History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 65

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


USA > Pennsylvania > Bucks County > History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III > Part 65


Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).


Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96 | Part 97 | Part 98 | Part 99 | Part 100 | Part 101 | Part 102 | Part 103 | Part 104 | Part 105 | Part 106 | Part 107 | Part 108 | Part 109 | Part 110 | Part 111 | Part 112 | Part 113 | Part 114 | Part 115 | Part 116 | Part 117 | Part 118 | Part 119 | Part 120 | Part 121 | Part 122 | Part 123 | Part 124 | Part 125 | Part 126 | Part 127 | Part 128 | Part 129 | Part 130 | Part 131 | Part 132 | Part 133 | Part 134 | Part 135 | Part 136 | Part 137 | Part 138 | Part 139 | Part 140 | Part 141 | Part 142 | Part 143 | Part 144 | Part 145 | Part 146 | Part 147 | Part 148 | Part 149 | Part 150 | Part 151 | Part 152 | Part 153 | Part 154 | Part 155 | Part 156 | Part 157 | Part 158


296


HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.


shire, England. Emigrating to America he became one of the first settlers of Pennsylvania. John R. was one of the directors of the old York pike road. Joseph Hallowell was a brother-in-law of Edwin Satterthwaite. who was a grandson of Betsey Ross, who made the first American flag and who made the ruffles for General Washington's shirt fronts. The Satterthwaite family were among the oldest and most respected members of the Abingdon meeting. The children of John R. Hallowell were: William, Lydia, Mrs. Martha Satter- thwaite, Joseph and Penrose. Joseph Hal- lowell was reared to farm pursuits and always carried on the work of an agri- culturist. However, he extended his ef- forts to various other lines and was con- nected with many enterprises, his good management winning him desirable suc- cess. He was recognized as one of the substantial men of his county. After his retirement from the farm he resided at Jenkintown, becoming one of the in- corporators of the Jenkintown Bank and a director thereof for many years. He was a man of plain deportment, but re- liable and trustworthy at all times, and his freedom from self laudation and os- tentation commanded the good will of all who recognized and appreciated true worth. He died at Jenkintown. April 3, 1904, leaving a wife and four children. His widow still occupies the residence at Jenkintown and she, too, is a mem- ber of the Friends' meeting. They were parents of four children: Edwin S., a prominent farmer of Abingdon, Penn- sylvania; Emma L., who is living with her mother: Fanny, born August 12, 1856, died March 25, 1900; and Anna, the wife of William Penrose. Hannah (Lloyd) Hallowell, the mother of these children, was descended through Ben- jamin Lloyd and Sarah Child, whose marriage took place 6 mo., 1775, and is also descended from George and Sarah Shoemaker, of Warrington, who were married in 1662, and George and Sarah (Wall) Shoemaker, who were married at Abington Meeting, 12 mo. 14, 1694. Ben- jamin H. Shoemaker commemorated the two hundredth anniversary of the mar- riage of the latter named by a dinner, Sixth day evening, twelfth month four- teenth, 1894, at seven o'clock. George Shoemaker, Jr., and Sarah Wall, his wife, were the great-great-great-grand- parents of Benjamin H. Shoemaker. Mr. and Mrs. Penrose have one son, Joseph Hallowell, born July 31, 1903. They are prominent socially in the commun- ity where they reside, and the circle of their friends is almost co-extensive with the circle of their acquaintance.


Samuel Jarrett Penrose, born at Hor- sham, May 5, 1852, was reared in that township and educated at the Friends' school, at Loller Academy, Hatboro, the Excelsior Normal Institute at Carver-


ville, and Swarthmore College. At the close of his school days he accepted a clerical position with the firm of Ellis P. Moore & Co., lumber merchants in Philadelphia, where he remained for eighteen months. He then returned to his father's farm in Horsham, and was engaged in agricultural pursuits until his marriage in 1881 with Mary C. Far- ren, daughter of John and Elizabeth (Fretz) Farren, of Doylestown town- ship, whose ancestry is given under the title of "The Fretz Family" in this work. He continued as a farmer in Horsham until 1884, when he removed to his mother-in-law's farm in Doylestown township, where he has since resided, he and his wife having inherited it at the death of Mrs. Farren, and devotes his time to the care of his three farms com- prising 278 acres. Mr. Penrose is now serving his second term as director of the poor of Bucks county, and is also a director of the Doylestown Trust Com- pany, vice-president and director of the Philadelphia and Eastern Railway Com- pany, and director of Fellowship Norse Company. Their children are: Cyril, Ralph F., and Norman, all of whom re- side with their father. The mother of these children is deceased.


HON. HARRY J. SHOEMAKER, one of the prominent members of the Bucks county bar, and an officer of sev- eral of the important corporations of the county, was born in Horsham township, Montgomery county. Pennsylvania, De- cember 25, 1855, and is a son of James and Phebe (Shoemaker) Shoemaker, of that township. He comes of a distin- guished ancestry that have been potent in the affairs of their respective com- munities since the founding of Penn's colony on the Delaware.


His paternal ancestor, Peter Shoe- maker, was born in Kreigsheim, a rural village on the Upper Rhine, "two hours ride from the City of Worms," in the year 1622. He was one of the earliest converts to the principles of George Fox, the founder of the Society of Friends, and suffered persecution for his religious faith as early as 1665 when he had goods to the value of two guilders taken from him in payment of a fine for attending a meeting of Friends at Worms. He was also imprisoned and fined at subsequent periods for his re- ligious faith. He was one of the Friends seen by Penn on his visit to Kreigsheim early in 1683, and was in- duced to join a company of Palatines in founding a colony in Penn's new prov- ince of Pennsylvania. He was a car- penter by trade, and before leaving Kreighsheim entered into an agreement with Direk Sidman, of Crefeld, on Au- gust 16, 1685. to proceed to German-


297


HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.


town, where the original thirteen fami- lies from Crefeld had already formed a settlement, and receive from Herman Op den Graef 200 acres of land upon which he was to erect a dwelling and pay therefore two rix dollars. This old agreement and the deed for the land is recorded in German at Philadelphia and has been seen by the writer. He cm- barked in the "Frances & Dorothy," with his son Peter, daughters, Mary, Frances, and Gertrude, and the widow of his cousin, Sarah Shoemaker and her children, and arrived at Germantown, October 12, 1685. He at once became one of the active men of the youthful colony, and is frequently mentioned in the old annals of Germantown. He was an active member of the Society of Friends, and one of the signers of the certificate to the Meeting at London in 1695 for Samuel Jennings, who carried the protest of Pennsylvania Friends against the schism of George Keith. He died in Germantown in 1707, aged eighty-five years. His daughter Frances married John Jacob Van Bebber, and another daughter married Rynier Her- man von Barkelow and removed to Bo- hemia Manor, Maryland. A grandson Martin Kolb accompanied him from Germany and has left numerous de- scendants.


Peter Shoemaker, Jr., born at Kreig- sheim, accompanied his father and sis- ters to Germantown in 1685 and became one of the prominent men of the colony, filling the office of burgess of German- town in 1696, 1704 and 1707, and many other positions of trust. He was one of the committee appointed December 30, 1701, to organize a school at German- town, erect a school house and arrange for a teacher. Through his efforts Francis Daniel Pastorius was induced to take charge of the school and it became one of the famous institutions of the infant province. Peter, Jr., was like his father a carpenter or "Turner," and had a part in the erection of most of the early buildings in Germantown. He was a prominent member of the Society of Friends, and was frequently the repre- sentative of his meeting in quarterly and yearly meetings. He married, at Germantown Meeting, 2 mo. 6, 1697, Margaret Op den Graef, daughter of Herman Op den Graef, one of three brothers who were among the first thir- teen families to settle Germantown in October, 1683. He was a native of Cre- feld on the Lower Rhine, and a son of Isaac and grandson of Herman Op den Graef, who was born at Alderkerk, No- vember 26, 1585, and died at Crefeld, De- cember 27, 1642. He was a delegate to the Mennonite council at Dordrecht in 1632 that formulated the creed of that sect. Herman Op den Graef and his brothers were the authors of the famous protest against human slavery presented


to Germantown Meeting in 1688 and by them forwarded to the Quarterly and Yearly Meetings of the Society. It was the first protest of its kind ever formu- lated in America. Peter Shoemaker died at Germantown, 4 mo. I, 1741, and his widow Margaret on 7 mo. 14, 1748. They were the parents of ten children, as fol- lows: I. Sarah, born 5 mo. 22, 1698, mar- ried Daniel Potts; 2. Mary, born 7 mo. 15, 1701, married Thomas Phipps; 3. Margaret, born 6 mo. 8, 1704, married Benjamin Masin; 4. Peter, born 6 mo. 8, 1706; 5. Daniel, born II mo. 14, 1709; 6. Isaac, born I mo. 15, 17II, see for- ward: 7. Elizabeth, born II mo. 6, 1713, married Joseph Davis; 8. Agnes, born 3 mo. 9, 1716, married William Hallowell; 9. John, born 6 m10. 30, 1718; 10. Samuel, born 6 mo. 13, 1720, died young.


Isaac Shoemaker, son of Peter and Margaret, born at Germantown, March 15, 17II, on arriving at manhood settled in Upper Dublin township, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) county, where he purchased a tract of land and followed the life of a farmer. He was a member of Abington Meeting and took a cer- tificate from there to Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, 5 mo. 27, 1741, to marry Hannah Roberts, daughter of John Roberts, of Philadelphia. They were members of Horsham Meeting at its or- ganization. Isaac and Hannah (Rob- erts) Shoemaker were the parents of thirteen children, as follows: Margaret, born Io mo. 3, 1742, died unmarried in 1788: Peter, born 4 mo. 12, 1744, married Hannah Norman; Elizabeth, born 4 mo. 23, 1748, married John Letchworth; Martha, born 7 n10. 14, 1750, married Jonathan Shoemaker; Daniel, born 12 mo. 9, 1752, married Phebe Walton, daughter of Thomas, of Byberry; Isaac, born Io mo. 29, 1754; James, born 10 mo. 13, 1757, see forward; Rachel, born 3 mo. 26, 1759; David, born 6 mo. 15, 1761; Hannah and Mary, born 3 mo. 9, 1764: Thomas, born 3 mo. 22, 1766, and Rebecca, born 4 mo. 29, 1769.


James Shoemaker, seventh child of Isaac and Hannalı, born in Upper Dutb- lin, Io mo. 13, 1757, was a farmer and lived all his life in Upper Dublin. He married in Horsham Meeting house, 6 mo. I, 1781, Phebe Walton, daughter of William and Phebe (Atkinson) Walton, the original certificate of the marriage engraved on parchment, as well as that of the marriage of William Walton and Phebe Atkinson, which was solemnized at the same place, 9 mo. 26, 1741, are in the possession of the subject of this sketch. William Walton, father of Phebe Shoemaker, was a resident of Moreland, and a son of Jeremiah and Elizabeth (Walmsley) Walton, of By- berry. William Walton, father of Jere- miah, was one of the four Walton broth- ers who landed at New Castle in 1675 and subsequently located in Byberry. He


-


298


HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.


was married at Byberry, 4 mio. 20, 1689, to Sarah Howell, and was the first min- ister at Byberry after the Keithian trouble and continued to preach there for many years. Phebe (Atkinson) Wal- ton was a daughter of William and Phebe (Taylor) Atkinson, of Upper Dublin, and granddaughter of John and Susannah (Hinde) Atkinson, of Lan- cashire, England, an account of whom is given elsewhere in this volume.


William and Phebe (Atkinson) Wal- ton were the parents of ten children, sev- eral of whom died young. Phebe, who married James Shoemaker, was the sec- ond of the name and was born II mo. 16, 1759. The children of James and Phebe (Walton) Shoemaker were as follows: William, born 3 mo. 16, 1782; Joseph. died an infant: Isaac, born 4 mo. 6, 1785; John, born 9 mo. 8, 1786; Hannah, born 2 mo. 24, 1789; Jesse, born 4 mo. 17, 1791, see forward: Jonathan, born 9 mo. 3, 1793, married in 1822 Margaret Rut- ter; Rebecca, died an infant; Rachel, born 2 mo. 28, 1798; and Phebe, born 9 mo. 2, 1802.


Jesse Shoemaker, sixth child of James and Phebe, was born and reared in Up- per Dublin, and spent the active years of his life in that township, removing late in life to Horsham where he died in 1882, aged over ninety years. He married at Horsham Meeting, 3 mo. 8, 1821, Edith Longstreth, daughter of Isaac and Jane Longstreth, of Bucks county, a descendant of Bartholomew Longstreth, one of the earliest settlers in Warminster, who born in Longstrothdale, Yorkshire, in 1679, came to Pennsylvania in 1698, and married Ann Dawson in 1727. The children of Jesse and Edith (Longstreth) Shoe- maker were: James, the, father of the subject of this sketch, born 8 mo. 20, 1822; Charlotte L., who died in infancy; and John L., born 10 mo. 7, 1832. The latter became an eminent lawyer in Phil- adelphia and filled many important posi- tions. He was a member of select and common council for a number of years, and took an active part in the manage- ment of the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876.


James Shoemaker, eldest son of Jesse and Edith, was born in Upper Dublin, but on arriving at manhood settled on a farm in Horsham township, where he has since resided, following the life of a farmer during his active years. He mar- ried Phoebe Shoemaker, daughter of Jonathan and Margaret (Rutter) Shoe- maker, and granddaughter of James and Mary Rutter. She died in April. 1896. James and Phoebe were the parents of eight children: Bella, residing with her father in Horsham: Adeline B., wife of Charles E. Chandler, of Germantown; Jesse, who died in infancy; Harry J., the subject of this sketch; Augustus Brock, an active business man of Tullytown,


Bucks county, who married Ida, daugh- ter of Elwood and Anna Burton, and has one son Lester; Charlotte L., wife of Russel Twining, of Horsham; Emily P., wife of Edward B. Webster, of Phil- adelphia; and Mary G., wife of Isaac Warner, of Horsham.


Hon. Harry J. Shoemaker was born and reared in Horsham township and acquired his education at the public schools and at Doylestown Seminary. At the age of nineteen years he began teaching school in Bedminster township, Bucks county, and the following year was appointed principal of the Tully- town (Bucks county) school, which he taught for three years. In 1880 he em- barked in the mercantile business at Tullytown, conducting a general mer- chandise store there until 1884. In poli- tics he is an ardent Republican, and has always taken an active interest in the councils of his party and in everything that pertains to the best interest of the community in which he lived. He was postmaster of Tullytown for four years, and also filled the office of school direc- tor and other local offices in that dis- trict. . In the fall of 1884 he was elected to the state legislature, being the only Republican elected from Bucks county, and served one term with marked abil- ity, being appointed on several import- ant committees. At the termination of his term he declined the renomination- and became a candidate for congress in the seventh congressional, district, but was defeated in the convention by two votes. He was a delegate to the Na- tional Rpublican Convention of 1884, and also to that of 1888, which nomin- ated Benjamin Harrison to the presi- dency. During Harrison's administra- tion he was confidential clerk to the second Comptroller of the United States treasury. In the meantime he entered himslf as a student at law in the office of the late Hon. B. F. Gilkeson, of Bris- tol, and was admitted to the bar of his native county, and also to the Bucks county bar on January 3, 1890. At the close of his term of four years as con- fidential clerk he located in Doylestown and began the practice of law, in which he has been successful in the building up of a lucrative practice. Later he was admitted to practice in the supreme courts of Pennsylvania and of the Dis- trict of Columbia. In 1893 he was a judge of awards at the World's Fair at Chicago, and in that capacity served as secretary of the committee on food products. In 1896 he was again a can- didate for the nomination for congress and received a majority of the votes from his home county, but was defeated in the joint convention. He was a char- ter member of the Doylestown Trust Company, and has served continuously as a director of that institution since its organization. He was one of the orig-


299.


HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.


inal promoters of a trolley road from Doylestown to Easton, and was one of the most active and energetic in push- ing the work to a completion, being one of the original directors of the Philadel- phia and Easton Railway Company, who built the road, and is secretary and treasurer of the company. He is also solicitor and director of a number of other important corporations. He has served for a number of years as school director of Doylestown township, and fills the position of secretary of the board. He married, November 28, 1878, Ella B. Wright, daughter of John H. and Elizabeth (Harding) Wright, of Penn Manor, and they have been the parents of two daughters: Elsie C., who died November 30, 1898, at the age of eighteen years; and Edith E., who died in infancy.


EZRA PATTERSON CARRELL was born in Warminster township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, November 25, 1857, on the Carrell farm (now owned by H. Warner Hallowell), on which he resided twenty-three years. His father was born and died on the same prop- erty, having lived thereon seventy-three years.


Ezra P. Carrell was educated until his thirteenth year. in the public schools of the township. After a two years' course at the Excelsior Institute of Hugh Mor- row, in Hatboro, Pennsylvania, his edu- cation was finished by a four years' course at the private school of Rev. George -Hand of the same place. He is by occupation a farmer, as has been his ancestors for at least four generations before him. He was located first in Warminster, next at Willow Grove, and for the last fourteen years on his pres- ent farm near Jamison, Pennsylvania, which he purchased at that time. Al- though a Republican, he has always been very independent in politics and always ready to vote for a better man on the opposite side. He has never held a political office, never wanted nor would accept one, yet has always been ready and willing to serve his fellow citizens in any other capacity, and through their choice has served in many positions of trist, as manager and director in vari- ous associations and companies. A busy, progressive farmer, he has not al- lowed his occupations to dwarf his other attainments nor his educational advancement, but has kept himself abreast in all matters which tend to the betterment and enrichment of the lives of those about him. Interested in genealogy he has in later years devoted much time to research into the history of his family. and is the secretary and genealogist of the Carrell Reunion As- sociation. In religion a Presbyterian, as has been his family for many gener-


ations, he has always interested himself in church work, taking an active part in it. At present he is a Sunday school teacher, Sunday school superintendent, and ruling elder in the Neshaminy Pres- byterian church in Warwick. On De- cember 22, 1881, he was married to Mary McCarter, daughter of James and Re- becca A. McCarter, of Ivyland, Pennsyl- vania. The McCarter family is an old English family which has lived in Chel- tenham township, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, for many generations. Rebecca Aikley (Shoemaker) McCar- ter, the mother of Mrs. Carrell, is of the well known Shoemaker family of Shoe- makertown, (now Ogontz) also in Chel- tenham township. Three children have blessed their union: Esther, died in in- fancy; Margaret L., and Edith.


Mr. Carrell is the son of Ezra Patter- son Carrell and Margaret Long (Beans) Carrell. Mr. Carrell, Sr., who died a few years ago, was one of the substan- tial men of Warminster township, al- ways taking an active interest in the af- fairs of the vicinity. A man of edu- cation and refinement, hospitable, gen- erous and honored by his neighbors for his probity and integrity, he held for many years the office of ruling elder in the Neshaminy church in Warminster, and later in Neshaminy in Warwick. Always interested in church work, he served long and well in the capacities of teacher and superintendent in the Sun- day school. and for many years as chor- ister in his church. He fully justified in his life the words of his pastor, who. prefaced his remarks at his funeral by these words: "Before me lies the re- mains of an honest man. The world says that no man can be honest and suc- cessful, but the life of Mr. Carrel fully refutes this." Margaret Long Carrell, his wife, is the daughter of John C. Beans and Elizabeth Yerkes. The Beans family have been residents of Warminster for many years. Mrs. Car- rell's grandfather. Thomas Beans, was the keeper of the old hotel at War- minster, then a post station on the mail line between Philadelphia and New York, and was a breeder of running horses, having a half mile track on the large tract of land which he owned. The holdings of the contiguous estates of the Beans and Yerkes families was the largest in this section, several hundred acres of which is retained in the fami- lies. The Beans family trace their gen- ealogy back to Donald (Bane) of Scot- land, immortalized by Shakespeare. Mrs. Carrell was educated by private


teacher, and later finished her education by a course at a young ladies' seminary in Wilmington, Delaware. She is still living at the home place in Warminster. Mr. and Mrs. Carrell had five children: Joseph, who is a farmer in Warminster township: John Beans, one of the lead-


300


HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.


ing physicians of Hatboro; Stacy Beans, in the wholesale and retail grocery busi- ness in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Ezra P., the subject of this sketch; and Emily, who died in infancy.


James Carrell, the pioneer ancestor of the family, settled in Bucks county about 1700 and possibly came from Rhode Island in 1683 with Rev. Thomas Dungan, whose daughter Sarah he mar- ried. Tradition, however, relates that he was a weaver, and had a mill or loom, in Philadelphia, where he wove linen and linsey-woolsey; some products of his loom remaining in the family until recently. He purchased one hundred acres of land in Southampton in 1704 and lived thereon until his death about 1730. In 1711 he purchased of his broth- ers-in-law, Thomas and Clement Dun- gan, a tract of land in Warminster which is still the property of his descendants, descending from father to son down to the present owner, Isaac Carrell. The children of Thomas and Sarah (Dun- gan) Carrell were six in number: James, the eldest son: Benjamin, who died in 1733: Elizabeth, who married Samuel Gilbert. of Warminster; Sarah, who married Silas McCarty; and Lydia, who married Robert Tompkins, of Warmin- ster, later of Warrington, Bucks county ; and another daughter of whom we have no record. In 1732 the other heirs of James Carrell conveyed the homestead in Southampton to the eldest son James and in 1734 he also purchased the North- ampton homestead on which he settled and lived until his death in 1750, con- veying the Southampton homestead on his purchase of the Northampton farm. The family were of Scotch-Irish Pres- byterian stock, and are supposed to have emigrated from Scotland or Ireland in the seventeenth century. Tradition re- lates that James Carrell, Sr., was im- prisoned in Londonderry during that memorable siege of one hundred and five days, and soon after came to America. The family is probably of the branch of the house of Carroll who were rulers in the northern counties of Ireland, which Dr. William Carrell in his history of the family traces back to the beginning of the third century.


James Carrell, Jr., married Diana Van Kirk, of Holland descent, daughter of Bernard and Rachel (Vandegrift) Van Kirk, and granddaughter of Jan Janse Ver Kirk or Van Kirk, who emigrated to Long Island in 1663 from the little town of Bueer Maetsen, in Gelderland, Holland, and settled at New Utrecht, where he died in 1688. His wife was Maykje Gysberts and they were the pa- rents of the following children: Roelof Janse, born 1654; Aert Janse, born 1655; Geertje, married Jan Dirckse Von Vliet: Barentje, married Nicholas Van- degrift: Cornelis Janse: Jan Janse, Jr., and Bernard or Barnet, the father of


Diana, above mentioned, who married Rachel Vandegrift. The maternal an- cestor of Diana (Van Kirk) Carrell is given in full in this work under the head of "The Vandegrift Family." James and Diana Carrell were the parents of eleven children, viz .: Rebecca, born May 25, 1725, married Robert Weir, of Warring- ton, and their descendants later mi- grated to Kentucky. Sarah, born Sep- tember 25, 1726, married Robert Patter- son, of Tinicum, whose descendants set- tled in Virginia, from whence they mi- grated to Ohio and Missouri. Bernard, married Lucretia McKnure and settled on one of his father's farms in Warmin- ster purchased of the heirs of Rev. Will- iam Tennent, and including the site of the famous log college of which Ten- nent was the founder, and which re- mained in the tenure of the descendants of Bernard until quite recently. James, born March 26, 1730, married Sarah - and settled in Tinicum township, Bucks county, in 1765, on land pur- chased of his brother Solomon and died there leaving four children who have numerons descendants scattered over the whole union. He was a private in the associated company, of Tinicum, Nicholas Patterson captain, during the revolution. Jacob and Rachel (twins), born April 27. 1735; Rachel became the second wife of Robert Stewart, of War- wick, Bucks county, and after her huis- band's death settled with her son Robert in Tinicum, from whence the family migrated to New Jersey. Phoebe, born August 20, 1837, married Andrew Scout, of Warminster. Solomon, born May 25, 1740, died 1777, married Mary Van Kirk, and in 1761 purchased a farm of three hundred and five acres in Plumstead. one hundred and forty-three acres of which he conveyed to his brother James in 1765 and the balance of which he sold in 1774 and then settled in Kenseng- ton. Philadelphia; he went with Wash- ington to New York, dying of the fever on Staten Island, whence his body was never removed; his widow married Charles Ryan, and died in Wallingford, Chester county, in 1821. Descendants of Solomon now reside in Chester, Penn- sylvania, and in Delaware. Elizabeth, born May 16. 1742. Diana married Elias Dungan, who was a soldier in the Revo- lutionary war, and has left numerous descendants: her daughter Rachel mar- ried Jesse Johnson.




Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.