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Christopher Taylor was an early settler, coming sometime in the 'So's, and owned five thousand acres in the county in several townships, a considerable traet in Newtown near Dolington. He died on the estate leaving two sons and one daughter, Israel, Joseph and Mary. In 1692, two hundred and fifty acres were patented to Israel Taylor, doubtless the son of Christopher, on the south- cast side of Newtown borough. This he sold to James Yates, who, dying, 1730. the land went to his heirs, and soon after 1736, Samuel Cary became the owner of the greater part of the tract. Cary built a stone house on the premises, 1741, and called the place "Retirement." He died there. 1766, leaving the homestead to his son Samuel, who sold it to Nathaniel, father of Nathaniel P. Burrows. ISOI, for $5.860. It then contained one hundred and forty-six and one-half aeres. It was next owned by Thomas Porter, and a school kept there, known as "Porter's Academy." The next owner was David Roberts, father of the late Stokes L. Roberts, and there the son was born. The daughters of the family were remarkably handsome women, Eliza being often spoken of as the "hand- somest woman in Bucks county." She married Colonel Peter Ihrie, Easton. Twenty years ago the farm belonged to Jolin B. Tomlinson, who pulled down the old house, built 1741. and erected a new one, 1878. He called the place the "Fountain Farm." The James Yeates who owned this farm after Israel Taylor, is said to have walked the Indian purchase of 1684, and it was subse- quently owned by his son, James, who was one of the walkers in the "Walking Purchase," 1737, but gave out the morning of the second day and lived but three days. These facts make the place of historie interest.
The five hundred acre tract of Thomas Rowland, extending from New- town ereck to Neshaminy, probably included the ground the Presbyterian church stands upon. It was owned by Henry Baker. 1691, who conveyed two hundred and forty-eight acres to Job Bunting, June, 1692, and, October, 1697, the remainder, two hundred and fifty-two acres, to Stephen Wilson. In 1695 Bunting conveyed his acres to Stephen Twining, and 1698 Wilson did the same, and Twining now owned Thomas Rowland's whole tract. In 1757 part or the whole of this land was in the possession of Benjamin Twining. In 1702 Stephen Twining owned six hundred and ninety aeres in Newtown, which John Cutler surveyed March 10.
Twining, a common name in Great Britain, of Anglo Saxon origin, one authority says is composed of Saxon words meaning "two meadows." The name of Jolm Twining, an Abbot, of Winchcomb, Gloucestershire, makes its appear-
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ance the middle of the fifteenth century. William Twining was a freeholder at Yarmouth, Cape Cod, Mass., 1643, and his son William, with his family settled in Newtown. 1695, dying there Nov. 4, 1703, and his wife Elizabeth Dean, daughter of Stephen, December 28, 1708. From that time Newtown has been considered the home township of the family, from which the members have gone forth to make their way in the world. Stephen, son of William Twining, born February, 1659, married Abigail, daughter of John and Abigail Young, and had eleven children, and died Feb. 18, 1720. The first of the Twining family to be born and live in Bucks county were the children of Stephen, fifth son of Stephen 3d, born December 30, 1684, married Margaret Mitchell, Octo- ber, 1709, and died at Newtown, June 28, 1772. The wife died July 9, 1784, in her ninety-ninth year. Their issue was: William; Elizabeth, born April 30, 1712, married Isaac Kirk : Abigail, born December 24, 1714, married Samuel Hillborn; Stephen, born February 20, 1719, married Sarah Janney; Mary. married John Chapman, October 8, 1738; William, born April 7, 1723; Mar- garet, married Thomas Hamilton, and had a large family.
John Martindale, born in England, 1676. settled in Newtown before 1700, and married Mary Bridgeman, daughter of Walter Bridgeman and Blanch Con- stable. Middletown. She died, in 1726, leaving six children, from whom have descended a numerous family. Of these descendants we can trace John, of the second generation, born in 1719, and married Mary Strickland. Amos, of the third, born 1761, married Martha Merrick, Charles, of the fourth, born, 1801. married Phoebe Comly, and Doctor Joseph C., the fifth in descent from the progenitor, born 1833. in Philadelphia county. The latter achieved considerable distinction. Without the advantages of early education he took a respectable position in the walks of literature and science. His active life was spent in teaching and practicing medicine. In his hours of leisure he wrote, A History of the United States, for schools, of which seventy thousand were sold in the first six years : History of Byberry and Moreland, A Series of Spelling Books. First Lessons in Natural Philosophy, and a volume on Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene. He left unpublished, at his death, 1872, "A Catalogue of the Birds, Animals and Plants" found in the vicinity of Philadelphia. Doctor Martindale was a man of great industry and accomplished much under adverse circumstances.
A map of Newtown township, as surveyed and laid out by John Cutler, 1702, gives us the names of the land owners at that time. They had changed since 1684. with some new-comers ; Ste- phen Twining. al- ready mentioned. William Buck- man, who died in 1716, Michael and Samuel Hough. Ezra Croasdale. Henry Paxson. Israel Morris, Thomas Hillhora,
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who died in 1723, James Eldridge, Mary Hayworth, and James Yeates. By this time Shadrack Walley, who had become the largest landowner in the township, owning one thousand three hundred and ninety-seven acres, had absorbed most of the land that Richard Price owned on the Middletown line, 1684. A small portion of Price's land was now owned by Yeates. Israel Morris was the smallest land-owner in the township, one hundred and seventy-eight acres, if we except Edward Cowgill, who owned a few acres adjoining the north-west corner of the town common. James Yeates died in 1730, and was probably the father of the James Yeates who took part in the Great Walk of 1737. John Frost, who gave the name to Frost lane, on the northern edge of the borough, was there in 1711, and died in 1716. There were either Germans or Hollanders settled in the township as early as 1724, for in the survey of the road from Newtown to Falls meeting- house, of that year, there is mention made of "the Dutchman's plantation."
Thomas Hillborn, ancestor of the Bucks county family bearing this name, was an English Friend, who came to Newtown from Shrewsbury, N. J., in the spring of 1702. The year previous he had purchased seven hundred and fifty acres adjoining Makefiekl, including twenty-five acres in the Newtown town- stead. August 20, 1702, he purchased one hundred and thirty acres additional, making in all, per Cutler's resurvey, nine hundred and eighty acres. On De- cember 12, 168S, Thomas Hillborn married, at her mother's house, Shrewsbury, Elizabeth Hutton, at an appointed meeting of Friends. Twelve children were born of this marriage, the first six at Shrewsbury, the rest at Newtown, viz : Samuel, born 8 mo. 20, 1689; Robert, born 5 mo. 31, 1692; Mary, born 10 mo. 7, 1694; Elizabeth, born Ist mo., 2, 1697-98; Katharine, born I mo., 30, 1699; Deborah, born 3 mo, 25, 1701, died 1703; Thomas, born 1703; John, born 1705 : Joseph, born 1708, died 1731, unmarried; Amos, born 1710, died 1710; Rachel, born 1711; Hannah, born 1714, died 1714.
Thomas Hillborn died at Newtown, 1723, leaving a will dated 1719, his wife surviving him several years. Her will, dated 1728, now in possession of one of her descendants at Omaha, Nebraska, does not seem to have been pro- bated. Elizabeth Hillborn, widow of Thomas, had purchased of Richard Sun- ly, a farm in Wrightstown, and by the above will, she devised it to her son, Jo- seph, subject to his maintenance of her aged mother Elizabeth Hutton, but she subsequently sold the farm. Thomas Hillborn, Sr., in his lifetime, conveyed two hundred and twenty-nine acres to his grandson, Samuel Hillborn (son of Samuel, deceased) 6 mo. 7, 1717, which Samuel conveyed to Thomas, 1739, Thomas to his son Robert, 1779, and Robert to his son Amos, by will, 1793. On October 22, 1717, Thomas Hillborn, Sr., conveyed two hundred and fifty acres to his son Robert, and Robert dying 1720, devised it to his son Thomas, who, in 1741, having removed to Burlington, N. J., sold the whole tract to Peter Taylor. The balance of the iraet was devised to his son Thomas and to the widow Elizabeth, and they conveyed the same, separately, to John Hillborn, 1726 and 1737, respectively.
Samuel Hillborn, chlest son of Thomas and Elizabeth married, 1711, Mar- garet, daughter of Christopher and Margaret Atkinson, who came here from Yorkshire, England. Christopher dying on the passage, or soon after his arrival. Samuel Hillborn died. 1714, leaving an only son, Samuel, who married Abigail, daughter of Stephen Twining, and had by her eight children: Samuel, who re- moved to Durham township : Joseph, who married Aun Wilkinson, and settled in Smithfield. Philadelphia county : Mary; Elizabeth ; John, said to have been captured by Indians, 1775, and carried to Canada, but returned to Pennsyl-
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vania; Thomas, married Sarah Brummage, removed to Canada, 1806-7, his son, Eli H. Hillborn, living at Toronto ; William and David, died without issue ; Mary, married James Paxson; Elizabeth married Thomas Millard. Robert, second son of Thomas and Elizabeth, married Mary, daughter of Thomas Harding, 1715, died 1720, leaving two children, Thomas and Mary, the former removed to Burlington, New Jersey, 1738-39, where he was living, 1741 (see deed of record Bucks county ), and later removed to Lower Dublin township, and was a member of Byberry meeting, and died about 1770. Robert, his eldest son, born 2 mo., 6, 1740, in New Jersey, removed to Portland, Maine, 1775-76, where he enlisted in United States service, married and settled and has numer- ous descendants in New England. In an affidavit made in '94 to establish his claim to a pension, he said he was born in New Jersey. The other children of Thomas and Mary Hillborn were Thomas, born 10 mo., 23, 1741 ; Mary born 9 mo., 10, 1744; Joseph, born 2 mo. 12, 1743 ; Benjamin, born 8 mo. 30, 1746, and Elizabeth.
Mary Hillborn, eldest daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth, married Amos Watson ; Elizabeth married Abraham Darlington, Chester county; Katharine Hillborn was unmarried, 1728; Deborah, born 1701, died, 1703; Thomas, born 1703, married 1726, Ann Ashton, daughter of Thomas and Deborah Baines Ashton, had sons Robert and Sammuel; Robert died at Newtown, 1793, leaving sons, Amos, Thomas, Robert and John; daughters, Rachel Beans, Elizabeth Saylor, Fanny and Mercy. Of these, Thomas, who married Rachel Hayhurst, was the father of Isaac Hillborn, Philadelphia; John Hillborn born 1705, married 3 mo., 1730, Rachel Strickland, and removed to Philadelphia and died there, 1747, leaving five children, Amos, Miles, Joseph, Elizabeth and Frances.
When the township was laid out there was reserved and surveyed, at about the middle of it, a "townstead" of six hundred and forty acres on which the borough of Newtown stands. To encourage purchasers, Penn allowed each one to locate a lot in the townstead equal to ten per cent. of the quantity he took up in the township. There was left of this reservation, lying on both sides of Newtown creek and nearly one half within the present borough limits, a vacant strip containing forty acres, and known as the "common." The 16th of Angust, 1716, this piece of land was patented to Shadrack Walley, William Buckman and John Frost, for the use of themselves and other inhabitants of the township.1 These parties died without perfecting their title, and the vacant strip of land lay as common until the close of the century. The Ist of April. 1796, the in- habitants authorized William Buckman, Francis Murray, James Hanna, Thomas Story, William Linton and John Dormer Murray to procure the title to this property from the state, with authority to sell or lease, and the proceeds to be equally divided between the academy, a free school in the village, and schools in the township, in such manner as the trustees might direct. The patent was issued July 8, 1796, and the consideration was of £79. 6s., with a reservation of one-sixth of all the gold and silver found on it. The following were the metes and bounds of the common: "Beginning at a stone, an original corner, etc., thence crossing Newtown creek, along lands of Aaron Phillips, formerly James Yeates, south eighty-three and one half degrees cast thirty-five perches to a stone in Bristol road, in line of Joseph Worstall's lot. thence along the same and sundry lots of said town. of lands originally of Shadrack Walley, Mary Hayworth and Jonathan Eldridge, north eight and a quarter degrees, east two
1 It was conveyed to the inhabitants of Newtown township "for the convenience of roads, passages to ye water, and other benefits to ye said township."
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hundred and eleven and four-tenths perches to a stone set as a corner of Samuel Carey, originally Thomas Hillborn, and a corner of the seven acres belonging to and surveyed to Francis Murray, thence by the same, re-crossing the creek, north eighty degrees west twenty-nine eight-tenths perches to a stone, now set as another corner thereof, on the westerly side of Taylor's ferry road, at its inter- section of the Durham road about the corner of Moses Kelly, originally Ezra Croasdale, and Jacob Buckman, originally Samuel Hough's, thence by said Buckman, James Hanna, Esq., Thomas Buckman and Jesse Leedom, and others, originally Michael Hough's, William Buckman and Stephen Twining, south nine degrees thirty-eight minutes west two hundred and thirteen and four- tenths perchies to the place of beginning, containing forty acres and ninety-seven perches." The common was two hundred and twelve and three-tenths perches and two hundred and twelve and five-tenths perches on the east and west lines, respectively, and twenty-nine and nine-tenths perches and thirty-five and five- tenths perches on the north and south lines. It was divided into fifty-five lots, of unequal size, thirty-seven, fifty-five and one hundred and thirty feet front, and from one hundred and sixty-eight to two hundred and forty-two feet in depth, which were put up at public sale August 1, 1796, and most of them sold. Those numbered from one to twelve, inclusive, were sold in fee-simple, and the remainder on ground-rent, payable on the Ist of August, forever, with the right of redemption. Those sold in fee brought from £32 to f104, while those on ground-rent ran from £5. 12s. 6d. down to 18s. Gd. The common embraced all that portion of the present borough of Newtown lying between Main street on the east and Sycamore on the west, and Frost lane on the north down to a line a little below Penn street on the south, and the titles are held under the several acts of Assembly relating thereto. As many of the purchasers under the act of 1796 did not comply with the conditions of sale, and the old trustees being dead, with no persons capable of acting in their stead, the legislature cured the defect in ISIS. By this act Enos Morris, Thomas G. Kennedy, Jacob Janney, Phineas Jenks, Joseph Worstall. Jr., and Thomas Buckman were made "trustees of the Newtown common." They had power to sell and lease, previous titles were confirmed, and the same disposition was to be made of the proceeds as under the act of 1796.ª When the common lots were sold Main street was left open, but in 1798 a jury laid it out along the east side of the common sixty-six feet wide,and likewise Bridge and another cross strect forty-nine and one-half feet wide. In 1795 the common was called "graveyard field." Main street was de- clared a public road in 1,85.
The Lintons were early settlers in Bucks county, but we have not the date of the family's coming. They were here before the middle of the eighteenth century. William Linton, one of the trustees for selling the New- town Common, was the son of John and Elizabeth Hayhurst Linton, of Wrightstown, and born 1742. He married, first, 1766, Sarah Penquite, daugh- ter of Samuel, Wrightstown ; second, 1788, Mary Janney, daughter of Thomas Janney, Newtown township, a descendant of Thomas Janney, Provincial Coun- cillor : third, Letitia ( Ilarvey ) Ellicott, widow of Nathaniel Ellicott, Bucking- ham. He had two children by his first wife, John and Elizabeth, none by his other wives. William Linton bought for himself at the trustees sale. lot No. S, and shortly erected on it facing Main street, one of the finest mansions then in the town, and which is still ( 1901) standing. The property is shown on the map
2 In 1716 ten acres were granted to Thomas Mayberry, out of the "vacant land in the townstead of Newton, in the county of Bucks," for a settlement to carry on his trade.
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of 1812 in his name, adjoining the north lines of the county property and the Academy lot. These two lots, being mostly open ground, gave Linton's house a fine uninterrupted view, and with its central location in the town and the court house nearly opposite, made it a most desirable situation for a residence. Mr. Linton lived in this house, in colonial style befitting his position, until his death, ISO2, and his widow maintained an establishment of some pretention until her decease, 1817. They both belonged to wealthy and prominent families for the time. The property was inherited by William Linton's daughter Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Buckman, IS19, who sold it to Maria H. Wirtz, and she conveyed it to Dr. Reading Beatty,"}= 1823. Dr. Beatty lived here until his death and left it to his son, Dr. Charles C. Beatty, who, 1832, sold it to Joseph P. Norris, Jr., Philadelphia, trustee for Anna Maria, wife of Morris Buckman. In 1842, after twenty-three years of outside ownership, this house came back into the Linton connection, and on March 7, after two transfers, the property was conveyed to Joseph Briggs, in whose family it has remained. At this time Mr. Briggs lived in the old Court Inn, which we have mentioned elsewhere. Modern improve- ments and the encroachment of business have shut off the pleasant outlook from this semi-colonial mansion.
Down to 1723 the Durham road appears to have been the only traveled highway by which the inhabitants of the township could reach the outside world. Necessity was now felt for wagon communication with their neighbors east and west. The road to Taylorsville, via Dolington, was opened in 1723, and that from Newtown to Fallsington via Summerville, 1724. At the June term, 1730. the court was petitioned for a road "from Thomas Yardley's mill and the ferry at the said Yardley's landing."3 This road was opened, 1734,4 and tliat to Ad- disville about the same period.5 In 1760 a road was laid out from McKonkey's ferry6 to Newtown. In 1748 several of the inhabitants of Newtown and Make- field petitioned for a road "from William Croasdale's lot" along the line of John Croasdale and others into what is now the Durham road. This road prob- ably started about Dolington, or in that vicinity. The road to the Buck tavern was laid out in 1809, and ordered forty-five feet wide.
John Harris came to Newtown and settled at the townstead, probably as early as 1750. Seven years later he was keeping store there, when he purchased sixty acres of Benjamin Twining, part of the Thomas Rowland tract on the west side of the creek, which cost him £320. September 21, 1767, he purchased of Nelson Jolly what was called his "upper farm," on the west side of the common. The Presbyterian church stands on the south-west corner. The greater part
21/2 Dr. Reading Beatty. born Dec. 23. 1757, son of Rev. Charles Beatty by his wife Ann. daughter of Governor John Reading, New Jersey. He was a student of medicine at the outbreak of the Revolution, but went into service as ensign in Captain Jolin Richard- son's Company, Colonel Magaw's battalion, 5th Pennsylvania ; prisoner of war, 1776-1773; May, 1778, appointed ensign, 6th Pennsylvania regiment, Continental line; May 1, 1780, surgeon 16th Pennsylvania regiment, Continental line; September, 1781, transferred to Proctor's Artillery and served till end of war. He afterward settled in Bucks county and practiced medicine, his residence, after 1821, being the Linton house, Newtown, where he died October 29, 1831. He married April 20, 1786, Christiana, daughter of Judge Henry Wynkoop.
3 Now Yardley.
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of this tract is now owned by Alexander German, and the old yellow house, known as the "Washington headquarters." was the homestead of Harris. Gradually John Harris became a considerable land-owner, owning over five hundred acres in all. Two hundred and fifty-seven acres lay in Newtown, and. as much in Upper Makefield, part of which was bought of the trustees of the London company, the remainder from the manor of Highland. He grew to be a man of note among his fellows and before 1770, was written "John Harris, merchant" and "John Harris,7 Esqr." He died August 13, 1773, in his fifty- sixth year, and his widow administered on his estate.
John Harris married Hannah, daughter of Charles Stewart, Upper Make- field, and had seven children : John, Ann. Sarah, Elizabeth, Mary, Rachel, and Hannah. Of the children of this marriage, Ann, sometimes written Anne, was married twice, the first time to Dr. Hugh Shiell, Philadelphia. He was a native of Ireland, took his degree in medieine at Edinburgh, settled in Philadelphia at.
Maths House Newtown, Washington's Hd. Is. Dec. 27-30. 17 fb.
the beginning of the Revolution, was a personal friend of Robert Morris, and subscribed £5.000 sterling to establish the bank of North America. Dr. Shiell first met Miss Harris at Mr. Morris's house. The mother opposed the match, but the young people went to church and settled the matter for themselves. He was a man of fine education, good manners and full of humor. They had but one child. Catharine Harris Shiell, born August 19. 1785. who married and died at Lexington, Kentucky, June 24, 1841. and her husband, June 11, 1833, of cholera. At the death of Dr. Shiell. his widow married Judge Harry Innes, Kentucky."> Their child. Maria Knox, first married her cousin. Judge
7 Jolin Harris was a tanner as well as a merchant, and fifty years after his death, in digging the foundation for a milk-house on the German farm, they came to an old wall, vats, bark, and other remains of the tannery. The oldest inhabitant could tell nothing about them
71; In the "Journal of a Journey Through the United States, 1795 -- 06." by Thomas Chapman. Esq., an Englishman, we find the following reference to the Innesses while at Frankfort, Ky .: "On Wednesday evening. December 2. I went out and slept at Judge Innes's, who has got a plantation about five miles from Frankfort, where I staid all night
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Harris Todd, and at his death became the second wife of Hon. John J. Crittenden .*
Sarah llarris married Captain Charles Smith, of Wayne's army ; Elizabeth, Judge Thomas Todd, United States Supreme Court, whose second son, Charles Stewart Todd, was aid-de-camp to General Harrison, war of 1812-15, and represented the government at St. Petersburg and Colombia, South America. Mary Harris married James Hanna, a lawyer of Newtown, and had four chil- dren. Commodore Spotts, of the navy, was a grandson. Jack Harris married Jane Hunt, New Jersey. His son William, a commander in the Navy, was drowned off Vera Cruz during the Mexican War, trying to save the life of a brother officer." After the death of Charles Stewart, Mrs. Stewart with her daughters, Mrs. Hunter, Mrs. Harris, and Mrs. Shiell, a daughter of Mrs. Har- ris, all widows, with their children emigrated to Kentucky, where their de- scendants are among the most distinguished people of the state. Charles Stew- art, the father of Mrs. Harris, had other children ; Robert, who died unmarried at Trough Springs, Kentucky; William, a schoolmate of Daniel Boone, who accompanied him on his second visit to Kentucky, and was killed at the battle of Blue Lick ; Mary, who married James Hunter, and Charles, who died at Newtown, 1773, at the age of thirty-seven. Charles Stewart, the father, died September 16, 1794, aged seventy-five, and was buried in the Presbyterian church yard. He was born in Scotland, 1709. His wife was Sarah Lawell. widow of David, born 1709, and died in Kentucky, 1800. When Charles Stewart came to America is not known. In 1787, Hannah Harris went to "Kaintuckee," to get her share of her brother William's estate. The following is a memoranda of her disbursements and expenses: "Trip from Newtown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania to Danville, Kentucky, fro; boat to ascend the Ohio river £18; supplies for myself and family for two years and expenses of return to Newtown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, £350; expenses of a negro man in Kentucky, and going and coming, £36. 5s. rod; Thomas Lowrie, service in Kentucky and on my return, £45. 148. 3d .; loss sustained in horses in my journey to, stay at, and return from Kentucky, f80 ; making a total of foro. Id."
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