HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



.straightforward dealing and persistency of 

 purpose. His efforts, too, have been directed 

 along lines that have proved of value to his 

 community, and at the same time have pro- 

 moted individual success. He was one of 

 the organizers of the Yardley Building and 

 Loan Association, and for twenty-five years 

 served as its treasurer. He was also one 

 of the organizers of the Yardley National 

 Bank. He held the office of school director 

 for a number of years, the cause of educa- 

 tion finding in him a warm friend; and his 

 political allegiance has ever been given to 

 the Republican party. He married Miss 

 Elizabeth Parent, of New Jersey, and they 

 l)ecame the parents of two children : Mar- 

 tha, deceased; and William H. 



William H. Hough was born November 

 17, 1856, and acquired his education in the 

 •common schools of Yardley. When not 

 occupied with his text books he assisted his 

 father in the store, and was thus identiefid 

 with mercantile interests for twenty-four 

 years. In 1880 he opened a grocery store 

 in Yardley, which he conducted with fair 

 success for ten years. Since that time he 

 has been engaged in the butchering busi- 

 ness in connection with farming, and his 

 "keen discernment and enterprise have 

 brought to him very creditable and grati- 

 fying success. Socially he is connected 

 with the Improved Order of Red Men, No. 

 170, of Trenton, New Jersey, in which he 

 has passed all of the chairs, a fact which 

 indicates his popularity with his brethren of 

 the fraternity. William H. Hough was 

 married to Miss Anna Ford, a daughter 

 of George and Anna Ford, of West 

 Chester, Pennsylvania. They becarne the 

 parents of seven children, of whom one 

 died in infancy. The others are : Bertha 

 J., wife of William J. Wilson ; Edward T., 

 Lillian I., Mabel C, Elsie and Bess, all at 

 home. 



EASTBURN FAMILY. The name 

 of Eastburn is an old and honorable one. 

 It originates in Yorkshire, England, 

 where the Manor of Esteburne, (East 

 stream) was created early in the Elev- 

 enth century. It comprised the par- 

 ishes of BingJey and Thwaite-Keighly, 

 from whence the Eastburns emigrated 

 to America six centuries later. The 

 name "de Eastburn" appears as a sur- 

 name as early as 1200, and the more 

 familiar names of Robert and John East- 

 burn in 1583. The first of the name to 

 migrate to Penn's Province was John 

 Eastburn. of the parish of Bingley. who 

 brought a certificate from Brigham 

 Monthly Meeting of Friends to Phil- 

 adelphia, dated 5 mo. 31, 1682. He pur- 

 chased 300 acres of land in Southamp- 

 ton towMiship, Bucks county, in 1693, and 

 married Margaret Jones, of Philadelphia 

 5 mo. 2, 1694. He died in Southampton 

 about 1720. His children were: Eliza- 

 beth, born 8 mo. 16. 1695: John, born 

 ■ 6 mo., 22, 1697; Peter, born i mo. 5, 1699; 



Thomas, born 9 mo. 22, 1700. Their 

 mother died in 1740. There was also a 

 daughter Mary, who married Thomas 

 Studham. Elizabeth married Thomas 

 \Valton. of Southampton. Thomas died 

 in 1748, leaving a widow Sarah and 

 daughter Margaret. The eldest son John 

 left several descendants. 



ROBERT EASTBURN, probably a 

 brother of John, at least son of another 

 John, of the parish of Thwaite-Keighley, 

 Yorkshire, married Sarah Preston, 

 daughter of Jonas, of the parish of 

 Rostick. near Leeds, England, 3 mo. 10, 

 1693. Their children were: 



Esther, born 8 mo. 27, 1694, married 

 1717. Jonathan Livezey, ancestor of the 

 Solebury family. 



Benjamin, born 7 mo. 15, 1695, died 

 ,1741; surveyor general of Pennsylvania 

 from 1733 to 1741, w'ho married Ann 

 Thomas in 1722, but left no issue. 



John, born i mo. 12, 1697, married 

 Grace Colston, and settled in Norriton, 

 Montgomery county, Pennsj-lvania, 

 where many of his descendants still re- 

 side. 



INIary, born 11 mo. 17, 1698, died un- 

 married. 



Samuel, born 2 mo. 20, 1702, died 

 1785 in Solebury, Bucks county, Pennsyl- 

 vania; married Elizabeth Gillingham. 



Joseph, born l mo. 21, 1704, died un- 

 married. 



Sarah, born 12 mo. 10, 1706; married 

 1734, Hugh Thomas, of Philadelphia 

 county, Pennsylvania. 



Robert, born 2 mo. 7, 1710; married 

 1733, Agnes Jones; was captain in 

 French and Indian w-ar of 1756-8 under 

 General Forbes, and was captured by the 

 Indians in March, 1756, and carried to 

 Canada and held until November, 1757. 

 He, however, lived to render valuable 

 service to Philadelphia Committee of 

 Safety at the outbreak of the Revolu- 

 tion. He was the father of Rev. Joseph 

 Eastburn, founder of the Mariners' 

 Presbyterian Church, in 1818, and sev- 

 eral other children. 



Elizabeth, the youngest child of Rob- 

 ert and Sarah (Preston) Eastburn, was 

 born after the arrival of her parents in 

 Philadelphia. 



The family as above given brought a 

 certificate from Brigham Friends' Meet- 

 ing in Yorkshire to Philadelphia, dated 

 12 mo. 6, 1713, and removed to Abing- 

 . ton in 171.-;. Robert died 7 mo. 24, 1755, 

 and Sarah 8 mo. 31, 1752. 



Samuel Eastburn, third son of Robert 

 and Sarah, born in Yorkshire, 2 mo. 20, 

 1702, came to Philadelphia with hi^ pa- 

 rents in 1713. In 1728 he married Eliza- 

 beth, daughter of Yeamans Gillingham 

 of Oxford, Philadelphia county, and re- 

 moved to Solebury township, Bucks 

 county, near Centre Hill, where he fol- 

 lowed' his trade, that of a blacksmith, 

 as well as the conduct of a farm of 250 

 acres which he purchased in 1734. He 



