History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 15

Author: Davis, W. W. H. (William Watts Hart), 1820-1910; Ely, Warren S. (Warren Smedley), b. 1855; Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: New York ; Chicago : The Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1040

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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 Jolin 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, II mo. 15, 1666-7, died II 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 Routledge; 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 II mno. 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 mno. 9, 1702, died at Wilmington, Dela- ware, married Joseph Poole, of Bucks county, 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 II 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 Ingle- dew, and removed to Virginia; Mary, married at Falls, 1720, John Hough, 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,

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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 Wrightstown Meeting, Bucks county, 10 mo. 28, 1732, Martha Mitchell, 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 lands and appurtenances thereunto belonging," and, Jacob dying in 1708, it descended to his infant son and only child Thomas Janney, and has contin- tied 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 II 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 II mo. II, 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. II, 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 Worth, 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 1773, 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 Io 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:

I. Thomas, born 8 mo. 9, 1794, died in Newtown borough, 3 mo., 1879, married Io 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.

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 Michigan, 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 Solesbury.

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

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12, 1872. He married Mary . Jenks, daughter of Thomas and Thomazine (Trimble) Jenks, of Middletown. (See Jenks 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 Io 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; Martha, 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, 180.1, died I mo. 8, 1806.

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

8. Sarah, born Io 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.

IO. 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.

II. Joseph, born 9 mo. 19, 1812, died Io mo. 19, 1887, married II 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 Emilie; 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 to the west where he died.

13. STEPHEN T. JANNEY, young- est child of Jacob and Frances (Briggs) Janney, was born II mo. 15, 1817, and died II 1110. 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. II, 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

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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 become involved in the noted "Border War." Returning to Bucks county in the fall of the same year, he located at Woodsville, Mercer county, New Jersey, 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, 1855, 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

17II 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 offshoots 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 Jolin 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- ily 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, 1724, Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Perry 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-

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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, married Benjamin Phillips, March 2, 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, 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. Jantes 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 with Peter Eaton for land in ROWan county 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 1761 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 Janies. 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;

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John; Isaac; Margaret, who married lienry 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 thercon 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. William, born 1742, died May 10, 1828, married January 25, 1769, Rebecca Will- jams. 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.

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History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 15

Author: Davis, W. W. H. (William Watts Hart), 1820-1910; Ely, Warren S. (Warren Smedley), b. 1855; Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921 Publication date: 1905 Publisher: New York ; Chicago : The Lewis Pub. Co. Number of Pages: 1040

Author: Davis, W. W. H. (William Watts Hart), 1820-1910; Ely, Warren S. (Warren Smedley), b. 1855; Jordan, John W. (John Woolf), 1840-1921
Publication date: 1905
Publisher: New York ; Chicago : The Lewis Pub. Co.
Number of Pages: 1040