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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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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.

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.

On the paternal side, his great-grand-

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 recognize