HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



Hough, a great-granddaughter of John_ 

 Hough, inherited it and founded Taylors- 

 ville. John Hough was a justice of the 

 Bucks county courts for several years, and 

 his death is said to have occurred while 

 filling this position some time after 1733. 

 He married 11 mo. 1718, at Falls Meeting. 

 Elizabeth Taylor, daughter of Philip and 

 Julianna Taylor, of Oxford township, Phila- 

 delphia county. Her brothers removed to 

 Bucks county and founded a wealthy and in- 

 fluential family there. The children of John 

 and Elizabeth (Taylor) Hough were: 



40. John, born 11 mo. 3, 1720, died 1797, 

 married Sarah Janney ; see forward. 



41. Joseph, born 5 mo. 20, 1722, died 

 1777; married 1746, Lydia Hurst, and their 

 descendants removed to Loudoun Coun- 

 ty, Virginia, w'here one of his children 

 married a Washington. 



42. Benjamin Hough, born 4 mo. 14, 

 1724, died 2 mo. 10, 1803, removed to Phila- 

 delphia when a young man, accumulated a 

 fortune, and spent the latter part of his 

 life in traveling in the interests of religion. 

 He lived for a time in Wilmington, Dela- 

 ware, later at Nottingham, Cecil county, 

 Maryland, and about 1771 located in Little 

 Britain township, Lancaster county, where 

 he died. He married first, 1748, Elizabeth 

 West, daughter of Thomas, of Wilmington^ 

 by whom he had three children, of whom 

 only Benjamin survived his father. He mar- 

 ried (second) 1781, Sarah Janney. widow 

 of Isaac Janney, of Cecil county, Maryland. 

 Their only child, John, died at the age of 

 seven years. 



43. Isaac Hough, born 9 mo. 15, 1726, 

 died 4 mo. 13, 1786, married Edith Hartj 

 see forward. 



44. William Hough, born 11 mo. i, 

 1727-8, married 1749, Sarah Blaker. daugh- 

 ter of Samuel and Catharine of Warwick, 

 Bucks county. 



45. Thomas Hough, born 11 mo. 2, 

 1729-30, died 5 mo. 18, 1810; married 1857, 

 Jane Adams; 1784, INIary (Bacon) Wistar. 

 He removed to Philadelphia in early life 

 and became one of the wealthy men of that 

 time. He lived at No. 20 Pine street. By 

 first wife had six children, all except two 

 of whom died young; Elizabeth married 

 James Olden, of the New Jersey family, and 

 "Betsy Hough's wedding" is referred to in 

 the "Journal of Elizabeth Drinker," one of 

 Mrs. Drinker's daughters being a brides- 

 maid. Jane, the other daughter, married 

 Halladay Jackson, of the Chester county 

 family, well known in Friends' annals. One 

 of her sons was John Jackson, the min- 

 ister. One of her descendants is Mrs. Isaac 

 H. Clothier. Mary (Bacon-Gilbert) Wis- 

 tar, the second wife of Thomas Hough, was 

 a daughter of John and Elizabeth (Test) 

 Bacon, of Bacon's Neck, Cumberland 

 county. New Jersey. She married first, 

 Thomas Gilbert, of Northern Liberties, 

 Philadelphia, and (second) Richard Wistar, 

 whose family is prominent in the social 

 life of Philadelphia to this day. There 

 was no issue by the second marriage. 



46. Septimus Hough, born 4 mo. 21, 

 1731, died in Philadelphia 9 mo. 3, 1749. 



47. Elizabeth, born 12 mo. 15, 1732-3, 

 married Nathan Tomlinson. 



48. Bernard, born ir mo. 15, 1734-Sj 

 said by an old record to have died "in 

 France." 



49. Martha, born 4 mo. 22, 1737, married 

 David Bunting, son of Samuel and Priscilla 

 (Burgess) Bunting, of the Bucks county 

 branch of the descendants of Anthony 

 Bunting, who came from Matlock, Derby- 

 shire, and settled in Burlington county. 

 New Jersey. 



50. Samuel, born 2 mo. 15, 1739. 



John Hough (40) eldest son of John and 

 Elizabeth (Taylor) Hough, removed to 

 Loudoun county, Virginia, where he became 

 a very large landed proprietor, and built a 

 fine mansion known as "Corby Hall." He 

 was an elder of Farfax IMonthly Meeting, 

 and represented his Quarterly Meeting in 

 Philadelphia Yearly Meeting; was well 

 known in northern Virginia, and held in 

 high esteem not only by the members of 

 the Society of Friends but by the "cava- 

 lier" gentry of that section, with whom some 

 of his children and grandchildren intermar- 

 ried. When a number of prominent Phila- 

 delphia Quakers were exiled to Winchester. 

 Virginia, during the Revolution, by or- 

 der of the supreme executive council, John 

 Hough visited them and was active in se- 

 curing their release. A number of his let- 

 ters on this subject are preserved in the 

 Pemberton mss. collection in the library of 

 the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. He 

 is mentioned in the diary of George Wash- 

 ington, on the occasion of the latter spend- 

 ing a night at Corby Hall, and in other 

 places. John Hough married, in 1742, in 

 Bucks county, Sarah Janney, daughter of 

 Joseph and Rebecca (Biles) Janney, a 

 granddaughter of Thomas Janney and of 

 William Biles, both provincial councillors 

 from Bucks county, and among the greatest 

 of the founders of the county. Their nine 

 children all married and reared families, 

 most of them intermarrying with Virginia 

 families, though some of the married into 

 Bucks county families who had migrated 

 to Virginia. They have left many disting- 

 uished descendants, among whom may be 

 mentioned, Emerson Hough, of Chicago, 

 novelist, historian and journalist, author 

 of "Mississippi Bubble," and "The Way 

 to the West," etc. 



Isaac Hough (43) fourth son of John 

 and Elizabeth (Taylor) Hough, removed 

 early in life to Warminster township. Bucks 

 county, where he purchased about 236 acres 

 of land. He married, September 24. 1748, 

 Edith Hart, born May 14, 1727, died March 

 27, 1805, daughter of John and Eleanor 

 (Crispin) Hart, of Warminster, and sister 

 of Colonel Joseph Hart, of the continental 

 army, county lieutenant ; member Bucks 

 County Committee of Safety, etc., one of 

 the most prominent figures in the Revolu- 

 ionary struggle in Bucks county. (See Hart 

 family). Her father, John Hart, was sheriff 



