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tants, and a few families of the name of Scarborough still reside there. The name is derived from its location, the word Scear, or Scaur, meaning a sharp rock or crag, and "burg,' or borough, meaning a town or fortress, the combi- nation indicating and literally meaning a town or fort on or near the crags or rocks. The arms of the family consist of a castle by the sea, a beacon flaming on its turrets, the sun rising in the east, and a manned ship at anchor.
Several representatives of the family, at that time scattered over different parts of England, emigrated to America dur- ing the period of the early settlement of the colonies, one settling in Boston, Massachusetts, another in Connecticut, and still another on the eastern shore of Virginia. Edward Scarborough was the first surveyor general of Virginia. Charles Scarborough was the physician to King Charles 1.
The earliest known progenitor of the Bucks county family of Scarboroughi was John Scarbrough, of the parish of St. Sepulchre's, London. He was known there as a blacksmith and coachmaker. He was a member of Peel Monthly Meeting of Friends, whose place of wor- ship was in Peel Court, near 65 St. John street. He is referred to in the minutes of this meeting under date of 10 mo. 26, 1677. He signed his name "Scar- brough," as did his descendants until about 1800, although in the body of the papers executed by them the lawyers and conveyancers frequently wrote the name "Scarborough." The Scarborough, Scarboro, Scarbrough, Scardeburg and Scarburg families are probably of one descent.
On 7 mo. 4, 1682, he purchased of William Penn 250 acres of land to be laid out in Pennsylvania, and embarked for the Deleware to locate his purchase and prepare a home for his family in the new province. He left his wife in England, but took with him his only 4 son John, then a youth. The 250 acres were surveyed to him in Middletown township, near the present site of Lang- horne, where he was one of the first set- tlers. After remaining for two years and preparing a rude home in the wil- derness, he embarked for England with the intention of bringing over his wife, leaving his son in the care of a Friend until he was able to take charge of his father's farm. His wife, not beinge a Quaker, declined to come to Pennsyl- vania. and, the persecution of Friends having somewhat abated, he decided to remain in England and never return to America. In 1696 he executed and sent to his son John a power of attorney to convey his lands in Bucks county. His carly experiences among the Indians are mentioned on page 222 of vol. 1. of Proud's "History of Pennsylvania."" Ile died 5. mo. 21, 1706, aged sixty years.
John Scarbrough, Jr., remained in Bucks county, when his father returned to England in 1684. His actual residence from that date until 1689, when he is shown to have been residing at Nesham- iny, (the name by which Middletown Meeting was first known, as well as the locality), is somewhat a matter of con- jecture. A sketch published at page 244, vol. 29, of "The Friend," states that he was born in London in 1667. Samuel Preston, a great-grandson, born in 1756, in a letter written in 1823, says that he ran away when a youth and resided sev- eral years among the Indians, learned their language, and later officiated at Indian treaties as interpreter. It is said that at one time he was instrumental in preventing an Indian war. He is known to have been a great friend of the Indi- ans, and is said to have visited them on religious missions. He married about 1690, but, though he was an active mem- ber of Middletown Meeting, the maiden name of his wife Mary has never been ascertained. On the records of this meeting appear the dates of the birth of four of his children, his eldest child William being born 10 mo. 30, 1691. In pursuance of the power of attorney from his father, he sold the Middletown land and obtained a warrant of survey for 510 acres in Solebury, on which he settled about 1700, exchanging it later for 820 acres adjoining. The 510 acre tract is at the present time bounded as follows, viz: Beginning at the Five Points, and thence extending 250 perches along the road leading toward Lahaska, to the first right hand road, thence along the latter road 324 perches to the road leading from Carversville to Aquetong, thence along this road 250 perches to the Mountain road, thence along that road to the place of begin- ning. The 820 acre tract began at a point where the Lower York road crossed the eastermost boundary of the 510 acre tract, and thence extended northwest- ward 410 perches to the Upper York road, thence along that road 324 perches to a road located between the present Solebury Creamery and Centre Hill, thence along this latter road, southeast, 410 perches to point and thence southwest 324 perches to the place of be- ginning. A sketch published on page 244 of Volume 29 of the "Friend" in- dicates that he was the first white man to settle in thre Buckingham-Solebury valley. On 6 mo. 5, 1702, he and John Bye requested that a Meeting be set apart at Buckingham, and Falls' Month- ly Meeting consented that a First Day Meeting be held at the house of Thomas Bye. The Quarterly Meeting records mention him as a minister and also in a list of "Friends eminent for their piety and virtue since their settlement in America." lle was an elder of Bucking- ham Meeting prior to its establishment
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into a Monthly Meeting, and later one of its leading ministers. He died on his Solebury plantation, I mo. 27, 1727, de- vising it and the "Liberty Lot" at Fifth and Spruce streets, Philadelphia, patent- ed to him in 1705, in right of his father's purchase of 250 acres, to his sons, Will- iam, John and Robert. He was one of . the commissioners appointed by the Pennsylvania assembly in 1711 to lay out the York road from Reading's Ferry, now Centre Bridge, to Philadelphia. The children of John and Mary Scarbrough were as follows:
I. William, born 10 mo. 30, 1691; died 4 mo. 1727, married Mary; see forward. 2. Sarah, born 2 mo. 4, 1694, died 3 mo. 4. 1748, married (first), 9 mo. 28, 1710,' George Haworth, and settled in Upper Buckingham, where Mr. Haworth died in 1730, and she married (second) Mathew Hall, a native of Staffordshire, by whom she had four children: David, Mahlon, Margery and Sarah. From Mahlon, who married Jane Higgs in 1757, is descended a numerous family of Hall in Bucks county. George and Mary (Scarbrough) Haworth had five children: Stephanus, George, Absalom, James, and Mary, who married John Michener. George married Martha and died in Solebury without issue. The other three boys moved to the Shen- andoah valley, Virginia.
3. Mary Scarbrough, born 8 mo. 8, 1695, married Io mo. 1712, Samuel Pick- ering. An account of their descendants is given elsewhere in this volume.
4. Susannah Scarbrough, born 5 mo. 19, 1697, married in 1718, Richard Brock, and died before her father, leav- ing children: John, Elizabeth, Mary and Susannalı.
5. Elizabeth Scarbrough, married 10 mo. 29, 1719, John Fisher. They located on a farm adjoining the Haworths near Carversville, where were born their ten children: Robert: Sarah, married Mor- decai Michener: John; Elizabeth, mar- ried Thomas Stradling; Hannah, married Paul Preston; Joseph. married Ann Cary: Deborah, married Joseph Burgess; Barbara; Samuel, married Margaret Dawes; and Katharine, married William Hartley.
6. Hannah Scarbrough, born 8 mo. 31, 1704, died 2 mo. 21, 1743. married Benjamin Fell. See Fell Family.
7. John Scarbrough married Jane Mar- gerum in 1731, but died childless. He re- sided on the present farm of Wilson Pearson in Solebury, and was a very eminent minister among Friends from the year 1740 to his death. 5 mo. 5, 1769, in his sixty-sixth year, traveling exten- sively in the ministry in New Jersey, Virginia, and North Carolina. A sketch of him is printed on page 274 of Cruik- shank's Memorials.
8. Robert. the youngest son of John and Mary Scarbrough. inherited from
his father a farm of 157 acres in Sole- bury, located opposite the present Sole- bury Creamery, on which he resided un- til 1737, when he sold it and removed with his wife Elizabeth and two chil- dren, John, born II mo. 28, 1734, and Elizabetlr born' 9 mo. 18, 1736, to the Shenandoah valley in Virginia, taking a certificate to Opeckon, now Hopewell Monthly Meeting, at Winchester, Vir- ginia. Another son James was born in Virginia, and became prominent in the affairs of that section. His son John was an officer in different Virginia regiments throughout the revolutionary war. James and his children settled along the headwaters of Indian creek, a branch of the New river in Greenbrier county, now Monroe county, West Virginia. Some of his descendants still reside in Fayette county, West Virginia, and spell their names Scarbrough.
John Scarbrough, eldest son of Rob- ert, returned to Solebury in 1757, and on 5 ino. 5, 1760, took a certificate to Wrightstown to. marry Margaret Kirk, daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Twining) Kirk, and soon after removed with his wife to a tract of land owned by her father in Springfield township, where Margaret died, and her husband and children returned to Wrightstown in 1779. John Scarbrough married (sec- ond), 10 mo. II, 1779, Johanna Cahoon, a widow. In 1791 he purchased of Cris- pin Pearson 103 acres of the land orig- inally taken up by his grandfather, John Scarbrough, in 1700, in Solebury, and is still owned and occupied by his great- grandson, Isaac P. Scarborough.
The children of John and Margaret (Kirk) Scarbrough were as follows: I. John, born 5 mo. 6, 1761, married Eliza- beth Kelly, and settled in Cecil county, Maryland: Robert, born 3 mo. 9. 1763, married Ann Paxson; Rachel, born 5 mo. 8, 1765, married Ajax Osmond; Joseph, born 2 mo. 15, 1767, married Sarah Hartley, died 6 mo. 21, 1813: Is-' aac, born 5 mo. 8, 1769, married Amy Pearson; Elizabeth. born II mo. 30, 1772, married Thomas Hartley; Charity, born II mo. 5, 1774, married Mahlon Hart- ley, and settled at Quaker City, Guern- sey county, Ohio. John Scarbrough died in Solebury in 1813, all the above named children surviving him.
Isaac Scarbrough, fourth son of John and Margaret (Kirk) Scarbrough, born 5 mro. 8. 1769, married 12 mo. 24. 1794, Amy Pearson, daughter of Crispin and Hannah (Willson) Pearson, who was born in Solebury, Io mo. 10. 1769, and died Io mo. 8, 1835. In 1809 his father conveyed to Isaac Scarbrough the Pear- son farm purchased in 1791. where he lived through the active years of his life. He subsequently lived with his son Elijah Wilson Scarborough near Stony Hill school house, where he died Io mo. 24. 1851, and is buried at Buck-
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ingham Friends burying ground. Though he married "out of unity" he was sub sequently forgiven this offense against their discipline, and remained a member of Friends' Meeting through life. In politics he was first a Federalist but later a Whig. The children of Isaac and Amy (Pearson) Scarbrough were: Crispin, born 10 mo. 31, 1795: John, born 2 mo. 13, 1797; William, born 4 mo. 23. 1799, married Martha K. Past: Asa. born 9 mio. 12. 1800, died II mno. 2.4. 1800; Cynthia, born II mo. 17, 1801, married Joseph Large; Isaac, born 7 mo. 1, 1804, married Mercy Pearson; Charles, born 10 mo. 6, 1806, died II mo. 26, 1839. He served under General Sam. Houston in the war between Texas and Mexico, was captured, and with eleven others drew black beans which meant that he. was to be shot. They escaped at night and after being twelve days without food reached friends. His daughter, Mrs Dorothea Ann Burks, and her children reside at Kerrville, Kerr county, Tex- as. Amy, born 10 mo. 16, 1806, married Watson' Smith; Pearson, born 4 mo. 7. 1813, married Hannah Worstall, died 2 mo. 7, 1874: and Elijah Wilson, born 10 m10. 7, 1817, married Sarah Adams. Crispin, the eldest son, married Mary Shaw, and they were the parents of Mrs. Isaiah Quinby, of Lumberville, Penn- sylvania. John, married Hannah Reed- er, and their children were: Reeder, of Wrightstown; Kirk, of Falls; Elizabeth, wife of Dr. George W. Adams; Cynthia, wife of Oliver H. Holcombe; Amy Ann, wife of William Buckman; Alfred, and Dr. John W. Scarborough, late of New Hope. William Scarborough settled in Buckingham adjoining the meeting house where he died in 1875; one of his daughters, Maria, married J. Watson Case, and is still living with her son, Edward G. Case, in Doylestown.
Isaac Scarborough, fourth son of Isaac and Amy (Pearson) Scar- borough, born 7 mo. 1, 1804, married Mercy Wilkinson, daughter of Crispin and Elizabeth (Wilkinson) Pearson, of Solebury, who was born 7 mo. 3, 1810, and died 10 mo. 16, 1884. In 1853 he purchased the homestead farm and lived thereon during the active years of his life, retiring late in life to a lot adjoin- ing the farm, at Canada Hill, where he died 3 mo. 22, 1883. In politics he was a Whig, and later a Republican, and boasted that he never missed a presi- dential election. Though neither he nor his wife were members of Friends Meet- ing, they always affiliated with the Friends, and used the plain language. The children of Isaac and Mercy (Pearson) Scarborough were: Amy El- len, who died young: Watson, born 4 mo. 24, 1839, died 10 mo. 6, 1903; Elizabeth, born 10 mo. 11. 1810, married Richard C. Betts: Mercy Ellen, born 7 mo. 5. 1843, married Isaac C. Thomas, died
8 mo. 27, 1886; Isaac Pearson, born 7 mo. 24, 1846, married Emma Hampton, still living on the old homestead in Solebury; and Margaret, who died in in- fancy.
Watson Scarborough, eldest son of Isaac and Mercy (Pearson) Scar- borough, married, I mo. 1, 1868, Anna M., daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth (Wismer) Stover, of Carversville, Penn- sylvania, and took up his residence on one of his father's farms near Lumber- ville, known as "The Whittier Farm" « from the fact that the poet, John Green- leaf Whittier, once spent a summer there. In the fall of 1890 he retired to Carversville, where he died 10 mo. 6, 1903. In politics he was a Republican. His wife was a member of the Chris- tian church at Carversville. Watson and Anna (Stover) Scarborough were the parents of one child, Henry Wismer Scarborough.
Henry W. Scarborough was born in Solebury, 7 mo. 24, 1870. He received his preliminary education at the Green Hill school at Lumberville, entered the West Chester Normal School, from which he graduated in 1890. In 1894 lie received the degree of B. S. from Haver- ford College, and in 1895 the degree of M. A. In 1896 he graduated from the law department of the University of Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the bars of Bucks and Philadelphia counties. He at once began the practice of his profession in Philadelphia, with offices at 522 Walnut street, and has met with marked success, being one of the rising young attorneys of the Philadelphia bar. He also practices at the bar of his native county. He is a professor of com- mercial law and the law of real property and conveyancing at the Temple Col- lege. He married 7 mo. 20, 1904, Clara Hagerty, daughter of ex-County Treas- urer Jacob Hagerty, of Plumsteadville, Bucks county, by his wife Mary (Lan- dis) Hagerty. A son, Jacob Watson Scarborough, was born in Germantown, Philadelphia, 4 mo. 30, 1905.
SCARBOROUGH FAMILY. William Scarborough, eldest son of John and Mary Scarborough, and grandson of John Scarborough, of St. Sepulchre par- ish, London, England, was born in Mid- dletown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, December 30, 1691, and removed with his parents to Solebury township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, when a lad of ten years. He was a "turner" by trade, which probably implied a cabinet maker and all grades of local wood working, as well as that of a wheelwright, which latter trade lie is known to have fol- lowed. On arriving at manhood he mar -. ried and settled on a tract of sixty acres conveyed to him by his father in 1724,
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part of a tract of 520 acres taken up by the latter in 1701. He died a few months after his father, sometime between the date of his will, April 27, 1727, and the date of its proof, September 24 of the same year. His wife's name is un- known, and as she is not mentioned in his will, and a minor son is directed to reside with his uncle John during mi- nority, it is presumed that she died short- ly before her husband. His children were: William, who died without issue in 1783; Euclides, Lydia, Martha, and Sarah. The latter married a Stradling, and another daughter married a Smith.
Euclides Scarborough, second son of William, was born in Solebury, and was a minor at the death of his father. By the will of the latter he was directed to be apprenticed to John Heed "to learn the art of making German Wheels." Whether the parental direction was fol- lowéd does not appear. He did learn the trade of a blacksmith, and followed it for many years in Solebury in con- nection with farming. He inherited from his father the homestead of sixty acres of land, but in 1746 sold it and purchased two tracts of over one hundred acres of his brother William. In 1762 he re- purchased the sixty acre homestead, and probably resided thereon until 1770, although he later purchased one hundred and sixty acres in the present limits of New Hope borough of John Coryell. which he sold at different periods in tracts of forty-nine to seventy acres. In 1770 he closed out all his real estate and removed with his wife Mary and all of his children, except Isaac, the eldest, to Maryland, where he died in 1808. The children of Euclides and Mary Scarborough, were as follows, all of whom were born in Solebury: Isaac, born in 1745: Euclides, died unmarried; James, who was twice married, and re- moved with his family to Ohio; Will- iam, Samuel, John, Joseph, Thomas, all of whom married and lived and died in Maryland; Mary, who married Reuben Jones; Sarah, who married Joseph Rog- ers: and Hannah, who married John Richards, all of Maryland.
Isaac Scarborough, eldest son of
Euclides and Mary Scarborough, was born on the old homestead where his grandfather, William Scarborough, had lived and died, in the year 1745. Like his father he was a blacksmith, and fol- lowed that occupation through life in Solebury and Upper Makefield town- ships, dying in Solebury in 1825. He married Susan Dean, and they were the parents of five children, viz: Enos Dean; Joseph; Elizabeth, mar- ried Joseph Hartley; Sarah, married Thomas Sands; Mary, married Abra- liam Gray. Susan, the mother, dying, Isaac married (second) Rachel Lewis and had three children,-Thomas. Isaac, and Rachel. Joseph, the second son,
was twice imarried, first to a Sutton and second to Sarah Dudbridge; he had three children,-Sutton, who removed to Maryland; Mary, who married Samuel Rose; and Eveline, who married Dr. George Twining.
Enos D. Scarborough, eldest son of Isaac and Susan (Dean) Scarborough, was born in Upper Makefield township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1771. Like his father, grandfather, and great- great-grandfather he was a blacksmith, and a very expert mechanic. He received a good common school education and was a proficient penman. He lived most of his life in New Hope, where he fol- lowed his trade. He was at one time deputy sheriff of the county, and dur- ing that period resided in Doylestown. He married in 1798, Meribah Jackson, of Buckingham, whose ancestors were among the earliest English settlers in Bucks county. Enos D. and Meribah (Jackson) Scarborough, were the par- ents of nine children, as follows: I. Is- aac, born 1799, died in Hunterdon coun- ty, New Jersey, 1849; married Eliza Howell. 2. Joseph, born 1801, died at Milford, New Jersey, in 1877, married (first) Sarah Shamp, and (second) Ann 3. William, born 1804, married (first) Elizabeth Shamp, and (second) Elrania Potts; died in Lambertville, New Jersey, in December, 1884. 4. Hi- ram, born January 19, 1806; see forward. 5. Hannalı, born 1808, died 1864, married Jacob Donaldson of Philadelphia. 6. John, born 1810, died in infancy. 7. Susan, born July, 1812, died unmarried at Centre Bridge, Bucks county, Septem- ber 5, 1875. 8. Mary W., born Decem- ber 12, 1815, married Samuel Hall, of Doylestown, and died in Doylestown, February 18, 1879. 9. John, born 1818, removed to Indiana; was twice married and had a family. Meribah (Jackson) Scarborough died in 1821 at the age of forty-three years, and Enos D. married (second) Logan, by whom he had three sons; George W., and Andrew J. of Lambertville, New Jersey; and Enos D. Jr., who removed to Indiana.
Hiram Scarborough, fourth son of Enos D. and Meribalı (Jackson) Scar- borough, was born in New Hope, Janu- ary 10, 1806, and resided there most of his life. He learned the blacksmith trade with his father and followed that occupation until 1851. when he lost his right arm by the accidental discharge of a gun. He then became collector of tolls at the Delaware Bridge, and filled that position for thirty-five years. He was the confidential agent of the own- ers and had charge of the repairs and en- tire control of the bridge. He was also the proprietor of the shad fisheries at New Hope. In politics he was a Demo- crat, and took an active part in the coun- cils of his party. He served in the state
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legislature for the term of 1876-8. He was a man of good business ability and kindly disposition, and was widely and favorably known. He was a member of Lenni Lenape Lodge of Masons of Lam- bertville, New Jersey, and had taken most of the official degrees, and one of the oldest Odd Fellows in the state at his death. He was rectors warden in St. Andrews Episcopal church of Lam- bertville. New Jersey. He died in New Hope. March 12, 1888. His wife was Ann Jones, daughter of Joab and Eliza- beth (Fisher) Jones, the former a coop- er in Solebury township, and descend- ant of an old Bucks county family, and the latter a native of New Jersey. Ann Scarborough died in New Hope, April 5. 1004, at the age of eighty years. The children of Hiram and Ann (Jones) Scarborough are: Rutledge T., residing in Lambertville. New Jersey: Isaac: Catharine, wife of Robert J. Morris, of New York; Fletcher D., of Trenton, New Jersey.
Isaac Scarborough, of New Hope, is the second son of Hiram and Ann (Jones) Scarborough, and was born in New Hope. May 19, 1848, and acquired his education at the common schools there and at Trenton Business College. Almost from boyhood he has had charge of one of the fisheries formerly owned and operated by his father, and is still engaged in the fishery business. In politics he is a Democrat, and has al- ways taken an active part in local and county politics, filling many local offices and serving as delegate to district, county and state conventions. He is now serving his second term of five . years as justice of the peace. He is a member of Castle No. 136. Knights of the Golden Eagle. Mr. Scarborough married in 1871, Mary O'Brien of Lam- bertville, and they have been the parents of seven children, five of whom survive; Frank, of Lambertville. New Jersey; Hiram, of Philadelphia: Anna, at home; Andrew, telegraph operator for the P. & R. R. R. at New Hope; and Albert, a farmer in Solebury.
Mrs. Robert James Morris, of New Hope, Bucks county, formerly Miss Catharine Scarborough. is the only daughter of Hon. Hiram and Ann (Jones) Scarborough, account of whose ancestry and life is briefly sketch- ed in the preceding pages. She was born and reared in New Hope. In 1875 she married Albert Wills Taylor, an eminent journalist. who for several years prior to his death, held a respon- sible position on the staff of the Phila- delphia Times. He died March 4. 1804. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor were the parents of two children: H. Ross Taylor, re- siding with his mother in New Hope: and Albert Wills Taylor, Jr., who was a member of Battery O. First U. S. Artillery, in the Spanish-American war.
Mrs. Taylor married (second) Novem- ber 17, 1898, Robert James Morris, also a journalist by profession, who is em- ployed in Philadelphia.
THE LA RUE FAMILY. The LaRue family is of French origin, the name being originally Le Roy, and the imme- ciate ancestors of the members of the family who came to New York province about 1680 were probably among the millions of French Huguenots who fled from their mother country about 1666. and took refuge in Switzerland and the Palatinate, many also migrating direct to America and England. About 1680 Franz, Jacques, and Abraham Le Roy, probably all, and at least the last two brothers came from Manheim "In the Palz" and located in the Province of New York; Franz at or near the present site of Albany, New York, where there was a considerable colony of Huguenots under the leadership of Lois Du Bois, otherwise "Lonis the Walloon." who had himself fled from France to Manheim in 1658 and from there to America in 1660; Jacques, on the Hackensack, in Bergen, later Essex county, New Jersey; and Abraham, on Staten Island.
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