HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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was again elected and commissioned in 

 1691. He was also commissioned April 

 6, 1685. one of the justices of the courts 

 of Bucks county, which commission was 

 renewed January 2, 1689-90. He was one 

 of the commission of twelve men ap- 

 pointed to divide the county into town- 

 ships in 1690, and filled many other im- 

 portant official positions. In the minis- 

 try he visited Friends' meetings in New 

 England, Rhode Island, Long Island, 

 New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Maryland, 

 and was an esteemed counsellor in all 

 matters pertaining to the Society, as 

 well as of the county and province. In 

 the early part of 1695 he began to make 

 preparations for a visit to Friends in 

 England, executing a power of attorney 

 to his eldest son, Jacob Janney, to trans- 

 act business for him in his absence, and 

 making his will, which is dated 3 mo. 

 21, 1695. This will was doubtless proved 

 and recorded in the county of Bucks, 

 but the records of the county (with the 

 exception of deeds) from 1693 to 1713 

 are entirely lost, and it is only through a 

 copy found among the papers of Samuel 

 M. Janney. the Quaker historian, that 

 we learn what its provisions were. He 

 was accompanied on his visit to England 

 by Griffith Owen, and they started by 

 way of Maryland 3 mo. 31, 1695. Ean'ding 

 in London, they traveled through Eng- 

 land and Wales, visiting many meetings. 

 Janney was taken sick in the spring of 

 1696, while in Derbyshire, but. partially 

 recovering, attended the Quarterly Meet- 

 ing in London, and then started to pay a 

 visit to his relatives in Cheshire, and, 

 though detained in Hertfordshire by a 

 severe attack, eventually reached Che- 

 shire, and so far recovered as to visit 

 meetings there and in Lancashire, and 

 made preparations to return to Penn- 

 sylvania in \i mo., 1696, but, being taken* 

 seriously ill, returned to the home of his 

 sister. Mary Burgess, where he was born, 

 and died there the 12th of the 12th mo., 

 (February) 1696-7, at the. age of sixty- 

 three years, having been a minister for 

 forty-two years. His wife Margery sur- 

 vived him and died somewhere between 

 1697 and 1700, Their children were six 

 in number — four sons: Jacob, Thomas, 

 Abel, and Joseph, who accompanied their 

 parents to America; and two daughters, 

 Martha and Elizabeth, who died in Eng- 

 land. 



I. Jacob Janney, born at Pownall Fee, 

 Cheshire, 3 mo. 18, 1662, buried in Bucks 

 county, 8 mo. 6, 1708, married at Falls 

 Meeting, Bucks county, 10 mo. 26, 1705. 

 Mary Hough, born in Bucks county, 7 

 mo. 6, 1684, daughter of John and Han- 

 nah Hough, of Newtown. After her 

 husband's death she married, 3 mo. 2, 

 1710, John Fisher, by whom she had one 

 child, Mary, who married in 1740 John 

 Butler. The only child of Jacob and 

 Mary (Hough) Janney was Thomas, 

 born 12 mo. 27, 1707-8, died 4 mo. 8, 1788. 



2. Martha Janney, born at Cheadle, 

 Cheshire, 5 mo. 17, 1665, died there 12 

 mo. 4, 1665-6. 



3. Elizabeth, born at Pownall Fee, 11 

 mo. 15, 1666-7, died 11 mo. 17, 1666-7. 



4. Thomas Janney, born at Pownall 

 Fee, Cheshire, 12 mo. 5, 1667-8, died in 

 Bucks county. He married 9 mo. 3, 

 1697, Falls Meeting records, Rachel 

 Pownall, born in Cheshire, England, 

 daughter of George and Eleanor Pow- 

 nall, of Bucks county. They had four 

 children; Henry, born 4 mo. 20, 1699; 

 Sarah, born 8 mo. 26, 1700, married 1722, 

 Thomas Pugh; Mary, married 1725, 

 Thomas RoutJedge; Abel, born in Bucks 

 county, died there 1748, married June 5, 

 1740, Elizabeth Biles. 



5. Abel Janney, born at Mobberly, 

 Cheshire, 10 mo. 29, 1671, married in New 

 Jersey, 1700, Elizabeth Stacy, born at 

 Dorehouse, Yorkshire, 8 mo. 17, 1673, 

 daughter of Mahlon and Rebecca (Ely) 

 Stacy, of Trenton, New Jersey. They 

 had seven children; Amos, born 11 mo. 

 15. 1701-2, died in Fairfax county, Vir- 

 ginia, 1747, married, 1727-8, at Falls, 

 Mary Yardley, daughter of Thomas and 

 Ann (Biles) Yardley; Rebeckah, born 9 

 mo. 9, 1702, died at Wilmington, Dela- 

 ware, married Joseph Poole, of Bucks 

 countjs born in Cumberland, England, 

 1704, died in Bucks county, Pennsyl- 

 vania, 1767; Mahlon, born in Bucks 

 county, 2 mo. 18, 1706; Thomas, married 

 1735, Hannah Biles, daughter of William 

 and Sarah (Langhorne) Biles; Jacob, 

 born 4 mo. 10, 1710, died in Delaware il 

 mo. 14, 1782. married Elizabeth Levis, at 

 Kennett, Chester county, was a prom- 

 inent minister: Abel, removed to Vir- 

 ginia, 1742; Elizabeth, married 10 mo. 

 22, 1737, John Stackhouse, and (second) 

 David Wilson, both of Bucks county. 

 Abel Janney. the father of the above 

 named children, was a justice of the 

 peace 1708-10, and a member of assem- 

 bly 1710-21. 



6. Joseph Janney, born at Pownall Fee, 

 Cheshire, i mo. 26, 1675-6, died in Bucks 

 county, about 1729, married at Falls 

 Meeting, 6 mo. 18, 1703, Rebeckah Biles, 

 born in Bucks county, 10 mo. 27, 1680, 

 daughter of William and Joanna Biles, 

 and had six children : Martha, married 

 Nicholas Parker and settled in 'New Jer- 

 sey; Ann, died young; Abel, married at 

 Falls, 8 mo. 2. 1733, Sarah Baker, and 

 removed to Virginia; William, married 

 at Falls, Elizabeth Moon, born 10 mo. 16, 

 1719, daughter of Roger and Ann (Nutt) 

 Moon, and removed to Virginia; Jacob, 

 married at Falls, 1725, Hannah IngTe- 

 dew, and removed to Virginia; Mary, 

 married at Falls, 1720, John Hougji, of 

 Bucks county and removed to Virginia; 

 they are the ancestors of Emerson 

 Hough, of Chicago, the novelist and His- 

 torical writer, editor of "Forest and 

 Stream." 



Thomas Janney, born 12 mo. 27, 1797-8, 



