HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



William. Sarah ITanfield; Sarah, John 

 Bainbridffe, of New Jersey; Margery, Rich- 

 ard Hough ; and Rebecca, John Lambert^ 

 of Nottingham, New Jersey. 



The children of Richard and IMargery 

 (Clows) Hough were: 



2. Marj' Hough, born 6 mo. i, 1685, died 

 November ii, 1720; married April 6, 1690, 

 William Atkinson, of Bristol, Bucks coun- 

 ty, 'Pennsylvania. 



3. Sarah Hough, born 4 mo. 7, 1690, 

 married first, 4 mo. 23. 1708, Lsaac Atkin- 

 son, brother of William; and (second) 

 Leonard Shallcross. in 1724. 



4. Richard Hough, married first, 171 1- 

 12, Hester Browne, and (second) 7 mo. 

 27, 1717, Deborah Gumley. 



5. John Hough, born 7 mo. iS, 1693, 

 married, 1718, Elizabeth Taylor. 



6. Joseph Hough, born 8 mo. 17, i695_. 

 died Mav 10, 1773; married 1725, Elizabeth 

 West, daughter of Nathaniel and Eliza- 

 beth (Dungan) West. 



Thomas Atkinson, father of William and 

 Isaac Atkinson, was a minister of the So- 

 ciety of Friends, and was born at Newby_. 

 Parish of Ripon, West Riding of Yorkshire. 

 England. He married Jane Bond at Knar- 

 esborough Meeting. 4 mo. 4, 1678, and in 

 1681, with his wife and son Isaac, born 

 March 2, 1679, came to America and set- 

 tled for a time in Burlington county. New 

 Jersey, but soon after removed to Bristol 

 township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 

 where he bought a plantation. Thomas died 



9 mo. I, 1687, and the following year his 

 widow Jane became the second wife of 

 William Biles, before mentioned in this 

 narrative. Another son, Samuel Atkin- 

 son, married Ruth Beakes, widow of Will- 

 iam Beakes and daughter of Mahlon Stacy_, 

 of West Jersey. This family of Atkin- 

 son held high rank in colonial times. An 

 account of Thomas Atkinson was published 

 in a "Collection of Memorials of Deceased 

 Ministers and others" (Phila. 1787) and 

 also in "The Friend." vol. 27. In vol. 28 

 of "The Friend" is also a memorial of his 

 wife, under the name of Jane Biles. 



William Atkinson was a resident of Bris- 

 tol borough and a member of town council 

 there ; was collector of excise eleven years, 

 1738-1749. coroner of Bucks county 1721, 

 I73I-5' and 1737-1740; county commissioner 

 1722. He was for nearly thirty-three years 

 an elder of Falls Monthly Meeting and a 

 trustee for its real estate. He died in Bris- 

 tol, October 29, 1749. The children of 

 William and I\Iary (Hough) Atkinson 

 were as follows : 



(l). Sarah, born i mo. 10, 1704-S, died 



10 mo. 1706. 



(2). Hannah, born January 25, i7o6-7_, 

 died December 9. 1760; married May, 1734. 

 John Hall, of Bristol, his third wife. John 

 Hall was a son of Robert Hall from the city 

 of Westminster, England, who was the first 

 coroner of Bucks county, and by his sec- 

 d. .jvife, Elizabeth, daughter of George 

 possessu-om Buckleburv. Berkshire, Eng- 



while thai , ,- ,,„ . , ., ", 



possession d.cestor of the WhUe family of 



Bucks county. John Hall was a councilman 

 of Bristol; member of Assembly 1717 and 

 7740 to 1750; several times sheriff of 

 Bucks county; a justice of the county 

 courts, and succeeded his father-in-law, 

 William Atkinson, as collector of excise. 

 He was born 6 mo. 12, 1686. and died 11 

 mo. 10, 1768; married first Rebecca Rad- 

 cliffe, daughter of James Radcliffe, an emi- 

 nent minister among Friends and an early 

 settler in Bucks county, for whom Radcliffe 

 street in Bristol is named. He married 

 (second) January, 1715, Sarah Baldwin^ 

 daughter of John and Sarah (Allen) Bald- 

 win, and granddaughter of Samuel Allen, 

 who came from Chew Magna, Somer- 

 set, England, and founded a family of high 

 standing in Bucks county and Philadel- 

 phia. 



(3). William Atkinson, born 9 mo. 19, 

 1707. married 7 mo. 24, 1734. Sarah Pawley, 

 daughter of George and Mary (Janney) 

 Pawley, of Philadelphia (see Janney fam- 

 ily). William Atkinson, Jr., was one of 

 the early shipbuilders of Philadelphia, an 

 industry for which that city is famous. 



(4). Mary Atkinson, born 7 mo. 19, 1713, 

 married July 9, 174S, at the First Presby- 

 terian Church, Philadelphia. Daniel Bank- 

 son, of Bensalem, son of Daniel and grand- 

 son of Captain Andreas Bankson, one of 

 the leading men among the early Swedish 

 settlers at Philadelphia, whose descendants 

 still hold a high place among the old 

 families of that city. 



(5)- Joseph Atkinson, born 10 mo. 5,. 

 1716, married first, 10 mo. 8, 1743, Janet 

 Cowgill and (second) in 1762 Sarah Silver. 

 He was a prominent man in Bristol borough, 

 where his descendants are still people of 

 high social standing. He succeeded his 

 father as trustee of the real estate of 

 Falls Meeting. 



(6). Sarah Atkinson, born 9 mo. 4. 1719, 

 died 2 mo. 7, 1726. 



William Atkinson married (second) June 

 5, 1722, Margaret Baker, daughter of Henrv 

 Baker, well known in the early annals of 

 Bucks county and had five children : Ra- 

 chel, Rebecca, Samuel, Isaac, and Thom- 

 as. Rachel, the eldest, born 2 mo. 23^ 

 1723, died 5 mo. 8, 1803, married 10 mo. 

 18. 1750, Thomas Stapler, son of John and 

 Esther. (See Stapler Family). 



3. Sarah Hough married Isaac Atkinson,, 

 another son of Thomas and Jane, born in 

 Yorkshire, March 2, 1679, died in Bris- 

 tol township, Bucks county, January 3,. 

 1720-1, where he was a landowner. They 

 had issue : Jane, born 6 mo. 6, 1709, married 

 172S. John Wilson, of Middletown. son- 

 of Stephen and Sarah (Baker) Wilson, 

 and grandson of Henry Baker above men- 

 tioned, and left numerous descendants in 

 Bucks: (2) John; (3) Thomas. Sarah 

 (Hough) .Atkinson married second in 1724, 

 Leonard Shallcross, by whom she had nO' 

 children. 



4. Richard Hough, eldest son of Richard 

 and Margery, (Clows) Hough, inherited 

 his father's home plantation of 416 acres 



