History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 30

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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The ancestors of the Elys of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, came from that part of Old England known as the Peak District, famous both for its natural beauty and historic interest. It com- prises Upper Derbyshire, Southwestern Yorkshire, and Western Nottingham- shire. The family were related to the Revells of Derbyshire, an ancient and powerful family, descendants of the Nor- man nobility. Hugh De Revell was grandmaster of the Knight Hospitalers, and this family in England throughout the Crusades were trustees of the Knight Templar property in England. The Sta- cyes of Yorkshire, who held the estate known as Ballifield from the time of the Norman Conquest, were also closely connected with the Elys. The Stacye

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and Ely families were among the earliest of the English churchmen to follow the teachings of George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends. Great reng- ious meetings were held at Baliincal Ilall, the home of the Stacyes, by Fox in his journeys to Yorkshire, and there is still to be found at Ballifield Hall, an antique black oak table inlaid with a silver plate inscribed as follows: "This called by Fox the Quaker's Table, made before 1593, was for many years at Syn- der Hill and afterwards for sixty years in the Tool House there, then restored and placed in Ballifield Hall by Thomas Watson Cadman, Esq., in December, 1868."

The connection between this branch of the Ely family and those of the same name mentioned in the earlier history of this section of England is not known. In the Feudal history of Derbyshire by Yeatman in the days of Henry VII and Henry VIII, Hugh*, Thomas*, Roland*, and John Ely are memtioned and still earlier, Nicholas le Hele, Sir William "Delly," Knt. and John "Eallee" are also mentioned, but no positive lineage is known back of the grandparents of those who came to America. Joshua Ely and Rebecca Ely Stacye, who land- ed in West Jersey in 1683 and 1678 re- spectively, were the children of George Ely, of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Other children were: Hugh of Mans- field, who married Marie Roos; Ruth, who married Lionell Revell; and Eliza- beth, whose tomb is in a good state of preservation in the private cemetery of the Stacyes at Ballifield Hall. Another Hugh Ely is known to have married Rosamond Bullock at Chesterfield, Der- byshire, between 1600 and 1640, and Alicia, a daughter of Hugh Ely, was bap- tized at Chesterfield in 1614.

A history of the Ely, Stacye and Rev- ell families is in preparation under the supervision of Warren S. Ely of Doyles- town, Pennsylvania, Dr. William S. Long, of Haddonfield, New Jersey, and Daniel B. Ely of Montclair, New Jer- sey.

The wife of George Ely, of Mansfield, was doubtless Sarah Heath, as at the time Joshua Ely. their son, proposed intentions of marriage at Mansfield Quarterly Meeting, England, 7th month, 1673, with Mary Seniar, the following entry was made on the minutes of that meeting :

"Joshua Ely and Mary Senierd, both of Mansfield, declare intentions of mar- riage with each other. Present, his grandmother, Elizabeth Heath, his re- lations and guardians Mahlon and Re- becca Stacy, his brother-in-law, Lion- el Revel who married his sister Ruth

Ely, and Alse Senierd, mother of said Mary Senierd."

Mahlon Stacy had married Rebecca Ely in 1668, at Cinder Hill, a part of the Ballifield estate. From another source we have the following records: "Joshua Ely of Mansfield and Mary Seniar of same place, daughter of Alice Seniar married 8th month, 29, 1673, at G. Cock- erman's House at Skegby in Notting- hamshire." "John Ely, son of Joshua and Mary, buried 9th month, 25, 1676. George Ely, son of Joshua and Mary, died 3rd month, 3, 1676."

Mahlon Stacy, of the ancient family of Ballifield, with his wife Rebecca Ely, their children and servants, in the year 1678 embarked in the "Shield," and on November 10, 1678, landed on the east bank of the Delaware, in New Jersey, where they and their descendants were destined to take an important part in the founding and preservation of an Eng- lish colony and nation in America. In the same ship came their cousin, Thomas Revell, of Chesterfield, Derbyshire, who, unlike them, was not a convert to the gentle teachings of George Fox, but rep- resented the High Church Tory party, and later took an active part in the af- fairs of the West Jersey colony, filling the positions of surveyor general, re- corder, surrogate, member and almost a dictator in the governor's council, and finally a justice on the supreme bench. He was, however, an aristocrat of the aristocrats and was unpopular with the colonists, and after the downfall of Lord Cornbury was finally removed from of- fice at the instigation of the colonists and on the advice of William Penn.

Mahlon Stacy became a very promi- nent man, filling many important gov- ernment positions. His daughters inter- married with the Kirkbrides, Pownalls and Janneys of Bucks county, who were prominent in the affairs of Bucks county and the province of Pennsylvania. He took tip a tract of land on the site of the present city of Trenton and eretted a mill there, the first to furnish meal to the early colonists of Bucks county. It was through him that his brother-in- law, Joshua Ely, who, after his marriage, had settled at Dunham, Nottingham shire, came to America in 1684 with his wife and children, and located on 400 · acres, conveyed to Joshua by Mahlon Stacy, on both sides of the Assinnipink, by deed dated April 20, 1685. This tract fronted on the river, about five eighths of a mile from a point thirty-two and one-half chains north of the mouth of the creek upward, and extended inland one mile. .

Joshua Ely became a prominent man in the colony, and was commissioned a justice in 1700 and recommissioned the following year. He became a large landholder, owning at different periods two other tracts of 400 acres each, be-

*These Christian names are also common in the Revell pedigree. It is also known that the Elys of Utterby Manor are descended from the Elys of Derbyshire.

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sides his original purchase on the site of Trenton, of which he died seized. His wife Mary died in 1698, and he married (second) November 9, 1699, Rachel L'ee, who bore him two children, Benjamin and Ruth, twins. He died 4th month, 1702, at Trenton. The children of Josh- ua and Mary (Seniar) Ely were John and George, before mentioned, who died in infancy in England; Joshua, born in Eng- land 1680; George, born 1682 in England ; John, said to have been born on the voy- age to America; Hugh, born at Tren- ton about 1686; Elizabeth, and Sarah, the latter born in the same year that her mother died. Of Rachel, the widow and her two children, nothing is known.

Joshua Ely, the eldest son, bought a portion of the homestead in 1705. Let- ters of administration were granted on his estate to George Ely in 1760, but whether his son or not we are unable to determine; nothing is known of his descendants.

George Ely, the second son, it would seem, was about to marry Christian, the daughter of Nathaniel Pettit, who lived on an adjoining tract, at the death of his father, and the latter, in his will, expresses decided objections to the mar- riage and practically disinherits George in case of its consummation. What be- came of Christian Pettit remains a mys- tery, but in 1703 George Ely married Jane Pettit, daughter of Nathaniel, but whether the same person or another daughter is a matter of conjecture. George Ely purchased 100 acres of the old homestead of his father's executors at Trent Town (as it came to be known after the purchase by William Trent of the Stacy mill and lands) and lived thereon until his death in 1750. He was active in the affairs of the embryo city, and a member of its first town coun- cil. at the incorporation in 1746. The children of George and Jane (Pettit) Ely were: Joshua, born March 16, 1704; George, born 1706: Rebecca, who mar- ried Eliakim Anderson, and has descend- ants in Bucks county; Joseph; Mary, who married Richard Green, and is the ancestress of Mrs. Ethan Allen Weaver of Philadelphia; Sarah, who married John Dagworthy :* and Elizabeth, who married James Price of Hopewell.

John Ely, the third son of Joshua and Mary (Seniar ) Ely, married Frances Venables, daughter of William and Eli- zabeth Venables, of Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, in 1706, and died at Trenton, in 1732. Their four children, John, who married Phebe Allison; William; Mary, wife of William Hill; and Elizabeth, wife of Joseph Higbee, have left num- erous descendants in New Jersey. The

descendants of Jolin and Phebe are es- pecially numerous in southern New Jer- sey.

Hugh Ely, the youngest son of Josh- ua and Mary (Seniar) Ely, born at Trenton about 1686, married December 12, 1712, Mary Hewson, and in 1720 settled in Buckingham township on 400 acres of land purchased in the "Lundy Tract," extending from Broadhurst's lane to Holicong and from the York road to Buckingham Mountain, and lived there the remander of his life, dy- ing in 1771. He became a member of Buckingham Friends' Meeting, and, his wife Mary having died, he married May 16, 1753, Phoebe Smith, widow of Robert Smith, of Buckingham, and daughter of Thomas Canby, an eminent minister among Friends. Phoebe was also an accepted minister. The children of Hugh Ely, all by his first wife, were:

I. Thomas, who married January 22, 1734, Sarah Lowther, daughter of William and Ruth Lowther, of Buckingham and about 1775, removed with most of his grown up children to Maryland. Gen. Hugh Ely of Baltimore county, veteran of the sec- ond war with Great Britain, congress- man, United States senator, etc., was a son of Mahlon and grandson of Thomas and Sarah (Lowther) Ely. Many of the male descendants of Thomas migrated to Ohio, where the family is now quite numerous.

2. Hugh Ely, Jr., married Elizabeth Blackfan, and remained on the home- stead in Buckingham, part of which is still owned and occupied by his de- scendants. He reared a family and has very numerous descendants in Bucks county and elsewhere.

3. Ann Ely married Peter Matson.

4. Anna Ely, married John Wilkinson.

Of Elizabeth and Sarah Ely, daugh- ters of Joshua and Mary, little is known. The descendants of the three sons, George, John and Hugh, are now widely scattered over the United States, and many of them have filled honored po- sitions in the official, professional and business life of the sections in which their lot was cast.

George Ely, second son of George and Jane (Pettit) Ely, married Mary Prout, and settled in Amwell township, near Lambertville, New Jersey, in 1748-1750. He was proprietor of Wells Ferry, now New Hope, and resided there, and also was the owner of considerable land in the Ferry Tract. Solebury. He had sons Joseph, John and George, the last named of whom was colonel of a New Jersey regiment during the revolutionary war, and at its close removed to Shamokin, Pa., where he died in 1820. He married Susanna Farley, of Amwell and had nine children, many of whose descendants now reside in western Pennsylvania and Ohio.

*John Dagworthy's sons. Jobn and Ely, were officers in the French and Indian war. John became a brigardier general. and was granted 20.000 acres of land in Maryland for his services.

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Joshua Ely, eldest son of George and Jane (Pettit) Ely, born at Trenton, New Jersey March 16, 1704, married in 1729, Elizabeth Bell, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Bell, of Burlington county, New Jersey. He removed to Pennsyl- vania permanently in 1737, but .it would appear that he had established a resi- dence there some years earlier, as he was admitted a member of Buckingham Meeting in 1734. Though the minutes of that meeting fail to show any record of his removal, he and his wife Eliza- beth received a certificate of removal from Chesterfield Meeting to Bucking- ham in 1738. In 1737 he leased of Will- iam Blakey 400 acres in Solebury town- ship. Bucks county, the greater part of which is still owned and occupied by his descendants of the name. The lease was for ten years, and under its provis- ions, he was to clear sixty acres of up- land and ten acres of meadow, and build an addition to the house, Blakey to fur- nish "nails and shingles," and to build a frame barn. The lease was renewed in 1747, but in 1749 he contracted for its purchase, which failed of consummation until two years later by reason of the death of Blakey before the deed was de- livered. Here Joshua Ely lived until his death in 1783, building a stone house soon after his purchase, which is still occupied by his great-great-grandson, William L. Ely. He became a prominent man in Solebury but, being a consistent member of the Society of Friends, took no part in the revolutionary struggle, his name and those of his sons appear- ing on the list of "non-associators" in 1775. He was made an elder of Bucking- ham Meeting in 1752 and was recom- mended as a minister in 1758. He was a successful farmer, and in addition to the 400 acres acquired another large tract of land, part of the Pike tract adjoining. The children of Joshua and Elizabeth (Bell) Ely were as follows:

I. Joshua, born at Trenton in 1730, died on a part of the Solebury home- stead in 1804. He married Elizabeth Hughes, daughter of Mathew and Eliza- beth (Stevenson) Hughes, of Plumstead, and has left numerous descendants. The farm of 150 acres received by him of his father was occupied successively by his son and grandson. both named Jonathan. the latter dying in 1867, when the farm went to another branch of the family, and is now conducted by a great-great- grandson of his brother George, George H. Ely.

2. George Ely, born at Trenton, New Jersey. November 9, 1733, died in New- town township in 1815. He married Sep- tember 24, 1760. Sarah Magill; see for- ward.

3. John, born May 28, 1738. married Sarah Simcock, and inherited the home- stead tract of his father. For his de-

scendants see sketch of William L. Ely, who still resides there.

4. Sarah Ely, born June 14; 1736, mar- ried William Kitchin, to whom her fath- er conveyed a portion of the homestead lying next to the Delaware river, upon which he erected a mill for his half- brother Aaron Phillips, whose descend- ants of the name operated it until about 1890.

5. Hugh Ely, born August 8, 1741, mar- ried Elizabeth Wilson. He inherited from his father a farm in the "Pike Tract," but sold it and resided in New Hope, where he was a noted clock mak- er a century ago.

6. Hannah, married James Dubree, and left two children Absalom and Han- nah.

7. Jane, married Jonathan Balderston, and lived and died in Solebury.

George Ely, second son of Joshua and Elizabeth (Bell) Ely, born at Trenton, November 8, 1733, married November 24, 1760, Sarah Magill, Jr., daughter of William and Sarah (Simcock) Magill, of Solebury, the former a native of Ulster, Ireland, located in Solebury about 1730. Sarah Simcock was a daughter of Jacob Simcock, Jr., and Sarah Waln, of Rid- ley, Chester county; Sarah Waln being a daughter of Nicholas . Waln, for many years a member of colonial assembly, at whose house in Middletown, Bucks county, the early Friends Meetings were held. John Simcock, of Ridley, the grandfather of Jacob, Jr., born in Chesh- ire, England, in 1630, came to Chester county with his wife Elizabeth about 1682; he was one of Penn's five commis- sioners, and a member of provincial council, 1683-1700; judge of Chester county. 1683-86; puisine judge of prov- ince, 1686-90; provincial judge, 1690-93; and speaker of assembly, 1696; died 1703. His son Jacob, who was coroner of Chester county in 1691, married Alice Maris, daughter of George Maris and Alice his wife, who came from Wor- cestershire, England, to Chester county in 1682, a member of the governor's council, 1684 to 1695. member of assem- bly, justice, etc., died 1705. In 1760 George Ely received from his father II2 acres of the homestead, on which he erected a house still standing, and which is still owned by his descendants, being the home of his great-grand- daughter Laura Ely Walton. He later purchased considerable other land in Solebury and elsewhere, much of which is also occupied by his descendants. He was a prominent man in the community, and a member of colonial assembly in 1760. He was a resident on the old homestead until 1802, when he trans- ferred it to his son George Ely, Jr., and removed to Newtown township to a farm purchased of Hampton Wilson, where he died in 1814. The children of

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George and Sarah (Magill) Ely were as follows:

I. Joseph, born August 13, 1761, mar- ried Mary Whitson, daughter of Thom- as Whitson, Jr., and granddaughter of Thomas Whitson, who came from Beth- page, Long Island, and a descendant of the Powells, Hallecks and Estes of Long

· Island. Joseph Ely received from his father the Rabbit Run farm, now occu- pied by his great-grandson Thomas Ma- .gill, and lived and died there.

2. Jane Ely, born January 5, 1764, mar- ried Benjamin Paxson.

3. Joshua, born July 4, 1766, died young.

4. Amos, born February 6, 1769.

5. George, born July 25, 1772, married Sarah Smith, and lived and died on the homestead, where his sons, Robert, Smith, George and Gervas, late of Lam- bertville, New Jersey, were born and reared.

6. William, born November 26, 1774, inherited his father's Newtown farm.

7. Aaron married Alada Britton, was the father of Hiram and Britton Ely, of New Hope, and the grandfather of Dan- iel Britton Ely, of Montclair, New Jer- sey.

8. Joshua, born October 24, 1579, died young.

9. Mark, born September 18, 1781; see forward.

IO. Mathias, born September 5, 1783, was twice married, and was the grand- father of Esward W. Ely, of Doyles- town.

II. Amasa, born November 12, 1787.

Mark Ely, ninth child of George and Sarah (Magill) Ely, born on the old homestead, September 18, 1781, was a shoemaker by trade, and followed that vocation in connection with farming all his life. He inherited from his father a small farm adjoining the homestead, and lived thereon until his death in 1835. He was twice married, first on June 2, 1802, to Hannah Johnson, who bore him three daughters, and second, December 12, 1815, to Rachel Hambleton, born May 23, 1787, died August 21, 1878, ·datighter of James and Elizabeth (Pax- son) Hambleton, of Solebury, later of Drumore, Lancaster county, grand- daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Pax- son) Hambleton, and great-granddaugh- ter of James and Mary (Beakes) Ham- bleton, of Solebury. James Hamble- ton came to Solebury in the early part of the eighteenth century from Mary- land, where his ancestors had resided for two or three generations. Hannah Paxson, wife of Stephen Hambleton, born December 28, 1732, died November I, 1812, was the daughter of James and Margaret (Hodges) Paxson, and grand- daughter of William and Abigail (Pow- nal) Paxson; and Elizabeth, the wife of James Hambleton, was a daughter of `Henry and Elizabeth (Lupton) Paxson,

and granddaughter of Henry and Ann Plumly Paxson, the latter being a broth- er to William before mentioned, and both sons of James and Jane Paxson, who came from Bucks county, England, in 1682. Mary Beakes, wife of James Hambleton, was a daughter of Stephen and Elizabeth (Biles) Beakes, both of whom were natives of England, the for- mer born April 28, 1665, in Blackwell, Somerset, England, son of William and Mary (Wall) Beakes, came to Pennsyl- vania with his parents in 1682 and died in 1699. Both he and his father were members of colonial assembly. His wife Elizabeth, born in Dorchester, England, June 3. 1670, was a daughter of William and Joanna Biles, who came to Buicks county in 1679, William was a member of the first provincial council, and rep- resented his county for many years.

Of the three daughters of Mark and Hannah (Johnson) Ely, one married a Hall, and had a large family of children; Rachel married Amos C. Paxson, of Solebury, and had a large family, most of whom are now deceased; and Rachel Ann, married first Joseph Lownes, and second Samuel Cooper, having several children by the first marriage, and one (Mrs. Rachel Pidcock, of New Hope) by the second.

The children of Mark and Rachel (Hambleton) Ely, were.

I. James H. died September 29, 1905, in Solebury, married Emeline Magill, and had four daughters and one son, Mark, of Ew- ing township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey. Of the daughters, Henrietta married Ellis Walton, and is living in Solebury: Josephine is the wife of George Quinby, of Warrington: Eliza- beth married Joseph Lear, and is de- ceased; and Amy, unmarried, resides with her father.

2. Amy, married Isaac Heston Wor- stall, and is deceased, leaving two chil- dren, Mrs. George Wiley of Solebury and Mrs. Emma Wilson of California.

3. Mercy, married William H. McDow- ell. and resided for many years in Cecil county. Maryland, both are deceased leaving four sons and a daughter.

4. Mary, married Howard Paxson of Solebury and has been a widow for many years, residing with her daughter Mrs. Harvey Warner in Solebury.

5. Isaac Ely. second son of Mark and Rachel, born in Solebury, May 23, 1819, was reared in that township. and lived there and in the borough of New Hope all his life. He was a farmer, and, after renting a farm for about five years, pur- chased a farm in the Pownall tract ad- joining the homestead of his ancestors, where he lived until 1865, when he pur- chased the farm on which his grandpar- ents, George and Sarah (Magill) Ely, had settled in 1760, and where his father was born, and lived there until 1884, when he retired from active business and

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resided in New Hope until his death, on March 3, 1898. In 1867 he purchased the farm given by his great-grandfather, Joshua Ely, to his son, Joshua, Jr., on which his eldest son, William M. Ely, settled and still resides. Isaac Ely was a prominent and successful farmer and business man. He took an active inter- est in local affairs, and held a number of positions of public trust. He was for many years a member of the local school board, and took an active interest in the cause of education. During the civil war, though a member of the Society of Friends and constant in the attendance of Solebury Meeting, he was active in raising the quota of soldiers required to carry on the war, from his section, and in rasining funds and materials for the care of the sick and wounded in the hos- pitals. He was for many years a direc- tor of the Bucks County Agricultural and Mechanics' Institute, and one of the active members of the Solebury Farmers' Club. He married December 25, 1841, Mary Magill, born October 23, 1820, died March 2, 1897, daughter of John and Anne (Ely) Magill. The former, born July 12, 1779, died Febru- ary 10. 1866, was a son of John. and Amy (Whitson) Magill, and a grandson of William and Sarah (Simcock) Magill, be- fore mentioned; and the latter a daugh- ter of Joseph and Mary (Whitson) Ely before mentioned. Amy Whitson, the wife of John Magill, Sr., was born July 18, 1739, and was a daughter of David and Clemence (Powell) Whitson, who came from Long Island to Solebury in the first half of the eighteenth century. The children of Isaac and Mary (Ma- gill) Ely were:

Sarah Ellen, born 1842, died August 3. 1876; married John S. Abbott.

William M. Ely, born January 29, 1844; has been for many years a justice of the peace of Solebury, residing on 150 acres of the land taken up by his an- cestor, Joshua Ely, in 1737. He mar- ried December 19, 1876, Agnes S. Mich- ener, daughter of Hugh and Sarah (Betts) Michener, and they are the pa- rents of two children: George H., born June 30, 1880, is married to Marion Rice, daughter of Hon. Hampton and Emma (Kenderdine) Rice, and resides with his two children, Wilton and Helen, on the same farm; and Mary D., born Decem- ber 12, 1880.

Anna M. Ely, born June 7, 1845, mar- ried March 29, 1873, Frederick L. Smith, for many years engaged in the mercan- tile business at Penns Park and New Hope, now living retired in Doylestown. Their only child, Ely J. Smith. born De- cember 16. 1877. is a member of the Bucks county bar.

Edgar C. Ely, born October 14, 1846. and Rachel Anna, born June 4, 1850, both died August 25, 1851.

John HI. Ely, born November 17, 1851,

married in 1882, Martha S. Gilbert, daughter of John W. and Letitia (Smith) Gilbert, of Buckingham; he was a farmer in Solebury for several years, and is now residing in New Hope borough. They have no children.

Laura Ely, born August 18, 1853, mar- ried Seth T. Walton, of one of the oldest families of Montgomery county, and has three children, Edna M., Mark Hubert, and Marguerite.

Warren S. Ely, born October 6, 1855; see forward.

Alice K., born January 17, 1860, mar- ried Clarence T. Doty, a prominent bus- iness man of Jacksonville, Florida, where they reside.

Martha C., born December 10, 1861, married Thomas B. Claxton, a farmer in Buckingham.

WARREN SMEDLEY ELY, tenth child and fourth son of Isaac and Mary (Magill) Ely, was born in Solebury township, October 6, 1855. He was ed- ucated in the common schools and Lam- bertville Seminary. On April 1, 1878, he took charge of the paternal farm, upon which he had been reared, and con- ducted it for two years. March 1, 1880, he purchased a farm in Buckingham, to which he removed and cultivated it for five years, during the same period acting as one of the managers and the treas- ttrer of the Buckingham Valley Cream- ery Association. On October 26, 1881, he experienced a distressing accident by the loss of his right arm in farming ma- chinery. This necessitated his seeking other employment than that to which he had been accustomed, and in the win- ter of 1881-82 he engaged in business as a real estate and general business agent, and during the ensuing four years was busily engaged in that capacity, at the same time continuing his residence upon the farm and directing its management. In the spring of 1885 he sold the farm and purchased a mill in Buckingham, which he remodeled and refitted throughout, equipping it with the latest improved roller process machinery for the manufacture of flour and granulated cornmeal. He was the pioneer in east- ern Pennsylvania in the manufacture of the latter product, and his "Gold Grits" enjoyed a more than local reputation, and commanded a ready sale, as did his roller process flour, and he conducted a prosperous business for several years.

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History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 30

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