HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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Arthur St. Clair. He enlisted February 12, 

 1776. (See Pennsylvania Archieves, second 

 series, vol. x, p. 98). Several of the mem- 

 bers of his company were from upper 

 Bvcks county. Captain Watson died at 

 Three Rivers and was succeeded by 

 Thomas L. Moore, who was promoted to 

 major of the Ninth Regiment, Mav 12, 1779, 

 and was succeeded as captain by John Hen- 

 derson. The company was transferred or 

 became a part of the Third Battalion, 

 Twelfth Regiment, July i, 1778, and thus 

 became associated with other companies 

 of Bucks county. For his services he re- 

 ceived from the state of Pennsylvania two 

 hundred acres of "donation land" in Rob- 

 inson township, Westmoreland county, 

 Pennsylvania, which was returned for pat- 

 ent October 9, 1786. (See Pennsylvania 

 Archives, third series, vol. vrii, p. 7^3)- This 

 land he sold to Hugh Hamill, November 

 4, 1786. for i37 IDS. The witnesses to this 

 deed were Thomas Delap (Dunlap). John 

 Donnell and Jacob Glassmyer, all residents 

 of Nockamixon township at that date. (Re- 

 •corder's office,' Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, 

 deed book D-17, p. 322.) John K.. son of 

 John Adams of Durham, was a soldier for 

 some time during the war of 1812-1814, 

 private in Captain John Dornblaser's com- 

 pany (Pennsylvania Archives, second ser- 

 ies, vol. xii, p. 105). 



John Adams of Durham, and Christina, 

 his wife, had the following children : 

 Elizabeth, Mary, Margaret, John K.. Hen- 

 ry, Jacob, Samuel, Susan, married Joseph 

 Retfchlin, and Daniel. 



John Adams of Durham was quite a 

 large land owner. In 1706 he owned one 

 hundred acres of land and a grist and a 

 saw mill in Nockamixon township. Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania. April 20, 1799, he 

 bought of Solomon Lightcap 263 acres of 

 land. (Bucks county deed book 30, p. 310). 

 April II. 1808, he bought two tracts, one 

 of 155 acres and the other of twelve acres. 

 (Bucks county deed book 39, p. 135)- John 

 Adams of Durham died without making 

 a will. It is impossible to give the date 

 when John Adams was mustered out of 

 the service, for the muster rolls of the 

 Twelfth Regiment have practically never 

 been found. 



Tax lists of Nockamixon township 

 show the holdings of John Adams, the 

 father of the above John Adams, and his 

 sons George and Henry, elder brothers of 

 John. John Adams appears as a "single 

 man'" first in the year of 1785, notwithstand- 

 ing that he was of age in 1780. He there- 

 foVe served, in all probability, up to about 

 that date (1784-1785) in the Twelfth Penn- 

 sylvania Regiment. Captain Samuel Wat- 

 son's company records date to November 

 25. 1776. only. 



(Ill) Henry Adams, of Durham town- 

 ship. Bucks county, Pennsylvania, son of 

 John Adams, was born in Durham town- 

 ship June 17. 1806. and died there Decem- 

 ber 15. 1838. He married Elizabeth Bitz, 

 August 25, 1828, at her home in Spring- 



field township, Bucks county. Pennsylvania. 

 He is buried in the old Durham church 

 graveyard. Elizabeth Bitz, the wife of 

 Henry Adams, of Durham, was born Sep- 

 tember 18. 1811, in Springfield township, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania, and died 

 March 28, 1878, in Bethlehem, Pennsyl- 

 vania. She was the daughter of John Bitz 

 and Susan Riegel, his wife, of Springfield, 

 Bucks ^ county, Pennsylvania. Henry 

 Adams's will is recorded in Doyles- 

 town, Pennsylvania. It is dated April 

 28. 1838, and is proved December 22, 

 1838. Henry Adams of Durham and 

 Elizabeth, his wife, had the follow- 

 ing children: John, Hannah, Catharine 

 and Samuel. After the death of Henry 

 Adams in 1840, Elizabeth Bitz was married 

 a second time to Christian Nicholas. She 

 had no children by this union. Christian 

 K. Nicholas was born in Nockamixon 

 township. Bucks county, Pennsvlvania, 

 January 23, 1817, and died in upper Saucon 

 township, Lehigh county, Pennsylvania, 

 November 3, 1893, and was buried in Fried- 

 ensville November 7, 1893, and body re- 

 moved to Nisky Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem, 

 December 16, 1899. 



(IV.) Samuel Adams of south Beth- 

 lehem, Northampton county, Pennsylvania, 

 son of Henry Adams, of Durham township, 

 Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was born in 

 Durham township July 25, 1837, and died 

 in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Febru- 

 ary 22. 1902. He married Susie Weaver, 

 September 14,. 1865. at her home in Allen- 

 town, Pennsylvania. He is buried at Nisky 

 Hill Cemetery, Bethlehem. Pennsylvania. 

 Susie Weaver, wife of Samuel zA.dams, was 

 born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, ]\Iay 5, 

 1847. She was a daughter of Joseph Wea- 

 ver and Salome, his wife, of Allentown, 

 Pennsylvania. Samuel Adams and Susie 

 Weaver, his wife, had the following chil- 

 dren : John, Joseph W., Henry and Susie. 

 Samuel Adams when quite a young man 

 started out in farming, and then in iron 

 ore mining. He entered the employ of the 

 Thomas Iron Company of Catasaqua. Penn- 

 sylvania, and was given charge of their 

 mining interests. Mr. John Fritz induced 

 him to come to Bethlehem and accept the 

 position as his assistant in the Bethlehem 

 Iron Company. Here he remained for 

 nearly thirty years, and then had to re- 

 sign on account of his health. He then or- 

 ganized the Ponupo Mining and Trans- 

 portation Company, Limited, and went to 

 Santiago de Cuba as general manager of 

 the company. Here he bought a railroad 

 for the company, the Ferro-Carril de San- 

 tiago de Cuba, and became its president, 

 and also built an extension to the railroad 

 to connect with the company's manganese 

 mines. He remained in Cuba with his fam- 

 ily for over two years, when he resigned 

 and returned north. He was in Cuba part 

 of the year 1892, all of 1893, and part of 

 1894. After returning from Cuba he a.s- 

 sisted in forming the Sheffield Coal. Iron 

 and Steel Company of Sheffield, Alabama. 



