History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 9

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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large business, and is one of the largest dealers in that line in Philadelphia. In politics Mr. Vansant is a Republican, and takes an active interest in the af- fairs of the town in which he lives. He has been for many years a member of the borough council, and is now filling the position of clerk of that body. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, being affiliated with Bristol Lodge No. 25, F. and A. M. lle is also a member of Neshaminy Lodge, No. 422, I. O. O. F., of Hulmeville, of which he is a past grand. He married, November 12, 1895. Cora Wilson, daughter of Charles and Sarah (Snyder) Wilson, of Trenton, New Jersey, and a granddaughter of Chris- topher and Sarah (Snyder) Wilson. They are the parents of two children, Ella Praul, born February 23, 1900; and Elisha Praul, born March 9, 190.4.

ANCESTRY OF MARTIN V. B. and NATHANIEL VANSANT, of South- ampton.

Captain Nathaniel Vansant, only son of Nicholas and Mary (Brittian) Van- sant, of Southampton, was born on the old homestead in that township, March 13, 1745. At the outbreak of the Revolu- tion he was a resident of Bensalem town- ship having purchased a farm there in 1777. He was commissioned first lieu- tenant of the Associated company of that township. From the very beginning of the arming for the conflict with the mother country, the Vansants were fore- most in offering their services for home defense and militia service. Garret and Peter were members of the Bensalem company; Garret, of Southampton, brother of Nicholas, and uncle to Cap- tain Nathaniel, was second lieutenant of the Southampton company in 1775, and was second lieutenant of the Fifth Com- pany of the First Battalion in the re- organization of 1777. Nicholas, father of Captain Nathaniel, and Jacob, his brother were both members of the Southampton company in 1775. In Mid- > dletown, George and John, sons of Gar- ret and grandsons of Stophiel. were mem- bers of the Associated company of that township. James, son of Harman and grandson of Harman. Sr .. the only mem- ber of the family in Northampton, joined the Associated company there in 1775. Peter, of Lower Makefield, son of Isaiah and grandson of Jacobus, was captain of the company of that township, and his brother Cornelius was second lieutenant

The member of the family, however, who rendered pre-eminent service and suffered untold hardships in the defense of his country was Captain Nathaniel Vansant, of Bensalem. He was commis- sioned a captain January 5. 1776. in Col- onel Robert Magaw's Fifth Pennsylvania Battalion of the Flying Camp, in which there was a large number of Bucks coun- tians, who through the treachery of Ma-

gaw's adjutant, were badly routed at Fort Washington, New York, on No- vember 16, 1776, and 2,700 American sol- diers were taken prisoners, including Magaw and almost his entire command. Captain Vansant was captured with the rest, and for two years suffered the hor- rors of imprisonment in the floating hells in New York harbor and the loathsome warehouses in the city. Many of the let- ters written home to his wife while a prisoner are in the possession of the Bucks County Historical Society and of members of the family. The quaint chapeau worn by him in the service is also in possession of the Historical So- ciety.

Captain Vansant married August 27, 1768, at the Dutch Reformed church of Southampton, Hannah Vansandt. There seems to be some dispute about the maiden name of Hannah Vansant; both the church records and that of the grant- ing of the license by the civil authorities give it as Vanzandt, while his descen- dants claim that her name was Brittian, the same as that of the Captain's mother. It seems to be conceded that she was his cousin, and it is probable that she was the daughter of his uncle, James Vansandt, who married Margaret, daugh- ter of Hendrick and Hannah (Field) Breece. Hannah was born January 16, 1746, and died August 19. 1818. The chil- dren of Captain Nathaniel and Hannah Vansant were as follows: Harman, who died of yellow fever in Philadelphia dur- ing the epidemic of that disease in the city, about the close of the century; and Nicholas, born February 25, 1771. died April 19. 1850.

Nicholas, as only surviving child of Nathaniel and Hannah Vansant, inher- ited the real estate of his father, who died August 8, 1825, intestate. He lived and died on the old homestead in South- ampton, which remained in the family for six generations and until 1889, when it was sold, a period of at least one hun- dred and fifty years. Nicholas married Mary Larzelere, daughter of Nicholas and Hannah ( Brittian) Larzelere of Ben- salem township. She was born Septem- ber 8, 1772, and died October 27, 1863. The children of Nicholas and Mary (Larzelere) Vansant were:

I. Mary, born September 6. 1795. mar- ried Jacob Vansant, and had two chil- dren, Franklin, who married a Hogeland, and Angelina.

2. Nathaniel, born April 14. 1797. mar- ried Alice Vanartsdalen: see forward.

3. Elizabeth, born February 24. 1799. married Silas Rhoads, and had one child, Mary Ann, who married William Go- forth.

4. Benjamin, born February 14, 1803. died June, 1869; married (first) Sarah Campbell, born March 7, 1810, died March IO, 1853; and (second) Jane Lu- kens. The children of the first marriage

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were: Lendrum L., born October 4, 1832; Elizabeth R., who married J. Paul Knight: Harriet I'., who married George Shoemaker; and Charles R., who mar- ried Carrie Saurman. The only child of the second marriage was Dr. Benjamin Vansant.

5. Nicholas L., born September 7, 1807; married Margaret Vandegrift, and had two children, Mahlon and Mary Ann.

The children of Nathaniel and Alice (Vanartsdalen) Vansant, were:

I. Mary Amanda, born March 26, 1824, married Anderson Leedom, and had three children: Thomas, deceased; Alice, wife of John Tomlinson; and Nathaniel, who married Martha Comly.

2. Casper R., born April 3, 1826, died June 26, 1881, married Ellen Field, and had two children: Nathaniel, born Oc- tober 12, 1859: see forward; and Levi, who married Ida Sickle.

3. Nicholas B., born January 28, 1828. went to California, where he probably died.

4. Hiram R., born January 12, 1831, died September 19, 1888.

5. Jacob W., born March 7, 1833: mar- ried Esther Buckman, and had five chil- dren: Alice, who married William Brad- field; Watson, who married a VanReif; Howard, who married Lydia Stout; Leonard. who married Sarah Yerkes; and Mary who married Horace Blaker.

6. Howard S., born

February I3. 1835; married Elizabeth Fetter. He died July 9, 1866.

7. MARTIN VAN BUREN VAN- SANT, born on the old homestead in Southampton, February 4, 1839. He was reared on the old homestead and edu- cated at the public schools. He learned the trade of a miller, and was engaged in the milling business at Churchville for a number of years. At his father's death in 1883 he purchased the old homestead in Southampton, and subsequently sold it to Dr. Benjamin Baer, of Philadelphia. Mr. Vansant was never married. In pol- itics he is a Democrat. He never held other than local offices, having filled that of assessor, which office, by the way, was held by his great-great-grandfather under Colonial authority, the original commission being in possession of the Bucks County Historical Society.

NATHANIEL VANSANT, son of Casper (4) and Ellen (Field) Vansant, was born at Somerton. Philadelphia county, October 12, 1859, but was reared in Southampton township, Bucks county, and educated at the local schools. His father purchased a farm in Southamp- ton in 1870. which he conveyed to Na- thaniel in 1888, and he has always fol- lowed the life of a farmer. In politics he is a Democrat. He has filled the of- fice of school director for several years. He was married in September, 1888, to

Wilhelmina Depew, and they are the parents of two children: Blanche, born March 10, 1890; and Viola E., born Oc- tober 8, 1892.

THE VANDEGRIFT FAMILY is of Holland descent, their progenitor being Jacob Lendertsen Van der Grift (that is, son of Lenerd) who with his brother Paulus Lenertsen Van der Grift, came from Amsterdam about 1644 and settled in New Amsterdam. Both of the Van der Grift brothers were in the employ of the West India Company. Paulus was skipper of the ship "Neptune" in 1645, and of the "Great Gerrit" in 1646. He was a large landholder in New Amster- dam as early as 1644. He was a member of council, 1647-1648; burgomaster 1657- 1658, and 1661-1664; orphan master 1656- 1660; member of convention, 1653 and 1663. On February 21, 1664. Paulus Leendersen and Allard Anthony were spoken of as "co-patroons of the new settlement of Noortwyck, on the North River." He had five children baptized at the Dutch Reformed church, and he and his wife were witnesses to the baptism of five of the eight children of his brother Jacob. Paulus Leendertsen Van der Grift sold his property in New Amster- dam in 1671, and returned with his fam- ily to Europe.

Jacob Lendertsen Van die Grifte, bot- tler, of New Amsterdam, in the service of the West India Company, on Septem- ber II, 1648, granted a power of Attor- ney to Marten Martense Schoenmaker, of Amsterdam, Holland, to collect from the West India Company such amounts of money as he (Van die Grift) had earned at Curocoa, on the ship "Swol". em- ployed by that company to ply between the island of Curocoa and New Nethier- lands. The early records of New Am- sterdam give a considerable account of this ship "Swol." It carried twenty-two guns and seventy-six men. In 1644 it was directed to proceed to New Amster- (lam, and on arriving, "being old." it was directed to be sold. Another boat was, however, given the same name, be- ing sometimes mentioned as the "New Swol."

On July 19. 1648. Jacob Lenderisen Van der Grist was married at New Am- sterdam to Rebecca Fredericks, daugh- ter. of Frederick Lubbertsen. On March 7. 1652, he sold as attorney for his father-in-law, fifty morgens and fifty-two rods of land on East river. On Febru- ary 19, 1657, Jacob Leendersen Van die Grift was commissioned by the burgo- masters and schepens of New Amster- dam as a measurer of grain. To this ap- pointment was affixed instructions "that from now nobody shall be allowed to measure for himself or have measured by anybody else than the sworn meas- urers, any grain, lime or other goods

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which are sold by the tun or schepel, or come here from elsewhere as cargoes and in wholesale, under a penalty of £3 for first transgression, £6, for sec- ond and arbitrary correction for the third." In 1656 Jacob Leendertsen Van- dergrift was made a small burgher of New Amsterdam. In 1662 he was a resi- dent of Bergen, New Jersey, where he subscribed toward the salary of a min- ister. On April 9, 1664, he and his wife, Rebecca Fredericks, were accepted as members of the church at "Breukelen," upon letters from Middlewout, (now Flatlands); his residence on the west side of the river must, therefore, have been of short duration. On May 29. 1664, then living under the jurisdiction of the village of Breukelen, Long Island, he applies to council for letters of ces- sion with committimus to the court, to relieve him from his creditors on his turning over his property in their be- half, he being "burdened with a large family, and on account of misfortune be- fallen some years ago, not having been able to forge ahead, notwithstanding all efforts and means tried by him to that end, etc." There are records of a num- ber of suits prior to this date, in which he appears either as plaintiff or defen- dant. In 1665 he was living on the strand of the North river, New Amster- dam, where he is assessed towards pay- ing the expense of quartering one hun- dred English soldiers on the Dutch burghers. On . October 3, 1667, he re- ceived a patent from Governor Nicolls for land on the island of Manhattan, on the north side of the Great Creek, which he sold to Isaac Bedloe, in 1668. He probably removed at this date to Noord- wyck, on the North river, where he pur- chased in 1671 the land of his brother Paulus, who had returned to Amster- dam. In 1686 he appears as an inhabi- tant of Newton, Long Island. where he probably died, though the date of his death has not been ascertained. His widow removed with her children to Bensalem, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1697, and was living there in 1710. The children of Jacob Lendertsen and Re- becca Fredericks Van der Grift, baptised at the Dutch Reformed Church of New Amsterdam, were as follows:

I. Martje, baptised August 29. 1649, married Cornelius Corsen. March II, 1666. He was baptised at New York, April 23. 1645, being the son of Cor- nelius Piterse Vroom, and Tryntie Hen- ciricks. After the death of Vroom, Tryntje had married Frederick Lub- bertsen, the grandfather of Marytje. father-in-law of Jacob Lendeertsen Van der Grift. Many descendants of Corne- lius Corssen and Marytje Van de Grift still reside in Bucks county.

2. Christina Van de Grift. baptised February 26, 1651, married (first) Oc-

la widower, by whom she had two chil- dren, Abraham and Jacobus. She mar- ried (second) April 14, 1681, Daniel Veenvous, from Beuren, in Gelderland, by whom she had five children-Wil- helmina. Rebecca and Contantia; two others also named Rebecca died in in- fancy.

3. Anna Van de Grift, baptised March 16, 1653. married, September 29, 1674. *Jacob Claessen Groesbeck. They re- tober 9, 1678, Cornelius Jacobse Schipper, moved to Bucks county with the rest of the Vandegrift family in 1710, but little is known of them other than that he pur- chased land in Bensalem adjoining that of his brothers-in-law, and that two of . his daughters married into well known families of Bucks. Their children were; Rebecca, baptised June 23, 1673; Eliza- beth, baptised September 4, 1677; Lealı, baptised February II, 1680, married 12 mo. 17. 1702, Johannes Van Sandt; Rachel, baptised November 21, 1682, mar- ried November 8, 1704. James Biddle; and Johanna, baptised August 9. 1685.

4. Leendert (Leonard) Van de Grift, baptised December 19. 1655, died in Bensalem, Bucks county, 1725; married, November 20, 1678, Styntje Ellsworth. He, with his three brothers and two brothers-in-law, purchased land in Ben- salem in 1697 of Joseph Growdon, Leon- ard's purchase being two tracts of 135 and 106 acres respectively. He subse- quently purchased seventy-four acres of his brother Frederick. He and his wife were received at Bensalem church in 1710, and he was appointed junior elder. On December 30, 1715. he was commis- sioned a justice of the peace. Letters of administration were granted on his estate February 18. 1725, to his eldest son Abraham, known as "Abraham. Van- degrift, by the River." The children of Leonard and Styntje (Ellsworth) Van- degrift were: I. Jacob, baptised Septem- ber 20, 1679: 2. Christoffel, baptised Au- gust, 1681, married July 7, 1704, Sarah Druith; 3. Rebecca, baptised December 15. 1683, married November 8, 1704. Al- bert Van Sandt: 4. Abraham, baptised July 4, 1686, married October 17, 1716, Maritje Van Sandt, died March, 1748, leaving six children-Leonard, of Ben- salem: Garret and Abraham, of Philadel- phia; Christine, wife of Yost Miller, of Salem county. New Jersey; Mary, wife of Mathew Corbet, and Jemima. wife of George Taylor, of Chesterfield. New Jer- sey. 5. Anneken, baptised April 7, 1689, married Andrew Duow. 6. Elizabeth, baptised at Brooklyn, October 8. 1691, married May 23, 1710. Francis Kroeson. 7. Annetje, baptised June 12, 1695, mar-

*Nicholas (or Claes) Groesbeck, father of Jacob; was a carpenter of Albany. New York. in 1662. On October 10. 1696 deposed that he was seventy-two years old. His will dated January 3, 1706-7, mentions wife Elizabeth, son Jacob and others.

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ried December 22, 1715, Cornelius King. All of the above children of Leonard Vandegrift removed to New Castle county, Delaware, prior to the death of their father, except Abraham, to whom they conveyed the real estate in Bensa- lem in 1743. The above named heirs of Abraham conveyed the same to Leonard, eldest son of Abraham, in 1761.

5. Nicholas Vandegrift, baptised May 5. 1658, married at New Utrecht, Long Island, August 24, 1684, Barentje Ver- kirk, daughter of John Verkerk. They settled at New Utrecht, where he took the oath of allegiance to James II in 1687, and where he purchased land in . 1691. He removed to Bucks county with

his brothers and bothers-in-law in 1697, conveying his Long Island land after his removal. On July 1, 1697, Joseph Grow- don conveyed to him 214 acres in Ben- salem. He joined the Bensalem church in 1710, and became a junior deacon. The records of the Dutch Reformed church show the baptism of three children, viz .: Rebecca, baptised July 26, 1685, mar- ried II mo. 7. 1707, Jacobus Van Sandt; Jan. baptised January 1, 1691, married May 5, 1721, at Abington Presbyterian church, Anna (or Hannah) Backer; and Deborah, baptised April 1, 1695, mar- ried Laurent Jansen,* or Johnson. Nich- olas Van de Grift removed to Sussex county, Delaware, conveying his land in 1713 to Jacob Kollock, whose widow. Mary in 1722 conveyed it to Folert, son of John Vandegrift.

6. Frederick Vandegrift, baptised Au- gust 20, 1661. purchased of Joseph Growdon on July 1, 1697, 106 acres ad- joining that of his brothers in Bensalem township. Bucks county, a part of which he conveyed a year later to Leonard Vandegrift. If ever a resident of Bucks county, he probably remained but a sltort time.

7. Rachel Vandegrift, youngest daugh- ter of Jacob, was baptised at New York, August 20, 1664, and married, in 1689. Barent Verkerk, son of Jan, and brother to his brother Nicholas's wife. Barent Verkerk purchased in 1697 a tract of land in Bensalem adjoining his brothers- in-law. all the deeds being from Joseph Growdon, and bearing the same date, July 1, 1697. He died in 1739, leaving children: Jacob: John; Mary, married Niels Boon; Constantina. married James Fitchet: Dinah, married James Keirll; and another daughter, who married an Underwood.

8. Johannes Vandegrift, youngest son of Jacob Lendertsen and Rebecca Fred- erics Van der Grift, was baptised at New York. June 26, 1667, and died in Ben-

salem township, Bucks county, Pennsyl- vania, in 1745. He married, September 23, 1694, Nealkie Volkers, widow of Cor- nelius Cortelyou, who was living at date of his will in 1732, but died before 1740. He married (second) July 1, 1741, Eliza- beth Snowden, a widow. He purchased 196 acres in Bensalem of Joseph Grow- don, adjoining the tracts of his brothers and brothers-in-law, the deed bearing date July 1, 1697. He was an elder of the "Sammeny" church, having joined it at its organization in 1710. His will dated March 16, 1732, proved March 28, 1745. devises to son Abraham the farm lie lives on, for life, and if he die with- out issue it is to go to his surviving brothers and sisters. Some years later the children of Johannes entered into an agreement by which the land was to vest in the heirs of those deceased, even though they did not survive Abraham, and inasmuch as Abraham died without issite in 1781, the subsequent conveyances of the land throw light on the family connections. In 1786 the representatives of Jacob, Rebecca, Christana, and Hel- ena conveyed the land, 160 acres, to Jacob Jackson and later a partition thereof was had between Jackson and Abraham Harman and Cornelius, sons of Fulkert. The children of Johannes and Nealke (Volkers) Vandegrift were: I. Fulkert, born 1695. died 1775; married May 6, 1719, Elizabeth Vansandt, and (second) August 10, 1742, Marytje Hufte. He was a considerable landholder in Bensalem. He had five sons: Folkhart, Harman, Abraham, Cornelius and John; and three daughters: Alice La Rue, Elizabeth

· Krusen and Elinor, most of whom have left descendants in Bucks county. 2. Jacob, baptised at New York, October 14, 1696, died in Bensalem in 1771, mar- ried Choyes Touley, October 23. 1716. 3. Abraham, born 1698, died 1781, inar- ried, but had no issue. 4. Rebecca, mar- ried John Van Horn, died 1786. 5. Chris- tiana, married November 8, 1722, Joseph Foster. 6. Lenah, married a Fulton. 7. Esther, baptized in Bucks county, May IO. IZIO.

Most of the Vandegrifts of Bucks county are descendants of Johannes and Nealke (Volkers) Vandegrift. Leonard, grandson of Leonard, remained in Ben- salem, and the land originally settled by his grandfather descended to his son. Captain Josiah Vandegrift. John. son of Nicholas, became a large landholder in Bensalem: he died in 1765. leaving sons: Nicholas. Jacob, John. Joseph, for many years an innkeeper in Bensalemt; and daughters: Catharine Sands: Esther, who married John Houten; and Rebecca Vansciver. Of the sons, John married' Ann Walton, May 28, 1761. and had chil- dren: Joshua. Joseph, John, Jonathan, and Mary. The father died in 1777. and the widow Ann married Charles Fetters a year later.

*Laurent Jansen, or Lawrence Johnson, was doubi- less son of Claus Jansen, who purchased several tracts of land in Bensalem some years earlier than the Vandegrifts. He died in 1723, devising his lands to his sons Lawrence. John and Richard. The fami- lies later intermarried.

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Jacob Vandegrift, son of Johannes and Nealke (Volkers) Vandegrift, baptized at New York, October 14, 1696, was but an infant less than a year old when his parents settled in Bensalem township, Bucks county. He married, October 23, 1716, Charity Touley. He became a large landholder and a prominent man in the community. He died in 1771. His children were, John, died . 1805, in Ben- salem, leaving five children, viz .: Jacob, who settled in Northampton township; ! John; yJane, who married a Johnson; Bernard, settled in New Jersey; and Ab- raham, who married Catharine Vande- grift a granddaughter of Fulerd. 2. Ber- nard, who was devised 200 acres in Up- per Dublin township, and settled there- on; 3. Jacob, who was devised by his father 200 acres of land whereon he was living at his father's death. 4. Charity (or Catharine) who married John Praul, January 20, 1757. 5. Helen (or Elinor) who married Harman Vansant.

Jacob Vandegrift, third son of Jacob, married first Catrintje Hufte, May 19, 1753, and (second) Sarah Titus, Febru- ary 5, 1775, as before stated he settled 011 200 acres belonging to his father which descended to him at his father's death. He died in May, 1800, leaving five children; Jacob, married Elinor -; David, married Sarah ; William Bloomfield, the grandfather of Senator Vandegrift; Mary married - Bennett; and Elizabeth, who married Daniel La- Rue. William Bloomfield Vandegrift in- herited from his father considerable real estate. He was the youngest son, and had just arrived at his majority when the will of his father was proved in 1800. He married Christiana Saunders. His death occurred in 1854. His children were seven in number, viz .; Sarah Ann, married Charles Tomlinson; Eliza L., married Jacob Johnson; Eleanor, married Enos Boutcher; Alfred; Charles Souders ; William M., married Eliza Boutcher and .

Susan, married Peter Conover.

Alfred Vandegrift was born in Ben- salem township in 1807, and died there in 1861. In 1849 his father conveyed to him and his brother jointly a store prop- erty at Eddington, where they conduct- ed a mercantile business until the death of Alfred in 1861. In 1849 he also pur- chased of his father 311/2 acres on the Buck road, which had been the prop- erty of his ancestors for several genera- tions. He married Catharine Gibbs, daughter of John Gibbs, and granddaugh- ter of Richard Gibbs, who was sheriff of Bucks county in 1771, and a promi- nent public man. His children were: John Gibbs, born September 2, 1834; William Bloomfield: `Elinor, wife of William Lynesson Sayre; Charles Soud- ers, Jr .; Augustus: Henry S .; Lewis H .; Susan ; Mary ; Christina ; Alfred and Eliza- beth LaRue.

HON. CHARLES SOUDERS VAN- DEGRIFT, son of Alfred and Catherine (Gibbs) Vandegrift, is a worthy representa- tive of an old and eminent family. He was born in Bensalem township, August 20, 1839. He was reared on his father's farm, and attended the public schools until fifteen years of age, when he entered Captain Alden Partridge's Military School at China Hall, in Bristol township, where he remained for two years. At the age of seventeen he entered the employ of his uncle and namesake, Charles S. Vande- grift, Sr., in the country store at Ed- dington, where he remained as clerk and proprietor until 1873, when he sold out the store, and in connection with J. and E. Thomas opened a lumber yard on the Delaware at Eddington. This partner- ship continued until 1890, when he re- tired from the firm. Since that time he has been employed in the settlement of estates and the transaction of public business. In 1882 he was elected to the state senate and served four years. He was an active member of the upper house, and served on the ways and means, agriculture and other important committees. In politics he is a Democrat, and has served as representative to Dis- trict, State and National conventions. He has always taken an active. interest in local matters, and served his township officially at different periods. He is presi- dent of the Good Roads Association of Bensalem township, and one of its most active and efficient members. He is a di- rector of the Farmers' National Bank; president of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Mutual Insurance Company of Bucks and Philadelphia counties; president of the Doylestown Publishing Company; and treasurer and trustee of the Vande- grift Burial Ground at Cornwells. He is a past master of Bristol Lodge, No. 25, A. Y. F. and A. M .; of Harmony Chapter, No. 52, R. A. M .; and St. Johns Com- mandery, No. 4, K. T., of Philadelphia, and is the district deputy grand master for the eighth district. He is a member of The Netherlands Society of Phila- delphia.

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History of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time, Vol. III, Part 9

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