Simon) came to Bucks county, and
settled in Northampton and Southamp-
ton, and where the first three left nu-
merous descendants. Adrien was the an-
cestor of most of the Cornells who now
reside in Bucks, and a more detailed ac-
count of him will be given below.

^WILHELMUS CORNELL, born at
Flatbush, Long Island, July 13, i7.-2f.
probably came to Bucks county with
his elder brother Adrien and their pa--
rents prior to 1740. He was married at
the Southampton church, April 14, i744-
to Elshe (or Alice) Kroesen. H'ls first
purchase of land was in connection with
his younger brother Gilliam in 1755, and
consisted of three tracts of land near
Churchville, eighty-two acres on the
Northampton side of the Bristol road,
and IIS acres opposite in Southampton,
including the present site of the church.
In 1762 he conveyed his interest in
these tracts to Gilliam, and purchased
of Jacob Duffield 2331^ acres in South-
ampton, and subsequently acquired con-
siderable other land there. He died Oc-
tober 14, 1783, and his wife Elshe died
October 8, 1802, at the age of seventy-
seven years; they are buried side by side
in the old grave yard af Feasterville.
They were the parents of Seven children:
Gilliam, born January 2, 1745, died Au-
gust 17, 1755; John, born January, 1750,
died January 24, 1811. leaving sons Gil- ;
Ham, Wilhelmus, Jacob, John and Isaac,
and daughters Elizabeth, wife of Henry
Feaster, and Cornelia, wife of Gilliam
Cornell; Cornelia, baptised February li,
1753, married William Craven; Margaret,
baptised December 14, 1755, married
Henry Courson; Elizabeth, baptised June
7, 1761; and Gilliam, baptised September
17, 1758, married Jane Craven. The lat-
ter was known locally as "Yompey Cor- |
nell." He was buried on his farm at
Southampton Station.

Gilliam Cornel, born on Long Island
in 1724, married there May 23, 1750. Mar-
garet Schench, and removed to Bucks
county. He purchased land as above
recited in 1755 in connection with his
brother Wilhelmus, and purchased the
latter's interest therein six years later.
He died in Northampton, July 17. 178=;.
and his wife Margaret died September
5, 1805. They had seven children:
I. Phebe, who married her cousin Cor-
nelius Cornell, the son of Simon. 2.

Cornelia, baptised April 11, 1757, mar-
ried William Bennett. 3. John, baptised
December 31, 1758, married Catharine
Sleght. 4. Abraham, baptised January 28^
1760. died August 31, 1801, married Agnes
Bennett. 5. Gilliam, baptised August 27,

1764, married Rachel and left

Bucks county. 6. Margaret, baptised 1767.
7. John, baptised June 12, 1774, died
young. 8. Maria, baptised August 24,
1778.

Simon Cornell, born on Long Island
in 1729, married Adrienne Kroesen and
settled in the neighborhood of South-
ampton, though probably in Philadelphia
county; his sons Cornelius and John were
baptised at Southampton church in 1761
and 1772 respectively. The former mar-
ried Phebe, daughter of his uncle Gil-
liam, and had children Gilliam, John,
Cornelius, Isaac, Jane, who married
Peter Bailey, and Margaret.

ADRIEN CORNELL, eldest son of
Gelyam and grandson of Peter Guil-
liamse Cornel, was born in Flatbush,
Long Island, August 22, 1713, as shown
by his family Bible now in possession of
Thompson Cornell of Philadelphia, a
great-great-grandson, and died July 28,
1777. He was eldest son of Gelyam Cor-
nell by the first marriage of Gelyam, who
was a landholder in Flatbush as early as
1708. Historians have erroneously stated
that he was a son of Cornelis, the brother
of Gelyam. Bergen, in his "Early Settlers
of Kings County," makes that statement
and gives the date of his baptism as
November 19, 1721, but this is effectually
disprove!! by the Bible record, as well as
by the will of Gilliam of Bucks county,
who is shown to be a son of Gelyam and
Conelia, and makes "my nephew Gilliam
Cornell, son of my brother Adrien," one
of the executors of his wilj^' Adrien
Cornell married Mattie Hegeman, born
at Brooklyn. Long Island, November I,
1718, daughter of Rem and Peternella
(Van Wycklen) Hegeman, grand-daugh-
ter of Elbert and Marytje (Rappalye)
Hegeman, great-granddaughter of Jo-
seph and Femmeltje (Remse) Hegeman,.
and great-great-granddaughter of Adrien
and Catharine Hegeman, who emigrated
from Amsterdam in 1650, settling first at
New Albany, but later removing to Flat-
bush. Long Island, where Adrien was a
magistrate in 1654 and died in April,
1672. Adrien Cornell removed to Bucks
county prior to June 7, X739, at which
date he purchased 250 acres in North-
ampton township, where he was already
a resident. In 1751 he purchased sixty-
one acres adjoining his first purchase
and 205 acres additional in 1772. Tliis
land was located in the heart of the
Dutch settlement known as Holland, and
much of it still remains the property of
his descendants. He died on his plan-
tation purchased in 1739. July 27. 1777,
and his wife Mattie died July 4, 1790;;

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

both are buried at Richboro. Their cliil-
dren were: Gilliam, born April 26, 1741,
died March 2, 1809, married Jannetje
Suydam, daughter of Lambert Suydam;
and Rem, born June 9, 1744, died July
18, 1825, married Peternelletje Hegeman,
born 1751, died December 19, 1816.

Gilliam and Jane (Suydam) Cornell
were the parents of nine children:
Adrien, born May 18, 1765, died Febru-
ary 28, 1841, married Rachel Feaster;
Abigail, born December 17, 1769, mar-
ried Henry DuBois; Lambert, born July
14, 1772; James, born October 20, '1774,
died April i, 1850, married first Cynthia,
daughter of Rem Cornell, and second
Margaret Vandegrift; Rem, born April
4, 1777, died young; Mattie, born April
23, 1779, married Aaron Feaster; Jane,
born May 15, 1781, married Christopher
Vanarsdalen; John, born March 29, 1783.
married Elizabeth Vandegrift; and Gil-
liam, born May 13, 1785, married Eliza-
beth Krewsen, November 16, 180Q. In
the division of the real estate of Adrien
Cornell between his two sons Gilliam
and Rem, the/ latter retained 203 acres
of the homestead tract of 250 acres, and
forty-one acres of the Vanduren pur-
chase adjoining, and conveyed to his
brother Gilliam the balance of the home-
stead, fifty-six acres, and 205 acres pur-
chased by their father of Van Horn in
1772. These lands were devised by the
brothers to their respective sons, and a
portion of both tracts still remain in the
tenure of their descendants of the name.
Gilliam divided the homestead between
his sons Lambert, James and Gilliam,
settling his son Adrian on eighty-five
acres purchased in 1785 of William
Thomson, and John on 100 acres pur-
chased of Henry Dyer.

Rem Cornell, second son of Adrien
and Mattie (Hegeman) Cornell, born in
Northampton in 1744, married Pet'er-
neelitie Hegeman. and lived all his life
on the old homestead in Northampton,
acquiring later considerable other land
in the vicinity./ He was an active and
prominent man in the community, and a
member of the Dutch Reformed church
of North and Southampton. He died
July 18. 1825, in his eighty-second year.
His wife died December 19. 1816, in her
sixty-fifth years, and both are buried in
the old gravej-^ard at Richboro. They
were the parents of three children: Mat-
tie, born 1770, married John Kroeson;
Cynthia, born 1776, died June 7. 1808,
married her cousin James Cornell; and
Adrien.

Adrien Cornell, only son of Rem. was
born on the old homestead in North-
ampton in May, 1779, and, inheriting it
from his father in 1825. spent his whole
life there. He was a prosperous farmer
and a good business man and acquired a
large estate, owning at his death in 1857
over 700 acres of farm land and a fine
mill property in Northampton, and over

400 acres in Upper Makefield township.
His wife was Leanah Craven, daughter
of James and Adrianna (Kroeson) Cra-
ven, and Vas baptised at Churchville,
February 21, 1779. The children of
Adrien and Leanah (Craven) Cornell
were as follows: i. James Craven, bap-
tised November 4, 1804, died February

I, 1865, married Judith S. Everett. 2.
Eleanor, baptised January 10, 1807, mar-
ried James Krusen. 3. John Leflferts,
baptised January 10. 1807, died January
14, 1836. 4. Ann Eliza, baptised August
28, 1810, married James S. McNair. 5.
Charles, baptised March 21, 1812. 6.
Lj'dia, January 18, 1815, married Henry
Wynkoop. 7. Cynthia, baptised August

II, 1816, married William R. Beans.
Adrian, see forward, and Mary Jane,
wife of Frances Vanartsdalen.

Adrien Cornell, youngest son of Adrien
and Leanah (Craven) Cornell, was born
on the old homestead in Northampton,
December 21, 1818. He was reared on
the farm that had been the home of his
ancestors since 1739, and in the house
erected by his great-great-grandfather in
1747. This house he tore down in 1861,
and erected the present mansion house.
He was an active and successful business
man. He was connected for many years
with the Bucks County Agricultural So-
ciety, of which he was for several years
president, succeeding his brother James
C. Cornell in that position. He married
January 8, 1840, Mary Ann Van Horn,
daughter of Abraham Van Horn, who
survived him many years. He died on
the old homestead, September 17, 1870.

GEORGE W. CORNELL, only child
of Adrien and Mary Ann, was born on
the old homestead. October 17, 1841, and
resided there until the spring of 1904,
when he removed to Newtown borough,
where he now resides. He was educated
at the public schools of Northampton,
supplemented by a three years course
at the Tennent School at Hartsville,
Pennsylvania. He married October 10,
1871, Sarah C. Luken. who died May 23,
1873. On June 6, 1877, he married Eliza-
beth B. Camm. his prresent wife, who is a
daughter of Joseph C. and Martha
(Feaster) Camm. and a granddaughter of
Aaron and Matilda (Cornell) Feaster,
Matilda being a daughter of Gilliam and
Jannetje (Suydam) Cornell. Her pater-
nal great-grandfather, John Camm, was
a native of England and located in Phil-
adelphia, where his son William and
grandson Joseph C, were born and
reared. Her father, Joseph C. Camm. lo-
cated in Northampton township. Bucks
county, after his marriage, and Mrs. Cor-
nell was born and reared in that town-
ship. On the Feaster side she is of Hol-
land descent. Her great-great-grand-
father, John Feaster, was born on Long
Island in 1798, and died in Northampton
township, Bucks county, December 19,

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

\77S. His wife Mary, born in 1706, died
May 28, 1774. Their son David, born
April 8, 1740, married Mary Hegeman,
born March 8, 1743; he died September
28, 1808, and his wife May 28, 1783. Their
son Aaron, the grandfather of Mrs. Cor-
nell, was born in October, 1772, and died
July 18, i860. Mr. and Mrs. Cornell
have no children. Mr. Cornell still owns
the old homestead in Northampton, but
lives retired in Newtown. In politics
he is a Republican. He and his wife are
members of the Dutch Reformed church.

Gilliam Cornell, youngest son of Gil-
liam and Jannetje (Suydam) Cornell, of
Northampton, was born on the old home-
stead May 30, 1785. He married Novem-
ber 16, 1809. Elizabeth Krewsen, and
settled on a portion of the old homestead
purchased by his grandfather of the Van
Horns in 1772, 103 acres of which Gil-
liam inherited at his father's death in
1809. His two children were: Jacob
Krewsen, born September 28, 1810, and
Martin H., born May 29, 1820.

Jacob Krewsen Cornell was reared on
the old Northampton homestead, but on
his marriage purchased of Samuel Mc-
Nair a farm in Southampton, at Church-
ville, part of the land purchased in 1755
by Wilhelmus and Gilliam Cornell, and
settled thereon. He married January 7,
1834, Elizabeth Finney, who bore him
eleven children, seven of whom lived to
maturity and raised families, viz.:

1. Mary, born June 26, 1835, married
Charles Van Artsdalen, January 10, 1856,
and had one daughter, Alice, born De-
cember I, 1856, who married James L.
Cornell.

2. Alice, born December 18 1837, died
May 28, 1838.

3. Jane M., born August 21, 1840, mar-
ried December 26, 1861, Thomas Beans,
and has three children — George, William
and Howard.

4. Alice L., born June 5, 1842, married
(first) Henry McKinney and (second)
Joseph J. Yerkes, and has a son Jacob.

5. John Corson, born August 2, 1844,
a prominent merchant of Oakford, Penn-
sylvania, married April, 1870, Margaret
J. Stevens.

6. Jacob Krewsen, Jr., born June 10.
1846, now deputy recorded- of deeds of
Bucks county; married January 8. 1884,
Alice E. Woodrufif; has no children.

7. Charles F., born June 10, 1848, died
August 8, 1848.

8. Gilliam, Jr., born June 22, 1849; mar-
ried Januar} 24, 1878, Jane, daughter of
Joseph Hogeland; one son, Joseph Rem-
sen, borrt January 8, 1885.

9. Martin Harris, horn February 19,
1851, married October 7. 1874. Mary H.
Agin ; now reside in Doylestown ; one
daughter, Carrie Ruth, Ixirn July 7, 1884.

TO. Charles Finney, born t8s3, died
1861.

II. Henrietta, born 1857, died 1863,

Jacob Krewsen Cornell married (s'ec-
ond) Ruth Anna Morrison, daughter of'
Judge Joseph J. and Ellen (Addis) Mor-
rison, by whom he had the following chil-'
dren : Joseph M., born December 18, 1862^
see forward ; Ella M., born October 4,
1864, married January 14, 1897, J. Warner
Cornell, and has two children — Ruth and
Charles; Edith, born May 10, 1870; and'
Albert, born October, 1871, died July,
1872.

JOSEPH MORRISON CORNELL
was born on the old homestead at
Churchville, Southampton township,.
Bucks county, December 18, 1862, and is
the eldest son of Jacob Krewson Cornell
by his second marriage with Ruth Ann
Morrison. He was reared on the farrn
and acquired his education at the local
schools. On arriving at manhood he fol-
lowed farming five years in that vicinity,-
and then purchased his father's farm,
where he has since resided. He has
always taken an active interest in the
affairs of his native township, and has
filled several local offices. He was for
three years supervisor, and has also filled
the office of township assessor. Mr.
Cornell was married November 27, 1884,
to Emma E. Fetter, daughter of John
Carrel and Mercy C. (Lefferts) Fetter,
and they have been the parents of two
children: John Fetter, born December I,
1887, died July 17, 1890; and Joseph M.
Jr., born January 16, 1894.

Mrs. Cornell was l3orn March 20. 1864,.
and is one of the three children of John
C. and Mary (Leffets) Fetter. Her
great-grandfather, George Fetter, was
one of twelve children, and was born
January 13, 1768. His wife, Rebecca
Wynkoop, was born August 28, 1868, and
they were the parents of nine children,,
of whom William, the eldest, born Oc-
tober 7, 1797, was the grandfather of Mrs.
Cornell. He married Sarah Carrell, De-
cember 26, 1821, and had six children, of
whom the eldest, John C, born August
18, 1824, was the father of Mrs. Cornell.
On the maternal side Mrs. Cornell is of
Holland descent, being descended from
LefTet Pieterse, who came to Long Island
with his parents in 1669 from Haugh-
wout. North Holland, and settled at
Flatbush, Long Island. His son, Pieter
Lefferts, born May 18, 1680. married Ida,
daughter of Hendrick Suydam. and their
son, Leffertse LefTertse, was the first of
the family to settle in Bucks county,
where he has left numerous dscendants.

THE JANNEY FAMILY of Bucks
county are descendants of the Cheshire
family of that name who, according to-
various authorities, "are supposed to be"
or "considered to be" descended from
the house of De-Gisne. or Gyney, of
Heverland, Norfolk, who were of French
extraction, and the name' to be derivect
from Guisnes. near Calais. France.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

The earliest lineal ancestor of the
American family of Janney of whom
there is any authentic record was Ran-
dull Janne3% of Stiall, parish of Wilmes-
lome, Cheshire, Enghvnd, who died about
the year 1596, being mentioned in the will
of his son Thomas Janney, made in 1602,
as having left legacies to daughters of
Thomas, the youngest of whom was
baptised in 1595. Thomas Janney, before
mentioned, was married at least twice,
if not three times. Investigations re-
cently conducted in Cheshire by Miles
White, of Baltimore, indicate that he
married first Ellen , who was bur-
ied February 7, 1578, and by whom he
had a daughter Alyce, who was baptised
Novemoer 7, 1570, but as no further rec-
ord of this Alice is found, and she is not
mentioned in Thomas's will, there is no
proof that the record above refers to
'J. hom;iT of Stiall. 1 He married, Decem-
ber 7. 1578, Jane Worthington, who was
Duried August 10, 1589, and (second) on
Movember 4, 1590, Katharine Cash, of
Stiall. By the first marriage he had two
sons, Randle and Henry, and daughters
Margerie and Maud. By the second
marriage he had six children, two at least
of whom died in infancy. He was pos-
sessed of a considerable freehold of lands
in Cheshire, which he devised to his sons
Randle and Harry, and personal estate
to Thomas and daughters Maud, Mar-
garet and Anne.

Randle Janney, the eldest son of
Thomas and Jane (Worthington) Jan-
ney, was baptised February 23, 1579-80,
and was buried October 30, 1613. He
married, July 14, 1602, Ellen Abrodd, and
lived and died at Stiall, Cheshire. They
were the parents of four children:
Thomas, baptised June 27, 1605, died 12
mo. 17, 1677. married September 3, 1625,
Elizabeth Worthington, who died 12 mo.
19. 1681-2; Randle, baptised May 26, 1608,
married July 16. 1636, Anne Knevet;
Heine, baptised March 24, 1610, buried
March 3. 161 1; and Richard, baptised
February 20, 1613, settled in Ardwick,
Lancashire, where he died in 1691, wife
Mary. Of these four children of Randle
Janney, of Stiall, only the two eldest
has special interest to the Janneys of
America, as through the two sons of the
former, Thomas and Henry, and Will-
iam, son of the latter, are descended all
the Janneys who today are scattered
over the United States.

Thomas Janney, eldest son of Randle
and Ellen (Alrodd) Janney, baptised
June 27, 1605, was married September 3,
1625, to Elizabeth Worthington, and
both joined the Society of Friends soon
after it came into existence, and are fre-
quently mentioned in the early annals
of the Society, meetings being frequently
held at their house at Stiall, and later
at Mobberly, Cheshire. He suffered
distress of goods, was imprisoned, and
otherwise persecuted on account of his

faith as related in Besse's sufferings. He
and others purchased and presented to
the Meeting the land for the t)urial
ground and meeting house at Mobberly.
He was evidently possessed of consider-
able property, and in his will made in
1677 left a legacy to the poor of the
town. He died 12 mo. 17, 1677, and his
widow Elizabeth on 12 mo. 19, 1681-2,
and both are buried in the Friends' bury-
ing ground at Mobberly. His will is stfi'
preserved at Chester, and his name
thereto is spelled Jannej^ though men-
tioned in the records as Janey. His will
names the children mentioned below,
his brother Richard, and William Janney
of Handworth. The children of Thomas
and Elizabeth (Worthington) Janney
were:

1. Mary, baptised March 19. 1625-6,
died 7 mo. 3, 1698, married 12 mo. 3,
T663-4, Robert Peirson, of Pownall Fee,
Cheshire, and had a son Enoch, born il
mo. 30, 1665, died 8 mo. 2, 1680-I.
Thomas and Robert Pearson, who came
to Pennsylvania in 1683 and 1682 respec-
tively, were probably related to Robert.

2. Margaret, baptised March 16, 1627,
died II mo. 11, 1673, is buried at Mob-
berly.

3. Martha, baptised June 6, 1630, died

2 mo. 4, 1702, married 12 mo. 12, 1672,
Hugh Burges, of Pownall Fee, who died

3 mo. 23, 1713, aged seventy-four years.
Both are buried at Mobberly. It was at
their house, that her brother Thomas
Janney, of Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
died in 1696, while on a religious visit
to England.

4. Randle, baptised December 16, 1632,
died 3 mo. 17, 1674, buried at Mobberly.

5. Thomas, the ancestor of tlie Jan-
neys of Bucks county, baptised January
II. 1634. died 12 mo. (Feb.) 12, 1696, and
is buried at IMobberly; see forward.

6. Henry, baptised January r, 1637,
died at Eaton Norris, Lancashire, 6 mo.
3. 1690. and is buried at Mobberly. He
married at the house of Thomas Potts,
Pownal - Fee. i mo. 3. 1674, Barbara
Baguley, of Stockport, was a tailor and
chapman or cloth dealer. His daughter
Elizabeth, born 9 mo. 7, 1677. came to
Philadelphia in 1698. and married in 1710
Pentecost Teague. a distinguished Friend
of Philadelphia. Mary, born 11 mo. I,
1680, and Tabitha. born 7 mo. 29. 1687,
also came to Philadelphia, the former
marrying in 1708 Joseph Drinker, and the
latter in 1709 William Fisher. A son
Thomas and daughter Martha died in
infancy.

Before proceeding to give an account
of Thomas Janney, the distinguished an-
cestor of the Janneys of Bucks county, jt
might be well to say a word or two in
reference to William Janney, (son of
Randle and Mary, and grandson of
Randle and Ellen Alrodd Janney),
whose two sons. Randle and Thorn'as,
also came to Pennsylvania.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

William Janney was baptised Decem-
ber 8, 1641, died 8 mo. 4, 1724, and is
buried among his kinsman in the old
burying ground at Mobberly. He mar-
ried 7 mo. 30, 1671, Deborah Webb, and
was then living at liandforth; after his
wife's death he removed to Morley. He
was a prominent member of the Society
of Friends, and suffered persecution for
his faith. Meetings were frequently held
at h's house. His son Randle, born 2
mo. 10, 1677, in 1699 obtained a certifi-
cate from the Meeting at Morley and
emigrated to Philadelphia, where he be-
came a prominent merchant, was a friend
of Penn, and a large landowner in Penn-
sylvania and Cecil county, Maryland. He
married at Philadelphia, in 9 mo., i/OI,
Frances Righton, daughter of William
and Sarah Righton, of Philadelphia.
Their only child died in infancy. In 1702
and 1706 he visited England, and in
1715 obtained a certificate to visit the
Bermudas, but died before starting, 10
mo. 7, 1715. His will mentions his
brother Thomas and his sister Mary, wife
of George Pawley, who had also come
to Philadelphia, and their children, De-
bora. Mary, Sarah and Thomas.

Thomas Janney, brother of Randle,
was born in Cheshire, England, 3 mo. 18,
1679, and died in Cecil county, Maryland,
about 1750. In 1702 his brother Randle
obtained a certificate for him to Phila-
delphia, which, with the one brought
from the Morley Meeting by Randle in
1699, is preserved among the records of
Philadelphia Monthly Meeting. In 1706
he went to England with his brother, and
after his return settled in West Not-
tingham township, Chester county, on
land formerly owned by Randle, and
later found to be in Cecil county, Marj--
land. His will was proven in Cecil
county, March 22, 1751, and in it he men-
tions his wife Magdalen, son-in-law Rob-
ert Lashly, and children Jemima Janney,
Debora Lashly, William, Thomas and
Isaac Janney, who are the progenitors
of the Janneys of Cecil county. Robert
Lashly was Robert Leslie, who married
Debora Janney, in 1740, and is the an-
cestor of Charles Robert Leslie, R. A.,
the noted author and artist, and his"'tal-
ented sisters. Deborah Pawlee, daugh-
ter of George and Mary (Janney)
Pauley, married 9 mo. 21, 1727, Samuel
Siddons, son of Thomas and Lowrey
(Evans) Siddons, who have descendants
in Bucks county. Sarah Pawley, another
daughter of George and Mary, married 7
mo. 24. 1734, William Atkinson, Jr., of a
Bucks county family.

THOMAS JANNEY, second son of
Thomas and Elizabeth (Worthington)
Janney, baptised at Stiall. Cheshire, Eng-
land, January 11, 1634, "was convinced
of the truth as held by Friends" at the
first preaching thereof in Cheshire in
1654, and the next year took up the min-

istry in that sect and traveled exten-
sively in England and Ireland. He mar-
ried, 9 mo. 24, 1660, Margery Heath, of
Horton, Staffordshire. The marriage
took place at the house of James Harri-
son, in the township of Pownal Fee, in
which Stiall the home of the Janneys
was situated. Ann, the wife of James
Harrison, was a sister of Margery, as
was also Jane, the wife of William Yard-
ley, both of whom came with their hus-
bands to Pennsylvania and settled m
Bucks county in 1682, as shown by an
account of each family given in this
volume. They lived at Stiall, where their
four sons were born, until 1683, when
they followed their brothers-in-law to
Pennsylvania and settled on a tract of
land in Makefield, Bucks county. Thomas
Janney had purchased of William Penn,
6 mo. 12, 1682, 250 acres of land to be
laid out in Per .;sylvania, and it was laid
out in Lower Makefield, fronting on the
Delaware. He and his wife Margery,
their four sons and two servants, John
Nield and Hannah Falkner, arrived in
the Delaware river in the Endeavor, 7
mo. (September) 29, 1683. He eventually
purchased other lands in the vicinity; the
tract fronting on the Delaware below the
present borough of Yardley containing
550 acres was confirmed by patent in
T691, and ancther tract of 1000 acres lay
back of the "River Lots" and extended
into Newtown and Middletown town-
ships, wdiere the line between these
townships joins the line of Lower Make-
field. The latter tract was of irregular
form and was well watered. Core creek
running through it. A saw mill was
erected on it soon after its occupation in
1683, and Jacob Janney erected a grist
mill near the old family mansion in 1816,
which was in use until a few years since,
that portion of the plantation still being
owned and occupied by descendants of
the name. Thomas Janney was related
by blood or marriage to many of the
most prominent settlers of the county.
William Yardley, for many years a jus-
tice of the county courts and a member
of provincial assembly, and James Har-
rison, Penn's confidential agent in Penn-
sylvania, were, as before stated, his
brothers-in-law. and Phineas Pemberton,
called by Logan "the father of Bucks
County." was therefore his nephew, and
John Brock, another prominent oificial
of the county, was his cousin. Thomas
Janney was also an intimate friend of
Penn, who entertained a high opinion of
him and mentioned him lovinglj' in many
of his letters. Thomas Janney continued
his labors as a minister of the Society of
Friends, but that did not preclude his en-
gaging actively in civil affairs, and upon
his arrival in America he at once took a
prominent place in the affairs of the col-
ony. He was elected to provincial coun-
cil for a term of three 3-ears, and was
qualified as a member i mo. 20. 1684, and

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

was again elected and commissioned in
1691. He was also commissioned April
6, 1685. one of the justices of the courts
of Bucks county, which commission was
renewed January 2, 1689-90. He was one
of the commission of twelve men ap-
pointed to divide the county into town-
ships in 1690, and filled many other im-
portant official positions. In the minis-
try he visited Friends' meetings in New
England, Rhode Island, Long Island,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland,
and was an esteemed counsellor in all
matters pertaining to the Society, as
well as of the county and province. In
the early part of 1695 he began to make
preparations for a visit to Friends in
England, executing a power of attorney
to his eldest son, Jacob Janney, to trans-
act business for him in his absence, and
making his will, which is dated 3 mo.
21, 1695. This will was doubtless proved
and recorded in the county of Bucks,
but the records of the county (with the
exception of deeds) from 1693 to 1713
are entirely lost, and it is only through a
copy found among the papers of Samuel
M. Janney. the Quaker historian, that
we learn what its provisions were. He
was accompanied on his visit to England
by Griffith Owen, and they started by
way of Maryland 3 mo. 31, 1695. Ean'ding
in London, they traveled through Eng-
land and Wales, visiting many meetings.
Janney was taken sick in the spring of
1696, while in Derbyshire, but. partially
recovering, attended the Quarterly Meet-
ing in London, and then started to pay a
visit to his relatives in Cheshire, and,
though detained in Hertfordshire by a
severe attack, eventually reached Che-
shire, and so far recovered as to visit
meetings there and in Lancashire, and
made preparations to return to Penn-
sylvania in \i mo., 1696, but, being taken*
seriously ill, returned to the home of his
sister. Mary Burgess, where he was born,
and died there the 12th of the 12th mo.,
(February) 1696-7, at the. age of sixty-
three years, having been a minister for
forty-two years. His wife Margery sur-
vived him and died somewhere between
1697 and 1700, Their children were six
in number — four sons: Jacob, Thomas,
Abel, and Joseph, who accompanied their
parents to America; and two daughters,
Martha and Elizabeth, who died in Eng-
land.

I. Jacob Janney, born at Pownall Fee,
Cheshire, 3 mo. 18, 1662, buried in Bucks
county, 8 mo. 6, 1708, married at Falls
Meeting, Bucks county, 10 mo. 26, 1705.
Mary Hough, born in Bucks county, 7
mo. 6, 1684, daughter of John and Han-
nah Hough, of Newtown. After her
husband's death she married, 3 mo. 2,
1710, John Fisher, by whom she had one
child, Mary, who married in 1740 John
Butler. The only child of Jacob and
Mary (Hough) Janney was Thomas,
born 12 mo. 27, 1707-8, died 4 mo. 8, 1788.

2. Martha Janney, born at Cheadle,
Cheshire, 5 mo. 17, 1665, died there 12
mo. 4, 1665-6.

3. Elizabeth, born at Pownall Fee, 11
mo. 15, 1666-7, died 11 mo. 17, 1666-7.

4. Thomas Janney, born at Pownall
Fee, Cheshire, 12 mo. 5, 1667-8, died in
Bucks county. He married 9 mo. 3,
1697, Falls Meeting records, Rachel
Pownall, born in Cheshire, England,
daughter of George and Eleanor Pow-
nall, of Bucks county. They had four
children; Henry, born 4 mo. 20, 1699;
Sarah, born 8 mo. 26, 1700, married 1722,
Thomas Pugh; Mary, married 1725,
Thomas RoutJedge; Abel, born in Bucks
county, died there 1748, married June 5,
1740, Elizabeth Biles.

5. Abel Janney, born at Mobberly,
Cheshire, 10 mo. 29, 1671, married in New
Jersey, 1700, Elizabeth Stacy, born at
Dorehouse, Yorkshire, 8 mo. 17, 1673,
daughter of Mahlon and Rebecca (Ely)
Stacy, of Trenton, New Jersey. They
had seven children; Amos, born 11 mo.
15. 1701-2, died in Fairfax county, Vir-
ginia, 1747, married, 1727-8, at Falls,
Mary Yardley, daughter of Thomas and
Ann (Biles) Yardley; Rebeckah, born 9
mo. 9, 1702, died at Wilmington, Dela-
ware, married Joseph Poole, of Bucks
countjs born in Cumberland, England,
1704, died in Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania, 1767; Mahlon, born in Bucks
county, 2 mo. 18, 1706; Thomas, married
1735, Hannah Biles, daughter of William
and Sarah (Langhorne) Biles; Jacob,
born 4 mo. 10, 1710, died in Delaware il
mo. 14, 1782. married Elizabeth Levis, at
Kennett, Chester county, was a prom-
inent minister: Abel, removed to Vir-
ginia, 1742; Elizabeth, married 10 mo.
22, 1737, John Stackhouse, and (second)
David Wilson, both of Bucks county.
Abel Janney. the father of the above
named children, was a justice of the
peace 1708-10, and a member of assem-
bly 1710-21.

6. Joseph Janney, born at Pownall Fee,
Cheshire, i mo. 26, 1675-6, died in Bucks
county, about 1729, married at Falls
Meeting, 6 mo. 18, 1703, Rebeckah Biles,
born in Bucks county, 10 mo. 27, 1680,
daughter of William and Joanna Biles,
and had six children : Martha, married
Nicholas Parker and settled in 'New Jer-
sey; Ann, died young; Abel, married at
Falls, 8 mo. 2. 1733, Sarah Baker, and
removed to Virginia; William, married
at Falls, Elizabeth Moon, born 10 mo. 16,
1719, daughter of Roger and Ann (Nutt)
Moon, and removed to Virginia; Jacob,
married at Falls, 1725, Hannah IngTe-
dew, and removed to Virginia; Mary,
married at Falls, 1720, John Hougji, of
Bucks county and removed to Virginia;
they are the ancestors of Emerson
Hough, of Chicago, the novelist and His-
torical writer, editor of "Forest and
Stream."

Thomas Janney, born 12 mo. 27, 1797-8,

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

only son of Jacob and Mary (Hough)
Janney, is the ancestor of the Janneys at
present resident within the county of
Bucks. He married at Wrightsfown
Meeting, Bucks county, lo mo. 28, 1732,
Martha IMitchell. daughter of Henry and
Sarah (Gove) Mitchell; the former a son
of Henry and Elizabeth (Foulds)
Mitchell, was born at Marsden Lane,
Lancashire, and the latter was a daugh-
ter of Richard Gove of Philadelphia. By
the will of Thomas Janney, the pioneer
and provincial councillor, he devised to
his son "Jacob the house and plantation
which 'we do live in and upon, with all
the la7ids and appurtenances thereunto
belonging," and, Jacob dying in 1708, it
descended to his infant son and only
child Thomas Janney, and has contin-
ued to be the home of his descendants
to the present day. On a visit to the
old homestead in May, 1905, the writer
of these lines was shown the old family
Bible nearly a century old, in which was
inscribed, in the quaint handwriting of
long ago, the dates of the birth of the
children of Thomas and Martha (Mitch-
ell) Janney. Martha, the mother, died
9 mo. 19, 1785, and Thomas, the father,
4 mo. 8, 1788. Their children were:
Jacob, born 8 mo. 15, 1733, died 3 mo.
26, 1761, without issue; Thomas, born 2
mo. 17, 1736, died 11 mo. 16, 1754; Rich-
ard, born 8 mo. 22, 1738, died 9 mo. 5,
1766, see forward; Mary, born i mo. 18,
1741, died 2 mo. 24, 1795, married 3 mo.
19, 1788, William Linton, no issue; Sarah,
born 10 mo. 19, 1743, married 11 mo. 11,
1762, Daniel Richardson, and had one
son, Daniel; Alice, born 10 mo. 4, 1747,
married John Dawes, and settled in New
Jersey; Martha, born 9 mo. 11, 1750, mar-
ried Isaac Warner. None of these sons
survived their father, and the homestead
was devised by his will to his grandson
Jacob Janney, the only grandson of the
name.

Richard Janney, third son of Thomas
and Martha (Mitchell) Janney, born 8
mo. 22, 1738, married, in 1764, Sarah
W^orth. daughter of Joseph Worth, of
Stony Brook,' Burlington county. New
Jersey. She was born in 1741, and died
in Wrightstown township, Bucks county,
August 20. 1833. at the age of ninety-two
years, having been a widow for forty
years, though three times married. Rich-
ard Janney died 9 mo. 5, 1766, leaving an
only child, Jacob Janney. born 4 mo. 10,
1765. His widow married Stephen Twin-
ing in T773, and had two children; Mary
born September 16, 1774, died March 8.
1815, married Joseph Burson; and
Stephen Twining, born 1776, died 1849.
Her second husband dying in 1777, Sarah
married (third) 2 mo. 6, 1782, James Bur-
son.

Of the youth of Jacob Janney, only
child of Richard and Sarah (Worth) Jan-
ney, little is known. Tradition relates

that he lived for a time in New Jersey.
If this were true, it was probably with
his maternal grandparents. As his moth-
er's last two husbands both resided in
Wrightstown, it is probable that he was
reared there or on the old homestead in
Newtown, with his grandparents,
Thomas and Martha Janney. Certain it
is that that was his residence at the time
of his grandfather's death in 1788, when
he is devised the plantation and made ex-
ecutor of the will of his grandfather. He
married, ii mo. 16, 1792, Frances Briggs,
born 10 mo. 19, 1773, died 8 mo. 21, 1851,
daughter of John and Letitia Briggs, and
continued to reside on the old homestead
until his death, 2 mo. 19, 1820. The
children of Jacob and Frances (Briggs)
Janney, all born on the old homestead at
Newtown, are as follows:

1. Thomas, born 8 mo. 9, 1794, died in
Newtown borough, 3 mo., 1879, married
10 mo. II, 1838, Mary Kimber, daughter
of Emmor and Susanna, born 2 mo. 10,
1807, and had two children: Anna, mar-
ried a Bergner, and is still living in New-
town; and Emmor Janney, of Philadel-
phia. Thomas lived on the old home-
stead until 1842, when he rented it to his
youngest brother, Stephen T. Janney,
and removed to Newtown. He was a
large landowner in Newtown and Make-
field.

2. Richard, born 3 mo. 13, 1796, died
in Lower Makefield, 8 mo., 1877, married
(first) Ann Taylor, and (second) Ach-
sah Yardley, and lived and died in Lower
Makefield. He had seven children:
Mercy Ann, married Heston Lovett, of
Lower Makefield, and is deceased; Tay-
lor, died unmarried; Susan, married
(first) Lovett Brown, of Falls, and (sec-
ond) Oliver Paxson, of New Hope, where
she still resides; Franklin, died in Phila-
delphia; Jacob, married Matilda Ely, of
Lambertville, and is living in Philadel-
phia; Frances, married Jonathan Scho-
field, of Lower Makefield, and is de-
ceased; and Mary, married William Lin-
ton, of Newtown, and is deceased.

y 3. Jacob, born 4 mo. 24, 1798, married
Esther Betts, daughter of Stephena and
Hannah (Blackfan) Betts of Solebury,
and removed to Cecil county,
Maryland, and after several years
residence there returned to Bucks
county. and later removed with
his family to IMichigan. where he died 12
mo., 1869. They had seven children:
Hannah. married Amasa Atkinson;
James Worth, married Loisa Beitzel; Ed-
ward B., died single in Michigan; Fran-
ces, married John Sumner, and is re-
cently deceased: Elwood, married Al-
meda Allen; Robert Simpson, married
Urania Baldwin: Dr. Joshua Janney. of
Moorestown, New Jersey, who married
Amanda Eastburn, of Solesburj^.

4. John L., born 5 mo. 31. 1800, died
on his portion of the homestead, 4 mo.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

12, 1872. He married Mary . Jenks,
daughter of Thomas and Thomazine
(Trimble) Jenks, of Middletown. (See
Jcnks Family). By the will of Jacob
Janney the homestead was devised to his
sons Thomas and John L., and they in
1829 made partition of it and a tract pur-
chased by them adjoining, the new pur-
chase and a small part of the homestead
on the east going to John L., where he
lived and died, and where his son Thomas
and daughters Elizabeth and Thomazine
still reside. The children of John L. and
Mary (Jenks) Janney were: Charles,
married first Anna Yardley, and second
her sister, Julia Yardley, was a merchant
at Dolington for many years, and died
on a farm in Solebury in 1902; Thomas
J., who was prothonotary of Bucks
county, 1895-7, and is now cashier and
accountant in the office of the Newtown,
Bristol and Doylestown Electric Rail-
way Company at Newtown; John L., Jr.,
married Matilda Wynkoop, and resides
in Newtown borough, though still con-
ducting the old homestead farm; and
Elizabeth and Thomazine, before men-
tioned.

5. Martha, born 10 mo. 14, 1801, died
12 mo. 6. 1876, married Robert Simp-
son, of Upper Makefield, and had five
children: Jacob, of Buckingham, de-
ceased, married Elizabeth Johnson;
William, of Upper Makefield, deceased,
married Julia Johnson; Elizabeth, wife
of Benjamin Smith, many years princi-
pal of Doylestown English and Classical
Seminary, now of Plymouth Friends'
School; IMartha, wife of Albert Hibbs, of
Kansas; and James, who married an Eis-
inbrey, of Solebury, and died in Kansas.

6. Benjamin, born i mo. 17, 180.^, died
I mo. 8, 1806.

7. Mary, born 6 mo. 8, 1805, died 7 mo.
31. 1807.

8. Sarah, born 10 mo. 21, 1806, died 10
mo. 10, 1851; married Joshua Dungan, no
issue.

9. Letitia, born 9 mo. 25, 1808, died i
mo, 22, 1813.

10. William, born 3 mo. 31, 1810, died
3 mo. 7, 1891, married 12 mo. 15, 1830,
Rebecca Smith, daughter of William and
Sarah (Moore) Smith, of Solebury,
where she was born in 1810. He was a
farmer in Lower Makefield for several
years, and later lived retired in Newtown
borough, where his widow and two
daughters still reside. They were the pa-
rents of nine children: Richard H., re-
siding on the old Smith homestead in
Solebury, married Mary Hibbs, of Pine-
ville, and had three children: Dr. Will-
iam Smith Janney, of Philadelphia, see
forward; Sarah Smith, living with her
mother in Newtown: Stephen Moore, of
Newtown, married Elizabeth Nickelson,
of Yardley; Oliver, of Wrightstown,
married Hannah Willard, of Newtown;
George, of Solebury, married Elizabeth

Ellis, of Langhorne; Martha, wife of
Harrison C. Worstall, a hardware mer-
chant of Newtown; Rebecca Frances,
died in infancy; and Mary Ella, living
with her mother in Newtown.

11. Joseph, born 9 mo. 19, 1812, died
10 mo. 19, 1887, married li mo. 21, 1833,
Mary Ann Taylor, daughter of David B.
and Elizabeth, of Lower Makefield, lived-
and died in Philadelphia. They had chil-
dren: Barton Taylor, of Eniilie; Benja-
min, Samuel and Joseph, of Philadelphia;
Frances, wife of Joseph Lovett, of Emi-
lie; Elizabeth, died in Philadelphia; and
Emma, wife of Charles Walton, of Lang-
horne.

12. Mahlon, born 12 mo. 15, 1815, mar-
ried Charlotte Brown, and removed ta
the west where he died.

13. STEPHEN T. JANNEY, young-
est child of Jacob and Frances (Briggs)
Janney, was born 11 mo. 15, 1817, and
died II mo. 12, 1898, on the old home-
stead where he was born and always re-
sided. He was but three years of age at
the death of his father, and remained
with his mother on the homestead, and.
was educated at an academy in Wilming-
ton, Delaware. On his marriage in 1842,
he rented the homestead of his brother
Thomas, and purchased it in 1855, and
continued to conduct it until his death.
He married Harriet P. Johnson, born in
Buckingham. 10 mo. 20, 1820, died 1891,
daughter of William H. and Mary (Pax-
son) Johnson, and granddaughter of
Samuel and Martha (Hutchinson) John-
son, all of Buckingham. (See ancestry of
Hon. E. M. Paxson, where an account of
the distinguished ancestry of Mrs. Jan-
ney, maternal and paternal is given).
The children of Stephen T. and Harriet
P. (Johnson) Janney, were: Calvin D.,
born January 12, 1843, residing on the
homestead, married March 8, 1892, Fred-
erica, daughter of Frederick and Anna.
M. Linton, of Newtown, who died at
the birth of their only child. Frederick,
December. 1892; Horace, born Septem-
ber I, 1846, farmer and nurseryman at
Newtown: William H., born October i,
1849, a farmer in Lower Makefield, mar-
ried February 3, 1873, Anna M. Torbert,
daughter of James L. and Maria (Van
Artsdalen) Torbert. of Lower Makefield,
and had two children: Elizabeth, wife of
Erwin J. Doan, of Philadelphia, who
has three children — Frances J., Anna
Jean and Harriet J.; and Harriet, wife of
LeRoy Suber, of Newtown. Mrs. Anna
M. Janney died 3 mo. 11, 1893. and Will-
iam H. married (second) June 8, 1905,
Ella J. Burroughs, daughter of Robert
and Phebe (Beans) Burroughs of New-
town. Marietta Janney, third child of
Stephen and Harriet, is still single, and
resides with her brother Calvin on the
homestead. Frances J. Janney, the
youngest daughter, married, September

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

26, 1877, Wilmer A. Briggs, son of Theo-
dore S. and Sarah B. (Leedom) Briggs,
of Upper Makefield, and they reside at
Glen Ridge, New Jersey.

DR. WILLIAM SMITH JANNEY, of
1535 North Broad street, Philadelphia,,
Pennsylvania( second son of William and
Rebecca (Smith) Janney, was born in
Lower Makefield township, Bucks
•county, Pennsylvania, August 12, 1833.
He acquired his elementary education at
the public schools, Newtown Academy,
Bellevue Academy at Langhorne, and
finished as a private pupil of Joseph Fell,
of Buckingham. At the age of seventeen
years he taught school at Brownsburg,
Upper Makefield township, and later at
Lumberville, in Solebury, at the same
time taking up the study of medicine. He
attended lectures at the Pennsylvania
Medical College at Philadelphia in the
winters of 1852 and 1853, and graduated
in March, 1854. He practiced medicine
at Tullytown, Bucks county, for two
years, and in April, 1856, removed to
Leavenworth, Kansas, just in time to
tecome involved in the noted "Border
War." Returning to Bucks county in
the fall of the same year, he located at
Woodsville, Mercer county, New Jerse3%
where he remained until 1870. In the
meantime, however, (in 1862, he enlisted
in the army as assistant surgeon of the
Twenty-first New Jersey Volunteers, and
was promoted to surgeon of the Twenty-
second Regiment. His regiment during
its ten months service took part in the
battles of Chancellorsville and Freder-
icksburg, and the doctor had ample op-
portunity for the use of his skill as a
surgeon. Returning to Woodsville, New
Jersey he resumed his practice, which
continued until 1870, when he removed
to a plantation in Caroline county, Vir-
ginia, where he remained until 1874.
when he resumed the practice of his pro-
fession at Eighth and Oxford streets,
Philadelphia, removing in 1877 to his
present location, where he has since
practiced. In 1880 he was elected cor-
oner of Philadelphia by 20,000 majority.
He was for sixteen years surgeon of the
Philadelphia Hospital, and for the last
fourteen years has had charge of the
"hospital of Girard College, and stands
deservedly high in his profession. He
is a member of Post No. 2, G. A. R., and
of the Loyal Legion, and in politics is a
Republican. He married, in November,
185s, Sarah Ellen Beans, born April,
1835, daughter of Benjamin and Mary
Beans, of Lower Makefield, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania. They have been
the parents of four children, two of
whom, a son and daughter, died in in-
fancy; those who survive are: Marianna,
born November 2, 1873; and William,
born February 18. 1876, a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania, both re-
siding with their father.

THE JAMES FAMILY. The James
family of Bucks county is of Welsh orig-
in, being descended from John James
and Elizabeth, his wife, who with sons
Thomas, William, Josiah, and Isaac,
and daughters Sarah, Rebecca and Mary,
migrated in the year 171 1 from
the parish of Riddillyn, Pem-
brokeshire, South Wales, and settled in
Montgomery township, Philadelphia,
(now Montgomery) county. They
were Welsh Baptists, and the vanguard
of the little colony of that denomination
who eight years later organized them-
selves into a church known as the Mont-
gomery Baptist church, of which the
James family were members for many
years. New Britain and Hilltown Bap-
tist churches were ofifshoots of this an-
cient church. The James family con-
tributed largely to the moral and finan-
cial support of the New Britain church
for many generations.

Whether the family settled originally
in Montgomery or in New Britain is
problematical. According to Rev. Mor-
gan Edwards, the great Baptist histor-
ian, the Rev. Abel Morgan, pastor of
Pennypack church, preached to the lit-
tle colony at Montgomery prior to the
organization of the church, at the house
of John Evans, who arrived from Pem-
brokeshire a year prior to the arrival
of the James family, and the James fam-
ily formed part of the assembly. At that
period all the land on the Bucks county
side of the line belonged to other than
actual settlers, in large tracts, and it
is more than probable that the James
family were tenants on some of this
land. In 1720 John James and his eldest
son Thomas purchased one thousand
acres in New Britain township, Bucks
county, including a portion of the pres-
ent borough of Chalfont, and extending
eastward at least two miles, and north
westerly at its western end nearly as far,
being in the shape of the letter L. Be-
tween that date and 1726, when they
made a division of the land between
them, they conveyed nearly one half of
this tract to the other three brothers,
William, Josiah and Isaac, and William
and Thomas had purchased other tracts
adjoining on the northeast until the fam-
il}^ owned nearly if not quite 2,000 acres,
extending from Chalfont far into what
is now Doylestown township, and up
across Pine Run and North Branch to
the old highway leading through New
Galena. Two of the brothers. Josiah
and Isaac, do not seem to have left de-
scendants in Bucks county, though both
owned portions of the original 1,000
acre purchase. Josiah married. May 21,
T724, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas
Ferry of Great Valley Baptist church,
Chester county, and a year later she was
received as a member of Montgomery
church, but June 16. 1727, they received
a dismissal to Great Valley and prob-

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY

ably settled in Chester county. Isaac
James was a blacksmith, and resided in
Montgomery township. He married, No-
vember 26, 1729, Ann Jones. We have
no further record of him other than his
conveyance of his New Britain land
about 1742. Josiah had received 235
acres of the 1,000 acre purchase in 1722,
and conveyed it to his brother in 1725.
Of the daughters of John and Elizabeth
James, Sarah, .the eldest, as shown by
the records of Montgomery church,
s married Benjamin Phillips, March 2,
^f 1727, but in the will of her father twen-
ty years later she is mentioned as Sarah
Lewis. Rebecca, we learn from the same
source, was married to a miner. Mary
' was single at her father's death in 1749,
K^ ' and was requested to live with her
brother Thomas. Elizabeth James died
prior to her husband.

Thomas James, eldest son of John and
Elizabeth, was born in Wales about
1690, and died in New Britain in April,
1772. As previously stated, he was one
of the original purchasers of the 1,000
acres of which he retained possibly 300
acres, and in 1731, purchased over 200
acres of the society lands of Joseph
Kirkbride, most of which, however, he
conveyed to his sons several years prior
to his death. He married. May 15, 1722,
Jane Davis, and she was baptized as a
member of Montgomery church, No-
vember 19, 1725. They had four sons
and two daughters, Thomas, the eldest,
lived and died on a portion of the old
plantation in New Britain, but is said
to have left no issue to survive him.
Elizabeth, the eldest daughter, married
Benjamin Butler about 1746, and had
one daughter, Ann, who married (first)
Thomas Morris, and (second) Moses
Aaron. Benjamin Butler died about 1750.
James James, second son of Thomas
and Jane, married Elizabeth Eaton in
1762. His father had conveyed to him
in 1755, 167 acres, part of which is now
the property of the estate of Eugene
James, deceased, one-half mile west of
New Britain, and here he lived until the
close of the Revolution, when he ex-
changed v/'th Peter Eaton for land in
Rov.c.n ccuirty North Carolina, and re-
moved thither taking with him three of
the children of his brother John.

John James, third son of Thomas and
Jane, received by deed from his father
in 1 761 a farm of two hundred acres, and
lived thereon his entire life. He was a
member of the New Britian Company of
Associators in 1775, and a private in
Captain Henry Darrah's company, when
in service under Lieutenant Colonel
(later General) John Lacey, November
I, 1777. He died in March, 1779. John
James was twice married, first on Au-
gust 13, 1762, to Magdalena Keshlen, (or
Keshler) a German woman, by whom he
had two children; Margaret, born 1763,

died March 3, 1821, married Morgan
Jame,'-.. son of John, and grandson of
William James; and Benjamin James,
born 1765, removed to Bryant's Settle-
ment, • Rowan county, North Carolina,
with his uncle James James about 1785.
John James married (second) June 14,
1766, Edith Eaton, a sister to his brother
James' wife, and had by her two children
Catharine and James. In his will dated
February 10, 1779, proved March 10,.
1779, he directs that Catharine's share
of his estate be left in the hands of her
"Aunt Elizabeth James;" this was the
wife of James James, with whom all
three of the younger children removed
to North Carolina. James, the young-
est son, was devised 200 acres of land
in Chestnut Hill township, Northamp-
ton county.

Samuel James, youngest son of Thom-
as and Jane, received from his father a
farm of about 150 acres just northeast
of Chalfont, and died there in 1804. He
married, April 8, 1765, Anna Keshlen, a
sister to his brother John's first wife,
and had five children; i. Samuel, who
married Elizabeth Shewell, and removed
to Maryland, where he died in 1847; 2.
Levi, who married Rebecca Polk and
was the father of Samuel P. and grand-
father of Levi L. James, late a member
of the bar, and father of Robert James,
deceased, whose son Louis H. was also a
lawyer, and Lydia, who married John
G. Mann; 3. Elizabeth, married Isaac
Oakford; 4. Margaret, married John
Wolfe; and 5. Ann James. Levi married
late in life Mary Polk, nee Good, who
survived him many years.

William James, son of the emigrant
John James and Elizabeth his wife, from
whom most of the family now residing
in Bucks county are descended, was born
in Pembrokeshire about 1692, and died
in New Britain township, Bucks county,
in 1778. He seems to have been the fa-
vorite son. and was the largest land-
owner of the family. In the year 1725
his father and brother Thomas con-
veyed to him 206 acres of the 1,000 acre
purchase, and in the same year he pur-
chased of his brother Josiah his allot-
ment of 235 acres of the same. In 1738
he purchased of John Kirkbride 207
acres of the society lands, part of which
is still the property of his descendants.
He also owned other tracts of land near
Chalfont. which became the property of
his sons-in-law. He conveyed practical-
ly all of his land to his children in his
life time — in 1749 to John the 206 acres,
and to Isaac the 207 acres; and in 1758
to Abel the 235 acres. William James
married in 1718. The name of his wife
was Mary, but nothing more is known of
her. She was baptized at Montgomery
church in 1719 as "Mary, wife of Will-
iam James." She died about 1765. Will-
iam and Mary James had five children;

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY

John; Isaac; Margaret, wlio married
Henry Lewis; Abel; and Rebecca, who
married Simon Butler, Jr.

John James, eldest son of William and
Mary, born 1719, died 1785, was a car-
penter and joiner by trade, but, since he
retained possession of his farm and re-
sided thereon his whole life, it is to be
supposed his principal occupation was
the tilling of the soil. He married, May
20, 1740, Elizabeth, daughter of Lewis
' Evans, and was the father of ten chil-
■dren, nine of whom grew to maturity,
viz: I. Josiah, born 1741, died December
II, 1816, married Elizabeth Evans. 2.
AVilliam, born 1742, died May 10, 1828,
married January 25, 1769, Rebecca Will-
iams. 3. Isaac, born 1744, married Jemi-
ma Mason, and removed to the state of
Ohio. 4. Ebenezar, born 1746, died 1815,
had no children. 5. Simon, born 1748,
died 1814, married Elizabeth Hines.
6. Morgan, born April 27, 1752, died
April 18, 1816, married Margaret James,
daughter of John, as before stated. 7.
Elizabeth, married John Callender. 8.
Mary, married Nathan Evans. 9. Alice
married Thomas Mathias. Of the above
Josiah and Elizabeth were the great-
grandparents of Robert E. James, Esq.,
of Easton, Pennsylvania, and the chil-
dren of William and Rebecca all re-
moved to the west. The only one who
left descendants in Bucks of the name
was Morgan, and Margaret.

Morgan James, sixth son of John and
Elizabeth James, was born on the old
plantation in New Britain, April 27,
1752. At the breaking out of the Revo-
lution he, with his brothers Josiah, Will-
iam, Isaac, became members of the Asso-
ciated Company of New Britain militia.
Morgan was later a private in Captain
Henry Darrah's company, and was in ac-
tive service under General John Lacey.
His brothers, Isaac, Ebenezer, Simon
and William, were also in this company.
Morgan James married, as before stated,
Margaret James, daughter of John and
Magdalene. Their children were: i. Ly-
■dia, who married Mathew Thomas. 2.
Benjamin, born November 28, 1786,
died May 24, 1865, married Elizabeth,
daughter of Moses Aaron, and widow of
James Poole, left no issue. 3. Naomi,
iDorn February 26, 1793, died November
4, 1871, married Jacob Conrad. 4. Isa-
iah, born August 27, 1798, died Septem-
ber 23, 1886, married Caroline James,
daughter of Abel James.

Isaac James, second son of Williani
and Mary James, born in New Britain
about 1726, received from his father in
1749 a deed for over 200 acres of land
upon which he lived his entire life. He
was constable of New Britain township
for many years. He died very suddenly
in 1766. aged about fifty years. His wife,
whom he married in 1751. was Sarah
Thomas, daughter of John Thomas, who
•came to New Britain from Wales in

1726 and died there in 1750. The chil-
dren of Isaac and Sarah (Thomas')
James were: i. Abiah, born 1745, died
December i, 1834, married September 22,
1773, Rachel Williams. 2. John, born
1747- a soldier in the Revolution, mar-
ried Dorothy Jones. 3. Abel, born 1749,
died 1798, married Elizabeth Hines. 4.
Nathan, born 1754, died 1845, married
Sarah Dungan. 5. Samuel, born 1760,
died 1848, married Elizabeth Cornell and
removed to North Carolina in 1785. 6. Us-
lega, born 1762, died 1844, married Jo-
seph Morris. 7. William, born 1764,
died 1854, removed to Reading, Berks
county, Pennsylvania. 8. Benjamin,
born 1766, died 1854, married Ann Will-
iams. Tracy, died young. Of these, Ab-
iah, Abel, Nathan, and Benjamin have
descendants residing in Doylestown.and
will be noticed later in this sketch.

Abel, the youngest son of William and.
Mary James, born about 1729, died Sep-
tember, 1770, at Dover, Delaware, was in
some respects the most prominent of
the family m his generation. He re-
ceived a liberal education and was pos-
sessed of ample means and early evinced
a taste for mercantile pursuits. He mar-
ried Mary, daughter of Thomas Howell,
of Warwick, in 1756, and entered into
business in Philadelphia and Dover, Del-
aware, and was for several years very
successful. An unfortunate speculation
ruined him. and the worry and strain
of his financial difficulties brought on a
fever from which he died while at Dover. _/;^
His plantation of 235 acres in New Brit- -
ain had been heavily mortgaged to tide
him over a financial speculation and was
sold. He left five sons and four daugh-
ters, viz: I. Daniel, the eldest son, was a
clerk for his father at Dover at the time
of the failure; after his father's death r
he secured a position as clerk at Dur-
ham Iron Works, then operated by Jo-
seph Galloway. At the closing of the
furnace in 1776 he returned to Delaware
and joined Proctor's Delaware regiment
as a lieutenant, was promoted to cap-
tain, and served throughout the war. 2.
William, the second son, was also a sold- "^'
ier in the Revolution, first enlisting in
Captain Edward Jones' company recruit-
ed in Hilltown, and later serving in Cap-
tain John Spear's company in the Elev-
enth Pennsylvania Regiment. 3. Mar- .^
garet, married William Kerr, of War- »*
wnck. 4. John James was a noted mill- ,J*
wright, and lived and died in Lower ^
Dublin township, Philadelphia county."^
5. Mary, married Abel Thomas of Hill-
town; they removed first to Harford
county, Maryland, and later to Rock-
bridge county, Virginia. 6. Martha,
married Asa Thomas, brother of Abel.*
Abel H., youngest child of ."Vbel and
Mary (Howell) James, was born Jan-

*Catharine, another dauehter. married Mr. Hilt, an
iron master, having iron works in the extreme western
end of Virginia.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

nary i, 1771, a few months after his
father's death. VV'hen quite a youth he
went with his brother-in-law, Abel
Thomas, to Maryland, and a few years
later to Virginia, near the Natural
Bridge, where he engaged in the trans-
portation of produce down the James
river. The boats were built at Lexing-
ton, and on reaching tidewater were
sold as well as the cargo, and a new one
built for the next trip. He returned to
Bucks county in 1803 to marry Cath-
arine Owen, daughter of Griffith Owen,
Esq., of Hilltown, intending to return
with her to Virginia. He was, how-
ever, persuaded to remain in Bucks
county, and in 1804 he opened a store
at what is now Hagersville, on the Beth-
lehem road, above Dublin, which he
conducted a few years when he opened a
store at Lewis' Tavern, in Hilltown. A
few years later he purchased the store
property at Leidytown and remained
there one year, when he purchased the
tavern and store known as Lewis', at
what is now Hilltown postoffice and re-
mained there until his death, June 11,
1838. His wife died August 12, 1810. and
he married (second) Gainor Mathias, a
widow. His children were: Caroline,
born September 2, 1804, died Septem-
ber 5, 1888, married Colonel Isaiah
James, before mentioned; Mary, born
March 6, 1806. died young. Owen, born
1807. died young. John Owen James, the
great Philadelphia merchant, born
March 8, 1809, died June 26. 1883. Cathar-
ine Owen, who married Abel H. James,
•was born in Hilltown township, Bucks
county, June 17, 1781. She was the eld-
est daughter of Griffith Owen, Esq., and
his wife Jane Hughes.

Griffith Owen, the grandfather of the
■Griffith mentioned above, was a native
of Wales and came to America in 1721,
settling in Hilltown. He was received
into Montgomery Baptist church, and on
June 30, 1731, married Margaret, daugh-
ter of Thomas Morgan, who it is said
accompanied him from Wales to Bucks
county. Griffith Owen, Sr.. was one of
the most prominent men of Hilltown. He
was captain of the Hilltown company of
Associators in 1747-8, raised for the de-
fence of the frontiers and was a member
-of colonial assembly from 1749 to 1760.
He died October 18. 1764. He had three
sons, Owen, Ebenezer and Levi; and
•one daughter, Rachel Erwin. His eld-
est son, Owen Owen, married Cathar-
ine Jones about T756, and had eigJit chil-
dren: Abel, Elizabeth, Griffith, Edward.
Owen. Margaret. Sarah and Mary. Grif-
fith, the second son. was born Febru-
ary 0. 1758. He was one of the trustees
of Hilltown Baptist church, and a very
prominent man in the community. He
was commissioned a justice of the peace
in t8oi. and served in that office until
prevented by the infirmities of age from
■discharging its duties. He died Feb-

ruary 5, 1840. His wife, Jane, was the
daughter of Christopher Hughes, of
Bedminster and was born September i,
1759. died January 9, 1841.

Isaiah James was a very prominent
man in local and county affairs, a mem-
ber of New Britain Church, he always
took an active part in all its affairs and
was a consistent member thereof. After
his marriage he lived for a number of
years in Hilltown township. In 1849 he
purchased the New Britain farm, now
owned by the estate of his son, Eugene,
and made his home thereon for several
years, conveying it to Eugene in 1870.
Like all the family he was an ardent
Democrat in politics and always took an
active part in his party's councils. He
was a member of the Assembly, 1834-
1838, and Prothonotary of Bucks county
1848-1851, The children of Isaiah and
Caroline James were Abel H., born
April 16, 1825, died September 20, 1850.
He was a man of more than ordinary
culture and fine ability. He served as
Deputy Prothonotary during his fath-
er's incumbency of that office up to the
time of his death. Isabella, born August
9, 1828, married Dr. Thomas P. Kep-
hard; she is now residing in Doyles-
town with her daughter Florence. Eu-
gene, born March 31, 1831, died August
22, 1896, married Martha J., daughter of
Abiah J. and Miranda (James) Riale.
Isaiah James, the father, was for many
years a Colonel of militia, and was al-
most universally known as Col. James.

Abiah James, eldest son of Isaac and
Sarah (Thomas) James, born in 1745,
died December i, 1834. He accepted the
222 acre farm of his father, under pro-
ceedings in partition in 1789, but soon
after' conveyed a portion thereof to his
brothers. He married September 22,
1773, Rachel Williams, and had six chil-
dren, viz: I. Margaret, married Joshua
Riale and had. Abiah J., who married
Miranda, daughter of Joseph and Mar-
tha (Mann) James; Rachel who married
Joseph Evana; Elizabeth, who married
Josiah Lunn, Ann, and Sarah who mar-
ried David Stephens. 2. Col. Nathan
James, a soldier in the U. S. army who
served through the war of 1812. 3. Eliza-
beth who married William Hines, and
had children. Nathan. Dr. A. J., deceased,
late of Doylestown, Elizabeth and Emily.
4. Abiah, married Pamela Jones. 5.
Martha, died unmarried, and Benjamin
W., who married Elizabeth Black, daugh-
ter of Elias and Cynthia (James) Black.

Abel James, second son of Isaac and
Sarah (Thomas) James, born 1749, died
1798. married Elizabeth Barton, and had
four children. Barton, who removed to
Baltimore. Maryland. James, who re-
moved to Ohio. John, who died unmar-
ried and Cynthia, who married Elias
Black, the latter being the parents of
Elizabeth, who married Benjamin W.
James. Benjamin W. and Elizabeth

HISTORY Of BUCKS COUNTY.

had one son, Abiah R., who married
Josephine Leavitt and is now livin<,' in
Doylestown township. A sketch ot
their only son Wj'nne James, Esq., will
follow. Nathan James, third son of Isaac
and Sarah (Thomas) James, born 1754,
died 1845, niarried Sarah Dungan, and
had four children, i. John D., for many
years Court Crier, married Sarah Cline,
and had Elizabeth who married Ashcr
Cox, Nathan C, a life long member of
the Bucks County bar, Sarah, who mar-
ried Jacob Shade, and Henrietta. 2. Ann,
or Nancy, married Jesse Callender. 3.
Joseph, married, Martha Mann, and had
Miranda, who married Abiah J. Riale,
Wilhelmina, Charles, Joseph, Louisa,
and Susan. 4. Simon, married Mary
Meredith.

Benjamin youngest son of Isaac and
Sarah (Thomas) James, born 1766, died
1854, was a farmer and resided in New
Britain township. He married Ann or
Nancy Williams, daughter of Benjamin
Williams. She died in 1838. Their chil-
dren were: i. Uslega, married Edward
Roberts; 2. Isaac W., married Ann Mere-
dith; 3. Abiah, married Charlotte Aa-
ron; 4. Thomas C. never married; 5.
Elizabeth M., died unmarried; 6. Sarah
Maria, married (first) Hervey Mathias,
(second) John G. Mann; 7. Abel, died
unmarried; 8. Silas H. died immarried;
9. Oliver P., M. D., and two daughters
who died 3'oung.

HOWARD I. JAMES, Esq., of Bristol,
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, senior member
of the firm of Gilkeson & James, is the sec-
ond son of Eugene and Martha A. (Riale)
James, of Doylestown township, whose an-
cestry is given on other pages of this work,
and was born on his father's farm in Doyles-
town township. He was educated at the
public schools and Doylestown Seminary,
and read law with his brother, Henry A.
James, Esq., and was admitted to the Bucks
county bar May 9, 1892. He' opened an
office at Bristol, Bucks county, and began
the practice of his profession, forming a
partnershipwith his brother Henry A., who
had an office at Doylestown. In 1898 he
formed a co-partnership with Hon. B. t.
Gilkeson, of Bristol, under the firm name
of Gilkeson & James. This firm was for
many years the leading one at the local
bar, and did an immense amount of legal
business, the routine work of which de-
volved largely upon Mr. James. At the
death of Mr. Gilkeson, in 1904, Mr. James
continued the business for the family, and
on the admission of B. F. Gilkeson, Jr., to
the bar about a year later, he became a
member of the firm, the old firm name of
Gilkeson & James being continued. Mr.
James has been a successful practitioner,
and is one of the leaders among the younger
members of the bar, and highly respected
by his fellow attorneys.

WYNNE JAMES, lawyer and real es-
tate agent, Doylestown, was born No-
vember 2, 1865, in Doylestown town-
ship, on a part of the plantation that
had been in the tenure of his direct an-
cestors for over a century, and where
his father, grandfather and great-grand-
father were born. He comes of the good
old James stock. His great-great-grand-
father Abel James, through his matern-
al grandmother, was second lieutenant
of Captain William Pugh's company,
Fourth Battalion of Pennsylvania militia,^
and saw active service in 1777 under
Lieutenant Colonel William Roberts.
Several other members of the family
were also in the service, among them
John James and Isaac James, who served
under Captain Henr}' Darrah, in the bat-
talion of Lieutenant Colonel (afterward
General) John Lacey, the former being
a brother to Abiah James, the great-
grandfather of the subject of this
sketch. Abiah James was also a mem-
ber of the militia.

Abiah R. James, the father of the sub-
ject of this sketch, as before stated, was
born on the old homestead in Doyles-
town township, formerly New Britain,
being the son of Benjamin W. James
and Elizabeth Black, the former being
a son of Abiah James and Rachel Will-
iams, and the latter a granddaughter of
Abel James and .Elizabeth Barton. Abiah
R. was educated in a school established
on the home farm by his father, and
where many prominent men were edu-
cated under the tuition of Professor
Clark, a graduate of Yale College, and
an eminent educator. Arriving at man-
hood he married Josephine Levitt, of
Memphis, Tennessee, whose family had
sought refuge in the north during the
trying scenes of the civil war in their
native state. At the death of his father
he inherited the farm that had descend-
ed from father to son for six generations,
and still owns it. Failing health in-
duced him to leave the farm and he and
his wife live retired in Doylestown town-
ship. He is a trustee of New Britain
Baptist church, of which his ancestors
have been members since its organiza-
tion. In politics he is a Democrat, but
has never sought nor held office. The
subject of this sketch is the only child.

Wynne James was educated at the
public schools of his native township
and at Doylestown English and Classical
Seminary, where he graduated in 1885.
He tangh't school in Doylestown town-
ship for one year, in Southampton for
three years, and again in Doylestown
township for one year. In 1891 he en-
tered as a student at law in the office of
Nathan C. James, Esq., at Doylestown,
and was admitted to the bar in March,
1893, since which time he has practiced
law and conducted an extensive real
estate business, his practice being mainly
in the orphans' court and in connection

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

with real estate titles and conveyancing.
He is a member of Doylestown Lodge,
No. 245, F. & A. M.; Doylestown Chap-
ter, R. A. M.; and Philadelphia Con-
sistory; Doylestown Lodge, No. 94, L
O. O. F. ; the Royal Arcanum and the
Knights of the Golden Eagle. He was
married in 1895 to Madeline Mai Gen-
try, of Memphis. Tennessee, and has
two children, Madeline A., and Wynne,
Junior.

HENRY A. JAMES, attorney and
counselor at law, Doylestown, son of
Eugene and Martha A. (Riale) James,
was born in Doylestown borough, Octo-
ber 22, 1865. Through the various in-
termarriages of his ancestors, as shown
by the preceding sketch of the James
family, Mr. James is a descendant of
two of the sons of the emigrant John
James, viz: William and Thomas, and
a lineal descendant of three of the sons
of the former.

Eugene James, the father of Henry A.
James, was the son of Col. Isaiah and
Caroline James, and was born at War-
rington, Bucks county, where his father
was at the time conducting a store,
March 31, 1831. Most of his boyhood
days were spent in Hilltown, where
his father was engaged in the mercan-
tile business. In 1849 his father pur-
chased the old James plantation in New
Britain, and Eugene, at the age of eigh-
teen years, became its principal farmer,
his father at the time being prothono-
tary of the county. He remained on the
farm until his marriage in 1864 to Maria
A. Riale, daughter of Abiah James and
Miranda (James) Riale, when he settled
in Doylestown. His father-in-law, Abi-
ah J. Riale, dying at about this time,
Eugene purchased his interest in the
mercantile firm of Bell & Riale, who
conducted a store where George W. Met-
lar, is now located, and became a mem-
ber of the firm. He continued in the
store business until the spring of 1870,
when he purchased his father's New
Britain farm and lived there until his
death, August 22, 1896. He was an ac-
ti'^e and prominent man in the commim-
ity, and won the esteem of all who knew
him. He held man}' positions of trust;
was one of the directors of the Doyles-
town National Bank, from January, 1884,
until his death: president for many
years of the Whitehall Fire Insurance
Company; a director of the Whitehall
Turnpike Company, and one of the man-
agers of the Doylestown Agricultural
and Mechanics Institute. Eugene and
Martha A. (Riale) James were the par-
ents of three children — Henry A.; How-
ard I., a prominent member of the
Bucks county bar; and Gertrude Miran-
da, wife of Rev. Purdy Moyer.

Henry .\. James was reared from
the age of five years on the New Brit-

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ain farm, and received his early educa-
tion at the public schools. He later at-
tended the Doylestown English and
Classical Seminary, from which he grad-
uated in 1884. In the following year he
registered as a student at law in the
office of J. M. Shellenberger, Esq., at
Doylestown, and was admitted to the
bar of Bucks county, January 30, 1888.
For two years he remained in the office
of his preceptor, and then opened an
office for himself, and has since prac-
ticed his chosen profession in all its
branches, and has met with success. In
politics he is a Democrat, and has taken
an active interest in the councils of his
party, frequently representing his home
district in state, congressional and dis-
trict conventions. He has been a mem-
ber of the Doylestown school board for
several years. He is a member of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and
of the Bucks County Historical Society.
He is one of the directors and counsel
for the Whitehall Fire Insurance Com-
pany, vice-president of the Fellowship
Horse Company, president of the Doy-
lestown Fire Company, and one of the
board of censors and examiners of the
Bucks County Bar Association. He is a
member of Doylestown Lodge, No. 245,
F. & A. M., and Aquetong Lodge, No.
193. I. O. O. F.

He married, April 30, 1902, Miriam
Watson, daughter of ex-Judge Richard
and Isabella T. (McCoy) Watson, of
Doylestown. They have no children.
Mr. and Mrs. James are members of St.
Paul's Protestant Episcopal church, of
Doylestown, of which Mr. James has
been a vestryman and accounting war-
den for a nuinber of years.

IRVIN MEGARGEE JAMES, of
Doylestown, was born in that town, No-
vember 25, i860, and is a son of the late
Nathan C. and Maria (Megargee)
James, the former of whom was for
many years a prominent rnember of the
Bucks County bar, and died August 10,
1900.

Nathan James, the great-grandfather
of Irvin IM., as shown bj' a preceding
sketch, was a son of Isaac and Sarah
(Thomas) James, and a great-grandson
of John James, the emigrant ancestor
of the family. He Avas an officer of
militia during the revolutionary war,
having been commissioned first lieuten-
ant on ]May 6, 1777, of the Eighth Com-
pan}\ Captain John Thomas, Second
Battalion, Colonel Arthur Erwin, Bucks
County Militia, and was promoted May
May 10, 1780, to captain of the Seventh
Company. Fourth Battalion. Colonel Mc-
Elroy. Captain Thomas' company was
in active service in August. 1777. Cap-
tain James married Sarah Dungan,
daughter of John Dungan, of New Brit-

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

ain, and had l\jur cliildrcn. viz: Jdlm
D.; Nancy, wife of Jesse Callender; Jo-
seph, and Simon, John Dungan James,
son of Captain Nathan and Sarali ( Dnn-
gan) James was the grandfather of Ir-
vin James. He was an officer in the war
of 1812-14, m the company of his consin.
Captain Nathan James, as was also his
brother Simon. John D. was crier of
the courts of Bucks county for fort)'
years. He married Sarah Cline. and
had seven children; Elizabeth; Nathan
C, above mentioned; Sarah, Silas. Hen-
rietta, Mary Ann, and Elizabeth.

Irvin Megargee James was born and
reared in Doylestown. and was educated
at the Doylestown Seminary and the
Cheltenham Academy at Ogontz. Penn-
sylvania. In 1879 he accepted a position
as clerk in the wholesale dry goods es-
tablishment of William B. Kempton &
Co., of Philadelphia, where he remained
for two years. The next three years he
held a similar position with Riegel,
Scott & Co., in Philadelphia. On July
5, 1885, he was appointed a clerk in the
United States pension office at Phila-
delphia, which position he filled accept-
ably for five years, four under General
W. W. H. Davis, and one year under
his Republican successor. Pension
Agent Shelmire. In 1890 he entered the
employ of the Philadelphia "& Reading
Railroad Company, where he remained
for one year, when he accepted a re-
sponsible position in the offices of the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company, where
he remained until April, 1903. He now
follows a general insurance and real es-
tate business at Doylestown.

Mr. James has been a member of the
Doylestown school board for the past
four years, and is now the secretary of
the board: he is also clerk of the town
council. He married, November 27.
1889. Elizabeth C. Firman, daughter of
the late Samuel A. and Hannah (Doan)
Firman. Their only surviving diild is
Marie Megargee. born July 5. 1893. Mr.
and Mrs. James are members of St.
Paul's Protestant Episcopal church of
Doylestown, of which Mr. James has
been a vestryman for a number of years.

DR. OLIVER P. JAMES, late of
Doylestown, deceased, was the young-
est son of Benjamin and Nancy (Will-
iams) James, and was born in New Brit-
ain township, Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania, in 1815-. He was a descendant in
the fifth generation from John and Eliza-
beth James; who emigrated from Pem-
brokeshire. Wales, in 1711, as shown by
the preceding sketch. On the maternal
side he is said to be a descendant of the
Roger Williams family of Rhode Isl-
and.

Dr. James was reared upon the New
Britain farm, on Pine Run, and received

his education at the schools of the
neighborhood. At the age of nineteen,
believing that a mechanical trade was
his sphere in life, he took up that of a
carpenter. He did not bind himself as
an apprentice, as was the custom in
those days, but. after assisting in build-
ing a house erected for his father in
1834, lie went to Philadelphia and
worked at the trade for two years. Be-
coming convinced by that time that he
had mistaken his calling, he abandoned
the saw and plane, and in 1837 entered
himself as a student of medicine in the
office of his cousin. Dr. Robert E. James,
of Upper Mount Bethel. Northampton
county. Pennsylvania, father of Robert
E. James, Esq., of Easton, and read
the allotted time with the Doctor, and
during the winter season attended lec-
tures at the Jefferson Medical College,
Philadelphia, where he graduated in
March, 1840. During his studies it de-
veloped that he possessed a peculiar
aptitude for his chosen profession. Dur-
ing the year succeeding his graduation
his cousin and preceptor, Dr. Robert E.
James, was serving a term in the state
legislature and the young doctor took
charge of his practice in his absence.
Fie opened an office in New Britain,
where he soon built up a large practice.
In the first or second year of his prac-
tice he was appointed physician at the
Bucks County Almshouse, a position he
retained for seventeen years. This po-
sition attracted attention to the rising
voung physician, and assisted in secur-
ing him a large practice that soon ex-
tended into the far surrounding sec-
tions. He continued his residence in
New Britain until 1859, when he re-
moved to Doylestown. purchasing the
present Ginsley property, on Main street,
the former residence of General Sam-
uel A. Smith. Soon after the war he
purchased the handsome residence on
North Main street, where he spent the-
reniainder of his life, and where his
widow and dai ghter still reside.

Dr. James became very prominent in
the practice of his profession. Prior
to his retirement from active practice, a
few years btfore his death, he was one
oi the most prominent physicians of the
county, and enjoyed an extensive and
lucrative practice. He was always close-
ly identified with the interests of his
town and county, and in his prime his
high ability, courtly manners and kind-
ly nature commanded the highest re-
spect and gave him a wide infiuence
among men. ,

In politics he was a Democrat, and
from early manhood he took an active
mterest in politics. In 1864 he was
elected to the state senate over his old
neighbor. William Godshalk. by a ma-
jority of 989 votes. In 1878 he was the
candidate of his party for congress from
the Seventh District, and. though he rah

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY

far ahead of his ticket in many of the
precincts, was defeated by his old op-
ponent, William Godshalk. In local so-
cieties and institutions Dr. James took
a deep interest. He was a member of
Doylestown Lodge, No. 245, F. & A. M.,
and its treasurer for many years, hold-
ing that position at the time of his
death. He was president of the Doyles-
town borough council for several terms.
He was treasurer of the Doylestown Ag-
ricultural and Mechanics' Institute from
its organization in 1866 to its dissolu-
tion in 1892. He was for twenty years
a director of the Doylestown National
Bank, and was a member of the board
of directors of the Doylestown and Wil-
low Grove Turnpike Company, and treas-
urer of the company for many years.

Dr. Jai-'.es died at his residence in
Doylestown on the evening of Novem-
ber 19, 1894. He had been in failing
Tiealth for some time, being confined to
the house for upwards of a month. The
cause of his death was valvular disease
of the heart.

Dr. James was married in 1859, to Sa-
rah A. Gordon, of Montgomery county,
who survives him. Their only son, Oli-
ver B., died when a young man. several
years ago. Two daughters survive:
Martha A., wife of Rev. George H.
Lorah, D. D., of Philadelphia; and Sarah
M., residing in Doylestown.

THOMAS A. JAMES, of Doyles-
town, son of Louis H. James, is de-
scended from Thomas James, eldest son
of John and Elizabeth, who accompanied
his father from Wales in 1710 and joined
him m the purchase of the one thousand
acres of land in New Britain in 1720.
He married Jane Davis, May 15, 1722,
and lived all his life on the old farm
plantation, and died there in 1772, leav-
ing Thomas; Elizabeth, who married
Benjamin Butler, and second, Moses
Aaron; James, John and Samuel.

Samuel James, born 1730, succeeded
to one hundred and fifty acres of the
homestead, and married Anna Kach-
line, died in 1804, leaving three children:
Samuel, Levi and Elizabeth, who mar-
ried Isaac Oakford.

Levi married Rebecca Polk, of an old
Scotch-Irish family of Warwick, whose
pioneer ancestor, Samuel Polk, came
from Ireland, in 1725, and after her death
married Mary Good. His children by
the first wife were: Robert, Samuel,
Elizabeth. Lydia Ann, and Isabella. He
was a prominent man in the community.
He died in 1857.

Robert, the son, married Ann Bayard,
a relative of the distinguished Delaware
family of that name. He was almost a
giant in stature, modest, unassuming,
intelligent, a man of unquestioned integ-
rity. He participated actively in the af-

fairs of the county, both politically and
socially. He was elected to the legisla-
ture at the same election in which Fran-
cis R. Shunk was made governor, and
while at Harrisburg a warm friendship
was cemented between the two men. He
died in his eighty-eighth year, and was
survived by his wife and five children:
Louis H., Nancy C., Frank, Emma C.
and Louise.

Louis H. married Mary E. Laughlin,
of Philadelphia, studied law in the of-
fice of George Lear, and as a lawyer
had a large clientage throughout the
county. Like his father, he took a very
active part in politics, and was one of
the leaders of his parity. He died in the
latter part of 1900, and was survived by
his wife and six children: Robert C.,
Helen, Thomas A., Carrie Y., Margaret
C, and Mary E.

THE PARRY FAMILY OF NEW
HOPE, PENNSYLVANIA. ("CORY-
ELL'S FERRY" OF THE REVOLU-
TION.)

The Parrys herein mentioned are de-
scended from an ancient and honorable
family, long resident in Caernarvon-
shire, Wales.- THOMAS PARRY, the
founder of the family in Pennsylvania,
was born in Caernarvonshire, North
Wales. A. D., 1680, and came to America
towards the close of the seventeentU
century, settling in that part of Phila-
delphia county — long afterwards set
aside as Montgomery county, and still
so called. In 1715 he married Jane Mor-
ris, by whom he had issue ten children,
all born between the years 1716 and 1739
inclusive. Eight of these were sons, and
two daughters, named Mary and Mar-
tha. The eldest son Thomas having been
born July 26, 1716. the third child, John,
(ancestor of this branch) July 25, 1721,
and Martha, the youngest, March 3,
1739-

THOMAS PARRY, THE ELDER,
born 1680, was a considerable landholder
and is recorded as having been owner of
over one thousand acres of land in Mont-
gomery county, Pennsylvania, to a part
of which his son John, Parry, of Moorland
Manor, subsequently succeeded. Of the
above thousand acres, Thomas Parry
conveyed 200 acres to John Van Bus-
kirk, September 2, 1725;. and 300 acres
he conveyed to David Maltby, December
29, 1726. Thomas Parry was a man of
most excellent good sense, and judg-
ment, and he and his neighbor and ac-
cmaintance. Sir William Keith. of
Graeme Park. Governor of Pennsylvania
under the Penns. consulted together
about their internal local affairs, such as
roads, etc., and certainly the roads were
bad enough in their day, as Indian trails
and bridle paths were frequently the best

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

that they had before. It is only since
comparatively late years that there were
turnpikes from Willow Grove, in Mont-
gomery county to either Doylestown or
New Hope, in Bucks county. The de-
scendants of Thomas and Jane Morris
Parry are to be found at the present day
not only in Pennsylvania, but in parts of
Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, New Jersey,
and Virginia. By intermarriage the
Parrys have become allied with some of
the oldest colonial families in the United
States, such as Tyson, Randolph, Pax-
son, Morris, Waldron, Gerrish, Winslow,
and others of note. A paper, stamed
yellow with age, found recently among
some old family papers recites quaintly
that "Thomas Parrj' dyed ye 30th day
of ye seventh month, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand seven hundred and
Forty Eight." (7 mo. 30, 1748). His
widow, Jane Parry, survived him many
years, dying September 6, 1777, aged
eighty-two years. Both Davis "History
of Bucks County, Pennsylvania" 1876,
and "Munsell's American Ancestry" Vol.
7, page 21, note the coming to America
of this Thomas Parry.

JOHN PARRY, of "Moorland Manor,"
so styled to distinguish him from an-
other John of the same name, the third
child of Thomas Parry, born 1680, and
Jane Parry, his wife, was born July 25,
1721, married September 21, 1751, Mar-
garet Tyson, daughter of Derick and
Ann Tyson, and granddaughter of Re-
nier (sometimes spelled Reynear) Ty-
son, who, with Daniel Pastorius, the
three brothers UpdegrafF, Jan Lukens,
and others, came to America in 1683,
from Crefeld in Germany, and were the
original settlers of Germantown, Penn-
sylvania. Renier Tyson was twice chief
burgess of Germantown; he in early
days, removed to Montgomery countjs
then a part of Philadelphia county, ac-
quired a large estate, and became ances-
tor of the Pennsylvania and Maryland
Tysons. John Parry and Margaret Ty-
son Parry, his wife, had seven children:
Thomas, John, Benjamin, Phebe,
Stephen, David and Daniel, the eldest
born August 20. 1752, and the youngest
April 21, 1774. John Parry lived on the
back road, near the present "Heaton
station" of the North-East Pennsylvania
Railroad, the road running into the old
York Road at about this point. This
estate was derived from his father,
Thomas Parry and his house, a large
double stone mansion, still stands, but
has since that time been altered by car-
rying the attic up square, making it now
(1905) a double three-story structure, but
losing in its colonial style, which was
originally not unlike the "Old Parry
Mansion" at New Hope, Pennsylvania,
built in T784. John Parry was an elder
in the Society of Friends, had many city
acquaintances and, being a man of means

and much given to hospitality, enter-
tained largely in this ancient home in his
day; it passed out of the ownership of
the family, however a number of years
ago. Several of John Parry's books
containing his autograph and dated and
an oaken and iron-bound wine chest
once owned by him containing a num-
ber of very thin bottles bearing curious
cut devices and most of them unbroken,
with the wine glasses and two small
glass funnels, each dotted with cut stars
gilt are still in existence and much val-
ued by their owner, a great-grandson, re-
siding at New Hope. Pennsylvania. .A
stout gold-headed walking stick or cane
of this John Parry's and engraved with
his name and date, A. D., 1751, was also
in the possession of his great-grandson.
Judge William Parry, now deceased, and
doubtless is still preserved in that branch
of the family. John Parry, of Moorland
Manor died November 10, 1789, his wife,
Margaret Tyson Parry, surviving him
for eighteen years and dying November
24, 1807.

BENJAMIN PARRY, a prominent and
influential citizen of Bucks county.
Pennsylvania, during the latter part of
the eighteenth and early part of the nine-
teenth centuries, was the third child of
John Parry, of "Moorland Manor" and
Margaret Tyson, his wife, and was born
March i. 1757, and married November
4> 1787, Jane Paxson, daughter of Oliver
Paxson the elder, of "Maple Grove,"
Coryell's Ferry (now New Hope) Penn-
sylvania, by whom he had issue, four
children as follows:

1. Oliver, born December 20, 1794 (and
noted later on) died February 20, 1874,
in eightieth year.

2. Ruth, born January 4, 1797 and died
October 28, 1885 in ninetieth year, un-
married.

3. Jane, born August 27, 1799, and died
September 28, 1879, in eighty-first year,
unmarried.

4. Margaret, born December 7, 1804,
and married C. B. Knowles, and had no
issue. Died July 26, 1880, aged seventy-
six years.

Benjamin Parry is mentioned at con-
siderable length in General Davis' "His-
tory of Bucks County. Pennsylvania," 1876,
in Hotchkin's "York Road, Old and New,"
Philadelphia. 1892, and in divers other
published works. Under the chapter
upon New Hope. General Davis in the
historical pages of this work gives some
account of Benjamin Parry and the old
Parry Mansion, which is minecessary to
repeat here.

Benjamin Parrj^ was the original pro-
moter of the New Hope Delaware Bridge
Company and in 1810. first agitated the
subject, with his friend, the Hon. Sam-
uel D. Ingham of Solebury. secretary of
the United States Treasury, under Pres-
ident Jackson. At that early day, real-

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izing the great importance of bridging
the Delaware River at New Hope, these
two men never rested until it was ac-
complishd, in 1813-1814. Benjamin Parry
headed the subscription list and Mr. Ing-
ham signed, as second subscriber. The
first public meeting towards organization
was held September 25, 181 1, at the Tav-
ern of Garret Meldrum in New Hope at
which vigorous action was taken towards
securing the building of the bridge. Ben-
jamin Parry and Mr. Ingham were the
commissioners, to superintend its con-
struction as noted in the very interesting
paper of the Reverend D. K. Turner,
upon "Our Bucks County Congressmen"
read before the Bucks County Historical
Society, January 22, 1895. It was neces-
sary to obtain charters from both the
states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey,
and charters were granted in both states
in 1812 — about fifteen months after the
first eventful meeting at "Meldrum's
Tavern." The charters gave the bridge
company banking privileges and acting
imder the same, and the written opinion
of their counsel, the Hon. George M.
Dallas, once vice-president of the United
States, a banking business was conducted
and bank bills were issued, for many
years and became largely the currency
of the country,. both in Pennsylvania and
New Jersey. The first president of the
New Hope Delaware Bridge Company
was the Hon. Samuel D. Ingham and
Benjamin Parry was a member of the
First Board of Managers in 181 1. It
may perhaps be of some interest to note
that in 1905, ninety-four years later, the
family are still closely connected with
this ancient corporation and one of its
members (a grandson of Benjamin
Parry) has been for a number of years
president of the company. Daniel Parry,
born April 21, 1774, a younger brothet
of Benjamin, was its treasurer in 1814.
The present treasurer is John S. Will-
iams. From 1784 to about 1815 "Cory-
ell's Ferry," (now New Hope) was ad-
mittedly the most active and thriving
town in Bucks county and the means,
liand and influence of Benjamin Parry,
were those which mainly guided the
helm; so much so was this that in earl>
times he was known and styled "the
Father of Coryell's Ferry." Besides his
linseed oil mills, flour and saw mills in
Pennsylvania, Benjamin Parry was
owner of flour mills in Amwell town-
ship. New Jersey, on the opposite side of
the river from New Hope and was inter-
ested with his relatives, Timothy Pax-
son (one of the executors of the rich.
Stephen Girard) in the flour commission
business in Philadelphia. A letter from
the late Martin Coryell of Lambertville,
New Jersey, states as follows, "Benjamin
Parry had a very large and profitable
trade, for the product of his flour mills
■with the West Indies and other tropical

countries, having in A. D., 1810, invented
a process by which malt, flour, corn
meal, etc., would resist the heat and
moisture of voyages through tropical
climates and remain sweet and whole-
some" and "that the amount of produc-
tion was the only limit for the demand
in foreign ports." This patent from the
United States to Benjamin Parry is dated
July 10, 1810; and is recorded in both
Washington and Philadelphia; the rec-
ord in Philadelphia being in Book 25
"L. W." of Miscellaneous Records,
page 67, etc., Recorder of Deeds Office.
It was long known as the "Kiln Drymg
Process" and was not superceded by
any different method for a period of
nearly seventy-five years. Some of the
business affairs of Benjamin Parry were
conducted under the firm name of Ben-
jamin Parry & Co., and others as Parry
& Cresson. Some time between 1791 and
1794. the name of "Coryell's Ferry" was
changed and it became known as New
Hope and a private map of the settle-
ment, made for Benjamin Parry, bears
the name of New Hope and is dated, in
printed letters A. D.. 1798. Mr. Parry
died as before stated, November 22, 1839,
in his eighty-third year at "The Old
Parry INIansion,"* New Hope, and he is
buried with so many others of his name
and race, in the family lot at Solebury
Friends' burying ground, Bucks county.

OLIVER PARRY, GENTLEMAN, of
Philadelphia and Bucks county, Penn-
sylvania, only son of Benjamin Parry,
born 1757, was born at "The Old Parry
Mansion," Coryell's Ferry, now New
Hope, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, De-
cember 20, 1794, and married May I,
1827, Rachel Randolph, daughter of Cap-
tain Edward F. Randolph, a patriot of
1776, who had served in many of the
principal battles of the Revolutionary
war and who became an eminent citizen
of Philadelphia. His portrait in oil,
painted by Robert Street, hangs upon the
walls of the "Historical Society of Penn-
sylvania." at Philadelphia. Oliver and
Rachel Randolph Parry had twelve chil-
dren, four sons and eight daughters, all
born between March 24, 1828, and Au-
gust 17, 1848. Of the sons. Oliver Paxson
Parry, born June 20, 1846, died in 1852,
aged 6 years, and the others will be noted
later. Oliver Parry, the elder, born
1794, was a large landholder and his name
appears upon the records of Philadel-
phia county oftener perhaps, than that
of any other person of his day. A part
of his property was a large tract of the
once famous "Bush Hill Estate" long
the residence of Governor Andrew Ham-
ilton, in colonial days. This property
Mr. Parry owned jointly with his

*An account and description of "The Old Parry
Mansion" follows this narrative.

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HISTORY OP BUCKS COUNTY.

nephew Nathaniel Randoljth. In Wat-
son's "Annals of l'hilaclcii)hia, " nuich
mention is made of "The Bush Hill Ins-
tate." Rachel Randolph Parry, the wife
of Oliver Parry, died at "The Old Parry
iVIansion," New Hope, September g,
iS66, his own death occurring February
20, 1874, at his city residence, 1721
Arch street, Philadelphia, and both are
buried in the family lot at Solcbury
Friends" burying ground, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania. The close of an obituary
notice of Oliver Parry in a Philadelphia
newspaper of the day, thus pays tribute
to his high character, and standing:
"Born a member of the Society of
Friends, he lived and died in that faith,
walking through life with a singleness
and direct honesty of purpose which
made the name of Oliver Parry synony-
mous with truth and honor." (E.dward,
Richard, George and Oliver, the four
sons of Oliver, are noted below.)

MAJOR EDWARD RANDOLPH
PARRY, U. S. army, born July 27, 1832.
eldest son of Oliver Parry (born 1794)
was a brave and gallant officer, who
served from the beginning to the end of
the Civil war of 1861. The following no-
tice of him, appeared in many of the
newspapers, after his death, which event
occurred at "The Old Parry Mansion"
April 13, 1874:

Major Edward Randolph Parry, late
of the United States army, died at his
residence. New Hope, in this county, on
the 13th of April, 1874, and was buried
on the i6th, at Friends' Solebury burying
ground. He was a son of the late Oliver
Parry of Philadelphia, and was born at
New Hope, July 27, 1832. In May, 1861, he
entered the army as first lieutenant in
the nth United' States Infantry, and
served throughout the war, with great
credit. In 1864 he was made captain in
the nth; afterwards transferred to the
20th, and on reorganization of the army
was promoted to a majorality for j^allant
service. He was in the terrible fighting
along the line of the Weldon railroad,
and before Petersburg, Virginia, com-
manding his regiment in several actions.
In 1865 he was assistant general of the
regular brigade. Army of Potomac, and
served upon the stalT of General Win-
throp when he was killed. At Lee's sur-
render he was attached to army head-
quarters. In 1868 Major Parry com-
manded Forts Philip and Jackson, at
mouth of Mississippi river, and Fort
Ripley in Minnesota in 1869. He re-
signed on account of ill health in 1871.
Major Parrj' was the grandson of Major
Edward Randolph, who served from the
beginning to the end of the Revolution-
ary war.

A portrait of Major Parry hangs upon
the walls of the "Bucks Comity Histori-
cal Society" at Doylestovvn, Pennsyl-
vania. Major E. R. Parry married De-

cember 17, 1863, at ]^>oston, Massachu-
setts, Frances, daughter of General Jus-
tin Dimick, U. S. A., and had three chil-
dren. She, with one child, an unmarried
daughter (named Katharine) survives
him. The other two children, daughters,
died in childhood

RICHARD RANDOLPH PARRY,

GENTLEMAN, of New Hope, Pennsyl-
vania, second son of Oliver and Rachel
(Randolph) Parry, was born in Phila-
delphia, December 5, 1835, and married
October 11, 1866, in Saint Luke's Prot-
estant Episcopal church, Portland. Maine,
Miss Ellen L. Read, of Portland, and
they have issue, three children, as follows :

1. Gertrude R. Parry, unmarried.

2. Adelaide R. Parry, unmarried.

3. Oliver Randolph Parry, born March
29, 1873, married on October 15, 1898, in
New York city, Miss Lida M. Kreamer
and has one child, Margaret (born May
3, 1901,) at "The Old Parry Mansion."

R. R. Parry was educated at private
schools in Philadelphia and at Haver-
ford College, Pennsylvania. From 1856
to 1862, he resided at Mankato, Minne-
sota, where he was engaged in the bank-
ing business. In "Neill's History of the
Minnesota Valley" page 549, published
in Minneapolis, 1882, and in "Mankato, iLs
First 50 Years" published at Mankato
1903, Mr. Parry is described as one of
the early pioneers of the valley. In 1862
he returned to Pennsylvania to live_. He
is a member of the "Bucks County His-
torical Society" and a life member of
"The Historical Society of Pennsjdvania"
since 1855. He is also a member of the
"Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the
Revolution;" and a companion of the
Military Order of the Loyal Legion of
the United States, commandery of Penn-
sylvania. He is senior warden of "St.
Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church",
Lambertville, New Jersey, and for many
years past has been president of "The
New Hope Delaware Bridge Company."
Mr. Parry is a man of literary tastes,
and historical interests and has fre-
quentl}^ contributed articles to the press
and published works. He resides at the
"Old Parry Mansion," in New Hope-
borough, erected for his ancestor. Ben-
jamin Parry in 1784. Two dififerent por-
tions of this estate were occupied by the
Continental troops, in December. 1776,
just prior to the "Battle of Trenton" as
more fully mentioned elsewhere in this
volume.

DR. GEORGE RANDOLPH PARRY,

of New Hope. Pennsj'lvania ("Coryell's
Ferry"), third son of Oliver and Rachel
(Randolph) Parry, was born September
3. 1839 in Philadelphia, and was edu-
cated in private schools of that city. He
began the study of medicine in the Phil-
adelphia College of Pharmacy from
which .In- graduated, in the class of 1862.

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

In 1864 he entered the Medical Depart-
ment of the University of Pennsylvania
and was graduated in 1867. For some
years he practiced his profession in
Cayuga county. New York. On return-
ing to Pennsylvania in 1880 he located at
the old homestead at New Hope, living
at the ""Old Parry Mansion" until his
death June 12, 1893. He enjoyed a large
practice, and died much esteemed and
lamented. Dr. Parry married March 2,
1869, Miss Elizabeth Van Etten, of Van-
ettenville. New York, whom he survived
twelve years. They had two children,
Elizabeth R. and Jane Paxson, the latter
deceased. Dr. Parry was a member of
the Medical Societies of Bucks county,
Pennsylvania and Hunterdon county,
New Jersey; and was also a member of
the "Bucks County Historical Society"
and a life member of the "Historical^ So-
ciety of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia." He
also was much interested in Free Ma-
sonry and belonged to a commandery of
Knights Templar in New York state.

OLIVER PAXSON PARRY, fourth
son of Oliver and Rachel (Randolph)
Parry was born 1846. and died December
13, 1852, in his seventh year.

DANIEL PARRY, ESQ., of New
Hope, Pennsylvania, son of John Parry,
of "Moorland Manor" and Margaret Ty-
son, his wife, was born April 21, 1774,
and married Martha Dilworth of Dil-
worthtown, Pennsylvania, having but one
child, named for his grandfather, John.
Parryville, Carbon county, Pennsylvania,
an important point for shipment of coal
on the Lehigh river, was named for this
Daniel Parry, who was a gentleman of
fortune and owned large tracts of land,
in Carbon, Wayne, Luzerne and other
counties of Pennsylvania; a part of which
were obtained through the Marquis de
Noailles of France. Daniel Parry died
July 16, 1856, aged eighty-two years.
Martha Dilworth Parry, his wife, died
April 3, 1831, aged fifty-three years. Their
son John died in childhood and all three
lie buried in their family lot, at Friends
burying ground in Solebury township,
Bucks county. The Doylestown papers,
in noticing the death of Daniel Parry,
spoke of him as "a man of large benevo-
lence, and a generous friend to the des-
titute," and many poor persons indeed
mourned the loss of a friend ever ready
to help them.

"THE OLD PARRY MANSION,"
New Hope Borough, Bucks County,
Pennsylvania ("Coryell's Ferry," of the
Revolution).

The ancient colonial double stone r^an-
sion still standing at the corner of the
old York road and the Trenton or River
road in New Hope borough, erected in

1784 for Benjamin Parry, which has
bravely stood in three centuries has long
been known as "The Old Parry Man-
sion" and has been the home of the
Parrys of New Hope (Coryell's Ferry)
for five generations. Two different por-
tions of this property were occupied by
troops of the Continental army, in the
Revolutionary war. In 1776, just prior
to the Battle of Trenton, a considerable
bod}' of American soldiers under General
William Alexander (Lord Stirling) were
quartered here and the village placed in
a state of armed defence by Stirlmg,
who threw up a strong redoubt on top of
the hill across the pond, in a southwest-
erly direction from "The Old Parry
Mansion," and a part of this estate. These
earth works extended from where the
yellow public school house now stands,
in an easterly direction, a considerable
distance towards the Delaware river, at
the termination of the old York road at
the river's brink above and below the
Ferry landing. Upon another part of the
Parry property, (purchased of the
Todd's) entrenchments were erected and
batteries placed. Lord Stirling also had
another redoubt thrown upon the old
York road facing the river at the cor-
ner of Ferry street, and the present
Bridge street, opposite where "the old
Washington Tree," cut down November
28, 1893, then stood and near the site of
the present Presbyterian church. From
this elevated position he Ifkewise com-
manded the approach from the Delaware
river. Such were the defenses of Cory-
ell's Ferry at this period of the Revolu-
tion, when it (then an important
strategic point, and crossing of the
Delaware) was saved to the American
cause from British plans and designs. At
page 175, Volume I of *Washington and
his Generals" in speaking of General
Alexander (Lord Stirling) it is stated
"That in his new capacity of Major Gen-
eral, he joined the army in its memorable
retreat through New Jersey and took
part in the operations on the Delaware
river, where he again signalized himself
by his successful defense of Coryell's
Ferry."

Lord Stirling's headquarters at New
Hope, are said to have been in the old
hip roof house known as "The old Fort"
which then stood on the site of the pres-
ent hipped roof home of Mr. P. R. Slack
on the Old York road, just opposite the
avenue and entrance to "Maple Grove"
then and now owned and occupied by the
Paxson family and where Benjamin'
Parry's wife Jane Paxson was born Jan-
uary 24, 1767,

Looking backward through the long
vista of more than a century and a quar-
ter, it seems difiicult to realize that New
Hope ("Coryell's Ferry") and the now

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

peaceful highways about it once re-
sounded witli the bustle of war, and the
frequent tramp of armed inen, as our
patriot sires hurried forward to do battle
for their country or fell back in the sad-
der marches of retreat. The years have
come and gone since the days of the
Revolution, bringing with them many
changes, but the old settlement at
"Coryell's" still remains, nestling close
beside the noble river, at the "Ferry"
which our forefathers defended in the old
heroic days. Many of the boats used by
General Washington on Christmas night,
1776, to make that memorable crossing
of the Delaware, now known the world
over in history, as "Washington's Cross-
ing" and made additionally famous by
the artists' brush, were collected at New
Hope ("Coryell's Ferry") and kept se-
creted behind Malta Island, then densely
wooded over and were floated by night,
down the river to "Knowles Cove," just
above Taylorsville, Pennsylvania, the
point where Washington crossed
to fight and win the Battle
of Trenton. "Malta Island" has
since filled up and become mainland,
the present "Union Mills" paper manu-
facturing company's plant at New Hope
is just at the north end of Malta
Island. Former mills here were owned
many years ago by Daniel Parry Esq.,
(born April 21, 1774) a younger brother
of Benjamin Parry. Many letters of
General Washington and other of his
prominent Generals, are at different
times, during the Revolutionary War,
dated at "Coryell's Ferry."

In both Benjamin Parry's day and
that of his son Oliver Parry, the "Old
Parry Mansion" was the scene of much
hospitality and its doors were thrown
open wide upon many an occasion to bid
hearty welcome to both city and coun-
try guests and during the life time of the
latter and his hospitable and popular
wife, Rachel Randolph, this ancient
homestead was often called by their
friends "Hotel de Parry" and sometimes
"Liberty Hall." Many distinguished per-
sons have been entertained beneath its
broad roof in the long period in which
it has stood and had it lips, much it
could speak of events in three centur-
ies. Interesting mementos of bye-gone
days have been sacredly treasured up
and much old family furniture is yet pre-
served in this home; some of it nearly
(or quite) 200 years old, and brought
from over the sea; the ancient high
clock standing half way up the stairs,
on the broad landing, has ticked in and
out the lives of many generations of the
family and still shows upon its familiar
face the moon, in all its phases. In this
connection it may be perhaps of some in-
terest to note the occurrence of an event
so unusual in its character as to become
historic, and worthy of passing notice in
the birth in this home, on May 3, 1901,

of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Oliver
Randolph Parry (named Margaret
Kreamer Parry) in the same room in
which her great-grandfather Oliver
Parry was born in 1794, one hundred and
eleven years ago, and in the same old
mansion, in which her great-great-grand-
father Benjamin Parry lived and died.
Seldom do we find homes in the United
States passed on beyond the second or
third generations. Many sketches of
"The Old Parry Mansion" have appeared
from time to time, in various published
works, and newspaper articles, a com-
paratively recent one on July 15, 1901,
issue of The Philadelphia Inquirer by
its historical editor, being illustrated. In
the "York Road, Old and New" by Rev.
S. F. Hotchkin, published 1892 in Phil-
adelphia, this old colonial home of the
Parrys of "Coryell's Ferry" is thus de-
scribed : "As viewed from the outside — •
this ancient mansion, presents a quiet
and dignified appearance, in keeping with
the family for whom it was built; the
quaint and handsome carved ornamen-
tations, over the windows, small window
panes, pointed corners, and hoods, be-
token its age, and are charmingly at-
tractive. Over the front door remains
the ancient bonnet or hood of our fore-
fathers' day, beneath which is the mas-
sive old-fashioned door, with its trans-
verse panels, brass knocker, cumbrous
lock and huge iron hinges, which stretch
across the whole width. This door opens
into a wide wainscoated and paneled hall,
running through the middle of the house
and dividing the long parlor upon one
side from the dining room and the parior
or sitting room, on the other; in these
rooms and in daily uso, are yet preserved
the corner cupboards of a hundred 3'ears
ago" now (1905) 121 years old. "The up-
per floors are approached, by low broad
steps and half way up the stairs on the
broad landing, stands in one corner,
relic of a past age — the old eight-day
clock which has ticked in and out, the
lives of so many of the family and still
showing upon its familiar face, the moon
in all its phases. Five bed chambers,
most of thetn communicating upon the
second floor, open out upon an upper
hall, the full width of that beneath ; the
inside shutters over the house — both in
the main building and wing — -are secured
for the most part by long wooden bars,
stretching across, and fitting into the
deep window frames. In most of these
rooms may be seen great open mouthed
chimneys and fire places, the brick floors
of which are painted in bright tile col-
ors; immense closets, with brass door
knobs in one of these chambers fill up en-
tirely one end of the room, taking sev-
eral feet off its length but compensating
by the additional convenience afforded
the family. The rooms and halls of this
old mansion contain much valued, hand-
some and ancient furniture, belonging

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

to the family for several generations,
much of it being carved in solid ma-
hogany and walnut woods. In one of
the rooms on the first floor is a trap
door in the floor leading into a cellar,
partitioned off and shelved as a wine
cellar, but which may have been in-
tended in earlier times, as a means of
escape from sudden danger. In the great
attic overhead the children, grandchil-
dren and great-great-grandchildren oif
the original owner, have often played
and wondered at the contents of numer-
ous chests, high cases of drawers and
boxes, since found to have contained
much linen-stuffs, and other articles of
family value, and far up amid the ratters
on the fourth floor, a dark secret room
only reached by a long ladder (always
removed after each visit) afforded a safe
hiding place for papers, and such valued
matter as seemed to require extra secur-
ity and care in the time of the original
owner, which was to his grandchildren,
of course, a place of especial wonder,
tinctured somewhat perhaps, with a spec-
ies of fear. In the wing of the mansion,
in a capacious fire place, still swings an
ancient iron crane, with its outstretchea
arm at rest after a long term of service,
much prized by the family and shown
visitors as a curious relic. A huge bake
oven of an early period and no longer
used in the kitchen adjoining was torn
out a few years ago for the lost space
which was needed. An elaborately cut
stone circle in the north gable end of
the house, under the roof, bears a tablet
inscribed Benjamin Parry, A. D.. 1784,
and to this home in 1787 he brought his
wife Jane Paxson, as a bride" and here
on December 20. 1794, was born their
only son, the late Oliver Parry, Esq.
whose son Major Edward P.andolph
Parry of the United States army, died at
"The old Parry Mansion" in 1874 of dis-
ease brought on by hardships and ex-
posure endured during the late terrible
Civil war. Major Parry received a
brevet from Congress "for gallant serv-
ices during the war." This old mansion
has never been out of the Parry family
and name; it is now (1905) owned and
occupied by Richard Randolph Parry.
Of the male descendants of Benjamin
Parry (of the name) in the next genera-
tion, Oliver Randolph Parry, born March
29, 1873, son of above Richard, is the only
one living, at the present time.

_ HON. DAVID NEWLIN FELL, jus-
tice of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl-
vania, was born in Buckingham, No-
vember 4^ 1840, and is a son of Joseph
and Harriet (Williams) Fell.

Joseph Fell, the pioneer ancestor of
the family, was born at Longlands, the
seat of the family for several generations
in the parish of Rockdale, Cumberland,
England, October 19, 1668. In 1698 he

married Bridget Wilson, and two sons,
Joseph and Benjamin, were born to them
at Longlands. In 1704 with his wife and
two sons, he emigrated to America, and
located for a short time in lower Bucks
county, removing to Buckingham in
1706, when he became a large landholder
and a prominent man in the community.
Two daughters, Tamar and Mary, were
born to him in Bucks county. His wife
dying when the latter was eleven days
old, he married three years later Eliza-
beth Doyle, daughter of Edward and
Rebecca (Dungan) Doyle, who had come
to Bucks county from Rhode Island in
1683. Their seven children were John,
Isaac, Titus, Thomas, George, Sarah,
and Rachel. He died in 1748, his widow
surviving him several years.

Joseph Fell, eldest son of Joseph and
Bridget (Wilson) Fell, was born at
Longlands, Cumberland, England. June
29, 1701. He married, March 4, 1735.
Mary Kinsey, daughter of Edmund and
Sarah (Ogborn) Kinsey of Buckingham,
the former a native of New Castle, Dela-
ware, for many years a noted minister
among Friends at Buckingham. Joseph
Fell, Jr., settled on a farm on the Dur-
ham road above Mechanicsville. con-
veyed to him by his father, which re-
mained the property of his descendants
until 1890, a period of one hundred and
seventy-five years of continuous occu-
pancy. He died there February 22, 1777.
His children who lived to maturity
were: Joseph; Sarah, who never mar-
ried; Rachel, who married William Low-
nes ; David ; and Martha, who married
Edward Rice, Jr. Mary (Kinsey) Fell,
the mother, was born in Buckingham,
April 29, 1715, and died December 29,
1769.

Joseph Fell (3) son of Joseph and
Mary (Kinsey) Fell, born October 31,
1738, on the Buckingham homestead,
married October 21, 1767, Rachel Wil-
son, who was born in Buckingham June
5, 1741. and died March 8, 1810. She
was the daughter of Samuel and Re-
becca (Canby) Wilson, the granddaugh-
ter of Thomas Canby and Stephen Wil-
son, both early pioneer Friends in Bucks
county and a great-granddaughter of
Henry Baker, a provincial councillor
and one of the most prominent public
men in the infant colony on the Dela-
ware. Soon after his marriage Joseph
Fell removed to Upper Makefield town-
ship, Bucks county, where he purchased
a farm and resided until his death, March
26. 1789. He was the father of eight
children, six of whom grew to maturity:
Joseph, born 1768, married Esther Bur-
roughs; John, born 1770, married Edith
Smith; Martha, married Benjamin Scho-
field; David, married Phebe Schofield;
Jonathan, born 1776, married Sarah Bal-
derston and returned to the Buckingham
homestead, in 1831; and Rachel, born
1783, married John Speakman.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTV.

David Fell, M. D., second son of Jo-
seph and Rachel (Wilson) Fell, born in
Upper Makeficld, Bucks county, July i,
1774, was the grandfather of Judge Fell.
He received a liberal education, and, hav-
ing" chosen the medical profession, en-
tered the University of Pennsylvania,
from which he graduated with the degree
of M. D. in 1801. He began the practice
of medicine in Upper Makefield, but soon
after removed to Buckingham, where he
built up an extensive practice and be-
came one of the prominent physicians of
his day. He died February 22, 1856, in
his eighty-second year. He married,
March 16, 1803, Phebe Schofield, who
was born September 26, 1774 and died
January lo, 1858. She was the daughter
of Samuel and Edith (Marshall) Scho-
field, of Solebury, Bucks county, Penn-
sylvania. They were the parents of five
children: Joseph, born March 12, 1804;
Edith Newlin, died unmarried in 1857;
Sarah Ann, died unmarried in 1872; Bush-
rod, died in infancy; and Elizabeth, mar-
ried Ezra B. Leeds, of Germantown, and
later removed to Columbiana county,
Ohio.

Joseph Fell, son of David and Phebe
(Schofield) Fell, was born at Lurgan,
Upper Makefield, Bucks county, Penn-
sylvania, March 12, 1804, and died in
Buckingham, March n, 1887. He was
one of the best known and highly re-
spected men of Bucks county. He began
teaching at Union School, Buckingham,
and was later an instructor in the school
of John Gummere at Burlington, New
Jersey. In 1830 he began to teach at the
Friends School at Buckingham Meeting
House, where he remained several years,
making it one of the famous local
schools. He later made a journey to
Ohio and on his return purchased the
Buckingham homestead, still owned by
his grandchildren, and spent his remain-
ing days there. During the winter for
several years he continued his teaching
at Tyro Hall and the Hughesian School.

He was elected to the state legislature
in 1837, and was prominently identified
with the adoption of the common school
law of Pennsylvania, and rendered effic-
ient services in placing it in effect in his
native county. He was a member of the
first school board of Buckingham, and its
secretary for many years. When the
office of county superintendent was
created in 1854 he was elected as the first
superintendent of Bucks county, and did
much to place the office on the high
plane of usefulness it has since attained.
After filling the position for three years
he declined a reelection. In 1855 he held
the first teachers' institute. Retiring to
his farm in 1857 he devoted himself to
the affairs of his farm and neighborhood,
filling many important positions of pub-
lic trust. He was for many years a trus-
tee and director of the Hughesian Free
School, and continued an active interest

in educational matters during his whole
life. He vv-a.': a lifelong member of the
SocicLy of Friends, and an active, fear-
less and outspoken Abolitionist, his
home being one of the stations of the
"Underground Railroad." He was a man
of high intellectual ability, and kept in
touch with the important public move-
ments, and was fearless and outspoken
in all his convictions on public questions.

He married, March 28, 1835, Harriet
Williams, born September 25, 1807, died
March 28, 1890, a daughter of Samuel
and Sarah (Watson) Williams, of Buck-
ingham, and a descendant of Jeremiah
Williams, who came to Tinicum town-
ship, Bucks county, from Westbury,
Long Island, about 1743, and they were
the parents of five children: William W.,
born May 25, 1836, died unmarried, Jan-
uary 4, 1874, was a lawyer of Philadel-
phia; Emily C, born June 15, 1838, mar-
ried William T. Seal; David Newlin; Ed-
ward Watson, born September 27, 1843,
married Elizabeth M. Kenderdine, and
resided on the old homestead, died April
30, 1900; and Lucy W., who never mar-
ried.

Hon. David Newlin Fell, born and
reared on the Buckingham farm, was ed-
ucated under the direction of his father,
and graduated from the First Pennsyl-
vania State Normal School at Millers-
ville, in the class of 1862. In August of
1862, he entered the army as lieutenant
of Company E, I22d Regiment, Pennsyl-
vania volunteers, the company being
mainly recruited from the students of tKe
school.

He studied law in the office of his
brother, William W. Fell, and was ad-
mitted to the bar MarclT 17. 1866, and at
once began the practice of his chosen
profession at Philadelphia. After ■eleven
years of successful practice he was ap-
pointed May 3, 1877, by Governor Hart-
ranft, as judge of the court of common
pleas of Philadelphia county, and in the
November following was elected to the
same position for a term of ten years,
and reelected in 1887, receiving on both
occasions the nomination of both the
Republican and Democratic parties. He
has always manifested an active interest
in the public aft'airs of the city of his
adoption, and at the time of his appoint-
ment to the bench was a member of the
city council for the twentieth Ward, and
was a member of the municipal commis-
sion created by the act of legislature to
devise a plan for the better government
of the cities of the commonwealth. He
i.c a member of Post No. 2, G. A. R., of
Philadelphia, and has served as senior
vice cfunmander and judge advocate gen-
eral of the Grand Army of the Republic
of Pennsylvania. He was elected to the
Supreme Bench in 1893.

He married, September i. 1870. Martha
P. Trego, born July 31. ^846, daughter of
Smith and Anna (Phillips) Trego, and

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

they are the parents of seven children:
Joseph Williams, born June 24, 1871. died
December 8, 1901; Anna Trego, born
Februa,ry t6, 1873. married John H.
Ruckman, April 26. 1900; David Newlin,
born June 3, 1^75 ; Edith Newlin. born
August I, 1879; Emma Trego, born De-
cember 17, 18S1; Edward Watson, born
August 22, 1888; and Alfred Moore, born
January 30, 1891- Jvtdge Fell and his
family have made Buckingham their
summer residence for many years, he
having erected a handsome residence on
a part of the old homestead overlooking
the beautiful valley of Buckingham.

HON. HARMAN YERKES, of Doyles-
town was born in Warminster township,
Bucks county. October 8. 1843- He is ot
French and Holland descent, being son ot
Stephen and Amy Hart (Montayne) Yerkes,
and sixth in descent from Anthony Yerkes,
who emigrated from Holland about 1700
and settled in Germantown. This pioneer
ancestor of the Yerkes family in America
was accompanied to our shores by "is wite
Margaret and two sons Herman and Adol-
phus The first record we have of him is
m the year 1702, when he was burgess of
Germantown, a position which he filled
for three years. In 1709 fie purchased the
plantation in the "Manor of Moorland,
now Moreland township, Montgomery
county, Pennsylvania. He married (sec-
ond) Sarah (Eaton) Watts, widow of
Rev. John Watts, pastor of Pennypack
Baptist church. , . , j

Hfrman Yerkes, son of Anthony and
Margaret, born in Holland in 1689, died in
Moreland in March, 1751- He was a farni-
er and miller. He married February 8,
171 1, Elizabeth, daughter of Rev. John
and Sarah (Eaton) Watts, born April 15,
1689 (Rev. John Watts was a native ot
Leeds, England, and his. wife of Wales).
Herman Yerkes pn^bably settled on his
father's plantation in Moreland at its pur-
chase in 1709. His father conveyed to
him two hundred acres on Pennypack
creek in 1723. In 1744, in conjunction with
Walter Moore he erected a mill on Penny-
pack and set apart nineteen acres of land
therewith. This mill he devised to his
sons, and it later became the property of
Jacob and John Shelmire, and is to this
dav known as "Shelmire's Mill." The
chi'ldren of Herman and Elizabeth (Watts)

Yerkes :

1. Anthony, born November 28. 1712,

died March 9, i79i- ,. ,

2. John, born February 21, 1714. died
1790; married Alice McVeagh.

3. Sarah, born July 15. I7i6, married
Jacob Hufty. •.

4. Josiah, born November 28, 1718, died
1793; married Mary .

5. Herman, born January iS. 1720. died
November 29. 1804; married (first) Mary
Stroud, and" (second) Ivlrs. Mary Clayton,
and (third) Mrs. Eliza Tompkins.

6. Silas, born February 15, 1723, died
1795; married Hannah Dungan.

7! Elizabeth, born January 29, 1725, died
1793; married John Howell.

8" Stephen, born August 3. 1727, died
1811 ; married Rebecca Whitesides.

9. Elias. born February 7, 1729, died
January 17, 1799; married Rebecca Foster.

10. Titus, born 1731, died 1762; married
Margaret Paul.

Harman Yerkes, fourth son of Herman
and Elizabeth (Watts) Yerkes, was born
in Moreland. January 18, 1720, and died
there November 29, 1804. Like his fatlicr
V!e was a farmer and miller. He also fol-
lowed the mercantile business at Plymouth
Montgomery county, in the years 1752-5.
where he had purchased a tract of land
from his brother John in 1747. In 1762 he
removed to Warminster township. Bucks
county, being the first of the family to
make a home in this county. He purchased
i8t acres of land near Johnsville. which
still remains the property of his descend-
ants. He returned to Moreland in 1788
and died there November 29, 1804. He was
an active supporter of the war for inde-
pendence. His name appears on the list
of Associators in Warminster in 1775, and
he served on various committees under the
committee of safety. His Warminster
home witnessed some of the bloody car-
nage and rout following the battle of
Crooked Billet in 1778. An incident is
related of an American soldier being saved
from slaughter by four British soldiers
who were pursuing him, by the strategy
of Mrs. Mary Yerkes, the second wife of
Harman, who, when the soldier had sought
refuge in the house, conducted him to a
rear exit and found him a place of con-
cealment in a pile of buckwheat straw in
a neighboring field. His pursuers entered
the house and made a diligent search for
the fugitive, thrusting their bayonets
through" beds and up the chimney, to the
terror of the women and children of the
household.

After locating at Plymouth, Mr. Yerkes
became enamored of a Quaker lass, Mary,
the daughter of Edward Stroud, of White
Marsh, and uniting himself with the So-
ciety, was married to her by the simple
ceremony of the Society March 22, 1750-1.
She died in 1771. and he married (second)
Mary (Houghton) Clayton, widow of
Richard Clayton. His second wife died in
1785, and he married in 1787 Elizabeth
(Ball) Tompkins, widow of John Tomp-
kins, of Moreland. She was the proprie-
tress of an inn on the Old York road, and
his remaining years were spent as "mine-
host" at this old hostelry. His widow died
in 1819. The children of Harman and
]Mary (Stroud) Yerkes. were:

I.' William, born 1752, died in infancy.

2. Elizabeth, born September 5. I753;
married 1779 John Hufty.

3. Catharine, born June 19. I755- died
1821 ; married Major Reading Powell.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

4. Edward, born April 19, 1757, a
Revolutionary soldier and sea captain, died
at sea.

5. Sarah, born 1759, died in infancy.

6. Stephen, born October 20, 1762, died
1823 ; married Alice Watson.

7. Mary, born January 5, 1765, died un-
married.

8. Harman, born July 25, 1767, died
February 12, 1827; married Margaret Long.

9. William, born July 25, 1769, died
1823, married Letitia Esther Long.

Harman, son of Harman and Mary
(Stroud) Yerkes, was born in Warminster,
July 25, 1767. He spent his whole life on
the Warminster homestead, one hundred
acres of which he purchased in 1793, upon
which he erected the large stone mansion
still standing. In 1800 he purchased the
remainder of the 180 acres that had been
his father's and later bought the Noble
tract on the county line, making three
farms which he devised to his sons. He
married in 1790 Margaret, daughter of Cap-
tain Andrew Long, of Warrington, born
January 8, 1771, died March 4, 1849. He
died February 12, 1837.

The children of Harman and Margaret
Long Yerkes were 10, viz :

1. Mary, born 1791, died 1816; unmar-
ried.

2. William, born July 8, 1792, died 1826;
married Penelope McDowell.

3. Andrew L., born August 25, 1794,
-died 1862 ; married Eliza Everhart.

4. Edward, born July 11, 1797, died 1799.
- 5. Elizabeth, born May 26, 1800, died

1875 ; married John C. Beans.

6. Clarissa, born October 2, 1802, died
December, 1873 ; married Samuel Mon-
tayne.

7. Edwin, born November 28, 1804, died
1864; married Catharine R. Williamson.

8. Harman, born March 9, 1807, died
1889; married Rebecca Valentine.

9. Stephen, born May 19, 1809, died
July 25, 1865; married Amy Hart Mon-
tayne.

ID. Margaret, born October 8, 1815, died
December 29, 1815.

Stephen, son of Harman and Margaret
Long Yerkes, was born on the old home-
stead in Warminster, May 19, 1809, and died
there July 25, 1865. He commenced life as
a farmer on the west side of the Yo;-k
road, but at the death of his father in 1837
he removed to the original homestead de-
vised to him by his father. He later added
to this two other farms now occupied by
his sons. He married January 13, 1831,
Amy Hart Montayne, daughter of Rev.
Thomas B. Montayne, and great-grand-
daughter of Jean de la Montaigne, who
came to New York in 1624, and was direc-
tor-general of New York under the Dutch
government. Mrs. Yerkes was born Octo-
ber 23, 181 1, and died March 22, 1856. The
children of this marriage were :

1. Thomas, born November 14, 1831.

2. Harman, born February 8, 1833, died
May 24, 1840.

3. Stephen, born April 11, 1835; mar-
ried Elizabeth Jamison, and is now living
on the Warminster homestead.

4. Adolphus, born January 31, and died
February 31, 1837.

5. Anna Margaret, born January 17,
1841, died at Germantown, March 13, 1903;
married Captain George H. Bucher.

6. Harman, the subject of this sketchy
born October 8, 1843; married Emma
Buckman.

7. Alfred Earle, born June 7, 1846;
married Mary A. Hazlett, living in War-
minster.

8. Edwin Augustus, born October 24,
1849, died May 21, 190D.

Judge Yerkes' boyhood days were spent
on the Warminster farm. He attended the
public school of the neighborhood and la-
ter the Tennent school at Hartsville, and
then entered Williston College at East-
hampton, Massachusetts, from which he
graduated in the class of 1862. He read
law with Thomas and Henry P. Ross, at
Doylestown, and was admitted to the bar
November 3, 1865, and at once began the
active practice of his chosen profession. He
was elected district attorney in 1868, and
discharged the duties of the office with
special ability. In 1873 he was elected to
the state senate and was re-elected in 1876.
He was a prominent figure in the upper
house of the state, and served on many im-
portant committees. He drew the laws
regulating the separate orphans courts
and the civil and criminal courts of' the
state under the new constitution of 1874.
He was a member of the state board of
managers of the Centennial Exposition at
Philadelphia in 1876, and took a prominent
part in the management. He introduced
the bill creating the Hospital for the In-
sane at Norristown and was one of the or-
iginal trustees to which position he has
been a second time appointed. He has been
a life long Democrat and has always been
prominent in the councils of the party. He
was chairman of the judicial committee of
conference in 1869, and was a delegate to
the judicial conventions of 187 1 and 1872.
He was a delegate to the Democratic
national convention at Baltimore in 1872,
but was one of the twenty-one members of
that memorable convention that refused to
vote for the nomination of Horace Greeley,
giving the vote to Hon. Jeremiah S. Black,
of this state. He was a national delegate
again in 1880, and delegate to the state con-
ventions of 1873, 1874, 1877, 1878 and 1882.
In 1883 he was elected president judge of
the district and was re-elected in 1893, re-
ceiving at that time the unanimous endorse-
ment of the bar of the county. As a judge
■Mr. Yerkes displayed remarkable ability, his'
promptness in the despatch of business, his
eminent fairness of his decisions, the deep
study and wide research shown by the
opinions rendered and his intense earnest-
ness in the prosecution of the suits brought
before him, made him very popular. He^
has frequently been called upon to hold

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

court outside the county, and was univer-
sally considered a learned and able judge.
He was one of six Democratic nom-
inees for the superior court at the Will-
iamsport convention in 1895, and received
on the first ballot 349 out of a total of
454 votes in the convention.

In the election that followed, '.vhile he
ran far ahead of most of the ticket, re-
ceiving a handsome plurality in his home
county, he was defeated by his colleague.
Justice Smith, of Wilkesbarre. In 1901 he
was the Democratic nominee for justice
of the supreme court, and ran far ahead
of his ticket. On the expiration of his sec-
ond term as president judge he was unani-
mously re-nominated for the position, but
was defeated at the polls by Hon. Mahlon
H. Stout. On retiring from office he at once
'resumed the practice of law, associating
himself with the grandsons of his old pre-
ceptor, Thomas and George Ross, and en-
joys a large practice.

Judge Yerkes and his family are members^
of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church
of Doylestown, of which he is a member
of the vestry. He is a member of Doyles-
town Lodge No. 245, F. and A. M. ; of the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania; the
Bucks County Historical Society; the Col-
onial Society ; the Society of the Sons of
the Revolution, and the Pennsylvania Ger-
mans' Society. He was extremely active
in bringing about the erection of the Bucks
County Historical Society building, and
was largely instrumental in securing funds
for the purpose, and as chairman of the
building committee had principal charge of
the erection of the building. He was mar-
ried June 24, 1869, to Emeline, daughter of
Monroe Buckman, of Doylestown, but has
no children.

THE ADAMS FAMILY. Among the
earliest members of the Adams family who
emigrated to America were Henry Adams,
of Braintree, Massachusetts, and Robert
Adams, of Oxford township, Philadelphia
county, and Walter Adams, his brother,
all of whom it is said were descended from
Lord John Ap Adams, son of Ap Adams,
who "came out of the Marches" of Wales.
Thomas Adams, brother of Henry Adams,
of Braintree, Massachusetts, was one of the
grantees named in the charter of Charles
I. in 1629. He was high sheriff and lord
mayor of London.

Henry Adams with his eight sons set-
tled at Mount Wollaston, in Braintree, and
Walter and Robert Adams were his broth-
ers. It is thought, however, that they
came to this country at a later date. They
settled in Pennsylvania and, like the ma-
jority of the early colonists of that state,
Walter was a Quaker.

The earliest record of the English branch
of the Adams family is that of John Ap
Adams, of Charlton Adams, in Somerset-
shire, who married Elizabeth, daughter

and heiress to Lord Gowrney, of Bevistorj
and Tidenham county, Gloucester, who was
summoned to parliament as baron of the
realm, 1226 to 1307. In the upper part of
a Gothic window on the southeast side of
Tidenham church, near Chopston, the name
of John Ap Adams is still to be found, to-
gether with "arms argent in a cross gules,
five mullets or," of Lord Ap Adams. The
design is probably executed on stained glass
of great thickness and is in perfect preser-
v'ation. This church originally stood with-
in the boundary of Wales, but at a later
period the boundary line was changed so
that it is now upon English soil. The arms
and crest borne by the family are described
as argent in a cross gules ; five mullets or,
out of a ducal coronet a demi-lion. The
legend is "Loyal au mort ;" a motto com-
monly used by this branch of the family is
"Aspire, persevere and indulgence," all
other "sub cruce Veritas."
,The following is the line of direct des-
cent to the Adams family of the Lehigh
Valley, (i). Ap Adams came out of the
Marches of Wales. Lords of the Marches
were noblemen who in the early ages se-
cured and inhabited the Marches of Wales
and Scotland, living there as if they were
petty kings, having their own private laws.
These laws, however, were subsequently
abolished. (2) Sir Ap Adams, knight,
lord of Ap Adams, married Elizabeth,
daughter of Lord Gowrney. (3) Sir
Thomas Ap Adam; (4) William Ap Adam ;
(5) Sir John Ap Adam; (6) Thomas Ap
Adams; (7) Sir John Ap Adam, Knight;
(8) Sir John Ap Adam, who was the
first to attach the letter "s" to his
name; (9) Roger Adams; (10) Thomas
Adams; (11) John Adams; (12) John
Adams; (13) Nicholas Adams; (14)
Richard Adams; (15) William Adams;
and (16) Henry Adams, who is said to
have emigrated about 1634. In February,
1641, he was granted forty acres of land
near Boston, of which Braintree is a part.
His brothers were Robert, Thomas and
Walter. The last named came to America
by way of the Barbadoes, West Indies, and
after living there for a time took up his
abode in Pennsylvania.

(i) Walter Adams married Elizabeth

. Their children were: Richard,

Anne, William, and Robert. Walter Adams
was the brother of Robert Adams, of Ox-
ford township, Philadelphia, who died in
1719, leaving no children; he devised the
estate of his nephews and nieces, the chil-
dren of his brother Walter and Elizabeth,
his wife.

(2) Richard Adams, of New Provi-
dence township, now Montgomery county, ^
Pennsylvania, died in 1748. His first wife^V<?S' y^<v<i
namef is not known^ His second wife was 4<iU'Oi>-'
Alice or Aishe Withers, and they were /^ -n^ <^^
married in 1726. His children were as fol- /
lows: Abraham, married Alse ; Will-
iam, of Braken township, Lancaster coun-
ty ; Isaac, of Coventry township, Chester
county; Susanna, married Conrad Custard,

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

or Kistard; Catharine, married Joiiii Mor-
ris ; Mary, married Israel Morris ; Mar-
garet, married Paul Casselberry ; Elizabeth,
married Thomas Bull ; Ann, married Jacob
Umstadt; Hannah, married Owen Evans.

(3) Abraham Adams died in 1738, and
letters were granted to Rachel, his daugh-
ter, a spinster. There is mention of two
children, Ann and Abigail.

Walter Adams and his brother were
brothers of Henry Adams, who came to
New England and was a founder of the
Adams family there, at Braintree, ]Massa-
chusetts. Walter, his son Richard, and his
son Abraham were Quakers.

Conrad Custard, husband of Susanna
Adams, (daughter of Richard), owned a
large tract of land immediately adoining
the tract surveyed to Ensign John Adams,
of Nockamixon township, in 1763.

John Adams and James Adams, possibly
and probably brothers, lived in Nocka-
mixon township, Bucks county. There are
a few records at Doylestown, Pennsylvania,
which bear James Adams's signature. He
was also an ensign in the provincial ser-
vice. Associated Companies of Bucks coun-
ty, in 1747. (See Colonial Records, vol.
v., p. 209 ; also Pennsylvania Archieves,
second series, vol. ii., p. 505). This was
nine years before John Adams held a like
commission in the provincial service in the
Associated Companies of Bucks county.
There is nothmg to establish that James
Adams and John Adams were related, nei-
ther can be found any data of their former
residence or whose children they were.
The only solution is that they were both
possibly sons of Abraham Adams ; the lat-
ter having died intestate no list of his chil-
dren is obtainable. The fact that John
Adams held land adjoining that of Conrad
Custer is a possible solution, he having
been raised by his aunt Susanna.

Richard Adams, of Providence town-
ship, Philadelphia, whose will is dated
February i, 1847-8, and probated March
24, 1747-48, mentions son Abraham's chil-
dren, Ann and Abagail, then letters were
granted to Abraham's daughter Rachel.
There at once seems to be some discrep-
ancy which is most ditificult to explain.

James' commission in the provincial ser-
vice, as above stated, was dated in 1747,
which tends to show that he might have
been disinherited by his grandfather. Then,
again, there is a possibility that James and
John Adams are one and the same man,
but this is very doubtful, as their names
are mentioned distinctly and separately in
the old records.

(i) John Adams, ensign, Provincial
Service, of Nockamixon township, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, died in Nockamixon
township. May 22, 1807. He married Mary
. He was buried in the old Nocka-
mixon church graveyard. His will dated
March 21, 1807, proved June 8, same year,
is recorded in Will Book No. 7, p. 278, in
the registrer of wills office, Doylestown,
Pennsylvania.

Jiilm Adams, of Nockamixon, served in
llu' provincial service in 1756. He held a
commission as ensign in one of the com-
panies of the Associated Companies of
Bucks county. (See Pennsylvania
Archieves, vol. iii., p. 19; also Pennsyl-
vania Archives, second series, vol. ii., p.
531). Captain William Ramsey was cap-
tain of the company in which John Adams
served and held his commission as ensign
in 1756, and was also from Nockamixon.
township, Bucks county. John Johnson
was the lieutenant of the company. John
Adams of Nockamixon, and Mary his wife,
had the following children : Mary, Eliza-
beth, Margaret, George, Henry, John
Jacob.

George and Henry, sons of John Adams
of Nockamixon, served in the Nockamixon
Company of Associators in 1775. George
was sergeant of the company, and the son,
John was a soldier in the Continental army
during the Revolutionary war.

The first record that we have of John
Adams of Nockami.xon owning any land
is a warrant that was granted March 26,
1754, to John Adams, for land in Nocka-
mixon township, Bucks county, upon which
a survey was returned for fifty-four acres
and 113 peiches. A patent for this same
land Wis granted April 26, 1726, to Abra-
ham Fryling. John Adams had some
trouble with this land, for on May 19, 1763,
he entered a caveat against the acceptance
of a survey made for Archibald Merrin,
which took in the above mentioned land
and improvements. (See Pennsylvania
Archieves, third series, vol. ii., p. 275). The
above land was surveyed by J. Hart, for
which he gave a receipt, June 26, 1763,
which is recorded in Doylestown, Pennsyl-
vania, in Deed Book No. 32, p. 169. This
vcceipt also mentions the date of the war-
rant, March 26, 1754.

(H) John Adams, private in Captain
Samuel Watson's company, of Durham
township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
was a son of John Adams of Nockamixon
township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
born in Nockamixon township, November
3- 1759, tlied in Durham township, Novem-
ber J 2, 1826. He married Christina Klinker,
December 15, 1789, at the Tohickon Ger-
man Reformed church. Some time after
the Revolutionary war he moved into Dur-
ham township, where he lived until his
death. He is buried in the old Durham
church graveyard. Christina Klinker, the
wife of John Adams, of Durham, was born
in Nockf.mixon township August 15, 1770,
died in Durham township October 2. 1847,
and is buried in the old Durham church
grc-.veyard. She was the daughter of John
and Mary Klinker of Nockamixon town-
ship, Bucks ^county, Pennsylvania.

John Adams, of Durham township. Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, was a soldier in the
Cortinental army during the Revolution-
ary war. He served as a private in Cap-
tarn Samuel Watson's company of the Sec-
ond Pennsylvania Battalion under Colonel

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

Arthur St. Clair. He enlisted February 12,
1776. (See Pennsylvania Archieves, second
series, vol. x, p. 98). Several of the mem-
bers of his company were from upper
Bvcks county. Captain Watson died at
Three Rivers and was succeeded by
Thomas L. Moore, who was promoted to
major of the Ninth Regiment, Mav 12, 1779,
and was succeeded as captain by John Hen-
derson. The company was transferred or
became a part of the Third Battalion,
Twelfth Regiment, July i, 1778, and thus
became associated with other companies
of Bucks county. For his services he re-
ceived from the state of Pennsylvania two
hundred acres of "donation land" in Rob-
inson township, Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania, which was returned for pat-
ent October 9, 1786. (See Pennsylvania
Archives, third series, vol. vrii, p. 7^3)- This
land he sold to Hugh Hamill, November
4, 1786. for i37 IDS. The witnesses to this
deed were Thomas Delap (Dunlap). John
Donnell and Jacob Glassmyer, all residents
of Nockamixon township at that date. (Re-
•corder's office,' Philadelphia. Pennsylvania,
deed book D-17, p. 322.) John K.. son of
John Adams of Durham, was a soldier for
some time during the war of 1812-1814,
private in Captain John Dornblaser's com-
pany (Pennsylvania Archives, second ser-
ies, vol. xii, p. 105).

John Adams of Durham, and Christina,
his wife, had the following children :
Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, John K.. Hen-
ry, Jacob, Samuel, Susan, married Joseph
Retfchlin, and Daniel.

John Adams of Durham was quite a
large land owner. In 1706 he owned one
hundred acres of land and a grist and a
saw mill in Nockamixon township. Bucks
county, Pennsylvania. April 20, 1799, he
bought of Solomon Lightcap 263 acres of
land. (Bucks county deed book 30, p. 310).
April II. 1808, he bought two tracts, one
of 155 acres and the other of twelve acres.
(Bucks county deed book 39, p. 135)- John
Adams of Durham died without making
a will. It is impossible to give the date
when John Adams was mustered out of
the service, for the muster rolls of the
Twelfth Regiment have practically never
been found.

Tax lists of Nockamixon township
show the holdings of John Adams, the
father of the above John Adams, and his
sons George and Henry, elder brothers of
John. John Adams appears as a "single
man'" first in the year of 1785, notwithstand-
ing that he was of age in 1780. He there-
foVe served, in all probability, up to about
that date (1784-1785) in the Twelfth Penn-
sylvania Regiment. Captain Samuel Wat-
son's company records date to November
25. 1776. only.

(Ill) Henry Adams, of Durham town-
ship. Bucks county, Pennsylvania, son of
John Adams, was born in Durham town-
ship June 17. 1806. and died there Decem-
ber 15. 1838. He married Elizabeth Bitz,
August 25, 1828, at her home in Spring-

field township, Bucks county. Pennsylvania.
He is buried in the old Durham church
graveyard. Elizabeth Bitz, the wife of
Henry Adams, of Durham, was born Sep-
tember 18. 1811, in Springfield township,
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and died
March 28, 1878, in Bethlehem, Pennsyl-
vania. She was the daughter of John Bitz
and Susan Riegel, his wife, of Springfield,
Bucks ^ county, Pennsylvania. Henry
Adams's will is recorded in Doyles-
town, Pennsylvania. It is dated April
28. 1838, and is proved December 22,
1838. Henry Adams of Durham and
Elizabeth, his wife, had the follow-
ing children: John, Hannah, Catharine
and Samuel. After the death of Henry
Adams in 1840, Elizabeth Bitz was married
a second time to Christian Nicholas. She
had no children by this union. Christian
K. Nicholas was born in Nockamixon
township. Bucks county, Pennsvlvania,
January 23, 1817, and died in upper Saucon
township, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania,
November 3, 1893, and was buried in Fried-
ensville November 7, 1893, and body re-
moved to Nisky Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem,
December 16, 1899.

(IV.) Samuel Adams of south Beth-
lehem, Northampton county, Pennsylvania,
son of Henry Adams, of Durham township,
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in
Durham township July 25, 1837, and died
in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Febru-
ary 22. 1902. He married Susie Weaver,
September 14,. 1865. at her home in Allen-
town, Pennsylvania. He is buried at Nisky
Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem. Pennsylvania.
Susie Weaver, wife of Samuel zA.dams, was
born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, ]\Iay 5,
1847. She was a daughter of Joseph Wea-
ver and Salome, his wife, of Allentown,
Pennsylvania. Samuel Adams and Susie
Weaver, his wife, had the following chil-
dren : John, Joseph W., Henry and Susie.
Samuel Adams when quite a young man
started out in farming, and then in iron
ore mining. He entered the employ of the
Thomas Iron Company of Catasaqua. Penn-
sylvania, and was given charge of their
mining interests. Mr. John Fritz induced
him to come to Bethlehem and accept the
position as his assistant in the Bethlehem
Iron Company. Here he remained for
nearly thirty years, and then had to re-
sign on account of his health. He then or-
ganized the Ponupo Mining and Trans-
portation Company, Limited, and went to
Santiago de Cuba as general manager of
the company. Here he bought a railroad
for the company, the Ferro-Carril de San-
tiago de Cuba, and became its president,
and also built an extension to the railroad
to connect with the company's manganese
mines. He remained in Cuba with his fam-
ily for over two years, when he resigned
and returned north. He was in Cuba part
of the year 1892, all of 1893, and part of
1894. After returning from Cuba he a.s-
sisted in forming the Sheffield Coal. Iron
and Steel Company of Sheffield, Alabama.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUMY.

He stayed in Sheffield with liis family one
year, then sold out his interest and came
north. While with the Slieffield Coal, Iron
and Steel Company he held the position- of
general superintendent and assistant treas-
urer, and also director of the company. He
then retired from active business and de-
voted himself to farming, having a tract of
one hundred acres near Friedensville,
Pennsylvania, about I3p acres above Bin-
gen, Pennsylvania, and a tract of woodland
along the P. & R. of forty acres, above
Bingen, Pennsylvania. He was also inter-
ested in and a director of the following
companies at the time of his death : Pon-
upo Mining and Transportation Company,
Cuban Alining Company,- Jones and Bix-
ler Manufacturing Company, South Beth-
lehem National Bank.

Henry, son of Samuel Adams, was a
soldier during the Spanish-American war
of 1898. He organized the first volunteer
company in the state. He and his com*-
pany were taken into the Ninth Pennsyl-
vania Regiment to help make up the Third
Battalion of that regiment. He was com-
missioned as captain of Company K, Ninth
Pennsylvania Regiment, United States
Volunteer Infantry. The regiment was in
the Third Brigade, Third Division, First
Army Corps.

(V.) Joseph W. Adams, of South Beth-
lehem, Northampton county, Pennsylvania,
son of Samuel Adams, was born in Beth-
lehem, Pennsylvania, January 19, 1872. He
married Reba Thomas, of Pittsburg, Penn-
sylvania, daughter of David J. Thomas and
Susannah Edwards, of Pittsburg, June 14,
1899, at her home. Reba Thomas, the wife
of Joseph W. Adams, was born in Pitts-
burg, November ir, 1877.

Joseph W. Adams was educated at the
Moravian parochial school of Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, the HiH school of Potts-
town, Pennsylvania, and the Lehigh Univer-
sity of South Pennsylvania, where he joined
the Delta Upsilon fraternity. He started to
work in the drawing rooms of the Bethle-
hem Iron Company. He went to Cuba
with his father and was treasurer of the
Ferro-Carril de Santiago de Cuba, 1892-93.
He went to Alabama as assistant to the
general superintendent of the Sheflfield
Coal, Iron and Steel Company in 1895, and
part of 1896. He returned home and took
up his studies again at Lehigh University
in metallurgy and mineralogy, and then
read law for over a year. In 1899 he and
his brother Henry formed the Cuban Min-
ing Company, and he was elected secretary
and treasurer of the company and also a
director. He is connected with the follow-
ing companies : Director and vice-president
of the South Bethlehem National Bank ;
director and president of La Paz Mining
Company; director, secretary and treasurer
of the Cuban Mining Company ; director
and executive committee of Delaware Forge
and Steel Company; director and commit-
tee of Guerber Engineering Company ;
director of Lehigh Valley Cold Storage

Company; director, secretary and treasurer
of the Roepper Mining Company; director
of Valentine Fibre Ware Company; acting
trustee of . the estate of Samuel
Adams. He is a member of the fol-
lowing clubs and societies : Society of
Colonial Wars in the State of New
York; Empire State Society; Sons of the
American Revolution ; Pennsylvania So-
ciety of Sons of the Revolution ; Pennsyl-
vania German Society, and the local town
and country clubs ; and of Masonic bodies —
Bethlehem Lodge, Zinzendorf Chapter,,
Bethlehem Council, Allen Commandery,
Caldwell Consistory, and Rajah Temple.
He is captain of commissary, Fourth Reg-
iment Infantry, N. G. P. His children
were : John, born January 23, 1901 ; David
Samuel, born March 15, 1903.

Henry Adams, captain of Company K,
Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment, U. S. V. I.,
son of Samuel Adams, of South Bethlehem,
Northampton county, Pennsylvania, was
born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Novem-
ber 2, 1873. He married Annette Talbot
Belcher, of New London, Connecticut, July
9, 1902.

Henry Adams, mining engineer, was edu-
cated at the Moravian parochial day school
of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, the Hill
school of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, and the
Lehigh University of South Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, where he joined the Delta
Upsilon fraternity. He started to work
with Thomas Edison at Edison, N. J. He
went to Cuba and was assistant superin-
tendent and then superintendent of the Fer-
ro-Carril de Santiago de Cuba. He went
south to Alabama and was in charge of the
coal and coke department of the Sheffield
Coal, Iron and Steel Company at Jasper,
Alabama. He went to Mexico and erected
an electric light plant for the Mexican Na-
tional Railroad, and then was supervisor
of a division of that road. He resigned and
was made constructing engineer for Tumer
Nunn & Company of Mexico, Mexico, with
headquarters in Pueblo. In December of
1897 and January of 1898 he was in Cuba
in the city of Santiago and the surrounding,
countr}', and visited the insurgents sev-
eral times.

When war broke out with Spain in 1898
he raised the first company of volunteers in
the state, with the assistance of Colonel
Wilson and Captain Juett of Bethlehem.
He and his company were mustered into
the United States service, and he received
his commisison as captain of volunteers on
July 6, 1898. His company was attached
to the Ninth Pennsylvania Regiment,
United States Volunteer Infantry, as Com-
pany K, to help complete the Third Bat-
talion. The regiment was in the Third
Division, Third Brigade, First Army Corps.
Company K, of the Ninth Pennsylvania
Regiment of United States Volunteer In-
fantry, is thus mentioned in the "Record of
Events which may be Necessary or Useful
for Future Reference at the War Depart-
ment."

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

"This company was organized in July at
South Bethlehem, and mustered in at South
Bethlehem, July 6, 1898, which company
left by rail for Chickamauga Park, July 7,
1898, arriving in camp July 19, 1898. Re-
mained in camp until August 26, 1898, when
company left by rail for Camp Hamilton,
Lexington, Kentucky, arriving , in camp
August 28, 1898. . Left Camp Hamilton for
regimental headquarters at Wilkesbarre,
September 17, 1898, arriving there Septem-
ber 19, 1898. Company left by rail for
home station, September 20, 1898, arriving
same day, when company was verbally fur-
loughed for thirty days."

The above is taken from the muster-out
roll of the company. The company was
mustered into service on the 6th day of
July, 1898, and was mustered out of the
service on the 29th day of October, 1898.
It was the first volunteer company formed
in the state of Pennsylvania, and was taken
to help fill out the Third Battalion of the
Ninth Pennsj-lvania Regiment. The other
companies were Captain Green's, of Read-
ing; Captain Mercer's, of Summit Hill,
above Mauch Chunk ; and Captain Moor's,
of Towanda.

On Friday evening, April 22, 1898, there
was a meeting held in the Fountain Hill
Opera House, and a call for volunteers
made. These met in Doxon's Hall after-
ward and elected Henry Adams, captain ;
Leighton N. D. Mixsell, first lieutenant;
and Dick Enright, second lieutenant. Mr.
Enright failed to pass his physical ex-
amination and was re-elected. A. Alison
Mitchell, of Wilkesbarre, was appointed in
his place. The South Bethlehem Market
Hall was used as an Armory by the com
pany.

Henry Adams is a member of the Penn-
sylvania German Society, 1899; a member
of the Society of Foreign Wars, Pennsyl-
vania Commandery, 1899 ; general manager
of the Cuban Mining Company at Neu-
vitas, Cuba, 1899-1902, and the mines of this
company were discovered by him ; a mem-
ber of the Empire State Society of the Sons
of the American Revolution, and was pre-
sented a medal of honor by the society for
service in the Spanish-American war; and
of Masonic bodies — Fernwood Lodge, No.
543, Philadelphia, and Caldwell Consistory,
32d degree. He was vice president and
general manager of the San Domingo Ex-
ploration Company and San Domingo
Southern Railway Company, San Domingo,
R. D., West Indies, 1902.

HON. GEORGE ROSS, an eminent jur-
ist and statesman, was born in Doylestown,
August 24, 1841. He came of a distinguished
and honored ancestry. His earlier ancestors
were of the clan Ross, of the Highlands of
Scotland. His great-great-grandfather
Thomas Ross was born in the year 1708, in
county Tyrone, Ireland, where his parents
had sought a refuge from the horrors of civil
6-3

and internecine war in their native Scotia.
Emigrating to America at the age of twen-
ty-one he settled in Solebury, Bucks county.
He joined the Society of Frien-ds and be-
came a distinguished preacher. He was a
man of superior education and intellectual
ability, and traveled extensively in later life
both in the American colonies and in Eng-
land and Ireland. He died at the home of
Lindley Murray, the great grammarian, in
York, England, while on one of his relig-
ious visits in 1786. He married Keziah
Wilkinson in 1731, and had by her three
children : John, Thomas, and Mary, who
married Thomas Smith. John Ross mar-
ried Mary Duer in 1754, and had seven
children; Sarah, who died in childhood;
Thomas; Keziah, who married Benjamin
Eastburn ; John ; Joseph ; Isaiah ; and
Mary, who died in infancy.

Thomas, the great-grandfather of the
subject of this sketch, as one of the execu-
tors of his father's will, joined in the con-
veyance of the Solebury homestead, pat-
ented to his father in 1737, to Jacob Van
Horn in 1787, and the latter conveyed it
back to Thomas by deed dated two days
later. In 1796 he conveyed it to his son
Thomas, who by will in 1814 devised it to-
his brother, Judge John Ross, of Easton,
who devised it to his son Thomas, the fath-
er of the subject of this sketch, who con-
veyed it to Edward Vansant in 1853..
Thus the original homestead of the Ross
family in Bucks county remained in the
family for one hundred and sixteen years,
notwithstanding the fact that for three
generations the owners had been much
more eminent as jurists than as farmers.
John Ross, eldest son of Thomas and Ke-
ziah, removed to Philadelphia. His son
Joseph removed to the West. John be-
came an eminent physician. Thomas mar-
ried Rachel Longstrethand settled in West
Chester. He was a lawyer, and had a
large and lucrative practice.

Thomas Ross, younger son of Thomas
and Keziah. (Wilkinson) Ross, born on the
old homestead in Solebury, was the great-
grandfather of the subject of this sketch.
He married (first) a Miss Clark, and (sec-
ond) Jane Cliapman, who was the mother
of his six children : Thomas, John, Will-
ia'm, Cephas, Hugh and Samuel. He lived
on the Solebury plantation until 1796, when
he removed with his family to Newtown,
where he died about 1814. His eldest son
Thomas was appointed prothonotary and
clerk of the courts of Bucks county in 1801,
and held those offices for eight years. He
was born in 1767 and was admitted to the
bar of Northampton county in 1793, but
practiced but a year or two, when he re-
moved to New York city. He returned to
Newtown in 1800 and practiced law until
appointed prothonotary and clerk. His wife
was Mary Lyons, of Long Island. He died
in 1815, while visiting his brother John at
Easton and left no children. Hugh Ross
studied law with his brother John at Easton
and on being admitted to the bar returned

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

to Newtown, later went to Trenton, New
Jersey and finally settled in Milford, Pike
county, Pennsylvania. Samuel, the young-
est child of Thomas Ross (2) born 1779,
■married in 1815 Mary Helena Wirtz, and
settled in Philadelphia. He had six chil-
dren. Cephas Ross, another son of
Thomas (2) remained in Bucks county,
■where he still has numerous descendants.
-He died in Plumstrad in 1840.

Hon. John Ross, the grandfather of the
•"su"bect of this sketch, son of Thomas and
Jane (Chapman) Ross, was born on the
Solebury homestead. February 24, 1770. He
received a liberal education, but it appears
that his family were averse to his follow-
ing a professional career. From a number
'of letters written by him in 1790 to his
benefactor, Richard Backhouse, it would
seem that by reason of the difference with
his parents as to his future career he was
cast upon his own resources. These let-
ters are now in the possession of the Penn-
sylvania Historical Society. He commenced
life as a school teacher at Durham, where he
attracted the attention of Richard Back-
house, then proprietor of the furnace. To
Mr. Backhouse the youth confided his in-
tention of going South to seek his fortune.
Mr. Backhouse urged him to take up the
study of law, and generously offered to give
him sufficient financial aid to complete his
studies and start him in the practice of
law. Taking up with this generous offer,
the embryo judge began the study of law
with his cousin. Thomas Ross, of West
Chester, then in the same judicial dis-
trict as Bucks county, and he was admitted
to the bar of the district in 1792. He set-
tled at Easton. Northampton county and
began the practice of law. and at once
sprang into prominence. Hon. Henry P.
Ross, his grandson, once said : "No
member of the family approached him in
ability," and his brilliant professional ca-
reer warrants the assertion, superlative
though it be. A born politician, he early
launched into the , arena of politics. He
was elected to the state legislature in 1800.
In 1804 he was a candidate for congress,
but the jealousies aroused by the rival
claims of the three counties of Northamp-
ton, Bucks and Montgomery, then compos-
ing the district, caused his defeat. He re-
newed the fight in 1808 and was then
elected. At the expiration of his term he
was appointed prothonotary of Northamp-
ton county. Was elected to congress again
in 1814. and re-elected in 1816 and resigned
to accept the appointment of judge of the
seventh judicial district, comprising the
counties of Bucks, Montgomery, Chester
and Delaware. January 25. 1818. He had
married November 19. 1795. Mary Jenkins,
whose family resided at Jenkintown, and
on taking up the duties of his office he
located there. The act of March. 1821,
placed Montgomery and Bucks in one ju-
dicial district and Judge Ross removed to
Doylestown, then the county seat of Bucks.

He purchased the old tavern stand where
the National Bank now stands, and con-
verted it into a residence, and it remained
the home of his descendants until 1896.
Judge Ross was appointed justice of the
supreme cgurt April 16, 1830, after which
much of his time was spent in Jenkintown.
He died of apoplexy in Philadelphia Jan-
uary 31, 1834, in his sixty-fourth year.
While in Northampton county he had pur-
chased a tract of 348 acres near the Wind
Gap in what is now INIonroe county, and
named it Ross Common. He set apart
upon this tract a family burying ground.
Here his favorite brother Thomas was bur-
ied, and here the famous jurist and states-
man himself lies buried.

The children of Judge John Ross were :
George, a graduate of Princeton, who stud-
ied law with his father and was admitted
to the bar in i8r8; (he became involved in
a quarrel which resulted in a duel on the
Delaware river, and he was never after-
wards heard from) Charles J.; Lord; Cam-
illa, who married General Peter Thrie, of
Easton ; Serena ; John, an invalid, though
he lived until 1886; Thomas; Jesse Jen-
kins, who was at one time consul to Sicilv ;
Adelaide, who married Dr. Samuel R.
Dubbs. and Mary. Of these, George,
Thomas, William and Jenkins all were col-
lege graduates and all lawyers, though
Thomas was the only one who continued
to practice. William became a teacher.
]\Iary Jenkins Ross died in December. 1845.

Thomas Ross, the father of the subject
of this sketch, was born in Easton. Decem-
ber I,. 1806. He graduated at Princeton
in 1825. studied law, and was admitted to
the bar February 9. 1829. Inheriting the
abilities of his distinguished ancestors, he
was a fine pleader and a logical thinker
and became one of the eminent lawyers
of his day. He was elected to consress
from the tenth district comprising Bucks
and Lehigh in 1848. and re-elected in 1851,
and the district was never more ably repre-
sented. As an orator he obtained a na-
ional reputation. He died July 7. 1865.
His wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Levi
Pawling of IMontgomery county, a member
of the fiftieth congress, and £rrandauQ:hter
of Governor Heister. The children of this
marriage were Henry P., George and Mary.

Henry P. Ross, born December 16. 1836,
who became president judge of the seventh
judicial district, graduated at Princeton
in 1857. studied law with bis father and
was admitted to the bar in December. 1859.
He nracticed law with his father imtil the
death of the latter in 1865. when he took
his brother George into the firm. He w'as
elected district attorney in 1862. He was
a brilliant lawyer and an accomplished
speaker. He was a leader of his party, and
twice its candidate for congress. He was
elected additional law^ judge in 1869. and
succeeded Judge Chapman as president
judge two years later. When the district
was divided in 1874 he chose Montgomery

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

•county and, finishing his term there, was
re-elected in 1881, but died at Norristown,
April 13. 1882.

George Ross, son of Thomas and Eliza-
"beth (Pawling) Ross, was born August 24,
1841. He obtained his preparatory edu-
cation at the Tenent school at Hartsville.
-conducted by the Rev. Alahlon anfi Charles
Long, and at the Lawrenceville. New Jer-
sey Academy, under the tutorship of Dr.
Hamill. He entered Princeton in January,
1858, and graduated in the class of 186 r.
He at once began the study of law with his
father and brother at Doylestown and was
admitted to the bar of the county June 13,
1864. At the death of his father the fol-
lowing year he formed a partnership w^ith
his elder brother, Hon. Henry P. Ross,
which lasted until the elevation of the lat-
ter to the bench in 1869. when he became
associated with Levi L. James, under the
firm name of George Ross & L. L. James.
At the death of Mr. James in 1889, J. Ferd:
inand Long became the junior partner.

Mr. Ross, like his father and grandfather,
was a trained and erudite lawyer, by years
of study and patient industry he had mas-
tered the great principles of common and
statute law, and soon earned the proud
distinction of being the recognized leader
of the bar in his native county. He \vas a
forceful speaker, quiet and undemonstra-
tive in his manner, not given to self-asser-
tion in oratory. One of his contemporaries
has said of him. "if the absence of art is
the highest quality of oratory, he was an
orator indeed. His remarkable knowledge
of the law. his subtle power of logic, and
his indomitable perseverance in the ad-
vocacy of the cause of a client, have made
his memory dear to the people he served,
and made his name remembered and hon-
ored in the community in which he lived."
In 1872 he was a member of the constitu-
tional convention that framed our present
state constitution, representing the counties
of Bucks and Northampton in that body.
He was elected to the state senate in 1886,
and succeeded himself four years later, a
distinction exceedingly rare in the history
of his county. He was a life-long Demo-
crat, and therefore represented the minority
in the law-making body of the state. Not-
withstanding this fact he soon became
known as the recognized leader in all that
pertained to the best interests of his state.
At the organization of the senate on Janu-
ary 2, 1895, Senator Brewer, of Indiana
county, who w-as not of his political faith,
in calling the attention of the body to the
death of Senator Ross, said in part : "Sel-
dom has any legislative body been called
upon to mourn the loss of a more disting-
uished member. This is not the proper
time to pay a tribute to the distinguished
services he rendered his state. There is
such a thing as leadership, known and rec-
ognized among men, and the members of
this body, irrespective of party, accorded
to George Ross leadership. Although we

have scarcely passed the threshold of this
session, his absence is noticed and his coun-
sel is missed. " Mr. Ross stood deservedly
high in the counsels of his party. He was a
delegate to the national conventions of
1876. 1884. and 1892. He was the Demo-
cratic nominee for congress in the seventh
district in 1884, but was defeated at the
polls by Hon. Robert M. Yardley. He w^as
also the caucus nominee of his party for
the Um'ted States senate in 1893. He was
deeply interested in the local institutions
of his county and district was one of the
original directors of the Bucks County
Trust Company, and its president at the
time of his death. He was also a trustee
of the Norristown Insane Asylum until
his death. He died at his home in Doyles-
town, November 19, 1894. The disease
which caused his death had given his fam-
ily and friends much concern for probably
a year. The state senate, of which he was
a member at the time of his death, ap-
pointee' a committee of five to draft resolu-
tions expressive of the sense of that body
upon his death, and fixed a special session
on January 23, 1895, to receive and con-
sider the report of such committee. At
this special session the resolutions adopted
and the speeches of his colleagues show
the merited appreciation of his public ser-
vices and private virtues. We quote from
one of these speeches the following : "Our
friends was not of humble origin, nor could
he boast of being wholly a self-made man.
He had great advantages, coming ^rom a
long line of distinguished ancestors, a race
of lawyers, some of whom had worn the
judicial ermine; he had the benefits of a
most liberal education, and claimed the
famous college of Princeton for his alma
mater. This scion of one of the most il-
lustrious families of Pennsylvania, in
whose veins flowed some of the best blood
in this grand old Keystone state, worthy
of his origin, was a prince among men."

George Ross married, December 4, 1870,
Ellen Lyman Phipps, a daughter of George
W. Phipps, of Boston, Massachusetts. The
children of this marriage are : Thomas,
born September 16, 1873 : Elizabeth P.,
George ; Ellen P., I\Iary ; Gertrude.

Thomas, the eldest son, was educated at
Lawrenceville and Princeton, and gradu-
ated at Princeton in the class of 1895. He
studied law under the preceptorship of Hon.
Harman Yerkes, and was admitted to the
bar December, 1897. He formed a partner-
ship with his father's old partner, J. Ferd-
inand Long, which terminated with the
death of the latter in January, 1902.

George Ross was born May 28, 1879. He
graduated at Lawrenceville in 1896 and at
Princeton in 1900. He studied law with
his brother Thomas at Doylestown and at
the University of Pennsylvania Law School
and was admitted to the bar December 22,
1902. and entered into partnership with his
brother. In 1904 Hon. Harman Yerkes be-
came a member of the firm.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

HON. MAHLON H. STOUT, president
judge of the courts of Bucks county, was
born in Richland township, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, March lo, 1852, being the
son of Jacob and Amanda (Headman)
Stout, both of German descent.

Jacob Stout, the great-great-grandfather
of the subject of this sketch, was- born in
Germany in the year 1711, and came to this
country at the age of twenty-six years. He
arrived in Philadelphia in the ship "Sam-
uel," August 30. 1737, accompanied by an
elder brother John, aged thirty years. In
the year 1739 Jacob Stout married Anna
Leisse, widow of John Leisse, of Rockhill
township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania.
John Leisse, LaCene, Lacey, or Licey, as
the name has been variously , spelled, ar-
rived in the ship "Adventurer," from Rot-
terdam, with wife Anna, aged twenty- four
years, a brother, Paul La Gene, with his
wife Luisa and three children, and a broth-
er-in-law, Michel Miller, September 23,
1732. John Leisse purchased in 1735 two
hundred acres in Rockhill under the name
of "John Lacey." He died in 1738, and
the following year his widow married Jacob
Stout. The two hundred acre farm pur-
chased by Leisse. included a large part of
the present borough of Perkasie. In 1759
Johannes and Hendrick Licey, the sons of
John Leisse, deceased, conveyed this tract
to their stepfather, Jacob Stout, and he
and wife in turn conveyed to them tracts
in HilUown, portions of 266 acres purchased
by Jacob Stout in 1757. The first purchase
of land by Jacob Stout was a tract of land
adjoining the Durham tract, now in Will-
iams township, Northampton .^ county, 243
acres, purchased September 9, 1750; his
residence at that date was given as "Dur-
ham township, Bucks county." In 1753 he
purchased a mill property at Church Hill,
in Rockhill township. In 1767 he purchased
the Pine Run mill property and one hun-
dred and nineteen acres, and in 1774 a
tract of one hundred and fifty acres in
New Britain township. These later pur-
chases were doubtless to provide homes for
his daughter, Salome, who had married
Abraham Freed, a miller, and to whom he
conveyed the mill and forty-one acres three
years later ; and Catharine, who had mar-
ried Jacob SchliefTer, who occupied and
later heired the New Britain property.
Jacob Stout was a potter by trade and was
a successful and prominent man in the com-
munity. The last twenty years of his life
were doubtless spent on his Perkasie farm,
• where he lies buried in a neat little burial
lot close to the P. & R. R. R. station. He
died April 30, 1779. aged sixty-eight and a
half years. The children of Jacob and Anna
(Miller-Lei.sse) Stout were: Abraham.
Isaac; Salome, married (first) Abraham
Freed and (second) Gabriel Swartzlander ;
and Catharine, wife of Jacob Schlicfifer

Abraham Stout, eldest son of Jacob and
Anna Stout, was born August 17, 1740. He
was probably one of the best educated
Pennsylvania Germans of his time in Bucks

county. Most of his education was ac-
quired in the old Germantown Academy,,
under the tuition of Hilarius Becker, pro-
fessor of German, and David J. Dove as
instructor in English. He thus acquired a.
thorough knowledge of the English lan-
guage, a rare accomplishment at that date
or for many years later among the German
colonists of upper Bucks. He was an ex-
cellent accountant and penman as well as
a good business man, and his services were
much in demand as a surveyor, scrivener
and accountant among his German neigh-
bors for over a quarter of a century. From'
an examination of the old papers on file
in the county ofiices it would appear that he
drew a great majority of the deeds, wills
and other legal papers for the middle sec-
tion of upper Bucks during that period. In
addition to this he was constantly in de-
mand by the court to serve as one of the
auditors appointed to prepare and state the
accounts of administrators and executors
under the rule then in vogue, and many of
these papers now on file in the orphans'
court are models of penmanship, concise-
ness and neatness. At the death of his
father in 1779 his brothers and sisters con-
veyed to him the homestead farm at Per-
kasie, whereupon he was born, and he spent
his whole life there, the Durham farm go-
ing to his brother Isaac, while the sisters
were provided for as before stated. He
died June 8, 1812, and is buried beside his
father, mother and wife in the family-
burial lot at Perkasie. His life presents a
fine example of German-American citizen-
ship. Though he was in the height of his
local usefulness during the period of the
Revolutionary war, he seems to have held
aloof from active participation therein. He
was elected to represent Rockhill township
in the committee of safety in 1775, but
after several meetings had been held he
asked to be relieved and another was ap-
pointed in his place. It is probable that the
traditions of the sufferings of his ancestors
from the civil wars in the Palatinate had
their effect in deterring him from taking
an active part in the struggle. He was a.
delegate from Bucks county to the constitu-
tional convention of 1790, and took an ac-
tive part in the framing of the constitution
of our commonwealth. He married Octo-
ber 21, 1772, Mary Magdalen Hartzell,
daughter of Henry Hartzell of Rockhill.
She died November 8, 181 1, in her sixty-
first year. Their children were : Hannah,
who married a Worman, and was left a
widow young and for many 3'ears resided'
with her parents; Abraham; Henry H. ;
Jacob H. ; Anna, who married Jacob Hart-
man; Margaretta, who married Tobias
Rule; (later spelled Ruhl") and Magdalene,
who married John Gearhart.

Jacob Stout, second son of Abraham and
Magdalen, was the grandfather of Judge
Stout. He was born on the Perkasie
homestead January 9. 1775. and died there
.August 15. 1820. His wife was Elizabeth
Barndt, born November 27, 1778, and died'

J^ C^yH^<>CrV'<-^

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

November 7, 1821. They resided on a por-
tion of the old homestead and raised a
family of eight children, viz : Isaac ; Abra-
ham; Jacob B. ; Samuel; Sarah, who mar-
ried Charles Leidy ; Anna, who married
Isaac Drumbore ; Mary Magdalen, who
married Jacob Groff; and Elizabeth, who
married Enos Kile.

Jacob B. Stout, the father of Judge Stout,
was born at Perkasie, November 8, 1814,
and died near there in April, 1896. He mar-
ried Amanda, daughter of Michael Head-
man. They resided for a time at the ola
Headman Pottery in Rockhill, but returned
later and purchased a farm adjoining the
old Perkasie homestead, where the re-
mainder of their lives were spent. The
children of Jacob and Amanda Stout were :
Maria, who married Tobias Weil ; Emma,
who married George W. Kratz ; and Mah-
lon H., the subject of this sketch.

Judge Stout spent his boyhood days on
the Rockhill farm and attended the -public
schools of the neighborhood and the First
State Normal School at Millersville, and
taught school for four years. He after-
wards entered Franklin and IMarshall
'College, at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from
which he graduated in 1878. He at once
took up the study of law in the office of
Adam J. Eberly, Esq., at Lancaster, and
was admitted to the Lancaster county bar
April 4, 1880, and to that of his native
county in ]\Iay of the same year. After
two years of practice at Doylestown he lo-
cated in 1882 at Flulmeville, opening a law
office there and having a branch office at
Bristol. He was also a justice of the peace
at Hulmeville. In 1886 he came to Doyles-
town and formed a law partnership with
cx-Judge Richard Watson, under the firm
name of Watson & Stout, which continued
until the death of Judge Watson in 1894.
Mr. Stout was elected district attorney of
Bucks county in 1888, and was unanimously
nominated by his party to succeed himself
three years later, but was defeated at the
polls by the' late Paul H. Applebach, the
■candidate of the then dominant party.

Mr. Stout was married November 13,
1894, to Miss Harriet Miller, of Downing-
town, Pennsylvania. In 1898, his wife's
health failing, he sacrificed his business and
removed with her to Pasadena. California,
with the hope of saving her life. While
there he was admitted to the bar of that
state and practiced law at Pasadena. His
-wife died December 24, 1899, and their in-
fant son Max on December 25, 1898.

Mr. Stout returned to Doylestown in the
spring of 1900, and again took up the prac-
tice of law. In 1901 he formed a partner-
ship with Harvey S. Kiser, Esq., under the
firm name of Stout & Kiser, which con-
tinued until the elevation of Mr. Stout to
the bench. He was elected president judge
in November, 1903, and entered upon the
duties of his office in January, 1904. Judge
Stout has always been a close student, and
as a lawyer had the reputation of being one
of the best counsellors at the bar, and his

administration of the high office to which
he has been elevated merits the trust re-
posed in him by the large majority of voters
who elected him. His calm and even tem-
perament, his uniform courtesy, his sterling
common sense, his devotion to principle and
right, and his unquestioned knowledge of
the law, have made his administration
popular with all classes.

JOHN C. SWARTLEY was born in
Franconia township, Montgomery county,
Pennsylvania, September 14, 1865, and is a
son of Jacob S. and Elizabeth (Cassel)
Swartley, both of whom are descendants
of early German settlers in that locality
of the Mennonite faith.

John Schwardley, the pioneer ancestor of
the subject of this sketch, was born in Ep-
pingen, in Necker, grand duchy of Baden,
Germany, in the year 1754. At the age of
eighteen years, accompanied by his younger
brothers, Jacob and Philip, he emigrated
to Pennsylvania, arriving in Philadelphia
September 30, 1772, in the ship, "Minerva,"
Captain James Johnston, from Rotterdam.
He soon after found a home among his
compatriots in Franconia township, where
he married Magdalena Rosenberger, born
December 18, 1759, daughter of the Rev.
Henry Rosenberger, Mennonite minister at
Franconia, and grand daughter of Henry
Rosenberger, the pioneer ancestor of the
Rosenberger family, who had taken up a
large tract of land in Franconia in 1728.
Rev. Henry Rosenberger was born Decem-
ber 2, 1725, and died in 1809. He married
in 1745 Barbara Oberholtzer, born in 1726,
died February 3, 1765, daughter of Jacob
and Barbara Oberholtzer, (or Overholt),
who were early settlers in Bedminster
township. Bucks county, where Jacob pur-
chased land in 1749. Rev. Henry and Bar-
bara (Oberholtzer) Rosenbergeir were the
parents of eight children, five of whom sur-
vived and left descendants, viz : Anna, who
married (first) Michael Leatherman and
(second) John Loux, both of Bedminster;
Elizabeth, married Mark Fretz ; Barbara,
married Daniel Rickert ; all of Bucks
county ; Magdalena, above named ; and Sar-
ah, who married Philip Schwardley, the
youngest brother of John Schwardley, above
named. John and Magdalena Schwardley
lived and died on a portmn of the Rosen-
berger homestead in Franconia, still in the
tenure of iheir descendants, and were the
parents of nine children, viz : John, Jacob,
Samuel, Abraham, Joseph, Henry, Philip
R., Elizabeth and Mary.

Philip R. Swartley, son of John and
Magdalena, was born on the old homestead
in Franconia, January 2, 1795, and died
there July 30, 1880. He married Annie C.
Shoemaker, and their son Jacob S. Swart-
ley, born in 1821, died 1867, was the father
of the subject of this sketch. He was born
and reared on the old homestead in Fran-
conia, and followed farming and milling

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

(luring the brief period of bis nianbood.
His wife, Elizabeth Cassel, was a descend-
ant of early German settlers on the Skip-
pack, who have left numerous descendants
of the name in Bucks and Montgomery
counties and elsewhere. She is still living
in Lansdale. Pennsylvania.

John C. Swartley, the subject of
this sketch, left an orphan at the age of
two years, was reared in the family of his
maternal uncle, Abraham F. Delp, in the
township of New Britain, Bucks county,
and acquired his elementary education in
the public schools of that township. He
entered the First state normal school at
Millersville in 1885, and graduated in 1888.
For the next two years he was principal of
the North Wales high schools, in Mont-
gomery county. In 1890 he entered the law
department of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, from which he graduated in 1893,
in the meantime reading law in the office of
Henry Lear, Esq.. at Doylestown. He was
admitted to the Philadelphia bar in June,
1893, and in August of the same year to
the bar of Bucks county, and at once be-
gan the practice of his profession at the
county seat. Soon after admission to the
bar he became active and influential in pol-
itical circles, and served for three years as
chairman of the Republican county com-
mittee. In the fall of 1897 he was elected
to the office of district attorney for the
term of three years, and filled that position
with ability. He has always been active in
the councils of his party, and has served
as delegate to state and congressional con-
ventions. He was appointed January i, 1903,
assistant United States attorney for the
Eastern District of Pennsylvania, a posi-
tion which he still fills. In 1903 he formed
a co-partnership at law with Wesley Bunt-
ing, Esq., and the firm have a good prac-
tice in the several courts of Bucks county.

Mr. Swartley was married on October 24,
1900, to Agnes Darlington, daughter of the
late Henry T. and Susan Darlington, of
Doylestown, and this union has been blessed
with two children — John C. Jr., and Mar-
garet Darlington.

(A sketch of the career and ancestry of
Mrs. Swartley's distinguished father,
Henry T. Darlington, will be found in this
volume.)

LEE S. CLYAffiR, of Riegelsville. Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, one of the prominent
manufacturers and business men of uppei
Bucks, was born at Mt. Laurel Furnace.
Berks -county, Pennsylvania. (Temple post--
office) April 2, 1863, and is a son of Will-
iam Hiester and Valeria (Smith) Clymer.
His father was for many years proprietor
of the Mt. Laurel furnace. Mr. Clymer
comes of a distinguished ancestry both in
this country and in Europe, only brief men-
tion of which can be given in the scope of
this brief sketch. Richard Clymer, the pa-
ternal ancestor, was a native of Bristol,
England, from whence he migrated to

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1705, ac-
companied by his mother, Catharine Clymer,
and a brother William, who died in 1740
without issue. Richard Clymer was ' a.
shipping merchant and shipbuilder; he died
August 18, 1734, leaving several children,
of whom only his sons, Christopher and
William have left descendants. George
Clymer, the signer of the Declaration of In-
dependence, was a son of the former.

William Clymer, son of Richard, was a
captain in the English navy, commanding
the frigate "Penzance" during the reign of
George II, and was lost at sea, leaving a
will dated October 16, 1760. He married
at Christ Church, Philadelphia, January 19,
1742, Ann Judith Roberdeau, daughter of
Isaac and Mary (Conyngham) Roberdeau,
and sister to General Daniel Roberdeau,
the friend of Franklin, and one of the most
distinguished patriots in Pennsylvania dur-
ing the Revolution. Ann Judith (Rober-
deau) Clymer was born on the Island of
St. Christopher, West Indies, in the year
1725, and died at Morgantown, Berks
county, Pennsylvania, April, 1782. Isaac
I Roberdeau, father of Mrs. Clymer, was a
native of Rochelle, France, and fled to the
, island of St. Christopher, one of the Brit-
I ish West Indies, on the revocation of the
Edict of Nantes in 1685. Here he met and
married Mary Conyngham, born at Cayou,
on that island, April 4, 1699. daughter of
Robert Conyngham, born in Scotland,
March 24, 1669, and his wife Judith Eliza-
beth de Bonneson, a native of Morlais,
France, the former of whom traced his des-
cent back through a long line of kings and
princes royal to William the Conqueror,
and in his own direct line to Malcolm, son
of Friskine, who assisted Malcolm Can-
more, afterwards King of Scotland, to es-
cape from ]\IacBeth"s tyranny and treason,
and was in return made Thane of Conyng-
ham, from which his posterity afterwards
took their surname. Robert Conyngham, of
St. Christopher, left an immense estate in
St. Christopher and in Scotland, a portion
of which he entailed in the male line, and
which was the subject of litigation a cen-
tury later on the male line bearing his sur-
name becoming extinct. Isaac and Mary
(Conyngham) Roberdeau were the parents
of three children, all born at St. Christo-
pher, viz : Elizabeth, born 1724, who died
unmarried ; Ann Judith, who married Will-
iam Clymer; and Daniel, the eminent mer-
chant, statesman and patriot before referred
to. Isaac Roberdeau died at St. Christo-
pher, and his widow and children removed
to Philadelphia while the children were still
in their minority, where the widow married
a man by name of Keighly, but was again
a widow many years prior to her death,
which occurred March 13, 1771.

Daniel Conyngham Clymer, only son of
William and Ann Judith (Roberdeau) Cly-
mer, was born in Philadelphia. April 6^
1748. His father dying when he was a
child, he was educated under the care of his
distinguished uncle. General Daniel Rober-

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

dcau. He graduated at Princeton in 1766,
studied law and became eminent in his pro-
fession. At the beginning of the Revolu-
tion he at once joined the Associators of that
city and was commissioned a lieutenant.
April -8, 1776, he was commissioned lieu-
tenant-colonel and placed in command of
a rifle battalion. He was appointed in 1775
and again in 1776 by Congress as a signer
of Bills of Credit, and held the offices of
deputy commissary-general of prisoners and
commissioner of claims of the treasury.
During the closing years of the Revolution
he removed to Reading, Berks county, and
represented that county in the legislature
in 1782 and several succeeding terms. He
died at Reading, January 25, 1810. He had
married in 1782 Mary Weidner, daughter of
Peter and Susan Weidner, of Berks county,
who died December 5, 1802, in her forty-
sixth year. Their children were Ann, born
1782, who died unmarried in 1852; Will-
iam, born 1788, died October 10, 1845, an
eminent lawyer of Reading; and Edward
Tilgham, born August 14, 1790, died
March 6, 18.31. Edward Tilghman Clymer
was born at Reading, Berks county, and
was educated at Princeton. He married
June II, 1818, Maria Catharine Hiester,
daughter of William and Anna Maria
(Meyer) Hiester. She was born March
4>_ 1793, and died March 24, 1845. Edward
Tilghman was a man of scholarly attam-
ments, and follows

1. Daniel Roberdeau. a merchant and
lawyer of Reading, born March ,31. i8ig,
died May 5, 1889, aged seventy years,

2. William Hiester, the father of the
subject of this sketch; see forward.

3. Edward Myers, born July 16, 1822,
died May 25, 188.?, in New York City, pro-
jector and first president of the East Penn-
sylvania railroad, later president of a coal
company connected with the N. Y., L. E. &
W. Railroad Companv, with offices in New
York.

4. Wiedner, born May 12, 1824, died
July 16, 1824.

5. Mary Hiester. born July 19, 1825,
drowned in the English Channel November
26, 1878, with two of her children ; mar-
ried August 10, 1852, her cousin, William
Bingham Clymer, son of Henry, and grand-
son of George Clymer, the Signer, who was

jDorn April 18, 1801, at Morrisville, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, died May 28, 1873,
at Florence, Italy.

6. Hon. Hiester Clymer, born Novemlier
3, 1827, died June 12, 1884; lawyer, state
senator, congressman. Democratic candidate
for governor, president of Union Trust
Company, etc.

7. George Edward - Clymer, born Jan-
uary 8, 1830, died July 7, 1895, major of
Sixth Pennsylvania Cavalry in the civil war
and prominent in the iron and steel indus-
tries.

William Hiester Clymer, the father of
the subject of this sketch, was born at the
Clymer homestead in the Conestoga Valley,
near Morgantown, Berks county, October

9, 1820. His father dying when he was
eleven years of age, he was placed with his
uncle, William Hiester, at New Holland,
Lancaster county, arid was educated at
Lititz, and assisted his uncle in his store.
He later removed to Reading, where he and
his brother, Daniel R., conducted a dry
goods store until 1846, when he sold out
to Daniel, and with his brother Edward M.,
purchased the Mt. Laurel iron furnace.
They built the Temple iron furnace in 1867,
and, having seven years previously pur-
chased the old Oley furnace, became exten-
sive manufacturers of iron, organizing the
Temple Iron Company in 1870, and later
the Clymer Iron Company, both of which
W^illiam H. Clymer was president, until
September, 1882, when he resigned and re-
moved with his family to Reading, where
he died July 26, 1883. He was president of
the First National Bank of Reading from
1876 to his death. He married, June 12^
1855, Valeria Smith, eldest daughter of Levi
B. Smith, who was born March 14, 1828,.
and died August 17, 1901. They were the
parents of six children : Emily Smith ; Ed-
ward Tilghman ; William Hiester ; Lee
Smith ; Valeria Elizabeth ; and Frederick
Hiester.

The ancestors of Maria Catharine Hies-
ter, the grandmother of the subject of this
sketch, were of Silesian origin, her first
American ancestor being Daniel Hiester,
the youngest of three brothers, John, Jo-
seph and Daniel, who emigrated from Wit-
genstein, in Westphalia, to Pennsylvania,
early in the eighteenth century, and took up
their residence in Goshenhoppen, now Mont-
gomery county. Daniel had several sons, of
whom John, born April 9, 174S, was a mem-
ber of congress from Chester county 1807-8
and was succeeded by his son Daniel ; Dan-
iel, a representative in congress from Mont-
gomery county, 1789-97, and from Mary-
land 1801-5 ; Gabriel, for thirty year's a
member of the state legislature from Berks
county; and William. All four of these
sons of Daniel Hiester were in the conti-
nental service during the revolution, the
two elder as colonels, the third as a major,.
while William, the youngest, born June 10,
1757. being required to look after his aged
parents, did not serve but one campaign.
Joseph Hiester, governor of Pennsylvania,
was the only son of John, and a cousin of
the four brothers above named.

Daniel Hiester. the elder, was born m
the town of Elsoff, county of Witgenstein,.
province of Westplialia, in Silesia, Ger-
many, January r. 1713, and died in J^erii
township, Berks county, Pennsylvania, June
7, 1795. His wife was Catharine Schuler,
whom he married September 29, 1742. She
was born Sepiember 10, 1717, and died
August 17, 1789, aged seventy-two years,
eleven months and seven days.

William Hiester, the great-grandfather
of the subject of this sketch, born at Go.sh-
enhoppen. Upper Salford township, Mont-
gomery county, June 10, 1757, was the
youngest son of Daniel and Catharine

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

(Schulcr) Hiester. He was seventeen
years of age when his parents removed to
Reading, and remained with his parents in
Reading for ten years. He then removed
to Bern township, where he died July 13,
1822. He was a private in Captain George
Will's company, in 1777, in the battalion
commanded by his brother, Major Gabriel
Hiester. He married. March 18, 1784, Anna
Maria Meyer, daughter of Isaac Meyer, the
founder of Meyerstown, Pennsylvania. She
was born December 28, 1758, and died
October 4, 1822. They were the parents
of eight children, the fifth of whom. Maria
Catharine, born March 4, 179.3. was the
wife of Edward Tilghman Clymer.

Lee S. Clymer, born at the Mt. Laurel
Furnace. April 2, 1863, was educated at
Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania,
taking a special course in chemistry. On
leaving college he accepted a position as
chemist for the Minnesota Iron Company,
which he filled for one year. In 1885 he
opened a general laboratory at Reading,
Pennsylvania. In December, 1886. he left
Reading and took a position as chemist for
the Carnegie Company at the Edgar Thom-
as Furnace. Braddock, Pennsylvania, where
he remained for one year. In October. 1887,
he came to Bucks county as chemist for
the Durham Iron Company, and filled that
position for two years, when he was made
superintendent of the Request Iron Fur-
nace, near Oxford, New Jersey, where he
remained until the furnace was about to
be closed in the autumn of 1890. He then
accepted a position as superintendent of
the Lehigh Iron Company's works near
Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he re-
mained for about eight months. During a
part of the next two years he was superin-
tendent for the Thomas Iron Company's
furnaces at Hellertown, Pennsylvania. In
1895 he erected and equipped the Durham
Knitting Mills, at Riegelsville, Bucks coun-
ty, which he has since sucessfully operated.
He also operates several fine farms in Dur-
ham township, and is interested in the
breeding of standard bred horses and thor-
oughbred cattle. He recently became half
owner of what was the Lehigh Power
Company, located at Raubsville, Pennsyl-
vania. It is proposed to operate this plant
under the name of the Clymer Power Com-
pany.

He married, June 11, 1891, Clara Matilda
Riegel, daughter of the late John L. and
Lydia (Stover) Riegel. by whom he has
two children. John Riegel, born April 14,
1892, and Valeria Smith, born January 12,
1896.

JACOB F. CLYMER. The Clymer fam-
ily, of which Jacob F. Clymer. a prosperous
farmer of New Britain township is a worthy
representative, is one of the oldest in the
township, and have always been highly es-
teemed for the many excellent characteris-
tics displayed by them both in public and

private life. Jonas Clymer, grandfather of
Jacob F. Clymer. resided on the farm now
owned by Jacob F. Clymer. He was a
shoemaker by trade, and this occupation he
followed in connection with agricultural
pursuits during the early years of his life,
but as he advanced in years he abandoned
the former line of work entirely, devoting
his entire attention to the latter. He served
as supervisor of his township for seven
years, his long term of office attesting to
his capability. He adhered to the tenets of
the Mennonite church, in which he served
as trustee ; he was formerly a Whig in pol-
itics, and later a Republican. He married
Hannah Clymer, daughter of Henry Cly-
mer, and their children were : John, Will-
iam C. Henry. Levi, Elizabeth, Sarah,
Amanda and Hannah.

William C. Chmer, father of Jacob F.
Clymer. was reared on his father's farm in
New Britain township, educated in the com-
mon schools of the neighborhood, and upon
the death of his father succeeded to the
homestead. In connection with his exten-
sive farming operations he engaged in the
produce commission business for thirty
years, deriving a goodly income from both
enterprises, and thus was enabled to pro-
vide a comfortable home for his family. The
esteem in which he was held by his fellow-
townsmen was evidenced by the fact that
he was the incumbent of the office of school
director twelve j'ears and supervisor one
year. He was a trustee of the Mennonite
church, the doctrines of which he firmly be-
lieved in, and his political views were in
accord with those of the Republican party.
By his marriage to Elizabeth Fretz, only
child of Joseph and Mary (Markley) Fretz,
four children were born: Jacob F., Charles
who died at the age of twenty years ; Jonas,
who is engaged in business in Philadelphia;
and Harvey, also engaged in business in
Philadelphia. Mary (Fretz) Clymer, moth-
er of these children, died in 1884. and ]\Ir.
Clymer married for his second wife Lydia
A. Swartley. widow of Philip Swartley.

Jacob F. Clymer was born in New Britain
township. Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
March 16. 1862. He was reared on the old
homestead, and his educational advantages
were obtained by attendance at the com-
mon schools. His whole life has been spent
on the farm where he was born, his occu-
pation being that of farming, for which he
is eminently qualified, as is clearly shown
by the appearance of his broad acres and
com.modious outbuildings. Mr. Clymer has
served as supervisor of the township nine
3'ears. his duties during that time being
performed in a highly creditable and ef-
ficient manner. In religious and political
faith he follows in the footsteps of his fore-
fathers, being a member and trustee of the
Mennonite church and a Republican. In
1887 l\Ir. Clymer married Anna Mary
Swartley, daughter of Philip and Lydia
Swartley, and they are the parents of one
son, Vincent, born June 30, 1892.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY

THE FOULKE FAMILY that has been
prominent in the ofificial, professional and
business life of Bucks. Montgomery and
Philadelphia counties for many generations
as well as in that of far distant states and
cities, is descended from Edward Foulke,
who emigrated from Wales in 1698 and set-
tled in Gwynedd, now Montgomery county,
Pennsylvania. An acount of his ancestry,
tracing in unbroken line to "John King of
England, born December 24, 1166. crowned
May 27, 1216," and an account of his com-
ing to America, etc., the latter written by
himself under date of ii-mo. 14. 1702, con-
tains among other things the following :

"When arrived at mature age, I married
Eleanor, the daughter of Hugh, ap (son
of) Cadwallader, ap Rhys of the parish of
Spytu in Denbighshire. Her mother's
name was Gwen the daughter of Ellis ap
William, ap Hugh, ap Thomas, ap David,
ap Madoc. ap Evan, ap Cott, ap Evan, ap
Griffith, ap Madoc, ap Einion, ap Meredith
of Cai-Fadog: she was born in the same
parish and shire with her husband. I had
by my said wife nine children, whose names
are as follows: Thomas, Hugh. Cadwall-
ader. and Evan ; Grace. Gwen, Jane, Cath-
arine, and Margaret. We lived at a place
called Coedy-foel, a beautiful farm belong-
ing to Roger Price, Esq., of Rhiwlas, of
Merionethshire, aforesaid. But in progress
of time I had an inclination to remove with
my family to the Province of Pennsylvania ;
and in order thereto we set out on the 3d
day of the 2d-month, A. D. 1698, and came
in two days to Liverpool, where with divers
others, who intended to go the voyage, we
took shipping, the 17th of the same month,
on board the "Robert and Elizabeth," and
the next day set sail for Ireland, where we
arrived, and stayed until the ist of the 3d
month. May, and then sailed again for
Pennsylvania, and were about eleven weeks
at sea. And the sore distemper of the
"bloody flux broke out in the vessel, of
which died five and forty persons in our
passage. The distemper was so mortal
that two or three corpses were cast over-
board every day while it lasted. But
through the favor and mercy of Divine
Providence. I. with my wife and nine chil-
dren, escaped that sore mortality and ar-
rived safe at Philadelphia, the 17th day of
the sth-month. July, where we were kindly
received and hospitably entertained by our
friends and old acquaintances. I soon
purchased a fine tract of land of about sev-
en hundred acres, sixteen miles from Phila-
delphia, on a part of which I settled, and
divers others of our company, who came
over sea with us, settled near me at the
same time. This was the beginning of
November, 1698, aforesaid, and the ^own-
ship was called Gwynedd or North Wales."

According to his own narrative Edward
Foulke was born 5th mo. 14th. 1651, and
taking the age given by the Meeting Rec-
ords at time of his death would place the
date of his death in 17,39. All of his nine
children lived to mature age, married and

reared families. The only two in whom
Bucks countians have any especial interest
were his eldest son Thomas, and second
son Hugh. Gwen, the eldest daughter,
married Alexander Edwards, Jr., who was
a land owner in Bucks county and
has descendants here. Grace mar-
ried John Griffith, of Merion, Chester
county. Jane married Ellis Hugh, and set-
tled at Exeter, Berks county, and left nu-
merous descendants of the name of Hughes.
Catharine married Theophilus Williams, of
Montgomery. Margaret married Nicholas
Roberts. Thomas Foulke, eldest son of Ed-
ward and Eleanor, born in Merionethshire,
\yales, immigrant to Gwynedd. 1698, with
his parents, married at Gwynedd. 4 mo. 27,
1706. Gwen Evans, daughter of David, of
Radnor, and settled at Gwynedd on part of
the Edward Foulke tract. He died in 1762,
and his wife in 1760. They were the par-
ents of eight children, of whom the two
oldest Edward (1707-1770) and William
(1708-1775) had descendants in Bucks. Dr.
Joseph Foulke, for many years a practicing
physician of Buckingham, was a great
grandson of Edward, through his son Hugh
(1752-1831), a noted minister among
Friends, who married Ann Roberts, their
son Joseph (1786-1863). who married Eliza-
beth Shoemaker, being the father of the
Buckingham physician. Dr. Charles Foulke,
born December 14, 1815, died December
30, 1871, for many years a practicing phy-
sician at New Hope. Bucks county, and
the father of Dr. Richard C. Foulke, still
practicing there, was also a great-great-
grandson of Thomas Foulke and Gwen
Evans. His father. Edward Foulke, of
Gwynedd (1784-1851). married Tacy Jones,
and his grandfather, Amos Foulke, (1740-
1791) one of the firm of Caleb and Amos
Foulke. merchants of Philadelphia, was the
son of William, second son of Thomas and
Gwen. who married Hannah Jones, of
Montgomery.

Hugh Foulke. second son of Edward and
Eleanor, born in Merionethshire, in 1685,
married, in 1713. Ann Williams, born 11
mo. 8, 1693, died gvao. 10, 1773, daughter
of John Williams, of Montgomery, and
settled in Richland, Bucks county, soon
after his marriage, and died there 5mo.
21, 1760. He was a minister of the
Society of Friends for iorty years. He
is the ancestor of many present residents
of Bucks county, through comparatively
few of the name now reside in the county.
The children of Hugh and Ann (Wil-
liams) Foulke were; — Mary, born 1714,
died 2mo. 29. 1756, married James Boone,
of Exeter, Berks county, son of George
the elder, and brother of Squire Boone, the
father of Daniel, the pioneer of Kentucky.
Their eldest daughter, Ann, married Abra-
ham Lincoln, of the family of the martyred
president. Martha, born Smo. 22. 1716,
died 4mo. 17. 1781, married (first), October
4, 1738, William Edwards, of Milford,
Bucks county, and (second) John Roberts.
Samuel, born 1718, died 1797, married Ann

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

Greasley. He was one of tlie most promi-
nent men in upper Bucks county, serving
in the Provincial Assembly 1761 to 1768.
He was a surveyor and conveyancer, and
transacted a large amount of public busi-
ness for his neighbors. He was clerk of
Richland Meeting from its organization in
1742 for thirty years, and an elder until
his death, notwithstanding the fact that he
and his brothers, John Thomas, and The-
ophilus and nephew, Everard, were dis-
owned in I 781 for having taken the oath
of allegiance, the action of the Meeting not
being sanctioned by the Yearly Meeting.
He translated the "narrative" of his grand-
father, Edward Eoulke, from Welsh into
English. John Foulke, born i2mo. 21,
T722, died 5mo. 25, 1787, married Mary
Roberts, daughter of Edward Roberts, a
noted minister amcrng Friends of Richland.
John was also a member of Provincial
Assembly from Bucks county from 1769
to 1775. Thomas Foulke. born in Rich-
land 8mo. 14, 1724, died 3mo. 31, 1786,
married Jane Roberts, another daughter of
Edward Roberts, of Richland. See for-
ward. Theophilus Foulke, born in Rich-
land, i2mo. 21, 1726. died iimo. 4, 1785,
married Margaret Thomas, daughter of
Samuel and Margaret. Of their twelve
children Benjamin, born iimo. ig, 1766,
died 2mo. 28, 1821, was a member of as-
sembly from Bucks county, 1816 to his
death in 1821, at Harrisburg in attendance
upon the session of the legislature. He
was given an official funeral, which was
attended by both houses, the governor, and
heads of departments, and resolutions were
adopted that crape should be worn during
the remainder of the session. William
Foulke, born i2mo. 10, 1728, died 4mo.
II, 1796, married Priscilla Lester, daughter
of John of Richland. Edward Foulke,
born lomo. ig, I72g, died March i, 1747,
unmarried. Ann Foulke, born imo. i,
1732, married William Thomas. Jane
Foulke, born imo. 3, 1734, died 8mo., 1771,
married John Greasley.

Thomas Foulke, of Richland, son of
Hugh and Ann (Williamsj Foulke, born
imo. 14, 1724, died 3mo. 31, 1786, was a life
long resident of Richland township, and
a prominent man in the community. He
was a member of Richland Monthly Meet-
ing, and like his brothers was dealt with
for taking the oath to the United Colonies
in 1781. His wife, Jane Roberts, born
Iimo. 3, 1732, died 7 mo. 25, 1822, was a
daughter of Edward and Mary (Bolton).
Roberts, of Richland, the former a native
of Merionethshire, born 3mo., 1687, came
to Pennsylvania in i69g, and settled in
Byberry, Pliiladelphia county. He married,
in 1714, Mary Bolton, born in Cheltenham,
Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, Novem-
ber 4, 1687, daughter of Everard and Eliza-
beth Bolton, who came from Ross, Hert-
fordshire, England, in 1682, and settled in
Cheltenham. F.verard Bolton was a just-
ice of Philadelphia county, and a very
prominent man in Colonial times. The

children of Thomas and Jane (Roberts>
Foulke were: — Everard, born gmo. 8,
1755, died gmo. 5, 1-827; Abigail, born
lomo. 4, 1763: Susan, born iimo. 5,
1766; Samuel, born iimo. ig, 1767; Ed-
ward and Samuel, died in infancy.

Everard Foulke, son of Thomas and
Jane, was one of the justices of the peace
of Richland for many years. He was one
of the assessors of the United States taxes,
w'hen John Fries raised his rebellion in
I7g8, in upper Bucks and Northampton
counties, against the collection of the tax,
and was one of the assessors attacked in
Lower Milford and at Quakertown by the
insurrectionists and forced to desist from
performing their duty. He married, in
1778, Ann DeHaven, of Holland ancestry
and they were the parents of nine children,
as follows: — Abigail, born 5 mo. 18, I77g,
married Abel Penrose, see Penrose family
in this work; Eleanor, born 7mo. 18,
1 781, died 4 mo. 28, 1815, unmarried;
Caleb, see forward; Samuel, born 3
mo. 28, 1786, married Elizabeth John-
son; Thomas, born 4 mo. 13, I78g, died
in Kentucky; Susanna, born g mo. 18,
I7gi, died 1883, married David Johnson;
Anna, born 5 mo. 3, 1794, died 9 mo.
16,' 1820; Margaret, born 12 mo. 24, 1796,
married Peter Lester in 1820; Everard,
born 7 mo. 21, 1800, married Frances
Watson, daughter of John Watson, of
Buckingham, and removed to Illinois.

Caleb Foulke, son of Everard and
Ann (DeHaven) Foulke, was born in
Richland, 8 mo. 28, 1783, died 2 mo. 22, \
1852, was also a lifelong resident of
Richland. He married, 11 mo. 26, 1807,
Jane Green, born 2 mo. 8. 1785, died 3
mo. 3, 1835, daughter of Benjamin and
Jane (Roberts) Green. Benjamin
Green was a son of Joseph and Cath-
arine (Thomas) Green, of Springfield,
Bucks county, and was born in Spring-
field. 4 mo. 27, 1750. died in Quaker-
town. He was a hatter in Springfield
and later in Quakertown. The children
of Caleb and Jane (Green) Foulke
were: — Caroline, died in infancy; Caro-
line, born 2 mo. 25, 1810, died 12 mo.
17. 1838; Maryetta, born 7 mo. 30, 1811,
died 4 mo. 26, 185 1, married Aaron Pen-
rose; Benjamin G. (see forward); and
Eleanor, born 3 mo. 12. t8i6, died 8
mo. 13, 1842, married Samuel J^ Levick.

Benjamin G. Foulke, son of Caleb and
Jane (Green) Foulke, was born at Qua-
kertown, and died there 8 mo. 14. 1888.
He was clerk of the men's branch of
the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting from
1873 to 1886. He w^as a prominent busi-
ness man of Quakertown for a half cen-
iniy and was highly respected by all
who knew him. He was a surveyor and
conveyancer and did a large amount of
public' business. He married, in 1838,,
Jane Mather, born 3 mo. 24. 1817. daugh-
ter of Charles and Jane Mather, of
Whitpain. Montgomery county, Penn-
sylvania. Their children were, Caleb.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

born 12 mo. 3, 1839, died 10 mo. 20,
1865; Charles M.. born 7 mo. 25, 1841,
educated at Foiilke's school at Gwyn-
edd, and Friends' Central School, Phila-
delphia; entered mercantile business in
Philadelphia, 1861, retired 1872, married
at Paris,. France, December 10, 1872,
Sar.Th A. Cushing. of New York city;
Job Roberts, born 2 mo. 23, 1843; Anna
S., born 1846; and Eleanor, 1850.

Job Roberts Foulke, son of Benjamin
G. and Jane (Mather) Foulke, born at
Quakertown, 2 mo. 23, 1843, has been
trust officer of the Provident Life and
Trust Company of Philadelphia for
many years. He married, 5 mo. 25, 1869,
Emma Bullock, daughter of Samuel and
Jemima R. Bullock, of Mt. Holly, Ne\Y
Jersey, and has two children; Roland
Roberts, and Rebecca Mulford. Roland
Roberts, a member of the Philadelphia
bar, married, June 6, 1900, Ellen R.
Griffith, daughter of Manuel E. and
Mary E. Griffith, of Philadelphia.

Eleanor Foulke, daughter of Benja-
min G. and Jane (Mather) Foulke, is,
the only one of the family to retain her
residence in Bucks county. She resides
at the old family mansion at Quaker-
town, and is unmarried.

WILLIAM HENRY FOULKE, one
of the enterprising, practical farmers
of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was
there born in Richland Centre. July 4,
1841, on the farm he now occupies and
cultivates, it being one of the original
Foulks homesteads. William is the son
of Hugh and Sarah (Roberts) Foulke,
and grandson of Hugh Foulke, who was
a farmer by occupation and the founder
and a trustee of the subscription schools
of his district. He is a descendant of
Hugh Foulke, the first of the name born
in America. An old Bible now in the
possession of Mrs. Susan Hannah Biehn,
sister of William Henry Foulke. gives
the record of his birth. July, 1685. and
death, May 21, 1760. He married Ann

, who was born November 3,

1693, and died September 10, 1773. They
were the parents of the following named
children: i. Mary, born September 24,
1714; 2. Martha, June 2. 1716; 3. Sam-
uel, December 4, 1718: 4- Ellen, Janu-
ary 19, 1720; 5. John, December 21,
1722; 6. Thomas, January 14. 1724; 7-
William, December 10, 1728; 8. Edward,
October 19, 1729; 9. Ann, January I,
1732; 10. Jane, January 3, 1734.

Hugh Foulke, father of William Hen-
ry Foulke, was born in Richland town-
ship, Bucks county. Pennsylvania. His
education was obtained in the subscrip-
tion schools of his district, and the fol-
lowed the quiet but useful calling of a
farmer. He married Miss Sarah Rob-
erts, daughter of John and Sarah Rob-

erts, and the following children were
the issue of this union: i. Catherine,
born September 6, 1835. married Isaac
Tomlinson, of New Britain township;
2. Julia Ann, born December 4, 1839,
married Henry Dotts of Montgomery
county, Pennsylvania; 3. William Henry,
mentioned at length herein after; 4. Sa-
rah Martha, born August 19, 1843, mar-
ried (first) David Hillegas, of Quaker-
town, and (second) Henry Sonders, far-
mer, of lower Richland township; 5.
Charles Edward, born in 1845, married,
1870, Anna, the daughter of Warner and
Alice (Singley) Haycock, farmers,
Whitemarsh township, Montgomery
county, Pennsylvania; 6. Elizabeth,
born March 6, 1847, married Charles
Miller, and resides at Hockerstown,
Montgomery county; 7. Hester Ellen,
born November 16, 1850, married Nicho-
las Martin, of Stowe. Montgomery
county; 8. Susan Hannah, born Octo-
ber 25, 1852, married Andrew Biehn,
lives at PaletQwn, Richland township; 9.
Anna, born April 15. i860, married Fran-
cis Fellman.

William Henry Foulke, third child
and eldest son of Hugh and Sarah (Rob-
erts) Foulke, obtained his educational
training in the Rocky Ridge public
school at Paletown, remaining there
until his nineteenth year. After leaving
the school William assisted with the
farm work, and later he and his brother,
Charles Edward, purchased the place.
They were engaged in the cultivation of
the farm until 1891, when the partner-
ship was dissolved. William sold his
interest in the property to Charles and
purchased the Hugh Foulke farm, the
old family homestead, comprising sev-
enty-two acres of improved land and
forest. Mr. Foulke is an industrious,
useful member of the community, and
an excellent farmer. In matters of poli-
tics he affiliates with the Republican
party, and, although he takes a deep and
lasting interest in the welfare of that
organization has never aspired to public
office. He is actively interested in edu-
cational affairs, and served twelve years
as school director.

January 25, 1883, William Henry
Foulke was united in marriage to
Mary Elizabeth, daughter of Charles
Pilgrim. V. S.. of New York city, and
widow of George S. Plant, Esq., of Nor-
folk. England. Mrs. Foulke was born
at Hudson, on the Hudson river, near
Albany, New York, May 31. 1847- Dm"-
ing her first husband's life she lived for
a time in England, and later near Quak-
ertown. Mrs. Foulke is a woman of
bright and active disposition and assists
in the management of the home farm.
Mr. and Mrs. Foulke are the parents of
one child, Mary Elizabeth, born June
5, 1888; she was educated in the public
schools of Paletown, and now resides at
home with her parents.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

CHARLES EDWARD FOULKE, an
old resident and worthy representative
of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was
there born in Richland Center in 1845,
the son of Hugh and Sarah (Roberts)
Foulke. Mention of the ancestral his-
tory of Mr. Foulke is made in the pre-
ceding sketch of his brother, William
Henry Foulke. Charles obtained his edu-
cation in the Rockridge public school,
continuing there until he was eighteen
years of age. He then engaged in as-
sisting with the home farm work, and
later spent six months in Quakertown
with Mr. Richard Moore. He subse-
quently purchased the home farm in
partnership with his brother William,
and in the spring of 1891 purchased his
brother's interest, and has since contin-
ued alone in the conduct of the farm.
Mr. Foulke is one of the progressive
farmers of the county, his farm compris-
ing one hundred and seven acres of
mostly improved land. In politics Mr.
Foulke is a strong advocate of the prin-
ciples of the Republican party, has al-
ways taken a lively interest in local af-
fairs, and has served as committeeman
of his township. He and his wife are
members of the Society of Friends of
Quakertown Meeting.

In 1870 he was united in marriage to
Miss Anna Hoycock, daughter of War-
ner and Alice (Singley) Hoycock, farm-
ers of White Marsh township, Mont-
gomery county, Pennsylvania. The fol-
lowing named children were born to
Mr. and Mrs. Foulke: i. Linford, born
December 21, 1872, married, June 6,
1900, Miss Mary C. Gerhart, daughter of
Edward and Caroline (Lewis) Gerhart;
Linford Foulke, lives at Quakertown, is
carrier of U. S. mails, rural free deTiv-
ery, and a dealer in agricultural imple-
ments, wagons and farrhers' supplies; 2.
Joseph, born August 27, 1874, married
Miss Katharine, daughter of William
and Elizabeth Neanan, of Richland; he
lives in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, and
is a carpenter for J. W. Stoneback; 3.
Herbert Theophalus, born September 17,
187s, lives at home and assists his father
on the farm; unmarried; 4. Oschar Clif-
ford, born January 20. 1878, married
January i, 1904, Martha, daughter of
Peter and Sarah (Weaver) Smith; lives
at Quakertown, Pennsylvania; stove
moulder for Roberts. Winner & Com-
pany. 5. Chester A. Foulke, born Au-
gust 25, i88r, lives at home, unmarried,
and is a weaver in the Quakertown silk
mill.

THE VAN HORN FAMILY. The
family of Van Horn has been a promi-
nent one in Bucks county for two cen-
turies, filling important positions in the
official, professional and business life of
the county in every generation and
constantly sending out its representa-

tives to fill like important positions in
other localities and states, its represen-
tatives now being found in nearly every
state in the Union.

The pioneer ancestor of the family
was Christian Barendtse, that is Chris-
tian, son of Barendt, who it is said came
from Hooren, a city of the Zuyder Zee,
about twenty-five miles from Amster-
dam The exact date of his arrival in
America is not known. He was a car-
penter by trade, and the records of New
Amsterdam show that he and a fellow
craftsman, Auke Jansen, were appoint-
ed, March 10, 1653, by the burgomasters
and schepens of New Amsterdam to
view a house, about the building of
which there was some litigation. These
records further show that he was fre-
quently appointed a referee during the
next four or five years. And he is shown
to have contributed towards the
strengthening of the city wall on Octo-
ber IS, 1655. He is also said to have
been with the force sent out from New
Amsterdam, September 5, 1655, against
the Swedes and Finns on the south
(now Delaware) river, at Fort Chris-
tina. On his return to New Amsterdam
he was appointed January 18, 1656, a
fire warden, in place of Johan Paul
Jacquet, who had resigned and "re-
moved to the South River in New
Netherlands." On April 17, 1657, he was
admitted a "Small Burgher" of New
Amsterdam, an honor which carried
with it the freedom of trade and a right
to membership in the respective guilds
of the town, and conferred upon na-
tives of the city, residents there one
year and six weeks before the date of
the charter, burgher's sons-in-law, city
storekeepers, salaried servants of the
company and all paying the sum of
twenty-five guilders. On August I,
1657, Christian Barentze, carpenter, was
granted by Peter Stuyvesant, director
general of New Netherland, a lot in
New Amsterdam, by the Land Gate,
(now at Broadway and Wall streets)
for a house and garden. He also owned
several other properties in the neighbor-
hood, some of which are said to have
covered a part of the present Trinity
churchyard. Probably as a result of
his trip to the South river. Christian
Barentse and Joost Rugger and possibly
others obtained a grant of land on the
south side of None Such creek, a tribu-
tary of the Chrisiana. near the present
site of Wilmington. Delaware, and be-
gan the erection thereon of a tide water
mill. According to Amos C. Brinton,
who has given much attention to the an-
cient mill sites of Delaware Barentse
and Rugger, he began the erection of
this mill in 1656. From the dates previ-
ously given, however, as well as from
other records, it would appear that the
date of Christain Barentse. removal to
the Delaware was sometime in the 5^ear

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

1657. Contemporary records also refer
to the mill as a "horse mill," the truth
of the matter being most probably that
the horse mill was set up to serve until
the tide water mill was completed. The
low marshy nature of the land and the
turning up of the mud to the sun caused
an epidemic from which Barentse died
July 26, 1658. A letter written by Vice-
Director Jacob Alricks, from New Ani-
stel, (New Castle) to Stuyvesant, under
date of September 5, 1658, and published
in documents relating to tTie Colonial
History of New York, vol. xii, p. 224,
relates entirely to the affairs of the wid-
ow and children of Christian Barentse.
It states that the widow had requested
within three days of his burial that she
desired to return to New Amsterdam,
and that the property which he left be
sold and that though he consents there-
to he "advised and proposed to her that
it woulld be for her best to remain in
possession, she should be assisted in
completing the mill, with income where-
of, which through the grists she would
be able to diminish the expenses and
live decently and abundantly with her
children on the surplus, besides that
she had yet three or four cows with
sheep and hogs, which also could help
her to maintain her family, she and her
children should have remained on and
in her and the father's estate, which
was in good condition here, wherein the
widow with the children could have con-
tinued reputably and in position to much
advantage; but she would not listen
to advice, * * * tj^at she was to
be restricted in her inclinations and well
being, which I shall never think of,
much less do." The wife of Christian
Barentse was Jannetje Jans, and it is
probable that they were married before
coming to America, as the baptism of
their eldest child is not recorded in
the New York church. On December
12, 1658, Jannetje Jans, widow and ex-
ecutrix of Christian Barents, presented
an inventory of his goods and chattels
to the court at New Amsterdam, and
requested that Vice-Director Alricks,
"Director of the City's Colony on the
South River, where her husband died, be
written to in order that the chattels
which are there may be sent from the
South river to this place." The widow
married on September 12, 1658, Laurens
Andriessen Van Boskerk, who was born
in Holstein, Denmark. He was a mem-
ber of Bergen court in 1667, its presi-
dent in 1682, a member of the governor's
council for many years. He died in
1693 and Jannetje on July 13, 1694.
They were the parents of four children,
Andries, Lourens, Peter, and Thomas,
the two latter, according to the Dutch
custom, being known as Lourensons,
appear later to have become known by
the name of Lawrence. Peter joined his
half-brother, Barant Christian Van

Horn, in his purchase of land in Bucks
county in 1703. His youngest son John
married Alee Van Horn, granddaugh-
ter of Christian Barents, and his daugh-
ter Jannetje, married Cornelius Corson,
of Staten Island, and became the ances-
tress of the Bucks county Corsons.
The children of Christian Barents and
Jannetje Jans were as follows: Barendt
Christian Van Horn, born in Holland,
married Geertje Dircks; died in Bergen
county. New Jersey, in 1726. 3. Cor-
nelius Van Horn, baptized August 3,
1653, married Margaret Van de Berg,
died in Bergen county in 1729. 4. Jan
Van Horn, baptized March 18, 1657,
married Lena Boone, died in Bergen
county.

2.' Barent Christian Van Horn, eld-
est son of Christian Barents and Jannet-
je Jans, as before stated was probably
born in Holland, a theory which is borne
out by the early date at which he ac-
quired title to land. On March 26, 1667,
Governor Philip Carteret granted to
Barent Christian, of Menkaque, planter,
fifty acres of land at Pembrepach and
eighty-five acres on the bay called Kill
Van Kull, both in Bergen county. On
September 29, 1697, he obtained a grant
from the proprietors of East Jersey, 160
acres on "Hackingsack River," joining
that of his half brother Thomas Law-
renson (Van Boskerk). On May 15,
1703, Barnard Christian and his half-
brother, Peter Lawrence, purchased i,-
000 acres of Robert Heaton, on Ne-
shaminy creek, in Bucks county, which
on September 18, 1707, they partitioned
between them. Two days later, Sep-
tember 20, 1707, Barnard Christian con-
vej^ed his portion to his two sons, Peter
and Christian Barnson, Peter receiving
257 acres and Christian 294 acres. On
September 29, 1707, Barnard Christian
purchased 550 acres in Bucks county, of
Thomas Groom, 274 acres of which he
conveyed to his son Barnard Barnson,
June 17, 1714. He also acquired other
land in Bucks county, and on June 2,
1722, conveyed to his son, Isaac Van
Horn, 276 acres, and on May 6, 1722, 290
acres to his son, Abraham Van Horn.
He thus owned in all 1381 acres of land
in Bucks county, though he continued to
live in Bergen county. New Jersey, and
died there in 1726. He married, in 1679,
at the Bergen Dutch Reformed church,
Geertje Dircks. daughter of Dirck Clas-
sen, who was baptized in New York,
March 5, 1662. The children of Bar-
ent Christian Van Horn and Geertje
Dirckse were:

5. Richard Barentsen Van Horn,
born at Bergen, New Jersey, died at
Hackensack, New Jersey, in 1763; mar-
ried, April II, 1704, Elizabeth Garretsen.

6. Christian Van Horn, born Octo-
ber 24. 1681. died in Northampton
township, Bucks county, November 22,
1751; see forward.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY

7. Nicholas Van Horn, born in Ber-
gen county, New Jersey, died in Dela-
ware; he was for a time a resident of
Bucks county, and the baptism of two
of his children Barnet on July 24, 1715,
and Rachel on April 29, 1720, are re-
corded at Abington Presbyterian church.
8. Peter Barentsen Van Horn, born
at Bergen, 1686, died in Middletown
township, Bucks county, February 20,
1750. He married (first) Tryntje (Cath-
arine) Van Dyck, and (second) Eliza-
beth Gabriels, on May 9, 1706. She was
baptized at Albany, New York, May 12,
1689, and died November 3, 1759. She
was a daughter of Gabriel Tomase
Struddles. Peter settled on land con-
veyed to him by his father in Northamp-
ton in 1707 and 1715. and later pur-
chased 425 acres in Middletown. Ac-
cording to the Rev. Samuel Streng. Pe-
ter Van Horn joined the Episcopal
church, and was a vestryman of St.
James Protestant Episcopal church at
Bristol, 1734-7. His children, all with
the possible exception of Barnard, his
eldest son, being by the second wife
Elizabeth, were as follows: Catharine,
baptized June 4, 1710, died 1755, married
Thomas Craven, of Warminster, Bucks
county; Barnard, who "married Patience
Hellings; Charity, who married, June
6, 1732, Isaiah Vansant (see Vansant
family) Jane baptized October 16, 1715,
married, Au.gust 10, 1732, Edmund Rob-
erts; Gabriel, baptized March 3, 1716,
died 1789, married Martha Brelsford;
Elizabeth, who married April 21. 1737,
Peter Praul ; Peter, baptized August 25,
1719. married in 1746, Margaret Marsh-
all; Mary, who married William Gos-
line. of Bristol, Bucks county; Benjamin,
who married, June S, 1749. Hannah Da-
vis; Richard, born 1726, died unmar-
ried, February i, 1756; John, twice mar-
ried, second wife being Mary Collett,
a widow ; and Garret, who married Mary
Neal. and died in 1801.

9. Barent Barentsen Van Ho'-n, born
in Bergen, New Jersey, April 3, 1691.
died in Bucks county, in 1776. He mar-
ried (first) February 23, 1712, Jannetje
Pieters. and (second) January 25. 1726.
at Bergen, Elizabeth Klinkenberg. He
received by Deed in 1714 276 acres in
Northampton township, Bucks county,
from his father. He had fourteen chil-
dren, most of whom married and reared
families.

TO. John Van Horn, born in Bergen,
New Jersey, 1692. died in Lower Dublin,
Philadelphia county. 1758. and is buried
in the Vandegrift burying ground. He
married Rebecca Vandegrift. daughter
of Johannes and Nealke (Volkers) Van-
degrift. of Bucks county, and had one
son John and six dau.ghters.

II. Abraham Van Horn, born in IWr-
gen. New Jersey, died in Northampton.
Bucks county, in 1773. on farm of 290
acres received by deed from his father

in 1722. He married first Mary Dungan,
and second Mary Vansciver, and had
six sons, Barnard, Isaac, Abraham,
David, Jacob, and Jeremiah, and three
daughters. Mary, wife of Derrick Krew-
son. Charity, and Martha, who married a
Van Sciver.

12. Jane Van Horn, born at Bergen,
New Jersey, April 18, 1697. married Ad-
rien La Rue, and resided at Six-Mile
Run. New Jersey.

13. Isaac Van Horn, born at Ber-
gen, New Jersey, died in Solebury town-
ship. Bucks county, Pennsjdvania, • in
1760. He married Alice Sleght (or
Slack) and had eight children: Bernard,
who married first Sarah Van Pelt and
second Jane Slack; John, who married
Catharine Neafie; Catharine, who mar-
ried a Van Pelt; Charity, Geertje, Elsie,
Isaac, baptized 1749,* married Alice
Neafies; and Jane.

14. Jacob Van Horn, born at Ber-
gen, New Jersey, died there . April 14,
1775-

15. Benjamin Van Horn, born at Ber-
gen. January 10, 1705.

(6) Christian Van ■ Horn, second
son of Barendt and Geertje (Dirckse)
Van Horn, born at Bergen. New Jersey,
October 24, 1681. He married William-
tje Van Dyck, daughter of Hendrick
Janse and Jennetje (Heermans) Van
Dyck, and granddaughter of Jan Tom-
asse Van Dyck, who emigrated from
Amsterdam in 1652 and settled in New
Utrecht, Long Island. His sixth child,
Hendrick Janze, baptized July 2. 1653,
married, February 7, 1680, Jannetje
Hermans, daughter of Herman Janse
Van Barkeloo, and settled on Staten Isl-
and, where he was a constable in 1689
and assessor in 1703. In 1704 he pur-
chased land in Bucks county and re-
moved there. At the organization of
Bensalem church, in 1710. he produced
a certificate from the Staten Island
church. He purchased four tracts of
land in IMiddletown, two of which he
retained until his death in 1721, and de-
vised to his daughter Williamtje. wife
of Christian Van Horn, and his g'\ind-
(la ightcr. Susanna Van Vleck. who later
m.'lv'-ied her cousin, Henry Van Horn.
He had but two children, Williamptje,
and J;innetje. who became the wite of
\hz Reverend Paulus Van Vleck, the
first ])asior ar Neshaminy.

Christian Van Horn located in North-

*Isqac Van Horn, of Solebury township. Bucks
county. Pennsylvania, was commissioned January I.
177(5, ensign of Captain John Beatty's company. Bucks
county's contingent of the Flying Camrv Hiffh Penn-
sylvania Battalion, Colonel Robert Magaw, and was
tiken prisoner at Fort Washington. November Ifi,
177f). Exchanged in 1(78, and promoted to lieutenant.
Sixth Pennsylvania Battalion, captain lieutenent, July

1, 177P; captain. Second Pennsylvania. June 19. 1781.
Retired from service January 1. 1783. Settled in West-
moreland county. Pennsylvania. 1781. Member of
seventh and eighth congress. (1801-1803> from Pennsyl-
vania. Receiver of public monies at /^anesville Ohio,
in 1815. Died in Muskingum county, Ohio. February

2, 1834. Pennsylvania Archives. Second Series.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

ampton township, Bucks county, on
294 acres conveyed to him by his fath-
■er in 1707. In 1737 two hundred acres
of the land belonging to the estate of his
father-in-law, Hendrick Van Dyck, in
Middeltown township was conveyed to '
him by leremiali Langhorne, as "straw
man" in efifecting the transfer from the
devises of Van Dyck to Christian Van
Horn. He represented Bucks county in
the I'onnsylvania assembly for the /
ye:irs 1723-1732 and I734-I737. thirteen
years in all. He died November 23, 1751, .
and his wife May 6, 1760. She was born
on Slatcn Island, July 4, 1681. The will
of Christ i?n Van Horn devised to his
eldest sor Bernard the home plantation
of 205 acres in Northampton, to his son
Henry 200 acres on which Henry was
living in Newtown, purchased of George
and Joseph Randal in 1726; to his son
John thirty-two acres in Northampton ,
to his daughter Charity Van Duren
anotl'.er tract adjoining containing for-
ty-ore acres, and to his son Christian
187 acres in Northampton, wdien he
should come of age; the other children
receiving their shares of his. estate in
money. To his , son Barnard he be-
queathed his large Bible. This Bible
is now in the possession of Dr. Wilmer
Krusen, of 127 North Twenty-ninth
street, Philadelphia, having descended
to him from his ancestors, the Hege-
mans, John Hegeman having ' married
Jane Van Horn, daughter of Christian.
who inherited it from her brother, Bar-
nard Van Horn, who died in 1760, with-
out issue. It was printed at Dordrecht
in 1690, and was purchased by Hen-
drick Van Dyck in December, 1701, and
presented to his daughter Williamtje,
who married Christian Van Horn. On
the My leaf it contains the record of the
"birth of the children of Hendrick Van
Dyck, those of Christian and Williamt-
je Van Horn, and those of John and
Jannetje (Van Horn) Hegeman.

The children of Christian and Will-
iamtje (Van Dyck) Van Horn were:

16. Barnard Van Horn, born February
19, 1701-2. died April 22. 1760. married
December 31, 1741, Jannetje Van Bos-
kerk, had no children.

17. Henry Van Horn, born Septem-
ber 15, 1707. died in Newtown township,
Bucks county in 1761. He married his
first cousin, Susanna Van Vleck. daugh-
ter of Rev. Paulus and Jannetje (Van
Horn) Van Vleck. She inherited from
her grandfather, Hendrick Van Dyck,
one half of his real estate, and 173 acres
thereof was conveyed to Henry by the
same proceedings as in the case of h.is
father, and the latter at his death devis-
ed to Henry 200 acres, in Newtown.
and it was devised by the will of Henry
in T761 to his sons. Christian and Henry.
Susanna, the widow of Henry, died in
June. T776. They were the parents of
four children, Christian, who married.

June 14, 1764, Sarah Vansant, — see for-
ward; Henry Van Horn, died 1777,
married Elizabeth Vansant; Jane, who
married John Johnson; and Susannah,
who married Euclides Longshore.

18. Geertje or Charity, baptized May
21, 1710, married Godfrey Van Duren,
who was the first innkeeper at Ruck-
man's, in Solebury township, Bucks
county.

19. Antje of Ann, baptized March 22,
1712, died in infancy.

20. John Van Horn, born December
8, 1713. married. May 30, 1739, Lena Van
Pelt, (See Van Pelt Family) and died
in 1760. John and Lena (Van Pelt)
Van Horn were the parents of five chil-
dren, all of whom were baptized at
Southampton church, viz: Catharine,
baptized August ir, 1741, married Jan-
uary 12, 1764, John Subers, see forward;
Christian, br-'.ptized October 4, 1743,
died young; Willimentje, baptized May

_ II, 1746, died in infancy; Willimentje,
born March i. 1748; and Joseph, born
May 30, 1750, married, January 7, 1773,
Ann Searle.

2T. Ann Van Horn, born July 19,
1716, died 1753. married Cornelius Cor-
son, and had seven children, viz: Bland-
ia, baptized March 26, 1738, Willemeyn-
je, baptized February 24, 1740; Maryt-
je, baptized May 23, 1742; Jannetje,
baptized July 19, 1744; Antje, baptized
December 26, 1746; Benjamin, baptized
April 13. 1749; and Cornelius, baptized
November 16. 1751.

22. Catharine Van Horn, born April
13, 1719. married Hendrick Hegeman,
and had four children, viz: Adrien. bap-
tized March 26. 1738; Maria, baptized
April 7, 1740; Jannetje, baptized June
6; 1742; Catrintje. baptized March 24,

1745-

23. Jane Van Horn, born May 20, 1721,
died September 7, 1783, married, Octo-
ber 20, 1741, John Hegeman, born Jan-
uary 10, 1718. and had nine children;
Mary, born March 8, I743; Christian,
born August 8. 1745: Henry, born Jan-
uary 5, 1748; John, born July 26, 1750;
Henry,' born January 11, 1753; Benjamin,
born Novemiser 19, 1755; Adrian, born
September 16. 1758; Barnet, born Feb-
ruary 23, 1761; and Jane, born May 15,

1765.

24. Christian Van Horn, born August
29. 1728, died December 17, 1753.

Christian Van Horn, eldest son of
Henry (17) and Susanna (Van Vlecq)
. Van Horn, born in Newtown township,
Bucks county, married. June 14, 1764.
Sarah Vansant, daughter of Isaiah and
Charitv (Van Horn) Vansant, of Lower
Makefield. Her mother. Charity (Van
Horn) Vansant. being a daughter of Pe-
ter (8) and Elizabeth (Gabriels) Van
Horn. Christian Van Horn inherited
from his father 126 acres of land in
Newtown township, on the Neshaminy
creek, part of the land purchased by his

HISTORY 01' BUCKS COUNTY.

grandfather, Christian Van Horn, in
1726, whereon he lived until his death m
1777, when it was divided between his
sons- Henry and Isaiah. Sarah (Van-
sant) Van Horn died in 1785. They were
the parents of but two children, viz:
Henry and Isaiah. Henry, married,
April 26, 1787, Elizabeth McCorkle, and
had three children; Amos, born March
4, 1792, died at Newtown, September 5,
1823, married, January 8, 1817, Mercy
Starkey; Susan, born October 25, i794,
died in Michigan, September 5, 1872,
married Joseph Roberts; and Elrzabeth,
born January 27, 1797, married Joseph
Winship, and died at Newtown, May 12,
1868.

Isaiah Van Horn, second son of
Christian and Sarah (Vansant) Van
Horn, was born in Newtown township,
Bucks county, married, December 31,
1794, Catharine Suber, daughter of John
and Catharine (Van Horn) Suber, and
his first cousin. He was adjudged fifty
acres of the homestead farm by the or-
phans' court in 1787, but on March 15,
1791, sold it to his brother Henry, and
on his marriage in 1794 took up his
residence on a farm belonging to the
estate of his father-in-law, Isaiah Van-
sart, in Upper IMakefield, where he died
in 1802. His widow, Catharine, married
John Wynkoop, January 31, 1805. The
only child of Isaiah and Catharine( Van-
sant) Van Horn, was Sarah, born Feb-
ruary 29, 1796; died January 27, 1838.
She married (first) on January 16, 1812,
Aaron Winder, and (second) Avigust
24, 1825, Abner Morris. (See Winder
Family in this volume). Catharine
Wynkoop, the mother, died in Decem-
ber, 1820.

R. Winder Johnson, of Philadelphia,
to whom we are indebted for the above
account of the Van Horn familj', is a
grandson of Aaron and Sarah (Van
Horn) Winder, ^reat-grandson of Isa-
iah and Catharine (Suber) Van Horn,
great-great-grandson of both Christian
and Sarah (Vansant) Van Horn, and
John and Catharine (Van Horn) Sub-
er, and great-great-great-grandson of
Henry and Susanna (Van Vlecq) Van
Horn, John and Lena (Van Pelt) Van
Horn, and Isaiah and Charity (Van
Horn) Vansant, and great-great-great-
great-grandson of Christian and Will-
iamtje (Vandyck) Van Horn, and Peter
and Elizabeth (Gabriells) Vanhorn, the
last mentioned Christian and Peter Van
Horn, being sons of Barendt Christian-
zen Van Hoorn and his wife Geertje
Dircks Classen, and grandsons of Chris-
tian Baretzen Van Hoorn and Jannetje
Jans, the pioneer ancestors of the family
in America. An account of the Van
Pelt, Vansant, Vandegrift, Winder and
Johnson families also largely the result
of investigations made by Mr. John-
son, will be found elsewhere in this
work.

Henry Van Horn, son of Henry and
Susanna (Van Vlecq) Van Horn, was
reared on the old homestead purchased
by his grandfather. Christian Van Horn,
in 1726, and at the death of his father,
in 1761, inherited a one-half interest there-
in with his brother Christian. They made
a division of the 252 acres, each con-
veying to the other 126 acres in 1773.
After the reverses on Long Island in No-
vember, 1776, and at Fort Washington
when the Continental forces were so badly
routed and so niau}^ of the Bucks county
contingent were taken prisoners, Henry
Van Horn raised an independent company
of militia and was commissioned their
captain, December 6, 1776, (See Penna.
Arch. vol. xiv p. 175) and took them into
the service. He died of camp fever late
in 1777. He married Elizabeth Vansant,
daughter of Isaiah and Charity (Van
Horn) Van Sant, and they were the par-
ents of eight children : Joshua, born Feb-
ruary 21, 1759; Isaiah, born October 24,
1760, was drummer in his father's com-
pany, 1776-7; Mary, born May 5, 1764,
married Isaac Gillam, died April 18, 1823;
Christian, . born July 13, 1766 ; Susanna,
born October 9, 1768, married Jesse Wil-
lett, who had previously married her sis-
ter Sarah ; Elizabeth, married an Ander-
son, and • died January 26, 1813 ; Sarah,
born February 7, 1773, married Jesse Wil-
lett, died prior to 1809; Henry, born Ap-
ril 5, 1777. Elizabeth the mother, died
November 25, 1807, aged about eighty
years.

Henry Van Horn, youngest child of
Captain Henry and Elizabeth (Vansant)
Van Horn, born in Newtown township,
April 5, 1777, learned the trade of a car-
penter and cabinet maker and located at
Yardley, Bucks county, where he followed
the trade of a cabinet maker for several
years. His sign uniquely painted is now
in possession of his grandson, Richard H.
Van Horn, of Lambertville, New Jersey.
He also purchased a farm of 93 acres in
Lower IMakefield in 1805, which, in 181 1,
he conveyed to his brother-in-law, Isaac
Gillam. He purchased a farm of 200 acres
in Upper ]\Iakefield, near Eagle Tavern,
where he resided the balance of his life.
He died in Februarj', 1849. He married,
in 1798, Hannah Reeder, of Canaan, Up-
per Makefield, and their six children who
grew to maturity were as follows :

1. Abraham, born 1802, married, in 1829,
Eliza Hampton, by whom he had one child,
Margery. He married (second) Chris-
tiana Neald, and a son Henry K. was
born in 1834. He married (third) Eliza-
beth Sampsel. He sold his farm in Upper
]\Iakcfield and removed to Sandy Spring,
Maryland, where he reared a family of
thirteen children.

2. Elizabeth, born 1804, married William
Ryan, of Upper Makefield, born 1810. They
settled near Rocksville, Northampton
township, Bucks county, and engaged in the
milling business. Three of their children

ITHE r

A3TOK, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

survive : Edward H., born 1832 ; Mary,
born 183s ; and Hannah, born 1839.

3. Eleanor H., born 1810, married Cor-
nelius Slack, and settled in Lower Make-
field. He was lately a merchant at Dol-
ington. Their children are : Watson, born
1832; John H., born 1833; Henry V.,
born .1836; Jane E., born 1839; Sarah E.,
born 1841; William H., born 1843; Anna
M., born, 1847; and Hannah, born 1850.

4. Moses H., born January 15, 1812, at
Yardleyville, removed with his parents to
Upper Makefield, where he spent his entire
life, inheriting at his father's death, in
1849, 100 acres of the old homestead. He
was a successful farmer, and a prominent
man in the community, holding many posi-
tions of trust and honor. He and his wife
and family were lifelong members of the
Society of Friends. He married, April 13,
1843, Rebecca Scattergood, born February
7, 1820, daughter of John* and Catharine
(Hepburn) Scattergood, of Makefield,
who died September 15, 1895. Moses died
February 13, 1885. They were the parents
of nine children: Richard H., born 1844;
Mary Anna, ^born 1846; Samuel S., born
1848; William T., born 1851; George F.,
and Catharine S., twins, born 1854; Han-
nah E., born 1857; Benjamin F., born i860;
and Emma L., born 1863.**

5. Mary A., born 1816, married Christian
Van Horn, born 1814, and settled on a
farm near Dolington. Their surviving issue
are : Cyrus B., Jane E., Cornelius S., Han-
nah E., and Callender C.

6. John R., born 1820, married Rebecca
Feaster, and settled on a portion of the
old homestead in Upper Makefield. Their
surviving children are : James P., David
F., Emeline, Watson, Martha F., and Jo-
seph F.

RICHARD H. VAN HORN, eldest son
of Moses and Rebecca (Scattergood) Van
Horn, born at the old homestead of his
grandfather, in 1844, was reared on the
Upper ISIakefield farm, acquired a limited
education at the public school and" later
took a course at Union Business College
in Philadelphia. After a few years ex-
perience in the mercantile business in
Philadelphia, he started into that business
for himself at Lambertville, New Jersey,
in 1868. By strict application to business
and a close study of the wants and needs
of the community, he soon built up a

*John Scattergood (a descendant of Thomas Scatter-
good, of Burlington county, New Jersey, a noted min-
ister among Friends' was born 6 mo. 14, 1774. He
married 5 mo. 4. 1794, Sarah Forman. .and second
Catharine Hepburn, who was the mother of Mrs.
Rebecca (Scattergood) Van Horn. John Scattergood
died 1 mo. 12, 1842.

**George F. and Benjamin F. Van Horn, sons of
Moses H., left the Upper Makefield homestead on
arriving at age. George learned the printing business,
and subsequently both brothers, after a few years
engagement with their brother, Richard H , learning
the mercantile business at Lambertville, New Jersey,
went in 1890 into business on their own account near
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, where by much energy and
hustle they met with great success, but owing to poor
health both have retired from business, 190.5.

7-3

large trade and his remodeled store in
1884 named "Grand Depot"'enjoyed much
more than a locak reputation and soon out-
grew its early modest quarters. In 1877 an
adjoining building was added and the vol-
ume of business doubled. Seven years
later the entire property was remodeled
and both stores thrown into one, making
a large and commodious department store,
and his brother, Samuel S., who had been
for some years a clerk in the establishment
was given an interest in the business, and
the firm name became R. H. Van Horn
& Brother. The partnership of the grow-
ing_ establishment extended far beyond the
limits of Jersev into their native county,
and the country districts and towns of
New Jersey. In 1S89, the brothers dis-
solved partnership and Richard H. contin-
ued the business alone until 1892, when his
son Henry came of age and was admitted
as a partner. Ten years later the younger
son, Edmori E., becoming of age, also be-
came a partner, and the firm of R. H.
Van Horn & Sons, continue to conduct the
popular and successful establishment that
has grown from its modest beginning of
1868. To an additional L a new building,
the floor space of which combined with
the original "Grand Depot" covers now
'1904) about three-quarters of an acre.

Richard H. Van Horn married, in 1869,
Lydiana Beatty Warner, born in 1845,
daughter of Edwards Edmunds Warner,
of Philadelphia, and of New England an-
cestry, and they are the proud parents of
two sons, both of whom, as before stated,
are members of the firm. Henry E., the
eldest, born April 21, 1870, married Era
Runkle, of Hunterdon county, New Jer-
sey ; and Edmori E., born in October,
1S79, married Jessie Hoffman of the same
place. Mr. R. H. Van Horn is an active
member of the Society of Friends, having
many years since transferred his certificate
of membership from Wrightstown Monthly
Meeting to Solebury Friends' Meeting
where he and his wife Lydianna were sub-
sequently appointed elders. R. H. Van
Horn has always shown an active spirit
in his town affairs but little interest- in
"Political Pulls" ; he has, however, served
in the school board, acted as a member of
the board of trade, and at present is next
to the oldest director in the Amwell Na-
tional Bank of Lambertville. '

SAMUEL SCATTERGOOD VAN
HORN, second son of Moses and Rebec-
ca (Scattergood) Van - Horn, whose 'an-
cestry has been given in the preceding
pages, was born in Makefield township,
Bucks county, Pennsylvania. October 28,
1848, and was reared on the Upper Make-
field farm; acquiring his education at the
public schools of that township. In 1870
he went to Lambertville, New Jersey. In
1889 Samuel S. Van Horn embarked in
the general merchandise business in Lam-
bertville. where he carried on a successful
business for three years. He then purchased

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

his present location, where he has since
conducted a successful business.

Mr. Van Horn married, in 1888, Ella M.
Dilley, daughter of Louis and Caroline
(Larison) Dilley, of Kingwood, Hunter-
don county, New Jersey. To this marriage
has been born two sons, Lloyd and Earl.
Mr. Van Horn is an extensive real estate
owner in Lambertville, owning fifteen resi-
dent properties. He is a member of the
Society of Friends.

LAWRENCE JOHNSON AND HIS
DESCENDANTS. The family of John-
son, from which Lawrence Johnson de-
scended, belonged to the yeomanry and
lived in Lincolnshire, England, having set-
tled in Barrow-on-H umber in 1684, after
the marriage of Robert Johnson and Mary
Hall, nee Ledgard. Here five generations
of the family lived and owned property.
Edward Johnson removed to Hull after
his marriage in 1796. Previous to 1680
the family had lived and owned property
at Grasby, in Lincolnshire.

Edward Johnson had a large family of
children, and, believing that their prospects
for advancement would be greater in
America, he was induced by his sons to
sell his property in Hull, and emigrate
with his family to America.- On July 4,
1818, with his wife and ten children, he
sailed from Grimsby on the brig Gen-
eral Ripley" for New York, where the
vessel arrived August 28, 1818. The people
of New York looked so pale that Edward
Johnson thought it could not be a health-
ful place, and accordingly sailed immedi-
ately vip the Hudson to Albany, where he
bought a farm of one hundred and twenty-
fice acres near Cato, Cayuga county,
New York.

Lawrence Johnson, son of Edward and
Ann (Clayton) Johnson, was born in Hull,
England, January 23, 1801, and was bap-
tized in Holy Trinity church, March 2,
1801. Immediately after coming to Amer-
ica with his parents in 1818, he found em-
ployment in the office of the "Troy Budg-
et," a newspaper published at Troy, New
York, but the following spring went to
New York city, where he was employed
in several printing establishments. About
1820 he settled in Philadelphia and estab-
lished a stereotype foundry, to which he
later added the industry of making type,
under the firm name of L. Johnson & Com-
pany, and built up an immense business.
He became interested in many prominent
enterprises in Philadelphia and elsewhere
in Pennsylvania, the development of coal
lands, building of street horse-car lines,
and many other enterprises, and acquired
a fortune. He was also president of the
Commonwealth Bank. He died in Phila-
delphia, April 26, i860.

In the spring of 1851 Lawrence Johnson
purchased a farm and country seat in
Bristol township. Bucks county, known as

"Lansdowne," where he spent much of his
time, and which has ever since been occu-
pied by members of his family.

Mr. Johnson had married May 3, 1825,
Sarah B. Murray, of Philadelphia, who
died August 21, 1834, leaving one child,
a daughter. He married a second time, on
May 29, 1837, Mary Winder, daughter of
Aaron and Sarah (Van Horn) Winder, of
Lower Makefield township, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, who was born June 18, 1814,
and died February 16, 1877. (See Winder
Family). Lawrence and Mary (Winder)
Johnson were the parents of ten children,
viz: I. Edward Winder; 2. Anna Rebec-
ca; 3. Mary Ella; 4. Caroline Fletcher;
5. Howard Lawrence; 6. Russel Hamp-
den ; 7. Lawrence ; 8. Walter Richards ; 9.
Robert Winder; 10. Alfred Clayton.

I. Edward Winder John.son, eldest son
of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson,
was born in Philadelphia, April 12, 1838.
In the summer of 1847 he accompanied his
father on a trip to Europe. He was edu-
cated at Mr. Fay's boarding school at
Elizabeth, New Jersey, and at Dr. Faires'
and other private schools in Philadelphia.
In 1856 he traveled under the care of an
agent of his father to Havana, Mexico,
Texas, and up the Mississippi river, and
to Cincinnati, Ohieu In the latter place he
remained for some months, working in a
branch type foundry established there by
his father. On October 23, 1857, he was
commissioned. as a midshipman on the flag-
ship "Powhattan," and on December 9,
following that frigate left Norfolk, Vir-
ginia, on a long cruise, with ex-President
Franklin Pierce and wife on board. She
sailed first to Maderia, St. Helena, and
Cape Town, preceeding thence to Hong
Kong, stopping on the way at Mauritius
and Singapore, and arrived at Hong Kong
in May, 1858, and proceeded to Japan in
the following July. Becoming ill in Japan,
Midshipman Johnson obtained a dismissal
from service on the LI. S. frigate "Pow-
hattan," and embarked as a passenger on
board the "Minnesota," October 2, 1858, to
return home, arriving in Boston, Massa-
chusetts, Jvlay 29, 1859. On September 26,
i860, he sailed from New York on the clip-
per "Messenger" for Hong Kong, intend-
ing to enter into business with A. W. Hab-
ersham, in Japan. He arrived in .Yoko-
hama, April 20, 1861, where he remained
for some time, engaged in business. On
learning of the outbreak of the civil war in
America he left Japan on the steamship
"Carrington," and arrived in San Fran-
cisco, California, October 20, 1861, from
which place he proceeded at once to New
York. He enlisted in August, 1862, in
Company G of the Anderson Cavalry, and
fought in the battles of Antietam and Mur-
freesboro. Afterwards his regiment was
reorganized, and he became a member of
Company A of the Anderson Cavalry. He
was also in the battle of Chickamauga,
under General Rosencrans. On December
30, 1863, he returned home on a furlough,

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

and did not again enter the army. He died
at Lansdowne, Bristol township, Bucks
county, January 12, 1874, unmarried.

2. Anna Rebecca Johnson, second child
of Lawrence and Alary (Winder) Johnson,
was born in Philadelphia, December 15,
1839. She was educated at the school of
Professor Charles D. Cleveland, in Phila-
delphia. In 1858 and 1859 she traveled
extensively in Europe, Egypt, and Pales-
tine, under the care of Mr. and Mrs. Gar-
del. She was married in Philadelphia, De-
•cember 3, 1863, to Theodore Hoe Mead,
of New York. Theodore Hoe and Anna Re-
becca (Johnson) Mead have been the par-
ents of six children, three of whom survive,
viz : Lawrence Johnson Mead, who mar-
ried, June 29, 1901, Anna Frances Ely, of
Doylestown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
daughter of Samuel L. and Mary (Knight)
Ely; Anna Johnson Mead, who married,
October 7, 1902, Herbert Gordon Thom-
son, of New York; and Gilbert Mead,
who married, July 25, 1903, Mary Comly
Ely, daughter of Samuel L. and Mary
Comly (Knight) Ely, of Doylestown,
Bucks county. (See Winder Family.)

3. Mary Ella Johnson, third child of
Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson,
was born in Philadelphia, September 22,
1841. After spending five years in Profes-
sor Cleveland's school in Philadelphia, she

.traveled in Great Britain, Europe, Egypt,
the Sinaitic Peninsula, Palestine and Syr-
ia, as well as the rock-hewn city of Petra,
to which, it is said, no ladies had previously
ventured with the exception of two Eng-
lish ladies, somewhat earlier in the same
year. Miss Johnson married, December
4, 1862, William D. Stuart of Philadel-
phia, who died April 7, 1863, leaving no
children. Mrs. Stuart married a second
time^ January 11, 1870, Dr. James Ches-
ton Morris, of Philadelphia, by whom she
has eight children, all residing in Phila-
delphia.

4. Caroline Fletcher Johnson, fourth
child of Lawrence and Mary (Winder)
Johnson, was born in Philadelphia, July
10, 1843, and was educated at Dr. Cleve-
land's school. She married, February 21,
1871, Anthony Taylor, son of Robert Tay-
lor, and a nephew of Hon. Caleb Newbold
Taylor, of Bristol, Bucks county, Penn-
sylvania. Anthony Taylor enlisted in the
Pennsylvania cavalry August 8, 1862, was
promoted sergeant. October 30, 1862 ; first
sergeant, March i, 1863; first lieutenant
of 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry, May 8, 1863;
and captain, June i, 1865. He was awarded
a medal of honor for signal acts of bravery,
and was honorably mustered out June 21,
1865. He died in Philadelphia, May 21.
1894. Anthony and Caroline F. (Johnson)
Taylor were the parents of two children
Mary Lawrence Taylor, who married, Feb-
ruary 25, 1893, Bromley Wharton, now pri-
"vate secretary to Governor Samuel W. Pen-
nypacker; and Elizabeth Elmslie Taylor,
-who married, December 31, 1904, Houston
Dunn.

5. Howard Lawrence Johnson, born Oc-
tober 31, 1845, died June 25, 1891 ; mar-
ried, May 7, 1876, Mary Evangeline Brad-
ley. They had no children.

6. Russell Hampden Johnson, son of
Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson,
was born in Philadelphia, September 15,
1847, and received his preliminary edilca-
tion in private schools in Philadelphia. He
entered Princeton University at the age of
seventeen years, and graduated in the class
of 1868, after a four years' course, with
the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He then
made an extensive tour of Europe, and on
returning entered the medical department
of the University of Pennsylvania, where he
received the degree of Doctor of Medicine
in 1871. After serving as resident physi-
cian in the Episcopal Hospital of Philadel-
phia, he once more visited Europe, spend-
ing two years in travel, chiefly for the fur-
ther prosecution of his medical studies in
the University of Vienna. Returning to
Philadelphia he began the practice of medi-
cine there, where, excepting occasional vis-
its abroad, he has since lived and practiced
his profession. He married, December 13,
1877, Grace H. Price, of New York. Five
children blessed this union, all, like their
father, devotedly attached to the old home
on the Nashaminy, in Bucks county, where
the youngest daughter was born. The chil-
dren are : Russel Hampden, Jr., born Sep-
tember t6, 1878; Lawrence, born Septem-
ber 17. 1880; Anna Price, born September
20, i88r ; Louisa, born May 20, 1883; and
Paul Sears, bom October 24, 1896.

7. Lawrence Johnson, seventh child of
Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson,
was bom in Philadelphia. September 28,
1849. and was educated at private schools
there and at Princeton University. In
1868 he began his business career* as a
clerk in the shipping house of Isaac Hough
& Morris, where he remained for about two
years. On coming of age in 1870 he began
business for himself, under the firm name of
Lawrence Johnson & Company, shipping
and commission merchants and foreign
bankers, which business he has since fol-
lowed. On November 21. 1891. he was
elected a director of the Philadelphia Na-
tional Bank, and he is also a director of
the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances
on Lives and Granting Annuities, the In-
surance Company of North America, and
the Philadelphia Warehouse Company. He
married. December 6. 1877. Louisa Philler
Gaw, daughter of Henry L. Gaw, of Phila-
delphia. They have one child, Millicent
Gaw Johnson, born November 22, 1884.

8. Walter Richards Johnson, eighth
child of Lawrence and Mary (Winder)
Johnson, was born at Lansdowne. Bucks
county. August 24. 1851. He was educated
at Dr. Faires' and other private schools
of Philadelphia. He married, October 31,
1876. his cousin. Mary Rebecca Winder,
daughter of Moses and Margaretta Winder.
He purchased a farm on the right bank of
the Neshaminy, in Bensalem township,

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100

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

Bucks county, between Hulmeville and
Newportville, where he lived the remainder
of his life, and was actively engaged in ag-
ricultural pursuits. He was also actively
interested in political afifairs and held sev-
eral political otiices. He died March 25,
1897, leaving one child. Winder Lawrence
Johnson, since deceased, who married, Oc-
tober II, 1899, Susan D. Fine.

9. Robert Winder Johnson, ninth child
of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) John-
son, was born Sunday, May 7, 1854, at
No. 727 Pine street, Philadelphia. He pre-
pared for college at Mr. Gregory's private
school on Market street, near Eleventh,
and entered the freshman class of the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, September, 1870
(class of 1874,) but left the University in
tlTC spring of 187 1 and accompanied his
mother to Europe, where he studied and
traveled until October, 1874- He agaui
traveled abroad in 1875 and 1876. In Jan-
uary, 1877, he entered the office of Law-
rence Johnson & Company, doing a large
business as importers and exporters and
bankers, and in July, 1879, was admitted as
a member of the firm and has since
been actively associated with its busi-
ness. He was elected a member of
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
in 1874 and a life member in 1877;
was elected a member of the Rittenhouse
Club in 1883; a member of the vestry of
St. Peter's church in 1891 ; member of the
board of managers of Christ Church Hos-
pital in 1892; member of the Genealogical
Society of Pennsylvania in 1892; member
of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania in
1897; member of the Society of theProt-
estant Episcopal Church for the Advance-
ment of Christianity in Pennsylvania in
1897; member of the Board of managers
of the Children's Hospital in 1897; mem-
ber of the Netherlands Society of Phila-
delphia in 1899; and a life member of the
Bucks County Historical Society in 1903.
He takes a deep interest in the local history
of Bucks county, where his maternal an-
cestors, the Van Horns, Van Dycks, Van
Sandts, Van Pelts, Vandegrifts, Winders,
and others were among the earliest and
most prominent settlers, and has devoted
much time and expense during the last
twenty-five years in tracing out the history
of these early families of Bucks. Mr.
Johnson was married on November lO,
1887, to Rosalie Morris, daughter of George
Calvert and Elizabeth (Kuhn) Morris, at
St. Peter's Church, Third and Pine streets,
Philadelphia. Their children are as fol-
lows: Morris Winder, born July 5, 1889,
at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia; Lawrence
Edward, born July 9, 1892, at Lansdowne,
Bucks county; Robert Winder, Jr., born
August 19, 1894, at Lansdowne, Bucks
county; and Rosalie Eugenia, born Octo-
ber 12, 1900, at Chestnut Hill.

ID. Alfred Clayton Johnson, youngest
child of Lawrence and Mary (Winder)
Johnson, was born in Philadelphia, Sep-

tember 17, 1856. He was educated at pri-
vate schools in Philadelphia and at Dres-
den, Saxony. He read law under P. Pem-
berton Morris, Esq., of Philadelphia, and
also attended lectures on law at the Uni-
versity of Pennsylvania, and was admitted
to the Philadelphia bar April 3, 1880. He
was appointed consul to Stuttgart, Ger-
many, in 1893 and vice consul general at
Dresden in 1898. He married in Dresden,
July 21, 1888, Countess Toni von Baudis-
sin,' and they have one child, Mary Winder
Johnson, born in . Bristol township, Bucks-
county, Pennsylvania, June 11, 1889.

THE WINDER FAMILY.* The pro-
genitor of the Winders of Pennsylvania
and New Jersey was Thomas Winder of
England, who settled in Hunterdon county,.
New Jersey, in 1705. He was in New Jer-
sey in 1703, and was one of the purchasers
of Maidenhead and Hopewell, and partici-
pated in the agreement with Daniel Coxe,.
one of the proprietors of West Jersey, in
relation to that purchase. Soon after the
consummation of the purchase he returned
to. London, and was married at St. Mar-
garet's, Westminster, June 5, 1704, to Sara
Bull, and returned to West Jersey, settling
in Hunterdon countly, where he became a
large landowner. In 1721 he purchased six
hundred acres at Newtown, Bucks county,
of John Walley, and in 1727 purchased
three hundred and forty-one acres in Make-
field, Bucks county, which descended to his
son John, and remained in the tenure of
his descendants for several generations un-
til it was sold in 1837. He was a prominent
man in Hunterdon county, and was com-
missioner of highways in Amwell town-
ship in 1723. He married (second) in 1731,
Rebecca Gregory, who survived him, and
married Edward Collins in 1736. Thomas
Winder died, and letters of administration
were granted on his estate May 23, 1734.
The children of Thomas and Sara (Bull)
Winder were as follows :

1. John Winder, born 1707, died August
9, 1770, married Rebecca Richards.

2. Thomas, settled in Amwell, where he
was living in 1736.

3. James, removed to Prince George-
county, Maryland, where he died in 1789.

_^'4. Jane, who married John Slack and set-
tled in Lower Makefield, Bucks county,
where many of her descendants still reside.

5. Elizabeth, married Peter Phillips of
Amwell, where they lived and died.

Elinor, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca
(Gregory) Winder, married July 31, I751r
Thomas Guinnup, of Philadelpliia.

John and Rebecca (Richard.-^) Winder
settled on the land purchased by his father
in Lower Makefield, Bucks county, the
other heirs making conveyances to him for
their interest therein at various periods af-

♦Condensed from "Winders of America," by R.
Winder Johnson

^Ci^e4^

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

lOI

ter the death of Thomas. His wife, Rebec-
ca Richards, was born September 19, 1714,
and died January 19, 1788. The family-
were not members of the Society of Friends
until 1747, when he and his wife applied
for membership at Falls Meeting, and were
admitted as members. John died in Make-
field, August 9, 1770. The children of
John and Rebecca (Richards) Winder,
were as follows:

1. Thomas, married, May 11, 1758, Eliza-
beth Linton, daughter of Joseph and Mary

(Blackshaw) Linton, of Northampton
township.

2. James, married (first) December 28,
1763, Sarah Bailey, and (second) Mary
Booz.

3. John, married, January 23, 1760, Mar-
garet Briggs. He removed first to Dela-
•ware and later to Fayette county, Pennsyl-
vania, and still later to the state of Ohio.

5. Elizabeth, married (first) in April,
1759, Joseph Linton, son of Joseph and
Mary, before mentioned, and on April 2,
1795, married David Feaster.

6. Sarah, married, April, 1761, Robert
Whitacre, and removed to Catawissa, Penn-
sylvania.

7. Hannah, married in 1770, Timothy
Brooks. Moses, Aaron and Rachel died un-
married.

11. Rebecca, married March 26, 1772,
John Nutt, and removed to Fairfax, Vir-
ginia.

12. Mercj^ died unmarried.

13. Ann married May 13, 1779, Absalom
Knight.

14. Aaron Winder, born September 14,
1759, died July 2, 1824, married Janu-
ary 16, 1812, Sarah Van Horn,
born February 29, 1796, died Janu-
ary 27, 1838, daughter of Isaiah and Cath-
erine (Subers) Van Horn, of Makefield.

He purchased in 1788 two hundred acres
of the Makefield homestead, and built a
Tiouse thereon in 1790. It is related that
Catherine Subers, whose daughter he
eventually married, was the first love of
Aaron Winder, and on her marriage to his
successful rival in her affections, Isaiah
Van Horn, he abjured matrimony and lived
single until the age of fifty-three years,
when he married her daughter though Mrs.
Van Horn, the mother, had been a widow
almost from the birth of the daughter.

The children of Aaron and Sarah Van
Horn Winder were as follows :

1. Joel, born March 8, 1813, died in
"infancy.

2. Mary, born June 18, 1814, died Feb-
ruary 16. 1877, married Lawrence John-
son. (See Johnson Family).

3. Rebecca, born February 22, 1817, died
September 26, 1854, married General John
Ely" and had four children, but two of
whom lived to mature age ; Mary Winder
Ely, born November 19. 1840, died July
12, i860, married October 19. 1859, Joseph
Parry Brosius ; and Samuel Lawrence Ely,
"born May 24, 1847, died March 19, 1886,
imarried December 29, 1865, Mary Comly

Knight. He was sheriff of Bucks county
for the term of 1881-83.

4. Dr. Aaron Winder, born October 17,
1821, died December 28, 1883, married
August 21, 1846, Mary S. Gillam, and had
three children; William G. Winder, M.
D., of Andalusia, Bucks county and Phila-
delphia ; Mary Ely Winder, wife of Henry
B. Knight of Bucks county ; and Lawrence
Johnson Winder, M. D.

5. Moses Winder, born December 20,
1823, died April, 1864, married December
25, 1844, Margaretta Thornton, and had six
children, five of whom grew to maturity,
viz : Sarah, born 1849, married Blackstone
P. Doddridge; Mary Rebecca, born 1851;
died 1893, married Walter Richards John-
son, of Bensalem, Bucks county, Pennsyl-
vania; Anna Louisa, born February 4,
1854, married April 6, 1885, Isaac Holbor-
row Robertson ; John Ely Winder, born
1857, died 1866 ; and Aaron Augustus Win-
der, born February 8, 1859, married Octo-
ber 12, 1880, Jane Phillips Slugg, died
September 5, 1903.

Sarah (Van Horn) Winder married
(second ) August 24, 1825, Abner Morris,
and had four children.

JACOB M. WINDER, of Bristol,
was born in that borough August 28,

1858, and is a son of Isaac and Mary
Jane (Hetherington) Winder. He is of
English descent, his paternal ancestors
having been early English settlers in
New Jersey. Samuel Winder, the great-
grandfather of the subject of this sketch,
was a farmer in Falls township, and
died there in April, 1816, devising his
small estate to his wife Sarah who sur-
vived him several years.

Giles Satterthwaite Winder, _ son of
Samuel and Sarah, was born in Falls
township about 1795, being just arrived
at legal age at the death of his father,
and was named as executor of the will.
He received a good education and taught
school in Middletown township for
thirty years. He died in Bristol in
1857. He married Sarah Yonker,
daughter of George Yonker, of Middle-
town, and granddaughter of Daniel
Yonker, of Solebury. George Yonker
was the father of twelve children, one
son George, and eleven daughters, all
of whom lived to mature age, and all ex-
cept two of whom married and reared
families. The father resided on his farm
in Middletown, near Langhorne, until

1859, and then sold it on account of in-
ability to care for it, being very old
and infirm, and lived with a married
daughter in Burlington for one year,
and then removed to Bristol, Bucks
county, where he died in 1861 at a very
advanced age. Sarah Satterthwaite was
his eldest daughter. She also lived to
an advanced age. dying in Bristol, June
21, 1880. The children of Giles S. and

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

Sarah (Yonker) Winder were: George
Y., Daniel Y., Samuel, Isaac, Eliza and
Mary.

Isaac Winder, father of the subject of
this sketch, was born in Middletown
township, Bucks county, in 1832, and
died in Bristol in i860. He married
Mary Jane Hetherington and they were
the parents of one child, Jacob McBrien
Winder, the subject of this sketch.

Jacob M. Winder was born and reared
in Bristol, Bucks county, and acquired
his education at public and private
schools in Bristol and Philadelphia. He
graduated from Bryant and Stratton's
Business College in 1877. For the
greater part of his business life he has
been engaged in the wholesale liquor
business in Bristol, where he has always
resided. In politics he is a Democrat,
and has always taken a prominent part
in the councils of his party. He was
postmaster of Bristol for the term of
1895-1899, discharging the duties of that
responsible position efficiently and to
the satisfaction of its patrons. Mr.
Winder married in August, 1878, Mar-
garet Scott Irwin, daughter of Robert
and Dorothy (McCartney) Irwin, of
Philadelphia. Mr. and Mrs. Winder are
members of the Protestant Episcopal
Church of Bristol.

ISAAC S. JOHNSON, of Bucking-
ham, was born in New Britain township,
on February 20, 1850, being a son of
Jacob B. and Lydia (Swartz) Johnson.
Jacob B. Johnson was a son of Jacob
Johnson, a native of England, and was
born in Montgomery county, Pennsyl-
vania, and while still a young man re-
moved to New Britain township, Bucks
county, and later located in Plumstead
township, where he still resides. He
was a prominent farmer for many years,
but is now living a retired life with his
son Harry. When the turnpike was
built from Doj'lestown to Dublin, Mr.
Johnson was the builder under contract
with the newly organized company.
Jacob B. and Lydia Swartz Johnson
were the parents of nine children, of
whom seven survive, viz.: Henrj^ S., of
Plumstead; John S., of New Britain;
Isaac S. ; Abraham S., of Montgomery
county, Pennsylvania; Sallie S., wife of
John Funk, of Foimtainville; Mary Ann,
wife of Reuben Detweiler. of Hilltown;
Susan,, wife of Harry High, of Plum-
stead.

Isaac S. Johnson, the subject of this
sketch, was reared on the farm and ac-
quired his education at the public
schools of the neighborhood. In 1873
he married Mary A. Myers, of Pipers-
ville, Bedminsler township, and settled
on and conducted his father's farm in
Plumstead for ten years. He then
rented the Lead Mine farm in New

Britain, which he conducted for four
years. In 1887 he purchased his present
farm in Buckingham, eighty-six acres^
where he has since resided. He is a
successful farmer and a man of high,
standing in the community. Mr. and
Mrs. Johnson are the parents of four
children, viz.: Laura, for several years
a school teacher in Buckingham, now
the wife of Clarence Buckman; Monroe
M., a graduate of the Hughesian Free
School, West Chester Normal School
and Pierce's Business College, now fill-
ing a clerical position in Philadelphia;
Franklin M., living at home; Rosa, re-
siding at home and teaching school in
Buckingham, who acquired her educa-
tion at the Hughesian School, Doyles-
town High School and at West Chester
Normal School. Mr. Johnson is a
member of the Mennonite meeting, as-
was his father. In politics he is a Re-
publican, but has never sought or held
office.

THE VAN PELT FAMILY. The
emigrant ancestor of the Van Pelt fam-
ily was Tennis jansen Lanen Van Peltt^
who emigrated in 1663 from Liege, Bel-
gium, with wife, Grietje Jans, and six
children and settled in New Utrecht,
Long Island. He was known as "Tunis-
the Fisher." The children of Teunis-^
Jansen L. Van Pelt were, John Van
Pelt, died after 1720, married Maria
Peters; Anthony Van Pelt, died Feb-
ruary 2, 1720-1, married Magdalen Joos-
ten; Hendrick Van Pelt, married An-
netje Meinards; Wouter Vafi Pelt, mar-
ried Maria Jansen Schaers; Jacomytje,
married Jochem Gulick; and Aerte, mar-
ried Nieltje Jansen Van Tuyl. Bergen
in his "Early Settlers of King's County""
mentions three other children, of Teunis-
Jansen L. Van Pelt, viz.: H. Teuntje,
married Hermanns Gelder. Rebecca^
married Abraham De La Montaigne,
and Elizabeth.

Anthony Van Pelt, son of Teunis
Janse, came to this country with his
parents in 1663. He was a landholder
in New Utrecht in 1683, ^"d ten years
later was constable of New Utrecht. In
1700 he joined with his brothers and sis-
ter, the six above mentioned, in a con-
vej-ance of land taken up bj'^ his father
in New Utrecht, on July 27, 1713; he.
conveyed his land to his sons John and
Tunis with a provision that he and his
wife were to remain thereon during their
natural lives. He died on February 2,
1720-1. His wife was Magdalena or
Helena Joosten. Their children were:
Joost. (Joseph) baptized at Flatbiish,
September 28, 1679; Maria, baptized Oc-
tober 14. i68r, married Adrien Schoute;
Adriantje, baptized February 3. 1684,
died young; Grietje, baptized June 3,
1685, married Barendt Bond ; Tunis, who
removed to Staten Island, 1719, marriedl

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

103

Maria Degreau; Adriantje. baptized
May 25, 1690, married Charles Taylor;
John, of Staten Island, married Susanna
La Tourette: Helena, baptized ]\lay 29,
1695, married Tennis Stoutenburgh, and
Sarah, who married Cornelius Dorlandt.
Of the above, at least two, Joseph Van
Pelt and Adrien Schoute, (Scout) and
Maria Van Pel.t his wife settled in Penn-
sylvania, Joseph in Byberr3% Philadel-*
phia county, and Scout in Warminster
township, Bucks county.

Joseph Van Pelt married Catharine

, and the baptism of three of their

children appears of record in Staten
Island, Catharine, baptized May 4, 1714.
Joost, baptized March 20, 1716, and Jo-
hannes, baptized September 8, 1717. He
removed to Pennsylvania prior to De-
cember 6, 1719, as his daughter Sarah
was baptized at Abington Presbyterian
church on that date. Another son Der-
rick was baptized at the same church
May 7, 1721. His other children were:
Joris (George), who married Catharine
Sleght, June 2, 1743, and had children,
Joseph John, Catharine and Sarah, bap-
tized at the Dutch Reformed church of
North and Southampton, (1744 to 1756);
Lena, who married John Van Horn; An-
thony, who died in Buckingham in 1754.
and Elizabeth, who married John Ben-
nett. On November 7, 1730, Joseph Van
Pelt purchased 180^ acres of land in
Byberry of Jacob Hibbs. He died
intestate and letters of ^administration
were granted to his widow Catharine
March 17, 1739. His widow married
John McVeagh, May 17, 1745. His son
Joseph must have died j^oung as he does
not appear in connection with the con-
veyance of his father's real estate. John
Van Pelt, the second son, married May
12, 1739, Cornelia Sleght, and settled in
Northampton township, Bucks county.
Their children were: Joseph, baptized
December 11, 1742; Catharine, baptized
April 2, 1745; John, baptized August 31,
1749; Daniel, baptized October 15, 1751;
Isaac, baptized August 11, 1754. mar-
ried December 30, 1788, Jane Hender-
son, and removed to Wrightstown town-
ship, Bucks county. Helena, baptized
January 2, 1757; Jacob, baptized August
12, 1759, married Sarah Ryan. He died
in New Mil ford, Ohio, August 31, 183 1.
He was the father of eleven children.
Sarah, baptized September 23. 1761.
Catharine Van Pelt, eldest daughter of
Joseph and Catharine Van Pelt, married
Abraham Carroll, January 29. 1737.
Sarah, daughter of Joseph and Catharine
Van Pelt, married Barnard Van Horn,
January 17, 1753, and their son Isaac
Van Horn was baptized at Southamp-
ton, March 17, 1754.

Derrick Van Pelt married February
14. 1742. Mary Britton. He was an inn-
keeper in Whitpain township, Philadel-
phia county, at his death in 1767. His
sons Joseph and John were residents of

Upper Dublin township in 1770, but both
removed to New Britain township,
Bucks county, prior to 1776. The other
children of Derrick and Mary were:
Abraham, Mary, Anne, Samuel, Cath-
arine, married Isaac Newhouse, and
]\Iercy, married Jacob DeHaven.

Isaac Van Pelt, who married Jane
Henderson in 1788, removed to Wrights-
town township, Bucks county, in 1795,
later removed to Buckingham where he
died in 181 1. His children were: Mary,
married Robert Jones ; John ; Isaac ;
Thomas; Jane, married Thomas D.
Wolf; and Eleanor, married William
Vansant. Jane (Henderson) Van Pelt
died in Buckingham in 1S35.

Three of the sons of Joseph Van Pelt,
viz.: John, Isaac and Daniel — were pri-
vates in Captain Folwells Associated
Company in Southampton in 1775, John
was commissioned a lieutenant in Lower
Solebury, I\Iay 10, 1779. Isaac also saw
actual service in the revolution. John
became a captain.

Isaac, son of Isaac and Jane Hender-
son Van Pelt, was born in Wrightstown
in 1797. He was a shoemaker by trade
and lived in Wrightstown until 1836,
when he purchased a farm* in Bucking-
ham, where he died May 27, 1865. He
was twice married. His first wife was
Sarah, daughter of Peter D. and Re-
becca (Lewis) Cattell, (originally De-
Cattel). The children of this marriage
who survived were: Seth C, born Au-
gust 24, 1829: Jane Ellen, married Jo-
seph S. Ely, Esq., of New-town: William,
of Upper Makefield: Wilhelmina, mar-
ried Charles H. Warner. Isaac Van
Pelt married (second) Mary Ann Rich-
ardson and had three children: Joseph,
born October 8, 1844, Elizabeth, mar-
ride Joseph Starkey. and Matilda Caro-
line, who never married, living with her
sistei Elizabeth at Forest Grove.

SETH C. VAN PELT, deceased, was
born near Penns Park, Wrightstown
township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
August 24. 1829. a son of Isaac and Sarah
(Cattell) Van Pelt. He was reared on a
farm until twenty years of age, acquir-
ing a good education in the common
schools adjacent to his home. He then
entered the store of Jesse P. Carver, at
Pineville, as clerk, where he remained
until December i, 1872, when, having been
elected to the office of prothonotary of
Bucks county, he removed to Doyles-
town and there resided until the spring
of 1877, when he returned to Pineville
and rented a store for two years. At
the expiration of this period of time he
purchased the same and continued the
management of it until his death. May
31, 1889. He was a man of sterling in-
tegrity, and in all his career as clerk,
accountant, postmaster, merchant and

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

public official enjoyed the unbounded re-
spect and esteem of all with whom he
came in contact.

Mr. Van Pelt married, May 30, 1877,
Carrie A. Bodine, daughter of John R.
Bodine, and sister of General Robert L.
Bodine, who participated in the civil
war. One child was the issue "of this
union, Arthur C, who now resides in
Pittsburg. Mr. Van Pelt was survived
by his wife, who now makes her home in
Doylestown. Their son, Arthur C. Van
Pelt, born in 1879, is now residing in
Bellevue, a suburb of Allegheny City,
Pennsjdvania. He married Claudia
Geer, and has two daughters: Marian
and Margaret.

Hope, Bucks county; Seth, who now has
charge of the home fafm; and Clara,
wife of Harry S. Woolsey, of Doyles-
town.

WILLIAM VAN PELT, of Upper
Makefield, son of Isaac and Sarah (Cat-
tell) Van Pelt, was born in Wrightstown
township, Bucks county. May 27, 1833.
He was reared on the Wrightstown
farm, and acquired his education at the
local schools. In 1857 he married Han-
nah D. Tomlinson, daughter of Samuel
Tomlinson, of Pineville, Bucks county,
and took charge of the home farm,
which he conducted for four j^ears, when
he removed to Taylorsville, where he
conducted a temperance hostelry for one
year. He then removed to Searchville,
and conducted a small farm for one
year, and then removed to Titusville,
New Jersey, and engaged in the butcher
business. In the fall of 1861 he enlisted
in Company F, Twenty-second Regiment
New Jersey Volunteers, for a term of
nine months, and went to the front in
defense of his country. At the expira-
tion of his term of enlistment he re-
turned to Titusville, and was employed
in a store there for a short time. His
father being taken sick, he returned
home and took care of him until his
death, May 27, 1865. After his father's
death he removed to Pineville, and
worked at carpentering for a short
time, and then purchased a lot of land
and erected buildings and began buying
and slaughtering calves and poultry for
the New York market, and conducted a
local butchering business. In 1878 he
sold out his business to his half-brother.
Joseph Van Pelt, and Hiel Quinn. and
purchasing his present farm in Upper
Makefield, has since devoted Tiis atten-
tion to farming and stock raising. He
has bred and owns a number of high
bred horses. In politics Mr. Van Pelt
is a Democrat. He is a member of Cap-
tain Angel Post, G. A. R., of Lambert-
ville, New Jersey.

Mrs. Van Pelt died October 17, 1900.
They have been the parents of seven
children, four of whom survive: Jose-
phine, wife of Augustus Poore, a con-
ductor on the P. & R. R. R., residing at
Doylestown; Isaac, residing in New

JOSEPH VAN PELT, deceased, of
Pineville, Pennsylvania, was born in
Buckingham township, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, October 8, 1844, a son of
Isaac and Mary Ann (Richardson) Van
Pelt. He was reared on his father's
farm, and obtained such education as
could be acquired at the common
schools in the vicinity of his home. At
his father's death, in 1865, he went to
live with his brother-in-law, Joseph
Starkey, on the Buckingham farm. In
1869 he came to Pineville and entered
the employ of his half-brother, William,
in the butcher business. Ten years later
he began the business of butchering in
partnership with Hiel G. Quin, under
the firm name of Van Pelt & Co. Mak-
ing a specialty of pork butchering, they
built up a large and lucrative trade,
turning out a finished product of two
hundred and twenty-five thousand
pounds in a year. The success attained
by the firm was entirely due to the en-
ergy, perseverance and pluck displayed
in their management of affairs, and also
by honorable and straightforward busi-
ness principles which characterized their
career from the beginning. In politics
Mr. Van Pelt was a Democrat.

Mr. Van Pelt married, December 31,
1874. Rachel R. Tomlinson, daughter of
William H. and Sarah (Phillips) Tom-
linson. Five children were born to
them, of whoin Jennie died at the age
of two years and eleven months, and
Harry in his sixteenth year. The sur-
viving members of the family are: Eu-
gene K., a bookkeeper in Philadelphia;
Mary A., a graduate of Doylestown high
school, resides at home; and Lewis W.,
who also resides at home. William H.
Tomlinson, father of Mrs. Van Pelt, was
a son of Samuel and Hannah (Doan)
Tomlinson, and grandson of Joseph
Tomlinson, whose mother was a de-
scendant of William Buckman, who came
from Sussex county, England, arriving
here in the "Welcome," 8 mo., 1682.
Joseph Van Pelt died January 5, 190S.

CHARLES LANGHORNE TAYLOR,
of Trevose, son of the late Charles Will-
iams Taylor, and Sarah (Paxson) Taylor,
his second wife, was born on the Trevose
estate in Upper Bensalem township, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, the home of the
Taylor family for several generations, and
the residence in Colonial times of the
Growdons, ancestors of the Taylor family.

The founder of the Taylor family in
America was Thomas Taylor 6f Virginia,
who was a son of Thomas Taylor, of Lon-

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

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don, England. The latter wa? a son of
John, who was a son of one Nathaniel Tay-
lor, who lived in Colchester, Essex, at the
time of the commonwealth under Crom-
well. Thomas Taylor, the American pro-
genitor of the family, went to Virginia
when young and became a planter. He was
prosperous and became possessed of a large
landed estate which he devised to his son
Caleb at his death. Thomas Taylor, third
son of Caleb and grandson of Thomas Tay-
lor of Virginia, was born in 1753, joined
the Society of Friends, and settled in York,
Pennsylvania, where he died in 1S37, aged
«ighty-four years. His son, Caleb, Jr., was
born in 1789, and went into the wholesale
drug business at 24 North Front street,
Philadelphia, in 1810, at the age of twenty-
one. In the space of ten years he built up
a large and profitable business. In 1820 he
died, leaving a widow, Lydia, and four chil-
dren : Caleb, third ; George W., Charles
W., father of the subject of this stetch ; and
Sarah, wife of the late Thomas Paul, of
Germantown, whose niece, Mary Paul, mar-
ried William Waldorf Astor, of New York
city. Caleb Taylor, Jr., married in 1814
Lydia Williams, a woman of superior men-
tal attainments and of distinguished an-
cestry. She was a lineal descendant of
Thomas Langhorne and of Lawrence Grow-
don, the elder, and Joseph Growdon, prom-
inent men in and early settlers of the pro-
vince of Pennsylvania ; also from the Eng-
lish Mauleverers of Arncliffe. She was the
daughter of Charles Williams and Sarah
Dickinson, his wife. The original parch-
ment marriage certificate reciting their mar-
riage in 1788 by Frends' ceremony, is still
in the possession of the family, and is an
interesting document. Charles Williams
was the son of Hezekiah Williams, Jr. and
Grace Langhorne Biles, his wife. The lat-
ter was a daughter of Charles Biles and
Anne Mary, his wife. Charles Biles was
the son of William Biles and Sarah Lang-
horne, his wife.

William Biles was one of the early set-
tlers of the county. He took up nearly
three hundred acres just east of the pres-
ent borough of Langhorne. He was a man
of eminent talents and of great influence.
He was a member of the assembly, over-
seer of the highways, and a constable un-
d?r Governor Andros and the Duke of
York. Sarah Langhorne, his wife, was the
daughter of Thomas Langhorne, and sister
of Jeremiah Langhorne, a noted minister of
the religious Society of Friends, and later
judge of the provincial courts. Hezekiah
Williams, Jr., was the son of Hezekiah
Williams, Sr., and Sarah Abbott, his wife. .
The latter was the daughter of John
Abbott, and Anne Mauleverer, his wife.
Anne Mary, wife of Charles Biles,
was the daughter of Thomas " Hooper
and Ganfeier (Growdon) Hooper, who
was the daughter of Joseph Growdon,
the father of Lawrence Growdon the
younger. Joseph Growdon was a son
of Lawrence Growdon the elder, of Trevose,

Cornwall, England. He with his son Jo-
seph in i68r together obtained a grant of
ten thousand acres of land from the pro-
prietor of the province of Pennsylvania. At
the death of Joseph his share of the estate
went to his wife Anne, and at her death it
went to Lawrence Growdon the younger.
The Growdon tract comprised nearly the
whole of what is now the present township
of Bensalem. The present Trevose estate
is all that is now left of it, and it is one of
the historic estates of Pennsylvania. The
boundaries of the tract as it then existed
began on or near the farm of one Charles
Vandegrift, on the Poquessing creek, and
extended in an irregular line to the Nesh-
aminy creek, a short distance above the
present village of Newportville ; thence fol-
lowing the Neshaminy until it reached the
range of the Southampton township line;
thence along this line to the Poquessing,
and down that stream until it reached the
farm of Charles Vandegrift, at the place of
beginning. The Growdons also took up
under their patent from Penn three hun-
dred acres of land in the southern point of
Bensalem, between the Poquessing creek
and the Delaware river.

After a short residence in Philadelphia,
after he came over from England, Lawrence
Growdon erected a mansion house at Tre-
vose, set up a manorial establishment, and
maintained much pomp and. circumstance.
The mansion house was at that time a large
stone building with pointed finish, two stor-
ies high, with open stairway and hall. When
it was completed in 1687 it was one of the
finest residences in the province. Two
wings, one adjoining the east end of the
house, and the other adjoining the west end,
with an open court-yard between them,
were used for kitchen, scullery, store house
and slave quarters respectively. At the
east end of the dwelling house Growdon
erected a small stone fireproof building,
with brick arched roof, and an iron door.
Here the county records were stored while
the county seat was at Bristol and while
Growdon was prothonotary, and here at a
later date were kept many of the valuable
papers of Benjamin Franklin, who was an
intimate friend of Joseph Galloway, son-in-
law of Lawrence Growdon. In the iron door
at present on this building there still may be
seen bullet holes from shots fired by soldiers
in the Continental army during the Revolu-
tionary war. In front of the mansion house
the main door opened into the spacious hall,
and from this door a splendid view could
be had of distant Jersey and the Delaware
river, as well as the lower lands of Ben-
salem, Byberry and Bristol. A fine lawn of
original forest trees surrounded the house,
while back were stables and garden. Back
of the house and towards the "Neshaminy
river" was Growdon's famous orchard of
one thousand apple trees of English im-
portation. This was the home, or Manor
farm. The farms retained and rented were
South Trevose, East Belmont, West Bel-
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Richlieu Forest. Part of the soiitlicrn
lands were subsequently sold to the Rod-
mans. Gabriel Thomas, in his book en-
titled "An Historical Description of the
Province of Pennsylvania," published in
London in 1698, describes the Growdon
mansion as situated on the "Neshaminy
river" and further says that "Judge Grow-
don hath a very noble and fine house, very
pleasantly situated ; and likewise a famous
orchard adjoining to it, wherein are con-
tained above a thousand apple trees of
various sorts." Growdon's mansion house,
which this quaint historian refers to, is
still standing, and is as solid as it was when
built over two hundred years ago. There
have been but slight changes to alter its
appearance with the exception of a half
story which was added in 1847. The old
house- in its day had seen many a dis-
tinguished guest. Here Penn held council,
and here laws were formulated for the bet-
ter government of the province. Here, in
the next generation, Benjamin Franklin re-
hearsed his theories regarding the then un-
discovered science of electricity with his
friend the eminent and erratic Galloway.

Lawrence Growdon, the younger, was a
member of the general assembly from Phila-
delphia in 1685. In 1693 he was elected to
represent Bucks county in the same body,
and served as speaker of the house for a
number of consecutive terms. He was ap-
pointed a provincial judge in 1706, and
was one of the judges of the supreme court
in 1715. Proud speaks of him as being at-
torney general in 1725. For further in-
formation on this subject the reader is re-
ferred to an interesting paper entitled "The
Growdon Mansion," read before the Bucks
County Historical Society, January 19, 1897,
by Henry W. Watson, Esq., of Langhorne.

Lawrence Growdon died in 1769, and left
surviving him two daughters, Elizabeth
and Grace. The latter married Joseph Gal-
loway, one of the eminent men of his day.
He was an able lawyer, and at the begin-
ning of the Revolution had built up a large
practice in the courts of Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Delaware. He was a man of
great activity and indefatigable industry.
He was a member of the provincial assem-
bly eighteen years, and speaker of the house
twelve years. He was sent by the assembly
as a delegate to the Continental congress.
After the death of Lawrence Growdon, his
father-in-law, Joseph Galloway, resided at
Trevose. He believed that the difficulties
between Great Britain and the Colonies
which eventually led to the Revolution
could be settled amicably and without
bloodshed. These views he boldly upheld
in the Continental congress. His influence
was so great that his opponents saw that
he must be silenced. In the autumn of
1776, while Galloway was supposed to be
living at Trevose, a squad of soldiers ap-
peared there in search of him. They did
not find him, however, as he had been
warned and had left. They sacked the man-
sion, and plundered the wine cellar. As

they left they fired a parting shot at the
iron door of the old record office. The bul-
let holes may be seen to this day. After
hostilities commenced Galloway upheld the
British cause. His wife and daughter went
to Philadelphia, where he rejoined them
shortly after, entering the city with the
British army under Sir William Howe.
Joseph Galloway had one daughter, known
to history as "Betty." In her day she was
a great belle. Among her admirers was a
British army officer, William Roberts, whom
she afterwards married. Galloway took a
determined stand against the young man
and forbade his daughter to have any as-
sociation with him, and threatened to shoot
him if he ever came on his property. The
colored servants sympathized with the
young lovers and carried letters between
them. An elopement from Trevose and a
marriage followed. When Galloway dis-
covered this he was enraged. He imme-
diately resolved to sell all his slaves, and ac-
cordingly advertised and sold them in the
open court yard at the rear of the mansion
house and between its wings. This oc-
curred about ten years before the Revolu-
tionary war.

Some time after this, Galloway turned
his mind to religion and wrote and pub-
lished a work entitled "Galloway's Com-
ments on Divine Revelation," an old work
yet in many libraries. Meeting the far-
famed Christian philanthropist, Anthony
Benezet, one of the best men of any age or
country, Galloway asked him very pom-
pously if he had read his great work on
"Divine Revelation." "No," replied Ben-
ezet, "neither shall I, for I think that a
man who sells his fellow beings at public
sale had better leave Divine Revelation
alone, and everything else that is Divine."

To prevent her property from being con-
fiscated, Galloway's wife Grace, by her will
dated December 30, 1781, and recorded at
Doylestown, devised all her real estate, in-
cluding Trevose, to nine persons therein
named, their heirs and assigns, without any
restrictions or limitations whatever. The
devisees took possession and held her estate
until in iSoi, when the survivors of them
recorded in Doylestown "A Declaration of
Trust," in which they declared that they
held the estate in trust for Elizabeth Gallo-
way, her heirs and assigns, covenanting to
convey at her request. The tracts Trevose,
South Trevose, East Belmont, West Bel-
mont, Richlieu, and Richlieu Forest were so
conveyed to Elizabeth Galloway Roberts,
and were sold by her grandchildren to
George Williams, great-uncle of the subject
of this sketch.

The Galloways lived at Trevose in ac-
cordance with their social position and
wealth and were looked up to as great
folk, by the people of the community. On
every fair day "Betty" Galloway could be
seen cantering on horseback over the roads
of the ncighhorhnod, followed by a colored
groom. Her riding habit has been min-
utely described by a local historian :

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107

"The habit consisted of a black hat
and phinie, with coat and bodice and
flowing skirt of green velvet, faced with
gold." Her father wore the short trous-
ers of the day with silk stockings and a
powdered wig on all important occasions.

An interesting discovery was made at
Trevose in 1888. It was part of the neigh-
borhood tradition that before Mrs. Grace
(Growdon) Galloway was forced to leave
her home at the time of the Revolution, she
buried a good deal of her treasure, which
was too bulky to take with her. In August,
1888, this tradition was confirmed. A la-
borer while working on the farm unearthed
the remains of what had been a box of rare
and costly eggshell or India china. It was
unfortunately nearly all broken when found,
but enough remained to show that it had
been hand-painted with pictures of Chinese
life, with the funny and impossible perspec-
tive so much in use by the artists of the
Flowery Kingdom for the last thousand
years. Just enough remained to show
what once had been. They had evidently
been carefully packed. Saucers and tea
plates were found standing on their edges
in rows, and there was a strong partition in
the box separating them from the larger
and heavier pieces of china. There were
also a number of pieces found belonging to
a children's toy -tea set of common blue
ware. There was but one other article de-
serving of mention, and this was a bowl of
the commonest ware ornamented with a
likeness of King George III., taken when he
was a young man, with the words "George
III., King," on a scroll at the base of the
portrait. There seems to have been no
reason why so worthless an article should
have been hidden away, excepting that, as it
indicated the loyalty of the family, it was
dangerous to allow it to be exposed to view.
A similar box of china was dug up in 1847
by the late William Ridge, who was then
lessee of the property.

In 1847 the Burtons, grandchildren of
Betty Galloway, sold Trevose to their sec-
ond cousin, George Williams, a lineal des-
cendant of the Growdons. At his death he
devised it to his niece Lydia (Williams)
Taylor, wife of Caleb Taylor ; Lydia at her
death devised it to her son, the late Charles
W. Taylor, father of the subject of this
sketch. It is somewhat singular that, from
the time of the Growdons down to the time
of the Burtons, there is no mention in any
deed or will conveying the prope'rty to any
male heir being born to the estate. There
has always been a female heir in each gen-
eration for whom the property has been
held in trust. From 1681 to the present time
the property has been sold but twice.
Through the Williams family the present
owner is a lineal descendant from the
Growdons, the first purchaser from William
Penn, and while the property has not al-
ways descended in a direct line, yet it is
interesting to note that it has never passed
out of the hands of the descendants of Law-
rence Growdon the elder, since the time he

received it by grant from Penn, the pro-
prietor of the province of Pennsylvania.

Lydia (Williams) Taylor, wife of Caleb
Taylor, was also a lineal descendant of
Thomas Langhorne, father of Jeremiah
Langhorne, of Langhorne Park. The lat-
ter was an interesting contemporary of
Lawrence Growdon. He was a branch of
the Langhorne family of Wales, "a family
of much wealth, and great note." They
were the owners of all the country from
St. Davids' to Carmarthan, over sixty
miles. St.' Brides' was the family seat of
the Langhornes, settled by one Thomas
Langhorne during the reign of Richard II.
Langhorne Castle was dismantled by Crom-
well. Thomas Langhorne, of Kendall meet-
ing, Westmoreland, England, came to Bucks
county in 1684. He took up some eight
hundred acres of land covering the ground
between the present borough of Langhorne
and Glen Lake, and was one of the first set-
tlers. His mansion house was situated
about one half-mile south of the present
borough of Langhorne ]\Ianor, and on the
property now owned by J. Hibbs Buckman,
Esq. He had four children: Jeremiah;
Elizabeth, who married Lawrence Grow-
don; Sarah, who married William Biles;
and Grace, who died at the age of thirty-
four, unmarried.

Jeremiah Langhorne was farfamed as one
of the ablest ministers of the religious So-
ciety of Friends. He was chief justice of
the province, and held court in many places
in it. He lived a single life with his sister
Grace until her death, and after that alone
with his servants. Besides Langhorne Park,
his residence, he owned several thousand
acres in Lehigh county. As to the date of
his death there is no known record. His
remains are said to lie in the Middletown
meeting graveyard in the borough of Lang-
horne. His will was proved in 1774. By-
marriages and deaths without issue Jere-
miah Langhorne's estates went largely to
the Growdons and the Galloways of Tre-
vose. For an interesting essay on "Jeremiah
Langhorne and his Times" the reader is
referred to a paper read before the Bucks
County Historical Society on August 9,
1898, by Samuel C. Eastb'urn. Esq., of
Langhorne, from which much of the infor-
mation herein contained is taken.

The Williams family are also descended
from the Mauleverer? of Arncliffe, Eng-
land. Hezekiah Williams, Jr. (ante) great-
grandfather of the late Charles W. Taylor,
was the son of Hezekiah Williams, Sr., and
Sarah Abbott, his wife. The latter was a
daughter of Anne ISIauleverer and John
Abbott, of Burlington county, New Jersey,
who were married April 16, 1696. John
Abbott was born in Nottinghamshire in
1663, and arrived in Philadelphia in 1684.
Anne Mauleverer was the daughter of Ed-
mund Mauleverer, of West Auyton, York-
shire, and Anne Pearson, his wife. He died
27 November, 1679. Edmund's father was
James, who married Beatrice, daughter of
Sir Timothv Hutton, Bart. Records in St.

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Mary's church, York, show that he was
buried there 25 April, 1664. James's father
was William, who married Eleanor, daugh-
ter of Richard Aldborough. William
Mauleverer was buried at x\rncliffe, the
familj' seat of the JNIauleverers, 11 April,
1618. William's father was Sir Edmund,
who married Mary, daughter of Sir Chris-
topher Danby, Bart. He was buried at
Arncliffe, 27 April 1571. Sir Edmund's
father was Robert, who married Alice,
daughter of Sir Nimian de Markenfield.
Robert's father was Sir William ]\Iaule-
verer (knighted at Flodden in 1513 )who
married Anne, daughter of William, first
Lord Conyers, and Anne de Neville his
wife. The latter was a daughter of Ralph
de Neville, third earl of Westmoreland.
Lord Conyers was the son of Sir John
Conyers, Bart, and Alice de Neville, his
wife. Through the Nevilles, and John of
Gaunt, the line may be readily traced to
Edward IIL, and so on back, by any one
familiar with English history. For further
research on this matter the reader is re-
ferred to "Descent of Anne Mauleverer
Abbott," by Charles Marshall and John B.
Clement, 1903. Times Printing House,
Philadelphia. See also "Inglesby Arncliffe,
and its Owners," by William Brown, F. S.
A., 1901, John Whitehead & Son, Alfred
street. Boar Lane, Leeds. The descent in
all its details is beautifully traced in the
Marshall-Clement chart, to which the
reader is referred.

Sarah (Paxson) Taylor, second wife of
the late Charles W. Taylor, and mother of
the subject of this sketch, was born April
13, 1841, at "Brushy Park," near Edding-
ton, Pennsylvania, and died at Trevose,
February 22, 1889. She was the daughter
of Joseph Paxson and Elizabeth (Gallaher)
Paxson, his wife, and a member of the Rod-
man family. Joseph Paxson was born Feb-
ruary 12, 1803, and died September 24, 1867.
He was the eldest son of John Paxson, of
Brookfield, and Sarah (Pickering) Paxson,
his wife. John Paxson's father was Joseph,
who married Sarah Rodman. He was born
25 December, 1744, and resided at Brook-
field until his death in 1795. Sarah Rod-
man's father was John Rodman (fourth) of
Brookfield, who married (second) Mary
Harrison Rodman. Pie was born in 1714
at Flushing, Long Island. He removed to
Burlington, New Jersey, with his father, in
1726; thence September i, 1748, to Bensa-
lem township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
residing until his death in 1795 on the farm
called Brookfield, which he purchased from
the Growdons. His father was John Rod-
man (third) who married Margaret Grosse.
John Rodman (third) was born in the Is-
land of Barhadoes, May 14, 1679, and ac-
companied his father to Newport, Rhode
Island, in 1682. He resided at Newport
after he became of age. and was admitted
as a freeman of that city May i, 1706. He
removed to Flushing, Long Island, in 1712,
where he continued to reside until 1726. He
was a member of the Society of Friends,

and a practicing physician. He was a mem-
ber of the ninth assembly of the province .
of New Jersey in 1727, from the city of
Burlington. From 1738 until his death, a
period of eighteen years, he acted as
King's Councillor for New Jersey. King
George II. appointed him 8 January, 1741, a
member of a commission to settle the con-
troversy between the Mohegan Indians and
the colony of Connecticut. He was the son
of John Rodman (second) and Mary
(Scammon) Rodman, his wife. John Rod-
man (second) was born in 1653. His name
appears among the inhabitants of Christ
church parish, Barbadoes, December 22,
1679, as the owner of forty-seven acres of
land and thirteen negroes. He was a mem-
ber of the Religious Society of Friends,
and while he lived in Barbadoes was fined
1)350 pounds of sugar "for default of ap-
pearing in the troop." He purchased land
in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1682, and in
Burlington, New Jersey, in 1686. He died
July 10, 1731, at the age of seventy-eight.
He was the son of John Rodman (first) of
the Island of Barbadoes, the progenitor of
the Rodman family in America, and Eliza-
beth Rodman, his wife. Of John Rodman
little is known. He died in the Island of
Barbadoes some time between the i6th Sep-
tember and 4th December, 1686. His will
bears the former date, and it was proved on
the latter date. From whence he came is
not now known. No memorials now exist
in the family showing this fact, and the re-
searches necessary to discover it from other
sources have not been made. The only fact
which tends to throw any light at all upon
the subect is found on page 2^ of Rutty's
"History of the Quakers in Ireland," pub-
lished in 1751 : "In the year 1655 ^oi" wear-
ing his hat on in the Assizes in New Ross,
was John Rodman committed to goal by
Judge Louder, kept a prisoner three months
and then banished the country." The infer-
ence from this passage is that John Rod-
man originally came from Ireland, and
upon his banishment went to the Island of
Barbadoes. See "A Genealogy of the Rod-
man Family from 1620 to 1886," by Charles
Henry Jones, Philadelphia, 1886, Allen
Lane & Scott, publishers.

The Brookfield Farm above mentioned
as the home of the Rodmans for so many
generations is still owned by their descend-
ants, and the subject of this sketch inher-
ited an interest in it throiigh his mother. It
is worthy of remark that from the early
part of the seventeenth century until the
present time, a period of two hundred years,
this property has never been out of their
hands, but has been owned and occupied by
seven or eight successive generations of
the family.

Charles W. Taylor, father of the subject
of this sketch, was born in Philadelphia in
t5i7. He was educated at the Westtown
Friends' School, and at the Friends' Acad-
emy, then on Fourth street, below Chestnut
street, Philadelphia. Soon after coming of
age he became associated with his great

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uncle, George Williams, in the China and
East India trade. In 1847 he gave up active
business owing to ill health, and took up his
residence at Trevose, where he resided until
his death, May 30, 1893. He was a man of
great force o'f character, of earnest piety,
and much respected by those among whom
■he lived. In early life he was a member of
the Society of Friends, as were all his fam-
ily before him. In later years he became an
Episcopalian. He was an attendant at
Christ church, Eddington, and Grace Prot-
estant Episcopal church, Hulmeville. For
a number of years he was vestryman and
rector's warden of the latter church, and
represented it at the Episcopal convocation
of Germantown. While he was possessed
of more than ordinary ability and took a
great interest in the public affairs of his
time, yet he was of a retiring disposition,
and, although he was often strongly urged,
he never held public office. While living a
retired life at Trevose he was active in
every work for the advancement of the
community. He was a fluent and graceful
writer, and a frequent contributor to cur-
rent newspapers and magazines on flori-
cultural and historical subjects. He was
especially interested in the latter subject,
and was one of the charter members of the
Bucks County Historical Society.

Charles Langhorne Taylor, the subject
of this sketch, was prepared for college by
a private tutor, and at the Abington
Friends' School, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.
He entered the University of Pennsylvania
in 1893 and was graduated B. S. in 1897 ;
attended Harvard College, but did not
graduate; was graduated LL. B. from Har-
vard Law School, 1900; also graduated LL.
B. from the Law School of the University
of Pennsylvania, 1901 ; was admitted to
practice law at the Philadelphia bar on mo-
tion of George Wharton Pepper, Esq., in
1901 ; was admitted to the bar of the su-
preme court of Pennsylvania in 1904, and
has practiced his profession in Philadelphia
since 1901. In the latter year he was one of
the organizers of the Bucks County Coun-
try Club at Langhorne, near Trevose ; later
became one of its charter members, and a
member of the board of governors; was
elected secretary of the club in 1904. He is
a Republican in politics, and a member of
several clubs and societies, among which
may be mentioned the Harvard Club of
Philadelphia, the Bucks County Historical
Society, and Historical Society of Penn-
sylvania.

BENJAMIN J. TAYLOR, of Bristol,
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, president of
the Farmers' National Bank of Bucks
county and prominently associated with the
business interests of lower Bucks, was
born in Burlington county. New Jersey,
and is a representative of a distinguished
family that has been prominently identified
with the business, official and social life of
• Bucks and Philadelphia counties, and of the

neighboring state of New Jersey for over
two centuries.

Samuel Taylor, the emigrant ancestor of
the family, was a native of the parish of
Dore, Derbyshire, England, and sailed
from Bristol, England, in the fly-boat,
"Martha," in the year 1677, and landed at
the point where Burlington, New Jersey,
now stands. He was one of the proprietors
of West Jersey, owning one thirty-second
share in the lands of West Jersey, the
papers for which were executed by his
brother, William Taylor, of Dore, county
of Derby, England, who had purchased the
land of George Hutchinson, when in Eng-
land and sold it to Samuel, but being lost
before reaching America, the land was
conveyed to Samuel by Hutchinson in 1681.
He located in Chesterfield township, Bur-
lington county, owning large tracts of land
there and elsewhere. He died in December,
1723, leaving a family of eight children,
four sons, John, George, William and Rob-
ert, and four daughters who married into
prominent families of New Jersey.

Robert Taylor, youngest son of Samuel,
was the executor of his father's will and
inherited a large portion of the homestead
tract, which descended to his son Anthony,
the great-grandfather of the subject
of this sketch, and remained in the tenure
of his descendants until quite recently. The
five hundred acre tract known as Brookdale
farm was Robert's portion. His son, An-
thony, who inherited Brookdale and lived
thereon until his death in 1785, was an ar-
dent patriot during the revolution and ren-
dered material service to the cause of na-
tional liberty.

Anthony Taylor, Jr., third son of An-
thony, and great-grandson of Samuel, the
founder, was born at Brookdale farm in
1772, and when quite young was placed with
John Thompson, a prominent merchant of
Philadelphia, to be trained for a mercan-
tile and business career. On attaining his
majority he formed a partnership with
Thomas Newbold. whose sister Mary He
later married, and engaged extensively in
the East India trade, the firm name being
Taylor & Newbold. In 1810 Mr. Taylor
retired from active business pursuits and
settled at Sunbury," his fine country seat
in Bristol township, Bucks county, which
had been his summer home for some years
previously.. He later purchased several
other large tracts of land in lower Bucks
county, and at his death in 1837 was the
largest landowner in the county. Anthony
Taylor married, in 1802, Mary Newbold,
tenth child of Caleb Newbold, of Spring-
field township. Burlington county. New
Jersey, and a descendant of Michael New-
bold, of Sheffield Park, Yorkshire, Eng-
land, who in 1678 purchased one eighth of
three nintieth parts of the province of West
Jersey, and settled in Springfield townshif),
Burlington county, where he died in 1693,
leaving a large number of children and
grandchildren, some of whom were still Jn

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

England. Many of his descendants even-
tually became residents of Bucks county.
Anthony and Mary (Newbold) Taylor
were the parents of eleven children, Robert,
Anthony, Sarah, William, Edward, Law-
rence, Michael, Caleb Newbold, Mary Aim,
Thomas, Emma L. and Franklin. The
seventh of these children, Hon. Caleb
Newbold Taylor, born at "Sunbury," July
27," 1814, was for over fifty years one of
the most prominent men in Bucks county,
being an acknowledged leader tirst of the
Whig and later of the Republican party in
Bucks county, representing his county in
state and national conventions almost con-
tinuously after attaining his majority, and
four times was the candidate of his district
for congress, being twice elected, in 1866
and 1868, respectively. He was also one of
the most prominent business men in the
■county and amassed a large estate, owning
at one time about 3,000 acres of land in
Bucks county. He was president of the
Farmers' National Bank of Bucks county,
of which his father, Anthony Taylor, had
been president for many years at his death
in 1837. He died unmarried.

Dr. Robert Taylor, eldest son of An-
thony and Mary (Newbold) Taylor, was
the father of the subject of this sketch. He
was born in Philadelphia in 1803, and was
reared in Bucks county. On attaining
manhood settled in Philadelphia, removing
later to Burlington county. New Jersey, and
late in life to Bristol, Bucks county, resid-
ing at Sunbury Farm, where he died in
August, 1872, at the age of sixty-nine years
and was buried in the graveyard of the
Protestant Episcopal church of St. James,
the less, at the Falls of Schuylkill. Pie mar-
ried Elizabeth Jones, daughter of Benjamin
Jones, of Philadelphia, and a great-grand-
daughter of John Jones, a large landowner
in Bucks and Philadelphia counties in
colonial times. Dr. Robert and Eliza-
beth Ash (Jones) Taylor were the pa-
rents of five children: Benjamin J., Cap^-
tain Anthony, Robert, Fr&nces, and Alice
J. Elizabeth Taylor, the mother of
these children, died at Bristol, January
29. 1893, aged eighty years.

Captain Anthony Taylor, the second
son of Dr. Robert Taylor, born in Bur-
lington county, New Jersey, October 11,
1837, rendered distinguished services to
his countrj' during the civil war. He
■enlisted August 8, 1862, in the Fifteenth
Pennsylvania Cavalry as a private, was
made sergeant, October 30, 1862; first
sergeant, March i. 1863; first lieutenant
of Company A, May 8, 1863: and Cap-
tain. June I, 1865; having had command
of the company as lieutenant, command-
ing almost from the date of his commis-
sion as first lieutenant. Prior to 1865
he was under Brigadier General Rosen-
crans, in the Army of the Cuml)erland,
and participated in the battles of An-
tietam, Stone River, Chickamauga and
many other engagements. From June
I, 1865 until tlie close of the war he

served on the stafif of General William
J. Palmer, as aide-de-camp, and was
honorably mustered out June 21, 1865.
In 1893 he was awarded a medal of
honor by the United States congress for
signal acts of bravery and meritorious
service. He married, February 21, 1871.
Caroline Fletcher Johnson, daughter of
Lawrence and Mary (Winder) Johnson,
and died in Philadelphia, May 21, 1894,
leaving two daughters, Mary Lawrence,
now wife of Bromley Wharton, private
secretary to Governor Pennypacker; and
Elizabeth Elmslie, wife of Hcruston-
Dunn.

Benjamin J. Taylor was born in Bur-
lington county,. New Jersey, and re-
ceived his education at the Friends'
Select School and at the Protestant
Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia. He
received a thorough business training,
and followed mercantile pursuits in
Philadelphia for eight years. In 1863 he
served for three months in the Grey Re-
serves, and was at the shelling of Car-
lisle by General Fitz Hugh Lee. He
also saw military service in Tennessee
and Mississippi as volunteer aide on the
staff of dififerent commanders. After
retiring from active mercantile pursuits
he made his residence at the old fam-
ily homestead at Sunbury Farm, in
Bristol township, and devoted much of
his time to the transaction of business,
acting as agent for others and assisting
in the care and management of the large
estate belonging to the family. He has
been a director of the Farmers' National
Bank of Bristol for many years, and on
the death of Pierson Mitchell, in 1894,
was elected its president, representing
the third generation of his family in suc-
cession to serve in that capacity. Mr.
Taylor has inherited many of the ster-
ling business qualities of his ancestors,
and is interested in niost of the local
business enterprises. He and his sisfer
Alice are the owners of Sunbury Farmj
comprising 400 acres, which has been
the home of his ancestors and their fam-
ilies for four generations, covering a
period of over a century. He is a mem-
ber of H. Clay Beatty Post, G. A. R.,
and other social, fraternal, and patriotic
associations.

THE HICKS FAMILY of Bucks
county descend from Pilgrim stock,
their first American progenitor being
Robert Hicks, who landed at Plymouth,
Massachusetts, November 11, 1621, hav-
ing sailed from London in the ship
"Fortune," which followed the "May-
riower," and brought over those left be-
hind the previous year by that famous
t'essel. The family of Robert Hicks
were natives of Gloucestershire, Eng-
land, and traced their ancestry in an
unbroken line back to Sir Ellis Hicks,
who was knighted by Edward, the Black

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

Ill

Prince, on the battle field of Poitiers,
September 9, 1356, for conspicuous brav-
ery in capturing a stand of colors from
the French.

Robert Hicks settled at Duxbury,
Massachusetts, and died there at an ad-
vanced age. His sons John and Stephen
in 1642 joined an English company
which acquired by patent an extensive
tract of land about Hempstead and
Flushing. Long Island. Stephen Hicks
purchased several thousand acres at
Little Neck, Long Island, and erected a
large mansion where he lived to an ad-
vanced age and died without leaving
male descendants.

John Hicks settled at Hempstead, and
from him are descended the extensive
family of the name on Long Island, in
New York, Philadelphia and Bucks
county, as well as in many other parts
of the Union. He was educated at Ox-
ford, and was a man of intelligence and
natural force of character, and there-
fore soon became a leader in the youth-
ful colony, and took an active part in
public affairs, his name appearmg in
nearly all the iinportant transactions of
the time.

Thomas Hicks, only son of John, in-
herited his father's intellectual ability
and force of character, and occupied a
prominent position in public and social
life, filling many positions of trust and
honor. He was the first judge of
Queens county, New York, and filled
that office for many years. In 1666 he
obtained from Governor Nicolls a pat-
ent for four thousand acres of land in-
cluding Great Neck, Long Island, and
lands adjacent, and lived there in Eng-
lish manorial style. He was a remark-
able man in many respects, and retained
his mental and physical powers unim-
paired to an extreme old age. He was
twice married, his first wife being Mary
Washburne, by whom he had two sons.
Thomas and Jacob, the latter being the
father of the famous Quaker preacher,
Elias Hicks, the founder of that branch
of the Society of Friends known to this
day as Hicksites. Judge Hicks married
(second) Mary Dought3^ by whom he
had ten children — six sons; Isaac. Will-
iam, Stephen, John, Charles, Benjamin;
anl four daughters; Phebe. Charity,
]\Iary and Elizabeth. A paragraph in
the "New York Post Boy" of January
26, 1749, in referring to the death of
Judare Hicks., says: "he left behind him
of his own offspring above three hun-
dred children. grandchildren. great-
grandchildren and great-great-grand-
children." He died in his one hundredth
year.

Isaac Hicks, eldest son of the Judge
by his second marriage with Mary
Dought3\ was, like his father, a prom-
inent man in public affairs. He was
judge of Queens county. Long Island-,
for the years 1730-1738, and a member

of the colonial assembly of New York
from that county, 1716 to 1739. He mar-
ried Elizabeth Moore, and they were
the parents of evelen children — nine
sons: Charles, Benjamin, Isaac, Gdbert,
James, Thomas. Henry, John, Edward;
and two daughters, Margaret and Mary.
Gilbert Hicks, fourth son of Isaac
and Elizabeth (Moore) Hicks, was
born in Queens county. New York, Sep-
tember 19, 1720, and married April 24,
1746, Mary Rodman, born February 17,
1717, a daughter of Joseph Rodman.
They were the ancestors of all the
Hickses of Bucks county. Both were
born at Flushing. Long Island. As a
wedding present to the youthful couple,
Joseph Rodman conveyed to them six
hundred acres of land in Bensalem
township, on the Neshaminy creek,
twenty miles northeast of Philadel-
phia, which he had recently purchased.
Hither they came in 1747 and made their
home in a comfortable log house untfl
they erected a more commodious dwell-
ing, to defray the expense of which he
sold off two hundred acres of the land
to Lawrence Growdon. They subse-
quently sold the remaining four hun-
dred acres and purchased one hundred
acres, coming to a point at Four-Lanes-
End, (now Langhorne) on which he
erected in 1763 a commodious brick
house which is still standing.

On June 9, 1752, Gilbert Hicks was
commissioned by the governor and
council one of the justices of the peace
for Bucks county, and on May li, 1761,
he was commissioned chief justice of
the court of common pleas. On March
29. he and Hugh Hartshorne were com-
missioned by John Penn, then gover-
nor, to hold court for the trial of ne-
groes, whether slave or free. Gilbert
Hicks was a man of superior mental
abilities, and stood very high in the com-
munity, commanding the respect of all.
On July 9, 1774, he was chairman of a
public meeting held at Newtown, then
the county seat of Bucks, in pursuance
of previous notice, and in a short ad-
dress explained the objects of the meet-
ing as being to consider the injury and
distress occasioned by the numerous
acts of oppression inflicted on the col-
onies by the English parliament, in
which the colonies were not represented,
and entirely concurred in the resolu-
tions then adopted, looking toward a
congress composed of delegates from
the different colonies, "to use every
lawful endeavor to obtain relief and to
form and promote a plan of union be-
tween the parent country and colonies."
See Penna. Archives, Second Series,
Vol. XV, page 343.

When, however. General Howe issued
his proclamation calling on the loyal
subjects of George III to lay down their
arms and seek peaceful means of re-
dress. Judge Hicks, being greatly im-

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pressed with, the power of Enghind and
the futility of armed resistance, while
he condemned the injustices ijf the
mother country toward the colonics, and
being conscientious in regard to the
oath he had taken as a justice, read the
proclamation from the court house steps
at Newtown, and counselled his friends
and neighbors to pause before it was too
late, and to postpone any over action or
resistance until the colonies grew
stronger. Excitement ran high at the
time, and he was branded as a traitor
and forced to flee the country and spend
the remainder of his days in Nova
Scotia, where he was supported by a
pension from the British government,
and where he 'was waylaid and mur-
dered by highwaymen on March 8, 1786,
for the quarterly pension he had just
drawn. From the nature of the advice
he gave to his eldest son Isaac, who
visited him while in New York imme-
diately after his flight, there is every
reason to believe that if reasoned with
calmly he would have realized that mat-
ters had progressed too far for peaceful
measures to prevail, and would have
lived to render to the patriot cause the
same eminent service that he gave to
his county under royal authority. His
extensive property was confiscated, and
his family reduced to almost penury.
His son Isaac, wdio at the time was clerk
of the several courts of Bucks county,
was cast under suspicion and removed
from office. Mary Rodman Hicks, the
wife of Gilbert, died August 17, 1769,
years before his flight and disgrace. They
were the parents of five children: i.
Isaac, born April 21, 1748, married his
first cousin. Catharine Hicks, daughter
of Colonel Edward Hicks and Violetta
Ricketts, of New Jersey. 2. Sarah, born
November 3, 1749, died unmarried. 3.
Elizabeth, born April 7, 1751, married
June 4, 1768, General Augustine Willet,
of Bensalem township. 4. Mary, born
January 15, 1753. married May 8, 1772,
Samuel Kirkbride. 5. Joseph Rodman,
born November 12, 1756, married July
29, 1777, his cousin, Margaret Thomas'.
Joseph Rodman Hicks purchased in
1780 a farm of one hundred acres near
Dolington, in Upper Makefield town-
ship, and spent the remainder of his life
there. He died May 28, 1816. His wife
was an approved minister among
Friends at Makefield Meeting, adjoin-
ing the farm, the land upon which the
meeting house was built being orig-
inally part of the farm. She continued
, in the ministry from 1790 to the date
of her death. May 2, 1842. In 1822 Mrs.
Hicks and her children sold the farm,
and she took up her residence with her
son Charles in Philadelphia.
■ Joseph Rodman and Margaret
(Thomas) Hicks *were the parents of
eight children, viz: Charles, married
Elizabeth Cooper; Joseph, married Jane

Bond; Elizabeth, married Jacob Woll-
ery; Margaret, married Amos Carlile;
Gilbert, married Phoebe Mathews;
Mary, married Elias Slack; William,
died unmarried; and Isaiah married
Mary P'lannagan.

Joseph Hicks, second son of Joseph
Rodman and Margaret (Thomas) Hicks,
born June 12, 1780, died October 4,
1827, married January 2, 1804, Jane
Bond, of New^town, Bucks county, and
had nine children, the seventh of whom
was Tliornas Hicks, the eminent artist.
Cha-rles Hicks, eldest son of Joseph
RodmarT and Margaret (Thomas) Hicks,
w-as born June 12, 1778. At the age of
sixteen years he removed to Philadel-
phia, and learned the carpenter trade,
which he followed in that city during the
ative years of his life. He died April
20, 1855. He was married August 10,
1804, to Elizabeth Cooper, born June
19, 1780, died April 17, 1858, and they
were the parents of nine children, viz,:
William C, Isaac, Ann C, Joseph, Wil-
let, Charles C, Cooper, Rodman, and
Elizabeth.

Willet Hicks, fifth son of Charles and
Elizabeth (Cooper) Hicks, born Feb-
ruary 21, 1814, died December 12, 1853,
married April 16, 1836, Margaret Mint-
zer, born June 26, 1816, died January 5,
1899, and had six children, viz.: George
A.; Edwin M.; S. Pllizabeth; Albert M.;
William U.; and Harry H.

George A. Hicks, to whom we are in-
debted for a history of the earlier gener-
ations of the Hicks family, is the eld-
est son of Willet and Margaret Mintzer
Hicks, and was born in Philadelphia.
Earlj' in life he learned the trade of a
plumber, and has followed that business
to the present time in his native city. He
takes deep interest in Bucks county, the
home of his ancestors. He is one of the
active members of the Bucks County
Historical Society, and is a regular at-
tendant at its meetings, and contribut-
ing largely to its success. Previous to
manhood he imited himself with the
United .States Hose Company, No. 14,
(late Volunteer Fire Department of
Philadelphia) and served as its secre-
tary for many years. He is a member of
the Veteran Firemen's Association, the
Firemen's Association, State of Penn-
sylvania, and a life member of the As-
sociation for. the Relief of Disabled Fire-
men. He is an honorary life member
of Columbia Lodge No. 91, F. and A.
M., and an honorary life member of
Harmony Chapter. No. 52, R. A. M.; a
member of the Master Plumbers' As-
sociation, and a stockholder in the Mer-
cantile Library, all of Philadelphia. Mr.
Hicks was never married.

EDWARD P. HICKS. Isaac Hicks,
the eldest son of Gilbert and Mary
(Rodman) Hicks, an account of whose

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113

ancestry from the Pilgrim ancestor
Robert Hicks down to his father Gilbert
Hicks, is given in the preceding sketch,
was born in Bensalem township, April
21, 1748, and died in Newtown, Bucks
county, October 5, 1836. He received a
good education, and was a man of fine
intellectual ability and excellent busi-
ness capacity. On June 6, 1772, he was
commissioned prothonotary and clerk of
the several courts of Bucks county, and
filled those positions with eminent abil-
ity until 1777, when he was directed to
turn in all papers and books relating to
these offices to be deposited in the fire-
proof at Newtown, the political views
of his father (Gilbert Hicks) having
cast a suspicion upon him. He was
also commissioned a justice of the peace
an April 9, 1774, and held that office for
three years. , The continued good and
loyal deportment of the son had its
proper effect to convince the public
that the suspicion was groundless. After
the close of the Revolution he was again
commissioned a justice of the peace,
and held the office many years while re-
siding at Newtown. His office for many
years was in the western end of what is
now the White Hall Hotel. Here by
close attention to his duties and an hon-
orable course of life he built up a large
business. It is said that in dress he ad-
hered to the old style of breeches and
knee-buckles.

He was married at Newtown, on No-
vember 17, 1771, to his cousin, Catharine
Hicks, daughter of Col. Edward and
Violetta (Ricketts) Hicks, who was born
in New York, November 4, 1745, and
died at Burlington, New Jersey, Oc-
tober ig. 1781. Her brother William
was prothonotary of Bucks county, 1770-
1772. The children of Isaac and Cath-
arine Hicks, were :

1. Gilbert Edward, born March li,
J773, who became a prominent physician
at Catawissa, Pennsylvania, where hd-
married Catharine Hibbs, daughter of
James Hibbs. His grandchildren now
living are: Dr. J. J. John, historian and
prominent business man of Shamokin,
who spent some little time in Bucks
county in early life ; Emma Walters, of
Catawissa; and Anna M. Ormsby, widow
of Henry George Ormsby, of Philadel-
phia.

2. William Richard, born November
17, 1774, died February 5, 1777-

3. Edward Henry, born June 29, 1776,
died August 20, 1776.

4. Eliza Violetta, born March 17, 1778.
married October 4, 1807, Thomas G.
Kennedy, sheriff of Bucks county for
the term 1815-1817. She was drowned
in Newtown creek, near her home in
Newtown, July 28, 1817, in an effort, to
save her child, who had fallen in the
creek.

. 5. Edward, born April 2, 1780, died
August 23, 1849.
8-3

Isaac Hicks married (second) October
20, 1792, Mary (Gilbert) Young, widow
of Edward Young, of Philadelphia, who
was born August 3, 1757, and died at
Newtown February 22, 1812.

Edward Hicks, youngest son of Isaac
and Catharine, was born at Attleboro
(now Langhorne, then known as Four-
Lanes-End) April 2, 1780. His mother
dying when he was but eighteen months
old, he was left to the care of her faith-
ful servant Jane, a colored woman. His
father's home was entirely broken up
by the confiscation of all the property
belonging to his father, Gilbert Hicks,
and this, with sickness and deaths in
his family, reduced him for a season to
a great strait. He later secured a home
for his infant son in the family of David
Twining, where he remained until thir-
teen years of age. Edward Hicks in his
"Memoirs" gives abundant testimony of
his appreciation of the kindness received
at the hands of his adopted mother,
Elizabeth Twining. In April, 1793, he
was apprenticed to the coach-making
trade with William and Henry Tomlin-
son, at Four-Lanes-End, where he re-
mained until 1800, when he set up bus-
iness for himself. In the autumn of
1801 he entered the employ of Joshua
C. Canby, then a coach-maker at Mil-
ford (now Hulmeville) and remained a
resident of that village untilApril, 1811,
when he removed to Newtown, Penn-
sylvania. He became a member of Mid- »
dletown Monthly Meeting of Friends in
the spring of 1803, and later became a
prominent minister in the Society, trav-
eling extensively in the ministry. Like
his distinguished cousin, Thomas Hicks,
he possessed considerable artistic talent,
and a number of his paintings of high
merit are still preserved. He was an
ardent temperance advocate, and claimed
to have built the first house in Bucks
county erected without the use of intox-
icating liquors, in 1804. He married
II mo. 17, 1803, Sarah Worstall, daugh-
ter of Joseph and Susanna (Hibbs)
Worstall. He died in Newtown 8 mo. 23,
1849, and his widow died 12 mo. 30,
1855. Their children were: Mary, born
10 mo. 12, 1804, died 2 mo. 7, 1880, un-
married; Susan, born 11 mo. 9, 1806,
married 5 mo. 17, 1832, John Carle, Jr.,
of New York, and died in New York,
I mo. 24, 1872; Elizabeth T.. born 8 rno.
24, 1811, married Richard Plummer. of
Baltimore, Maryland, 11 mo. 11, 1852,
and died in Newtown, 3 mo. 22, 1892;
Sarah B., born 12 mo. 24, 1816, married
Isaac C. Parry, of Warminister, 5 mo.
23, 1844, and died in Warminister 2 mo.
23, 1895; Isaac W., born i mo. 20, 1809,
and died 3 mo. 28,. 1898.

Isaac W. Hicks, only son of Edward
and Sarah (Worstall) Hicks, was born
at Hulmeville, and reared in Newtown,
Bucks county, where he lived from ,t)ie
age of two years until his death. He

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assisted his father in the coach painting
business and farming, but after his fath-
I ers (leatli he devoted himself mostly to
farming. He was greatly interested in
the incorporation of Newtown as a bor-
ough in 1S38, and the laying of the brick
walk on Penn street which led from a
ladies seminary at the corner of Penn
and Congress street to the heart of the
town, and was the first improved walk
in the new borough. Throughout his
life he was interested in everything that
would add to the best good of the town.
His entire life after he was twelve years
of age was spent in the house on Penn
, street, Newtown borough, built by his
father about 1821 and remodeled by him-
self in 1870, and still occupied by his
daughter Sarah. He married 6 mo. 4,
1857, Hannah L. Penrose, daughter of
William and Hannah (Jarrett) Pen-
rose, of Horsham. She was born at the
historic Graeme Park, the former resi-
dence of Sir William Keith, colonial
governor of Pennsylvania, 2 mo. 20,
1820, and died at Newtown 9 mo. 23,
1894. The children of Isaac W. and
Hannah Penrose Hicks are:

Sarah W.. born 4 mo. 9, 1858, still re-
siding at the old homestead in New-
town.

Edward P., born 8 mo. 27. 1859. mar-
ried 2 mo. 24, 1903, Lydia Harper
Barnesley, daughter of William and Mary
Ellen (Paff) Barnesley, of Newtown, and
resides in Newtown borough, in the house
on Penn street, opposite the old homestead
built by his father about 1833. and re-
modeled by himself in 1904. Their daugh-
ter, Mary Barnesley Hicks, was born 7 mo.
24, 1904. Mr. Hicks took a prominent
part in 1898 in establishing the standard
telephone system at Newtown which
was a matter of much importance to
Newtown. He was for seven years a
member of the Newtown town council
and during this time many very im-
portant improvements were inaugurated
which have proved beneficial to the
town. He is somewhat retiring in dis-
position but one of the useful and highly
respected citizens of the town and
county.

William Penrose Hicks, born 9 mo. 6,
1864, married 5 mo. 23, 1890, Nellie
Brown, daughter of William B. and
Hannah (Hough) Brown, of Browns-
burg, and resides on "Fountain Farm,"
adjoining Newtown borough. Their
children are: Hannah Brown Hicks,
born 12 mo. i, 1891 ; and Cornelia Carle
Hick?, born 3 mo. i, 1898.

annals of the Society of Friends. Will-
iam Hicks was a native of Bucks county,
and was the father of five sons and two
daughters. One of the sons, George,
was a farmer and married Ann, daughter
of John and Ann Penrose. To Mr.
and Mrs. Hicks were born eleven chil-
dren, of whom one was Penrose, men-
tioned at length hereinafter. In re-
ligious belief all the family were Friends.

Penrose Hicks, son of George and
Ann (Penrose) Hicks, was born May 9,
1802, in Milford township. In his youth
he learned the trade of a wheelwright
and ploughmaker, but at the age of
twenty-one became a farmer, devoting
himself to agricultural pursuits until he
was forty-two years of age. Some years
later he retired from active labor. He
was one of the directors of the Turn-
pike Company. He was chosen by his
neighbors a member of the council, in
which he served with honor to himself
and satisfaction to his constituents. He
was a Republican in politics, and always
took an active interest in the affairs of
the organization. He was a birthright
member of Richland Monthly Meeting.

Mr. Hicks married Mary, daughter of
W^illiam and Martha (Cadwallader) Ball,
and they were the parents of a number
of children. After the death of his wife
Mr. Hicks married, November 13, 1862,
Elizabeth, daughter of Hugh and Eliza-
beth (Roberts) Foulke.

The death of Mr. Hicks occurred July
II, 1886, when he had reached the ad-
vanced age of eighty-four. He left be-
hind him the memory of a good husband
and father, a kind neighbor, and a use-
ful, public-spirited citizen.

PENROSE HICKS. Bucks county is
rich in memories of her honored citizens
of the past, among whom must be num-
bered Penrose Hicks, for many years a
respected resident of Richland town-
ship. Mr. Hicks belonged to a family
whose name is a memorable one in the

J. WILMER LUNDY, of Newtown,
Bucks county, was born at Rancocas,
Burlington county, New Jersey, May 3,
1869, and is a son of Joseph and I\lary
(Evans) Lundy. Though a native of
New Jersey, as have been his ancestors
for four generations, his paternal an-
cestors were among the earliest settlers
of the county in which he now resides.

Richard Lundy, the first American an-
cestor of the subject of this sketch, was
a son of Sylvester Lundy, of Axminster,
in the county of Devon, England; and
came to Boston. Massachusetts in 6
mo.. 1676. "and from thence came to
the Delaware River the 19th of the 3d
mo.. 1682." So says the ancient record
in the quaint little tattered "Book of
Arrivals" in the handwriting of Phine-
as Pemberton (the first clerk of the
Bucks county courts), now in posses-
sion of the Bucks County Historical So-
ciety. The same volume records the ar-
rival in the Delaware river in "8th mo.
1683, in the ship Concord of London,
the Master William Jeffry, of Elizabeth
Bennett, daughter of William Bennett
of Hammondsworth, in the county of

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

Ivliddlesex (now deceased) and now the
wife of the aforesaid Richard Lundy."
William Bennett was accompanied to
America by his wife Rebecca and
daughters Elizabeth, before mentioned,
Ann and Sarah. This book also gives
the record of the marriage of Richard
Lundy and Elizabeth Bennett, 6 'mo. 24,
1684. Elizabeth survived her marriage
"but three years, and was buried 6 mo.
14, 1687. Still another entry in the old
"Book of Arrivals" is interesting to the
descendants of Richard Lundy, that
which records the arrival of James Harrison
and the Pembertons in the ship "Submis-
sion," on 5 mo. 7, T682, at Choptank,
Maryland, and their subsequent trip
overland to Bucks county, detailed in
this volume in a brief sketch of "The
Pemerton Family," in which is given a
list of the passengers on the ship "Sub-
mission." With the family of James
Harrison came. Jane Lyon, who was to
serve in his family for four years to
9 mo. 2, 1686, and was then to receive
fifty acres of land. On 4 mo. 24, 1691. this
Jane Lyon became the second wife of
Richard Lundy, at Middletown Meet-
ing of Friends. Jane was born in the
year 1666, and was therefore sixteen
years of age when she arrived in Penn-
sylvania, and twenty-five years old when
she became the wife of Richard Lundy.
On 10 mo. 6th, 1682-3 there was laid out
to Richard Lundy two hundred acres in
what is now Bristol township, just west
of the Manor of Pennsbury, which' was
patented to him 5 mo. 6th, 1684. 8 mo.
7th, 1685, he exchanged this tract with
Jacob Telner for 1000 acres in what
is now Buckingham, "back in the
woods", as it is described in the deed
recorded at Doylestown under date of
2 mo. I2th, 1688. It comprised all the
land below the York road, eastward
from the west line of Judge Paxson's
"Nonesuch" farm to the village of Holi-
cong, and extending to the top of Buck-
ingham mountain.

Richard Lundy did not at once take
up his residence "back in the woods" of
Buckingham, but purchased of Samuel
Burgess a tract of 103 acres on the up-
per side of Pennsbury Manor, part of
the same tract on which Falls Meeting
House was erected, and probably re-
sided there until close to 1700. He
finally conveyed this land to Thomas
Duer, and took up his residence on his
Buckingham purchase, either • where
Charles J. Smith now resides, or across
the creek at the old Ely homestead now
owned by the estate of Anna J. Will-
iams. On 7 mo. 12. 1692, he conveyed to
Francis Rossel. 500 acres off the west-
ern end of his tract, lying in about equal
quantities on both sides of the present
Durham Road. Rossel dying in 1695,
devised it to William Smith, Ralph Boon
and the "sons of Samuel Burgess." By
various conveyances prior to 1705 that

west of the Durham road came to
Mathew Hughes, whose family owned
and occupied it for over a century, or
until the death of Amos Austin Plughes
in 181 1. The east side of the road was
first occupied by Lawrence and Enoch
Pearson in 1702-3, and came to be the
home of Thomas Canby in 1729. On 4
mo_. 7, 1709, Richard Lundy, then rcj-
residing in Buckingham, conveyed 100
acres to Joseph Large (now the Broad-
hurst farm) and some time prior to
1719 sold to his son Richard Lundy, Jr.,
300 acres of the remaining 400 acres of
his tract "back in the woods." The date
was probably that of the marriag,e of
Richard, Jr., in 1714. He, however,
failed to convey the land to his son,
and he having agreed to sell it to Isaac
Norris. Richard Lundy, Sr., and Jane
his wife and Richard. Jr., and Elizabeth
his wife in 1710 conveyed it to Norris,
and a year later it became the property
of Hugh Ely, and remained in the fam-
ily several generations. In 1724 "Rich-
ard Lundy, Sr., conveyed the remaining
100 acres to Hugh Ely. This was prob-
ably the approximate date of the death
of his wife Jane, and he took up his
residence with his son Richard, Jr., who
at this date had removed to Plumstead
township and located on land belonging
to his brother-in-law, Ebenezer Large,
which he subsequently purchased.

Richard Lundy was a prominent mem-
ber of Falls Meeting, and is frequently
mentioned on their records. On his
removal to Buckingham he became affil-
iated with the ^Meeting there, then a
branch of Falls Meeting, and on it be-
coming a separate monthly meeting
with Wrightstown in 1720, became one
of the overseers and elders. On 8 mo.
5. '^7i7' he requested a certificate to re-
move himself to Maiden Creek. Berks
county, where his son and family had re-
moved two years previously. and
though the Friends remonstrated against
his removing himself so far back on
the frontiers at his advanced age, he
persisted, and was granted a certificate
to Exeter Meeting, which he deposited
there the month following. He prob-
ably died at Maiden Creek soon after
his removal there, as we find no further
record of him, and at the marriage of
his grandson there in 1789 his name
does not appear among the witnesses.

Richard Lundy (2), son of Richard
and Jane (Lyon) Lundy, was born 3
mo. (May) 20. 1692, in Bucks county,
probably in Falls township, and died
2 mo. (February) 28, 1772. at Alla-
muchy, Warren county. New Jersey.
At least part of his boyhood days were
probably spent on the Buckingham plan-
tation. 300 acres of which was conveved
to him on his marriage in 1714. H-is
wife was Elizabeth Large, daughter of
Joseph Large, then deceased, and they
were married at Buckingham under the

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

auspices of Falls Meeting, 4 mo. 3,
1714. He was for ten years caretaker of
Buckingham Meeting House and
"grave digger." The records of the
Meeting on 10 mo. 2, 1724, recites the
fact that he had "moved too for off" to
further officiate in this capacity, and
fixes the date of his removal to Plum-
stead, where he was later made one of
the trustees of the land on which Plum-
stead Meeting House was erected though
the deed for the land (200 acres) on
which he lived was not made to him
until November 2, 1734, less than six
months before the date on- which he
conveyed it preparatory to his removal
to Berks county, viz.: 3 mo. 24, 1735.
On 3 mo. 5, 1735, he was granted a cer-
tificate by Buckingham Meeting to re-
move with his family to Maiden Creek,
Berks county, the certificate being di-
rected to Gwynedd Meeting, from which
Exeter was organized two years later,'
and of which latter meeting he was ap-
pointed an elder in 1737. Richard Lundy
and his family remained in Berks county
twelve years, removing in 5th mo., 1747
to the valley of Pequest river, in what
is now Allmuchy township, Warren
county, he and his family bringing cer-
tificates to Bethlehem (later Kingwood,
and now Quakertown Meeting) in Hunt-
erdon county. New Jersey., but becom-
ing later attendants at Hardwick Meet-
ing, a branch of Kingwood. Several of
his children had married prior to the
removal to New Jersey, but all removed
there with their families, though a few
years later several of his children and
grandchildren removed elsewhere. On
March 28, 1749, Richard Lundy was
commissioned a justice of the peace for
the county of Morris, in which his res-
idence was then included. In the same
year he was made an elder of the
Friends Meeting at Great Meadows, and
frequent mention is made of meetings
being held at his house. He died in
Allemuchy, 2 mo. 28, 1772, and was bur-
ied at Hardwick Friends' burying
ground. On the records of Kingwood
Monthly meeting is recorded a testi-
mony of his worth, which says among
other things, "he was a man much es-
teemed among Friends and others, being
of a meek and quiet spirit, exemplary in
life and conversation, and a pattern of
plainness and simplicity * * * jjg
was an affectionate husband, a tender
father, a kind friend, punctual and just
in his dealings among men, evidencing
to the world that he was concerned to
do to others as he would have them do
to him." His eighty years of life had
not been lived in vain.

The children of Richard and Eliza-
beth (Large) Lundy were nine in num-
ber, all of whom were born in BuckiiTg-
ham and Plumstead townships, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, and all of whom
removed with their parents to Berks

county, and all of whom either pre-
ceded or accompanied them back to
New Jersey; they were as follows:

1. Richard, born 4 mo. 23, 1715, in
Buckingham, died at Allemuchy, New
Jersey, 11 mo. 7, 1757; married at
Maiden Creek, Berks county, in 1739^
Ann Wilson, and removed to the Pe-
quest Valley, New Jersey, in 1746. He
had eleven children, ten of whom grew
to maturity: Samuel, William, Amos,
Sarah, Richard, Ann, Ebenezer, John
Eleazer and Azariah. Samuel and Will-
iam removed to Canada, Samuel to New-
market, and William to Lundy's Lane, it
being upon his property that the famous
battle of Lundy's Lane was fought in
1814. Ebenezer and Azariah returned
to Bucks county. Amos, Sarah (Kes-
ter) Richard, John, and the family of
Azariah removed to Virginia.

2. Mary Lundy, born in Buckingham,
Bucks county, 11 mo. 6, 1716, married in
Plumstead in 1734, Robert Wilson, re-
moved with him to Berks county, Penn-
sylvania in 1735, and to Sussex county.
New Jersey, in 1748, where she died 3
mo. 4, 1807, at the age of ninety years.
She left numerous descendants., some of
whom still retain the Sussex homestead.

3. Joseph Lundy, born in Buckingham
4 mo. 24, 1719, removed with the family
to Berks county in 1735, married there
in 1743 Susanna Hutton, and removed to
Warren county. New Jersey, in 1745;
died- there about 1759; left children:
Sarah, who married Joseph Carpenter,
and returned to Berks county, as did his
son Enos, who in 1805 removed to York
county, Ontario. His daughter Hannah
married Samuel Shotwell, and settled in
Sussex countj% New Jersey.

4. Jacob Lundy, born in Buckingham
6 mo. 15, 1721, married at Maiden Creek,
1748, Mary Wilson, removed to New
Jersey same year, and died there in 1800,
leaving children, Jacob, Mary (Schmuck),
Jonathan, and Deborah (Dennis).

5. Martha Lundy, born in Bucking-
ham, 6 mo. I, 1723, married in New Jer-
sey in 1755, Benjamin Schooley; died
there 9 mo. 11, 1803; left four children.

6. Thomas Lundy, born in Plumstead,
Bucks county, and died in Warren
countj^' New Jersey, about 1775; he mar-
ried there in 1750, Joanna Doan, and had
si.x children. See forward.

7. Samuel Lundj', born in Plumstead,
Bucks county, 12 mo. 13, 1727, died in
Sussex count}'. New Jersey, 2 mo. 14,
1801. He was a judge of Sussex county
court, and was twice married, first in
1731 to Ann Schooley, and second in
1765 to Sarah Willets, and had twelve
children. His son Levi removed to
Ohio, Samuel to Seneca county. New
York, and Jesse to Ontario. Canada. '
The others of his children remained in
New Jersey.

8. Elizabeth Lundy, bom at Plum-
rtead, Bucks county, marr.cd at Hard-

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wick, New Jersey, in 1748, Gabriel Wil-
son, and settled at Great Meadows, in
Warren county, New Jersey, where she
<died 5 mo. 25, 181 1; their eight children
removed to North Carolina, Indiana^,
Canada and Kentucky.

9. Margaret Lundy, born at Plum-
stead, Bucks county, 12 mo. 14, 1732,
died at Hardwick, New Jersey, in 4 mo.,
1776. She had married in 1750 John
Wilson, who removed with her family
from Maiden Creek, Berks county,
Pennsylvania, in 1745. No record of
-children.

Thomas Lundy, sixth child of Rich-
ard and Elizabeth Large Lundy, was a
mason by trade, and was the first of
the family to remove from Berks county
to the Pequest Valley in New Jersey.
He helped to erect the first jail of War-
ren county in 1754. His wife Joanna
Doan was probably a granddaughter of
Daniel and Mehetabel Doan, of Bucks
county. Thomas and Joanna had six
children: Susanna, who married Thomas
Parker, son of- Humphrey Parker, of
Wrightstown, Bucks county. Reuben,
l)orn 3 mo. 13, 1752. married in 1776
Esther Bunting, daughter of Joseph and
Sarah (Bidgood) Bunting, of Bristol.
Bucks county, and later settled in Co-
lumbia county, Pennsylvania. Ephraim,
son of Thomas and Joanna, married in
1776, Elizabeth Patterson, and after 'liv-
ing for twenty years in New Jersey re-
Tfioved with their five children to Cat-
awissa, Lycoming county, Pennsyl-
vania. Thomas, son of Thomas and Jo-
anna, married in 1779 Elizabeth Stock-
ton, and in 1787 removed to North Car-
olina. Elizabeth, youngest daughter of
Thomas and Joanna (Doane) Lundy,
iDorn 8 mo. 30, 1763. married in 1782,
Israel Bunting, son of Joseph and Sarah,
of Bucks county, and settled in Warren
county. New Jersey, where their seven
•children were born.

Joseph Lundy, son of Thomas and Jo-
anna (Doane) Lundy and the great-
grandfather of the subject of this
sketch, was born in Warren county,
New Jersey. 3 mo. 19, 1762, and died at
Rancocas, Burlington county, New Jer-
sey, 8 mo. 13, 1846. He married 4 mo.
26, 1787, Elizabeth Shotwell, born 1762,
daughter of Benjamin and Amy ( Hal-
let) Shotwell, of Rahway. New Jersey,
who bore him one son. Benjamin Lundy.
the eminent abolitionist and editor of
""The Genius of Universal Emancipa-
tion." He was born in Sussex county,
New Jersey, i mo. 4, 1789, and on 10
mo. 5. 1809 was granted a certificate of
removal to Westland Meeting Wash-
ingto^T county, Pennsylvania, and settled
in Wheeling, West Virginia, where he
learned the trade of a liarness maker,
and in 1812 located in Mt. Pleasant
Ohio, where he carried on his business
-of harness making. Becoming strongly
impressed with the horrors of human

slavery, he about this time began to
speak against it and organize anti-
slavery societies, also contributing ar-
ticles to the "Philanthropist," a paper
published in Mt. Pleasant. In 1821 he
started the publication of "The Genius
of Universal Emancipation," the first
paper published, devoted exclusively to
that cause. He later traveled exten-
sively in the interest of emancipation,
and became one of the noted exponents
of the emancipation of slaves. He died
in Lowell, La Salle county, Illinois, 8
mo. 22, 1839.

Joseph Lundy, the father, having lost
his first wife, married a second time,
I mo. 15, 1795, ]Mary Titus, of \yestbury.
Long Island. He continued to reside
in Hardwick. Sussex county, New Jer-
sey, until 1810, when he removed with
his family to Willingboro township, Bur-
lington county, New Jersey, where he
purchased a farm of 160 acres on Ran-
cocas Creek. The children of Joseph
and Mary (Titus) Lundy were eight in
number: Abigail, born 9 mo. 30, I795-
died 5 mo. 14, 1875, married Daniel
Woolston, of Eyrestown; Richard, born

I mo. 30. 1797, died 7 mo. 30, 1875, at
Rancocas. married Mary Ward; Eliza-
beth, born 6 mo. 2, 1709, died 9 mo. 22,
1840, unmarried: Phebe, born 2 mo. 6,
1802, died May, 1849. married William
Hilton: Lydia Shotwell. born 7 mo. 25,
1804. died 5 mo. 27. 1864, married Joel
Wierman; Deborah, born 4 mo. 29, 1806,
died 5 mo. 7. 1896, married Ezra Wal-
ton: Asenath, born 1808, died 1809;
Mary, born 3 mo.. 26. 1811, died 10
mo 2, 1887, married William Barnard, a
minister of the Society of Friends and
prominent in the anti-slavery cause.

Richard Lundy, second child of Joseph
and Marv (Titus) Lundy. was the grand-
father of the subject of this sketch. He
was born at Hardwick. Sussex county,
New Jersey, and removed to Rancocas
with his parents at the age of thirteen
vears, and spent the remainder of his
life there. His wife. Mary Ward, born
9 mo. 27, 180S. died 6 mo 14. 1888 was
a daughter of George and Edith (Wood)
Ward from near Salem, New Jersey.
Richard and Mary were the parents of
four children, viz.: George Ward born
6 mo. 25. 183s, married Mana Haines,
and resides at Mt. Holly. New Jersey.
Edith M.. born 6 mo., 21, 1838 d'ed Au-
gust 28, 1871. married Isaac S Wright,
of Falls, Bucks county, and left three
children, all born in Bucks county-
Walter S., Marv Ellen, wife of George
H Betts, and Ruth Anna: Joseph, born
it' mo ir. 1840: Charles, born n mo.,

II 1847. died 2 mo. 6, IQ04. was twice
married, and left one child. Mary.

Joseph Lundy. the father of the sub-
ject of this sketch, was born at Ran-
cocas. II mo. II, 1840. He was edu-
cated at the Friends' schools, and has
been a farmer in Burlington county all

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his life. He married June 15, 1864, Mary
Evans, daughter of Darling anl Rachel
(Matlack) Evans, and they are the pa-
rents of two children: Maurice E., born
8 mo. 19, 1865, married Laura S. Thomp-
son and has one child, Florence T., born
II mo. 8, 1891; and J. Wilmer, the sub-
ject of this sketch.

The first maternal ancestor of Mr.
Lundy to land in America was William
Evans, of South Newenton, Oxford-
shire, carpenter, who came to New Jer-
sey prior to 1682 and purchased one-
half of a one-fifteenth share of the lands
of West Jersey in that year, and several
hundred acres were laid out to him on
the Rancocas creek in Burlington
county. He died in 1688, leaving a wife
Jane; a daughter Sarah, wife of Thomas
Eves, or Evans; and a son William.
William (2) died in 1728, leaving chil-
dren Thomas, Jane and John. Of these
Thomas, born 12 mo., 12, 1693, died Feb-
ruary, 1793, married 10 mo. i, 1715,
Esther Haines, and had children: Will-
iam, Elizabeth Isaac, Esther, Jacob,
Nathan; of -whom William, born 1716,
died 1761, married Sarah Roberts, and
had children, John, Hannah, Enoch.
Esther, Mary, Rebecca and William, of
whom William, born 10 mo. 5, 1760, died
5 mo. 22, 1845, married 11 mo. 17, 1785,
Rebecca Ballinger, and had children,
Enoch, Joshua, Sarah, Mary, Darling
and Hannah; of whom Darling, born 3
mo. 14, 1799, died 12 mo. 19, 1891. mar-
ried I mo. 19, 1826, Rachel Matlack, and
had children. William, Sarah, Enoch,
Rebecca, wife of Thomas Lawrence,
Mary, wife of Joseph Lundy, and Ezra,
of Trenton, New Jersey.

J. Wilmer Lundy was born and reared
on the farm near Rancocas, and was
educated at the Friends' school there and
at Moorestown Friends' high school.
After teaching school one year he en-
tered Trenton Business College, from
M'hich he graduated in 1889. From that
date until 1893 he filled the position of
bookkeeper for his uncle, Ezra Evans, a
Trenton grocer. In the latter year he
went to Mt. Holly as bookkeeper in the
plumbing establishment of George D.
Worrel, where he remained until 1900,
when he formed a partnership with
Elmer J. Shinn. and bought out the
plumbing, heating, tin and stove busi-
ness of Franklin Smith, at Newtown,
Bucks county, which business he has
since conducted, his partner having
charge of a branch establishment at
Princeton, New Jersey. Mr. Lundy is
a member of the Society of Friends, and
politically is a Democrat. He is a mem-
ber of Mt. Holly Lodge No. 14. F. and
A. M., the Junior Order U. A. M.. and
the Knights of Pythias. He married
April .30, 1895. Lizzie Morris Roberts,
daughter of Stacy and Harriet Roberts,
and they have one child, Elizabeth, born
January 5. 1900.

CAPTAIN WILLIAM WYNKOOP, of

Newtown, is a representative of a fam-
ily that has been prominent in the his-
tory of our country for over two cen-
turies, many of them at different periods
filling high and honorable positions in
church and state, in local, state and
national affairs.

The American progenitors of the
family were Peter and Cornelius Wyn-
koop, who migrated from Holland tO'
New York in 1639 and 1642, respec-
tively. Peter was born in 1616 and came
to New Amsterdam in 1639, and settled
in New York state near the present site
of Albany five years later, where he be-
came prominent in the Dutch colony.
His descendants were prominent in the
affairs of that section for many gener-
ations. A grandson Evert, son of Cor-
nelius, was a captain in the French and
Indian w\r and died of camp fever in
1750. Adrian Wynkoop, another de-
scendant, was commissioned major of
the First Regiment of Ulster county.
New York, May i, 1776, and in the same
year was placed in command of two
hundred men to guard the passes of the
Hudson. His brother Jacobus was a:
captain of the Fourth New York Regi-
ment in 1775, and was later transferred
to the naval service on recommendation
of General Schuyler, to take comnjand
of all the vessels on Lakes George and
Champlain. Another Cornelius was «.
colonel in the Continental service in-
New York. Cornelius, a son of Peter,
married Maria Janse Langedyck, and
their third son Gerrit (or Gerardus, as
the name came to be spelled later) mar-
ried Hilli'tje Folkert. and in the year
1717 came to Pennsylvania with his sons
Nicholas and Gerritt. He lived for a
time in the manor -of Moreland, but
later removed to "Northampton town-
ship, Bucks county, where he died in
1747, leaving sons Cornelius, Nicholas,.
Gerrit and Philip, and daughters • Jan-
netje Van Buskirk and Jacomyntje Van
Meter. He purchased in 1727 five hun-
dred and twenty acres in Northampton,
which he conveyed in equal parts to
his two sons Nicholas and Gerrit in
1738, and part of the latter is still the
propertj' of the subject of this sketch,
having descended from father to son for
five generations. Nicholas, the third
son, married Ann Kuypers, and their
only son was Judge Henry Wynkoop,
who was in the opinion of many the
most prominent man in the history of
Bucks county. He was for many years
the leading justice of the courts of
Rucks county, and its first president
judge. From the time the relations be-
tween the colonies and the crown be-
came strained, he was the leader of the
patriot cause in Bucks county, was one
of the delegates to the meeting o'f the
proN'incial deputies at Cari)entcr's Halt
in July. 1774. was appointed t<> attend

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the provincial conference in May, 1775,
and was again a delegate to the confer-
ence that drafted the first constitution
in 1776. He was the leading member of
the committee of safety in Bucks, and
the county's first representative in the
congress of the United States, which
assembled in New York on March 4.
1789. He died in 1816. after a long car-
eer of unexampled usefulness in public
life..

Gerrit Wynkoop, second son of Ger-
rit and Lilletje (Folkert) Wynkoop,
was born in New York, about 1700, and
came to Bucks county with his father
in 1717, and died in Northampton town-
ship, May 12, 1769, on the 260-acre farm
conveyed to him by his father in 1738.
He and his wife, Susanna Vliet, were
members of -the Dutch Reformed church
of Northampton and Southampton.
They were the parents of several chil-
dren, only two of whom survived him,
Geri-rdus and Adrian. The latter was
baptized at Southampton, October 4,

1/43-

Gerardus, eldest son of Gerrit and Su-
sannah, M^as born in Northampton, and
was joint heir with his brother Adrian
of the paternal homestead, which he pur-
chased entire in 1770, and spent his en-
tire life thereon. He was first lieuten-
ant of the Northampton County Asso-
ciators in 1775. He was elected a mem-
ber of assembly in 1774, and served con-
tinuously in that body until 1794, and
was for several years speaker. He died
in June, 1812. His wife, whom he mar-
ried December 7, 1758, was Elizabeth,
daughter of Isaac- Bennett. They were
the parents of eight children ��� six sons:
Isaac, John, Garret, Mathew, David, and
William; and twc^ daughters, Susannah,
wife of David Wylie, and Elizabeth,
wife of Stephen Rose.

William, youngest son of Gerardus
and Elizabeth, inherited one hundred
and twenty-eight acres of the old home-
stead in Northampton, and spent his
life thereon. He married April 13, 1801,
Mary Longstreth. and died in 1833. His
widow iMary survived him several years.
Their children were: Thomas L., Ger-
ardus, Christopher: Elizabeth, wife of
Charles McNair; Catharine, wife of Dr.
James McNair; Susannah, Margaret.
Anna Maria, Susan, Mary Frances and
Caroline.

Thomas L. Wynkoop married Eliza-
beth Torbert, daughter of James and
Margaret (McNair) Torbert, of Scotch-
Irish ancestry, a descendant of Samuel
Torbert, who came to Newtown. Bucks
countv. from Carrickfergus, Ireland, in
1726. 'Thomas and Elizabeth (Torbert)
Wynkoop were the parents of five chil-
dren, viz. : James. Catharine. William,
Samuel, and Thomas Henry. The lat-
ter was a member of General W.
W. H. Davis' 104th Pennsylvania Regi-
ment, and was killed in action in June,

1862. Thomas L. Wynkoop, the father
of the above named children, died in.
1879, and devised the old homestead
where he had lived all his life to his
son William, the subject of this sketch,
who still owns it.

The subject of this sketch has lived
an eventful life. He served three years
during the war of the rebellion in the
First New Jersey Cavalry, enlisting as
a private and was promoted successively
- to sergeant, second lieutenant, first lieu-
tenant and captain, rie served on the
staff of Brigadier General Davis, in
Gregg's, Cavalry Division, as provost-
marshal, ordnance office and assistant
adjutant general; was three times
wound and received an honorable testi-
monial for meritorious services.

Soon after the war Captain Wynkoop
removed to Newtown, where he has
since resided. He was engaged in the
real estate business for nearly twenty
years, and transacted a large amount of
public business as assignee, executor,
administrator, and agent. He served in
the office of justice of the peace for fif-
teen years; was three years chief .bur-
gess of Newtown borough, and borough
treasurer for several years. He has been
president of the school board for the
past ten years, and is an active member
of the school directors' association of
Bucks county, which he has served as
president. He was one of the assign-
ees of the Newtown Banking Company
on its failure in May, 1878, and was an
important factor in winding up its com-
plicated affairs.

Captain Wynkoop' comes of good old
Presbyterian stock, his ancestors for
eight generations having been officers
of the Presbyterian or Reformed
churches in the localities where they re-
sided. He has served as ruling elder of
the Newtown Presbyterian church since
1872. during which period he has acted
as clerk of. the session. In the same year
he was chosen superintendent of the
Sabbath school connected with the
church, and was re-elected to that posi-
tion for twenty-eight consecutive years,
then declining a re-election. In 1879 he
was elected president of the Bucks Coun-
ty Sabbath School Association and served
in that position for eight years. He has
been identified with the Bucks County
Historical Society for many years, and
has prepared a number of valuable his-
torical papers for its sessions. , He is
now one of the board of trustees of the
Society. He is an nctive member of the
G. A. R., and commander of T. H. Wyn-
koop Post. No. .427. at Newtown. This
Post was named in honor of his brother,
who died in the service of his country,
having enlisted in Colonel Davis' 104th
Regiment, when twenty years of age.
and was killed in action nine months
later. Captain Wynkoop served as aide-
de-camp, to Ge'neral John L. Black,

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY

commander-in-chief of tlic G. A. R. of
the United States in 1904.

He married Rachel Ann Blaker, who
died in January, 1895, leaving four chil-
dren, their eldest child having died in
her eighteenth year; those who survive
are: Elizabeth, wife of George R. Luff,
who resides with her father at New-
town, with her five children, William,
Ruth, Mabel, Katharine and Rachel.
Katharine, who married (first) Henry
C. Wylie, who died six years later, leav-
ing a daughter, Margaret; she after-
wards married G. F. Reynolds of Scran-
ton, Pennsylvania, and has two sons,
William and Arthur. Evelyn, married
H. L. Harding, of Scranton. The only
son, James .Wynkoop, entered Prince-
ton University in 1900, intending on his
graduation to study for the ministry
but failing health compelled him to re-
linquish his studies during his first
year at college; he is at present employ-
ed in a bank at Scranton, Pennsylvania,
with greatly improved health. He is the.
only male descendant of the Wynkoops
in Bucks county, of the younger genera-
tion, that bears their name. He was
married in 1904 to Cora B. Gernon, of
Scranton.

Captain Wynkoop is still in active life
and health. He is president of the Ex-
celsior Bobbin and Spool Company of
Newtown, president of the Mutual
Beneficial Insurance Association of
Bucks county, and a director in six other
Bucks county corporations, and has
served as secretary of the Newtown
Cemetery Company for the last thirty
years. He is widely and favorably known
in business and social circles, and has
traveled extensively both in this country
and Europe.

HON. OLIVER HENRY FRETZ, A.
M., M. D., of Quakertown, Bucks coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, one of the leading phy-
sicians of upper Bucks, was born on his
father's farm in Richland township,
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, April 9,
1858, and is descended from the earliest
German settlers in upper Bucks county,
whose descendants have been identified
with the affairs of that section since it
was inhabited by the aborigines, a per-
iod of nearly two, centuries. John Fretz,
the paternal ancestor of Dr. Fretz, came
to Pennsylvania about the end of the
first quarter of the eighteenth century,
accompanied by two brothers Christian
and Mark, the latter of whom is said
to have died at sea. John Fretz located
for a time in what is now Montgomery
county, where he married Barbara Mey-
er, daughter of Hans Meyer, an early
German emigrant, who had settled in
Salford township, now Montgomery
county. About 1737 John Fretz pur-
chased a tract of 230 acres in Bedniin-
ster township, Bucks •county,, and set-

tled thereon. His wife Barbara died
about 1740, and he married a second
time. He reared a family of eight chil-
dren, five of whom were by his first wife,
all except one of which were born in
Salford. John Fretz died early in the
year 1772. According to the historian of
the family. Rev. A. J. Fretz, of Milton,
New Jersey, he has to-day 5,000 living
descendants.

Jacob Fretz, second son of John and
Barbara (Meyer) Fretz, was born in
Montgomery county, in 1732, came with
his parents to Bucks county when a
child and was reared in Bedminster
township. About 1755 he married Mag-
dalena Nash, daughter of William Nash,
of Bedminster, and settled in Tinicum
township, near Erwinna, but later re-
turned to Bedminster township, where
he purchased a farm and lived and died
there. He and his wife as well as all the
earlier generations of the family were
Mennonites and worshiped at the his-
toric old Deep Run Meeting House
erected about 1746, and where many of
the family are buried. Jacob and Mag-
dalena (Nash) Fretz were the parents
of six sons and three daughters, only
the eldest of the latter having married,
viz : Elizabeth, who became the wife of the
Rev. John Kephardt, for many years
pastor of the Doylestown Mennonite
congregation. Abraham the eldest son,
located in Hilltown; he was a teamster
in the Revolutionary army and endured
many hardships. He married and has
numerous descendants in Bucks. John,
Jacob, William and Joseph Fretz were
farmers in Bedminster, where they rear-
ed families.

Isaac Fretz, youngest son of Jacob
and Magdalena (Nash) Fretz, was the
grandfather of Dr. O. H. Fretz. He was
born on the homestead in Bedminster
township. June 11, 1781, and on arriving
at manhood married Mary Moyer, and
followed farming in Bedminster until
1822. when they removed to Richland
township, where he also followed agri-
cultural pursuits until his death on De-
cember 27, 1855. His wife, Mary Moyer.
was born August 24, 1786, and died
March 27, 1855. They were the parents
of two children, William and Magdalena,
the latter of whom died July i, 1854,
unmarried.

William Fretz. only son of Isaac and
Mary (Moyer) Fretz, was born in Bed-
minster township, April 9, 1811, and re-
moved with his parents to Richland
at the age of eleven years. Early in life
he learned the trade of a carpenter,
which he followed until the death of his
parents in 1855, when he returned to the
homestead and resided thereon until
1866, when he removed to Quakertown,
where he lived retired until his death
on December 22, 1869. He took an ac-
tive interest in local aflfairs and served
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121

several years. He was a member of
the German Reformed church. He mar-
ried, in 1854, Catharine Hofiford, daugh-
ter of Daniel and Snsanna (MaugleX
Hofford, and they were the parents of
two children, Edwin Penrose, and the
subject of this sketch. Edwin Penrose
Fretz, born March 3, 1856, on the home-
stead in Richland township, attended
the public schools there until his fif-
teenth year, when he learned the shoe-
maker trade with A. B. Walp & Co.
Later he entered Washington Hall Col-
legiate Institute at Trappe, Montgom-
ery county, Pennsylvania, and later Al-
lentown Business College, from which
he graduated in 1878. He was employed
for some time in the shoe factory of
A. B. Walp & Co. He is now proprietor
of a shoe store at Lansdale, Pennsyl-
vania.

Hon. Oliver Henry Fretz, A. M.. M.
D., second and youngest son of William
and Catharine (Hofford) Fretz, was born
in Richland township, Bucks county,
April 9, 1858. There he lived till he was
ten years old, when he removed with
his parents to Quakertown, Pennsylvan-
ia, where he received the best school
advantages the borough afiforded. He
later attended Oak Grove Academy, a
school conducted under the auspices of
the Society of Friends. During 1878
and 1879, he was a student of Muhlen-
berg College, at Allentown, Pennsyl-
vania. He began the study of medicine
in 1879, first under that able practitioner,
and scientist. Dr. I. S. Moyer, and after-
ward in the same year he entered the
Jefferson Medical College,. Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and, after pursuing a three
years' graded course of study, gradu-
ated March 30, 1S82, receiving the degree
of Doctor of Medicine. He began the
practice of medicine at Salfordville,
Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, but,
owing to ill health, at the end of three
years he sold his practice and removed
to Quakertown, where he is now suc-
<;essfully engaged in the drug business,
combined with a large and lucrative
ofifice and consulting practice. In 1886-
87 he took a post-graduate course of
instruction at the Philadelphia Poly-
clinic and College for Graduates in
Medicine. He also pursued a course of
instruction at the eye, ear, nose and
throat department of the Philadelphia
Dispensary, fitting himself as a specialist
in diseases of the eye. ear, nose and
throat. In 1889 he completed a course
in pharmacy at the National Institute
of Pharmacy, Chicago, Illinois. Since
1886, when he was elected a school di-
rector of Quakertown borough, he has
been closely identified with the edu-
cational interests of his town and the
county. He was re-elected school di-
rector in 1889, and served three years
as president and one year as treasurer
of the board.

In 1890 Dr. Fretz was nominated on
the first ballot for assembly by the
Bucks county Democratic convention,
and was elected by nearly three hun-
dred majority. He represented his coun-
ty in the legislature of 1891 with marked
ability, and to the utmost satisfaction of
his constituents. In the fall of 1892 he
was renominated by acclamation and re-
elected by a largely increased majority.'
In the session of 1893 he served on the
following important committees: educa-
tional, municipal corporations, public
health and sanitation, and congressional
apportionment. He introduced a num-
ber of bills in the legislature, the most
important of which was, an act to auth-
orize the state superintendent of public
instruction to grant permanent state
teachers' certificates to graduate of rec-
ognized literary and scientific colleges.
He was also elected by the house of Rep-
resentatives a member of the Pennsyl-
vania election commission for 1893-94,
whose duty it was to open, compute and
publish the vote for state treasurer. On
June 21, 1893, Ursinus College recog-
nized his ability by conferring the hon-
orary degree of Master of Arts (A. M.)
upon him. In January, 1894, Dr. Fretz
was appointed a clinical assistant in the
eye department of the Jefferson Medi-
cal College Hospital, Philadelphia, Penn-
sylvania. He received the appointment
of borough physician of Quakertown
in 1888, and has since been reappointed
annually. In July 1893, he was appointed
by the borough council; a member of
the borough board of health, a position
he still holds, he being president of
the board. November 2, 1898, he was
elected president of the Bucks county
Medical Society. He is also a member of
the State Medical Society of Pennsylvania,
the Lehigh Valley Medical Association, the
American Medical Association, the American
Academy of Political and Social Science
of Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania For-
estry Association and the Bucks County
School Directors' Association, of which
he served as vice president. He is also
surgeon for the Philadelphia and Lehigh
Valley Traction Co.. and medical ex-
aminer for numerous life insurance com-
panies. On November 21, 1898, Dr.
Fretz was elected by the board of trus-
tees a censor of the Medico-Chirurgical
College of Philadelphia. He pursued a
course of study at the Chicago School of
Psychology, graduating therefrom
March 15, 1900, receiving the degree of
Doctor of Psychology (Psy. D.). On
March 7, 1905, he completed a course of
study at the South Bend College of
Optics, South Bend, Indiana, graduating
therefrom with the degree of Doctor of
Optics, (Opt. D.). He is a member of
the following organizations: Quaker-
town Lodge, No. 512, F. and A. M. ; Zin-
zendorf Chapter. No. 216. Royal Arch
Masons, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania;

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Pennsylvania Comniandcry, No. 70,
Knights Templar of Philadelphia; Qua-
kertown Lodge, No. 714, 1. O. O. F.;
Secona Tribe, No. 263, 1. O. of R. M.,
and Marion Circle, No. 16, B. U. (H. F.)
of Pennsylvania.

On October 26, 1882, Dr. Fretz mar-
ried Elniira A. Roedcr, daughter of Na-
than C. and Lucinda (Antrim) Roeder,
of Spinnerstown, Pennsylvania. Both are
members of the Reformed church. Their
union was blessed with two children:
Roberts Bartholow, born January 19,
1884, and died October i, 1884, and Ray-
mond Lamar, born April 24, 1885. The
latter received his primary education in
the public schools of Quakertown,
Pennsylvania; later he attended Perkio-
men Seminary for two years, and the
Bethlehem Preparatory School, an ad-
junct to Lehigh University for one year.
He then entered his father's drug store
as a student of medicine and pharmacy,
and in May, 1905, he graduated in the
Era Course of Pharmacy of New York.
He is also a member of Marion Circle,
No. 16, B. U. (H. F.) of Pennsylvania,
also of the Quakertown Mandolin Club.

YARDLEY FAMILY. John Yardley,
treasurer of the Doylestown Trust Com-
pany, is a son of Mahlon and Elizabeth
(Brock) Yardley, and was born in Doy-
lestown, 6 mo. IS, 1852, and belongs to
the fourteenth generation of the descen-
dants of John Yardley, of county Staf-
ford, England, who married a daughter
of Marbury of Dadesbury, in 1402. The
family of Yardley (formerly spelled
Yeardley) is an ancient one with resi-
dence in Staffordshire, where the heads
of the familj-^ were known as the "Lords
of Yeardley." Their coat-of-arms is:
"Argent on a chevron azure, three garbs
or, on a canton gules, a fret or;" Crest:
"A buck courant, gu. attired or."

The pioneer emigrant of the family
was William Yeardley, who with wife
Jane and three sons, Enoch, William
and Thomas and a servant Andrew
Heath, emigrated from Ransclough,
near Leake, in the county of Stafford,
and arrived in the river Delaware in the
good ship "Friends' Adventure," 7 mo.
29, 1682. They located on five hun-
dred acres of land purchased of William
Penn 3 mo. 30, i68r, (just sixteen days
after Penn received the grant of Penn-
sylvania from Charles II). This tract
was located on the Delaware river, near
the present site of the borough of Yard-
ley, and was called "Prospect Farm."
William Yardley was fifty years of age
on his arrival in Bucks county. He was a
member of the Society of Friends, and
had been called to the ministry among
them in his twenty-third year. He had
traveled through dififerent parts of iMig-
land preaching the Gospel, and had suf-

fered imprisonment and fines for his-
faith. He became at once and contin-
ud to his death one of the most promi-
ennt men of the province. He was a
member of the first Colonial Assembly
in 1682, and again in 1683; member of
Provincial Council in 1688-9; justice of
the peace and of the courts of Bucks
county, April 6, 1685, to January 2, 1689;
sheriff, February 11, 1690, to April 29,
1693. He died 5 mo. 6, 1693, aged sixty-
one years.

Enoch Yardley, eldest son of William
and Jane, was a member of Colonial
Assembly in 1699. He married 10 mo.
1697, Mary, daughter of Robert Pletch-
er, of Abington, Philadelphia county,
Pennsylvania, and had by her three
daughters, Jane, Mary and Sarah, all of
whom died in infancy. He died li mo.
23, 1702-3. His brother William died'
unmarried 12 mo. 12, 1792-3. Thomas,
the other brother, married 9 mo. 6, 1700,
Hester Blaker, and had two children,
William and Hester, both of whom died"
in infancy. He died on the same day as
his brother, 11 mo. 23, 1702-3. Mary,
the widow of Enoch Yardley, married
(second) Joseph Kirkbridge, one of the
most prominent men of the Province,
who had emigrated from the parish of
Kirkbride, in Cumberland, England. She
was his third wife, and bore him seven
children — John, Robert, Mary, Sarah
(married Israel Pemberton), Thomas,
and Jane, who married Samuel Smith,
the historian of New Jersey. Hester,
the widow of Thomas Yardley, married
8 mo. 1704, William Browne, of Chiches-
ter, Chester county, Pennsylvania.

William Yardley, his wife, children
and grandchildren all being dead, his
real estate in Bucks county descended
to his brother Thomas, of "The Beech-
es," in the parish of Rushton, Stafford-
shire. In the year 1704 Thomas^ Yard-
ley, Jr.. son of Thomas of Rushton,
came to Bucks county with a power of
attorney from his father and his brother
Samuel to claim the real estate. "Pros-
pect Farm" was sold under this power,
of attorney, 5 mo. 25, 1710, to Joseph
Janney, who as "straw man" conveyed
it back to Thomas Yeardley, Jr., 6 mo.
14, 1710. This Thomas Yeardley (as he
always wrote his name) was the ances-
tor of all the Yardleyi of Bucks county.
He married 12 mo., 1706-7, Ann, the
youngest daughter of William and Joan-
na Biles, who had emigrated from Dor-
chester, in the county of Dorset. Eng-
land, and arrived in the river Delaware
4 mo. 4. 1679. The children of Thomas
and Ann (Biles) Yardley were ten in
number:

1. Mary, born 8 mo. 4. 1707, married.
12 mo. 30, T72S-9. Amos Janney of Lou-
doun county. Virginia.

2. Jane, born 11 mo. 20, 1708-9. married
Francis Hague, of Loudoun county, Vir-
ginia.

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123:

3. Rebecca, born 7 mo. 27, 1710, never
married.

4. Sarah, bom 7 mo. 30, 1712, married
(first) Benjamin Canby, (second) David
Kinsey.

5. Joyce, born 10 mo. 3, 1714, never
married.

6. William, born 3 mo. 25, 1716, died
8 mo. 3, 1774.

7. Hannali, born 11 mo. 13, 1718-19,
never married.

8. Thomas, born 11 mo. i, 1720-1, died
3 mo. 12, 1803, married Mary Field.
Entered military service of the Province
and was disowned by Friends therefore
in 1756.

9. Samuel, born 4 mo. 16, 1723, died
8 mo. 12, 1726.

10. Samuel, born 7 mo. 13, 1729, died
1759. married Jane.

Thomas Yeardley was returned as a
member of the Provincial Assembly in
1715 and again in 1722. He was commis-
sioned a justice of the several courts of
Bucks county, May 12, 1725, and contin-
ued to serve as such until 1741. He was
one of the most prominent and active
of the judges, being present at nearly
every sitting of the court. He became
a very large land holder, acquiring in
1726 five hundre(| acres adjoining Pros-
pect Farm, and in T733 a tract of six-
hundred acres in Newtown township.
He also acquired title to the Solebury
Mills, erected by Robert Heath in 1707.
He died in 1756. He devised his Make-
field lands to his sons William an'd
Thomas, and his Solebury property to
his son Samuel.

William Yardley, born 3 mo. 25, 1716,
married 4 mo. 20, 1748, Ann Budd, of
New Jersey, and had: Ann, born 4 mo.
10, 1749, married Abraham Warner.
Sarah, born 2 mo. 17, 1751, married
Timothy Taylor. Margaretta, born 12
mo. 6, 1752, married Stacy Potts, of
Trenton, New Jersey. Anna (Budd)
Yardley died 1753, and William married,
3 mo. 31, 1756. Sarah, daughter of Mah-
lon and Mary (Sotcher) Kirkbride. Mah-
lon Kirkbride was the son of Joseph,
before mentioned, by his second wife,
Sarah, daughter of Mahlon and Rebecca
(Ely) Stacy, who were married at Cinder
Hill, near Mansfield. Yorkshire, Eng-
land, in 1668, and emigrated to Nevv
Jersey in 1676. Mahlon Stacy was the
first settler at the present site of Tren-
ton, New Jersey, where he built a mill
which was the sole resources for the
farmers on the Pennsylvania side of the
Delaware for many years. Mahlon Stacy
was a prominent official of the Prov-
ince of West Jersey, while Joseph Kirk-
bride, his son Mahlon, John Sotcher,
father of Mary Kirkbride, and Penn's
steward at Pennsbury, and William
Biles, all ancestors of the subject of this
sketch, were all members of Colonial
Assembly and justices of the court at
different times. The children of Will-

iam Yardley and his second wife Sarah
Kirkbride were:

Mary, born i mo. 27, 1757, married
Jonathan Woolston.

Hannham, born 3 mo. 19, 1758, mar--
ried 1779- John Stapler.

Achsah, born 2 mo. 17, 1760, married
1794, Thomas Stapler.

Letitia. born 7 mo. 12, 1762, married
1782. Jonathan Willis, of Philadelphia.

Thomas, born 10 mo. 2, 1763, married
1785, Susanna Brown.

Mahlon, born 7 mo. 17, 1765, married
1787, Elizabeth Brown.

Samuel, born 2 mo. 28, 1767, died in
infancy.

William, born 6 mo. 8, 1769, married
1793, Elizabeth Field.

Joseph, born 3 mo. 19, 1771, married
1798, Sarah Field.

Sarah (Kirkbride) Yardley, died i mo.
21, 1783.

William Yardley, served as sheriff of
Bucks county from October 4. 1752, to
October 4, 1755; and as justice of the-
courts of Bucks county December 7,

1764, to 1770. He died 8 mo. 3, 1774.
Mahlon, son of William and Sarah

(Kirkbride) Yardley, born 7 mo. 17,

1765, married 4 mo. 26, 1787, Elizabeth,
daughter of John and Ann (Field)
Brown, of Falls township. (Benjamin
Field, father of Ann Brown, was a mem-
ber of Provincial Assembly 1738-45.) The
children of Mahlon and Elizabeth
(Brown) Yardley, were:

Sarah, born 4 mo. 16, 1788, married
1813, Joseph Paul.

Ann. born 2 mo. 6, 1790, married 1812,
Jesse Lloyd.

Achsah, born 9 mo. i, 1792, married
1834, Richard Janney.

John, born 12 mo. i, 1794, married'
1823, Frances Hapenny, 1841, Anna Van
Horn.

Hannah, born 4 mo. 25, 1797, married
1819, Samuel Buckman.

Robert, born i mo. 18, 1799, married
1829, Ellen Field.

Charles, born 8 mo. 4, 1802, married
Anna Warner.

Elizabeth, born 7 mo. 21, 1807, married
1831. Mahlon B. Linton.

Elizabeth (Brown) Yardley, died i
mo. 22. 1824.

Mahlon Yardley died in Makefield,
II mo. 17, 1829.

John, son of Mahlon and Sarah (Kirk-
bride) Yardley, born 12 mo. i, 1794.
married, i mo. 23, 1823, Frances Hap-
penny. Their children were: Mahlon,
born 2 mo. 4, 1824, married 12 mo. 11,
1850, Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen
Brock. Strickland, born 10 mo. t8, 1826.
married Martha Johnson. Franklin,
born 6 mo. 26. 1830, died in infancy,
John Yardley, married (second) Anna"
Van Horn, 6 mo. 16, 1841; their children
were: Fannie, born 12 mo. 10. 1S44. Hon.
Robert M., born 10 mo. 9, 1850, member
of congress, Seventh District. Mary

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

Eliza, born i mo. 14, 1854. John Yardley
during the later years of life was a mem-
ber of the firm of Yardley & Justice,
coal and lumber merchants, at Yardley,
.Pennsjdvania. He died at Yardley, 5
mo. 24, 1874.

Mahlon Yardley was born in Make-
field township, 2 mo. 24, 1824, where his
early boyhood was spent. He graduated
at Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsyl-
vania, in the class of 1843, and at once
began the study of law at Easton. He
was admitted to the Bucks County bar
February 2, 1846, and began the practice
of law at Doylestown. At the organiza-
tion of the Republican party he became
an ardent advocate of its principles. In
the fall of 1851 he was its nominee for
state senator from the Sixth district,
and, although the district was then over-
whelmingly Democratic, was elected, de-
feating the late General Paul ApplebacH,
of Haycock. The term at that period
was three years, and he was therefore in
the state senate at the breaking out of
the war.

When in April, 1861, the Doylestown
Guards were on their way to the front,
they were met at the station at Harris-
burg by Senator Yardley and two col-
leagues and a bountiful supper served
to them. When General W. H. H. Da-
vis recruited and organized the 104th
Pennsylvania Regiment at Doylestown,
September, 1861. Mr. Yardley enlisted
and was commissioned^rst lieutenant of
Company K. He was with the regiment
at the siege of Yorktown, and in the be-
ginning of the hostilities along the
Chickahominy. In the skirmishes at Sav-
age's Station and Seven Pines, prelimin-
ary to the battle of Fair Oaks on May
24, 1862, he narrowly escaped being
killed. General Davis, in his "History of
the 104th Regiment," says, in speaking
of this engagement: ''There were many
narrow escapes. Lieutenant Yardley
moved his head to one side just in time to
prevent a shell that passed along, from
taking it off. A soldier named Brown,
immediately back of him. was struck in
the head and instantly killed. After the
battle the regiment M^as encamped on
the edge of a dense swamp, and many of
the men were taken sick with fevers.
Among these was Lieutenant Yardley.
In the latter part of the month he was
carried home by some friends who were
on a visit to the regiment, and never
rejoined the command. When sufficient-
ly recovered he was placed in the re-
cruiting service and was subsequently
appointed provost marshal for the Fifth
District, with headquarters at Frank-
ford."

Mr. Yardley never fully recovered
from the severe attack of typhoid con-
tracted in the Chickahominy swamps,
and was ever thereafter afflicted with a
severe cough, which no doubt hastened
his death. After being in bed for about

four months, he opened a recruiting of-
fice at Doylestown. On April 10, 1863,
he was appointed provost marshal for
this district, then comprising three
wards of the city of Philadelphia, and
promoted to the rank of captain. At the
close of the war he was appointed in-
ternal revenue collector for the same dis-
trict, a position he filled until his death.
He died June 23, 1873. His wife, whom
he married 12 mo. 11, 1850, was Eliza-
beth, daughter of Stephen and Mary
(Jones) Brock. The Brocks are one of
the oldest families in Bucks county. The
emigrant ancestor of the family was
sheriff of the county in 1685, and his son,
Thomas Brock, held the same office for
the term 1693-5. Stephen Brock, father
of Mrs. Yardley, was twice elected
sheriff of Bucks county, in 1821 and
again in 1827.

John Yardley, the only child of Mah-
lon and Elizabeth, was born in Doyles-
town, June 15, 1852. He was educated at
private schools in Doylestown, and en-
tered Lehigh University in 1868, remain-
ing two years, after which he entered
the silk house of Watson & Jan-
ney, of Philadelphia, as clerk. He re-
turned to Doylestown in the autumn of
1872 to assist his father in the revenue
office. On February i, 1873, he was
appointed a clerk in the Doylestown Na-
tional Bank, and remained in the em-
ploy of the bank until 1896, when he
resigned to accept the position of treas-
urer of the Doylestown Trust Company,
which position he still fills. Mr. Yard-
Ity has always been active in everything
that pertains to the best interests of the
t»iv,n he lives in. He was for many
years a member of the S'chool board and
has h^ld other borough offices. He was
one of the organizers of the Doyles-
town Electric Company and of the
Doylestown Gas Company, and has been
a director of both companies from their
organization. He has also been inter-
ested in several other local enterprises.
He is a member of Doylestown Lodge,
F. and A. M., No. 245; Aquetong Lodge,
No. 193. I. O. O. F.; Doylestown En-
campment, No. 25, I. O. O. F.; and Len-
ape Council, No. 11 17, Royal Arcanum.
He married. October 19, 1876, Emma,
daughter of David and Lucy "(Lear)
Krewson. Their only child is Mahlon,
born May 19, 1878, who resides with his
parents.

SAMUEL YARDLEY. of Edgewood,
Lower Makefield township, was born in
Upper Makefield township. Bucks coun-
ty, October 19. 1834, and is a son of
Joseph H. and Esther B. (Knowles)
Yardley. and is without doul:)t of the
same lineage as Tliomas Yardley, son of
Thomas Yardley. of Rushton Spencer.
Staff'ordshire, England, the former of
whom came to Bucks county in 1704, as

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the heir of his uncle, William Yardley,
of Ransclough, near Leake, county Staf-
ford, who had come to Bucks county in
1682, an account of whom is given in this
work.

Richard Yardley appears in Bucks
county soon after the arrival of Thomas,
with whom he was closely associated.
He was probably a grandson of John
Yardley, of Rushton Spencer, uncle of
William and Thomas, above mentioned,
who married Alice, daughter of Richard
Sutton, of Rushton Spencer, and had
sons, Edward, William, Ralph, John,
Richard, and Thomas. As before stated
Richard Yardley appears in Bucks coun-
ty soon after the emigration of Thomas
Yardley to this county, and the latter
sold him in 1753 six hundred acres of
land near Newtown, purchased in 1742.
Richard never lived on this land, and
at his death in 1761 was operating the
mill belonging to Thomas Yardlej^ in
Solebury township. His will, dated Jan-
uary 5, 1761, and proved March 4, 1761,
mentions wife Mary, daughter Mary,
wife of Joseph Harvey; and sons, Thom-
as, Samuel, Richard, Enoch, William,
and Benjamin.

Richard Yardley, son of the above
Richard, married November i, 1759, Lu-
cilla Stackhouse. He purchased in 1773
of Thomas and Mary (Field) Yardley
107 acres of land in Lower Makefield,
on which he lived and died. He was a
wheelwright by trade and followed that
vocation in connection with farming.
He died in 1786 leaving two sons, Sam-
uel and William; and three daughters:
Anna, wife of John Leedom; Hannah,
wife of James White; and Mary, wife
of John Hough. William, the j^oungest
of the children, was born in 1777. Lu-
cilla Stackhouse, wife of Richard Yard-
ley, was born 4 mo. 9, 1738, and was a
daughter of John and Elizabeth (Jan-
ney) Stackhouse, her maternal grand-
father being Abel Janney, whose daugh-
ter Elizabeth, John Stackhouse married
at IMiddletown 10 mo. 22. 1737, their only
other child being Abel Stackhouse, born
4 mo. 4, 1740. John Stackhouse was born
3 mo. II, 1708, and died 7 mo. 23, 1743,
and was a son of John and Elizabeth
Stackhouse, of ]\iiddletown, the former
of whom came to Middletown from
England with his uncle, Thomas Stack-
house, in 1682.

Samuel Yardley, eldest son of Richard
and Lucilla (Stackhouse) Yardley, was
a man of considerable prominence in the
community, and at one time a consider-
able landholder in the Makefields. He
married Ann Vansant, daughter of Cor-
nelius and Ann (Larzelere) Vansant, and
had two sons, Richard and Joseph Har-
vey Yardley.

Joseph H. Yardley was born near
Yardley in the year 1797. He was a nat-
ural mechanic, and in ,early life followed
the trade of a carpenter, in connection

with the conduct of a farm near Taylors-
ville. In April, 1841, he purchased at
sheriff's sale the Jacob Janney farm of
115 acres, which included the farm now
owned and occupied by his son, the sub-
ject of this sketch, and spent the remain-
der of his life thereon, dying in 1880 at
the age of eighty-three years. In politics
he was a staunch Republican, and was
an active and prominent man in the com-
munity, holding the office of justice of
the peace for many years. He was also
one of the directors of the Yardley Del-
aware Bridge Company, and held several
other positions of trust. His wife was
Esther B. Knowles, of an old and promi-
nent family in Upper Makefield, and
they were the parents of six children:
Elizabeth; Julia, widow of Charles Jan-
ney, of Solebury ; Anna, first wife of the
above named Charles Janney; Rebecca,
who died young; Samuel, the subject oi
this sketch; and Gulielma, wife of Rob-
ert Yardley Linton, of Makefield.

Samuel Yardley was born near Tay-
lorsville, -Upper Makefield township, Oc-
tober 19, 1834, but from the age of seven
years was reared on the farm upon
which he still resides. He was educated
at the local schools and at the Norris-
town Academy. He was jeared to the
life of a farmer, and has always given
his attention to the tilling of the soil.
In politics he is a Republican, but has
never sought or held other than local
office. He is one of the highly respected
citizens of Lower Makefield, where he
has always resided. Mr. Yardley has been
twice married, his first wife being Sa-
rah Swartzlander, who died December 21,
1865; and his second wife was Jane P.
Swartzlander, who died November 28,
1902, both being daughters of Abraham
and Rebecca Swartzlander.

William R., only son of Samuel and
Sarah (Swartzlander) Yardley, married
j\Iary Vanhorn, and they are the parents
of eleven children, as follows: Florence
K., born February 6, 1884; Joseph H.,
born July 21. 1885; Bernard V., born
October 4, 1887; Mary S., born Novem-
ber 16. 1889: Sarah S., born Januarj' 22,
1892; Oscar v., deceased; Jane P., born
^larch 12, 1'897; Maud L., born August i,
T898; Samuel Y., born February 5, 1900;
Virginia, born May 30, 1901; Esther K.,
born January 8, 1903.

HON. ROBERT M. YARDLEY, de-
ceased. On the ninth day of December,
1902, passed away in Doylestown, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, one of the most
popular and distinguished citizens of the
county, one who by reason of eminent
ability and distinguished services had
achieved a fame far beyond the borders
of his native county, and who by his gen-
erous, kindly and affable traits had in-
trenched himself in the hearts of the
people.

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

Robert M. Yardley was born in Yard-
ley, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, Octo-
ber 9, 1850, a son of John and Ann (Van
Horn) Yardley. Of a distinguished an-
cestry who had rendered to tiieir county,
state and nation distinguished and emi-
nent services in nearly every generation,
he rendered fully his meed of service.
He w^as reared in the village, (now bor-
ough) of Yardley, and received a good
academic education. As a young man he
was engaged for a few years in assisting
his father in the conduct of a large lum-
ber and coal business at Yardley. At the
age of eighteen he began the study of
law in the office of his half-brother,
Mahlon Yardley, Esq., and was admitted
to the bar of Bucks county in 1872. He
located in Doylestown, and immediately
began the practice of his chosen profes-
sion. He was a careful and conscien-
tious student, a logical and forceful reas-
oner and an eloquent speaker, and soon
proved himself an able and strong law-
yer, and merited and held the confidence
of a large clientage.

In 1879 he was elected district attor-
ney of the county against an adverse
majority, and filled the office for three
years with eminent ability. In politics
he was an ardent Republican, and repre-
sented his party and county in the na-
tional convention of 1884. He was elected
to the Fiftieth Congress in 1886, from
the Seventh District, over Hon. George
Ross, and made an enviable record. Re-
turning to Doylestown and declining a
♦re-election, he resumed the practice of
his profession and soon reached the first
rank as a lawyer. His reputation as an
orator placed him upon the platform at
many political and other assemblies, and
his eloquent addresses, touched with a
vein of humor, were always incisive, in-
structive and to the point. He was ap-
pointed receiver of the Keystone Nation-
al Bank, Philadelphia, in 1891, and his
excellent administration of its a'rfairs
led to his appointment as receiver of the
Spring Garden Bank, in 1894. He was
interested in all that pertained to the
best interests of his town and county,
and generously contributed to every
good cause, public or private. He was a
director of the Bucks County Trust
Company of the Doylestown Elec-
trical Company, the Doylestown Gas
Company, and an officer in several other
local institutions. He was president
of the Doylestown school board for
several years prior to his death, and
an active member of the local board of
health. He was a member of the Ma-
sonic fraternity and of the I. O. O. F.

Mr. Yardley was twice married, first
in 1874. to Clara Bell, who died in 1883,
and second, on April 21, 1892, to Re-
becca P., widow of Levi. L. James. Esq.,
and daughter of John M. and Sarah
(Roberts) Purdy, who survives him.
An account of the ancestry of Mrs.

Yardley, is given on another page of
this work. The news of the death of
Mr. Yardley on December 9, 1902, was
heard with profound regret and sorrow
in ail parts of Bucks county. The end
came without warning; he had gone to
his office as usual in the morning, and
a few minutes after entering his private
office died in his chair from heart fail-
ure.

HENRY W. COMFORT. It is def-
initely known that it was at a very early-
epoch in the settlement of the new world
when the Comfort family was estab-
lished in America, for John Comfort
came from Flushing, Long Island, to the
Friends Monthly Meeting held in Falls
township. Bucks county, December 3,
1719, bringing with him a certificate
from the former place. He settled in
Amwell, Hunterdon county. New Jer-
sey, and his life was devoted to reclaim-
ing the wild land for purposes of civili-
zation and to more advanced agricul-
tural interests. He married Miss Mary
Wilson, August 6, 1720, and they had
three children: Stephen, Sarah and Rob-
ert.

(II) Stephen Comfort, of the second
generation, was married to Mercy
Croasdale August 25, 1744. They had
nine children; John; Ezra; Jeremiah;
Stephen; Grace, the wife of Jonathan
Stackhouse; Mercy, the wife of Aaron
Phillipps: Moses; Robert; and Hannah.

(III) Ezra Comfort, son of Stephen
Comfort, was born August 11, 1747, arid
married Alice Fell, January 9, 1772. He
was a recorded minister of the Society
of Friends and exerted strong influence
in behalf of the moral as well as mafer-
ial development of his community. In
his family were six children: Elizabeth,
who became the wife of Peter Roberts,
and after his death married Benjamin
White; Mercy, wife of Joshua Paxton;
Grace, twin sister of Mercy, and the
wife of Benjamin Gillingham; John;
Ezra; and Alice.

(IV) Ezra Comfort, who was born
April 18. 1777, was also a recorded minis-
ter of the Society of Friends. He mar-
ried Margaret Shoemaker, October 16,
1800, and they had nine children ; Sarah,
wife of Hughes Bell; Grace, wife of
Charles Williams; Jane, who became the
wife of Jones Yerkes, and after his death
married Charles Lippencott; Ann, who
married Isaac Jones; John S.; Alice, the
wMfe of George M. Haverstick; Jere-
miah; David; and Margaret, wife of
Henry Warrington.

(V) John S. Comfort, son of Ezra
Comfort, was born May 25, 1810, in
Plymouth. Montgomery county, Penn-
sylvania. In early life he engaged in a
lime business, building and owning
kilns about ten miles from Easton on
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shipped the first boatload of lime that
was ever sent over the canal, and for a
number of years supplied most of the
farmers in the lower part of Bucks
county. Later he turned his attention
to the lumber business, which he con-
ducted quite extensively in the Lehigh
valley. About 1835 he purchased the
farm where his son, George AL Comfort,
now resides, situated in Falls township,
about a mile and a half from the village
of Fallsington, whereon he spent his re-
maining days, passing away in 1891. He
married Jane C. Comfort, a daughter of
Jeremiah and Sarah (Cooper) Comfort.
Their only chil,d was

(VI) George M., who was born April
10, 1837, in the house which is yet his
home. He early engaged in agricultural
pursuits, in which he was much inter-
ested, finding it both congenial to his
tast«s and satisfactorily remunerative.
He was a member of the first board of
directors of The Peoples' National Bank
of Langhorne, and is yet a member of
the board of directors of the First Na-
tional Bank of Trenton, New Jersey,
and is president of the Bucks County
Contributionship for Fire Insurance.
Like his ancestors for several genera-
tions, he is a member of the religious
Society of Friends, and from early life
has been actively engaged in its work.
He married Ann Elizabeth, daughter of
Moses and Mercy Comfort, of Penns
Manor, on October 14, 1858. Their chil-
dren are : Edward .C, who died in child-
hood; Henry W., born February 27,
1863; and William S., who died in child-
hood.

(VII) Henry W. Comfort, the only
surviving son of George M. and Ann
Elizabeth Comfort, resides on and is
operating the farm in Falls township
which has been the family home for
three generations. It includes ah area
of 225 acres, on which he keeps a large
herd of high grade dairy cows, the
milk from which is delivered daily to cus-
tomers in the city of Trenton, New Jer-
sey. This business was started by his
grandfather in 1847. and the milk route
has been constantly served from this
farm ever since. Mr. Comfort is presi-
dent of the John L. Murphy Publishing
Company, president and treasurer of the
International Pottery Company, of Treii-
ton; a director of the Yardley National
Bank, and is interested in. and vice-
president of The William H. Moon Nur-
sery Company. He has been actively
associated with affairs touching the gen-
eral interests of the neighborhood, is
a director of the Morrisville Building
and Loan Association, and of the Falls-
ington Library Companv, and is one of
the managers of The Friends' Asylum
for the Insane at Frankford. Philadel-
phia.

Mr. Comfort has been twice married..
His first wife was Edith, daughter of

Samuel Ellis and Sarah B. DeCou, and
his present wife was Lydia P., daughter
of Ellwood and Mercy A. Parsons.

THE ELY FAMILY. The earliest men-
tion of Ely as a family surname in Eng-
land occurred during the reign of the
Plantaganets after the Norman Con-
quest. The English "Book of Digni-
ties" records William De Ely as lord
treasurer for King John and Richard I ;
Richard De Ely, lord treasurer for Rich-
ard I and Henry II; Ralph De Ely, ba-
ron of the exchequer for Henry III,
(1240); Philip De Ely lord treasurer
for Henry III (1271); Nicholas De Ely,
lord chancellor, in 1260, Lord treasurer
in 1263, and Bishop of Worcester 1266
to 1289. One bra:nch of the family is
known to have lived at Utterby, Lin-
colnshire, from this early period down
to the present day, L. C. R. Norris-
Elye being the present Lord of the Man-
or of Utterby and patron of the old
thirteenth century church of * St. An-
drew a.t that place. Wharton Dickinson,
the New York genealogist, traces this
line back to a connection with Ralph De
Ely, Baron of the Exchequer. The Man-
or House has the Ely arms, (a fesse
engrailed between six fleurs-de-lis) cut
in stone over the entrance, dated 1639.
The same arms are also found in the
church. Another branch is said to have
settled in Yorkshire, and Burke gives
the arms the same as above, but red
instead of black. Papworth's "British
Armorials" states that these arms were
borne also by Nicholas De Ely and Sir
Richard De Illey. In Bailey's "History
of Nottinghamshire," John De Ely is
stated to have been appointed the first
vicar of St. Mary's Collegiate church at
Nottingham in 1290, and its author adds
that the name has "Come down to the
present day." Another John De Ely was
Lord of the Manor of Thornhaugh and
Wiggesley in Nottinghamshire in 1316
(within a mile of Dunhan, where Joshua
Ely resided before embarking for Am-
erica in 1683.)

The ancestors of the Elys of Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, came from that
part of Old England known as the Peak
District, famous both for its natural
beauty and historic interest. It com-
prises Upper Derbyshire, Southwestern
Yorkshire, and Western Nottingham-
shire. The family were related to the
Revells of Derbyshire, an ancient and
powerful family, descendants of the JM^or-
man nobility. Hugh De Revell was
grandm.aster of the Knight Hospitalers,
and this family in England throughout
the Crusades were trustees of the Knight
Templar property in England. The Sta-
cyes of Yorkshire, who held the estate
known as Ballifield from the time of the
Norman Conquest, were also closely
connected with the Elys. The Stacye

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

and Ely families were among the earliest
of the English churchmen to follow the
teachings of George Eox, the fonncicr
of the Society of Friends. Great relig-
ious meetings were held at Balhuci.l
Hall, the home of the Stacyes, by Fox in
his journeys to Yorkshire, and there is
still to be found at Ballifield Hall, an
antique black oak table inlaid with a
silver plate inscribed as follows: "This
called by Fox the Quaker's Table, made
before 1593, was for many years at Syn-
der Hill and afterwards for sixty years
in the Tool House there, then restored
and placed in Ballifield Hall by Thomas
Watson Cadman, Esq., in December,
1868."

The connection between this branch of
the Elj^ family and those of the same
name mentioned in the earlier history
of this section of England is not known.
In the Feudal history of Derbyshire by
Yeatman in the days of Henry VH and
Henry VHI, Hugh*, Thomas*, Roland*,
and John Ely are memtioned and still
earlier, Nicholas le Hele, Sir William
"Delly," Knt. and John "Eallee" are also
mentioned, but no positive lineage is
known back of the grandparents of
those who came to America. Joshua
Ely and Rebecca Ely Stacye, who land-
ed in West Jersey in 1683 and 1678 re-
spectively, were the children of George
Ely, of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire.
Other children were: Hugh of Mans-
field, w'ho married Marie Roos; Ruth,
who married Lionell Revell; and Eliza-
beth, whose tomb is in a good state of
preservation in the private cemetery of
the Stacyes at Ballifield Hall. Another
Hugh Ely is known to have married
Rosamond Bullock at Chesterfield, Der-
byshire, between 1600 and 1640, and
Alicia, a daughter of Hugh Ely, was bap-
tized at Chesterfield in 1614.

A history of the Ely, Stacye and Rev-
ell families is in preparation under the
supervision of Warren S. Ely of Doyles-
town, Pennsylvania, Dr. William S.
Long, of Haddonfield, New Jersey, and
Daniel B. Ely of Montclair, New Jer-
sey.

The wife of George Ely, of Mansfield,
was doubtless Sarah Heath, as at the
time Joshua Ely, their son, proposed
intentions of marriage at Mansfield
Quarterly Meeting, England, 7th month,
1673, with Mary Seniar, the following
entry was made on the minutes of that'
meeting:

"Joshua Ely and Mary Senierd, both
of Mansfield, declare intentions of mar-
riage with each other. Present, his
grandmother, Elizabeth Heath, his re-
lations and guardians Mahlon and Re-
becca Stacy, his brother-in-law, Lion-
el Revel who married his sister Ruth
. — _»

*These Christian names are also common in the
Revell pedigree. It is also known that the Elys of
Utterby Manor are descended from the Elys of
Derbyshire.

Ely, and Alse Senierd, mother of said
Mary Senierd."

Mahlon Stacy had married Rebecca
Ely in 1668, at Cinder Hill, a part oj the
Ballifield estate. From another source
we have the following records: "Joshua
Ely of Mansfield and Mary Seniar of
same place, daughter of Alice Seniar
married 8th month, 29, 1673, at G. Cock-
erman's House at Skegby in Notting-
hamshire." "John Ely, son of Joshua and
Mar}^, buried 9th month, 25, 1676.
George Ely, son of Joshua and Mary,
died 3rd month, 3, 1676."

Mahlon Stacy, of the ancient family of
Ballifield, with his wife Rebecca Ely,
their children and servants, in the year
1678 embarked in the "Shield," and on
November 10, 1678, landed on the east
bank of the Delaware, in New Jersey,
where they and their descendants were
destined to take an important part in the
founding and preservation of an Eng-
lish colony and nation in America. In
the same ship came their cousin, Thomas
Revell, of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, who,
unlike them, was not a convert to the
gentle teachings of George Fox, but rep-
resented the High Church Tory party,
and later took an active part in the af-
fairs of the West Jersey colony, filling
the positions of surveyor general, re-
corder, surrogate, member and almost a
dictator in the governor's council, an3
finally a justice on the supreme bench.
He was, however, an aristocrat of the
aristocrats and was unpopular with the
colonists, and after the downfall of Lord
Cornbury was finally removed from of-
fice at the instigation of the colonists
and on the advice of William Penn.

Mahlon Stacy became a very promi-
nent man, filling many important gov-
ernment positions. His daughters inter-
married with the Kirkbrides, Pownalls
and Janneys of Bucks county, who were
prominent in the affairs of Bucks county
and the province of Pennsylvania. He
took up a tract of land on the site of the
present city of Trenton and eretted a
mill there, the first to furnish meal to
the early colonists of Bucks county.
It was through him that his brother-in-
law, Joshua Ely, who, after his marriage,
had settled at Dunham, Nottingham»-
shire, came to America in 1684 with his
wife and children, and located on 400
acres, conveyed to Joshua by Mahlon
Stacy, on both sides of the Assinnipink,
by deed dated April 20, 1685. This tract
fronted on the river, about five eighths
of a mile from a point thirty-two and
one-half chains north of the mouth of
the creek upward, and extended inland
one mile. •

Joshua Ely became a prominent man
in the colon}', and was commissioned a
justice in 1700 and recommissioned the
following year. He became a large
landholder, owning at different periods
two other tracts of 400 acres each, be-

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129

sides his original purchase on the site of
Trenton, of which he died seized. His
wife Mary died in 1698, and he married
(second) November 9, 1699, Rachel Lee,
who bore him two children, Benjamin
and Ruth, twins. He died 4th month,
1702, at Trenton. The children of Josh-
ua and Mary (Seniar) Ely were John
and George, before mentioned, who died
in infancy in England ; Joshua, born in Eng-
land 1680; George, born 1682 in England;
John, said to have been born on the voy-
age to America; Hugh, born at Tren-
ton about 1686; Elizabeth, and Sarah,
the latter born -in the same year that
her mother died. Of Rachel, the widow
and her two children, nothing is known.

Joshua Ely, the eldest son, bought a
portion of the homestead in 1705. Let-
ters of administration were granted on
his estate to George Ely in 1760, but
whether his son or not wc are unable
to determine; nothing is known of his
descendants.

George Ely, the second son, it would
seem, was about to marry Christian, the
daughter of Nathaniel Pettit, who lived
on an adjoining tract, at the death of
his father, and the latter, in his will,
expresses decided objections to the mar-
riage and practically disinherits George
in case of its consummation. What be-
came of Christian Pettit remains a mys-
tery, but in 1703 George Ely married
Jane Pettit, daughter of Nathaniel, but
whether the same person or another
daughter is a matter of conjecture.
George Ely purchased 100 acres of the
old homestead of his father's executors
at Trent Town (as it came to be known
after the purchase by William Trent of
the Stacy mill and lands) and lived
thereon until his death in 1750. He was
active in the affairs of the embryo city,
and a member of its first town coun-
cil, at the incorporation in 1746. The
children of George and Jane (Pettit)
Ely were: Joshua, born March 16, 1704;
George, born 1706; Rebecca, who mar-
ried Eliakim Anderson, and has descend-
ants in Bucks county; Joseph; Mary,
who married Richard Green, and is the
ancestress of Mrs. Ethan Allen Weaver
of Philadelphia; Sarah, who married
John Dagworthy:* and Elizabeth, who
married James Price of Hopewell.

John Ely, the tjhird son of Joshua and
Mary (Seniar) Ely, married Frances
Venables, daughter of William and Eli-
zabeth Venables, of Bucks county. Penn-
sylvania, in 1706, and died at Trenton.
in 1732. Their four children, John, who
married Phebe Allison; William; Mary,
wife of William Hill; and Elizabeth,
wife of Joseph Higbee, have left num-
erous descendants in New Jersey. The

*John Dagworthv's sons. John and Ely. were
officers in the French and Indian war. John became
a brigardier general, and was granted 20,000 acres of
land in Maryland for his services.

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descendants of John and Phebe are es-
pecially numerous in southern New Jer-
sey.

Hugh Ely, the youngest son of Josh-
ua and JNIary (Seniar) Ely, born at
Trenton about 1686, married December
12, 1712, Mary Hewson, and in 1720
settled in Buckingham township on 400
acres of land purchased in the "Lundy
Tract," extending from Broadhurst's
lane to Holicong and from the York
road to Buckingham Mountain, and
lived there the remander of his life, dy-
ing in 1771. He became a member of
Buckingham Friends' Meeting, and, his
wife Mary having died, he married May
16, 1753, Phoebe Smith, widow of Robert
Smith, of Buckingham, and daughter of
Thomas Canby, an eminent minister among
Friends. Phoebe was also an accepted
minister. The children of Hugh Ely, all
by his first wife, were :

1. Thomas, who married January 22,
1734, Sarah Lowther, daughter of William
and Ruth Lowther, of Buckingham and
about 1775, removed with most of his grown
up children to Maryland. Gen. Hugh Ely
of Baltimore county, veteran of the sec-
ond war with Great Britain, congress-
man. United States senator, etc., was a
son of Mahlon and grandson of Thomas
and Sarah (Lowther) Ely. Many of the
male descendants of Thomas migrated
to Ohio, where the family is now quite
numerous.

2. Hugh Ely, Jr., married Elizabeth
Blackfan, and remained on the home-
stead in Buckingham, part of which is
still owned and occupied by his de-
scendants. He reared a family and has
very numerous descendants in Bucks
county and elsewhere.

3. Ann Ely married Peter Matson.

4. Anna Ely, married John Wilkinson.

Of Elizabeth and Sarah Lly, daugh-
ters of Joshua and Mary, little is known.
The descendants of the three sons,
George, John and Hugh, are now widely
scattered over the United States, and
many of them have filled honored po-
sitions in the official, professional and
business life of the sections in which
their lot was cast.

George Ely, second son of George and
Jane (Pettit) Ely, married Mary Prout,,
and settled in Amwell township, near
Lambertville, New Jersey, in 1748- 1750.
He was proprietor of Wells Ferry, now
New Hope, and resided there, and also
was the owner of considerable land in
the Ferry Tract, Solebury. He had sons
Joseph, John and George, the last named
of whom was colonel of a New Jersey
regiment during the revolutionary war,
and at its close removed to Shamokin,
Pa., where he died in 1820, He married
Susanna Farley, of Amwell and had nine
children, many of whose descendants
now reside in western Pennsylvania and
Ohio.

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Joshua Ely, eldest son of George and
Jane (Pettit) Ely, born at Trenton, New
Jersey March 16, 1704, married in 1729,
Elizabeth Bell, daughter of Henry and
Elizabeth Bell, of Burlington county,
New Jersey. He removed to Pennsyl-
vania permanently in 1737, but .it would
appear that he had established a resi-
dence there some years earlier, as he
was admitted a member of Buckingham
Meeting in 1734- Though the minutes
of that meeting fail to show any record
of his removal, he and his wife Eliza-
beth received a certificate of removal
from Chesterfield Meeting to Bucking-
ham in 1738. In 1737 he leased of Will-
iam Blakey 400 acres in Solebury town-
ship. Bucks county, the greater part of
which is still owned and occupied by his
descendants of the name. The lease
was for ten years, and under its provis-
I'ons, he was to clear sixty acres of up-
land and ten acres of meadow, and build
an addition to the house, Blakey to fur-
nish "nails and shingles," and to build
a frame barn. The lease was renewed
in 1747, but in 1749 he contracted for its
purchase, which failed of consummation
until two years later by reason of the
death of Blakey before the deed was de-
livered. Here Joshua Ely lived until his
death in 1783, building a stone house
soon after his purchase, which is still
occupied by his great-great-grandson,
William L. Ely. He became a prominent
man in Solebury but, being a consistent
member of the Society of Friends, took
no part in the revolutionary struggle,
his name and those of his sons appear-
ing on the list of "non-associators" in
1775. He was made an elder of Bucking-
ham Meeting in 1752 and was recom-
mended as a minister in 1758. He was a
successful farmer, and in addition to the
400 acres acquired another large tract
of land, part of the Pike tract adjoining.
The children of Joshua and Elizabeth
(Bell) Ely were as follows:

1. Joshua, born at Trenton in 1730,
died on a part of the Solebury home-
stead in 1804. He married Elizabeth
Hughes, daughter of IMathew and Eliza-
beth (Stevenson) Hughes, of Plumstead,
and has left numerous descendants. The
farm of 150 acres received by him of his
father was occupied successively by his
son and grandson, both named Jonathan,
the latter dying in 1867, when the farm
went to another branch of the family,
and is now conducted by a great-great-
grandson of his brother George, George
H. Ely.

2. George Ely. born at Trenton, New
Jersey. November 9. 1733- died in New-
town township in 1815. He married Sep-
tember 24, 1760, Sarah Magill; see for-
ward.

3. John, born May 28, 1738. married
SaVah Sinicock. and inherited the home-
stead tract of his father. For his de-

scendants see sketch of William L. Ely,
who still resides there.

4. Sarah Ely, born June 14; 1736, mar-
ried William Kitchin, to whom her fath-
er conveyed a portion of the homestead
lying next to the Delaware river, upon
which he erected a mill for his half-
brother Aaron Phillips, whose descend-
ants of the name operated it until about
1890.

5. Hugh Ely, born August 8, 1741, mar-
ried Elizabeth Wilson. He inherited
from his father a farm in the "Pike
Tract," but sold it and resided in New
Hope, where he was a noted clock mak-
er a century ago.

6 Hannah, married James Dubree,
and left two children Absalom and Han-
nah.

7. Jane, married Jonathan Balderston,
and lived and died in Solebury.

George Ely, second son of Joshua and
Elizabeth (Bell) Ely, born at Trenton,
November 8, 1733, married November 24,
1760, Sarah Magill, Jr., daughter of
William and Sarah (Simcock) Magill, of
Solebury, the former a native of Ulster,
Ireland, located in Solebury about 1730.
Sarah Simcock was a daughter of Jacob
Simcock, Jr., and Sarah Wain, of Rid-
ley, Chester county; Sarah Wain being
a daughter of Nicholas -Wain, for many
years a member of colonial assembly,
at whose house in Middletown, Bucks
county, the early Friends Meetings were
held. John Simcock, of Ridley, the
grandfather of Jacob, Jr., born in Chesh-
ire, England, in 1630, came to Chester
county with his wife Elizabeth about
1682; he was one of Penn's five commis-
sioners, and a member of provincial
council, 1683-1700; judge of Chester
county, 1683-86; puisine judge of prov-
ince, 1686-90; provincial judge. 1690-93;
and speaker of assembly, 1696; died 1703.
His son Jacob, who was coroner of
Chester county in 1691, married Alice
Maris, daughter of George Maris and
Alice his wife, who came from Wor-
cestershire, England, to Chester county
in 1682, a member of the governor's
council. 1684 to 1695. member of assem-
bly, justice, etc., died 1705. In 1760
George Ely received from his father
112 acres of the homestead, on which he
erected a house still standing, aijd
which is still owned by his descendants,
being the home of his great-grand-
daughter Laura Ely Walton. He later
purchased considerable other land in
Solebury and elsewhere, much of which
is also occupied by his descendants. He
was a prominent man in the community,
and a member of colonial assembly in
1760. He was a resident on the old
homestead until 1802, when he trans-
ferred it to his son George Ely, Jr.,
and removed to Newtown township to a
farm purchased of Hampton Wilson,
where he died in 1814. The children of

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

13^

<jeorge and Sarah (Magill) Ely were
as follows:

1. Joseph, born August 13, 1761, mar-
ried Mary Whitson, daughter of Thom-
as Whitson, Jr., and granddaughter of
Thomas Whitson, who came from Beth-
page, Long Island, and a descendant of
the Powells. Hallecks and Estes of Long
Island. Joseph Ely received from his
father the Rabbit Run farm, now occu-
pied by his great-grandson Thomas Ma-
,gill, and lived and died there.

2. Jane Ely, born January 5, 1764, mar-
ried Benjamin Paxson.

3. Joshua, born July 4, 1766, died
young.

4. Amos, born February 6, 1769.

5. George, born July 25, 1772, married
Sarah Smith, and lived and died on the
Tiomestead, where his sons, Robert,
Smith. George and Gervas, late of Lam-
bertville. New Jersey, were born and
reared.

6. William, born November 26, 1774.
inherited his father's Newtown farm.

7. Aaron married Alada Britton, was
■the father of Hiram and Britton Ely, of
New Hope, and the grandfather of Dan-
iel Britton Ely, of Montclair, New Jer-
sey.

8. Joshua, born October 24, if79, died
young.

9. Mark, born September 18, 1781; see
forward.

10. Mathias, born September 5, 1783,
was twice married, and was the grand-
father of Esward W. Ely, of Doyles-
town.

11. Amasa, born November 12, 1787.
Mark Ely, ninth chiM of George and

Sarah (Magill) Ely, born on the old
homestead, September 18, 1781, was a
shoemaker by trade, and followed that
vocation in connection with farming all
Tiis. life. He inherited from his father
a small farm adjoining the homestead,
-and lived thereon until his death in 1835.
He was twice married, first on June 2,
1802, to Hannah Johnson, who bore him
three daughters, and second, December
12, 1815. to Rachel Hambleton, born
May 23. 1787, died August 21, 1878,
daughter of James and Elizabeth (Pax-
son) Hambleton, of Solebury, later of
Drumore, Lancaster county, grand-
daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Pax-
son) Hambleton. and great-granddaugh-
ter of James and Mary (Beakes) Ham-
bleton, of Solebury. James Hamble-
ton came to Solebury in the early part
of the eighteenth century from Mary-
land, where his ancestors had resided
■for two or three generations. Hannah
Paxson, wife of Stephen Hambleton, born
December 28, 1732, died November i,
1812. was the daughter of James and
Margaret (Hodges) Paxson. and grand-
daughter of William and Abigail (Pow-
nal) Paxson: and Elizabeth, the wife of
James Hambleton, was a daughter of
Henry and Elizabeth (Lupton) Paxson,

and granddaughter of Henry and Ann
Plumly Paxson, the latter being a broth-
er to William before mentioned, and
both sons of James and Jane Paxson,
who came from Bucks county, England,
m 1682. Mary Beakes, wife of James
Hambleton, was a daughter of Stephen
and Elizabeth (Biles) Beakes, both of
whom were natives of England, the for-
mer born April 28, 1665, in Blackwell,
Somerset, England, son ,of William and
Mary (Wall) Beakes, ca'me to Pennsyl-
vania with his parents in 1682 and died
in 1699. Both he and his father wc e
members of colonial assembly. His wife
Elizabeth, bom in Dorchester, England,
June 3, 1670, was a daughter of William
and Joanna Biles, who came to Bucks
county in 1679, William was a member
of the first provincial council, and rep-
resented his county for many years.

Of the three daughters of Mark and
Hannah (Johnson) Ely, one married a
Hall, and had a large family of children;
Rachel married Amos C. Paxson, of
Solebury, and had a large family, most
of whom are now deceased: and Rachel
Ann, married first Joseph Lownes, and
second Samuel Cooper, having several
children by the first marriage, and one
(Mrs. Rachel Pidcock, of New Hope) by
the second.

The children of Mark and Rachel
(Hambleton) Ely, were.

1. James H. died September 29, 1905, in
Solebury, married Emeline Magill, and had
four daughters and one son, Mark, of Ew-
ing township, Hunterdon county. New
Jersey. Of the daughters, Henrietta
married Ellis Walton, and is living in
Solebury; Josephine is the wife of
George Quinby. of Warrington; Eliza-
beth married Joseph Lear, and is de-
ceased; and Amy, unmarried, resides
with her father.

2. Amy, married Isaac Heston Wor-
stall. and is deceased, leaving two chil-
dren, Mrs. George Wiley of Solebury
and Mrs. Emma Wilson of California.

3. Mercy, married William H. McDow-
ell, and resided for many years in Cecil
county, Maryland, both are deceased
leaving four sons and a daughter.

4. Mary, married Howard Paxson of
Solebury and has been a widow for many
years, residing with her daughter Mrs.
Harvey Warner in Solebury.

5. Isaac Ely. second son of Mark and
Rachel, born in Solebury. May 23. 1819,
was reared in that township and lived
there and in the borough of New Hope
all his life. He was a farmer, and, after
renting a farm for about five years, pur-
chased a farm in the Pownall tract ad-
joining the homestead of his ancestors,
where he lived until i86.q, when he pur-
chased the farm on which his grandpar-
ents, George and Sarah (Magill) Ely,
had settled in 1760, and where his father
was born, and lived there until 1884,
when he retired from active business and

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

resided in New Hope until his death, on
March 3, 1898. In 1867 he purchased the
farm given by his great-grandfather,
Joshua Ely, to his son, Joshua, Jr., on
which his eldest son, William M. Ely,
settled and still resides. Isaac Ely was
a prominent and successful farmer and
business man. He took an active inter-
est in local affairs, and held a number of
positions of public trust. He was for
many years a member of the local school
board, and took an active interest in the
cause of education. During the civil
war, though a member of the Society of
Friends and constant in the attendance
of Solebury Meeting, he was active in
raising the quota of soldiers required to
carry on the war, from his section, and
in rasining funds and materials for the
care of the sick and wounded in the hos-
pitals. He was for manj' years a direc-
tor of the Bucks County Agricultural
and Mechanics' Institute, and one of
the active members of the Solebury
Farmers' Club. He married December
25, 1841, Mary Magill, born October 23,
1820, died March 2, 1897, daughter of
John and Anne (Ely) Magill. The
former,*born July 12, 1779, died Febru-
ary 10, 1866, was a son of John. and Amy
(Wliitson) Magill, and a grandson of
William and Sarah (Simcock) Magill, be-
fore mentioned; and the latter a daugh-
ter of Joseph and Alary (Whitson) Ely
before mentioned. Amy Whitson, the
wife of John Magill, Sr., was born July
18, 1739, and was a daughter of David
and Clemence (Powell) Whitson, who
came from Long Island to Solebury in
the first half of the eighteenth century.
The children of Isaac and Mary (Ma-
gill) Ely were:

Sarah Ellen, born 1842, died August
3, 1876; married John S. Abbott.

William M. Ely, born January 29,
1844; has been for many years a justice
of the peace of Solebury, residing on
150 acres of the land taken up by his an-
cestor, Joshua Ely, in 1737. He mar-
ried December 19, 1876, Agnes S. Mich-
ener, daughter of Hugh and Sarah
(Betts) Michener, and they are the pa-
rents of two children: George H., born
June 30, 1880, is married to Marion Rice,
daughter of Hon. Hampton and Emma
(Kenderdine) Rice, and resides with his
two children, Wilton and Helen, on the
same farm; and Mary D., born Decem-
ber 12, 1880.

Anna M. Ely, born June 7, 1845. mar-
ried March 29, 1873, Frederick L. Smith,
for many years engaged in the mercan-
tile business at Penns Park and New
Hope, now living retired in Doylestown.
Their "only child. Ely J. Smith, born De-
'cember 16, 1877, is a member of the
Bucks county bar.

Edgar C. Ely, born October 14, 1846,
find Rachel Anna, born June 4, 1850, both
died August 25, 1851.

John H. Ely, born November 17, 185^,

married in 1882, Martha S. Gilbert^
daughter of John W. and Letitia (Smith)
Gilbert, of Buckingham; he was a farmer
in Solebury for several years, and is
now residing in New Hope borough.
Thejf have no children.

Laura Ely, born August 18, 1853, mar-
ried Seth T. Walton, of one of the
oldest families of Montgomery county,
and has three children, Edna M., Mark
Hubert, and Marguerite.

Warren S. Ely, born October 6, 1855;
see forward.

Alice K., born January 17, i860, mar-
ried Clarence T. Doty, a prominent bus-
iness man of Jacksonville, Florida,
where they reside.

Martha C, born December 10, 1861,
married Thomas B. Claxton, a farmer
in Buckingham.

WARREN SMEDLEY ELY, tenth
child and fourth son of Isaac and Mary
(Magill) Ely, was born in Solebury
township, October 6, 1855. He was ed-
ucated in the common scRools and Lam-
bertville Seminary. On April i, 1878, he
took charge of the paternal farm, upon
which he had been reared, and con-
ducted it for two years. March i, 1880,
he purchased a farm in Buckingham, to
which he removed and cultivated it for
five years, during the same period acting
as one of the manager^ and the treas-
urer of the Buckingham Valley Cream-
ery Association. On October 26, 1881,
he experienced a distressing accident by
the loss of his right arm in farming ma-
chinery. This necessitated his seekmg
other employment than that to which
he had been accustomed, and in the wm-
ter of 1881-82 he engaged in business as
a real estate and general business agent,
and during the ensuing four years was
busily engaged in that capacity, at the
same time continuing his residence upon
the farm and directing its management.
In the spring of 1885 he sold the farm
and purchased a mill in Buckingham,
which he remodeled and refitted
throughout, equipping it with the latest
improved roller process machinery for
the manufacture of flour and granulated
cornmeal. He was the pioneer in east-
ern Pennsylvania in the manufacture of
the latter product, and his "Gold Grits"
enjoyed a inore than local reputation,
and commanded a ready sale, as did his
roller process flour, and he conducted a
prosperous business for several j^ears.

In the autumn of 1893 he was elected
on the Republican ticket to the oflice of
clerk of orphans court of Bucks county,
and in the spring following removed to
Doylestown, where he has since resided.
After his retirement from oftice on the
expiration of his ofticial term, he was
appointed a deputy clerk of the same
court, acting more especially as advisor

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133

and assistant to his chief, and during a
large portion of this same period also
serving as deputy register of wills, and
for some time as deputy recorder of
deeds and deputy sheriff. In March,
1900, he went to Jacksonville, Florida, to
fill a position in the mercantile house of
Doty-Stowe Company, but returned to
Doylestown May ist of the same year to
accept the position of business man-
ager of the "Republican," a daily and
weekly newspaper. He was so engaged
until August, 1901, when he resigned to
take charge of the work of arranging,
recopying and filing the papers and rec-
ords of the orphans' court office under
the direction of the court, a task which
employed him constantly for nearly two
years.. Since the completion of this
labor his entire time has been devoted
to historical and genealogical work, and
much of the contents of the genealogical
department of these volumes (History
of Bucks County) is from his pen.

Proud of the achievements of the sons
of Bucks county, abroad as well as at
home, Mr. Ely has made a close study of
the part the county has taken in the rise
and development of the province, state
and nation, and is recognized as an
authority in matters relating to its local
liistory, and particularly the genealogy of
its early families. He was directed into this
channel of thought and investigation during
his incumbency of the office of clerk of the
orphans, court, and while rendering
efficient service in that capacity, found
congenial occupation in his contact with
the ancient records of the county not
alone in his official investigations, but in
the fund of information opened up to
him with reference to the old families
of the county. He became an active
member of the Bucks County Histori-
cal Societ}', was its first regularly con-
stituted libt-arian, and has occupied that
position to the present time. He has
contributed a number of papers to the
archives of the Society, these including
•one of particular merit, on "The Scotch-
Irish Families of Bucks County."

Mr. Ely is deeply interested in gen-
eral educational affairs, and gave cap-
able service as one of the trustees and
<lirectors of the Hughesian Free School,
in Buckingham, until his removal from
the township rendered him ineligible for
the office. He is a member of the fra-
ternity of Odd Fellows, affiliated with
Aquetong Lodge, No. 193, in which he
is a past grand, and Doylestown En-
campment. No. 35, in which he is a past
chief patriarch; he has represented both
in the grand bodies of the state for a
number of years, and for some time
filled the position of district deputy. He
is also a past select commander of the
Ancient Order, Knights of the Mystic
Chain, of Pennsylvania, affiliated with
Buckingham Castle. No. 208. which he
represented in the select castle for sev-

eral years, also serving for three years
as trustee of the state body.

Through his marriage, Mr. Ely is re-
lated to a family as old in America as
his own. March 29, 1882, he married
Hannah S. Michener, a daughter of Hugh
and Sarah (Betts) Michener. She is de-
scended on the paternal side from John
and Sarah Michener, who came from
England about 1690 and settled in Phil-
adelphia, later removing to Moreland
township, Montgomery county, whence
William Michener removed in 1722 to
Plumstead, Bucks county, where Mrs.
Ely's ancestors were prominent farm-
ers for several generations. On the ma-
ternal side she is descended from Col-
onel Richard Betts, who came from
England to Ipswich, Massachusetts,
about 1648, and soon afterward to Long
Island, where he filled many high and
honorable positions under the colonial
government — member of the provincial
assembly, commissioner of highways,
sheriff, officer of volunteers, etc., and
died _November 18, 1673, at the remark-
able age of one hundred years. Among
the maternal ancestors of Mrs. Ely
were also the Stevenson, Whitehead,
Powell. Whitson. De la Plaine, Cresson,
Cock, Halleck,. Este. Field and other
prominent families of Long Island and
New Jersey and the Blackfan, Simpson,
Warner, Wiggins. Croasdale. Chapman
and Hayhurst families of Bucks county.
Many of her line'al ancestors have held
high official positions in the early days
of the colonies, as have those of her
husband.

The children of Warren S. and Han-
nah S. (Michener) Ely are as follows:
M. Florence, born July 19. 1884; Laura
W., born February 2t, 1887, died Feb-
ruary 25. 1903; and Frederic Warren,
bor.i February 16. 1889, now a student
at Swarthmore College.

HON. IRVING PRICE WANGER,
the present representative m congress
from the Eighth Congressional District,
comprising the counties of Bucks and
Montgomery, while not a native or a'
resident of Bucks, nevertheless holds a
conspicuous place in the interest and
regard of the people of the county he
has so ably and conscientiously repre-
sented in the law making body of the
nation for the past twelve years, and
some account of his career and ante-
cedents will be of interest to the readers
of this historical work.

He was born in North Coventry town-
ship, Chester county, Pennsylvania,
March 5, 1852. and is the eldest son of
George and Rebecca (Price) Wanger,
and a descendant of early settlers in
Montgomery county, of the religious
sects known as the Brethren (Dunkard"s)
and Mennonites. His paternal ances-
tor, Henry Wanger (or Wenger, as the

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name was then spelled") came from
Switzerland with other Mennonites in
1717, and located on one hundred acres
now included in the borough of Potts-
town, Montgomery county, purchased
September 15, 1718, with his wife Eliza-
beth and several children. He was a
farmer by occupation, and later pur-
chased additional land in that locality.
He died in 1753. and is supposed to be
interred in the Mennonite burying
ground at 1^2ast Coventry, Chester
county. John Wanger, son of Henry and
Elizabeth, was born on his father's farm
at what is now Pottstown, December 10,
1726, and in 1754 purchased part of the
plantation, on which he resided until
1762, when he removed to Union town-
ship, Berks county, where he had pur-
chased 293 acres of land on which he
lived until his death, January 5, 1803. He
was court martial officer of Captain
Thomas Parry's company. Fifth Bat-
talion Berks County Militia, commis-
sioned May 17, 1777, under Colonel
Jacob Weaver.

Abraham Wanger, son of John, was
born at Pottstown, December 15, 1761,
and died in Berks county, March 18,
1793. His wife was Susanna, daughter
of Jacob and Magdalena Shantz, and
their son, Abraham, born December 11,
1787, was the grandfather of Congress-
man Wanger. He was born on the old
Berks county homestead, which was ac-
quired by his fa,ther in 1788, and re-
mained in that county until late in life,
when he removed to Chester county,
where he died April 23, 1861. He mar-
ried Mary Berge. daughter of Abraham
and Susanna (Shantz) Berge, and they
were the parents of ten children, five of
whom grew to manhood and woman-
hood.

George Wanger was born in Berks
county in 1820, and was reared to mauc
hood in that county, and then removed
with his parents to Chester county,
where he followed the occupation of a
farmer during life. He was a soldier in
* the civil war, enlisting first in the Key-
stone Guards, organized for state de-
fense, in Company E. Nineteenth Regi-
ment, and was in service a short time.
Later he served for two months in Com-
pany D, Forty-second Regiment Penn-
sylvania Volunteer Militia, which went
to Chambersburg. George Wanger,
though a Mennonite by birth, became a
member of the official board of St.
James' Methodist Episcopal Church at
Cedarville, Chester county, the site of
which church he presented to the con-
gregation. He died in North Coventry
township, December 30, 1876. He was
known as a man of great force of char-
acter and high standing in the commun-
ity; a strong advocate of the public
school system, he served for a number
of years on the local school board. Or-
iginally a Whig, he cast his first presi-

dential vote for Henry Clay. He was a
strong advocate of the restriction and
abolition of slavery, and his home was
one of the stations of the "Underground
Railroad" through which many runaway-
slaves were assisted to freedom. He
was active in the formation of the Re-
publican party, and foremost in the tem-
perance movement in his locality. He
married Rebecca, daughter of Rev. John
and Mary (Reinhart) Price, whose direct
ancestors for five generations had been
preachers in the denomination known as
German Baptist Brethren; the first, Rev.
Jacob Price (or Priesz), was a native of
Witzenstein, Prussia, and united with,
the sect soon after its establishment at
Schwarzenau in 1708, and early became:
a preacher and missionary. Driven by
religious persecution to Serverstin,.
Friesland, he came to Pennsylvania with
the first party of German Baptists irb
1719, and settled on Indian Creek,.
Montgomery county. His son, Rev.
John Price, was born in Prussia and ac-
companied his father to America in his
seventeenth year. He was a poet and
preacher, and a personal friend of Chris-
topher Saur, the noted German printer
who in 1753 published a collection of
Mr. Price's poetry. He was one of the
founders of the mother church at Ger-
mantown in 1723. He had two sons,
John and Daniel, both of whom became
preachers, the former settling in In-
diana county, Pennsylvania, where he
has left many descendants. Rev. Daniel
Price was born in Montgomery county,
December ii, 1723, and died there Feb-
ruary II, 1804. He married in 1746 Han-
nah Weickard, and left a large family.
He owned two hundred acres of the land
taken up by his grandfather, and was
active in local matters, serving as town-
ship auditor and supervisor. Rev.
George Price, son of Daniel, was also a
preacher among the German Baptists.
He was born in Montgomery county, No-
vember I, 1753, but removed to East
Nantmeal, Chester county, in 1774, and
to Coventry in 1794. His wife was Sarah
Harley, and they were the parents of
several children.

Rev. John Price, son of George and
Sarah, was the father of Mrs. George
Wanger, and the grandfather of the sub-
ject of this sketch; he was a farmer and
preacher, and was born in Chester
county. August 6. 1782, and died April
12, 1850. His wife was Mary, daughter
of John and Hannah (Price) Rinehart,
born May 17, 1783, died April 23, l863r
and they were the parents of twelve chil-
dren, three of whom and the husband of
a fourth became preachers.

George and Rebecca (Price) Wanger
were the parents of six children, five
sons and one daughter, of whom four
survive — Irving P., Newton, George F.
P., assistant postmaster of Pottstown,
and Joseph P. Wanger.

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135

Hon. Irving P. Wanger was born and
reared on the old homestead in Chester
county, and was educated in the public
schools and the Pottstown Hill and high
schools. He taught school for one year
and in 1870 became a clerk in the pro-
thonotary's office at West Chester, and
in the following year was appointed
deputy prothonotary, which position he
resigned at the end of a year, and in
January, 1872, began the -study of law in
the office of Franklin March, Esq., at
Norristown, Montgomery county. In
December, 1872, he was ^ appointed dep-
uty prothonotary of Montgomery under
William F. Reed, the first Republican
ever elected to that office in Montgom-
ery. He continued the study of law and
was admitted to the bar of Montgomery
county in December, 1875. Being an
earnest student and an eloquent
forcible advocate, he soon acquired a
practice from all parts of Montgomery
county. His talent for public speaking
caused his services to be in demand in
behalf of the candidates of his party, and
he soon became a prominent figure in
Montgomery county politics, being an
earnest and logical advocate of the prin-
ciples of the Republican party. In 1878
he was elected burgess of Norristown,
and in 1880 to the office of district attor-
ney of Montgomery county. In the lat-
ter position he instituted several re-
forms, among them, the dividing the
list of criminal cases to be tried among
the several days of the term, thus ob-
viating the necessity of all the witnesses
and parties interested to attend during
the whole term, and thereby making a
great saving to the taxpayers. This cus-
tom has been uniformly followed since.

In 1880 Mr. Wanger was a delegate to
the Republican national convention, and
voted continuously for the unit rule and
for the nomination of James G. Blaine
for the presidency, until the final ballot,
when, as requested by the friends of fhe
latter, he voted for James A. Garfield, the
nominee. In 1886 he was again elected
to the office of district attorney by a ma-
jority of 1187 votes, running several
hundred votes ahead of his ticket, not-
withstanding the fact that his opponent
was one of the most capable candidates
ever nominated by the Democracy. In
1889 he was chairman of the Republican
county committee. In 1890 he was
unanimously nominated for congress in
the Bucks-Montgomery district, buf, ow-
ing to the unpopular candidacy of George
W. Delameter for governor, was de-
feated by ,187 votes, the Republican
ticket being defeated in both counties
by a much larger vote. Two years later
he was again nominated, and elected,
though the district gave a majority for
Cleveland. In 1894 he was elected by a
majority of 4826, and has been re-
elected in 1896, 1898, 1900, 1902 and 1904,
by increased majorities, his majority in

the latter year being 10,252, showing
that his course at Washington had been
such as to commend him strongly to the
people of the district. His support has
not been confined to members of his
own party, voters of other party affilia-
tions testifying their appreciation of his
worth by their votes at each election.
As a congressman Mr. Wanger has
taken an active part in the debates in the
house on the tariff, the currency, the
Philippine legislation, and other ques-
tions of national interest, but his strong
point has been his conscientious atten-
tion to all matters affecting his consti-
tuents, doing everything possible to pro-
mote the prosperity and welfare of the
people of his district, as well as of the
country at large. He has always voted
with his party upon questions involving
its principles, ably and earnestly up-
holding the policy of McKinley and
Roosevelt, whenever it has been a mat-
ter for action in congress or elsewhere.
It was upon his motion that the special
committee was appointed which inves-
tigated the hazing of cadets in the United
States Military Academy at West Point,
and suggested important legislation on
the subject, which was adopted. His
principal committee service has been as
a member of the committee on foreign
and interstate commerce, and as chair-
man of the committee on expenditures
in the postoffice department. He has
always been a faithful exponent of the
wishes and interests of his constituents,
as his repeated re-elections testify.

As a public speaker. Mr. Wanger
stands deservedly high: he is argumen-
tative, logical, clear and deliberative, ap-
pealing always to the reason and judg-
ment of his hearers, rather than to their
prejudices and personal or partisan
feelings. He is a ready debater and par-
liamentarian, quick to take advantage of
the weak point in the argument of his
opponent. He has always kept in close
touch with the measures and policies of
the two dominant parties in congress,
and is quick to perceive and defend the
interests of his constituents in any pro-
posed legislation. During his service
he has made many friends among the
representatives of other districts and
states, frequently securing their services
and support, when occasion required in
his home district.

Mr. Wanger was married on June 25,
1884, to Emma C. Titlow, daughter of
John Titlow of North Coventry, Ches-
ter county, a playmate and schoolmate
of his youth. They are the parents of
three children— George. Ruth and Ma-
rion. Two others, Lincoln and Rebec-
ca, died in infancy. He resides with his
family in the old Chain homestead, 827
West Main street. Norristown. His
mother, from whom he inherits many_ of
his characteristics, resides with him.
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church. Marshall street, Norristown. Mr.
Wanger is himself a member of St.
John's Episcopal church. He is a mem-
ber of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows and the Improved Order of Red
JVien, and of the various branches of the
Masonic fraternity, having been grand
commander of the Knights Templar of
Pennsylvania in 1894-5.

WILLIAM WATSON, one of the
most enterprising and progressive farm-
ers of Buckingham, was born on the old
Watson homestead upon which he still
resides, February 17, 1862, being only
son of Henry and Emeline P. (Rich)
Watson.

The first American ancestors of the
subject of this sketch were early settlers
in Chesterfield township. Burfington
county, New Jersey. Mathew Watson
and Anne Mauleverer, his wife, migrated
form Scarborough, in Yorkshire. Eng-
land, about 1682, and settled in Chester-
field. They were members of Chester-
field Monthly Meeting of Friends.
Mathew's occupation is given as "chem-
its." He purchased in 1683 of Thomas
Hutchinson, late of Beverly, in York-
shire, a one-twelfth share in the prov-
ince of West Jersey, and appears to have
been a man of wealth and education. He
died in Chesterfield, 7 mo. 13, 1703. and
his wife Anne died there il mo. 16, 1721.
Their children were: Mathew, Jr., born
at Burlington, 10 mo. 2, 1682; and
Marmaduke, born 8 mo. 13, 1685. Mathew
seems to have been engaged in a ship-
ping business, as on 3 mo. 27, 1724, he
takes a certificate from Chesterfield
Meeting to "transport himself to other
parts on account of trading."

Marmaduke Watson, second son of
Mathew and Anne, was married at Bur-
lington Meeting, i mo. 27, 1718. to Eliza-
beth Pancoast, daughter of Williaffi and
Hannah (Scattergood) Pancoast. He
inherited from his father large tracts of
land in dififerent parts of West Jersey,
allotted as part of the one-twelfth share
of the province, among them a tra'ct in
Bethlehem township. Hunterdon county,
on the Musconetcong creek, which he
devised in his will to his son Aaron.
This w'ill is dated in Chesterfield town-
ship. Burlington county, 3 mo. 14, 1746,
and was proven July 24, 1749, and men-
tions, beside the son Aaron, wife Eliza-
beth, son Marmaduke, and daughter
Anne, wife of Joseph Curtis.

Aaron Watson, son of Marmaduke
and Elizabeth (Pancoast) Watson, was
born in Chesterfield about 1720. It is
possible that on arriving at manhood he
became associated with his uncle
Mathew in the "trading" business, as he
seems to have followed a migratory life
for some years. In 1744 he brings a
certificate from Chester, Pennsylvania,

Meeting to Philadelphia, where he re-
mained until after his father's death. In
1750 he takes a certificate to his old
home at Chesterfield, but probably lo-
cated at once on his inheritance at Beth-
lehem, now Kingwood, though he does
not take a certificate to Kingwood Meet-
ing until 1754, when about to marry
Sarah Emley, a member of that Meeting.
The children of Aaron and Sarah
(Emley) Watson were: John, Lucy,
Anne and Sarah, all born at Kingwood,
New Jersey.

John Watson, eldest child of Aaron
and Sarah, born at Kingwood, about
1755' was reared on the Jersey farm.
During the Revolution he remqved to
Shrewsbury, and engaged in the manu-
facture of salt on the Jersey coast, where
Point Pleasant is now located. He sold
the product to the continental army, and
thus incurred the special enmity of the
British, who destroyed his residence and
plant, thereby ruining him financially.
He married about 1778 or 1779, at
Shrewsbury, Mary Jackson, a descen-
dant of Daniel Jackson, who migrated
from Stangerthwaite, in Yorkshire, about
1693, and located in Bristol township,
Bucks county, whose descendants had
removed to Shrewsbury prior to the
revolution. John Watson, returned to
Kingwood in 1781, with wife and daugh-
ter Sarah. His eldest son John was born
there 10 mo. 25, 1781. In the autumn of
1782 he removed to Middletown, Bucks
county, where his son Aaron was born,
and his eldest child, Sarah, died. He
removed to Buckingham in 1785, where
the rest of his ten children were born,
viz.: Hannah, married William Gilling-
ham: Sarah, married George Hughes;
Elizabeth, married James Shaw; Joseph;
Charles; Ann; Marmaduke and John. In
1794 he purchased 140 acres of land
lying on both sides of the Mechanics-
ville road, and including the present
Watson farm, the original buildings be-
ing on the northwest side of the road,
where John Riniker now lives. He died
on this farm in 1818, and the farm w^as
partitioned through the orphans' court,
the farm now occupied by the subject
of this sketch being adjudged to his
oldest son, William Watson.

William Watson, son of John and
Mary (Jackson) Watson, was born in
Kingwood, 10 mo. 25, 1781, and was but
a child when his parents removed to
Buckingham. He married. May 10, 1809,
Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and Mar-
garet (Jenks) (Dillingham, who was born
II mo. 21, 1784, and died June 28, 1868.
Upon his marriage William Watson set-
tled on the farm still occupied by his
grandson the subject of this sketch, the
building then being first erected for him
by his father. William Watson was a
prominent and useful man in the com-
munity, and filled many positions of
trust. He was one of the original trus-

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tees of the Hughesian Free School, and
filled other responsible positions; was
one of the solid substantial men of his
day, a prosperous farmer and conserva-
tive business man. He and his family-
were members of Buckingham Meeting
of Friends. The children of William and
Elizabeth (Gillingham) Watson were:
Samuel G., born 4 mo. 10, 1810, married
Sarah H. Thomas; Jenks, died an in-
fant; Margaret Jenks, born 1814, died
1835; Mary, born 4 mo., 17, 1817, mar-
ried Joshua Fell; Henry, the father of
the subject of this sketch; Elizabeth,
born 1822, died 1861; and Sarah, born
1825, died 1904. Neither of the last two
were married, and lived and died at the
residence of their brother Henry, on the
old homestead.

Henry Watson, the father of the sub-
ject of this sketch, was born on the farm
upon which he still resides, on 12 mo.
17, 1819. He "is one of the most highly
esteemed men of his neighborhood. Like
his father, he is a member of Bucking-
ham Friends' Meeting, and has fully
maintained the standing of this old and
respected family. He succeeded his
father as a trustee and director of the
Hughesion Free School, and has served
as director of the public schools for
many years, and held many other posi-
tions of trust. He married Emaline
P., daughter of Moses Rich, of Buck-
ingham, who was born in 1822 and
died January 3, 1903. They were the
parents of five children: John Rich,
who died in infancy; Caroline M.,
born 10 mo. 19, 1852, died 11 mo. 8,
1898, married Lewis D. Rich; Martha
Rich, born 7 mo. 25, 1855, died 3 mo.
12, 1903, married James McNair; Fannie,
born 4 mo. 8, 1858, married William E.
Wilson; and William, born 2 mo. 27,
1862.

The subject of this sketch was reared
on the farm, and obtained his education
at the public schools and at Doylestown
English and Classical Seminary. Being
the only son, the care of the farm de-
volved upon him at an early age, his
father being occupied with public afl^airs
and the oversight of several other farms
owned by the family. Like his father
and grandfather, he is an excellent
farmer, and takes great pride in the old
farm, which is one of the best tilled
and productive in the township. In pol-
itics Mr. Watson is a Republican, and,
though never an office seeker, takes a
"keen interest in all that pertains to the
best interests of his party, and has served
as a delegate to several state and district
conventions. He is a member of Buck-
ingham Friends' Meeting. Socially 'he
IS a member of Doylestown Lodge, No.
245, F. and A. M.; a past high priest of
Doyelstown Chapter, No. 270, R. A. M.;
a member of Pennsylvania Commandery
No. 70, K. T. ; Philadelphia Consistory,
A. and A. S. S.; and of Aquetong Lodge,

No. 193. I. O. O. F., and Doylestown
Council, No. 11 17. Royal Arcanum.

He was married on 12 mo. 5, 1893, to
Caroline M., daughter of the late Cap-
tain John S. Bailey, of Buckingham, and
has one child, Edward Blackfan Watson,
born in 1894.

PROFESSOR A. J. MORRISON,
one of the best known educators in Phil-
adelphia, was born in Northampion
township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania
February 14, 1844, and is a son of Judge
Joseph and Eleanor (Addis) Morrison.

John Morrison, the great-grandfather
of Professor Morrison, was a native of
the north of Ireland, and was one of the
great army of Ulster Scots who, having
fled from religious persecution and in-
ternecine strife in their native Scotia,
took temporary refuge in the province
of Ulster, Ireland, from whence many
emigrated to Pennsylvania in the first
half of the eighteenth century. John
Morrison settled on the banks of the
Brandywine, where his son, John Morri-
son, was born in 1767. On attaining man-
hood he located in Northampton town-
ship, Bucks county, where he died March
17, 1858, at the age of ninety-one years.
He married Hannah Yerkes, daughter of
Elias Yerkes. of Southampton, who was
born June 30, 1772, and died February
12, 1844. Her paternal grandfather, Silas
Yerkes, was born in Moreland township,
Montgomery county, February 15, 1723,
and died there September 25, 1795. He
was a son of Herman Yerkes, born 1687,
and grandson of Anthony Yerkes, one
of the first burgesses of Germantown.
Silas married June 14, 1750, Hannah
Dungan, daughter of Thomas and
Esther Dungan, and granddaughter of
the Rev. Thomas Dungan, who founded
the first Baptist church in Bucks county,
in 1684. Their son Elias was born in
Warminster (where his parents resided
for many years) December 7, 1751. and
died in Moreland. January 15, 1828. Eliza-
beth (Watts) Yerkes, the mother of
Silas, born April 15. 16S9. died October
II, 17.S6, was the daughter of Rev. John
and Sarah (Eaton) Watts of South-
ampton.

The children of John and Hannah
(Yerkes) Morrison, w«re : Joseph, horn
October 18. 1794; Hannah, born Febru-
ary 10, 1796, married Joseph Erwin; Ben-
jamin, born 1798, died in infancy: Mary,
born February 5, 1799, married Benjamin
Longstreth: Martha, twin to Mary, died
single in 1882; Eliza, born March 19,
1802. married Charles Blaker; Ann, born
May II. 1803; David and Benjamin, born
April 18, 1805; John, born October 28,
1807; Esther, horn February 10, 1809, died
unmarried: Matilda, born November S,
1810, married Joseph Erwin; Rebecca
Ann, born March 19, 1813. married John
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1815, married Jane Rapp; and Sarali, born
May 30. 1818. married Jonas Yerkes.

JOSEPH MORRISON, eldest son of
John and Hannah (Yerkes) Morrison,
born October 18, 1794, died July 30,
1880. became one of the most distin-
guished citizens of Bucks county. He
was born in Delaware county, and
learned the trade of a miller with Amos
Addis, in Moreland, and on his marriage
to the daughter of his preceptor he re-
moved to Northampton township, Bucks
county, where he owned and operated
the Rocksville Mills for fifty years. Early
in life he took an active interest in the
organization of the local militia, and
eventually filled every commissioned po-
sition in the organization from captain to
brigadier-general, and was esteemed the
best informed man in the county on mil-
itary tactics. He was elected to the
office of commissioner of Bucks county
in 1836, and served three years. In 1840
he served a term as county treasurer. He
filled the responsible position of re-
corder of deeds for the term 1852-4. He
served as associate justice of Bucks
county courts for fifteen years, 1863 to
1878. He married in 1822 Eleanor Ad-
dis, born December 11, 1802, died Janu-
ary 8, 1870, daughter of Colonel Amos
Addis, who for many years operated a
mill in Moreland township, Montgomery
county, Pennsylvania. He was born in
Moreland or Oxford township, and was
a son of Nehemiah and Grace Addis, and
a grandson of John Addis, an early set-
tler in Oxford township, Philadelphia
county, where he died in 1724. Richard
and John Addis, the pioneers of the fam-
ily in Northampton township, Bucks
county, from whose family, Addisville
(now Richboro) took its name, were
older brothers of Nehemiah Addis. The
children of Joseph and Eleanor (Addis)
Morrison were: Amos Addis, born May
27, 1823. married Mary Coxhead; John,
born March 13, 1827, died in Tennessee
in 1864, while a soldier in the Union
army; Johnson, born November 16,
1827, married Mary Hobensack; Ruth
Ann, born July 30, 1830, married J.
Krewson Cornell; Charles B., born
March 31, 1832, married Mary A. Feas-
ter; Eliza Ann. born September 9, 1835;
Mary Ellen, born October 12, 1839, mar-
ried Joseph F. Whitall of Southampton;
Hannah Rebecca, born May 7. 1841; and
Andrew Jackson. Judge Joseph Morri-
son, married (second) Mary Ann Lash-
ley,, widow of Lambert Lashley, of
Wrightstown, and died at the Anchor,
in Wrightstown. July 30, 1880.

Professor Andrew Jackson Morrison
was born and reared in Northampton
township and acquired his education at
the Central High School of Philadelphia,
the Tennent Academy at Hartsville,
Bucks county, and the University of
Pennsylvania. He has devoted his whole
life to the cause of education. He was

successively principal of the Tillyer,.
Wheat Sheaf, Landreth, Irving, and
Northern Liberties Grammar Schools,
and of the Kaighn Grammar School of
Camden, New Jersey. From 1881 to
1883 he was professor of mathematics in
the Central High School, Philadelphia;
from 1883 to 1898, senior assistant su-
perintendent of public schools in Phil-
adeli)hia; and acting superintendent dur-
ing the year 1891. Since 1898 he has
filled the position of principal of the
Northeast Manual Training School of
Philadelphia. In 1901 the honorary de-
gree of Doctor of Philosophy was con-
ferred upon him by Cedarville College.

Professor Morrison has always kept to-
the fore front in the cause of education.
He has served two terms as president of
the Teachers' Institute of Philadelphia,
and two terms as president of the Edu-
cational Club of Philadelphia. He is an
active member of the National Educa-
tional Association and of the State
Teachers' Association, as well as of all
the teachers' organizations of Philadel-
phia. He and his family are members
of the Second Reformed Church of
Philadelphia. He is a member of
Phoenix Lodge, No. 130, F. & A. M.,
and of Kensington Chapter, No. 2:i2>, R-
A. M. He is also a member of the
Penn Club, and of the Schoolmen's Club.

Professor Morrison was married at
Feasterv>ille, Bucks county, March 9,
1865, to Julia H. Jones, daughter of Asa
Knight Jones, and they are the parents
of five children, viz.: Anna Jones Mor-
rison, born January 18, 1866, graduate
of the Girls' Normal School; Jennie
Singer Morrison, born December 5,
1867. now the wife of Rev. H. W. Har-
ing, D. D.. of Lancaster, Pennsylvania;
Egbert Heisler Morrison, born March
T4, 1870, a graduate of the Central
High School, now agent for the Gar-
lock Packing Company; Clara Maria
Morrison, born October 16, 1877, a grad-
uate of the Girls' Normal School, re-
siding at home: and Horace Stanton
Morrison, born March 20, 1879, a grad-
uate of the Northeast Manual Training
School and of the University of Penn-
sylvania, now associate editor of the
Publications of Commercial Museums
of Philadelphia.

H. S. PRENTISS NICHOLS. Esq.,
of Philadelphia, was born in Columbia,.
Lancaster county. Pennsylvania, No-
vember 2. 1858. and is a son of Dr. Jo-
seph D. and Emilj' (Darrah) Nichols.
His grandfather was also a phj^sician
and a native of New Hampshire. Dr.
Joseph D. Nichols, was the proprietor
of an academy at Columbia, Lancaster
county, and died in T874. His wife
Emily Darrah was a daughter of Robert
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and a great-granddaughter of Captain
Henry Darrah of the Revolution.

The pioneer ancestor of the Darrah
family was Thomas Darroch, native of
Londonderry, Ireland, who with his
wife Mary, emigrated to Pennsylvania
about 1730, with the colony of Scotch
Irish who settled on the banks of the
Neshaminy, about the famous "Log Col-
lege." He settled for ,a time in Hor-
sham township, but in 1740, purchased
of Mathew Hughes, a tract of land in
Bedminster, Bucks county, on the
Swamp Road, below the present village
of Dublin, purporting to be 500 acres of
land, but really containing nearly 800
acres. He died there in March, 1750.
The children of Thomas and Mary
Darroch were Robert, Thomas, Agnes,
wife of John Davis, Esther, wife of
George Scott, William, Henry, James,
and Susanna. Robert died in Bedmin-
ster in 1793. leaving a son Robert and
several daughters. He represented his
township in the Bucks County Commit-
tee of Safety in 1776, and was active in
the struggle. Thomas also died in Bed-
minster leaving two sons Thomas and
Mark and several daughters. William
was lieutenant of Captain, later Col.
Robinson's company of Bucks county
militia in 1775. and is also said to have
served in the Colonial war of 1756-7. He
left two sons Archibald and W^illiani and
several daughters, one of whom Hannah,
married David Kelly of Buckingham and
became the mother of Hon. William D.
Kelly, for many years a member of Con-
gress from Philadelphia and known as
the "Father of the House." Another
daughter Susannah, married John Shaw
and was the mother of Commodore
Thompson Darrah Shaw. Still another
Agnes married James Smith of Buck-
ingham, son of Hugh, and was the
mother of Gen. Samuel A. Smith of
Doj'lestown.

Henry Darroch, fourth son of
Thomas and Mary, was a miner at the
death of his father in 1750. B}^ the will
of the latter about 190 acres of the
homestead was devised to each of the
elder sons, Robert and Thomas and the
residue to the three younger sons Will-
iam, Henry and James, subject to a life
interest of their mother. On part of this
residue, containing 185 acres Henry
probably took up his residence on his
marriage in 1760 though it was not con-
veyed to him by his brothers until 1763,
when he was about to convey it to
Henry Rickert. In 1767, he purchased a
farm of 207 acres on the west bank of
the Neshaminy, on the Bristol Road,
between Tradeville and New Britain vil-
lages, now in Doylestown township, at
Sheriff's sale as the property of his
brother-in-law John Davis. Here he
lived until 1773, when he purchased 237
acres further west in New Britain town-
ship, on the line of Warrington town-

ship, and now included in the latter
township, later purchasing about 50-
acres adjoining. This remained his home
until his death in 1782. Henry Darroch
was one of the most illustrious of our
Bucks county patriots in the trying days
of the war for independence. He was a
member of the New Britain company of
Associators in 1775, and was commis-
sioned in ]\Iay, 1776, first lieutenant of
Captain William Roberts Company of
the Flying Camp, under Col. Joseph
Hart, and served with distinction in the
Jersey campaign of 1776. Returning to
Bucks county in December, 1776, his
company was one of the few that re-
sponded to the second call in the winter
of 1776-7. On the reorganization of the
Militia in the Spring of I777, his old
captain and lifelong friend William
Roberts was made a Lieut. Colonel and
Lieut. Darroch was commissioned Cap-
tain May 6. 1777, and his company was
soon after in active service under Col-
onel, later Gen. John Lacey. In 1778,
it was again incorporated in Col. Rob-
erts' Battalion, which in 1781, came
under the command of Col. Robinson.
Captain Darroch's company of< Militia
was one that was almost constantly in
service and he died in the Spring of
1782 from a cold contracted in the serv-
ice of his country. His will is dated
INIarch 17. 1782, and his friends. Col.
William Roberts. Col. William Dean
and his brother-in-law W^illiam Scott
are named as executors. It is related'
that George Washington was a great ad-
mirer of Captain Darroch and visited
him at his house.

Captain Henry Darroch married Au-
gust 13, 1760, Ann Jamison, daughter of
Henry and Mary (Stewart) Jamison of
Warwick township. Bucks county. Tra-
dition relates that Henry Jamison did
not approve of the attentions of young
Darroch to his daughter, because he was
too much of a dashing young man and
too fond of fast horses to settle down to
the life of a farmer; and that the young
people settled the matter for themselves
by his taking her up behind him on one
of his fast horses and outdistancing the
irate father in a race to the parson's.
Henry Jamison was a native of the
north of Ireland. . and came to Bucks
county with his father, Henry Jamison
and brothers Robert and Alexander
about 1720. Henry the elder is said to
have been born in Midlothian, Scotland,
and removed to the Province of Ulster,
Ireland in 1685. with his parents, from
whence he migrated to Pennsylvania.
He purchased in 1724. i.ooo acres partly
in Northampton township and partly in
Warwick, and was one of the founders
of Neshaminy Church in 1727. In 1734
he conveyed the greater part of his real
estate to his sons and returned to Ire-
land, where he died. His son Henr3^ Jr.,
the father of Ann Darroch. was one of

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HISTORY OP BUCKS COUNTY.

the original trustees of the "new lights"
of the Neshaminy Church in 1743, a
large landowner and prominent man in
the Scotch-Irish settlement on the
Neshaminy. He sailed for Florida in
1765, and was never heard of after-
wards. His wife Mary Stewart was one
of a large and influential family of the
names that were early settlers in War-
wick, New Britain, Warrington. Plum-
stead and Tinicum. The children of
Henry and Mary (Stewart) Jamison
were, Isabel, who married Tristram
Davis, brother of John who married
Agnes Darroch; Jean, wife of Captain
Thomas Craig; Ann, wife of Captain
Darroch; Alexander; William. Robert
and John.

In the possession of the descendants
is a beautifully written letter yellow
with age written by Ann Darroch to her
husband while he was in the army. The
children of Captain Henry and Ann
(Jamison) Darroch, were, James, see
forward Ann, who married Hugh Shaw;
Margaret who married William Hewitt;
William, born 1767, died July 11, 1838;
John and George, the last two of whom
died young.

James Darrah. eldest son of Captain
Henry and Ann (Jamison) Darroch, was
born in 1764, and reared in New Britain
township. In 1789, the executors of his
father's will conveyed to him 170 acres
of the homestead tract in New Britain
and the balance 114 acres to his brother
William. James married Rachel Hen-
derson, born in Warminster July 27,
1762, daughter of Robert and Margaret
(Archibald) Henderson, of Warminster.
In 1794, James Darrah purchased of h'is
w^ife's sisters and their husbands the
250 acres farm in Warminster belong-
ing to the estate of Robert Henderson,
formerly the property of Rev. Charles
Beatty, pastor of Neshaminy Church,
and they sold the New Britain farm and
made their home on the Warminster
farm, all of which is still owned by their
grandsons, John M. and R. Henderson
Darrah. Rachel (Henderson) Darrah
died November 18, 1802, and James mar-
ried second Rebecca McCrea. James
Darrah died February 17, 1842, aged 78
years. His children, both by the first
wife, were Robert Henderson and
Henry. The latter married his cousin
Martha Stinson, daughter of Elijah and
Mary (Henderson) Stinson and lived for
a time in Warminster, but removed later
to Richboro, Northampton township
where he died August 10, 1849, aged 58
years.

Robert Darrah, eldest son of James
and Rachel ("Henderson) Darrah, was
born on his grandfather's homestead in
New Britain, February 8, 1789, and re-
moved with his parents to the War-
minster homestead at the age of nine
years, and spent the remainder of his
•days there. He was an ensign in the

war of 1812. Among the cherished me-
mentoes now owned by the family are
three swords, that of Captain Henry
Darroch, of the Revolution; the sword
of Ensign Robert Darrah of the war of
1812 and that of Lieutenant Robert Hen-
derson Darrah of the Civil war. Rob-
ert Darrah was an industrious and enter-
prising farmer and accumulated a con-
siderable estate. He had a sawrnill on
the farm which he operated in connec-
tion with his farming. He also had a
lime kiln and burned the lime used "on
his plantation. He early realized the
value of a dairy and gave much atten-
tion to this branch of husbandry, mar-
keting the product in Philadelphia. He
married September 4, 1819, Catharine
Gait of Lancaster county, born January
26, 1799, a woman of fine intellectual
ability and both she and her husband
took a deep interest in and devoted their
energies and means to the cause of
morality, temperance, education and re-
ligion. In 1835, at the urgent request'
of his wife, he erected a school house on
his farm which was afterwards en-
larged and in connection with Josepii
Hart and others secured college gradu-
ates as teachers for their own and theii^
neighbors children for many years, in
1849, he built a fine stone mansion house
on the Bristol Road and retired from
active farming, introducing water, bath,"
any many modern improvements, and
this was the happy home of his family
for forty years. His wife entered into
all his plans and was his wise and pru-
dent adviser. She lived to the good old
age of ninety-one years, surviving her
husband thirty years, he having died
August 5, i860. The Darrahs were of
strong Scotch-Irish Presbyterian stock.
For more than a century the family have
occupied the same pew in the historic
Neshaminy Church, and the first two
generations were intimately associated
with the equally historic church at Deep
Run, near their first Bucks county home,
then presided over by Rev. Francis
McHenry. Robert Darrah left a fam-
ily of three sons and six daughters. His
eldest son. Rev. James A. Darrah, born
in 1821, was one of the pioneer home
missionaries and teachers in the West.
He graduated at Princeton in 1840 and
studied law under Judge John Fox at
Doylestown and was admitted to the bar
in 1843. But feeling called to the min-
istry he took a three years' course in the
Theological Seminary of Yale College
and was licensed to preach by the Pres-
bytery of Philadelphia September 23,
1846. For some months he labored as a
missionary at Winchester, Va., and tlien
removed to St. Louis, Mo., where he
was pastor of a church and principal of
the preparatory department of Webster
college for nine years and tlien was
called to the pastorate of a church at
West Ely, Mo. He died at Zanesville,

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141

Ohio, Feb. 24, 1882. The other chil-
dren of Robert and Catharine (Gait)
Darrah were, Rachel H., first wife of
Rev. D. K. Turner, the eminent Presby-
terian divine of Hartsville, lately de-
ceased; Eliza M., who married Dr. Free-
land of Chester county; Emily, the
mother of the subject of this sketch;
Rebecca, the second wife of Rev. D. K.
Turner; Mary A., who died unmarried;
John M., of Hartsville; Kate, who mar-
ried Theodore R. Graham of Philadel-
phia; and R. Henderson, still residing on
the homestead.

Prior to the death of her husband Dr.
Joseph D. Nichols, Mrs. Nichols re-
turned to Bucks county and resided with
her mother at the old stone mansion, on
the Bristol road now owned by the sub-
ject of this sketch, her son M. S. Pren-
tiss Nichols, where she died in 1898.

H. S. Prentiss Nichols came to Phil-
adelphia in 1872, and since that time
has had a home in the old homestead on
the Bristol Road at Hartsville, Bucks
county, though most of his time has
been spent in Philadelphia. He gradu-
ated from the college department of the
University of Pennsylvania in 1879;
studied law and was admitted to the
bar of Philadelphia county, where he
has since practiced with success, and has
since been admitted to practice at the
Bucks county bar. He is a member of
the Bucks county Historical Society and
takes a lively interest in Bucks county,
the home of his distinguished maternal
ancestors. He is a member of the
Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of the
Revolution.

He married, June 4, 1895, Isabel
Mcllhenny, of Germantown, daughter of
John and Berenice (Bell) Mcllhenny,
both natives of the north of Ireland, now.
living in Germantown, but formerly of
North Carolina, where Mrs. Nichols was
born. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols reside at
346 Pelham Road, Germantown, but the
summer months are generally spent at
their country home at Hartsville, Bucks
county.

HENRY SYLVESTER JACOBY,
Professor of Bridge Engineermg, m
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York,
was born April 8, 1857, in Springfield
township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
between Bursonville and Springtown,
and is a son of Peter L. and Barbara
(Shelly) Jacoby, both of German de-
scent.

The paternal ancestor of Professor Ja-
coby came to Pennsylvania, as is sup-
posed, prior to 1750, but little is known
of him. His widow Elizabeth survived
him many years, dying at an advanced
age at the home of her son-in-law, An-
dreas Schneider, in Richland, about
1790, letters of administration being
granted on her estate January 9, 1790.

Her children as shown by the distribu-
tion account filed were: Conrad, "eld-
est son," Henry, who settled in. Lower
Mount Bethel township, Northampton
county; George, who settled in Lehigh
county; John, who settled in York coun-
ty; and Margaret, who married An-
dreas Schneider, of Richland, a native
of Zweibrucken, who came to this coun-
try in 1759. Margaret, probably the
youngest of the Jacoby family, was born
January 6, 1749, and died March 22,
1828.

Conrad Jacoby was born June 7, 1730,
and was certainly in Bucks county May
18, 1751, when a warrant of survey for
a tract of land in Bedminster township,
Bucks county, was issued to him. His
later Bucks county residence was in Mil-
ford township, the threshold of German
immigration into the county of Bucks.
On April i, 1768, he purchased of Ja-
cob Geil 220 1-2 acres of land in Spring-
field township, on the line of Durham
township. In this deed he is styled "Con-
rad Jacobi, of Lower Milford township.
Blacksmith." This farm is on the road
from Bursonville to Durham, and ad-
joins the farm still owned by Professor
Henry S. Jacoby, on the northeast. On
March 6, 1787, he purchased a farm of
152 acres in Bedminster township, the
present residence of Gideon S. Rosen-
berger, and lived thereon until his death
]March 26, 1795. On April 11, 1791, he
purchased 259 acres in Durham town-
ship, being Nos. 5 and 6 of the Durham
tract, and adjoining his Springfield pur-
chase. This tract he conveyed to his
sons, Peter and John and John Reigle,
respectively, in 1792 and 1793. His wife
Hannah died November 27, 1828, at the
age of ninety-nine years six months,
and is buried at St. Peter's German Re-
formed church, in Leidytown, her later
days having been spent with her young-
est son, Leonard, in Hilltown township.
Conrad Jacoby is buried in the grave-
yard of the old Tohickon church at
Church Hill. He and his wife Hannah
were the parents of nine children: John,
Philip, Peter, Benjamin, Margaret, Cath-
arine, Elizabeth, Henry and Leonard.
John lived on the Durham land conveyed
to him by his father in I793> until his
death as did his brother Peter. Philip
lived for a time in Nockamixon, and from
1783 to 1787 he lived on a farm of 196-
1/2 acres at Stony Point, in Springfield
township. He then removed to Hill-
town township, where he died in 1827.
Benjamin settled in Haycock township
on a tract of 165 acres, patented to him
as No. 15 of the Lottery Lands in 1789,
near Haycock Run postoftice, where he
lived until his death. One of the daugh-
ters, either Margaret or Catharine, mar-
ried a Woolsleyer. Elizabeth married
(first) John Fluck, and after his death
married Robert Darroch, Jr., and they
resided in Bensalem township, Bucks

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HISTORY or BUCKS COUNTY.

•county, during the latter part of their
lives. Henry lived for a time in Bed-
minster, removed thence to Gwynedd,
and a year later to Andalusia, Bensaleni
township, Bucks county. Leonard lived
for lifty years near the Mennonite meet-
ing house in Hilltown, and then re-
moved to Allentown.

Peter Jacoby, third son of Conrad
and Hannah, was born in Bucks county
on New Years day, 1759. He learned
the trade of a blacksmith with his fath-
er, and probably followed it for a num-
ber of years. On June 9, 1792, he pur-
chased of his father seventy-one acres
of the Durham tract No. -6. He built
in 1801 the stone house and later the
barn, both of which are still standipg,
and later, purchasing other land ad-
joining, lived there all his life. While
attending the February term of court,
1815, as a juror, he was taken ill and
died' March 11, 1815. He was a member
of Durham Reformed church, a trustee
of the church from its organization and
was later an elder. He married Cathar-
ine Trauger, born September 29, 1763,
died September 4, 1844; daughter of
Christian and Ann Drager (Trauger)
of Nockamixon. The former, born
March 30, 1726, in Bechenbach, grand
duchy of Hesse Darmstadt, came to
Pennsylvania in the ship "Restora-
tion," arriving in Philadelphia, October
9, 1747, and died in Nockamixon, Janu-
ary 8, 181 1. His wife, Anna Barbara,
was born March 5, 1729, and died No-
vember 5, 1821. The children of Peter
and Catharine (Trauger) Jacoby were:
John, who settled in Doylestown town-
ship; Elizabeth, who married George
Hartman, of Rockhill, who after living
for twenty-seven years in that town-
ship, removed to near Bloomsburg,.
Pennsylvania; Mary, who married Jacob
Hartman, of Rockhill; Benjamin, who
finally settled in Springfield township;
Barbara, who died in youth; Catharine,
who married Frederick Laubach, of
Lower Saucon, later of Durham town-
ship; Hannah, who married George
Overpeck, of Springfield, and later re-
moved to near Milton, Pennsylvania;
Sarah, who died in youth; Peter, who
lived and died on the old homestead in
Durham; Samuel, who finally settled in
Northumberland county, Pennsylvan-
ia; and Susannah, who married Jacob
Schliefifer; of Springfield township.

Benjamin Jacoby, son of Peter and
Catharine (Trauger) Jacoby, was born
September 9, 1786. He was a mason
by trade. In the fall of 1809 he married
Margaret Landes, daughter of Samuel
and Susannah Landes, and on Septem-
ber 10, 1810, purchased a small farm
in Nockamixon, where he lived for six
years, following his trade in summer and
teaching school during the winter
months. He then bought a farm of nine-
ty acres two miles from Frenchtown,

New Jersey, where he lived until 1826,
when he purchased the farm in Sprmg-
ficld, adjoining the farm purchased by
his grandfather in 1768, and removed
thereon. This farm has remained in the
family ever since, and is now the prop-
erty of the subject of this sketch. Here
Benjamin Jacoby lived until the sprmg
of 1839, when he rented the farm to his
son, Peter L. Jacoby, and removed to
the village of Springtown, where he
lived until his death, October 29, 1850.
He served for three months in the army
during the war of 1812-14, his company
being stationed at Marcus Hook, to
guard the approach to Philadelphia af-
ter the burning of Washington in 1814.
His wife Margaret died in 1827, and he
married in 1829 Margaret, daughter of
Peter Werst, who died September 26,
1844, without issue. The children of
Benjamin and Margaret (Landes) Ja-
coby were: Samuel, who finally settled
at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania; Peter L.,
who lived nearly all his life on the
Springfield homestead; Catharine, who
married Aaron Heckman and settled
near Milton, Pennsylvania; Caroline,
who married John Schlieffer, of Spring-
field; Susannah, who married Samuel
Fulmer, of Springtown; Anna, who died
in infancy; Benjamin L., who during
his later years resided in Philadelphia;
John L., who lived for some years in
Springfield and later removed to Allen-
town, Pennsylvania; and Levi L., who
was a minister of the German Evan-
gelical association and stationed at
various points in New York state, be-
ing located at Newark, New York, at
the time of his death.

Peter L. Jacoby, second son of Ben-
jamin and Margaret (Landes) Jacoby,
was born in Nockamixon township,
Bucks county, February 9, 1813, and,
aside from teaching school for a brief
period was a farmer all his life. He mar-
ried, August 20, 1837, Barbara Shelly,
daughter of John and Mary Shelly, of
Milford township, Bucks county, and
lived in Milford township until the
spring of 1839, when he took charge of
his father's farm in Springfield, rent-
ing it until his father's death, when he
purchased it, later purchasing other land
adjoining, and lived on the homestead
until his death, July 3, 1876. With the
exception of ten years residence in New
Jersey and one year at a select private
school, his whole life was spent in
Bucks county. He was better educated
than most men of his day in that vicin-
ity, and appreciated the advantage of a
higher education. He was a prosperous
farmer, and actively interested in the im-
portant public interests of his neighbor-
hood. His wife died at Bethlehem, June
12, 1904. Their eldest child, Mary Ann,
died at the age of twenty-two years.
Those who survive are: Titus S., now
residing in Bethlehem; Amanda, who

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143

married Henry Unangst, of Williams
township, Northampton county, Penn-
sylvania, and later settled near Pleasant
Valley, Bucks count)-; Lewis Shelly, and
John S., both now residing in Allentown,
Pennsylvania; and Henry Sylvester, who
now resides in Ithaca, New York.

Henry Sylvester Jacoby, born on
the old homestead near Bursonville,
April 8, 1857, was reared on the
farm and attended the public school
during the winter sessions, and during
the summer months attended the private
school of David W. Hess for eight years.
He attended the Excelsior Normal In-
stitute at Carversville, Bucks county,
during the terms of 1870-72, and the
preparatory department of Lehigh Uni-
versity, 1872-3. He then took the regu-
lar four-years course at Lehigh Univer-
sity, receiving the degree of Civil En-
gineer in 1877. During the season of
1878 he was stadia rodman on the Le-
liigh Topographical Corps, of the Sec-
ond Geological Survey of Pennsylvania.
From November, 1878, to November,
1879, he was engaged on surveys of the
Red River, Louisiana, with the U. S. A.
Corps of Engineers, under Major W.
H. H. Benyaurd. From November,
1879. to March, 1885, he served as chief
draughtsman in the United States En-
gineer's Office at Memphis, Tennessee.
From May, 1885, to August, 1886, he was
bookkeeper and cashier for G. W. Jones
& Co., wholesale druggists in Memphis.
From September, 1886, to June. 1890, he
was instructor in civil engineering at his
alma mater, Lehigh University. In Sep.-
tember, 1890, he was elected assistant
professor of Bridge Engineering and
Graphics at Cornell University, was pro-
moted to an associate professorship in
the same department in 1894. ^'if^ in
1900 was made full professor of Bridge
Engineering in the University, and has
since filled that position.

In August, 1887, he was admitted a
member of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science; was
made a fellow of the Association in
1894; secretary of "Section D" in 1895,
and vice president and chairman of Sec-
tion D. (Mechanical science and Engi-
neering) in 1901. On November 5, 1890,
he became an associate of the American
Society of Civil Engineers; in August.
1894, a member of the Society for the
Promotion of Engineering Education, of
which he was secretary 1900-1902. On
February 22, 1888, he became a member
of the Honorary Scientific Society of
Tau Beta Pi, and of the Honorary Sci-
entific Society of Sigma Xi on May i.

Professor Jacoby. in addition to con-
tributing numerous articles on Engineer-
ing and kindred subjects, for periodicals
devoted to that science, is the author
-of the following publications: "Notes
and Problems in Descriptive Geom-

erty," (1892); "Outlines of Descriptive
Geometry" Part I, 1895, Part II, i8q6.
Part III, 1897; "A Text Book on Plain
Lettering," (1897). He is joint author
with Professor Mansfield Merriman of
a "Text Book on Roofs and Bridges," in
four volumes (1890-1898) embracing the
following branches: Part I, "Stresses in
Simple Trusses," 1888, entirely re-
written in 1904; Part II, "Graphic Sta-
tics," 1890, enlarged in 1897; Part III,
"Bridge Design," 1894. re-written 1902;
Part IV, "Higher Structures," 1898.
Professor Jacoby served as editor of the
Journal of the Engineering Society of
Lehigh University for the years 1887-
1890.

Professor Henry S. Jacoby married
May 18. 1880, Laura Louise Saylor,
daughter of Thomas S. and Emma A.
Saylor, of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,
and they are the parents of three chil-
dren, John Vincent, Hurlbut Smith, and
Freeman Steel, all of whom reside with
their parents at Ithaca, New York.

Professor Jacoby retains a lively in-
terest in the affairs of his native county,
and makes many extended visits to the
old homestead in Springfield (the own-
ership of which he still retains), as well
as to other points of Bucks county, tak-
ing a proper and commendable pride in
his Bucks county ancestry.

PHILIP H. FRETZ. Among the rep-
resentatives of the old and honored fam-
ilies of Bucks county who. with their
respective ancestors, have witnessed the
settlement and development of our be-
loved county from a primitive wilderness,
inhabited by a primitive race, to a thick-
ly settled, prosperous, wealthy and en-
lightened community, is Philip H. Fretz,
of Doylestown township. He w-as born
in the township in which he still resides,
November 22, 1846. and is a son of Phil-
ip K. and Anna (Stover) Fretz. the an-
cestors of both of whom had been prom-
inent factors in the development of the
natural resources of Bucks county, those
of the latter being the pioneer millers
of Tinicum and Bedminster and her emi-
grant ancestor being Henry Stauflfer,
who emigrated from Alsace in 1749 and
settled in Bedminster soon after that
date. His son Jacob, born May 13. 1757.
was the grandfather of Mrs. Fretz, and
Henry, son of the last named, born Oc-
tober 17. 1786, was her father. Her moth-
. er w-as Barbara Stout, daughter of Is-
aac Stout, of Williams township. North-i
ampton county, and a granddaughter of
Jacob Stout, the emigrant ancestor of
the Stout family of Bucks, an account
of w-hom is given in this work. Bar-
bara was educated at the Moravian
school at Bethlehem, and her husband,
Henry S. Stover, at the Doylestown
Academv. under the Rev. Uriah Dubois,

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both receiving unusual advantages in
this respect for their day and genera-
tion.

The paternal ancestor of Mr. Frclz
was John Frets, who with a brother,
Christian emigrated from Manhenii, m
Baden, Rhenish Prussia, about 1720, and
settled for a time in Upper Salford, now
Montgomery county, where he married
Barbara Meyer, daughter of Hans Mey-
er, who bore him five children — John,
Jacob, Christian, Abraham and Eliza-
beth. In 1737 John Fretz settled in Bed-
minster township, Bucks county, where
he purchased 300 acres of land and lived
until his death in February, 1772.

Christian Fretz, son of John and Bar-
bara, born in Upper Salford, May, 1734,
was reared in Bedminster township,
Bucks county, and married in 1757 Bar-
bara Oberhotzer, born November 10,
1737, died May 8, 1823, daughter of Mar-
tin Oberholtzer, who was born near
Frankfort-on-the-Main in 1709, and set-
tled in Bedminster soon after attaining
manhood. Christian Fretz, on attaining
manhood, settled in Tinicum township,
where he lived until his father's death,
when, having inherited the old home-
stead, he returned to Bedminster, where
he died May i, 1803. During the boy-
hood and early manhood of Christian
Fretz the Indians were still quite num-
erous in that vicinity, and tradition re-
lates many incidents of the association
of the family with the "noble red man."
At the time of the death of Barbara
Fretz, widow of Christian, in 1823, she
was the mother of twelve children, one
hundred and nine grandchildren, and
one hundred and three great-grandchil-
dren. The children were: John; Agnes,
wife of Abraham Bebighouse; Joseph;
Henry; Martin; Jacob; Abraham; Is-
aac; Barbara, wife of Henry Fretz;
Christian; Mary, wife of Henry Tyson;
and Elizabeth, wife of Abraham INleyer.
, John Fretz, eldest son of Christian
and Barbara, was born in Bedminster,
May 24, 1758, aiid was reared in the Men-
nonite faith, his .parents being members
of the old Deep Run Meeting, the oldest
Mennonite congregation in Bucks coun-
ty. He purchased land adjoining the
homestead in Bedminster, and lived
there until 1792, when he purchased 300
acres of the Rodman tract in Warwick,
now Doylestown township, and settled
thereon, building in 1795 the stone house
which was standing until about 1898. He
later purchased considerable adjoining
land, owning at one time 800 acre§ along
both sides of the Neshaminy, marked
on the old maps of the region as "Fretz
Valley." He died December 20, 1804.
His wife was Anna Kratz, born in Pluin-
s.tead township, November 4, 1764. She
died August 4, 1813. John and Anna
Kratz Fretz were the parents of nine
children, viz: Christian; Susan, wife of
William Garges; Elizabeth, wife af

Thomas Z. Smith; Mary, wife of Henry'
Gill; John; Rachel, wife of Abraham F.
Stover; Barbara, wife of John Smith;
Anna, wife of Samuel Dungan, and Phil-
ip, died young.

Christian, eldest son of John and An-
na (Kratz) Fretz, was born in Bedmin-
ster township, November 17, 1782, and
was reared from the age of ten on the
Fretz Valley farm in Doylestown town-
ship, where he spent the remainder of
his life. He was a successful 'business
man and acquired considerable real es-
tate. He was a farmer and hotelkeepr-
er, establishing the "Fretz Valley Inn,"
near the homestead on the Easton road,
opposite the almshouse, which he con-
ducted for a number of years. He
died January 28, 1840. -He married April
14, 1808, Mary Stover, daughter of
Ralph and Catharine (Funk) Stover,
and granddaughter of Henry Stauffer
above referred to, and a great-grand-
daughter on the maternal side of the
pioneer. Bishop Henry Funck.

Ralph Stover, father of Mary (Stover)
Fretz, was born in Bedminster, Bucks
county, January 10, 1760, and died there
November 7, 181 1. He was one of the
prominent business and public men of
his time. For many years a justice of
the peace, he did a large amount of le-
gal business pertaining to the transfer
of real estate and the settlement of es-
tates. He was a member of state assem-
bly from 1783 to 1799, and was one of
the first board of directors of the goor,
created under act of assembly of April
10, 1807, ^nd superintended the erection
of the almshouse opposite the Fretz
homestead. His daughter Mary was
born December 15, 1787, and died in
New York, where she had gone to un-
dergo a surgical operation, November
I7i 1855. The children of Christian and
Mary (Stover) Fretz were six in num-
ber, as follows:

I. Ralph Stover Fretz, born in War-
wick, November 13, 1809, died in Cali-
fornia, June 6, 1867. He had an event-
ful career. Early in life he engaged in
business in Philadelphia and later in
New York city. At the latter place
he met Commodore Garrison and be-
came interested with hiin in several im-
portant enterprises. For some years he
ran a line of steamboats on the Missis-
sippi river, and later engaged in a trad-
ing and shipping enterprise with Com-
modore Garrison at the Isthmus of Pan-
ama, in which he was later joined by his
brothers John and Christian Augustus.
In 1849 he sailed from the Isthmus to
San Francisco, where in connection
witli the commodore he established a
bank and amassed a fortune of a half
million of dollars. The eighth clause
of his will reads as follows:

"Eighth: Considering that I have been
greatly blessed and that I have an un-
dying attachment to the Government of

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the United States, the country of my
birth, and remembering that by reason
of my age and infirmities during the re-
cent unnatural rebellion to destroy it,
I was unable to render service in the
field to put down and punish that great
crime, and being not unmindful that a
huge public burden of indebtedness has
been necessarily incurred in accomplish-
ing that object, I desire not only to
leave behind me when I am gone an
humble testimonial of the gratitude I
feel towards those whose virtues, val-
or and sacrifice and services preserved
what I regard as the best government
man was ever permitted to have, but
beyond that and in addition to paying
the ordinary taxes on my estate, 1 think
it my duty out of the means Providence
in His bounty has enabled me to ac-
quire, and the Laws of the Country
has aided me to preserve, to do some-
thing towards extinguishing the Nation-
al Debt; Therefore moved thereto by
the foregoing causes only, I hereby give
and bequeath unto the Secretary of thd;
Treasury of the United States of Ameri-
ca, in trust and to be applied only to-
wards cancelling the National Debt, the
sum of Twenty Thousand Dollars."
Dated at San Francisco, May i, 1867.

2. John Fretz. born October 2, 1811,
in Warwick, died at White Sulphur
Springs, California, where he was op-
erating a gold quartz mill, June 26. 1863.
He had also been associated with his
brothers in enterprises at Panama.
Neither of the above were married.

3. Philip Kratz Fretz, see forward.

4. Elizabeth Fretz, born February 23,
1818, in Doylestown township, died
there February 9, 1897, married John
Farren, of Lancaster county, Pennsyl-
vania, January i, 1844. He was born
March i, 1809, and died in Doylestown
township December 16, 1878. He was a
contractor, and was associated with his
brother-in-law, Philip K. Fretz, in rail-
road building, etc. He and his family
were members of the Roman Catholic
church. l'h<Mi children were: Mary Jan-
netta and Frances Annetta, who died in
infancy; John Augustus, born April 21,
185s, died December 17, 1884, ' married
January 25, 1882, Alleta Bleiler; he left
no issue. Mary Cecilia Farren, born
February 21, 1858, died; married June
16, i88j, Samuel J. Penrose, and has left
children, Cyril F., Ralph and Norman.

5. Christian Augustus Fretz, born
February 23, 1824, died December i,
1859. He was a provision merchant at
Panama for seven years prior to his
death. He was never married.

6. Mary Catharine Fretz, born Janu-
ary 13. 1827, died March 4, 1842, unmar-
ried.

Philip K. Fretz, third son of Chris-
tian and Mary (Stover) Fretz, was born
on the old homestead at Fretz valley,
now Doylestown township, September
10-3

14, 1813, and died on board the steamship
"Henry Chauncey" off the coast of the
Carolinas, March 13, 1867, while on his
way to California. Mr. Fretz was one of
the prominent men of his community, not
in the sense of seeking or holding public
office, but in the doing day by day, as
occasion offered, those things that tend
to uplift humanity and stimulate in oth-
ers that love of country and home which
is the sheet-anchor of American liberties
and citizenship. He inherited from his
forefathers a stern sense of duty, a lov-
ing and jovial disposition, and an un-
swerving directness in following the
course which his conscience dictated as
right and proper. One who knew him
well has said of him, "To write of him
as he was known is to write of the day
by day life of the earnest loving Chris-
tian who had at heart first, his town-
ship, then his county, next his state and
finally the best country that God Al-
mighty ever made." At the time of the
civil war he was one of the foremost in
calling meetings to raise funds to clear
his district and neighbors of the drafts
and, when the money could not be raised
in time, advanced it himself and went
to Philadelphia and cleared his district
of the draft. He was president of the
Democratic club of Pennsylvania before
and during the civil war. About 1850
the cholera, which was prevalent in
many parts of the country, broke out
with great virulence at the almshouse,
and many of the inmates died of the
dread disease, several in a single day,
and it was impossible to obtain assist-
ance to bury the dead or care for the
living; the steward was dying of the dis-
ease, and his son was already dead and
unburied, when Mr. Fretz, after remov-
ing his wife and family to her father's,
residence at Erwinna, with Davis E.
Brower, went to the almshouse and
worked till the scourge was abated. Be-
ing unable to find an undertaker who-
would bury the steward's young son, he
secured a hearse and buried the lad him-
self.

Mr. Fretz succeeded his father as pro-
prietor of the Fretz Valley Inn, which
he conducted until January 9, 1846, the
first anniversary of the birth of his
daughter, Mary Catharine, when he cut
down the sign pole and closed the inn as
a public house. He was extensively en-
gaged in contract work in connection
with his brother-in-law, John Farren,
and was one of the contractors to build
the horse-shoe curve of the Pennsylvan-
ia railroad over the Allegheny moun-
tains. He was buried in the Atlantic
ocean. His wife, Anna Stover, whom
he married February 18, 1841, was born
in Tinicum township, at Point Pleasant,
where her father. Henry S. Stover, was
an extensive miller, September 11, 1812.
She was a fitting helpmate for an earn-
est loving husband. Their children

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were: Charles Augustus, born May 31,
1843. married Susan Derby, and resid-
ed (in the homestead until his death.
August 12, 1900, without issue; Mary
Catharine, born January 9, 1845, married
September 8, 1868, Theodore P. Austin,
of Hancock county, Maine; Philip H.
and John S. Anna (Stover) Fretz died
at the residence of her son, Philip Hen-
ry Fretz, October 8, 1889.

Philip Henry Fretz, second son of
Philip K. and Anna (Stover) Fretz,
was born on the ' old homestead,
in Doylestown township, November
22. 1846. He was educated at the
public schools of Doylestown and at the
famous Tennent School, at Hartsville.
On arriving at manhood he went to New
York city, where he engaged for a short
time in the manufacture of silver plate.
He sailed from New York for San
Francisco, where he engaged in the
banking business for a short time, and
then returned to the old home in Doyl-
estown township. His partner in the
banking business was Judge Pratt, of
California. The return trip was made
overland across the plains by stage
coach, having for traveling companion
on the trip his uncles' old partner, Com-
modore Garrison. In 1871 he erected
the buildings and handsome residency
now occupied by his brother, John S.
Fretz, and married and lived there until
1879. when, having erected his present
handsome residence one mile south of
Doylestown, he moved there and has
since made it his home, operating his
farm and looking after his other prop-
erties. He is the owner of the old Turk
mills, one of the oldest mill properties
in this section, it having been operated
by Hugh Miller as early as 1745. Mr.
Fretz is a broad-minded and public-
spirited man and is interested in what-
ever inures to the benefit of the com-
munity in which he lives. He has been
an elder of Doylestown Presbyterian
church for nearly thirty years. He was
largely instrumental in the building of
the chapel at Edison, which was placed
under the control of the sessions of the
Doylestown Presbyterian church, and is
used for Sunday school purposes. Mr.
Fretz being the superintendent of the
Sunday school held there, and which
by the way is said to be the oldest Sun-
day school ever held in Eastern Penn-
sylvania outside of Philadelphia. It was
originally held in the old school house
at Edison, which was originally built
by and for the use of the neighborhood,
long before the days of the public school
system, and was rented by the directors
after the organization of the public
schools for some years, the upper story
being used for religious and other lo-
cal meetings. After the school direct-
ors erected another school house, the
old one was sold and the proceeds with
liberal contributions from the neighbors

was used to erect the present chapel on
land donated by Aaron Fries. In 1881
Philip H. Fretz was elected to the of-
fice of- justice of the peace and filled
the same for one term of five years. He
was one of the original directors and
managers of the Bucks Coimty Trust
Company at its organization in 1888, and
still fills that position.

Philip H. Fretz married, September
19, 1871, Margaret Wilhelmina John-
ston, born in Doylestown township,
June I, 1848, daughter of Robert and
Wilhelmina (McHenry) Johnston. Her
father, Robert Johnston, was born in
Doylestown township, December 5,
1817. He died January 25, 1905. He was
a son of David and Susanna (Riale)
Johnston. His father, David Jonnston,
was a son of Robert Johnston, an early
settler in Huntingdon county, and died
in Doylestown township, October 28,
1867. He was a soldier in the war of 1812
under Captain William Magill. His wife
Susanna Riale, was a daughter of John
Riale, Esq., of Scotch-Irish descent. She
died August 26, 1866, in her ninety-sixth
year. Wilhelmina McHenry, mother of
Mrs. Fretz, was born in the old Ross
Mansion at Doylestown, April 6, 1818,
and was a daughter of Captain William
McHenry, who was born 9. mo. 22, 1794,
and died io mo. 22, 1880. He was a son
of William and Mary (Stewart) Mc-
Henry, both of whom were of Scotch-
Irish descent, the former, born May 6,
1744, died November 25, 1808, was a son
of the Rev. Francis McHenry, the first
settled pastor of Deep Run and Red Hill
Presbyterian churches, and one of the
ablest divines of his time. He was born
on the island of Rathlen, Ireland, Oc-
tober 18, 1710, and came to this country
when a lad of fourteen and was educated
at the famous Tennent Log College at
Neshaminy. He was licensed to preach
in 1738, and preached for a time at Ne-
shaminy Presbyterian church, and Deep
Run. In 1748 he took charge of Deep
Run and Red Hill churches and settled
in Bedminster. where he died January
22. 1757. His son Charles was a lieu-
tenant in the continental army. Mr. and
Mrs. Philip H. Fretz have been the par-
ents of six children: Dr. John Edgar
Fretz, of Easton, Pennsylvania ; Anna
Leola Fretz, residing with her parents,
Ralph Johnston, deceased; Philip K".. de-
ceased; Marguerite Wilhelmina, now a
student, preparing for Bryn Mawr; and
Edna McHenry, died February 21, 1897.
Dr. John Edgar Fretz was born in
Doylestown township, November 29,
1872, and was educated at Lafayette
College, graduating in the class of 1893.
He graduated at medical deparment of
Pennsylvania University in 1897. He be-
gan the practice of medicine at Easton.
He was recently honored by the offer
of the position of physician and profes-
sor of hygiene, anatomy and physiol-

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147

■ogy, in Williams' College, at Williams-
town, Massachusetts, to fill the vacancy
-caused by the death of Professor Luther
Dana Woodbridge, M. D. He however,
chose to follow his profession at Eas-
ton, where he has a lucrative practice.
He was married, December 7, 1904, to
Frances Josephine Rodenbough, daugh-
ter of Joseph S. Rodenbough, of Eas-
ton.

Ralph Johnston Fretz, second son of
Philip H. Fretz, was born February 25.
1878, and died December 24, 1899. He
prepared for college under Dr. John
Gosnian, of Doylestown, and entered
Lafayette College in the class of 1901,
and had returned home to spend the
Christmas holidays, when he was taken
suddenly ill with acute myelitis, and
lived but three days. He was a bright
manly boy and much beloved by his
family and class mates, and his sudden
and untimely demise was a sad blow.

John S. Fretz, youngest son of Phil-
ip K. and Anna (Stover) Fretz, was
born on the old Fretz Valley homestead
in Doylestown township. September 22,
1850. He was but seventeen years of age
at the death of his father, and resided
for some years with his brother, Philip
Henry Fretz, the subject of the preced-
ing sketch. In 1879 he purchased of his
brother his present residence, and has
since made it his home. He soon after
erected and equipped a large steam saw
mill near his residence, which he has oper-
ated for many years. He is a member of
the Doylestown Presbyterian church,
and takes an active interest in all chari-
table objects. He is the owner of the
•old Fretz homestead that has been the
home of his ancestors for over a cen-
tury. He married, in November. 1879,
Mary W. Long, daughter of Henry
Long, of Doylestown, and they are the
parents of one son. Augustus Henry
Fretz. who graduated at Lafayette Col-
lege in the class of 1903, and is now tak-
ing a post graduate course there in me-
chanical engineering.

THE HALL FAMILY. The pioneer
ancestor of this family was Mathew
Hall, who came from Birmingham, Eng-
land, about 1725, and settled in Buck-
ingham township. Bucks county, Penn-
sylvania, where he married in 1731 Sa-
rah (Scarborough) Haworth. widow of
George Haworth. daughter of John and
Mary Scarborough, and granddaughter
•of John Scarborough, a coachsmith of
St. Sepulchre. London. England, who
came to America in 1682 accompanied
by his son John. Sarah was born in
Solebury township, Bucks county. Penn-
sylvania. 2 mo. 4, 1694. and married
•George Haworth at Falls Meeting. 9 mo.
20, 1710. Mr. Haworth. who died in 1725,
purchased 500 acres on the north cor-

ner of Buckingham and settled thereon,
and at his demise was seized of 339 acres
thereof which descended to his six chil-
dren; George, Stephanus, Absalom,
James, Mary, who became the wife of
John Michener; and John. Of these
George and John remained in Bucks
county, the former dying in 1749. and
James and Absalom removed to the
Shenandoah valley in Virginia. Mathew
Hall settled on the land belonging to
the estate of his wife's first husband,
nearly the whole of which he subse-
quently purchased of his step-children.
His wife died 3 mo. 4, 1748, and on 7
mo. 13, 1750. he married Rebecca
(Rhoads) Massey, widow of Mordecai
Massey, of Marple, Delaware county,
Pennsylvania, and daughter of Joseph
and Abigail Rhoads. On 8 mo. 3, 1752,
with a certificate to Haverford Meeting,
he removed with his family to Block-
ley, Philadelphia, where he purchased a
large tract of land, and in 1756 removed
to Marple, Delaware county, and pur- ^
chased 194 acres of land there, whereon
he died 9 mo. 1766. His second wife, by
whom he had no children, died prior to
his death. He was not a member of the
Society of Friends on his arrival in
Bucks county, "but became a member af-
ter his first marriage. He was an over-
seer of Springfield (Chester county,)
Meeting from 3 mo. 28, 1757, to 3 mo.
23. 1759- The children of Mathew and
Sarah (Scarborough) (Haworth) Hall
were as follows: i. David, born in Buck-
ingham, 7 mo. 7, 1732, died in Marple,
Delaware county. 1802. He married, 12
mo. 21. 1758. Deborah Fell, daughter of-
Edward Fell, of Springfield, and had
children: Beulah, who married William
Broomall ; David, who married Hannah
Parnell; Sarah, who married Joseph
Levis: Edward and Joseph. 2. Mahlon,
born in Buckingham, 11 mo. 12, 1733-34;
see forward. 3. Margery, born i mo. 23,
1734-35. married, 11 mo. 10. 1753, at
Merion Meeting. Arnold Warner, of
Blockley, son_ of Isaac and JVeron[ca_
Waj;j]_er, of__Bl£i£kle3t, amT had four
daughters, of whom Gulielma, wife of
William Widdifield. was for many years
an accepted minister of Friends in Phila-
delphia. 4. Sarah, born 11 mo. 24. 17,^6-
2,7, married at Buckingham Meeting. 5
mo. 12. 1756, John Pearson, and had
children, Enoch, Margaret, Mahlon and
William. The family removed to Bush
River, South Carolina, in 1772. with the
exception of Enoch, who removed tov
Gunpowder. Maryland, in 1780.

Mahlon Hall, second son of Mathew
and Sarah HalJ^ born in Buckingham,
II moTTjanuary) 12. 1733-34, took a
certificate from Buc1<ingham Meeting to
Falls in 1752, and from there to Chester
Meeting in 1756. He married at Bristol,
Bucks county. 4 mo. 21, I7,=;7- Jane
Higgs, daughter of James and Elizabeth
(Andrews) Higgs. of Bristol. Jane was

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born 8 mo. 17, 1728, and died 5 mo. 10,
1812. On their marriage they settled
on a tract of land in Blockley township,
Pliiladelphia, devised to him by his
father hiter, much of which is now with-
in the limits of the park. It adjoined
Belmont, the residence of Judge Peters,
and Lansdowne, the residence of Gov-
ernor John Penn, the last of the colon-
ial governors. Mahlon Hall relatecLjto
his granddaughter, Matilda Hestpn, that
during the revolutionary war a party of
British soldiers visited his home, and
the officer in command after some con-
versation with Mahlon Hall told him
that he was a native of Birmingham,
England, and on learning that the
father of Mahlon Hall was also a na-
tive of that place gave strict orders that
nothing about the place should be dis-
turbed by the soldiers. Mahlon Hall
died 7 mo. 26, 1818, and he and his wife
are buried at Merion JNIeeting. Their
children were as follows: i. John, born
at Blockley, 6 mo. 16, 1758, died there

I mo 17, 1842, married, li mo. 21, 1783,
Anna Morris, daughter of Edward Mor-
ris, of Montgomery township, now
Montgomery county, Pennsylvania; she
died 6 mo. 17, 1845, aged ninety-one
years; they had children: Martha, wtio
married Nathan Dickinson, and was the
mother of Mahlon Hall Dickinson, late
president of the State Board of Chari-
ties, and an eminent Philadelphian ;
James, George, John, Morris, Hannah,
Sarah and Charles. 2. Mahlon, born 11
mo. 29, 1759, died 4 mo. 7, 1805; see for-
ward. _3^ Sarah, born 4 mo. 16, 1763,
died 8 mo. 18, 1856, married li mo. 18,
1784, Ed"ward Warner Heston, the foun-
der of Hestonville, now part of the city
of Philadelphia. She was his second
wife, he having previously married Mary
Griffith, by whom he had children;
Abraham, Isaac, Bathsheba, Mary, who
married Mahlon Hall; Jacob F. and
Thomas W. The children of the second
wife, Sarah Hall, were: Jane, who mar-
ried Joseph Worstall, of Newtown,
Bucks county, in 1808; Rachel, Anna,
Matilda, Isaac, Sarah, William Penn and
Louisa.

Mahlon Hall, second son of Mahlon
and Jane (Higgs) Hall, was born in
Blockley township. Philadelphia county,

II mo. 29, 1759. He married, 5 mo. 15,
1791, Mary Heston, born 3 mo. 26, I775>
died 12 . mo. 12, 1858, daughter of Ed-
ward Warner and Mary (Griffith) Hes-
ton, of Blockley, before mentioned. Ed-
ward Warner Heston was born in Bucks
county, and was a son of Jacob and
Mary (Warner) IJeston, of Makefield,
and a grandson of Zebulon and Doro-
thy Heston, early settlers in Wrights-
town, Bucks county. He inherited frona
his father the lands at what was named
Hestonville, in Blockley township, and
was the founder of the village. He was
an officer of the Seventh Battalion,

Pennsylvania Militia, during the revolu-,
tion and saw active service and was-
subsequently one of the judges of the
court of common pleas of Philadelphia
county. His second wife was a sister
of Mahlon Hall, who married his daugh-
ter. On his marriage Mahlon HallS
erected a house on what is now Elm
avenue, West Philadelphia, close to Fair-
mount Park, where he died 4 mo. 7,
1805. He was an active business man of
Philadelphia. His widow married Will-
iam Sanders, and had one son, Jacob
Sanders, born 5 mo. 22. 1810. Mahlon
and Mary (Heston) Hall were the par-
ents of nine children: i. Edward H.,.
born at Hestonville, 4 mo. 30, 1792, died
in Columbiana county, Ohio, 4 mo. 10,-
1831, married at West Chester, Pennsyl-
vania, 2 mo. 5, 1816, Jane Paxson, daugh-
ter of Benjamin and Jane (Ely) Paxson,.
of Solebury, and removed to Ohio irt
1820. 2. Mahlon, born 3 mo. 11, I793,
died in Doylestown township, Bucks
county, II mo. 3, 1872; see forward. 3.
Thomas W., born 3 mo. 4, 1795, died in-
Cain township, Chester county, 4 mo.
7, 1896, aged over one hundred and one
years; he married Mary Heston, daugh-
ter of Abr^jim HesUyi, and had nine
children."^. Isaac, born 4 mo. 29, 1796,
died 4 mo. 21, 1810. 5. John, born 8 mo.
17, 1797, died 2 mo. 3, 1897, at West
Chester. He married, 10 mo. 23, 1862,
Sarah (Thatcher) Yarnall, a widow,
who survives him. He was a farmer at
Hestonville for many years and removed
to West Chester in 1872. 6. Jane, born
II mo. 24, 1798, died at West Chester,
10 mo. 4, 1876, unmarried. 7. William
H., born i mo. 21, 1801, died in West
Chester, 5 mo. 20, 1886, married Ann-
Paxson, but had no children. 8. Sarah,
born 12 mo. 28, 1802, died at West Ches-
ter, 2 mo. 3, 1900, married Edward Dick-
inson, leaving no issue. 9. Ann, born
3"mo. 29, 1804, died 12 mo. 23, 1813. This
family was very remarkable for longev-
ity, one of them having exceeded the
century mark, another came short of it
but six months, wdiile four others passed
four score years.

Mahlon Hall, second son of Mahlon
and Mary (Heston) Hall, born at Hes-
tonville. Philadelphia, March 11, I793r
was the father of Mathias H. Hall and
the grandfather of William W. Hall,,
sketches of whom follow. He was a
blacksmith by trade, and came to Buck-
ingham, near Pineville, Bucks county,,
when a young man and followed his
trade there for some years, returning
later to Philadelphia where he was a
partner with his brother John in the
milk business. Subsequently he removed'
again to Bucks county, and in 1836 pur-
chased a farm of fifty acres in Dovles-,
town township, where his son, Isaac H.
Hall, still lives, and thereon died No-,
vember 3, 1872. He married (first) Han-
nah P. Hampton, of Buckingham, by

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149

whom he had five children: Thomas, a
prominent business man of Philadel-
phia ; John ; William ; Moses P., for many
years a merchant in Buckingham; and
Benjamin, the father of Squire Hall. Mr.
Hall married (second) Isabella Robin-
son, daughter of John Robinson, who
was a soldier in the war of 1812 and
stationed at Marcus Hook, by whom
he had twelve children, of whom eleven
survived him: Mary, who never married;
Hannah, who married her cousin, Al-
bert P. Hall, son of Edward H. and Jane
•(Paxson) Hall, who is a dry goods mer-
chant at West Chester, Pennsylvania;
Jane H., v/ho married William Seal;
Martha R., who married George Geil;
Edward D.; Isaac H., who lives on the
homestead in Doylestown township; Sa-
rah D., who married J. Gilpin Seal;
Matthias H., a prominent farmer of Up-
per Makefield township; Charles Henry;
George W., and Emma P. Hall. Isabella
(Robinson) Hall, widow of Mahlon Hall,
•died in Doylestown township, June 29,

1879.

Benjamin Hall, third son of Mahlon
and Hannah P. (Hampton) Hall, was
born in Bnuckingham, Bucks county.
Pennsylvania, September 30, 1823, and
resides with his son, William W. Hall,
at I.innboro. He went to Philadelphia
wlitn a boy, and for some time drove a
milk wagon for his uncle. Returning to
B;'cks county he clerked in the store of
"his brother Thomas at Mechanics Val-
ley until 1850, when in partnership with
his brother, Moses P. Hall, he purchased
the store at Buckingham, which they
conducted for four years. On April i,
1854, he purchased and removed to
the present homestead farm " at
Danboro, where he resided for the
following thirteen years. In April. 1867,
"he purchased a property at Smith's Cor-
ner in Plumstead township and opened
a store, which he conducted for two
years. He then removed to Mechanics
"Valley, where he conducted the store
■for six years, and in 1875 returned to the
old homestead, where he has since re-
sided. Mr. Hall was the pioneer milk
shipper to Philadelphia market from
Doylestown. He married Sarah Carlile,
daughter of Benjamin and Elizabeth
Carlile, of Plumstead, who was born on
the present Hall homestead, wliere her
father died January 9, 1833. Benjamin
and Sarah (Carlile) Hall were the par-
•ents of two sons and a daughter, of
whom William W., mentioned herein-
after, alone survives.

MATTHIAS H. HALL, third son of
Mahlon and Isabella (Robinson) Hall,
was born in Doylestown township,
Bucks county, Pennsylvania, April 29,
1844. He was reared to the life of a
farmer and acquired his education at the
public schools of that vicinity. His whole
life has been devoted to agricultural
pursuits in the county of his birth. The

following spring after his marriage he
began farming for himself in Wrights-
town township, and after five years' resi-
dence there he removed to Upper Make-
field, and in 1883 purchased his present
farm in that township, on the Ime of
Wrightstown, near the site of the his-
toric Indian village of Playwicky, where
he has since resided. While conforming
to the tenets of the Society of Friends,
in which faith his paternal ancestors
were reared, he is not a member of the
society. Though deeply interested in the
afifairs of his coi^mty, state and nation,
he has taken little part in partisan poli-
tics. He is an active member of the
Bucks County Historical Society, and
a regular attendant of its meetings. He
recently contributed a valuable paper to
its archives on the local history and
folk-lore of his locality, so rich in his-
toric interest as the border line between
the original settlement of the pioneers
of Penn's colony in America and the
land taken up by. their descendants and
the later arrivals. He married, Novem-
ber 18, 1874, Sarah Wiggins, daughter of
Jesse and Margaret (Hampton) Wig-
gins, of "Wrightstown. She is a de-
scendant of Benjamin Wiggins, one of
the earliest settlers in the locality in
which she lives, and who is said to have,
come thence from New England. He
married in 1708, Susan Jenks, widow of
Thomas Jenks, of Shropshire, England,
on the borders of Wales, who came into
Bucks county with her infant son
Thomas, about 1700, and is the ances-
tress of the prominent family of that
name in Bucks county. By her second
marriage with Benjamin Wiggins she
had one son, Benzaleel Wiggins, born in
1709, from whom the prominent family
of that name as well as numerous oth-
ers of Wrightstown, Buckingham, Sole-
bury and Makefield are descended. The
pioneer maternal ancestor of Mrs. Hall
was John Hampton, of Ephingstoun,
East Lothian, Scotland, who purchased
land at Amboy Point, East Jersey. No-
vember 23, 1682, and later settled at
Freehold, New Jersey, where he died in
February, 1702-3, leaving sons: John,
Joseph, Andrew, David, Jonathan and
Noah. Joseph Hampton, his son by a
second marriage with Jane Ogburn,
widow of John Ogburn, and mother of
Sarah Ogburn, wife of Edmund Kinsey,
was one of the first ministers among
Friends of Buckingham. Jane was four
times married and came to Buckingham
about 1720, then the widow Sharp, and
died there in 1731. Joseph Hampton
either accompanied or preceded hiS
mother to Bucks county and located in
Wrightstown. He married Mary, daugh-
ter of Thomas Canby and has left
numerous descendants. He died in I767>
leaving two sons, John and Benjamin,
and three daughters. The children of
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are : Frances, Margaret, Hanna, Jesse, and
l-lmma, all of whom reside with their
parents.

WILLIAM W. HALL, only surviving
son of Benjamin and Sarah (Carlile)
Hall, was born in the village of Buck-
ingham where his father and uncle
Moses were at the time engaged in mer-
cantile business, November 2, 1851. His
parents removing to the present home-
stead in T<S54, he was reared on the farm
upon which he still resides and was edu-
cated in the schools of Plumstead town-
ship At the age of thirteen years, dur-
ing the civil war, he and four compan-
ions went to Philadelphia and offered
their services in the Union army. It is
needless to say that their services were
declined on account of their age. He re-
turned home and entered the store at
Buckingham as a clerk, remaining as
such for eight years, and then returned
to the farm. In politics Mr. Hall is a
Republican and has taken an active in-
terest in the councils of his party. He
has held a number of local positions,
and has been a justice of the peace
since 1888. He has served as delegate
to state and- congressional conventions
and as a member of the county commit-
tee. He is an active member of the In-
dependent Order of Red Men, and has
served as representative grand chief for
five terms to th » grand council of the or-
der. ' He is al.so a past chief of the
Knights of the Golden Eagle. Mr. Hall
married, October 26, 1880, Anna Fry,
daughter of Michael Fry, of, Plumstead,
and they are the parents of ten children:
Chester Arthur; Roscoe C. ; Nellie B.,
deceased; Warren Russell; Florence
Ethel; Norman D.; Althea Fry; Eleanor
E., deceased; and- Sarah Esther, and
Emma F'auline Hall.

HOWARD PURSELL, M. D. of Bristol,
was born in Bridgeton (formerly Nocka-
mixon) township, Bucks county, March
23, 1847, and is a son of Brice M. and
Martha Merrick (Poore) Pnrsell.

The Purcell-Pursell family of Penn-
sylvania and New Jersey are descend-
ants of the noble family of Purcell in
Ireland, whose founder. Sir Hugh Pur-
cell, was a grandson of Sir Hugh Purcell
who went from Normandy to England
with William the Conqueror, and traced
his descent through many generations
from Charlemagne of France. Sir Hugh
Purcell is said to have been the first of
the conquering Normans to land on
1 British soil at Pevensey Bay, and the
first to effect a deed of arms by storming
the ruins of a Roman castle where a
party of King Harold's soldiers lay en-
trenched. The Irish Purcells were ad-
herents of the House of Stuart, and
were swept away by the rebellion of
1641, though several distinct branches

of them later recovered their lands and
titles at the restoration and were again'
badly broken on the accession of Will-
iam of Orange.

John Purslone Pursley or Purssell, as
his name is variously spelled, came to
America from Dublin. Ireland, in the
ship "Phoenix," arriving in the river
Delaware in August, 1677, and settled in
Bucks county. He was appointed con-
stable far the "further side of Nesham-
inah" 7 mo. 9, 1685, and on the 8th of
7 mo. 1689, w^as again appointed consta-
ble for the "upper, parts of the settle-
ment, between Neshaminah and Poques-
sing." In the same year he appears as a
witness in the Bucks county courts, and'
on being attested gives his age as "about
sixty years." He was again appointed
constable in 1690, for "upper parts of
Neshaminah." He married in 1684, Eliza-
beth, widow of Thomas Walmsley, who-
with her husband and six children mi-
grated from Yorkshire in .1682 and set-
tled in Byberry, Philadelphia county,
bringing a certificate from Settle Month-
ly Meeting of Friends in Yorkshire. At
about the same date of the arrival of
John Purslone in Bucks county, Thom-
as Purcil appears at Flatlands, Long
Island. He acts as an appraiser in that
town in 1679, and was one of the pat-
entees of Newton, Long Island, in
1686. He or a son of his with the same
name removed to the Raritan, in Som-
erset county. New Jersey, prior to 1703,
and had children baptized at the Raritan
. Dutch Reformed church. The descen-
dants of Thomas Pursell became num-
erous in Somerset, Middlesex and Essex
counties. New Jersey, prior to 1760. In
1710 he purchased a large tract of land
in Somerset county, though then living
in Middlesex, and in 1719 conveyed one-
half of it to his son Daniel, who in 172S
conveyed a part of it to Gysbert Krom,
of Amwell township, Hunterdon county.
A Daniel Purcell settled later in Alex-
andria township, Hunterdon county and
in 1783 bought a tract of land in Tini-
cum, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and
erected a grist mill which he operated
for two j'ears. He then returned to-
Kingwood, New Jersey, where he died
in 1804, leaving sons, Peter, Benjamin
and Thomas, and daughters, Ruth Mid-
dleswarts, Sarah Tinsman and Hannah
Jones.

On September 28, 1728, "Denes Purcell
of Pennsylvania" married Ruth Cooper,
daughter of Henry and Mary (Buck-
man) Cooper, of Newtown, Bucks coun-
ty, and settled in Bethlehem township,
Hunterdon county. New Jersey. Wheth-
er he w-as a son of John and Elizabeth
(Walmsley) Purssell, of Bucks county,
or of Thomas, of New Jersey, is prob-
leniutical. but certain it is that Dennis
and Ruth Cooper were the parents of
John Pursell, "of Pennsylvania," who
married in 1761 Ann Coone (Coomb), of

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Tinicum township, Bucks county, and
settled in Nockamixon township, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, wdiere he pur-
chased land in 1773. Another John Pur-
sell, also of Pennsylvania, married in
1765 Mary Logan, and settled in Falls
township, Bucks county, where he died
in 1778.

John Pursell, of Nockamixon, died in
that township in December, 1804, and
his will was probated February 5, 1805.
It is probable that his father, Dennis
Pursell, settled in Nockamixon while
John waj a young man, as a Denes Pur-
sle was sergeant of the Nockamixon
company of Associators in 1775, and,
though John had a son Dennis, it is
hardly probable that he could have been
of sufficient age to have held a commis-
sion at that date. The children of John
and Ann (Coomb) Pursell were: i. John.
Jr., who married Mercy Iliff. and died
in 1816, leaving eleven children. 2.
Thomas, who married Catherine Crause,
and died in 1841, leaving six sons, Den-
nis, William. John. Thomas, Jacob and
Frederick, and one daughter, Mary, who
married Jacob Fulmer. 3. Brice, men-
tioned hereinafter. 4. Dennis, who went «
west and left no descendants in Bucks
county. 5. Ruth, who became the wife
of Daniel Strawn, born 1752, son of Ja-
cob and Christiana (Pursell) Strawn, of
Haycock, the former of whom was a
half-brother of Ruth (Cooper) Pursell.
by the second marriage of Mary (Buck-
man) Cooper with Launcelot Strawn. 6.
Elizabeth, who became the wife of Ben-
jamin Holden. 7. Mary. 8. Ann. 9. Han-
nah, who became the wife of John Will-
iams, a son of Benjamin and Mercy
Stevenson Williams. TO. Margaret. 11.
Jane, who became the wife of Jacob
Hauseworth. Mary. Ann and Hannah,
aforementioned, were triplets; all grew
to womanhood, married and all died at
the birth of their first child. Either Mary
or Ann married a Henry, and left a
daughter Ann.

Brice Pursell, third son of John and
Ann (Coomb) Pursell, was born in
Nockamixon. August 15, 1776, and died
there August 12, 1830. He lived on a
portion of the homestead which had
been devised to the three eldest sons,
John. Thomas and Brice. and was par-
titioned between them in 1806. He later
purchased considerable other land ad-
joining, becoming a large landholder
and a man of prominence in that com-
munity. He was a justice of the peace
for twenty-one years and performed a
large amount of public business. He
married Catharine Moore, who was born
May 25. 1784. and died August 12, 1848,
and they were the parents of nine chil-
dren: I. Ann, who became the wife of
John Fisher. 2. Thomas, who married
Eliza IMarshall. 3. John, who married
Sarah .Williams. 4. Evaline. who be-
came the wife of Abrarn Arndt. 5.

Brice Moore, mentioned hereinafter. 6.
Hugh, who married Jane B. Eltonhead.
7. Daniel, who married three times; his
first wife was Susanna Unangst; his
second wife was Alargaret Rebecca Eil-
enberger; and his thrid wife was Rachel
Quinn. 8. Hannah, who became the wife
of Cyrenius Slack, of Hunterdon coun-
ty, New Jersey. 9. Mary, who died at
the age of six years.

Brice Moore Pursell, father of Dr.
Howard Pursell, was born in Nockam-
ixon, August 31, 1811, and died there
June 18, 1885. He was a farmer and
lived on the old family homestead. He
married, July 19, 1837, Martha Merrick
Poore, born February 18, 1817, in Up-
per Makefield township, Bucks county,
died in Bristol, Pennsylvania, May 2,
1902. She was a daughter of Daniel and
Maria (Merrick). Poore; the former a
son of John Poore, was born October 12,
1793, and died April 12, 1888, and the
latter was born April 23, 1798 and died
October i, 1879. They were married
May 2, 1815. The Merricks are descend-
ants of John Merrick, a native of Here-
fordshire. England, who settled in Low-
er Dublin. Philadelphia co.unty, prior
to 1700. His son John Merrick was an
early settler in Makefield, where he has
left numerous descendants. Brice Moore
and Martha M. (Poore) Pursell were the
parents of four sons: i. Augustus, born
^Li}- 3, 1839, married November 12,
1868, Evalina Eilenberger, daughter of
David and Susan (Arndt) Eilenberger,
who bore him one child, Jessie Martha
Pursell; Evalina's death occurred at his
home in Muncy, Pennsylvania, July 27,
1904. 2. Horatio N., born December 4,
1841, died August 31, 1863. after his
return from the civil war; he was unmar-
ried. 3. Howard, born Marth 23, 1847,
mentioned hereinafter. 4. Stacy, born
November 20, 1849, married, April 22,
1885. Josephine K. Williams, daughter
of Barzilla and Sarah (King) Williams,
no issue.

Howard Pursell, third son of Brice
and Martha M. (Poore) Pursell, was
w.Ts born and reared in Nockamixon
(now Bridgeton) township. He gradu-
ated from the medical department of the
New York University. March i, 1867,
and practiced medicine at Ceres, New
York, until 1869. In the latter year he
removed to Bristol, Bucks county, Penn-
sylvania, where he has conducted a drug
store and practiced medicine ever since.
He is a member of the Bucks County
]\Iedical Society, the Medical Society of
Pennsylvania, and the American Medi-
cal Association. He is president of the
board of health of Bristol, which posi-
tion he has held since 1893. He is a mem-
ber of the board of United States exam-
ning surgeons for Bucks county. In po-
litics he is a Republican. He is a past
master .of Bristol Lodge, No. 25, Free
and Accepted Masons.

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Dr. Pursell lias been twice married,
first on February 22, 1869, to Vestilla
Smith, daughter of James and Achsah
(Lear) Smith. His second marriage oc-
curred at Milford, New Jersey, June
4, 1879, to Nellie Carpenter Bartolette,
daughter of Dr. Charles R. and Ann M.
(Carpenter) Bartolette. His children
are as follows: James Everett, born
June 12, 1870; Ethel Bartolette, born
May 12, 1882; Charles Howard, born
September 30, 1885, died February 18,
1886: and Carrie Nesbit, born February
2, 1888.

WILLIAM EDGAR GEIL, the dis-
tinguished author, traveller and orator,
was born near Doylestown, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, and is the son of Samuel
Geil, still residing in Doylestown, by his
late wife Elizabeth Seese, deceased. On
the paternal side Mr. Geil is of French
and German descent. His great-grand-
father, Jacob Geil, was born in the prov-
ince of Alsace, in the year, 1742, and ac-
companied his parents to America in the
ship "Duke of Bedford," arriving in
Philadelphia, September 14, 1751. The ■
family lived for a time in Philadelphia
and then located on the Skippack, in
what is now Montgomery coimty, Penn-
sylvania, where Jacob Geil married Anna,
daughter of John Clymer (or Klemmer)
and granddaughter of Bishop Valentine
Klemmer, who came from Switzerland in
1717. By deed dated April 18. 1763, Will-
iam Crook conveyed to him by name of
"Jacob Choel, of Philadelphia county,"
194 acres in Springfield township. Bucks
county. He was a weaver by trade. On
April I, 1768, Jacob Geil and Anna his
wife conveyed the Springfield farm to
Conrad Jacoby, and on April 18, 1768,
Samuel Barnhill and wife conveyed to
him 153 acres near New Galena in New
Britain township. Bucks county. Here
his wife Anna died, and he married a
second time and in 1786 sold his farm
and removed with the j-ounger members
of his family to Chester county, and
from thence to Rockingham county, Vir-
ginia, where he died about 1802. The
children of Jacob Geil were: Mary, who
married Samuel Godshalk. of New Brit-
ain; Abraham. John, Philip, and Mar-
garet. The first two were by the first
wife, and the last three by the second.
Philip and Margaret were minors on their
return to Bucks county in 1802, and guar-
dians w^ere appointed for them b)^ the
Bucks county court.

John Geil, son of Jacob, was born in
New Britain, Bucks county, April i, 1778,
and removed with his father to Virginia,
where he was apprenticed to the tanning
trade, but, liking neither the trade or his
master, he returned to Bucks county
about 1796, and probably resided for a
time with his elder brother, Abraham
Geil. Abraham was a farmer, and later

located near Doylestown, where Samuel
Hart now lives, and reared a family of
eight children, of whom but two married,
and none so far as known left male de-
scendants. John Geil married April 22,
1802, Elizabeth Fretz, daughter of Mark
Fretz, wdio owned and operated the grist
and saw mills later known as Curley's
Mills, in New Britain. John Geil settled
in New Britain, where he owned a farm,
and resided there until near the close of
his life. He was ordained as minister of
the Mennonite congregation at Line Lex-
ington in 1809, and preached there for
forty-two years. Late in life he re-
moved to Plumstead, where he died Jan-
uary 16, 1866, at the age of eighty-eight
years. His wife was born January 27,
1781, and died November 6, 1849. She
was the daughter of Mark and Elizabeth
(Rosenberger) Fretz, the former a son
of John and Maria Fretz of Bedminster,
and the latter the daughter of Rev.
Henry Rosenberger, for many years pas-
tor of the Mennonite congregation in
Franconia, Montgomery county. Rev.
John and Elizabeth (Fretz) Geil were
the parents of nine children: Jacob, the
eldest son, married Anna Funk, and had
three sons: John F., Enos F. and Sam-
uel; the first and last removed west;
Samuel became a distinguished lawyer in
Ohio, and removed later to California,
where he recently died. The remaining
children of Rev. John Geil were: Bar-
bara, who married Abraham Landis;
Elizabeth, who married Martin D. Ros-
enberger, of Hilltown, (see Rosenberger
family); Mark, who died young; Catha-
rine, who married John Krabehl; Mary,
who married Joseph Landis; John, born
August 20. 1819, killed by a fall in his
barn in New Britain, August 26, 1890;
Anna, who married Mathew Hare and
removed to Illinois; and .Samuel.

Samuel Geil, of Doylestown, youngest
son of Rev. John and Elizabeth (Fretz)
Geil, was born in New Britain, Bucks
county, March 11. 1825. He was a youth
of more than ordinary intellectual abil-
ity and of a studious temperament. Early
in life he studied civil engineering and
surveying. After teaching school for
some j^ears he followed topographical
engineering and surveying, and for many
years made and published township,
county and state maps. He made a sur«
vey of Morris county. New Jersey, in
1850, and his last map published, which
was a triumph in map-making, was that
of the state of Michigan, made in 1863-
65;. He then settled on his large farm in
New Britain, where he resided until
1878, when he removed to Doylestown,
and for several years was engaged in
the hard wood lumber business. In 1856
he injured his spine by a fall from which
he never fully recovered. Samuel Geil
married Elizabeth Seese. of Plumstead,
whose ancestors came over in the May-
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children: Ella, residing with her father
in Doylestown; and William Edgar, the
subject of this sketch.

William Edgar Geil, the great traveler,
author and orator, was born in New
Britain township, Bucks county, near
Doylestown, October i, 1865. He ac-
quired his education at the public
schools, the Doylestown English and
Classical Seminary, and Lafayette Col-
lege, Easton, Pennsylvania, graduating
from the latter institution in the class
of 1890. At an early age he manifested a
d^ep interest in religious matters and
became an earnest and active member of
the church. An indefatigable student, he
early became thoroughly versed in the
Scriptures as well as in most of the im-
portant sacred literature, ancient and
modern.

On leaving college where he was fa-
mous as an orator he engaged in evan-
gelistic work, with credentials from the
Doylestown church, and soon after made
several trips to Europe. Later he vis-
ited Asia, Egypt, the Holy Land, and
many of the ancient cities of the Mediter-
ranean. Returning to America he again
engaged in evangelistic work. He then
began his life work in earnest, and his
success was phenomenal. He held re-
vival meetings in various parts of New
Jersey, New York and New England,
and later made a tour of the south and
west, addressing meetings of thousands
of hearers and making thousands of con-
verts. The "Cincinnati Inquirer" says
of him: "His success has been more pro-
nounced than that of any evangelist since
Moody;" and the "Lowell (Mass.) Citi-
zen" says that the meetings conducted
by him were "the most remarkable series
of meetings ever held in this city." In
1896 he made another extended trip
abroad, revisiting the Holy Land and its
ancient environs, and many of the an-
cient towns of Asia Minor, and the Med-
iterranean. Among other points he vis-
ited the Isle of Patmos, and on his re-
turn wrote and published his book. "The
Isle that is called Patmos," which reach-
ed a sale of many thousands, and was
rewritten, enlarged and republished in
1904. after his second visit to the island,
in that year. The alarming illness of his
mother, to whose early training he says
he owes most of his success, called him
"home in the early part of 1897. and soon
after closing the eyes of his beloved par-
' ent in her last sleep, on May 2. 1897,
be returned to Europe for a brief sojourn
and then again took up his work in his
native country with increased success.

The crowning feat, however, of his
younger days, was his remarkable trip
around the world, visiting missions in
-obscure and distant parts of heathendom,
and occupying a period of nearly four
years. The purposes of this trip are best
described by his Doylestown pastor, who
says: "The purpose of the tour is that of

independent observation of the whole
missionary field, in its actual condition,
operations, modes of organization, in-
struction and efforts, its different pecu-
liarities, its needs, its difficulties, its rela-
tions to existing heathen religion, to in-
ternational and denominational policies of
political events ; and what encouragement or
discouragement may exist in the great work
of extending the gospel to the world,
and especially to the neglected parts of
heathendom. A special object is to visit
schools, colleges and institutions of sa-
cred learning in connection with mis-
sionary operations and report the results
to the whole Christian church." This
purpose Mr. Geil fulfilled to the letter.
Leaving Philadelphia on April 29, 1901,
he crossed the continent to California,
and. sailing from the Golden Gate for the
Sandwich anjj South Sea Islands, visiting
the Hawaiian, Samoan, Fiji, and many
other archipelagoes, inspecting the mis-
sions, and intelligently noting their con-
dition and work, as well as the condition
and characteristics of the inhabitants,
and the relation of governmental and
commercial matters to the propagation
of the Gospel of Christ. He proceeded
thence to New Zealand, and Australia,
reaching Sydney in November. 1901,
where, and in Melbourne the following
April and May, he organized and partici-
pated in the greatest religious revivals
the continent has evein known, speaking
daily to audience*s of 3-000 at noon and
10,000 at night. From Australia he pro-
ceeded to New Guinea, the Philippines
and Japan. The results of this part of
the trip are beautifully told in his book,
"Ocean and Isle," published in 1904. He
also made an extensive trip through
China, going up the Yangtse river in a
native gunboat, and was carried over the
mountains of western China in a bamboo
mountain chair. His popular work, "A
Yankee on the Yangtse" tells the story
in brilliant language. He visited Man-
churia. Korea and Siberia, and later
traveled extensively in Burmah and jour-
neyed across Africa from Mombassa on
the eastern coast to the Pigmy Forest,
and thence down the Congo to the west-
ern coast. William Edgar Geil is the
greatest living traveler. He is the only
living white man who has crossed both
China and tropical Africa. His great book
"A Yankee in Pigmy Land," is just
published. After spending sometime
lecturing to vast audiences in England
and Scotland, where he was welcomed by
immense crowds, he returned to Bucks
county and in June, I90S,_ delivered an
address before the alumni of his alma
mater. Lafayette College, and received
from that institution the degree of A. _M.
One feature of his return to his native
town was the large and enthusiastic re-
ception tendered him by his fellow
townsmen in the courthouse at Doyles-
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many prominent P)ucks counlians, ami
at least one thousand pe()j)le ijacked the
"Temple of Justice" while others climbed
up to the windows on ladders to wel-
come the distinguished traveler on his
return to his native heath. In August,
7905, he again sailed for foreign lands,
and. after spending some months in Eng-
land, Scotland and Wales, intends mak-
ing an extended trip to Persia and other
Asiatic points to fmish up the work of
his renowned trip around the world.

Mr. Geil, in addition to numerous and
noted magazine articles, is the author of
a number of books that have had enor-
mous sales. One of his earliest publica-
tions was "The Pocket Sword," a vest-
pocket book of scriptural phrases anr!
texts and the lessons drawn from them,
that has been immensely popular and has
reached a sale of over j^ocooo copies.
Among his other books are, "Judas Is-
cariot and other Lectures;" "The Isle
That is Called Patmos;" "A P.oy in the
Sun;" "Laodicea, Or the Marble Heart;"
"Smyrna, or the Flight of the Angel;"
"Trip Stories;" "Ocean and Isle;" "A
Yankee on the Yangtse;" "The Man of
Galilee;" "A Yankee in Pigmy Land."
Mr. Geil's new books "The Men on the
Mount;" "The Automatic Calf," and
"The Worker's Testament," have just
passed throught the press. He has deliv-
ered six thousand lectures to large au-
diences in many states and countries. He
is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical
Society of London, and a member of a
number of other noted societies. In all
his wanderings the heart of the great
traveler still clings to Doylestown as his
"home," in all the 'truest sense of that
much abused term.

HON. EDWARD M. PAXSON, of By-
cot House, Buckingham township, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, ex-chief justice of
the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, was
born in Buckingham, September 3, 1824,
and is a son of Thomas and Ann (John-
son) Paxson, and comes of an old and dis-
tinguished family that have been residents
of Bucks county from its earliest settle-
ment.

James, Henry and William Paxson,
brothers, came to Pennsylvania in the ship
"Samuel," arriving in the river Delaware
the middle of the eleventh month, 1682.
Another brother, Thomas, died at sea on
the same ship as did the wife and son
(Henry) of Henry. Henry Paxton came
from Bycott House, in the parish of Stowe,
Oxfordshire, and James and William from
the parish of Marsh Gibbon, county of
Bucks, near Stowe. Bycot House is said
to have been the ancestral home of the
family for many generations. The subject
of this sketch, in a visit there several years
ago, found a Henry Paxton then occupy-
ing the premises. The family were Friends

prior to tlicir coming to Pennsylvania, anrl
brought certificates from Bucks Monthly
Meeting in Buckinghamshire, England. The
family settled in Middletown, where Henry
took as a second wife, Margery, the widow
of Charles Plumly, August 13, 1684, his
nephew, Henry Paxson, son of James, mar-
rying her daughter, Ann Plumly. Eliza-
beth, the only child of Henry Paxson, Sr.,
who reached Pennsylvania with him, mar-
ried Richard Burgess, who in 1696 pur-
chased two hundred acres on the river
Delaware in Solebury, and what was long
known as "Paxson's Island," in the river
adjoining, then known as "Turkey Point."
This tract, and island later became the prop-
erty of William Paxson, son of James, and
remained in the family many generations.
Henry Paxson was also a very extensive
land holder in Solebury, owning about one
thousand acres there, and numerous large
tracts elsewhere. He died about 1725, and,
having no living descendants, devised his
immense holdings of real estate to his
nephews, the Solebury land going to Will-
iam and Henry, the sons of his brother
James.

James Paxson and Jane his wife, who
came from Marsh Gibbon, in the county of
Bucks, England, as before recited, were the
parents of four children : Sarah, born in
England, Smo. 28, 1671, married 1692, John
Burling; William, born lomo 25, 1675, mar-
ried Abigail Pownall ; Henry, born in
Bucks county, 7mo. 20, 1683, married Ann
Plumly ; and James, born 4mo. 10, 1687.
died 7mo. 16, 1687. Jane, the mother, died
2mo. 7, 1710, and James, the father, 2mo.
29, 1722.

William Paxson, the second son of James
and Jane, born in Bucks county, England^
on Christmas day, 1675, was the direct an-
cestor of Judge Paxson. He married, Feb-
ruary 20, 1695, Abigail Pownall. youngest
daughter of George and Elinor Pownall.
of Laycock, Cheshire, England, who, with
their son, Reuben and daughters Elizabeth,
Sarah, Rachel, and Abigail, came to Penn-
sylvania" in the ship "Friends' Adventure,""
arriving in the Delaware river Smo. (Octo-
ber) II, 1682, and located in Falls town-
ship, where George was killed by a falling
tree thirty days after his arrival. Another
son George was born eleven days after his
father's death. The w^idow Elinor later
married Jo.shua Boare. Abigail was born
in England in 1678. She became a recom-
mended minister among Friends, and died
in Solebury, Bucks county, 4mo. 17, 1749-
Her husband, William Paxson. died in 1719.
Their children were: Mary, born iimo. 2,
1696; Al)igail, born 6mo. 20, 1700; James,
born gmo. 5, 1702, married (first) Mary
Horsman in 1723, and (second) Margaret
Hodges in 1730; Thqmas, born 9mo. 20,
1712, married Jane Canby ; Reuben, who
married Alice Simcock ; Esther, who mar-
ried a Clayton ; and Amy. who never
married.

Thomas Paxsnn. son of William and
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155

of the real estate in Solebnry fell heir to
the farm lately occupied by the Johnson
family near Centre Bridge, and the island
lying opposite. He later purchased other
large tracts of land in Solebury, some of
which still remain in the tenure of his de-
scendants. Thomas died in 1782. He married
in 1732 Jane Canby, daughter of Thomas
Canby, an eminent preacher among Friends,
(son of Benjamin Canby of Thorn,
Yorkshire) who had come to Penn-
sylvania with his uncle Henry
Baker. He was three times mar-
ried, and had nineteen children who
intermarried with the most prominent fam-
ilies of Bucks county and have left numer-
ous descendants. The children of Thomas
and Jane Canby Paxson, were : Joseph,
born gmo. 10, 173.3, married 6mo. 28, 1758,
Mary Heston ; Benjamin, born 8mo. i,
1739, married 6mo. 16. 1763. Deborah Tay-
lor, (second) in 1797 Rachel Newbold : and
. (third) in 1807 Mary Pickering; Oliver,
born 7mo. 9, 1741, married, 1766, Ruth Wat-
son ; Rachel, born 3mo. 6, 1744, married,
1764. John Watson; Jacob, born iimo. 6,
1745, married in 1769 Lydia Blakey ; Jona-
than, born iimo. 14,.^ 1748, married, 1771,
Rachel Biles; Isaiah, boVn 9mo. 20. 1751,
married, 1775. Mary Knowles ; and Martha,
who died yoimg. Of the above named sons
of Thomas and Jane (Canby) Paxson,
Joseph was devised a farm at Limeport,
Solebury township: Benjamin, a farm at
Aquetong. still owned by the children of
his grandson, Elias Ely Paxson, one of
whom is the wife of Colonel Henry D.
Paxson; Oliver, who married (second)
Ruth Johnson, was left a farm in the Pike
tract, near New Hope; Isaiah, the island
known as Paxson's Island, where he died
without issue ; Jacob, the homestead farm
at Centre Bridge ; Jonathan, the farm at
Rabbit Run, now owned by Thomas Magill.
, — .Jacob Paxson, born iimo. 6, 1745, in
I Solebury township, fourth sou and fifth
I child of Thomas and Jane (Can-
Lby) Paxson, was the grandfather of
Judge Paxson. He married 6 mo.
19, 1769, Lydia Blakey, and at
about that date purchased a farm and
mill property on Tacony creek, in Mont-
gomery county, Pennsvlvania. and settled
thereon. Here his wife died, leaving him
two children, and he married a second
time, in 1777. ^Tary Shaw. born, in Plum-
stead township, Bucks county. 5mo. 28,
T759, daughter of Johnathan and Sarah
((^ood) Shaw, the former born in Plum-
stead, June 15, 1730. died there May 24.
1790, was a son of James and Mary
(Brown) Shaw, the pioneers of the Shaw
family in Plumstead. James being the son
of John and Susanna Shaw, early English
settlers in Northampton, and born January
9. 1694, a'icl married at Abington Friends'
Meeting. September 24, 1718. Mary Brown,
daughter of Thomas and Mary Brown, who
came from Barking Essex county, England,
and after residing for some time in Phila-
delphia settled near Abington, Montgomery

county. Pennsylvania. Thomas Brown was
one of the earliest landowners in Plum-
stead township, and he and his sons were
pioneer Friends in that section and the
founders of Plumstead Meeting. In 1724
Thomas conveyed to his son-in-law, James
Shaw, two hundred acres of land on the
upper line of Buckingham township, that
remained the Shaw homestead for over a
century and a half. The ancestors of Sarah
(Good) Shaw, were also early Quaker set-
tlers in Plumstead and adjoining parts of
New Britain. Jacob and Mary (Shaw)
Paxson were the parents of twelve children,
all born in Abington township, Montgom-
ery county, where Jacob Paxson continued
to reside until his death in Buckingham, in
i8?2. while on a visit to his. son-in-law.
William H. Johnson. The children of Jacob
and Marv (Shaw) Paxson were: John,
Sarah, Isaiah. Jonathan. Jane, Thomas.
Jacob. Oliver, and Ruth, most of whom
married and reared families, whose des-
cendants are now widely scattered over
Bucks, Philadelphia. Montgomery and
Chester counties and elsewhere.

Thomas Paxson, sixth child of Jacob and
Mary (Shaw) Paxson, was born in Mont-
gomery county in 1793, and reared in that
county. He married, in 1817. Ann Johnson,
daughter of Samuel and Martha (Hutchin-
son) Johnson, of Buckingham, and grand-
daughter of William Johnson, who was a
native of Ireland, and came to America
about the year 1754, in his nineteenth year.
He was a man of high scholastic attain-
ments, and a great student on scientific
subjects, and delivered numerous lectures
on electricity and kindred subjects of the
highest merit. He married Ruth Potts, of
an eminent New Jersey family, and re-
sided for a time in Philadelphia, where his
son Samuel was. born in 1763. He soon
after removed with his family to Charles-
ton, South Carolina, where he died in
1767 at the age of thirty-two years. His
widow and four children returned to Phila-
delphia and later removed to Trenton. New
Jersey, where they resided at the time of
the memorable battle of Tren<:on, on Christ-
mas night. T776. His eldest daughter Mary
married Thomas Mathews of Virginia,
and Hon. Stanley Mathews of the United
States supreme bench was a descendant.
The second child was Hon. Thomas Potts
Johnson, an eminent lawyer of New Jersey.

Samuel Johnson, third child of William
and Ruth (Potts) Johnson, born in Phila-
delphia, in 1763, removed with his par-
ents to South Carolina, and returned with
his mother to Philadelphia in his fourth
year. He was reared at Trenton, New
Jersey, and came to Bucks county in 1786,
purchasing "Elm Grove," on the York road,
east of Holocong. now the residence of his
great-grandson. Colonel Henry D. Paxson.
He later purchased a farm including the
site of the present "Bycot House," and
removed thereou. He was a man of high
intellectual ability and literary attainments,
a poet of more than ordinary merit. TwO'

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volumes of his poems have been published,
the last one in 1845. In 1801 he retired
from active business and, making his home
with his son-in-law. Thomas Paxson, de-
voted his time to literary pursuits and so-
cial intercourse with congenial spirits. He
died at the age of eighty-one years,
his wife having died a few years previously.
She was a daughter of IMathias Hutchinson.
Esq., a prominent public official of Bucking-
ham, and Solebury, for many years a jus-
tice of the peace and an associate justice of
the Bucks county courts. He was a grand-
son of John and Phebe (Kirkbride) Hut-
chinson, of Falls township, the latter being
a daughter of Joseph and Phebe (Black-
shaw) Kirkbride. Mathias Hutchinson
married, in 1765, Elizabeth Bye, whose an-
cestors were the first settlers on the land
now occupied by "Bycot House." Ann
Johnson, who married Thomas Paxson,
was born at "Elm Grove" in 1792. She was
a woman universally loved and respected in
her neighborhood for her many acts of
Christian charity and kindness. Whenever
by sacrifice and self devotion a fellow being
in want or sickness could be made more
comfortable by help in counsel or material
assistance, she acted the part of the Good
Samaritan with a cheerfulness that was
"highly appreciated. She was a writer of
much merit, both in poetry and prose. She
died in 1883, in her ninety-second year.
William H. Johnson, a brother of Mrs.
Paxson, married her husband's sister Mary
Paxson. He was a classical scholar and
mathematician, and an extensive writer
on temperance and anti-slavery, contribut-
ing numerous essays to the "Iiifclligenccr"
and other journals.

Thomas Paxson, at his marriage to Ann
Johnson in 1817, settled on the homestead
at Abington, but moved to Buckingham
two years later and purchased a portion of
the Johnson homestead near the mountain,
now occupied by his son, Hon. Edward M.
Paxson, where he spent his remaining days,
dying in April. 1881, at the age of eighty-
eight years. He was a member of the
Society of Friends and a constant attendant
at Buckingham Meeting. He took an active
part in the affairs of his neighborhood, and
"had strong convictions of right and wrong.
He was conservative in his views, and the
old landmarks of Friends that had dis-
tinguished them as a people were held in
reverence by him ; while an earnest advo-
cate of all true reforms for the improve-
ment of mankind, he believed the religious
society of which he was an earnest mem-
ber had a mission to fulfill with the Chris-
tian religion as a enduring basis. In him
the Socety of Frends lost an earnest sup-
porter and a living example of sacrifice and
devotion to principle rarely met with. The
children of Thomas and Ann (Johnson)
Paxson, were :

I. Samuel Johnson Paxson, born in
Montgomery county in 1818, died in Buck-
ingham, May 28. 1864. He was editor and

proprietor of the "Doylestown Democrat"
from 1845 to 1858, when he sold it to Gen-
eral W. W. H. Davis; he was a writer of
recognized ability. He married Mary
Anna Broadliurst in 1840, and had two
daughters: Helen, widow of J. Hart Bye,
now living at Germantown; and Carrie,
who married Watson B. Malone, and is
now deceased, leaving two daughters,
and a son Arthur, a business man of
Philadelphia.

2. Albert S. Paxson, born in Bucking-
ham in 1820. died there. At the age of
nineteen he became a teacher at a school
in Montgomery county where his father had
taught many years before. A year later,
1840. he returned to Buckingham and
taught for some years at "Tyro Hall" and
at the Friends School at Buckingham.
From 1851 to 1856 he was local editor and
general manager of the "Doylesfozvn Dem-
ocrat," owned and edited by his brother,
Samuel Johnson Paxson. In 1856 he re- ■
moved to the old Ely homestead, near Holi-
cong. that had been in the continuous oc-
cupancy of his wife's ancestors since 1720.
He was elected to the office of justice of
the peace in 1873, and served for ten years.
He devoted considerable time to literary
pursuits and was a writer of known merit.
He married first, in 1844, Mercy Beans,
daughter of Dr. Jesse Beans, who died in
1849, leaving a daughter Mary, who mar-
ried Robert Howell Brown, of Mount
Holly, New Jersey. She died at Bycot
House. July 20, 1887. leaving a son. T.
Howell Brown, now residing in Solebury.
Mr. Paxson married C second) in 1854, La-
vinia Ely, daughter of Aaron Ely, of Buck-
ingham, and a descendant of Joshua and
Mary (Seniar) Ely. who came to Trenton,
New Jersey, from Nottinghamshire, Eng-
land, in 1684. Their children are: Edward
E., born May 7, 1S60. engaged in the bank-
ing business in Philadelphia, with summer
residence at the old homestead; and Colon-
el Henry D. Paxson, born October T, 1862, a
member of the Bucks county and Philadel-
phia bar, for many years an officer of the
National Guard of Pennsylvania, and a
prominent lawyer of Philadelphia. He mar-
ried Hannameel Canby Paxson, a daugh-
ter of Elias Ely Paxson, of Aquetong,
and they reside at Elm Grove, in Buck-
ingham.

3. HoH. Edward M. Paxson, the
third son of Thomas and Ann (Johnson)
Paxson, was born in the old homestead in
Buckingham. September 3, 1824. He was
educated at the Friends' School at Bucking-
ham, then a famous educational institution,
where many young men. who later dis-
tinguished themselves in legal and other
professional life were educated. Judge
Paxson did not have a collegiate educa-
tion, but fitted himself in the classics and
higher branches of learning, chiefly bv his
own exertions. At an early age he had am-
bitions for a journalist career, and, having
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157

1842, at the age of eighteen years, started
the "Nezutown Journal," at Newtown,
Bucks county, and successfully conducted
it until 184.7, when he sold out and estab-
lished the "Daily Neius" in Philadelphia.
but sold it out also the following year and
removed to Doylestown, where he studied
law in the office of Hon. Henry Chapman,
later the judge of the Bucks county courts.
He was admitted to the bar of Bucks coun-
ty April 24. 1850, and after two years prac-
tice at Doylestown removed to Philadelphia,
where he practiced his chosen profession
for seventeen years, building up a large
practice and establishing a reputation as a
counselor at law that marked him for a
career as a jurist. He was appointed as a
judge of the common pleas court of Phila-
delphia on the resignation of F. Carroll
Brewster in 1869, and, showing marked
ability as a judge, was imanimously nom-
inated to succeed himself, and elected the
following October. After seven years' ser-
vice on the common pleas bench, he was
elected to the supreme bench in 1874. and
at once took a commanding position among
his fellow justices. His career on the su-
preme bench on which for eighteen years
he served as chief justice, was marked by
promptness in the discharge of business,
and always by careful considerations of the
questions of law. His opinions were mod-
els of terseness, clearness and appropriate
diction, and showed an accurate knowledge
of the law, expressed in clear and concise
Tanguage and terms that could be clearly
imderstood. Many notable cases were com-
mitted to his hands, and his reputation as
a supreme justice was an enviable one. He
resigned from the bench in 1893 and be-
.sylvania ; fourth, receiver of the Philadel-
phia & Reading Railroad Company, a posi-
tion he filled for four years. The only four
public positions ever held by Chief Justice
Paxson were the following: First, a mem-
ber of the board of guardians of the poor,
of Philadelphia; second, judge of the court
of common pleas, of Philadelphia ; third,
chief justice of the supreme court, of Penn-
sylvania ; fourth, receiver of the Philadel-
phia & Reading Railroad, all of which posi-
tions he resigned. He has for many years
had charge of several large estates, to the
"management of which and that of his own
large interests he has devoted much of his
time in recent years, his summers being
spent at "Bycot House" and his winters in
Philadelphia. He is one of the largest real
estate owners in' Bucks county, owning
manj'^ farms in Buckingham and Solebury,
aggregating nearly 2,000 acres.

Judge Paxson married, April 30, 1846,
Mary Caroline Newlin, of Philadelphia,
daughter of Nathaniel and Rachel H. New-
lin. of Delaware county, Pennsylvania. She
died at Bycot House, June 7, 18S5. He
married ("second) December i, tS86, Mary
Martha S. Bridges, widow of Hon. Sam-
uel K. Bridges, of Allentown. He has no
children.

WILLIAM CLAYTON NEWELL, of
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, was born in
Philadelphia, October 23, 1856, and is a
son of William C. and Susan (Bispham)
Newell.

William Cfirst") and Martha (McGee)
Newell, the great-grandparents of William
C. Newell, came from Belfast. Ireland, to
Philadelphia in 1780. He was a wholesale
merchant and importer and conducted a
large mercantile establishment at Water
street, below Market street, Philadelphia,
for many years. He died January 7, 1883,
and Martha, his wife, died in 1843 at the
age of eighty-four years. They were the
parents of nine children, all of whom were
born in Philadelphia : John in 1789; Eliza-
beth in 1790; William, February 25, 1792;
James in 1797; Ann in 1800; Stewart in
1802 : Samuel in 1804 ; Robert in 1808, and
Martha, in i8o5.

William Newell ("second") son of Will-
iam and Martha (McGee) Newell, born in
Philadelphia. February 25, 1792. succeeded
his father in the wholesale business in Phil-
adelphia, and was a large importer of teas
and coffees, owning two docks on the river
front and doing a large business. He was
a member of the First Troop Philadelphia
City Cavalry, 1820 to 1831, and was the
bearer of government despatches to France
in 1842. He married, April 10, 1823, Eliza

, born in Philadelphia. October 19,

1795. and died August 2. 1863, and they
were the parents of two children, William
and Rebecca.

William C. Newell (third) son of Will-
iam and Eliza, was born in Philadelphia,
September 5, 1825. and died there June 27,
1865. He was reared and educated in Phil-
adelphia, and on arriving at manhood en-
gaged in the wholesale tea business in
Philadelphia, and was a large importer of
tea from China, to which country he was
the bearer of government despatches in
1846. He married. June 16, 1852, Susan
Bispham Dunlap. of a prominent family of
that city, where she was born in May. 1824.
They were the parents of three children :
Susan, wife of Dr. James Hendrie Lloyd,
of Philadelphia ; William Claj'ton. the sub-
ject of this sketch; and Rebecca W., wife
of Grellett Collins, of Philadelphia.

William Clayton Newell, son of
William C. and Susan ("Dunlap) Newell,
born in Philadelphia. October 23. 1856, was
reared in that city and acquired his educa-
tion at the Central High School. At the
close of his school days he engaged in the
wholesale provision business, in 1877, with
which he was connected for several vears.
In 1892 he accepted a position with the
Provident Life and Trust Co. of Philadel-
phia, and has since filled a responsible po-
sition with that company, having charge of
the real estate department. He fs a member
of the Pennsylvania Society of the Sons of
the Revolution, and of the Society of the
War of 1812. He has been a resident of
Dovlestown since 1880, and is a vestryman

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

of St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal church
•of Doylcstown. Mr. Newell married, 27
April 1880, Sarah Rex Harvey, daughter
of Dr. George T. and Mary L. Rex Harvey,
of Doylestovvn, who is a descendant of one
of the oldest families in Bucks county.

Mathias Plarvye, the great-great-great-
grandfather of Mrs. Newell, came from
England and settled in Flushing, Long
Island, where he was a justice of Kings
county. New York, commissioned October,

1, i6go. On January i, 1697, he purchased
1050 acres in Upper Makefield, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, and settled thereon.
By his will dated April 5, 1699, his land was
devised to his three sons Mathias, Thomas
and Benjamin, Mathias, the eldest, get-
ting the dwelling house and four hundred
acres, and Thomas and Benjamin each three
hundred acres. All three of the sons reared
large families and left numerous descend-
ants in Bucks county. Mathias married
Elizabeth Margerum and died in 1742.
Benjamin died in 1730. Mathias, the father,
was twice married, the three sons above
named being by the second marriage, June

2, 1689, to Sarah Harrington.

Thomas Plarvye, the second son of ]\Ia-
thias and Sarah (Harrington) Harvye,
torn at Flushing, Long Island, October 22,
1692, came with his parents to Makefield
when a child. As above stated he inherited
from his father three hundred acres of
land in Upper Makefield, on which he lived
and died, his death occurring in January,

1759. He married Tamar , and had

•eleven children, five sons: Thomas, who
died in 1749: Benjamin, who also died be-
fore his father; Joseph, Mathias and
William; and six daughters: Hannah,
who married John Milnor in 1741; Ann,
who married Edward Bailey; Elizabeth,
married a Coryell; Mary, married Rich-
ard Plolcomb; Letitia, married Nathan-
iel Ellicott; and Sarah.

Joseph Harvey, son of Thomas and Ta-
mar, was born in Upper Makefield, Bucks
county, February 8, 1734, and died there
February, 1779. He inherited from his
father one-half of the homestead in Make-
field, and lived there all his life. He was
twice married, his second wife Margaret,
surviving him. By his first wife, Mary, he
"had six children : Thomas, Joseph, Letitia,
William, Enoch and Jo.shua.

Enoch Harvey, son of Joseph and ]\Iar}%
was born in Upper Makefield in 1767, and
-came to Doylestown about 1790, where he
followed the trade of a saddler for a few
years and was later the proprietor of the
inn now known as the Fountain House for
a few years. He was a large landowner
and an influential citizen, and took an active
part in the improvement of Doylestown as
it grew from a cross-road village into a
town and borough. He died July 15, 1831,
in his sixty-fifth year. He married. March
20, T792, Sarah Stewart, daughter of
Ch.-irles Stewart, of Doylestown, of Scotch-
Irish ancestry, a granddaughter of Captain
'Charles Stewart, a soldier in both the pro-

vincial and revolutionary wars. Sarah died
February 16, 1847, aged seventy-three. The
children of Enoch and Sarah (Stewart)
Harvey, were : Joseph, Charles, Mary,
Pleasant, Letitia, Sarah and George T.
Harvey.

George T. Harvey, youngest child of
Enoch and Sarah (Stewart) Harvey, was
born at Doylestown, February 27, 1813. He
was educated at a school kept at Bridge
Point by Samuel Aaron, and at the Doyles-
town Academy. At the age of twenty years
he began the study of medicine with Dr.
Abraham Stout, of Bethlehem, and, enter-
ing the medical department of the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania, graduated in 1835.
He then removed to Missouri, where he
practiced medicine until 1840, when he re-
turned to Dojdestown and erected a drug
store on the site of the present Hart build-
ing at Court and Main streets, where he
kept a drug store for nearly half a century.
He was a prominent and influential citizen,
was three times postmaster of the town and
several years a member of town council, be-
ing a member of that body when water was
first introduced into the borough in 1869.
He was second lieutenant of the Doyles-
town Guards, the first company organized
in Bucks county for the civil war, and later
served three years and three months as
captain of Company E, 104th Regiment
Pennsylvania Volunteers. Dr. Harvey
married (first) June 27, 1842, Mary K.
LaRue, of Philadelphia, by whom he had
two children, Emma and Edward, the latter
judge of the Northampton county courts.
Dr. Harvey married (second) in 1856,
Mary L. Rex, of Montgomery county, by
whom he had three daughters : Mary,
Sarah, (Mrs. Newell) and Emily.

The children of William Clayton and
Sarah (Harvey) Newell are: George Har-
vey, born June 25, 1881. died July 28, 1881 ;
William Clayton, born September 16, 1883;
Edward Harvey, born September 4, 1885 ;
Louis H. F., born November 16, 1887; Mary
Louise, born April 4, 1890; and Margaret,
born September 10, 1891, died October 5,
1891.

"ANDALUSIA." This place has been
hande^d down in uninterrupted succes-
sion to the members of the same family
since its acquisition in the year 1795.
It was purchased at that time by Mr.
John Craig, a well known and disting-
uished merchant of Philadelphia, and,
through his eldest daughter's marriage
in 181 1 to Mr. Nicholas Biddle, has de-
scended to their issue, and is occupied
by them and their descendants at the
present time.

The Biddle family has been prominent
in Pennsylvania since a very early day;
William Biddle (3d) married in 1730 the
daughter of Nicholas Scull, surveyor-gen-
eral of the province of Pennsylvania,
and, dying in 1756, left a numerous fam-
ily. His son Charles was an active pa-

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triot during the revolution, and vice
president of the State of Pennsylvania
betw^een 1785 and 1788. yvhen Benjamin
Franklin was the president. Another son
was Captain Nicholas Biddle, a comrade
in early life of Horatio Nelson, when
both were midshipmen in the English
navy. His later career in the navy of
our own country is well known. It was of
him Paul Jones, writing of the "live Cap-
tains" appointed in the revolution, said:
"Four of them were respectable skippers;
and they all outlived the war! One of
them was the kind of naval captain that
the God of Battles makes. That one was
Nick Biddle — poor, brave Nick! and he
died in hopeless battle with a foe double
his own strength — half of his flagship
going down, and the other half going
up by explosion of his magazine."

Vice-president Charles Biddle married,
in 1778, Hannah Shepard, and had ten
children. Two of these, Edward and
James, went into the United States navy.
Edward died during his first voyage, but
James became one of the most famous
naval officers. He served under Commo-
dore Bainbridge on the coast of Tripoli,
and shared with the crew of the ill-fated
"Philadelphia" the long period of im-
prisonment to which they were con-
demned by the Tripolitans. He was
first lieutenant of the sloop-of-war
"Wasp," in the sea fight with the British
sloop-of-war "Frolic," and led the board-
ers when the decks of the Englishman
were carried. He was captain of the
"Hornet," in the action with the British
ship "Penguin," when the latter was cap-
tured after a furious conflict, her cap-
tain being among the list of killed. He
was afterwards commander of the navy
yard and governor at the naval asylum
at Philadelphia, from 1838 to 1842.
Among special services rendered by him
was the taking possession of Oregon ter-
ritory in 1817; the signing of a commer-
cial treaty with Turkey in 1826; he ex-
changed ratifications of the first treaty
with China, and acted as United States
commissioner to that country; he also
touched at Japan and made an earnest effort
to conciliate by kindness and forbearance its
singular and exclusive people.

Nicholas Biddle. whose name is first
associated with "Andalusia," (son 01
Vice-president Charles) was during
manv years the most noted member of
the family. He was secretary to General
Armstrong, United States Minister to
France, in 1804, and was present at the
coronation of Emperor Napoleon in
Paris. At tliis time the purchase of
Louisiana and the indemnification for in-
juries to American commerce were in
progress, and. although but eighteen
years of age, young Biddle managed the
details with the veterans of the French
bureau, in whom his juvenile appearance
and precocious ability excited much sur-
prise. Leaving the legation, he traveled

in the continent of Europe, adding to his
classical attainments a thorough mastery
of the modern languages which he re-
tained through life. On reaching Eng-
land, he became secretary to Mr. Mon-
roe, then our Minister to London. On
his return to America in 1807, he engaged
in the practice of the law and devoted a
portion of his time to literary pursuits.
He became associated with Joseph Den-
nie in the editorship of the "Portfolio" in
181 1. His papers on the fine arts, bio-
graphical sketches and critical essays
exhibit a discriminating taste. When
Lewis and Clark had returned from
their explorations their journals and
memoradums were placed in the hands
of Mr. Biddle, who prepared from them
and the oral relation of Clark the nar-
rative of the expedition. Published in
1814, it has gone through various edi-
tions, and is recognized to-day as an au-
thoritative and admirably compiled ac-
count of this noted journey.

He was in the state legislature in 1810,
advocating a system of popular educa-
tion. It was not until 1836 that the
ideas broached by him were fully carried
out by legisla/tive enactment. When
the renewal of the charter of the old
United States Bank was under discus-
sion in 181 1, he advocated the measure
in a speech which was widely circu-
lated at the time, and gained the dis-
tinguished approval of Chief Justice
Marshall. During the war with England
he was elected to the state senate and
gave a zealous and powerful support to
the measures of the national adminis-
tration for carrying on the contest. He
and all of his brothers were now en-
gaged in the service of the country — in
public councils, the navy, the army, and
the militia; of whom Commodore James
Biddle, Major Thomas Biddle, and Ma-
jor John Biddle gained particular mili-
tary reputation. The youngest of the
brothers, Richard Biddle, during the war
a volunteer at Camp Dupont, afterwards
settled at Pittsburg and was for many
years an acknowledged leader of the bar
of that city.

After the capture of Washington, when
an invasion of Pennsylvania was ex-
pected, Nicholas Biddle in the senate
initiated the most vigorous measures for
the defense of the state. Towards the
close of the war he replied to the ad-
dress of the Hartford convention by an
elaborate report which was adopted in
the Pennsylvania legislature, a state pa-
per which attracted universal attention
and added greatly to the reputation of its
author. In 18T9 he became a government
director of the Bank of the United States
on the nomination of President Mon-
roe, and under a resolution of Congress
prepared a work on the laws and regula-
tions of foreign countries relative to com-
merce; moneys, weights and measures.
This was known in its day as "The Com-

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HISTORY OF DUCKS COUNTY.

mercial Digest." In 1823, on the retire-
ment of j\lr. Langdon Chcves, Air. Biddle
was elected to the presidency of the bank
and to the conduct of its affairs ne
thenceforth devoted all his energie.';. h i.e
history of the bank is public knowledge,
it has been recounted and touched upon
in writings and biographies dealing with
the events and characters of the time.
Only recently (1903) a work entitled
"The Second Bank of the United States,"
by Ralph C. H. Catterall, published un-
der the auspices of the University of
Chicago, has appeared giving a full account
of what in its day was long a "burning ques-
tion." After the smoke of battle had
cleared and when passions had cooled,
it was found that political antagonists
were ready to bear testimony to the high
character of Nicholas Biddle. Mr. C.
J. Ingersoll, a political opponent on the
bank question, writing of the war, says:
"Nicholas Biddle was as iron-nerved as
his great antagonist, Andrew Jackson;
loved his country not less, and money
as little." The last years of Mr. Biddle's
life were spent at Andalusia and there
he died on the 27th of February, 1844.

"Andalusia" is noted for the fine timber
growing upon it, splendid specimens of
the American tulip, catalpa, chestnut,
Spanish chestnut, and varieties of oak,
adorning the lawns, while towering ever-
greens surround the mansion house.
Many of these trees were planted in the
time of Mr. Craig. Nicholas Biddle did
much to adorn and beautify the place, ad-
ding a very striking portico in the Gre-
cian style with Doric columns to the
river-front of the house. He was an
enthusiastic agriculturist, devoting time
and thought to the cultivation of the
grape and importing the first Alderney
cattle to this country.

He was a member and served as presi-
dent of the Agricultural Society, resign-
ing only the month before his death. His
son, Judge Craig Biddle, inherited his
tastes in this direction, serving the so-
ciet}'^ before its dissolution in the -capac-
ity of president, also, and he continues
to direct the farming operations at "Anda-
lusia."

CHARLES HENRY MATHEWS,
of Philadelphia, is a descendant of the
early settlers in Bucks county, and was
born in Doylestown, Bucks county,
Pennsylvania, April 21, 1844, being a
son of Dr. Charles H. and Margaret
(Rodman) Mathews, the former an emi-
nent physician of Bucks county, and the
latter belonging to a family that had been
prominent in the affairs of the county
since the time of Penn. Simon Mathew,
the paternal ancestor of Dr. Mathews,
was a " native of Langenych, South
Wales, from whence he emigrated with a
colony of Welsh Baptists in 1710, and

settled in the Welsh Tract, New Castle
county, now Delaware. He was accom-
panied from Caermarthcnshire by An-
thony Mathew, either his father or broth-
er, and among others by Simon Butler,
who was in some way connected with
him b}^ ties of blood or marriage, and
with whom he was closely associated
during his whole life, both in New Cas-
tle and Bucks counties. The Welsh
Tract comprised a large tract of land
granted to a colony of Welsh Baptists
who, having formed themselves into a
church at Milford Haven just prior to
sailing for America, migrated to Penn-
.sylvania in September, 1701, in the
'■James and Mary," and settled at Pen-
n3^pack, where they remained for a year
and a half, and, being joined by later ar-
rivals from Pembroke and Caermarthen-
shire, removed in 1703 to Pencader
Hundred, New Castle county, where they
built a church and founded a colony,
both known by the name of "Welsh
Tract" for a century. In course of time,
the spelling of the name has been
changed in two particulars. One "t" has
been dropped, and the oldest legal docu-
ments do not show that it has been used
since the emigration to America. The
final "s" at first was not used; but old
deeds of a date previous to the Revolu-
tion show that the name had come to be
spelt "Mathews."

In 1720 Simon Mathews and Jane his
wife, Anthony Mathews, Simon Butler
and Ann his wife, and Daniel Rees and
Jane his wife, removed from Pencader
Hundred to New Britain township,
Bucks county, bringing certificates from
Welsh Tract ' church to Montgomery
Baptist church, the parent of New
Britain Baptist church, founded in 1741.
Simon Mathew and Simon Butler pur-
chased large tracts of land comprising
the greater part of the present borough
of Chalfont, where they jointly erected
what was known for many years as "But-
ler's Mill," Butler being the miller; and
Mathew a millwright. This mill was the
nucleus of the present town, and was the
objective point of many of the early
roads laid out from the ferries on the
Delaware and points in Upper Bucks
during the first half of the eighteenth
century. Anthony Mathew died in New
Britain, March 3, 1726. Simon Mathew^
died about July i, 1755. and his wife
Jane prior to December 28, 1751. the date
of Simon's will. By this will the testa-
tor's half interest in the mill, mill lots
and dwelling house was devised to his
son Edward, as well as a tract of land
adjoining, the remainder of the real
estate, about 150 acres, the homestead,
was devised to the youngest son Thomas.

The children of Simon and Jane
Mathew, were: John, married Diana
Thomas, and is the ancestor of Edward
Mathews, of Lansdale, the historian of
the family; Simon, who removed to Vir-

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ginia; Benjamin, who also removed to
Virginia; Edward, who lived in New
Britain, on Pine Run; Margaret, who
married a Thomas; Ann, who married
Simon Morgan; and Thomas. John, the
eldest son, died in New Britain in 1783,
and his widow Diana in 1799. Their chil-
dren were: Benjamin; Margaret, married
John Young; IMary, married Thomas
Barton; Joseph; Rachel, married James
Meredith: Ann, married Jonathan Doyle,
and removed to Huntingdon county,
Pennsylvania, and Susanna, married

Thomas.

Thomas Mathew, youngest son of Si-
mon and Jane, was born in New Britain
• in 1728. He inherited the homestead
farm near Chalfont, and was a prominent
and successful farmer, acquiring consid-
erable other land in the vicinity. He
married IMary Stephens, daughter of
David Stephens and granddaughter of
Evan Stephens, an early Welsh settler in
New Britain. He died in 1795.

Edw^ard Mathew, son of Thomas and
Mary (Stephens) Mathew, was born on
the old homestead in New Britain (pur-
chased by his grandfather in 1720), in
1755. In 1779 he purchased a farm of
one hundred acres in New Britain, on
which he resided until 1791, when his
father conveyed to him the homestead
farm of 127 acres, whereon he resided
until his death in the winter of 1813-14-
He married Eleanor Thomas, daughter
of Ephraim and Eleanor (Bates)
Thomas, of Hilltown, and granddaugh-
ter of "Elder" William Thomas, who
was born in Llanerwarth, Wales, in 1678,
and came to Pennsylvania in 1712 and
located in Radnor, Chester county, re-
moving to Hilltown in 1718. where he
became a very large landholder and one
of its most prominent residents. He was
a Baptist preacher, and officiated in that
capacity for the Baptists of Hilltown
prior to the founding of the Hilltown.
church, the land for which w^as donated
by him and the first church erected at his
expense. Edward ^Mathew w^as a man of
excellent parts and good standing in
the community. He was for many years
a deacon of the Baptist church of New
Britain. The children of Edward and
Eleanor (Thomas) Mathew were: Abel;
Rebekah, wife of Charles Humphrey; Si-
mon; and John, all of whom married and
reared families in New Britain.

Simon Mathew. second son of Edward
and Eleanor (Thomas) Mathew. was
born in New Britain in 1781. At the
death of his father he inherited sixty-
three acres, of the old homestead, on
which he resided for some years, though
he was at one time a resident of Mont-
gomerv county, and prior to the death
of his father had resided in Roxborough,
Philadelphia. He was a man of excellent
character, and succeeded his father as
deacon of the New Britain church. He
died in New Britain in February, 1828.
11-3

He married his cousin. Isabella Stephens,
daughter of William and Sarah Stephens,
of Doylestown, formerly New Britain
township, and granddaughter of David
and Ann Stephens, who were the parents
of his grandmother Mary (Stephens)
Mathew. Isabella was born and reared
on the old homestead of the Stephens
family in Doylestown (then New Britain
township) which was purchased by her
great-grandfather Evan Stephens, in
1729, and most of which remained the
property of the family for four genera-
tions. Isabella (Stephens) Mathews died
in 1833.

Dr. Charles H. Mathews, only son of
Simon and Isabella, was born at Rox-
boro. Philadelphia. November 6, 1805.
He received a liberal education and
graduated from the medical department
of the University of Pennsylvania in
1827. locating at Doylestown, Bucks
county, where he practiced his chosen
profession until his death, July 25, 1849,
He was a man of fine intellectual ability,
pleasing address and irreproachable
character; a popular and skilled physi-
cian, who was loved and respected by all
who knew him. He took an active inter-
est in the affairs of the town and county,
and filled many positions of trust. He
was prothonotary of the county for the
term 1836-9. He was for several years
an officer of militia, and was commis-
sioned major-general of the district com-
posed of the counties of Bucks, Mont-
gomery and Delaware, his commission
being delivered to him by General W.
W. H. Davis but a week prior to his
death. Dr. Mathews married first Mary
INIeredith, of Doylestown township, and
(second) Margaret Rodman, daughter of
Gilbert and Sarah (Gibbs) Rodman, and
a sister of his classmate, Dr. Lewis Rod-
man, who achieved high distinction in
the practice of his profession in Phila-
delphia.

Mrs. Mathews was born January 29,
1797, and died January 12. 1875. She
married Dr. Mathews on May 3, 1837.
She belonged to a family that had been
prominent in state and national affairs-
for several generations. Her grand-
father, Richard Gibbs. was sheriff of the
county of Bucks for the term 1771-2. and
filled a number of other high positions.
The pioneer ancestor of the Rodman
family was John Rodman, who died in
the Barbadoes in 1685. He is supposed
to have been the same John Rodman, a
Quaker, who for wearing his hat at the
assizes at New Ross. Ireland, in 1665,
was sent to jail for three months and
later banished the country. See Rutty's
"History of Quakers in Ireland." This
theory is strengthened by the known
fact that a great number of Quakers and
other "dissenters" were transported to
Barbadoes between the years 1669 and
1685. John Rodman died on his planta-
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Island of Barbadoes, in 1686, leaving a
widow Elizabeth, sons Thomas and John,
and daughters Ann Thwaite and Kath-
arine Brandeth. The sons Thomas and
John removed to Newport, Rhode Island,
Thomas in 1675, and John in 1682.
•>'Dr. John Rodman, the second son of
John and Elizabeth, born in 1653, be-
came a freeman of Newport, Rhode
Island, in 1684, and was prominent in the
affairs of that colony for five or six
years. He later removed to Block
Island, having purchased a three-six-
teenth share of the Island. In 1691 he
removed to Flushing, Long Island, but
returned to Block Island later. He died
September, 1731, at the age of seventy-
eight years. He was a prominent physi-
cian, and a minister among Friends for
forty years. In 1686 he purchased one
thousand acres of land in Burlington
county. New Jersey, where some of his
descendants later lived. He married
Mary Scar^^jjiion and had twelve children,
as follows :\rohn, born in Barbadoes May
14. 1679, see forward; Mary, died at New-
port in 1683; Samuel, died in New York
city in 1720; Joseph, born August II,
1685, died September, 1759, married
(first) Sarah Lawrence, (second) Helena
Willett; William, born May 20, 1687,
died jNIay 23, 1704; Anne, born August
II, 1689. died 1715, married Walter New-
berry; Thoma?, born 1692, died October,
1693 ; Mary, born December 20, 1693.
married John Willett; Elizabeth, died
young; Thomas, born January 9, 1698,
married Elizabeth Scott; Hannah, born
August 6, 1700. married (first) Jonathan
Dickinson, and (second) Samuel
Holmes; and Elizabeth, born at Flushing
in 1702, married Thomas INIasters, of
Philadelphia.

'b Dr. John Rodman, eldest son of Dr.
John and Mary (Scammon) Rodman,
born in Barbadoes. ]\Iay 14, 1679. was
reared at Newport, Rhode Island, where
he became a freeman in 1706. removed to
Block Island, and from there to Flush-
ing. Long Island, in 1712. In 1726 he
purchased land in Burlington county,
New Jersey, and settled there. He was,
like his father, a prominent physician and
a member of the Society of Friends. He
was a member of provincial assembly
1727-9, member of governor's council
1738. and commissioner to treat with the
Indians in 1741. He owned 1300 acres of
land in' Burlington county, and in 1703
purchased 3000 acres in Warwick town-
ship, Bucks county, comprising nearly
the whole eastern side of the township,
which at his death in Burlington county,
July^,T3. 1756. was devised to four of his
sons," John. William, Scammon, and Sam-
uel. Dr. Rodman married (first) Mar-
garet Grosse. daughter of Thomas and
Elizabeth Grosse. of Boston, who died at
Flushing. I-ond Island, June 2, 1718. He
married (second) July 7, 1719, Marj^

Willett, daughter of William Willett, of
Westchester county, New York, grand-
daughter of Thomas Willett, a native of
Bristol, England, who married in 1643
Sarah Cornell, daughter of Thomas Cor-
nell, of Cornell's Neck, Westchester
county. New York. The children ot Dr.
Kjohn 2.n(l Margaret (Grosse) Rodman
were :n John, born at Flushing, Long
Island, 1714, died 179S; Thomas, born
1716, died in Burlington, New Jersey,
1796, married Elizabeth Pearson; Mary,
married John Johnson, of Bucks county.

The children of Dr. John and Mary
(W^illett) Rodman were: William, born
May 5, 1720, see forward; Anna, born
1722, died 1763, married October 20, 1759,
William Lister, of Essex county, New
Jersey; Scammon, born March 8, 1723,
died January 4, 1762, unmarried; Han-
nah, born July 4, 1726, died October 7,
175s; Samuel, born May 30, 1729, died
July 4, 1761; and Margaret, born Aiigust
6, 1731, died October 18, 1752, married
October 10, 1751, Charles Norris.

William Rodman, eldest son of' D.r.
John by his second marriage with Mary
Willett, came to Burlington county. New
Jersey, from Flushing at the age of six
years. In 1744 his father sent him to
Bucks county to take charge of six hun-
dred acres of land in Bensalem township,
called Rodmanda, later named by him
after his birthplace. Flushing, where he
lived until his death, January 30, 1794. He
was one of the most prominent men of
his day in Bucks count}'. He was a jus-
tice 1752-57, and a member of provincial
assembl}', 1763-76. He married Mary
Reeve, of New Jersey, September 6, 1744,
and they were the parents of eight c-bil-
dren; Sarah, did at the age of four years;
Mary, born July 23, 1747. died Decem-
ber I, 1765. married, June 27, 1765,
Phineas Buckley; Gilbert, born July 21,
1748. died August 21, 1830. married Sarah
Gibbs. daughter of Richard and Mar-
gery Gibbs ; Hannah, born 1751, died
1775. married John Howard; Margaret,
born September 20. 1752. died February
22, T7S1. married Dr. William Mcllvaine;
Elizabeth, died unmarried; William, born
October 7. 1757, died July 27, 1824. mar-
ried Esther W^est; and Rachel, born De-
cember I, 1759. died September I. 1783,
married September 20, 1782. Samuel
Gibbs.

Gilbert Rodman, born at Flushing,
Bucks — cmwity; July 21. 1748. died in
Bucks county, August 21. 1830. He was
a major in the continental forces during
the Amboy campaign of 1776. and was
disowned from the society of Friends for
his military services. He inherited from
his father. William Rodman, the farm on
which the Bucks county alms house is
now located in Doylestown township, it
being part of the tract purchased by his
grandfather of John Gray, alias Tatham.
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i8o8, when he sold it to the county and
removed to Bensalem, where he died. He
married, June 3, 1784, Sarah Gibbs, and
they were the parents of eleven children:
Mary, married Anthony McCoy, and was
the mother of Dr. Gilbert Rodman
McCoy, who succeeded to the practice^
of Dr. Charles Mathews at Doylestown,
and was one of the most prominent phy-
sicians of the count}'; Margery, married
Judge John Fox, president judge of the
•courts of Bucks county, 1830-40, and a
leader of a powerful faction of the Dem-
ocratic party in Bucks county for many
years; Gibbs Rodman, born January 8,
1782, died December 18, 1812, unmarried;
Sarah, married John S. Benezet; Eliza-
beth, married William Drinker of Phila-
delphia; Margaret, wife of Dr. Charles
H. Mathews; Hannah, died unmarried;
Gilbert, born August 25, 1800, died Jan-
uary 15, 1862, unmarried, studied law
with Judge Fox, later with Judge Da'P
las at Philadelphia, located at Lancaster,
was a clerk in the United States Treas-
ury department under Samuel D. Ing-
ham in 1829, later becoming chief clerk
and filling that position until his death;
Euphemia, born 1802, died 1807 ; Mary
Ann, born 1804, died in 1827, unmarried ;
and Lewis, who graduated from the med-
ical department of the Universitj' of
Pennsylvania in the same class with Dr.
Charles H. Mathews, located in Phila-
delphia, where he became a prominent
l)hysician, was censor of the College of
Physicians, consulting physician tor
Preston's Retreat, etc.

CHARLES HENRY MATHEWS,
only son of Dr. Charles H. and Margaret
(Rodman) Mathews, was born at Dojdes-
town, April 21. 1844. He was educated
at the Doylestown English and Classi-
cal Seminar3\ the high school at Law-
renceville. New Jersey, and at the Col-
lege of New Jersey, (now Princeton Uni-
versity) graduating in 1864. He studied
law in the office of his cousin, Gilbert
Rodman Fox. at Norristown, and was ad-
mitted to the bar of the Seventh Judicial
District, comprising Bucks and Mont-
•gomery counties, in June, 1867 and to the
Philadelphia bar in November of the
same year. He located in Philadelphia,
where he has since practiced his chosen
profession, holding a high position in the
legal fraternity; his present office being at
717 Walnut street. He married, March
I. i88t. Hannah Selena Black, daughter
of William and Delia (Dimon) Black, of
New York, and they have been the pa-
rents of three children: Charles Henry",
Jr., born May 31. 1882. a graduate of
Princeton University, class of 1905 ; Lewis
Rodman died in infancy; and William
Black, born Aoril 12. 1887. Mr. Mathews
is a member of the Bucks County Histor-
ical Society, and- takes a lively interest
in the affairs of his native county.

ATKINSON FAMILY. The family
of Atkinson is an ancient and honorable
one, whose representatives were found in
different parts of Great Britain several
centuries ago. Two distinct families of
the name settled in Bucks county, Penn-
sjdvania, in the latter part of the seven-
teenth century. Thomas Atkinson, of
Sandwick, Yorkshire, was married to
Jane Bond, at Knaresborough meeting
of Friends in 1678, and four years later
emigrated to America with his wife and
three sons, Isaac, William and Samuel,
settling first in Burlington county. New
Jersey, but removing soon after to Bucks
county. Both Thomas and Jane were
ministers among Friends. The former
died in 1687, and his widow married Will-
iam Biles two 3'ears later. She travelled
extensively in the ministry after her
second marriage, both in the colonies
and in England and Ireland. Thomas
Atkinson was a son of John Atkinson of
Newby, Yorkshire, and in his will in
1687 devises land in Bucks county to his
brother John Atkinson, "should he come
to Pensilvania." It is not known that the
brother John ever emigrated to Amer-
ica. Isaac Atkinson, the eldest son of
Thomas and Jane, died in Bucks county
in 1721, leaving three children, John, Jane
and Thomas. Most of the descendants
of Thomas and Jane Atkinson eventu-
ally settled in New Jersey.

The present familj' of Atkinsons in
Bucks county are descendants of John
Atkinson, of Scotforth, near the city of
Lancaster, England, who with his brother
Christopher and their respective fami-
lies embarked in the ship "Brittanica,"
in April, 1690, for Pennsylvania, where
they had purchased of William Penn
■ 1500 acres of land, to be laid out, etc., in
March. 1690. Christopher Atkinson, the
elder of the two brothers, was married
at Lancaster Meeting, England, on 6 mb.
8, 1679, to Margaret Fell, daughter of
Christopher Fell, of Newtown, Lanca-
shire, and the records of that meeting
show the birth of seven of their children,
of whom at least four, William, Hannah,
Margaret and Isabel, sailed with their
parents, though only the two latter ap-
pear to have survived the voyage, the
father. Christopher Atkinson, also dying
on the way to America. John Atkinson,
the other brother, had married at the
same meeting, on 2 mo. 8. 1686. Susanna
Hynde. daughter of Richard Hynde, of
Scotforth, and the following chHdren
were born to them in Lancashire, viz.:
William, i mo. 31. 1687; Mary, 7 mo. 25,
1689; John. 8 mo. 25, 1692, died 9 mo. 5.
1694; John, born 9 mo. 25, 1695. The
three surviving children above named
accompanied their parents on board the
"Brittanica." and. both their parents dy-
ing on the voyage, were received by the
Friends of Middletown Meeting. Bucks
county, where the certificate from Lan-

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

caster Meeting, dated 2 mo. 30, 1690, was
deposited.

The 1500 acres of land purchased by
Christopher and John Atkinson was laid
out in 1700 in Buckingliam township,
Bucks count}-; 1,000 acres in a parallelo-
gram was surveyed in right of Chris-
topher, lying between the present Me-
chanicsvilie road and the line of the land
of T. Howard Atkinson, a lineal de-
scendant of John, and extending from
the Street road at Sands' Corner to the
Greenville road at Beans' Corner. It
was in two equal tracts of 500 acres each,
and was patented to Margaret Atkinson,
widow of Christopher, the upper half
in her own right, under the will of her
husband, proved on her arrival in Phila-
delphia, and the lower tract for the use
of her children. The latter was con-
veyed by the widow and heirs to Jo-
seph Gilbert, and the upper tract by
Margaret Atkinson to William Cooper.
The remaining 500 acres was surveyed
for the use of the heirs of John Atkinson,
and was laid out on the opposite side
of the Street road, touching the upper
tract of the i.ooo acres at Sands' Corner,
and extending northwesterly from that
point. It was resurveyed by Cutler in
1703 in the name of Alice and Mary
Hynde, sisters of Susanna, wife of John
Atkinson, who had taken out letters on
the estates of John and Susanna, in Phil-
adelphia, September 6, 1699. No convey-
ance appears of record by the Atkinson
heirs or their representatives, the first
actual settlers thereon being William
George, and Alice his wife. Certain it is
that none of the heirs of either Chris-
topher or John Atkinson found homes
on the land originally purchased by their
respective patents.

John Atkinson, the youngest child of
John and Sunsanna (Hynde) Atkinson,
born in Lancashire, 9 mo. 25, 1695, is
supposed to have spent his bojdiood days
among Friends in the neighborhood of
Newtown, Bucks county. On 8 mo. 13,
1717, he was married at the house of
Stephen Twining, Newtown, to Mary
Smith, daughter of William and Mary
(Croasdale) Smith, of Makefield. He
immediately purchased 200 acres in the
Manor of Highlands, now Upper IMake-
field, adjoining his father-in-law, and set-
tled thereon and lived there until his
death in January, 1752. The children
of John and Mary (Smith) Atkinson
were: John, born 1718; William, born
1721, married Mary Tomlinson, and re-
mained on a portion of the homestead;
Thomas, born 1722, see forward; Chris-
topher, born 1725, married Lydia Canby;
Mary, born 1725, married John Stock-
dale; Exekiel, born 1728, died on the
homestead. 1768. married Rachel Gilbert;
Cephas, born 1730. married Hannah
Naylor; and Elizabeth, born 1732.

Thomas Atkinson, third son of John
and jNIary, was born and reared on the

Makefield homestead, but on his mar-
riage in 1744 to Mary Wildman, located
on 200 acres in Wrightstown township,
near Penn's Park, the greater part of
which is still owned and occupied by his
descendants, part of it by his great-
grandson, George G. Atkinson, and part
by another great-grandson, Wilmer At-
kinson Twining, Esq. Two children,
Thomas and Mary, were born to him, but
the latter died in infancy. He died in
August, 1760.

Thomas Atkinson, only surviving
child of Thomas and Mary (Wildman)
Atkinson, was born on the Wrights-
town horncsfead, 8 mo. 19, 1751. He in-
herited from his father the two hundred
fcre farm, and spent his whole life there,
dying 8 mo 19, 181 5. He was a promi-
nent man in the community, and an ac-
tive meinljcr of Wrightstown Friends'
Meeting. He married, 5 mo. i, 1779,
Sarah Smith, daughter of Timothy and
Sarah (Kjnsey) Smith, who bore him
seven children, viz. : Mary, died young;
Jonathan, brrn 5 mo. 9, 1782, married
Esther Smith, and lived and died on the
ho.niestcad: Timothy, see forward;
I'hoinas, born 10 mo. 8, 1786, married
Jane Smith, see forward; Mahlon, born
4 mo. II, 1790, a physician, settled in
Ohio, married Rebecca Babb; Sarah,
boni 2 mo. 25, 1793, iTjarried Jacob Ples-
tcn; au'l Joseph, born 8 mo. 22, 1795, died
1815. Sarah, the mother of the above
children, died 10 mo. 19, 1830.

Timothy Atkinson, second son of
Thomas and Sarah, was born in Wrights-
town townsliip and spent his whole life
there. He was a farmer and at his fath-
er's death purchased a considerable por-
tion of il;e old homestead and lived
thereon during his life. He married in
1807 Deborah, daughter of Edmund
Smith, who bore him four children: Ed-
mund S., born in 1808; Sarah, born
1815, died 1840; Elizabeth, born 18^1,
died 1836; and Timothj^, Jr., born 1829,
married Letitia Smith, daughter of Dan-
iel and Hannah (Betts) Smith, died 1868.
Timothy, the father, died in March, 1867.

Edmund S. Atkinson, born on the old
homestead in 1808, lived his whole life
thereon. He was twice married, first in
1831, to Ruth Simpson, who bore him
three sons, — Robert, Thomas Ogborn
and J. Simpson, the latter being now a
resident of Springfield, Missouri. Ed^
mund married (second) Ann L. Gilling-
ham. and had children, Ann: Deborah,
deceased; George G., now living on the
old homestead in Wrightstown: Sarah
E., single, residing in Wrightstown; and
Lewis, deceased. Edmund S. Atkinson,
the father, died February 16. 1895.

THOMAS OGBORN ATKINSON,

son of Edmund S. and Ruth (Simpson)
Atkinson, was horn in Wrightstown
township. Bucks county, October 12,

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1834, on the homestead farm, and was
reared thereon to manhood. He received
an ordinary education in the public
schools, and the school of Rev. Samuel
Aaron, in Norristown, Pennsylvania,
known as Tremont Seminary. In early
manhood he taught school for several
years, working on the homestead farm
during vacation season. In August,
1858, he removed to Mound City, Linn
county, Kansas, and engaged in the mer-
cantile business in company with his
brother, J. Simpson Atkinson, remaining
until December, 1859, when he returned
to Wrightstown and engaged in the same
business at Penn's Park, where he did a
large business until 1871, at which time
he sold out and removed to Doylestown,
his present residence, and engaged in the
real estate business. He first formed a
partnership with Andrew J. LaRue. un-
der the firm name of A. J. LaRue & Co.
After the death of Mr. LaRue in 1873
be formed a partnership with Samuel A.
Firman, under the firm name of T. O.
Atkinson & Co. The latter firm did a very
extensive business in their line in Bucks
and adjoining counties. In 1886 he quit
the real estate business, and with the
late Judge Richard Watson and others
assisted in organizing the Bucks County
Trust Company, and became its first
treasurer and secretary, and has held
that position until the piesent time. Mr.
Atkinson is one of the best known busi-
ness men in Bucks county, and has al-
ways stood deservedly high in the esti-
mation of the people. He has held many
positions of trust. Like all of his an-
cestors he is a member of the Society of
Friends. In politics he is a Republican,
but has never held other than local of-
fices. He is now serving his third term
as president of the town council of the
borough of Doylestown.

He married in March, 1861, Mary B.
Heston, daughter of Jacob and Sarah
<Smith) Heston, who is also a member
of the Society of Friends. Their only
child, Edmund Russell, died in early
manhood.

T. HOWARD ATKINSON, one of

the most prominent farmers and busi-
ness men of Buckingham township,
Bucks county, was born in that township.
May 14, 1848, being the son of Mahlon
and Sarah (Smith) Atkinson of that
township, both deceased. Thomas At-
kinson, grandfather of the subject of
this sketch, was born on the old Atkin-
son homestead in Wrightstown, 10 mo.
'8, 1786. In early life he learned the
blacksmith trade, which he followed for
many years. He was an expert work-
man, and did a large and profitable
business. He wrought the iron work for
the jail built at Doylestown in 1812. On
arriving at manhood he located in Buck-
ingham, doing business for several years

at Pineville, and later at other points
in lower Buckingham. He was also a
farmer, and became a very large land-
owner, and prominent business man. He
married 10 mo. 16, 1811, Jane, daughter
of Thomas and Eleanor Smith, by whom
he had nine children, viz: Mahlon, born
1812, died II mo. 6, 1879; Joseph S.,
born August 19, 1823, died 3 mo. 27,
1900; Sarah Jane, born 1825, died 10 mo.
9, 1899, who married Benjamin W.
Smith; and Mary, Martha, Ogborn,
Eleanor, Thomas and Timothy, who died
young. Thomas, the father, died in 1864,
and his widow Jane in 1867, aged sev-
enty-eight years.

Mahlon Atkinson, eldest son of Thom-
as and Jane, was born in Buckingham
township and received a good comnion
school education. He had a special tal-
ent for business, and was one of the most
successful business men of his day m
Bucks county. On attaining manhood
he settled on his father's farm m lower
Buckingham, and married Sarah, daugh-
ter of Thomas and Anna Hicks Smith.
He was one of the pioneer sausage mak-
ers and pork butchers in that section,
hauling his product to Philadelphia. He
was for very many years a director in
the Doylestown National Bank, and did
the banking business for his whole neigh-
borhood. He became a large real es-
tate owner, and conducted various busi-
ness enterprises. He owned and operat-
ed for many years the agricultural ma-
chinery works at New Hope. He died
at the home of his daughter-in-law, Anna
C Atkinson, in Buckingham. 11 mo. 6,
1897 His children were: Albert, aied
in infancy; Charles S., born March 30,
1841 married Matilda R. Magill; Silas
C born September 20, 1843, died Octo-
ber 1876, married Anna C. Wollaston;
T Howard, the subject of this sketch;
Anna Jane, born December 24, 1849. died
1902, married Charles H. Williams.

T Howard Atkinson was born on his
father's farm in Lower Buckingham,
May 14, 1848. He received a good edu-
cation, and on arriving at manhood as-
sumed charge of the homestead farm,
where he lived until April, 1882, when he
purchased the Anderson farms, near
Buckingham village," his present resi-
dence and moved thereon. He is a suc-
cessful farmer and business man and
holds many positions of trust. He was
elected justice of the peace in 1890, and
has served continuously in that position
since. He was elected a trustee and di-
rector of the Hughesian Free School in
i88r was a director of the public schools
of Buckingham from 1886 to 189^5: has
been a directoi^ of the Bucks County
Trust Company for many years; and is
a director of the Buckingham and
Doylestown and the Lahaska and New
Hope Turnpike Companies. Political y
he is a Republican, but has never held
or sought other than local offices. He

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and his familj' are members of Bucking-
ham Friends Meeting.

He was married in 1868 to Mary,
daughter of Edward and Phoebe Ellen
(Sciiolield) Williams. They have been
the parents of seven children, viz.: Alvan
W., born September 22, 1869. now a suc-
cessful physician in Trenton. New Jer-
sey; Ellen, born December I, 1870, now
wife of Edward A. Jenkins, of Swarth-
more; Anna, born April 7. 1872. now the
wife of Richard C. Sellers, of Swarth-
more; Edith, born April 7, 1877, wife of
Samuel P. Green, of Kennett Square,
Chester county; Florence, born Novem-
ber 8, 1881. died November 22. 1886;
Mahlon, born July 12, 1884. died Novem-
ber 15. 1885; and Emily, born July 28,
1888, residing at home.

MARY ATKINSON TURNER.
Charles S. Atkinson, eldest surviving
son of Mahlon and Sarah H. (Smith)
Atkinson, was born in Buckingham town-
ship, Bucks county, March 30, 1841. and
was educated at the public schools of
his native township and at the First
Pennsvlvania State Normal School at
Millersville. and the Claverack Academy,
on the Hudson, New York. In 1862 he
located in Solebruy. where he has since
followed farming in connection with va-
rious other business enterprises. In
1879 he purchased the agricultural works
at New Hope and carried on the manu-
facture and sale of agricultural imple-
ments for manv years. He married in
1862 Matilda R. Magill, daughter of
Jonathan P. and Mary (Watson) Ma-
gill. of Solebury. and they have one
child, Mary M. Atkinson, now the wife
of H. W. Turner, a veterinary surgeon,
who practiced his profession for a num-
ber of years at Lahaska, Bucks county,
and for several years past has been en-
gaged as veterinary surgeon for an
equestrian establishment traveling through
different parts of Europe and Amer-
ica. Dr. and Mrs. Turner have no
children.

Mrs. Atkinson was a lineal descendant
of Jeremiah Wollaston, of New Castle
county, Delaware, who married Cathar-
ine, daughter of George and Catharine
(Hollingsworth) Robinson, at Newark,,
(now Kennett) Monthly Meeting of
Friends. 9 mo. 21, 1716. Their son,
James Wollaston, born 11 mo. 26, 1724^
married Mary Chambers, 11 mo. 16,.
1752, at New Garden Meeting, Chester
county, was the great-grandfather of
Mrs. Atkinson. The Wollastons were
large landholders in Delaware. Thomas
Wollaston, the father of Mrs. Atkin-
son, was born in Delaware, and died in
Chester county at the age of eighty
years.

Silas C. and Anna C. (Wollaston) At-
kinson were the parents of four chil-
dren: Alice M.. residing at home; Sa-
rah H., wife of Robert H. Engle, of Mt.
Holly, New Jersey; Jane; and Susan W.,
the two latter named residing at home.
All the children are graduates of Swarth-
more College. The family are members-
of the Society of Friends.

SILAS C. ATKINSON. Deceased,
son of IMahlon and Sarah (Smith) At-
kinson, was born in Buckingham town-
ship, on the old Atkinson homestead.
September 20. 184,1, and died on his farm
near Bycot. in October. 1876. He was
educated at the public schools of Buck-
ingham, and at the Excelsior Normal
Institute at Carversville. He married.
October 17. 1867, Anna C. daughter of
Thomas and Minerva (Pennoch) Woll-
aston, of Chester county. Pennsylvania,
and settled on the farm where he died.
and where his widow and family still
reside. He was a man of fine qualities,
and was universally esteemed in the
comnninity in which he lived.

WILLIAM H. ATKINSON, of Buck-
ingham, son of Joseph and Eliza (Hibbs)
Atkinson, and grandson of Thomas and
Jane (Smith) Atkinson, some account of
whom is given upon other pages of this
work, was born at Pineville, Bucks coun-
ty. Pennsvlvania. August 10, 1850.

Joseoh S. Atkinson, deceased, the fath-
er of the subject of this sketch, was born
in Buckingham township, August g,
182^ being a son of Thomas and Jane
(Smith) A"tkinson. He was a prominent
farmer and large landholder in Bucks
county. The first fifty years of his life
was spent in Buckingham township.
About T879 he purchased the Shaw farm
in Solebury township, near Lahaska. and
lived thereon for several years. He la-
ter built a house in Lahaska and retired
from farming. He died 3 mo. 27. T900.
His wife was Eliza, daughter of Will-
iam and Margery (Kirk) Hibbs, of Pine-
ville. by whom he had four children:,
William' H.. the subject of this sketch;
Thomas, who died on the Solebury-
homestead in TQ03: Mary, wife of George
Watsnn. of Dovlestown; and Albert,
who died in infancy.

The subject of this sketch was reared
on the farm in Buckingham, attended the
nublic schools of the neighborhood, and
later the Excelsior Normal Institute at
Carversville and the Doylestown English
and Classical Seminary. On arriving at
manhood he took charge of the home
farm, his father beinsr occupied with
the management of his other nroper-
lics. and. on his marriage in 1879. his^
father removed to Solebury. and he took
entire charge of the farm, which witW
six other farms he acquired at his fath-
er's death.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

167

He married, in 1S79, Elmira, daughter
of Jesse K. and Sarah (Headley) Har-
per, of Falls township. Mr. Harper was
a prominent and highly esteemed far-
mer of Falls; he died in 1898, aged
eighty-three years, and his wife died in
1893, aged seventy-seven years. Both
were prominent members of the Society
of Friends. Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson are
the parents of two children, Eva W. and
J. Harper, both residing at home. The
family are members of the Society of
Friends. In politics Mr. Atkinson is a
Republican, but has never sought or held
public office.

STEPHEN K. ATKINSON, Protho-
notary of the county of Bucks, was born
in Upper Makefield township, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, June 7, 1854, and
is a son of Jesse H. and Martha B.
(Stradling) Atkinson.

An account of the migration of John
and Christopher Atkinson from Lan-
cashire with their families, the death nf
the head of both families on the ill-fated
"Brittanica" in 1692, and the subsequent
marriage and settlement of John Atkin-
son, Jr., in Makefield, is given in the
sketch of The Atkinson Family in this
volume.

William Atkinson, second son of John
Jr. and Mary (Smith) Atkinson, was
borri in Upper Makefield in 1721, and
married, September I, 1742, Mary Tom-
linson, daughter of Joseph Tomlinson.
He inherited from his father 120 acres
of the homestead in Upper Makefield,
and lived thereon until his death in
April, 1800. He and his wife Mary were
the parents of thirteen children, of whom
eight lived to mature age. i. Mary, mar-
ried John Rose; 2. John, married Hannah
Lee; 3. Sarah, and 4. Eleanor, both of
whom married Lees; 5. Isaac, who
moved to Maryland; 6. Phebe; 7. Will-
iam; 8. Joseph.

John Atkinson, eldest surviving son of
William and Mary (Tomlinson) Atkin-
son, inherited the homestead and lived
thereon all his life, dying in 1831. He
married his second cousin. Hannah Lee.
in 1769, and had twelve children, nine of
whom lived to maturity, viz: May, born
1770, married Joseph Gummere; Hannah,
born 1772, married Joshua Burleigh;
Esther, born 1774, married Joseph Ran-
dall; Jane, born 1775, married Charles
Deeder; Elizabeth, born 1777, married
, Jacob Cooper; John, born 1778, married
first Mary Atkinson, and second Eliza-
beth Harding; Phebe. born 1781. married
William Neeld; William, born 1782, mar-
ried Belinda Harvey; and Samuel, born
1789. married Mary Harding.

Samuel Atkinson, youngest son of
John and Hannah (Lee) Atkinson, was
born in Upper Makefield in the year 1789,
and lived there all his life with the ex-
ception of four years spent in Doyles--

town. On April 28, 1821, his parents
conveyed to him sixty-eight acres of the
old homestead on which he lived until
he became recorder of deeds in 1836, and
which he conveyed to his son Samuel in
1842. He was commissioned recorder of
deeds of Bucks county, January 23, 1836,
and filled that position for four years,
being recommissioned January 4, 1839,
for one year, the constitutional conven-
tion of 1838 having made the office elec-
tive and to go into effect with the fall
election of 1839. He also filled the posi-
tion of deputy register of wills while an
incumbent of the recorder's office. At
the expiration of his second term as re-
corder he purchased a property in the
village of Buckmanville. where he lived
the remainder of his life, dying August
23, 1858. He was commissioned April
14, 1840, a justice of the peace of Upper
Makefield township, and did a large
amount of public business. He was a
Whig in politics, and took part in the
organization of the Republican party
in 1856. Like all his ancestors for many
generations, he was a member of
Wrightstowp Meeting of Friends. He
married Mary Harding, of Southampton,
and they were the parents of nine chil-
dren, three of whom died young: Charles,
Watson, and John. Those who survived
were : Rachel, who married Kinsey
Tomlinson, a prominent resident of New-
town; Samuel, who married Rebecca,
daughter of Bezeleel Eastburn and lived
and died on the old homestead; Silas L.,
who married Elizabeth Eastburn, -and
was a printer for several years in
Doylestown, later of Langhorne, where
recently died; Ralph L., who married
first Sarah Ann Scarborough, and (sec-
ond) Martha E. Johnson, and removed
to Shelby county. Ohio; Jesse H., the
father of Stephen K.; and Hannah, who
married Stephen L. Kirk, a prominent
merchant of Langhorne.

Jesse H. Atkinson, son of Samuel and
Mary (Harding) Atkinson, was born in
Upper INIakefield, May 6, 1824, and was
reared on his father's farm near Buck-
manville, acquiring his education at the
public schools. During his father's in-
cumbency of the office of recorder of
deeds he filled the position of transcrib-
ing clerk. He married, October 7, 1847,
Martha B. Stradling, born August 12,
1828, daughter of William and Sarah
(Carver) Stradling, of Newtown town^
ship. William Stradling was a son of
Joseph and Hannah (Michener) Strad-
ling, of Plumstead, grandson of Daniel,
and great-grandson of Thomas and Lyd-
ia (Doan) Stradling, who were married
at Middletown, October 5, 1719, and set-
tled at Newtown township, where Thom-
as died in 1764. Sarah (Carver) Strad-
ling. born February 19. 1794, was a
daughter of William and Phebe (Worth-
ington) Carver, granddaughter of Will-
iam and Sarah (Strickland) Carver, and

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

great-granddaughter of William and
Elizabeth ( W'almsley) Carver, the first
of the familj' to settle in Buckiiigliam,
and William Carver, who came from
England in 1682 and settled in Byberry,
Philadelphia county.

Jesse H. Atkinson followed farming
for a few years after his marriage in
Upper Makelield, and later engaged in
droving and dealing in western horses,
residing in Newtown township. He was
actively interested in local politics, and
was elected to the office of register of
wills of Bucks county in the fall of
1872, on the Republican ticket, and
served the term of three years. He died
January 4, 1876, one day after the expira-
tion of his term of office. His wife,
Marthg. B., still survives Kim, residing
in Newtown, Bucks county. They were
the parents of four children: Georgine
T., who died at the age of thirteen years;
William S., who died in his eighteenth
year; Stephen K., the subject of this
sketch; Sallie, born 1862, married Stew-
ard S. Crouse, of Riegelsville, Bucks
county, and resided in Philadelphia,
where he died in 1887, leaving three chil-
dren, — J. Clyde, Mary and Fred.

Stephen K. Atkinson was educated at
the Hughesian School, Buckingham, and
at Doylestown English aiid Classical
Seminary. At an early age he accepted
a position as clerk in the general mer-
chandise store at Holicong, and later
worked on the farm for Josiah R. Pen-
nington, in Buckingham, in the summer
months, for three years attending school
in winter. On the election of his father
to the office of register of wills he en-
tered the office as his assistant and depu-
ty. At the death of his father he en-
gaged in farming for a few years, and
then engaged in the clothing and gents'
furnishing business at Doylestown, and
later was employed as a traveling sales-
man for a wholesale house.' He removed
to Newtown, where he owned and con-
ducted a livery stable for a few years,
and later engaged in selling cigars for
a large wholesale house. He has for
several years taken an active interest
in local politics, and was nominated and
elected to the office of prothonotary of
Bucks county in the fall of 1903.

He married May 24, i'877, Sallie M.
Ruth, born in Buckingham, May 21,
1858, daughter of Jesse ana Martha (Car-
ver.) Ruth. She is also a descendant of
William Carver, the immigrant of 1682.
her maternal grandparents being Izri
and Mary (Hartley) Carver, the former
of whom was a son of William and Mar-
tha (Addis) Carver, and a grandson of
Joseph Carver, another son of William
and Elizabeth (Walmsley) Carver before
mentioned. On the paternal side Mrs.
Atkinson is descended from early Ger-
man settlers in Upper Bucks. The chil-
dren of Stephen K. and Sallie M. (Ruth)
Atkinson are: i. Elmer H., born April

21, 1879, married Clara Sergeant, daugh-
ter of Charles Sergeant of Langhorne
and resides in Newtown; they had three
children, Ogden, Eugene, and Elmer R.,
the latter of whom died August 7, 1905;
2. Martha Ruth, born April 4, 1882, wife
of Dr. George R. Doan of Newtown.
They have one child, Ronald. Mr. At-
kinson still retains his residence at New-
town, as well as an active interest in the
affairs of that borough.

HOWARD W. ATKINSON, of
Doylestown, is a descendant on both the
paternal, and maternal side from the old-
est families in Bucks county. He was
born at Davisville, Southampton town-
ship, Bucks county, November 22, 1853,
and is a son of Mahlon and Mary Ann
(Wood) Atkinson, and a grandson of
Mahlon and Martha (Walmsley) Atkin-
son.

His paternal ancestor, John Atkinson,
was born at Scotforth, Lancashire, Eng-
land, 9 mo. 25, 1695, and came to this
country at the age of four years. His
father, John Atkinson, married Susanna
Hynde, daughter of Richard, at Scot-
forth, 2 mo. 8, 1686, and in company with
his brother Christopher and their respec-
tive families embarked for America in
the ship "Brittanica" in April, 1699, bear-
ing a certificate from Lancaster Meeting
of Friends to Friends in Pennsylvania.
John and Susanna Atkinson both died on
the voyage, and their three children
(William, Mary and John) were taken in
charge by the- Friends of Middletown
Meeting in Bucks county on their ar-
rival. John, the eldest, married 8 mo.
15. 1717. Mary, daughter of William and
Mary (Croasdale) Smith, of Wrights-
town, and the following year settled on a
tract of two hundredvacres of land in
Upper Makefield, where their eight chil-
dren were born, and where the father
died in 1752.

Ezekiel, the si.xth child of John and
Mary, born in 1728, purchased a portion
of the homestead tract and died there in
June, 1768. He married in 1754, Rachel
Gilbert, born 11 mo. 14, 1732, daughter of
Benjamin and Sarah (Mason) Gilbert, of
Byberry, granddaughter of Joseph and
Rachel (Livezey) Gilbert, and great-
granddaughter of John and Florence Gil-
bert, who came from England in the
ship "Welcome," in 1682, settling first
in Bensalem. Bucks county, but removing ^
to Byberry in 1695, where his descen-
dants resided for many generations.
Ezekiel and Rachel (Gilbert) Atkinson
were the parents of five children: Ben-
jamin, Thomas, Watson, Rachel and
Ezekiel. the latter born after the death
nf the father in 1768. After the death of
her husband, Rachel Atkinson returned
with her children to Byberry, and later
married William Walton, of that place,

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known as "Jersey Bill}'," to distinguish
him from his cousins of the name. Here
the Atkinson children were reared. Ben-
jamin, the eldest, married Jane Adams
and died in 1816, leaving a family of six
children. Thomas was a captain of a
company in the war of 1812. Ezekiel,
the youngest, married and removed to
Drumore township, Lancaster county,
where he purchased land in 1818, and
died in 1842.

Mahlon Atkinson, the grandfather of
the subject of this sketch, was born and
reared in Byberry, but removed with his
father to Drumore, where he purchased a
farm of fifty-two acres in 1822. He died
four years later, in August. 1826. His
widow, Martha, returned to Byberry with
her five children, Mary, Howard H., Vio-
letta, Angelina, and Mahlon R., the lat-
ter born a few months after his father's
death. Martha, the wife of Mahlon At-
kinson, was a daughter of Daniel T. and
Mary (Willett) Walmsley, and a grand-
daughter of General Augustin and Eliza-
beth (Hicks) Willett. General Willett
was one of the first soldiers of the Rev-
olution to enter active service; he was
commissioned as a caption in the First
Pennsylvania Battalion, raised under act
of Congress of October 12, 1775, for the
expedition against Canada, on October
27. 1775, and suffered the terrible priva-
tions and hardships of that disastrous
campaign of nearly a year on the fron-
tiers of Canada. Elizabeth Hicks, wife
of General Willett, was a daughter of
Gilbert and Mary (Rodman) Hicks, and
a descendant of Robert Hicks, the Pil-
grim Father, who came to Plymouth,
Massachusetts, in the "Fortune" in 1621,
from Southwark. London. England. He
was a leather dresser in Bermonfdey
street, Southwark, and had been twice
married, his first wife being Elizabeth
Morgan, by whom he had four children,
Thomas. Elizabeth. John and Stephen.
His second wife was Margaret Winslow,
who with her four children, Samuel. Eph-
raim, Lydia and Phebe, followed her
husband to Plymouth in the ship "Ann,"
arriving in June, 1722. and they settled
at Duxbury. The sons John and Stephen
removed to Long Island in 1642. The sub-
sequent history of the descendants of John
Hicks is given elsewhere in this work, un-
der the title of "The Hicks Family."

Mahlon R. Atkinson was born at B3'-
berry Cross Roads, where his mother had
taken up her residence with her relatives
after the death of her husband, on Feb-
ruary I. 1827. He learned the trade of a
house painter, and early in life removed
to Southampton township, Bucks county,
near Davisville, where he followed his
trade during the active years of his life,
removing later to Ivyland. He died at
the residence of his son, Lawrence Rush
Atkinson, at Hatboro. October 17, 1904.
His widow, who was Mary Ann Wood,
survives him. They were the parents of

ten children, viz. : S. Emma, who died
unmarried in 1898; Charles S., of Doyles-
town; Howard W.: Violetta, wife of Will-
iam Kline, of Philadelphia; Lawrence
Rush, of Hatboro; Matilda, wife of
Courtland Yerkes, of Willow Grove;
Anna, deceased; Joshua J., and Harry
B. of South Amboy; and A. Louisa, wife
of Albert Hohensack, of Ivyland.

Howard W. Atkinson was born at
Davisville. November 22, 1853, and at
the age of eight years went to live at
Huntingdon Valley, where he remained
until the age of sixteen years, when he
reurned home and learned the trade of a
house painter, which he followed for fif-
teen years. In 1876 he removed to
Doylestown. where he carried on paint-
ing, eniploying twelve to fifteen men. In
1884 he began the business of an under-
taker, which he has since conducted at
Doylestown with success. In 1891 he
opened the summer resort known as Oak-
land, just outside the borough of Doyles-
town, formerly occupied by the Doyles-
town English and Classical Seminary,
which has become one of the popular in-
stitutions of the neighborhood under the
conduct of Mr. Atkinson and his ex-
cellent wife. Mr. Atkinson married,
March 9, 1885. Emma Wilson, of Doyles-
town. and they are the parents of four
children: Mary, Julia, Augistina, and
Frances.

HON. HENRY G. MOYER. of Perk-
asie. Bucks county, Pennsylvania, for
many years prominent in the business
and official circles of Bucks county, was
born in Hilltown, Bucks eounty, August
28, 1848. and is a son of the late Henry
A. and Sarah (Gerhart) Moyer, of Hill-
town, and is descended from early Ger-
man settlers on the Skippack, nearly two
centuries ago. The name of Moyer,
Meyers. Myers,. now almost as common
in Bucks county as Smith, was origin-
ally spelled Meyer, and the present bear-
ers of the name are descended from sev-
ral German emigrants of that name who
settled in what is now Montgomery
county, in the first quarter of the eigh-
teenth century, from whence their de-
scendants migrated into Bucks county
in the second and third generation.

I. Christian Meyer, the paternal an-
cestor of this sketch, was a landowner in
Lower Salford township, Montgomery
county, as early as 1719. and possibly
some years earlier, and was one of the
founders of the earliest congregations
of Mennonites in that locality. All the
earlier generations of the family be-
longed to that sect, though many of
their descendants now belong to othej
denominations. Christian Meyer died
in June, 1757. leaving three sons. Chris-
tian, Jacob and Samuel, the last of whom
settled in Hilltown: and daughters Eliza-

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HISTORY or BUCKS COUNTY

beth, who married Nicholas Oblingcr;
Anna, who married Henry Funck, and
Barbara, who married Abraham Reiff.
The descendants of the two latter are
now quite numerous in Bucks county.

II. Christian Meyer, Jr., son of the
above, born in 1705, died 1787, was a
farmer in Franconia, Montgomery
count}', and left sons. Christian, Jacob
and Samuel, and daughters, Esther, wife
of Christian Gehman; Anna, wife of
John Kratz; Maria, wife of Martin Det-
weiler; and Barbara, wife of Abraham
Kratz.

III. Rev. Jacob ]\Ie3'er, second son of
Christian and Magdalena, of Fran-
conia, born January 28, 1730, married
(second) Barbara Derstein, of Rockhill,
and settled in Hilltown township, where
he owned over three hundred acres of
land. He was for many years a preacher
of the ]\Iennonite faith in Hilltown, and
died there in 17S2, leaving a family of
nine children.

IV. Joseph Moyer (as the name then
came to be spelled), second son of the
Rev. Jacob and Barbara (Durstein)
Meyer, was born in Hilltown, June 19,
1774, and died there June 21, 1815. He
was a farmer and lived near Yost's, now
Schwenk's mill, north of the present
village of Blooming Glen. Joseph Moyer
was quite a noted penman and more or
less of an artist, several specimens of
his artistic work with the pen being still
extant. He married, April 7, 1795. Bar-
bara Angeny, who was born in Bucks
county, April 8, 1770, and died about the
year 1857, and they were the parents of
eight children, of whom seven lived to
maturity, viz.: Jacob, who migrated to
Canada; Samuel, who lived and died on
the homestead; Joseph, Avho died in
1842: William A., who died in 1885;
Henry A., see forward; Elizabeth who
married Abraham Gerhart; and Mary,
who married Abraham Hunsberger.

V. Henry A. Moj'er. youngest son of
Joseph and Barbara (Angeny) Moyer,
was born in Hilltown. October 26, 1807,
and died there August 4, 1875. He re-
ceived a good education, and during his
younger days taught school for a num-
ber of years, but on his marriage. De-
cember 8, 1833, to Sarah Gerhart, aban-
doned the life of a pedagogue and settled
down as a farmer in Hilltown. He took
a prominent part in local afifairs, and
filled a number of township offices,
among others holding the office of as-
sessor for many years. His wife, Sarah
Gerhart, was born August 20, 1814, and
died February 20. 1800. Their children
were: Lydia, wife of Samuel M. Ger-
hart; Abraham G.. deceased; Joseph G.,
a prominent business man of Perkasie;
Barbara, wife of Samuel G. Kramer;
Sarah Jane, wife of Henry O. Moyer. of
Perkasie; Jacob G.. of Pprkasie; Isaiah
G., deceased; and Henry G., the subject
of this sketch.

VI. Henry G. Moyer, born and reared
on his father's farm in Hilltown, at-
tended the public schools, and later
other institutions of learning, and closed
his education with a course at Quaker
City Business College, Philadelphia,
from which he graduated with high
honors in 1868, at the age of twenty. In
1879 he was elected justice of the peace,
and since that time has done a large
amount of public business, officiating as
executor, administrator and agent in the
settlement of estates, attending to the
survey and transfer of real estate and
other business of a public character. In
1882 he purchased a one-half interest in
"The Central News," a paper published
at Perkasie, with Mahlon Sellers, and
conducted it under the firm name of
Mahlon Sellers & Co., becoming one of
its editors. Mr. Sellers dying soon after,
his interest in the paper was purchased
by Samuel R. Kramer, and the firm
name became Moyer & Kramer, and that
firm conducted the paper and a job
printing oflice in connection therewitTT
imtil 1904. Under their management
"The Central News" became a success-
ful weekly paper, and enjoys a 9ircu-
lation equal to that of any weekly paper
published in upper Bucks. Mr. Moj^er
is an ardent Republican in politics, and
has been for many years prominently
identified with the local organization of
the party in Bucks county, serving as
delegate to a number of state and other
conventions. In 1882 he was the party
nominee for representative in the as-
sembly, but was defeated though receiv-
ing much more than his party vote in
his own locality, the county being then
Democratic. In 1894 lie was elected to
the state senate by a majority of 1577
votes, and in the sessions of 1895 and
1897 served upon many of the important
committees of the upper house. Mr.
Moyer still does a large amount of pub-
lic business. On the organization of
Perkasie National Bank, he was elected
president and still fills that position, giv-
ing much of his time to the afifairs of the
bank. On January 31, 1905, he was ap-
pointed postmaster at Perkasie, Penn-
sylvania, by President Roosevelt, which
office he fills with satisfaction, and has
established four rural free delivery
routes from said office. He is a member
nf the United Evangelical Church, and
has been for many years superintendent
of the Sabbath School and class leader
of tho ocal church at Perkasie, render-
ing eminent and efficient services in that
capacitv. He is a member of the l\Ta-
sonic fraternity and affiliated with the
Odd Fellows and O. U. A. M. He mar-
ried Emclinc Sciple, of Allentown,
Pennsylvania, and tlioy have been the
parents of seven children, of whom but
two survive Mabel Rebecca, born Oc-
tober TO. 18*^?. and Henry Clayton, born
iMarch c;. 188S.

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

iji

WILKINSON COAT-OF-ARMS.

OGDEN D. WILKINSON. Lieuten-
ant Lawrence Wilkinson, the ancestor of
the Wilkinson family of Bucks county,
belonged to a very old and respected
family, one noted for its consistent ad-
herence to the throne of England, and
from time to time the recipient of its
favors. He was a son of William Wilk-
inson, of Lancaster, county Durham,
England, by his wife ]\Iary Conyers,
daughter of Christopher Conyers, of
Horden, and sister of Sir John Conyers,
Baronet; and a grandson of Lawrence
Wilkinson, of Harpsley House, Lancas-
ter, Durham. The arms of the family
were confirmed and the crest granted to
Lawrence Wilkinson,' last mentioned,
September l8, 1615, by Ricliard St.
George Norrey, King of z\rms. as shown
by the following extract from the records
of the College of Arms:

"Being now requested by Lawrence
Wilkinson, to make search for the an-
ciente coate Armor belonging to that
name and Familye, which fynde to be
Azure a fesse erminiois between thre
unicorns passant Argent, and for that
I can fynde noe Crest proper or be-
longing thereunto, as unto manye anci-
ente coates at this day there is wanting,
he hath further requested me to confrme
unto him such a one as he maye law-
fulh'e beare — I hav likewise condescend-
ed and allowyde him the Crest ensvinge,
(vide) a demy unicorne erazed erminoys
standing on a murall crown gules, as
more plainh^ appearth depicted in the
margent hereof. All of which Arms
amd Crest, I the said Richard St. George
Norrey, doe give, grant, ratifye and con-
fyrme unto sayd Lawrence Wilkenson
and to the several descendants of hys
bodye forever, bearing their due dif-
ferences."

Lawrence Wilkinson, the younger,
first above mentioned, was born in Lan-
caster, county Durham, at about the date
of the confirmation of the arms to his
grandsire as above recited. He became
a lieutenant in the army of Charles I.,
and was taken prisoner by the Scotch

and Parlimentary troops on the surren-
der of NevvXastle-on-Tyne, October 22,
1644. In common with many others who-
fell into the hands of the enemies of the
crown, he was deprived of his property.
On the records of sequestrations in Dur-
ham we find the following item, in the
period between 1645 and 1647: "Lawrence
Wilkinson, of Lancaster,^ officer in arms,
went to New England." His estate hav-
ing been sequestered and sold, he ob-
tained permission from Lord Fairfax to-
emigrate to America, and in 1652, with
his wife and son, he settled in Provi-
dence. Rhode Island, where he had lands
granted him. He was made a freeman
in 1658. and in 1673 was chosen deputy
to the general court. He was known as
Captain Wilkinson, and was a soldier
in the Indian wars. He was a member
of colonial assembly which met at Ports-
mouth in 1659. He died May 9, 1692.
This Lawrence Wilkinson had married
Susannah Smith, daughter of Christo-
pher Smith, who also settled at Provi-
dence. Rhode Island. The children of
Lawrence and Susannah (Smith) Wil-
kinson, were six, viz: Samuel, Susan-
nah, John, Joanna, Josias, and another
Susannah. While we are chiefly con-
cerned with the descendants of Samuel,
the eldest of the above children, it might
be pertinent to here state that John, the
second son. married Huldah Aldrich. of
Rhode Island, and their son, Ichabod
Wilkinson, born in Rhode Island in 1720,
removed to Bucks county, Pennsylvania,
bringing a certificate from Smithfield,
Rhode Island, to Wrightstown Meeting
of Friends, 12 mo. i, 1742, and married
at that meeting. 7 mo. 7. 1743, Sarah
Chapman, of Wrightstown, and settled at
New Hope, where he erected a forge in
1753. and became the owner of exten-
sive tracts of land in Solebury township.
He died prior to 1780, leaving children:
Joseph: Zibiah. wife of Peter Ink: Sa-
rah, wife of John Prince: Huluah and'
Mary, some of whom have left descend-
ants in Bucks^ county.

Samuel Wilkinson, eldest son of Law-
rence and Susannah, married Plain
Wickenden, daughter of Rev. William
Wickenden. the second pastor of the
first Baptist church in America. Samuel
Wilkinson was coTtimissioned a captain
in the provincial militia of Rhode Island,
April 4. 1697, and took part in the early
Indian wars. He was a surveyor, and
assisted in running the line between
Massachusetts and Rhode Island in 1711.
He was also a member of the provincial'
assembl}'. and a justice of the peace.
He died August 27, 1827. He took a very
active part in the Indian wars, and the
old records of Providence give abund-
ant evidence of the high position he held
in provincial affairs. A summarj^ of the
positions he held, as taken from the
original records, is, as follows: Samuel'
Wilkinson appointed constable July 12,

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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

16S3; swore allegiance to Charles I, IMay

1, 1682; chosen justice of the peace May

2, 1704; October, 1705, Captain Samuel
Wilkinson, deput}' to colonial assembly
for Providence; February 25, 1708, re-
appointed deputy; October 27, 1707, Cap-
tain Samuel Wilkinson, deputy to as-
sembly held at Warwick; October 31,
1716, deputy for Providence; May 14,
1719, Captain Samuel Wilkinson appoint-
ed to settle boundary dispute between
Rhode Island and Massachusetts. (John
and Josiah, brothers of Samuel were also
in the Indian Wars, and the historians
say "fought valiantly").

Samuel and Plain Wilkinson were the
parents of six children, viz: Samuel,
John, William, Joseph, Ruth, and Sus-
annah. Of these Ruth married William
Hopkins, and became the mother of two
<iistinguished men, Stephen Hopkins for
many years governor of Rhode Island,
and a signer of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, and Essex Hopkins, the first
commander of an American fleet in 1776.

John Wilkinson, second son of Sam-
uel and Plain Wilkinson, was born on
his father's homestead at Loquiessett,
Providence, Rhode Island, on January
25, 1677-8. He left there when a young
man and located in Hunterdon county.
New Jersey, where he married Mary
. He later removed to Wrights-
town township, and in 1713 purchased
three hundred and seven acres of lau'
lying partly in the three townships of
Wrightstown, Warwick antl Bucking-
ham, near what is now Rushland Sta-
tion, on the Northeast Pennsylvania
Railroad. In 1728 he returned to Provi-
dence and participated in the settlement
of his father's estate, signing on July
3 of that year a power of attorney for
his brothers and brothers-in-law, to sell
his father's land. The deed for the
land, dated July 6, 1728, and recorded
at Providence, is signed by Josiah Wilk-
inson, of Providence, John Wilkinson of
Wrightstown, in the county of Bucks
and Province of Pennsylvania, William
Hopkins and Ruth, his wife, James An-
gell and Susanna his wife, David, Sam-
uel, and Huldah Wilkinson, Ichabod
Comstock and Zabiah his wife, and Jo-
seph Arnold and PAtience his wife. John
Wilkinson was one of the justices of
the peace of Bucks county who were
commissioned to hold the court of com-
mon pleas, quarter sessions and orphans'
court for the county, and he became a
large landowner on both sides of Ne-
shaminy. and a prominent man in the
commnnit\'. He was an active member
of Wrightstown Friends' -Meeting. His
will is dated February, 1751, and was
proven April 2t,. 1751. He had seven
children, viz: Mary, born July 17, 1709,
married Joseph Chapman; Kcziah, mar-
ried Thomas Ross, and was the grand-
mother of Judge John Ross (see Ross
family): Plain, married Peter Ball; Su-

sanna, married Adrien Dawes; Ruth,
married Joseph Chapman; John, see for-
ward; Josiah, who married Rosanna
Kemble and (second) Mary Carver,
daughter of William Carver and Mary
Walmsley; and Joseph, who married
Barbara Lacy. The last two removed to
Chester county in 1762.

John Wilkinson, son of John above
mentioned, was born in the year 171 1. He
became a very prominent citizen of
Bucks county, serving in the colonial
assembly for the years 1761, 1762-3, and
in that of the commonwealth of Penn-
sylvania for the years 1776-1781, and
1782, and as a justice of the peace from
1764 to 1774 inclusive. At the organi-
zation of the committee of safety in
1774 he participated therein, and was one
of the delegates from Bucks county to
the conference held at Philadelphia July
July 15, 1774; was selected on December
15, 1774, as one of the committee of ob-
servation; was again a delegate to the
provincial convention at Philadelphia,
January 23, 1775, and a member of the
first constitutional convention, July 15,
1776. When, however, it became evident
that war would ensue, he, with a num-
ber of other members of the Society of
Friends, on July 21, 1775, "alleging
scruples of conscience relative to the
business necessarily transacted by the
Committee, desired to be relieved from
' further attendance." Later, however, his
patriotic feelings got the better of his
religious feelings; and in spite of the
protests of Wrightstown Meeting, of
which he was a member, he again united
himself with the defenders of the rights
of his country, and continued to take an
active part in that defence until his death
on May 31, 1782, serving as lieutenant-
colonel of militia, and filling other im-
portant positions. He was appointed
lieutenant-cononel of the Third Bucks
County Associators, August 16, I775;
and member of conference of delegates
for all the counties at Philadelphia,
July 18, 1776. He was constantly on
important committees as representative
of either the assembly or the commit-
tee of safety, in both of which he rep-
resented his district, during the most
trying time of the Revolution. He was
appointed justice of the peace and judge
of the court of common pleas, September
3. T776; committee and referee to In-
dian lands; one of committee to consider
draft and report to the house what laws
it will be necessary should be passed,
at this season; (Journals of Assembly,
vol. i, p. 133); was appointed by assem-
bly one of committee to consider an act
for emitting the sum of 200,000 pounds
in bills of credit for the defence of the
State, and providing a fund for sinking
the same by tax on all estate, real and
personal; as a member of the committee
of safety he served upon the committee
of observation and committee of cor-

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respondence, and was a delegate to the
second convention and conferences, and
also, P^bruary 19, 1763, was appointed
a committee to audit accounts of Ben-
jamin Franklin. He died May 31, 1782.
The Pennsj'lvania Gazette of June 19,
1782, has the following obituary article:

"On Friday, the 31st ult., departed
this life at Wrightstown, in the county
of Bucks, John Wilkinson, Esq., in the
seventy-first j-ear of his age, after a long
and painful illness, and on the Sunday
following his remains were interred in
the Friends' burying ground, the fun-
eral being attended by a very large con-
course of people of all denominations.
Mr. Wilkinson was a man of very repu-
table abilities and of a sound judgment,
scrupulously just in all of his transac-
tions, free from bigotry to religion or to
party, and a friend to merit whenever it
was found. As a companion, a friend, a
neighbor, a master, an husband, a father,
a guardian to the orphan and the wid-
ow, his life was amiable and exemplary.
He served his people m several import-
ant offices with fidelity and applause,
under the old constitutions as well as the
new. His conduct in the present Revo-
lution was such as entitled him to the
peculiar esteem of all the friends of this
country, but it drew on him the rage of
enthusiastic bigots.

"He was born and educated among
the people called Quakers, and was a
member in full standing in the Wrights-
town Meeting. His life was an orna-
ment to the Society.

"He mingled not in idle strife and
furious debates, but lived as became a
Christian, studying peace with all men.

"His principles led him to believe that
defensive war was lawful. He was
strongly attracted to a republican form
of government and the liberties of the
people, and when Great Britain, by her
folly and wickedness, made it necessary
to oppose her measures from judgment
and principle he espoused the cause of
his country. He was unanimously chosen
a member of our convention, and after-
wards served in the Assembly with zeal
and integrity, becoming a freeman and
a Christian.

"This unhappily aroused the resent-
ment of the Society with which he was
connected, so that one committee after
another were dealing with him and per-
secuting him to give a testimonial re-
nunciation of what they were pleased
to consider as errors of his political
life, though there was no rule or order
of the meeting which made his conduct
a crime.

"This demand he rejected although
as tending to belie his own conscience,
but at length, worried with their impor-
tunities, weakened by the growing in-
firmities of age. and fondly hoping that,
his country might dispense with his serv-
ices, he consented to promise that he

would hold no other appointments under
the constitution.

"This seemed to be satisfactory for
a time, but, when Sir William Howe be-
gan his victorious march through Penn-
sylvania, a more pressing sense of duty
urged his brethren to renew their visit,
while his dear son lay dying in his
house, and to demand an immediate
and preemptory renunciation of his past
conduct.

"Provoked by this indecent and unfeel-
ing application he gave them a decisive
answer, and preferred the honest dictates
of his conscience to his membership in
the meeting and was, for his patriotism
alone, formally expelled as unworthy of
Christian fellowship.

"The testimony of the meeting against
him on this occasion was heretofore pub-
lished in this paper. We trust he is
now in those mansions where the wicked
cease from troubling and the weary are
at rest."

Colonel Wilkinson was twice married.
By his first wife, Mary Lacy, married
3 mo. 21, 1740, who was a sister to
General John Lacey, he had five chil-
dren: Mary, born in 1741, married Steph-
en Twining; John, married Jane Chap-
man; Stephen, James and iCachel, all
died unmarried. By his second wife, Han-
nah Hughes, (born 3 mo. 7, 1742, mar-
ried 2 mo., 1770. died April 18, 1791), he
had four children : Martha, who married
a Bennett; Ann Lucy, married General
Samuel A. Smith; Hannah, who married
!May 22, 1796. Abner Reeder, and re-
moved to Trenton, and Colonel Elisha
Wilkinson. Hannah Hughes, the sec-
ond wife of Colonel John Wilkinson,
was a daughter of Professor Mathew
Hughes, Jr., (he was lieutenant-colonel
of the Associated Regiment' of Bucks
county, 1747-8) and Elizabeth Steven-
son, married March 17, 1733, the latter
being a daughter of Thomas Stevenson
and Sarah Jennings, and granddaughter
of Thomas Stevenson, of Newtown, Long
Island, and Elizabeth Lawrence, daugh-
ter of Colonel William Lawrence.
Sarah Jennings was a daughter
of Governor Samuel Jennings, of
New Jersey. Mathew Hughes, Sr., the
grandfather of Hannah Wilkinson, was
a very prominent man in Buckingham,
Bucks county, a member of assembly,
justice, etc. His wife was Elizabeth
(Biles) Beaks, daughter of William Biles,
provincial counsellor, and widow of
Stephenson Beaks, the record of whom is
noted elsewhere in this volume.

The Wilkinsons now residing in Bucks
county are principally the descendants
of John and Jane (Chapman) Wilkinson,
who had children, John, Abraham. Elias
and Amos. John, the father of these
children, died in 1778, and on his death-
bed received from his father a deed for
one hundred and fifty acres of the old
homestead, that part of his grandfather's

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purchase lying in Warwick township,
and it lias descended from father to son
to the present day, being now occupied
by Charles T. Wilkinson, a grandson of
Abraham, the son of John and Jane
(Chapman) Wilkinson. (See sketch of
■Charles T. Winkinson in this volume.)
Colonel Elisha Wilkinson, born 1772,
died March 15, 1846, youngest son of
John and Hannah (Hughes) Wilkinson,
became a very prominent man in Bucks
county. He was lieutenant-colonel of
the Ihirty-lirst Regiment Pennsylvania
militia, as early as 1807, and hlled that
position and that of colonel for many
years. He was sheriff of Bucks county
for the term of 1809-1811. During the
war of 1812-14 he was quarter-master"
of the Second Division, First Brigade,
Pennsylvania militia, of which his
brother-in-law, General Samuel A.
Smith, was brigadier-general. He later
became assistant quartermaster general
of Pennsylvania Volunteer militia. He
was proprietor of the inn at Bushington
from 1S05 to 1809, and from 181 1 to
1836 of the popular hotel at Centreville,
Buckingham township. He was a man
of fine appearance and a great horse-
man. He introduced into Bucks county
a very fine breed of Arabian horses, and
maintained a track near his tavern,
where his blooded colts were broken
and trained. He was twice married, first
on April II, 1792, to Anna Dungan,
xjaughter of Elias and Diana (Carrell)
Dungan, of Northampton township, who
bore him four children : John A., a mem-
ber of the Doylestown bar, wTio died in
1830; Ogden D., see forward. B'C'ei«U6T^
born March 22, 1794, married October
18, 181 1, Crispin Blackfan, who was
prothonotary of Bucks count}' in 1821-
4, and later removed to Trenton, New
Jersey. '':^«iiT»lY died >Iay 8, 1818, and
Blackfan married her sister, ^ffMlftjk.
born August 14, 1796, died December
6, 1858. Anna (Dungan) Wilkinson
died May 31, 1810, aged thirty-six years,
and Colonel Elisha married (second)
Maria Whiteman, by whom he had six
children: I. Sarah Ann, who died at
Trenton. New Jersey, in 1880, unmar-
ried; 2. Ross Wilkinson, who was edu-
■cated at West Point, and served as a ma-
jor during the civil war, and after its
close purchased a plantation in Louisi-
ana, where he died in 1880. He was Uni-
ted States .marshal of the district at the
time of his death. He married Hannah
Ann Folwell, of Philadelphia, and had
two children; his son, Henry Clay Wilk-
inson, was also educated at West Point,
and was adjutant of Coloney Woodman's
Forty-fourth Regiment Pennsylvania
Volunteers during the civil war. 3.
Samuel Smith Wilkinson left Bucks
countj' and settled in Dallas, Texas,
where he died, February 26, 1879. 4.
Edward Blackfan Wilkinson, was a dent-
ist, and located at Huntsville, Alabama.

He died of cholera, while on a visit to
Paris, France, June 20, 1854., at the age
of twenty-five years, and is buried at
Mount Parnasse, Paris. 5. Elisha, died
in infancy. 6. Algernon Logan Wilkin-
son, born October 22, 1821, settled in
Huntsville, Alabama, in 1844, where he
practiced medicine, married, and reared
a family of children.

Anna (Dungan) Wilkinson belonged to
one of the oldest families in Pennsyl-
vania'. Her father, Elias Dungan, was a
soldier during the Revolution, and a
prominent member and deacon of South-
ampton. Baptist church. He was a son
of Clement and Eleanor Dungan. and a
grandson of Jeremiah and Elizabeth
(Drake) Dungan, and a great-grand»on
of Rev. Thomas and Elizabeth (Weav-
er) Dungan, who came from Rhode Isl-
and in 1684, and established th^ first
Baptist church in Bucks county. (See
Dungan Family).

Ogden Dungan Wilkinson, second son
of Colonel Elisha and Anna (Dungan)
AVilkinson, was born in Bucks county,
1807; married, March 6, 1834, Sarah
Snowhill Dill, born August 16, 1801,
daughter of George Dill and Ann Red-
inger, who were married at Germantown,
February 6, 1797, she being the daughter
of John Redinger and Elizabeth Beker,
who were married February 14, 1758.
George Dill was the son of John and
Elizabeth Dill; his father, John Dill,
was an officer during the Revolutionary
war. George Dill was born February
7, 1772, settled in Trenton, New Jersey,
and April 2, 1798, purchased his home-
stead property. He was one of the larg-
est real estate holders in Trenton, and
did much to build up and improve the
city. He was interested in numerous
business enterprises, was one of the
founders of the Mechanics' Bank and for
some years its president. Ogden Dun-
gan Wilkinson moved to Trenton, New
Jersey, in 1832. He and his brother-
in-law, Crispin Blackfan, builf the Dela-
ware and Raritan Canal, from Trenton
to New Brunswick. They were many
years in business together and opened
up and built up much of the cit^^

Ogden Wilkinson (or Colonel Wilkin-
son, as he was known, he having been
colonel of militia), was one of Trenton's
most influential citizens. He was inter-
ested in many of the business enterprises
and acted as director of several of the
banks and filled other local as well as
municipal positions of trust. He died
August 24, 1866. His wife died Febru-
ary 16. 1891. They were the parents of
several children, only one of whom,
Frederick Redinger, survived infancy.

Frederick Redinger Wilkinson, Only
surviving child of Ogden D. and Sarah
Snowhill (Dill) Wilkinson, was born in
Trenton June 9, 1837; and graduated
from Princeton, in the class of 1857. He
married, January 24, i860. Harriet Sarah

HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

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Folwell, born December 13, 1839, daugh-
ter of Robert Folwell and Harriet Gra-
ham. Robert Folwell, born April 5, 1800,
died July 10, 1875, was son of Nathan and
Rebecca (Iredell) Folwell; Harriet Gra-
ham, born April 24, 181 5, died January
18, 1S42, was daughter of Thomas and
Sarah (Lasher) Graham. Thomas Gra-
ham was a son of Michael Graham, and
Margaret Kittera, daughter of Thomas
Kittera.

Frederick R. Wilkinson was a lawyer
and resided in Trenton, New Jersey, but
owing to his large real estate interests
did not practice. He was actively inter-
ested in a number of financial enterpris-
es, was for many 3-ears director of the
Mechanics' Bank and the People's and
Standard Fire Insurance companies, and
held a number of important positions
both in private and municipal affairs. He
was one of the influential men of the
city. He died December 30, 1883. They
were the parents of three children, two
■of whom are now living. Ogden Dungan,
the subject of the sketch; and Eliza-
beth Dill, wife of Louis Gompertz,
now living in Paris, France; they are the
parents of four children: Harriet, Helen,
Ogden and Francisque.

Ogden D. Wilkinson, son of Frederick
Redinger and Harriet (Folwell) Wilk-
inson, was born in Trenton, New Jer-
sey, May 2, 1863, and now resides at
2031 Walnut street, Philadelphia. His
early education was acquired at Chel-
tenhan Academy, and at Tivoli Military
Academy. He later spent some tinie
abroad, and attended Mr. Edward Foazy's
school at Geneva, Switzerland. On his
return to America he attended Phillips-
Andover Academy and the University
of Pennsylvania. At the conclusion of
his University course, he read law, but
the care of the large family interests,
most of which consisted of valuable real
estate in the citj^ of Trenton, have al-
most entirely engrossed his attention,
and he has of late years devoted his
entire attention to the improvement o^
the propert}- there. He has built and
owns some of the most valuable and
important buildings m the business cen-
tre of Trenton, among them bemg the
new State Street Theatre, said to be
one of the most complete and attractive
play houses in the State. The large
department store opposite the postoffice;
the Wilkinson building; the Hotel Ster-
ling; and many others. Among the most
extensive and attractive of Mr. Wilkin-
sont's building operations, is Wilkinson
Place, a very attractive residence portion
of the thriving city of Trenton, consist-
ing of two large apartment houses and
forty-five very attractive and stylish
dwellings. While not a resident of
Trenton, having large "interests there, he
is deeply interested in the aflfairs of the
citv. and in its improvement and devel-
opment and spends much of his time there.

In Philadelphia he has been for many
years quite actively interested in the
patriotic societies of that city, and has
from time to time acted as a member of
the councils of most of them. He. is a
member of the Pennsylvania Society of
Sons of the Revolution; the Founders
and Patriots' Society; Colonial Society
of Pennsylvania, of which he is a mem-
ber of the council; Society of the War of
1812; member and secretary of Pennsyl-
vania Commandery, Military Order of
Foreign Wars; member of the Order
of Albion; the Genealogical Society of
Pennsylvania; Historical Society o^
Pennsylvania; Bucks County Historicaf
Society; Society of Descendants of Co-
lonial Governors; Union League Club
of Philadelphia; New York Yacht Club;
and of the Corinthian Yacht Club of
Philadelphia, of which he was a found-
er and its first vice-commodore, and for
several years commodore. He owned
the schooners "Lydia" and "Speranza,"
and the steam yacht "Speranza."

During the Spanish-American war Mr.
Wilkinson, after offering his services to
the volunteer navy, assisted in organiz-
mg the Wetmore Regiment, which was
tendered to the United States, but, not
bemg accepted, was finally distributed
among the several National Guard regi-
nients, and was a great factor in bring-
ing the old regiments up to the new
standard of efficiency. Mr. Wilkinson
was later first lieutenant and commis-
sary of the 'Nineteenth Regiment, Na-
tional Guard of Pennsylvania, which
was formed as a provisional regiment
for the Spanish American war. Colonel
O. C. Bosbyshell, commanding, and was
later commissioned captain and quarter-
master of the same regiment, and was
mustered out with the regiment after
the close of the war. Mr. Wilkinson is
a director of the Broad Street National
Bank of Trenton, and of the Standard
Fire Insurance Company of the same
city.

He was married, April 4. 1883 to Sara
Jane Taylor, daughter of Robert and
Sarali Taylor, of Philadelphia, and they
are the parents of two children: Sarah
Dill, born December 30, 1883, and Eliza-
beth, born January 3, 1888.

SCARBOROUGH FAMILY. The
family of Scarborough is an old one. and
doubtless derived its name from the lo-
cality where its early progenitors resided
■"^•hen surnames first came to be used.
Scarborough Castle, an old Norman
fortress in Yorkshire, England, is built
on a high, narrow, rocky promontory,
extending seaward about a half-mile, at
the foot o vhich the ancient seaport of
the same name is nestled in a sheltered
nook along South Bay. The modern
town of Scarborough is now a noted
watering place of about 40.000 inhabi-

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HISTORY OP BUCKS COUNTY.

tants, and a few families of the name of
Scarborough still reside there. The
name is derived from its location, tlie
word Scear, or Scaur, meaning a i,harp
rock or crag, and "burg,' or borough,
meaning a town or fortress, the combi-
nation indicating and literally meaning
a town or fort on or near the crags or
rocks. Xhe arms of the family consist
of a castle by the sea, a beacon tlaming
on its turrets, the sun rising in the east,
and a manned ship at anchor.

Several representatives of the family,
at that time scattered over different parts
of England, emigrated to America dur-
ing the period of the early settlement
of the colonies, one settling in Boston,
Massachusetts, another in Connecticut,
and still another on the eastern shore of
Virginia. Edward Scarborough was the
first surveyor general of Virginia.
Charles Scarborough was the physician
to King Charles I.

The earliest known progenitor of the
Bucks county family of Scarborough
was John Scarbrough, of the parish of
St. Sepulchre's, London. He was known
there as a blacksmith and coachmaker.
He was a member of Peel Monthly
Meeting of Friends, whose place of wor-
ship was in Peel Court, near 65 St. John
street. He is referred to in the minutes
of this meeting under date of 10 mo. 26,
1677. He signed his name "Scar-
brough," as did his descendants until
about 1800, although in the body of the
papers executed by them the lawyers
and conveyancers frequently wrote the
name "Scarborough." The Scarborough,
Scarboro, Scarbrough, Scardeburg and
Scarburg families are probably of one
descent.

On 7 mo. 4, 1682, he purchased of
William Penn 250 acres of land to be
laid out in Pennsylvania, and embarked
for the Deleware to locate his purchase
and prepare a home for his family in
the new province. He left his wife in
England, but took with him his only
<r son John, then a youth. The 250 acres
were surveyed to him in Middletown
township, near the present site of Lang-
horne, where he was one of the first set-
tlers. After remaining for two years
and preparing a rude home in the wil-
derness, he embarked for England with
the intention of bringing over his wife,
leaving his son in the care of a Friend
until he was able to take charge of his
father's farm. His wife, not being* a
Quaker, declined to come to Pennsyl-
vania, and, the persecution of Friends
having somewhat abated, he decided to
remain in England and never return to
America. In 1696 he executed and sent
to his son John a power of attorney to
convej'^ his lands in Bucks county. His
early experiences among the Indians
are mentioned on page 222 of vol. i. of
Proud's "History of Pennsylvania.'" He
died 5, mo. 21, 1706, aged sixty years.

John Scarbrough, Jr., remained in
Bucks county, when his father returned
to England in 1684. His actual residence
from that date until 1689, when he is
shown to have been residing at Nesham-
iny, (the name by which Middletown
Meeting was first known, as well as the
locality), is somewhat a matter of con-
jecture. A sketch published at page
244, vol. 29, of "The Friend," states that
he was born in London in 1667. Samuel
Preston, a great-grandson, born in 1756,
in a letter written in 1823, says that he
ran away when a youth and resided sev-
eral years among the Indians, learned
their language, and later ofticiated at
Indian treaties as interpreter. It is said
that at one time he was instrumental in
preventing an Indian war. He is known
to have been a great friend of the Indi-
ans, and is said to have visited them on
religious missions. He married about
1690, but, though he was an active mem-
ber of Middletown Meeting, the maiden
name of his wife Mary has never been
ascertained. On the records of this
meeting appear the dates of the birth
of four of his children, his eldest child
William being born 10 mo. 30, 1691.
In pursuance of the power of attorney
from his father, he sold the Middletown
land and obtained a warrant of survey
for 510 acres in Solebury, on which he
settled about 1700, exchanging it later
for 820 acres adjoining. The 510 acre
tract is at the present time bounded as
follows, viz: Beginning at the Five
Points, and thence extending 250
perches along the road leading toward
Lahaska, to the first right hand road,
thence along the latter road 324 perches
to the road leading from Carversville
to Aquetong, thence along this road 250
perches to the Mountain road, thence
along that road to the place of begin-
ning. The 820 acre tract began at a point
where the Lower York road crossed the
eastermost boundary' of the 510 acre
tract, and thence extended northwest-
ward 410 perches to the Upper York
road, thence along that road 324" perches
to a road located between the present
Solebury Creamery and Centre Hill,
thence along this latter road, southeast,
410 perches to a point and thence
southwest 324 perches to the place of be-
ginning. A sketch published on page
244 of Volume 29 of the "Friend" in-
dicates that he was the first white man
to settle in the Buckingham-Solebury
valley. On 6 mo. 5, 1702, he and John
Bye requested that a Meeting be set
apart at Buckingham, and Falls' IVIonth-
ly Meeting consented that a First Day
Meeting be held at the house of Thomas
Bye. The Quarterlj^ Meeting records
mention him as a minister and also in a
list of "Friends eminent for their piety
and virtue since their settlement in
America." He was an elder of Bucking-
ham Meeting prior to its establishment

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177

into a Monthly Meeting, and later one of
its leading ministers. He died on his
Solebury plantation, I mo. 27, 1727, de-
vising it and the "Liberty Lot" at Fifth
and Spruce streets, Philadelphia, patent-
ed to him in 1705, in right of his father's
purchase of 250 acres, to his sons, Will-
iam, John and Robert. He was one of'
the commissioners appointed by the
Pennsylvania assembly in 1711 to lay out
the York road fr.om Reading's Ferry,
now Centre Bridge, to Philadelphia. The
children of John and Mary Scarbrough
were as follows:

1. William, born 10 mo. 30, 1691; died
4 mo. 1727, married Mary; see forward.

2. Sarah, born 2 mo. 4, 1694, died 3
mo. 4, 1748, married (first), 9 mo. 28,
1710/ George Haworth, and settled in
Upper Buckingham, where Mr. Haworth
died in 1730, and she married (second)
Mathew Hall, a native of Staffordshire,
by whom she had four children: David,
Mahlon, !\larger3' and Sarah. From
Mahlon, who married Jane Higgs in
1757. is descended a numerous family
of Hall in Bucks county. George and
Mary (Scarbrough) Haworth had five
children: Stephanus, George, Absalom,
James, and Mary, who married John

Michener. George married Martha

and died in Solebury without issue. The
other three boys moved to the Shen-
andoah valley, Virginia.

3. iSIary Scarbrough, born 8 mo. 8,
1695, married 10 mo. 1712, Samuel Pick-
ering. An account of their descendants
is given elsewhere in this volume.

4. Susannah Scarbrough, born 5 mo.
19. 1697, married in 1718, Richard
Brock, and died before her father, leav-
ing children: John, Elizabeth, Mary
and Susannah.

5. Elizabeth Scarbrough, married 10
mo. 29, 1719. John Fisher. They located
on a farm adjoining the Haworths near
Carversville, where were born their ten
children: Robert; Sarah, married Mor-
decai Michener; John; Elizabeth, mar-
ried Thomas Stradling; Hannah, married
Paul Preston; Joseph, married Ann
Gary; Deborah, married Joseph Burgess;
Barbara; Samuel, married Margaret
Dawes; and Katharine, married William
Hartley.

6. Hannah Scarbrough, born 8 mo.
31, 1704, died 2 mo. 21, 1743. married
Benjamin Fell. See Fell Family.

7. John Scarbrough married Jane Mar-
gerum in 1731. but died childless. He re-
sided on the present farm of Wilson
Pearson in Solebury, and Avas a very
eminent minister among Friends from
the vear 1740 to his death. 5 mo. 5, 1769,
in his sixty-sixth year, traveling exten-
sively in .the ministry in New Jersey,
Virginia, and North Carolina. A sketch
of him is printed on page 274 of Cruik-
shank's ^Memorials.

8. Robert, the youngest son of John
and Mary Scarbrough, inherited from

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his father a farm of 157 acres in