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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



Bucks county, between Hulmeville and 

 Newportville, where he lived the remainder 

 of his life, and was actively engaged in ag- 

 ricultural pursuits. He was also actively 

 interested in political afifairs and held sev- 

 eral political otiices. He died March 25, 

 1897, leaving one child. Winder Lawrence 

 Johnson, since deceased, who married, Oc- 

 tober II, 1899, Susan D. Fine. 



9. Robert Winder Johnson, ninth child 

 of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) John- 

 son, was born Sunday, May 7, 1854, at 

 No. 727 Pine street, Philadelphia. He pre- 

 pared for college at Mr. Gregory's private 

 school on Market street, near Eleventh, 

 and entered the freshman class of the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, September, 1870 

 (class of 1874,) but left the University in 

 tlTC spring of 187 1 and accompanied his 

 mother to Europe, where he studied and 

 traveled until October, 1874- He agaui 

 traveled abroad in 1875 and 1876. In Jan- 

 uary, 1877, he entered the office of Law- 

 rence Johnson & Company, doing a large 

 business as importers and exporters and 

 bankers, and in July, 1879, was admitted as 

 a member of the firm and has since 

 been actively associated with its busi- 

 ness. He was elected a member of 

 the Historical Society of Pennsylvania 

 in 1874 and a life member in 1877; 

 was elected a member of the Rittenhouse 

 Club in 1883; a member of the vestry of 

 St. Peter's church in 1891 ; member of the 

 board of managers of Christ Church Hos- 

 pital in 1892; member of the Genealogical 

 Society of Pennsylvania in 1892; member 

 of the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania in 

 1897; member of the Society of theProt- 

 estant Episcopal Church for the Advance- 

 ment of Christianity in Pennsylvania in 

 1897; member of the Board of managers 

 of the Children's Hospital in 1897; mem- 

 ber of the Netherlands Society of Phila- 

 delphia in 1899; and a life member of the 

 Bucks County Historical Society in 1903. 

 He takes a deep interest in the local history 

 of Bucks county, where his maternal an- 

 cestors, the Van Horns, Van Dycks, Van 

 Sandts, Van Pelts, Vandegrifts, Winders, 

 and others were among the earliest and 

 most prominent settlers, and has devoted 

 much time and expense during the last 

 twenty-five years in tracing out the history 

 of these early families of Bucks. Mr. 

 Johnson was married on November lO, 

 1887, to Rosalie Morris, daughter of George 

 Calvert and Elizabeth (Kuhn) Morris, at 

 St. Peter's Church, Third and Pine streets, 

 Philadelphia. Their children are as fol- 

 lows: Morris Winder, born July 5, 1889, 

 at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia; Lawrence 

 Edward, born July 9, 1892, at Lansdowne, 

 Bucks county; Robert Winder, Jr., born 

 August 19, 1894, at Lansdowne, Bucks 

 county; and Rosalie Eugenia, born Octo- 

 ber 12, 1900, at Chestnut Hill. 



ID. Alfred Clayton Johnson, youngest 

 child of Lawrence and Mary (Winder) 

 Johnson, was born in Philadelphia, Sep- 



tember 17, 1856. He was educated at pri- 

 vate schools in Philadelphia and at Dres- 

 den, Saxony. He read law under P. Pem- 

 berton Morris, Esq., of Philadelphia, and 

 also attended lectures on law at the Uni- 

 versity of Pennsylvania, and was admitted 

 to the Philadelphia bar April 3, 1880. He 

 was appointed consul to Stuttgart, Ger- 

 many, in 1893 and vice consul general at 

 Dresden in 1898. He married in Dresden, 

 July 21, 1888, Countess Toni von Baudis- 

 sin,' and they have one child, Mary Winder 

 Johnson, born in . Bristol township, Bucks- 

 county, Pennsylvania, June 11, 1889. 



THE WINDER FAMILY.* The pro- 

 genitor of the Winders of Pennsylvania 

 and New Jersey was Thomas Winder of 

 England, who settled in Hunterdon county,. 

 New Jersey, in 1705. He was in New Jer- 

 sey in 1703, and was one of the purchasers 

 of Maidenhead and Hopewell, and partici- 

 pated in the agreement with Daniel Coxe,. 

 one of the proprietors of West Jersey, in 

 relation to that purchase. Soon after the 

 consummation of the purchase he returned 

 to. London, and was married at St. Mar- 

 garet's, Westminster, June 5, 1704, to Sara 

 Bull, and returned to West Jersey, settling 

 in Hunterdon countly, where he became a 

 large landowner. In 1721 he purchased six 

 hundred acres at Newtown, Bucks county, 

 of John Walley, and in 1727 purchased 

 three hundred and forty-one acres in Make- 

 field, Bucks county, which descended to his 

 son John, and remained in the tenure of 

 his descendants for several generations un- 

 til it was sold in 1837. He was a prominent 

 man in Hunterdon county, and was com- 

 missioner of highways in Amwell town- 

 ship in 1723. He married (second) in 1731, 

 Rebecca Gregory, who survived him, and 

 married Edward Collins in 1736. Thomas 

 Winder died, and letters of administration 

 were granted on his estate May 23, 1734. 

 The children of Thomas and Sara (Bull) 

 Winder were as follows : 



1. John Winder, born 1707, died August 

 9, 1770, married Rebecca Richards. 



2. Thomas, settled in Amwell, where he 

 was living in 1736. 



3. James, removed to Prince George- 

 county, Maryland, where he died in 1789. 



_^'4. Jane, who married John Slack and set- 

 tled in Lower Makefield, Bucks county, 

 where many of her descendants still reside. 



5. Elizabeth, married Peter Phillips of 

 Amwell, where they lived and died. 



Elinor, daughter of Thomas and Rebecca 

 (Gregory) Winder, married July 31, I751r 

 Thomas Guinnup, of Philadelpliia. 



John and Rebecca (Richard.-^) Winder 

 settled on the land purchased by his father 

 in Lower Makefield, Bucks county, the 

 other heirs making conveyances to him for 

 their interest therein at various periods af- 



♦Condensed from "Winders of America," by R. 

 Winder Johnson 



