HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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cobus and Rebecca Vandegrift Vansandt 

 were: Jacobus (or James) baptized De- 

 cember I, 1708; married 10 mo, i, 1732, 

 Margaret Rreece. daughter of Hendrick 

 and Hannah (Field) Breece of Bensalem; 

 see ancestry of Lewis R. Bond, in this 

 volume. 



2. Elizabeth, baptized May 21. 17 10; 

 married 4 mo. i, 1732, Charles Inyard, 

 ef Warminster, and left one son, Charles 

 Inyard. 



3. Garret, married May 13, 1739. Ann 

 Groome of Southampton. 



4. Nicholas, baptized January i, 1711-12, 

 married May 18, 1744, Mary Brittian. 



5. Rebecca baptized August 7, 1716, 

 married Isaac Larue. 



6. Isaiah, married June 6, 1732, Char- 

 ity (or Gertrude) VanHorn. 



7. Jacob. 



James, who married Margaret Breece. 

 was a mason, and in 1734 purchased of 

 Gidean de Camp 100 acres in Warmin- 

 ster, which he sold in 1748. At about 

 the same date he signed a release to his 

 brothers-in-law, Hendrick, and John 

 Breese for legacy left his wife by her 

 father, and probably accompanied his 

 brother-in-law Hendrick Breece to Har- 

 ford county, Maryland. Garret, the sec- 

 ond son, was a blacksmith in Southamp- 

 jton. His will dated 9 mo. 29, 1779, is on 

 file in the register of wills' office of 

 Bucks county, but does not appear to 

 have been proven. It mentions wife 

 Ann and the following children: Will- 

 iam; Phebe, who married ]\Iiles Strick- 

 land, December 24, 1760; Mary and Re- 

 becca Walton; Margaret Foster; "daugh- 

 ter Elizabeth's three sons, Amos, Breece 

 and Mahlon Vansant; John; Ann Rich- 

 ardson; Esther Vansant and James. 



Nicholas, the third son. married Mary 

 Brittian and had two children. Captain 

 Nathaniel Vansant, of the Revolution; 

 and Rebecca, who married January 9, 

 1768, Daniel Boileau. Nicholas died 

 about May i, 1801, and his widow Mary 

 in March, 1808. 



Isaiah, the fourth son, rr\arried Gertje 

 (or Charity) Van Horn, daughter of 

 Peter and Elizabeth Van Horn of Mid- 

 dletown. On March 18, 17^6-7, he pur- 

 chased at sheriflf's sale 178^4 acres of 

 land in Makefield township. In 1754 he 

 purchased a small tract adjoining, and in 

 1768 purchased of John Scott 100 acres 

 in Upper Makefield. His children w^ere: 

 Isaiah; Elizabeth, wife of Cornelius Van- 

 degrift; Rachel, wife of George Merrick, 

 married 4 mo. T2. 1769; Charity; Sarah, 

 who married Christian VanHorn, June 

 14, 1764; Mary, who married Gabriel 

 VanHorn, January 18, 1772; Joshua; 

 Peter, who married Elizabeth W^ollard 

 April 8. 1778, and (second) Alethia Cur- 

 tis; Gabriel; and Cornelius, who married 

 Mary Larzelere. The will of Isaiah Van- 

 sant is dated April 15, 1786, and 

 was proved September 28, 1786. It 



devises to son Joshua the land 

 bought of John Scott in Upper Make- 

 field, and to Gabriel and Cornelius the 

 home plantation, "reserving one-fourth 

 of an acre for a graveyard, where I have 

 began to bury, for myself and my rela- 

 tions;" mentions Elijah, eldest son of 

 Isaiah, daughter Rachel's three children; 

 daughter Charity's four children, and 

 daughter Mary, and her daughter Char- 

 ity; and daughter tElizabeth. 



Jacob, the youngest son of Jacobus 

 and Rebecca Vansant, inherited from his 

 father the homestead in Southampton, 

 and died there in 1812, devising ninety 

 acres thereof to his daughter Elizabeth 

 Vansant. His other children were: Jane, 

 who married Samuel Dickson; and Mar- 

 garet, wdio married Jacob Roads. 



VIII. GEORGE VAN SANDT, son 

 of Garret (i) was baptized at Flatbush, 

 Long Island, April 24, 1687, and re- 

 moved with the family to Bensalem, 

 Bucks county, in 1699. He married 12 

 mo. 17, 1706, Micah Vandegrift. He 

 joined his brother Jacobus in the pur- 

 chase of his father's Bensalem farm in 

 1706, and purchased his brother's inter- 

 est on- April 2, 1711. On May 17, 1714, 

 he and wife Micah conveyed this 150 

 acres in Bensalem to Thomas Stevenson, 

 and removed to Cecil county, Maryland, 

 where he purchased of Gideon Pearce, 

 February 20, 1721, a tract of land called 

 "Forks and Revision," and in 1737 pur- 

 chased of his brother Albert part of a 

 tract called "Tolchester." On October 

 17, "^733, he and wife "Mary" convey to 

 his son Nicholas, a tract called "Nich- 

 olas' Inheritance," and on same date, 

 they convey to son George other lands. 

 In 1745 they convey parts of "Tolches- 

 ter" to sons Ephraim and Benjamin. 

 From the w-ill of George Vansant, proven 

 :\Iarch 22, 1755, we learn that his chil- 

 dren were Nicholas, Cornelius, George, 

 Benjamin, Ephraim, John; Elizabeth, 

 wife of Peter Cole; Hester Newcombe, 

 Resultah Salisbury, and Ann Smith. 



X. GARRET VAN SANDT, young- 

 est son of Garret (i) was a minor when 

 his father's real estate was conveyed in 

 1706. He settled in Wrightstown town- 

 ship, near Penn's Park, where he had a 

 large plantation. He died in 1746, leav- 

 ing a widow Claunchy, sons Garret and 

 Cornelius, to whom he devised the plan- 

 tation; and daughters Sarah Sackett, 

 Rachel Dungan and Rebeclcah Vansant. 

 the latter a minor. Cornelius married 

 Mary Lee, December 6, 1748, and died in 

 March, 1789, without issue. His wife 

 Mary died in August, 1808. Garret, eld- 

 est son of Garret and Claunchy, inher- 

 ited one-half of the Wrightstown home- 

 stead, and died there in June; 1806. He 

 married April 30, 1760, Rebecca Evans, 

 who survived him. She was possiblv his 

 second wife. Their children were Eliza- 

 beth Addis, Rebecca McClellan. and 

 Marv, wife of Joseph Carver. Rebecca^ 



