HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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and lired thereon during his life. He sold 

 ICO acres and his heirs about lOO acres 

 more, the remainder going to his son Hen- 

 ry, and from him it descended to his grand- 

 son Phineas Hough, who sold it about 1850. 

 Richard Hough, Esq. was one of the lead- 

 ing men of his time in Bucks county and 

 took an active part in public affairs at a 

 time when they were almost entirely in the 

 hands of his cla.ss of gentlemen of landed 

 estate. He was a justice of the peace and 

 of the county courts for many years, and a 

 member of Falls Meeting. He married 

 February, 1711-12, Hester Brown, daughter 

 of Henry and Margaret (Hardman) Baker, 

 before mentioned, who had been the widow 

 of Thomas Yardley, and of William Brown 

 of Chichester, Chester county, Pennsylvania. 

 Richard and Hester had one child, Richard, 

 who died young. He married (second) 7 mo. 

 27, 'ijf?, Deborah Gumley, (widow of John 

 Gumley, of Philadelphia, formerly New 

 Castle county) and had issue as follows : 



8. William Hough, died without issue 

 prior to 1755. 9. Deborah, married Thomas 

 Davis, of Lower Makefield. 10. Margery, 

 married Jonathan Saults, of Philadelphia. 



11. Henry Hough, born 8 mo. 11, 1724 (O. 

 S.) died 8 mo. 27, 1796, married 10 mo. 

 22, 174S, Rebecca Croasdale: see forward. 



12. Mary, born 1726, died 1802 ; married 2 

 mo. 12, 1752 (O. S.) Anthony Burton, Jr., 

 of Bristol. (See Burton Family). 



II. Henry Hough, son of Richard and 

 Deborah, inherited 215 acres of the Make- 

 field homestead and lived thereon the life of 

 a country gentleman, taking little part in 

 public affairs. He was a member of Falls 

 Meeting. He married 10 mo. 22, 1748, Re- 

 becca Croasdale, born 1727-8, died 1800, 

 daughter of William and Grace (Harding) 

 Croasdale of Newton township and had 

 eight children as follows: 13. Sarah, born 

 1751, married 1775, John Watson. 14. John, 

 born 1753, married Hannah Watson and 

 Mary Yardley. 15. Deborah, born 1755, 

 died 1773, unmarried. 16. Mary, born 1759- 

 17. Jesse, born 1761, died 1794, married 

 Mercy Merrick. 18. Rachel, born 1764, 

 died 1793, married David Heston. 19. 

 Rebecca, born 1766, married Isaiah Ross, 

 grandson of Thomas Ross, an eminent, 

 minister among Friends and the ancestor 

 of the eminent jurists, an account of whose 

 family is given elsewhere in this work. 

 20. Henry, born 1768. 



14. John Hough, born 9 mo. 16, 175,3., 

 eldest son of Henry and Rebecca (Croas- 

 dale) Hough, lived on his father's planta- 

 tion in Lower Makefield. He was a mem- 

 ber of Falls Meeting, but was married by 

 the Rev. William Frazer, a Church of Eng- 

 land minister, in 1782, to Hannah Watson, 

 and they had one child, Beulah. He mar- 

 ried (second) about 1790, Mary Yardley, 

 daughter of Richard and Lucilla (Stack- 

 house) Yardley, and a great-granddaughter 

 of Thomas Janney, Provincial Councillor. 

 (See Yardley, Stackhouse and Janney fam- 

 ily sketches in this volume.) The children 

 of John and Mary (Yardley) Hough, were: 



22. Phmeas, born 12 mo. 20, ijdo, died 

 5 mo. 6, 1876; 23. Lucilla, born 12 mo. 24, 

 1788, died 2 mo. 9, 1883, married Abraharti 

 Bond nf Newtown, son of Levi and Hannah 

 (Merrick) Bond, and a descendant of 

 Phineas Pemberton, whom James Logan 

 styles "The Father of Bucks County." (See 

 Pemberton Family). 



Phineas Hough (22) inherited a part 

 his grandfather's plantation in Lower Make- 

 field and lived thereon until sixty years 

 old ; selling it in 1850 he removed to Ewing 

 township, Mercer county, and resided with 

 his son William A. Hough until his death 

 in 1875. He married Elizabeth Carlile, 

 by whom he had no issue. On February 



25, 1819, he married Deborah Aspy, daugh- 

 ter of William and Elizabeth Aspy, of 

 Makefield, and had the following children: 

 24. William Aspy Hough, born December 

 4, 1819, died December it, 18S8, married 

 Eleanor Stockton ; see forward. 25. John 

 Hough, born November 26, 1879, became 

 a Methodist minister and removed to Dela- 

 ware, where he married Rebecca E. Dukes. 



26. Mary S., born July 7, 1824, married Ja- 

 cob Hendrickson, of Mercer county. New 

 Jersey. 27. Samuel Yardley Hough, born, 

 February 14, 1827, died August, 1862, mar- 

 ried Wealtha Allen, from Massachusetts, 

 and removed to Kansas, where he died. 

 28. Phineas, born January 24, 1830, died 

 May 28, 1869, . in Philadelphia ; married 

 Lizzie E. Lynn. 29. Benjamin Franklin, 

 born March 16, 1833, lived in Philadelphia, 

 unmarried 30. Edwin W., born April 27, 

 1837, died in Philadelphia, April 30, 1863, 

 of disease contracted in the army, having 

 served in the celebrated Anderson Cavalry, 

 i6oth Regiment, P. V. 



William -Aspy Hough (25) was born on 

 the old homestead near Yardley, but in 

 early life removed to property purchased in 

 Ewing, New Jersey, and died there. He 

 married Eleanor Stockton, of the disting- 

 uished family of that name in New Jersey 

 and they were the parents of five children : 

 31. John Stockton, see forward.- 32. Will- 

 iam Henry, died while a student at Rut- 

 gers College. S3. Horace G., who inher- 

 ited and is living on his father's plantation 

 in Ewing. 34. Thomas J., and 35. Mary 

 Emma, both died young. 



John Stockton Hough, M. D. (31) eldest 

 son of William A. and Eleanor (Stockton) 

 Hough, was born on the old Hough planta- 

 tion in Lower Makefield, Bucks county, 

 December 5, 1845, and while a child removed 

 with his parents to New Jersey. His edu- 

 cation was obtained in the Ewing school, 

 1850-58; Trenton Academy, 1858-60; Mod- 

 el School, Trenton, 1860-61 ; Fort Edward 

 Institute, New York, 1861-62; Eastman's 

 Business College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 

 iS-'6?-63: Polvtechnic College, Philadelphia, 

 civil engineering course, 1864-67; Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, Medical Department, 

 1865-68 ; received degree of M. D. at the 

 University in 1868, and of Master of Chem- 

 istry at the Polytechnic in 1870. He lec- 

 tured on botany, Philadelphia, 1866-67; was 



