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Elmanda, born July 12, 1843, living with Mrs. Cassel at Quakertown.
In his political affiliations Mr. Cassel was a stalwart Republican, and although he never aspired to office he took deep and active interest in the welfare of his party, and assisted materially in its growth and upbuilding. He and his family were members of the Reformed church at Richlandtown, and he lived an upright, honorable life. Passing away in September, 1879, his remains were interred in the cemetery adjoining the Reformed church. He was always lib- eral in his support of the church and of every worthy object, and his entire life was actuated by high manly principles. He was well liked by all who knew him, the circle of his friends being al- most coextensive with the circle of his acquaintance.
FRANK HEADMAN FLUM, of Bristol, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, who has won and retained an enviable reputation in the community for in- tegrity and probity, and whose career has been one of marked enterprise, was born in Bensalem township, Pennsyl- vania. April 2, 1868, a son of Frederic and Catherine (Barth) Flum.
Frederic Flum (father) was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, March 18, 1823. He came to America about the year 1850, followed some years later by his wife and children, and settled in Ben- salem township, where they resided for many years, and where Mrs. Flum is re- siding at the present time (1904), Mr. Flum having passed away May 5, 1875. Mrs. Flum, whose maiden name was Catherine Barth, was born in Wurtem- berg, Germany, June 15, 1826, and was the mother of the following named chil- dren: I. John, born September 27, 1847, married Emma Page, and they were the parents of three children: Fred, John, and George. 2. Fred, born Decem- ber 2. 1849. 3. Hannah, born October IO. 1853, widow of George Thackara. 4. David, born August 31, 1859, 5. Frank H., born April 2, 1868, mentioned here- inafter. 6. Lizzie, died in infancy. 7. Daniel, born October 3, 1869, married Annie Kilpatrick, June 5, 1880, and three children were born to them: Catharine, Bessie and Helen.
Frank H. Flum was educated in the public schools of Bensalem township. He then worked at farming with his father, remaining until 1880, when he took up his residence in Bristol, Bucks county, and at once engaged in the butchering business, which he has fol- lowed ever since, and in which he has achieved a large degree of success. Mr. Flum stands well in the community, as is evidenced by the fact that he has served two terms in the borough coun- cil. He is a charter member of the Good
Will Fire Company of Bristol, serving in the capacity of its treasurer, a member of the Improved Order of Red Men, and a member of the Knights of Friendship. He is a Republican in politics. Mr. Flum was married August 18, 1890, to Eliza- beth Rotta Guyon, of Bristol, a daugh- ter of Robert and Eleanor (Murray) Guyon, and granddaughter, on the pa- ternal side, of John and Elizabeth (Thomas) Guyon, and on the maternal side of Lewis and Martha (Wolohon) Murray. Their children are: Edith Guyon, born May 8, 1893; and Frank Leslie, born May 8, 1902. Mr. and Mrs. Flum are Presbyterians in religion.
JOHN S. WILLIAMS, a public-spirit- ed citizen of Solebury township who has given generous and helpful support to many movements fostering progress and improvement in the county, was born in Buckingham township, March 21, 1831. The first ancestry of whom the family has definite record was Jeremiah Williams, of English descent, who wedded Mercy Ste- phenso11.
(II) Benjamin Williams, son of Jere- miah and Mercy (Stephenson) Williams, was a resident of Nockamixon township, where he followed the occupation of farm- ing. He wedded Mercy Stevenson Octo- ber II, 1744, in Huntington township, New Jersey.
(III) Samuel Williams, son of Benja- min and Mercy (Stevenson) Williams, was born July 20, 1762, and reared in Tini- cum township, where he resided until after his marriage, when he removed to Buck- ingham township and continued to engage in farming there up to the time of his death, which resulted from typhus fever when he was about forty-five or fifty years of age. His political allegiance had been given to the Whig party, and he was a man of local prominence, highly respected throughout his community. He wedded Sarah Watson, who was also reared in Tin- icum township.
(IV) Edward Williams, son of Samuel and Sarah (Watson) Williams, was born on the old homestead farm in Buckingham township, and he, too, devoted his entire life to agricultural pursuits, becoming not only one of the leading farmers of his community, but also a man of prominence in community affairs, whose integrity stood as an unquestioned fact in his career. He was frequently called upon to serve in po- sitions of public trust, was president of a turnpike company and one of the trustees of the Hughesian free school. His political allegiance was given first to the Whig and afterward to the Republican party. He was married twice, his first union being with Phoebe Esther Schofield. They had three children, but John S. Williams, whose name introduces this record, is the only one now living. A second marriage result- ed in the birth of seven children: Charles
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H., deceased; Esther S .; Mary E .; Wil- liam, deceased; Marshall, who resides in Florida; Frank H., a practicing physician of Trenton; and Harriet F. The father, Edward Williams, died at the age of sev- enty-two years.
John S. Williams, son of Edward and Phoebe Esther (Schofield) Williams, was reared under the parental roof, acquired his early education in the common schools and afterward attended the Friends' school in Buckingham, also in Langhorne as a student in a boarding school conducted by James Anderson, and in the boarding school at Abington conducted by Samuel Smith, and in the Tremont Seminary at Norristown, Pennsylvania, of which Sam- uel Aaron was principal. When twenty-one years of age he assumed the management of the farm in Solebury township, which was the ancestral home of the Schofield family and descended to him through his maternal grandfather, John Schofield. He has since been actively and prominently identified with agricultural interests along progressive lines, and his splendidly im- proved property is an indication of his un- flagging thrift and enterprise. He has been vice president and director of the Bucks County Trust Company since its organiza- tion, has for thirty years been a director of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Insurance Company, and for twenty years its treasur- er, and is secretary and treasurer of the New Hope and Delaware Bridge Company, in which capacity he has served for several years. His interest in public progress and the material upbuilding and improvement of his county has found tangible evidence in the hearty co-operation which he has given to many measures for the benefit of his community. In politics he is a Repub- lican, and for several years served as school director, but otherwise has declined public office. He belongs to the Friends' Society, and stands today as one of the best known and honored men of Solebury township.
Mr. Williams was married to Miss Ra- chel R. Magill, a daughter of Jonathan Paxson and Mary (Watson) MeGill, of Solebury township, one of the early fam- ilies of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Williams have three children: Carroll R., the eld- est, was graduated from Swarthmore Col- lege in 1877 and completed the latter course in the University of Pennsylvania with the class of 1880. He was admitted to the bar the same year, began the practice of his profession in Philadelphia, and is today one of the most successful lawyers of that city. He was elected a member of the common council from the twenty-fourth ward, serving thereon from 1835 until 1839. On January 23, 1890, he married Eleanor (Boyd) Palmer, of Baltimore, Maryland, and they have three children: Catherine B., born September 26, 1891; John S., born April 8, 1893; and Carroll R., born Sep- tember 3, 1903. Agnes Blackfan, the only daughter of John S. and Rachel Williams, is at home. Edward Newlin, the younger
son, died when but twenty-six years of age. He was a graduate of the medical depart- ment of the University of Pennsylvania, and was acting as physician and surgeon on the American Line steamship plying be- tween London and New York.
THE WILLIAMS FAMILY of Nockamixon and Tinicum, and other parts of Bucks county, trace their an- cestry to Joseph Williams, of Boston, Massachusetts. He and his wife, Lydia, had ten children, namely: Joseph, born 12 mo., 14, 1670 (O. S.) ; William, 10 mo., 13, 1671; Richard, 12 mo., 8, 1673; Hannah, 3 mo., 20, 1674, died in infancy ; Daniel, 10 mo., 25, 1676; Hannah, 3 mo., 26, 1679; Jeremialı, 6 mo., 22, 1683 (refer- red to hereafter) ; Elizabeth, 7 mo., 22, 1686, died in infancy ; Elizabeth, 10 mo., 9, 1688; and Mary, 9 mo., 6, 1869.
Jeremiah at an early age was bound to a ship carpenter to learn the trade. Dur- ing his apprenticeship he left the church of England and joined the Friends or Qua- kers. I mio, 28, 1706-07 (O. S.), he pre- sented a certificate to the monthly meeting of Philadelphia from the Monthly Meeting of Rhode Island. I mo., 1707-08, he requested a "Certificate of Clearness" from the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting to Flush- ing Monthly Meeting to marry Philadel- phia, daughter of George and Mary (Wil- lis) Masters. In 1680 or '81 George Mast- ers, a tailor of New York, married Mary, daughter of Henry Willis, of Flushing, Long Island. Henry was fined for allow- ing his daughter to be married by Friends ceremony. After their marriage they went to England, where their first child, a daugh- ter named Mary, was born in 1682. Upon their return to this country they must have been in Philadelphia for a time, as their second child, a daughter, was born there in 1684. She was the first white female child born in the city, and was named Philadelphia for the city in which she was born. Jeremiah and Philadelphia Williams lived in the city of New York. They had two children. Joseph, born 3 mo., 15, 1710, died in infancy ; and Hannah, born 9 mo., 8, 1711, married Benjamin, son of Charles and Elizabeth (Jackson) Doughty, of Long Island, in 1737. Philadelphia Williams died 3 mo., 16, 1715, and the same year, 5 ino., 5, he bought a mill property at Hempstead Harbor, Nassau Island, Queens county, New York, of John Robinson. The follow- ing year, 7 mo., II, 1716, Jeremiah married Mary, daughter of Walter and Anne (Col- lins) Newbury, of Newport, Rhode Island, and widow of Jedediah Howland. This is a copy of their marriage certificate.
Marriage Certificate-Whereas, Jeremiah Williams, late of New York, but now of Hempstead in Long Island, and Mary Howland, widow and relict of Jedediah Howland, of Newport, in Rhoad Island, Having declared their intention of taking
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each other in Marriage before severall Pub- lick Meetings of the people commonly called Quakers in said Rhoad Island, ac- cording to the Good order used among them whose proceedings therein after a de- liberate consideration thereof with regard unto the righteous law of God and exam- ple of his people recorded in the Scriptures of Truth in that case were approved by the said Meetings, they appearing clear of all others and Having consent of parents and others concerned.
Now these are to certifie all whom it may concern that for the full accomplishing of their said Intentions this eleventh day of the Seventh month called September in the year according to the English, one thou- sand seven hundred and sixteen they the said Jeremiah Williams and Mary How- land appearing in a publick assembly of the People and others met together for that purpose in their Publick Meeting place at said Newport and in a solemn manner, he the said Jeremiah Williams taking the said Mary Howland by the hand did openly de- clare as followeth :
Friends, in the fear of God and before this assembly whom I desire to my wit- nesses I take this my friend Mary Howland to be my wife promising through the Lord's assistance to be to her a faithful and lov- ing husband till death separate us. And then and there in the said assembly the said Mary Howland did in like manner de- clare as followeth; Friends, in the fear of God and before this assembly whom I de- clare to be my witnesses I take this my friend Jeremiah Williams to be my hus- band promising through the Lord's assist- ance to be to him a faithful and loving wife till death separate us. And the said Jeremiah Williams and Mary Howland as a further consideration thereof did then and there to these presents set their hands.
And we whose names are hereunto sub- scribed being present among others at the Solemnizing of their said Marriage and sub- scription in manner aforesaid as witnesses hereunto have to these presents subscribed our names the day and year above written.
JEREMIAH WILLIAMS, MARY WILLIAMS. .
Witnesses-Johannah Mott, Elizabeth Whartenby. Jacob Mott, Mary Wing, Wil- liam Barker, Hannah Brinley, Bethia Fol- ger, Ann Kay, Clarke Rodman, Susanna Freeborne, Ephraim Hicks, Katherine Hull, Thos. Leach, Hannah Hull, Samuel Col- lins. Thomas Rodman. John Headly, Thomas Borden, Ruth Fry, Peter Easton, John Stanton, Junr., Dorcas Easton, Sam- tel Buffum, Johannah Leach, Thomas Hicks, Susannah Hicks, John Hull, Junr., Mary Caine, Deliverance Cornell, Abigail Hicks. Elizabeth Borden, Rebecca Bennett, Hope Borden, Ann Redwood, Alice Bor- den, Sarah Redwood, Mary Borden, Mary Stanton, Thomas Rodman, John Easton, Walter Newberry, William Anthony, Ann Cranston, John Wanton. Justice, Elizabeth Bordens, George Cornell, Leah Newberry,
Joseph Borden, Ann Richardson, John Bor- den, Martha Cornell, Thos. Richardson, Patience Anthony, Patience Redwood, Hannah Fry, Sarah Newberry, Sarah Bor- den, Ann Newberry, Blenham Stanton, A. Redwood, Catherine Clarke, Ann Clarke, Hannah Rodman, Katherine Sheffield.
At the time of her marriage to Jeremiah, Mary had one son, Joseph Howland, born 10 mo., 25, 1710 (O. S.) The children of Jeremiah and Mary Williams were: Anne, born 4 mo., 17, 1719, married, first, For- tunatus Woods, second, Ebenezer Carter ; Walter, born 10 mo., 17, 1720, married out of meeting, 1744; Benjamin, born 9 mo., 4, 1722 (referred to hereafter) ; Mary, born 9 mo. 26, 1724; Jeremiah, born 3 mo. 18. 1726; Lydia, born 12 mo., 6, 1729; and Martha, date of birth unknown, married Benjamin Hill, at Kingwood, 8 mo., 3, 1753 (N. S.). In the year 1743 or '44 Jeremiah and his two sons, Walter and Benjamin, and daughter Martha moved to Kingwood, Hunterdon county, New Jersey. His daughter Mary came in 1758. Jeremiah, at the establishment of the Monthly Meet- ing at Kingwood, was made with Joseph King the first elder of that meeting. Some years after this his health failing he, with his wife and daughter Mary, moved to their son Benjamin's, he having moved some years before to Nockamixon township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. He remained with his son until his death, 3 mo., 15, 1766 (N. S.), and was buried in the old grave yard at Quakertown, New Jersey. His will was written in Nockamixon, I mo., 23, 1760, proved 6 mo., 6, 1766. His wife died in 1774. Her will is dated Nockamix- on, Pennsylvania, 6 mo., 12, 1766, proved 3 mo., 20, 1774.
Benjamin Williams, son of Jeremiah and Mary (Newbury) Williams, was born 9 1110., 4, 1722 (O. S.). He married Mercy, daughter of John and Margaret Stevenson, of Kingwood, New Jersey, in 1744. Their children were: John, born I mo., 29, 1745. married Hannah Pursell; Mary, born 10 mo., II, 1747; Jeremiah, born 5 mno., 9; 1749 (referred to hereafter) ; Margaret, born 4 mo., 4, 1751, married John Iliff ; Lydia, born 8 mo., 18, 1752 (N. S.), mar- ried David Burson ; Benjamin, born 10 mo., 30. 1756, married Dorothy Leiper: Anne, born 7 mo., 15, 1758, married Jacob Ritter : William, born 9 mo., 20, 1760, married
Rachel Leiper ; Samuel, born 7 mo., 20, 1762, married Sarah Watson; Susanna, born 7 mo., 30, 1765, married a Mr. Stroud : Benjamin and his family moved to Nock- amixon township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, some time prior to 1760, and must have lived there some considerable time be- fore receiving a deed for the property. It was finally deeded to him in 1769. There were 515 acres and 31 perches, the boundar- ies reaching from near the Narrows to the village of Upper Black's Eddy along the river, and extending over the hill regions for a considerable distance. This was the land once owned and controlled by the
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Chief Nutimus and his tribe, and this chief was always an honored guest of Benjamin Williams, Sr., whose home was nearly on the site of the mansion built by Jacob Sto- ver soon after purchasing in 1818. Benja- min Williams, Sr., and his family lived here during the time of the raids by the Doans, and having a valuable horse of which he was very fond, and hearing of the approach of the Doans, he quietly stabled his favorite horse in his kitchen and it was thus saved from falling into the hands of the lawless gang. Soon after taking pos- session of the land in Nockamixon the young Indians roaming over it at will, gathered the apples from the trees and took them away, and disturbed the water in the spring until it was unfit for use for a time. Benjamin expostulated with Nuti- mus, and asked why they did it. Nutimus replied it was true the Indians had sold the land, but not the apples and spring. Ben- jamin asked them how much they wanted for the apples and spring, and the chief replied, five bushels of Indian corn, five bushels of buckwheat and five loaves of rye bread. After that the spring and the apples were not disturbed. In 1778 or '79 Benjamin bought about 500 acres of land in Tinicum township, Bucks county, Penn- sylvania, and built the house on the river road now owned by Clinton Haney, near the little hamlet of Lodi. The little creek which empties into the Delaware was the northern boundary of this tract. His son, Jeremiah, took possession of this tract in 1779. Some time after this Benjamin bought about 500 acres in the beautiful Buckingham Valley, which was occupied by his youngest son Samuel.
In his will, which was dated Nockamix- on township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 3 mo., 16. 1809, and probated 5 mo., 30, 1809 he mentions "a general arrangement of my estate," in which, on the '4th d of the Ist m. in the year one thousand eight hundred and three" he deeded to his three sons, Jeremiah and Benjamin the land on which they were living, and on the "3rd of the first m. in the year one thousand eight hundred and four" he deeded the land in Buckingham to his son Samuel, who was then residing there. Benjamin died at the home of his son Samuel in Bucking- ham and was buried in the grave yard at the Buckingham Meeting House. He died in 1809, probably in the early part of the fifth month.
Jeremiah, son of Benjamin and Mercy (Stevenson) Williams, born 5 mo., 9, 1749, married 4 mo. 25. 1779 (N. S.), Mary, daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Black- ledge, of Richland township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. Their children were: John. born I mo., 27, 1780 (referred to here- after) ; Thomas B., born 4 mo., II, 1781, married Rebecca Arndt: Benjamin, born 12 mo., 18. 1782, married, first, Mary (Mer- edith). widow of - (?) Burson, sec- ond, Rachel, daughter of Benjamin and Dorothy (Leiper) Williams; Susan, born
6 mo., 10, 1785, never married : William, born 6 mo., 12, 1789, married Hannah Whiting; Samuel, born 6 mno., 18, 1792, died 1812; Isaac B., born 4 mo., 23, 1794, married Martha Shelton White; Margaret, born 4 mo., 28, 1796, married Abel Lester ; Jeremiah, born 12 m10., 28, 1798, married Elizabeth Lake.
John, son of Jeremiah and Mary ( Black- ledge) Williams, born I mno., 27, 1780, mar- ried July, 1804, Christiana, daughter of John and Anne (Kimple or Kimball) Moore. Christiana was born 3 mo., 5, 1781. Their children were: Mary, born 5 mo. 20, 1805, married Nathan Whiting; New- bury Davenport, born 5 mo. 9, 1807, mar- ried Lucy Adelaide Gould; was made the first cashier of the Frenchtown, New Jer- scy, National Bank, when that institution was established; James, born 8 mo. 23, 1809, married first Phoebe Treichler, sec- ond, Josephine Krause (widow). He died March 14, 1903, at the age of nearly ninety- four years; Ann Eliza, born 7 mo. 30, 1812, married Jonas Smith, at this writ- ing, August 26, 1905, she is still living in possession of all her faculities, and enjoying a ripe old age in the home of her only child, John W. Smith, at Stockton, New Jersey. Barzilla Newbold, born 7 mo. 4. 1814, referred to later; and Caroline, born I mo. 18, 1821, married Thomas W. Har- ris. John and Christiana Williams built a home on the estate of his father, at Lodi, at the intersection of the river road and a road leading back to the western part of the township. The place is now owned by a MIr. Adams. After the death of his father, Jeremiah Williams, in 1834, John bought land, in Tinicum township. of the William Erwin estate, about 300 acres, and moved there in the spring of 1837. In the settlement of his father's estate, Thomas was the only purchaser of any part of the original estate; his pur- chase being about one-half of the land on the north and west side of the tract. His three brothers, Benjamin, Isaac and Jere- miah, with their sisters, Margaret Lester and Susan Williams moved to Ohio with their families about 1840. John died 6 mo. 6, 1858. Prior to his death he sold the middle portion of the tract, bought of the Erwins, to Conrad Wyker and at the sale, after his death, the northern portion was bought by his son Barzilla and the re- maining portion by his daughter Caro- line. There had been a few lots sold to others for building purposes, and these together with three houses on the south side of the public road comprise the little village of Erwinna.
Barzilla Newbold Williams, born 7 mo. 4, 1814, married first. in 1839, Mary, daugh- ter of Azariah and Anna Cummings Davis. of Sussex county, New Jersey, and had two daughters: Stella, born 6 mo. 13. 1841. died 10 mo. 4, 1843: and Anna M., born I mo. 4, 1844, married. 2 mo. 15. 1877, William H .. son of Rev. Samuel and Katherine (Wolfinger) Stahr. William
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and Anna lived in Philadelphia; he died 3 mo. 9, 1903; they have one daughter, Francelia Williams, who resides with her mother in Philadelphia. She was born I mo. 10, 1878. In September, 1847, he married Sarah S., daughter of William L. and Elizabeth (Large) King, by whom he had two children: Josephine King, born IO mo. 4, 1852, referred to hereinafter, and Sarah Francelia, born 3 mo. 4, 1855, married 3 mo. 7, 1878, Evan Thomas, son of Elisha and Harriet (Lukens) Worthington. Their children were: Elisha, born 2 mo. 27, 1879; Helen born 6 mo. 15, 1881, died 9 mo. 30, 1881 ; Eleanor F., born 12 mo. 7, 1887, died 6 mo. 15, 1888. Evan T. and Sarah F. Worthington resided in Buckingham, Penn- sylvania, where he had a general store until the spring of 1890 when they moved to Newtown, Pennsylvania, where he con- ducts the middle store purchased by him before his removal to Newtown. Barzilla's second wife died I mo. 26, 1856, and in March, 1858, he married Mary, daughter of George and Maria (Davis) Morrow, by whom he had one son, Samuel Silvey, born 2 mo. 1, 1859; he married Harriet May, daughter of William and Mary Ann (Hagenbuck) Hendricks, of Chicago. They were married 12 mo. 10, 1888, have one child, Marion Francelia, born 6 mo. 7, 1897. Samuel Silvey and his family re- side in Chicago, he is the associate man- ager of the Detroit Stove Works, whose main office is located in Chicago. On 6 mo. I, 1875, Barzilla married his fourth wife, Hannah, daughter of Ralph and Mar- tha Harrison, and widow of a Mr. John- son, of Camden, New Jersey, who still survives him. They had no children. He died 6 mo. 1, 1901, and was buried in the Pursell burying ground at Upper Black's Eddy, Bucks county, Pennsylvania.
Josephine King Williams, daughter of Barzilla and Sarah (King) Williams, and the compiler of this record, was born at Erwinna, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 10 mo. 4, 1852. She married, 4 mo. 22, 1885, Stacy B., son of Bruce M. and Martha (Poore) Pursell, of Upper Black's Eddy, Pennsylvania, a record of whose ancestry on both sides is embraced in this work. At the time of their marriage Stacy was a druggist in Portland, Northampton coun- ty, . Pennsylvania. In the spring of 1888 he sold his drug store in Portland and they removed to Bristol, Pennsylvania, their present place of residence. In the settle- ment of the estate of Barzilla Williams, the administrator, Stacy B. Pursell, sold the farm to Readen Tettemer, and thus, excepting a store property in Erwinna, owned by Joseph Williams, and a house and lot at Lodi, owned by Mrs. Alice (Williams) Winter, all the ancestral es- tate in Tinicum has passed out of the name, as it has also in Nockamixon : only a few acres of the hill regions of that tract are now owned by the descendants of Ben- jamin Williams, the original purchaser.
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