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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



CHARLES EDWARD FOULKE, an 

 old resident and worthy representative 

 of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, was 

 there born in Richland Center in 1845, 

 the son of Hugh and Sarah (Roberts) 

 Foulke. Mention of the ancestral his- 

 tory of Mr. Foulke is made in the pre- 

 ceding sketch of his brother, William 

 Henry Foulke. Charles obtained his edu- 

 cation in the Rockridge public school, 

 continuing there until he was eighteen 

 years of age. He then engaged in as- 

 sisting with the home farm work, and 

 later spent six months in Quakertown 

 with Mr. Richard Moore. He subse- 

 quently purchased the home farm in 

 partnership with his brother William, 

 and in the spring of 1891 purchased his 

 brother's interest, and has since contin- 

 ued alone in the conduct of the farm. 

 Mr. Foulke is one of the progressive 

 farmers of the county, his farm compris- 

 ing one hundred and seven acres of 

 mostly improved land. In politics Mr. 

 Foulke is a strong advocate of the prin- 

 ciples of the Republican party, has al- 

 ways taken a lively interest in local af- 

 fairs, and has served as committeeman 

 of his township. He and his wife are 

 members of the Society of Friends of 

 Quakertown Meeting. 



In 1870 he was united in marriage to 

 Miss Anna Hoycock, daughter of War- 

 ner and Alice (Singley) Hoycock, farm- 

 ers of White Marsh township, Mont- 

 gomery county, Pennsylvania. The fol- 

 lowing named children were born to 

 Mr. and Mrs. Foulke: i. Linford, born 

 December 21, 1872, married, June 6, 

 1900, Miss Mary C. Gerhart, daughter of 

 Edward and Caroline (Lewis) Gerhart; 

 Linford Foulke, lives at Quakertown, is 

 carrier of U. S. mails, rural free deTiv- 

 ery, and a dealer in agricultural imple- 

 ments, wagons and farrhers' supplies; 2. 

 Joseph, born August 27, 1874, married 

 Miss Katharine, daughter of William 

 and Elizabeth Neanan, of Richland; he 

 lives in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, and 

 is a carpenter for J. W. Stoneback; 3. 

 Herbert Theophalus, born September 17, 

 187s, lives at home and assists his father 

 on the farm; unmarried; 4. Oschar Clif- 

 ford, born January 20. 1878, married 

 January i, 1904, Martha, daughter of 

 Peter and Sarah (Weaver) Smith; lives 

 at Quakertown, Pennsylvania; stove 

 moulder for Roberts. Winner & Com- 

 pany. 5. Chester A. Foulke, born Au- 

 gust 25, i88r, lives at home, unmarried, 

 and is a weaver in the Quakertown silk 

 mill. 



THE VAN HORN FAMILY. The 

 family of Van Horn has been a promi- 

 nent one in Bucks county for two cen- 

 turies, filling important positions in the 

 official, professional and business life of 

 the county in every generation and 

 constantly sending out its representa- 



tives to fill like important positions in 

 other localities and states, its represen- 

 tatives now being found in nearly every 

 state in the Union. 



The pioneer ancestor of the family 

 was Christian Barendtse, that is Chris- 

 tian, son of Barendt, who it is said came 

 from Hooren, a city of the Zuyder Zee, 

 about twenty-five miles from Amster- 

 dam The exact date of his arrival in 

 America is not known. He was a car- 

 penter by trade, and the records of New 

 Amsterdam show that he and a fellow 

 craftsman, Auke Jansen, were appoint- 

 ed, March 10, 1653, by the burgomasters 

 and schepens of New Amsterdam to 

 view a house, about the building of 

 which there was some litigation. These 

 records further show that he was fre- 

 quently appointed a referee during the 

 next four or five years. And he is shown 

 to have contributed towards the 

 strengthening of the city wall on Octo- 

 ber IS, 1655. He is also said to have 

 been with the force sent out from New 

 Amsterdam, September 5, 1655, against 

 the Swedes and Finns on the south 

 (now Delaware) river, at Fort Chris- 

 tina. On his return to New Amsterdam 

 he was appointed January 18, 1656, a 

 fire warden, in place of Johan Paul 

 Jacquet, who had resigned and "re- 

 moved to the South River in New 

 Netherlands." On April 17, 1657, he was 

 admitted a "Small Burgher" of New 

 Amsterdam, an honor which carried 

 with it the freedom of trade and a right 

 to membership in the respective guilds 

 of the town, and conferred upon na- 

 tives of the city, residents there one 

 year and six weeks before the date of 

 the charter, burgher's sons-in-law, city 

 storekeepers, salaried servants of the 

 company and all paying the sum of 

 twenty-five guilders. On August I, 

 1657, Christian Barentze, carpenter, was 

 granted by Peter Stuyvesant, director 

 general of New Netherland, a lot in 

 New Amsterdam, by the Land Gate, 

 (now at Broadway and Wall streets) 

 for a house and garden. He also owned 

 several other properties in the neighbor- 

 hood, some of which are said to have 

 covered a part of the present Trinity 

 churchyard. Probably as a result of 

 his trip to the South river. Christian 

 Barentse and Joost Rugger and possibly 

 others obtained a grant of land on the 

 south side of None Such creek, a tribu- 

 tary of the Chrisiana. near the present 

 site of Wilmington. Delaware, and be- 

 gan the erection thereon of a tide water 

 mill. According to Amos C. Brinton, 

 who has given much attention to the an- 

 cient mill sites of Delaware Barentse 

 and Rugger, he began the erection of 

 this mill in 1656. From the dates previ- 

 ously given, however, as well as from 

 other records, it would appear that the 

 date of Christain Barentse. removal to 

 the Delaware was sometime in the 5^ear 



