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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXrV. 



of Bucks county, justice of the county 

 courts, coroner, etc. She was a granddaugli- 

 ter of Thomas Holme, surveyor-general of 

 Pennsylvania and sometime president of 

 Provincial Council. of Pennsylvania, former- 

 ly of the Parliamentary army in the civil 

 war in England. Also great-granddaughter 

 of Captain William Crispin, acting rear 

 admiral in the British navy, and one of 

 Penn's commissioners for settling the Col- 

 ony in Pennsylvania ; and of Captain John 

 Rush, also of the Parliamentary army, an- 

 cestor of the celebrated Dr. Benjamin Rush, 

 signer of the Declaration of Independence, 

 etc. She was granddaughter of John Hart, 

 from Witney, Oxfordshire, an early minister 

 among Friends who joined the Keithians, 

 and finally became a Baptist preacher, one 

 of the most learned men of the colony, and 

 of Silas Crispin who, through his mother, 

 Anne Jasper^ was a first cousin to William^ 

 Penn. Isaac Hough left the Society of 

 Friends and joined the Baptists, to which 

 sect his wife belonged. In 1775 he joined 

 the Warminster Company of Associators, in 

 the Second Battalion of Bucks County Mi- 

 litia, Colonel John Beatty. In July, 1776, 

 he was appointed by the County Committee 

 of Safety one of the committee to distribute 

 allowances to families in need whose hus- 

 bands were in the military service. On Au- 

 gust 29, 1777, he was appointed one of the 

 members of the committee from Warminster 

 to attend to the driving off of cattle to pre- 

 vent them from falling into the hands of the 

 British. The children of Isaac and Edith 

 (Hart) Hough were as follows: 



60. Eleanor, born August 20, 1749, died 

 March i, 1802; married 1766, Thomas Cra- 

 ven, and had nineteen children. The fam- 

 ily removed to Virginia during the Revo- 

 lution. 



61. Elizabeth, born August 21, 1751; 

 married 1771, Silas Gilbert, her first cousin, 

 son of William and Lucretia (Hart) Gil- 

 bert, and removed to Maryland. He was 

 lieutenant in ist Battalion, Bucks County 

 Militia, 1777. 



62. Susannah, born June 28, 1753 ; mar- 

 ried 1773, Benjamin Jones, whose family 

 furnished several members of Assembly 

 and justices of Bucks county in colonial 

 times. 



63. John Hough, born March 12, 1755 ;■ 

 married 1774, Charity Vandoren. He was 

 a member of Warminster Associators 1775, 

 and afterwards in Virginia militia. He 

 moved to Philadelphia after the Revolution, 

 and .later to Moreland, Montgomery county. 



64. Mary, born May 19, 1757, died un- 

 married. 



65. Isaac Hough, born September 15, 

 1759, died March 17, 1801 ; member Warm- 

 inster Associators; removed to Philadelphia 

 after Revolution ; many years chief clerk 

 of United States Mint. One of his descend- 

 ants is Judge Robert T. Hough, of Hills- 

 borough, Ohio, sometime solicitor of Intern- 

 al Revenue at Washington, D. C, recently 

 candidate for the Democratic nomination 

 for governor of Ohio. Isaac married first 



Elizabeth Houghton ; second, Mrs. Elizabethi 

 Eberth. 



66. Thomas Hough, born October 7, 

 1761 ; removed to Philadelphia ; said to 

 have been on otlficer in war of 1812; married' 

 1790, Hannah Tompkins. 



67. Oliver Hough, born August 27, 1763^ 

 died January 18, 1804; see forward. 



68. Rev. Silas Hough, born February- 

 8, 1766, died May 14, 1823. Baptist minister^ 

 also practiced medicine in Bucks and Mont- 

 gomery counties. Married his cousin, Eliza- 

 beth Hart, daughter of County Treasurer 

 John Hart. 



69. Joseph Hough, born June 17, 1768, 

 died July 3, 1799: married Elizabeth Marple. 



70. William Hough, born September 12, 

 1770; died unmarried. 



Oliver Hough (67) son of Isaac and 

 Edith (Hart) Hough, became a large land- 

 owner in Upper Makefield, Bucks county. 

 Hough's Creek, (formerly Milnor's Creek) 

 took its name from him. In the latter part 

 of his life he resided in Dolington. He mar- 

 ried at Horsham Meeting, 4 mo. 16, 1790, 

 Phebe Cadwallader, born 11 mo. 5, 177^, 

 died 7 mo. 13, 1842, daughter of Jacob and 

 Phebe (Radcliffe) Cadwallader, of War- 

 minster. She was a descendant of Henry 

 Baker before alluded to in this narrative, 

 and from John Cadwallader, one of the 

 prominent ministers among Friends, who 

 died while on a religious visit to the Island 

 of Tortola in 1742; also of Johannes Cas- 

 sel and Thones Kunders, two of the princi- 

 pal founders of Germantown, and from 

 Jan Lucken, the founder of the Lukens 

 family in America. Her brother, Hon. 

 Cyrus Cadwallader, before referred to in 

 this volume, was in state senate 1816-25. 

 The children of Oliver and Phebe (Cad- 

 wallader) Hough were; 71. Elizabeth, died 

 young. 72. Rebecca, born 1792, married 

 1820, Joseph Johnson. 73. Mary, born 

 1794; married 1822, Samuel Yardley, a well 

 known merchant of Doylestown, later of 

 Philadelphia. 74. Elizabeth, born 1796, 

 married 1817, Mahlon Kirkbride Taylor, 

 founder of Taylorsville. 75, 76, 77. Isaac, 

 Rachel and Phebe, all died young. 78. 

 Oliver, born 2 mo. 14, 1804, died 7 

 mo. 20, 1855 ; born at Dolington, lived 

 there until his marriage, when he 

 removed to the Doron farm in Middle- 

 town township ; soon after removed to 

 a farm just outside Newtown borough on 

 Yardley turnpike, where five of his chil- 

 dren were born. In 1842 removed to Doy- 

 lestown, and in 1846 to Philadelphia. Dealt 

 largely in real estate, owning besides Bucks 

 county property, coal and timber lands in 

 Upper Lehigh Valley, also in Michigan, 

 Tennessee and elsewhere. He died in Au- 

 gusta. Georgia, July 20, 1855, while on a 

 trip to Louisiana to view the property of 

 the Louisiana Canal Company, of which 

 he was a director. He was a member of 

 Spruce Street Friends' Meeting, Philadel- 

 phia. 



Oliver Hough married. 3 mo. 15, 1832. 

 Martha Briggs, daugiiter of Joseph and 



