HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTV. 



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Sarah's husband, and a descendant of Na- 

 thaniel West, as was her husband. 2. John 

 who died young. 3. Richard, who married 

 Pamela Walton. 4. Elizabeth, who married 

 Henry Ditterline. 5. John, who married 

 Mary Meredith. 6. Robert, who married 

 (first) Francis Martin, of Maryland, and 

 (second), Rachel Hopkins, of the Johns 

 Hopkins family of Maryland, lived and died 

 in Baltimore, and has left many distin- 

 guished descendants there. 7. Septimus 

 Hough married Edith Wilson, daughter 

 of Robert and Mary (Lundy) Wilson, of 

 New Jersey. See Lundy Family. 8. Ben- 

 jamin Hough. See forward. 9. Jacob, died 

 young. 10. Lydia, who married Elias 

 Anderson. 11. Charlotte, died unmarried. 

 12 and 13. Isaac and Jacob died young, and 

 14. Mary, married (1808) Dennis Con- 

 rad, a descendant of Thomas Kunders, 

 one of the founders of Germantown. 



John Hough, son of Joseph and Mary 

 (Tompkins) Hough, was a prominent man 

 in the community. He inherited a part of 

 his father's plantation near Houghville. 

 generally known as "The Turk," and when 

 the county seat was about to be removed 

 from Newtown laid out streets there and 

 made a plan of a town, and offered the site 

 for the court house and public buildings. 

 He was a large land owner and owned 

 the Turk Mills at Houghville, and exten- 

 sive warehouses in Philadelphia. He donat- 

 ed the land on which the Doylestown Acad- 

 emy was built, and was one of the commis- 

 sioners of the lottery authorized by the 

 legislature to raise $3,000 to complete the 

 Academy. He married Mary Meredith, 

 daughter of Thomas and Rachel (Mathew) 

 Meredith, and niece of Simon Meredith, 

 who married Hannah Hough, and had 

 issue : John, who married Eliza Stuck- 

 ert, and Harriet Ann Pierce, and Mary, 

 who never married. 



8. Benjamin Hough, son of Joseph and 

 Mary (Tompkins) Hough, was born Janu- 

 ary 25, 1770, and died May 16, 1848. He 

 purchased from his father in 1797 and 1806, 

 and later of his brother, Septimus Hough, 

 portions of the old ancestral homestead, 

 and at his death owned the greater part of 

 the 400 acre tract, and lived thereon all 

 his life. He was a prominent man in the 

 community and filled many positions of pub- 

 lic trust. He was a director of the poor 

 in 1818, and served as a director of Doyles- 

 town Bank in 1832. He married, August 

 24, 1791, Hannah Simpson, born July 26, 

 1770, died April 3, 1848, daughter of John 

 and Hannah (Roberts) Simpson, of Hors- 

 ham, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, 

 and a sister to John Simpson, the grand- 

 father of General Ulysses Sirnpson Grant.* 

 John Simpson, her father, was iDorn in 1738, 

 and died August 16, 1804. His wife, Hannah, 



was a daughter of Lewis Roberts, of Ab- 

 ington, and a sister to Colonel William 

 Roberts, of New Britain, colonel of milit- 

 ia during the Revolution and a sheriff of 

 Bucks county. Hannah (Roberts) Simp- 

 son died at the residence of her son-in- 

 law, Benjamin Hough, in Doylestown 

 township, January 22, 1821, aged seventy- 

 nine. The children of Benjamin and Han- 

 nah (Simpson ) Hough, were as follows: 

 I. John Simpson, born 1792, married, 1818, 

 Elivia Lunn. 2. Joseph, born 1798, mar- 

 ried Jane Cowell, and lived for many years 

 in Tinicum ; was brigadier general of Penn- 

 sylvania Militia. 3. Anne, born 1794, mar- 

 ried George Stuckert. 4. Benjamin, see 

 forward. 5. Silas, born 1804 married 

 Sophia F. Moser, and their son, John 

 S. Hough, was a candidate for governor 

 of Colorado on its admission in 1876. 7. 

 Hannah, born 1807, married, November 16, 

 1826, Daniel Y. Harman, member of Penn- 

 sylvania legislature in 1836, etc. 8. William 

 Simpson, born i8og. married Elizabeth 

 Neely. 9. Samuel Moore, born 1812, mar- 

 ried Elizabeth N. Harman, sister of Dan- 

 iel Y., and (second) his wife's niece, Ara- 

 minta Beans, daughter of Isaac and Biie»-'M7a^ 

 U»^ (Harman) Beans. He was adjutant 

 of 33d Pennsylvania Regiment, of which 

 his brother, Joseph, was colonel. 10. Mary_, 

 born 1814, married John Barnsley, of New- 

 town. See Barnsley Family in this work. 



Benjamin Hough, Jr., son of Benjamin 

 and Hannah (Simpson) Hough, was born 

 on the old homestead in Warwick, now 

 Doylestown township, January 25, 1801. He 

 was a merchant and farmer, and at one 

 time owned and conducted the store at 

 Buckingham. He later purchased the Bar- 

 clay farm, later the Radcliffe farm at War- 

 rington, which then included the site of the 

 present store at Warrington, across the 

 turnpike from the farm, a small triangular 

 piece of land, whereon he erected a store 

 building and conducted the mercantile busi- 

 ness there for many years. He also pur- 

 chased the farm now occupied by his grand- 

 son, Benjamin Hough, where he died in 

 1853. He was married by the Reverend 

 John C. Murphy, February 5, 1824, to Ma- 

 ria Wentz, of New Britain, and they were 

 the parents of ten children, viz : John, who 

 removed to Valva, Illinois; Ellen, who 

 married John S. Bryan; Silas, see forward; 

 J. Finlay, who was a miller, lived first in 

 Bedminster, later in Buckingham, died at 

 Atlantic City, was the father of Dr. Hough 

 of Ambler ; Mary Jane, who married Ed- 

 ward Buckman, of Newtown, she died Sep- 

 tember 27. 1905; Anna, for many years a 

 school teacher, died at Newtown in Septem- 

 ber. 1900; Simpson and Samuel H., twins, 

 the former removed to Illinois and the latter 

 for many years a miller in Warwick, War- 



*General U. S. Grant twice visited the section 

 where his maternal ancestors resided, the first time 

 soon after his graduation at West Point in 1843. The 

 young cadet then was entertained at the liouse of his 

 great-uncle and aunt, Benjamin Hough, Sr., and wife 

 Hannah Simpson, and was conveyed thence to visit 



the old Simpson homestead in Horsham, where his 

 grandfather , John Simpson, was born. In 1J<,53 he re- 

 visited Bucks county and' stopped at the house of his 

 relative, Robert McKinstry, vihose mother, Mary 

 Weir, was a sister to Grant's grandmother, the wife of 

 John Simpson. 



