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12, 1872. He married Mary . Jenks, 

 daughter of Thomas and Thomazine 

 (Trimble) Jenks, of Middletown. (See 

 Jcnks Family). By the will of Jacob 

 Janney the homestead was devised to his 

 sons Thomas and John L., and they in 

 1829 made partition of it and a tract pur- 

 chased by them adjoining, the new pur- 

 chase and a small part of the homestead 

 on the east going to John L., where he 

 lived and died, and where his son Thomas 

 and daughters Elizabeth and Thomazine 

 still reside. The children of John L. and 

 Mary (Jenks) Janney were: Charles, 

 married first Anna Yardley, and second 

 her sister, Julia Yardley, was a merchant 

 at Dolington for many years, and died 

 on a farm in Solebury in 1902; Thomas 

 J., who was prothonotary of Bucks 

 county, 1895-7, and is now cashier and 

 accountant in the office of the Newtown, 

 Bristol and Doylestown Electric Rail- 

 way Company at Newtown; John L., Jr., 

 married Matilda Wynkoop, and resides 

 in Newtown borough, though still con- 

 ducting the old homestead farm; and 

 Elizabeth and Thomazine, before men- 

 tioned. 



5. Martha, born 10 mo. 14, 1801, died 

 12 mo. 6. 1876, married Robert Simp- 

 son, of Upper Makefield, and had five 

 children: Jacob, of Buckingham, de- 

 ceased, married Elizabeth Johnson; 

 William, of Upper Makefield, deceased, 

 married Julia Johnson; Elizabeth, wife 

 of Benjamin Smith, many years princi- 

 pal of Doylestown English and Classical 

 Seminary, now of Plymouth Friends' 

 School; IMartha, wife of Albert Hibbs, of 

 Kansas; and James, who married an Eis- 

 inbrey, of Solebury, and died in Kansas. 



6. Benjamin, born i mo. 17, 180.^, died 

 I mo. 8, 1806. 



7. Mary, born 6 mo. 8, 1805, died 7 mo. 

 31. 1807. 



8. Sarah, born 10 mo. 21, 1806, died 10 

 mo. 10, 1851; married Joshua Dungan, no 

 issue. 



9. Letitia, born 9 mo. 25, 1808, died i 

 mo, 22, 1813. 



10. William, born 3 mo. 31, 1810, died 

 3 mo. 7, 1891, married 12 mo. 15, 1830, 

 Rebecca Smith, daughter of William and 

 Sarah (Moore) Smith, of Solebury, 

 where she was born in 1810. He was a 

 farmer in Lower Makefield for several 

 years, and later lived retired in Newtown 

 borough, where his widow and two 

 daughters still reside. They were the pa- 

 rents of nine children: Richard H., re- 

 siding on the old Smith homestead in 

 Solebury, married Mary Hibbs, of Pine- 

 ville, and had three children: Dr. Will- 

 iam Smith Janney, of Philadelphia, see 

 forward; Sarah Smith, living with her 

 mother in Newtown: Stephen Moore, of 

 Newtown, married Elizabeth Nickelson, 

 of Yardley; Oliver, of Wrightstown, 

 married Hannah Willard, of Newtown; 

 George, of Solebury, married Elizabeth 



Ellis, of Langhorne; Martha, wife of 

 Harrison C. Worstall, a hardware mer- 

 chant of Newtown; Rebecca Frances, 

 died in infancy; and Mary Ella, living 

 with her mother in Newtown. 



11. Joseph, born 9 mo. 19, 1812, died 

 10 mo. 19, 1887, married li mo. 21, 1833, 

 Mary Ann Taylor, daughter of David B. 

 and Elizabeth, of Lower Makefield, lived- 

 and died in Philadelphia. They had chil- 

 dren: Barton Taylor, of Eniilie; Benja- 

 min, Samuel and Joseph, of Philadelphia; 

 Frances, wife of Joseph Lovett, of Emi- 

 lie; Elizabeth, died in Philadelphia; and 

 Emma, wife of Charles Walton, of Lang- 

 horne. 



12. Mahlon, born 12 mo. 15, 1815, mar- 

 ried Charlotte Brown, and removed ta 

 the west where he died. 



13. STEPHEN T. JANNEY, young- 

 est child of Jacob and Frances (Briggs) 

 Janney, was born 11 mo. 15, 1817, and 

 died II mo. 12, 1898, on the old home- 

 stead where he was born and always re- 

 sided. He was but three years of age at 

 the death of his father, and remained 

 with his mother on the homestead, and. 

 was educated at an academy in Wilming- 

 ton, Delaware. On his marriage in 1842, 

 he rented the homestead of his brother 

 Thomas, and purchased it in 1855, and 

 continued to conduct it until his death. 

 He married Harriet P. Johnson, born in 

 Buckingham. 10 mo. 20, 1820, died 1891, 

 daughter of William H. and Mary (Pax- 

 son) Johnson, and granddaughter of 

 Samuel and Martha (Hutchinson) John- 

 son, all of Buckingham. (See ancestry of 

 Hon. E. M. Paxson, where an account of 

 the distinguished ancestry of Mrs. Jan- 

 ney, maternal and paternal is given). 

 The children of Stephen T. and Harriet 

 P. (Johnson) Janney, were: Calvin D., 

 born January 12, 1843, residing on the 

 homestead, married March 8, 1892, Fred- 

 erica, daughter of Frederick and Anna. 

 M. Linton, of Newtown, who died at 

 the birth of their only child. Frederick, 

 December. 1892; Horace, born Septem- 

 ber I, 1846, farmer and nurseryman at 

 Newtown: William H., born October i, 

 1849, a farmer in Lower Makefield, mar- 

 ried February 3, 1873, Anna M. Torbert, 

 daughter of James L. and Maria (Van 

 Artsdalen) Torbert. of Lower Makefield, 

 and had two children: Elizabeth, wife of 

 Erwin J. Doan, of Philadelphia, who 

 has three children — Frances J., Anna 

 Jean and Harriet J.; and Harriet, wife of 

 LeRoy Suber, of Newtown. Mrs. Anna 

 M. Janney died 3 mo. 11, 1893. and Will- 

 iam H. married (second) June 8, 1905, 

 Ella J. Burroughs, daughter of Robert 

 and Phebe (Beans) Burroughs of New- 

 town. Marietta Janney, third child of 

 Stephen and Harriet, is still single, and 

 resides with her brother Calvin on the 

 homestead. Frances J. Janney, the 

 youngest daughter, married, September 



