HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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ter the death of Thomas. His wife, Rebec- 

 ca Richards, was born September 19, 1714, 

 and died January 19, 1788. The family- 

 were not members of the Society of Friends 

 until 1747, when he and his wife applied 

 for membership at Falls Meeting, and were 

 admitted as members. John died in Make- 

 field, August 9, 1770. The children of 

 John and Rebecca (Richards) Winder, 

 were as follows: 



1. Thomas, married, May 11, 1758, Eliza- 

 beth Linton, daughter of Joseph and Mary 



(Blackshaw) Linton, of Northampton 

 township. 



2. James, married (first) December 28, 

 1763, Sarah Bailey, and (second) Mary 

 Booz. 



3. John, married, January 23, 1760, Mar- 

 garet Briggs. He removed first to Dela- 

 •ware and later to Fayette county, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and still later to the state of Ohio. 



5. Elizabeth, married (first) in April, 

 1759, Joseph Linton, son of Joseph and 

 Mary, before mentioned, and on April 2, 

 1795, married David Feaster. 



6. Sarah, married, April, 1761, Robert 

 Whitacre, and removed to Catawissa, Penn- 

 sylvania. 



7. Hannah, married in 1770, Timothy 

 Brooks. Moses, Aaron and Rachel died un- 

 married. 



11. Rebecca, married March 26, 1772, 

 John Nutt, and removed to Fairfax, Vir- 

 ginia. 



12. Mercj^ died unmarried. 



13. Ann married May 13, 1779, Absalom 

 Knight. 



14. Aaron Winder, born September 14, 

 1759, died July 2, 1824, married Janu- 

 ary 16, 1812, Sarah Van Horn, 

 born February 29, 1796, died Janu- 

 ary 27, 1838, daughter of Isaiah and Cath- 

 erine (Subers) Van Horn, of Makefield. 



He purchased in 1788 two hundred acres 

 of the Makefield homestead, and built a 

 Tiouse thereon in 1790. It is related that 

 Catherine Subers, whose daughter he 

 eventually married, was the first love of 

 Aaron Winder, and on her marriage to his 

 successful rival in her affections, Isaiah 

 Van Horn, he abjured matrimony and lived 

 single until the age of fifty-three years, 

 when he married her daughter though Mrs. 

 Van Horn, the mother, had been a widow 

 almost from the birth of the daughter. 



The children of Aaron and Sarah Van 

 Horn Winder were as follows : 



1. Joel, born March 8, 1813, died in 

 "infancy. 



2. Mary, born June 18, 1814, died Feb- 

 ruary 16. 1877, married Lawrence John- 

 son. (See Johnson Family). 



3. Rebecca, born February 22, 1817, died 

 September 26, 1854, married General John 

 Ely" and had four children, but two of 

 whom lived to mature age ; Mary Winder 

 Ely, born November 19. 1840, died July 

 12, i860, married October 19. 1859, Joseph 

 Parry Brosius ; and Samuel Lawrence Ely, 

 "born May 24, 1847, died March 19, 1886, 

 imarried December 29, 1865, Mary Comly 



Knight. He was sheriff of Bucks county 

 for the term of 1881-83. 



4. Dr. Aaron Winder, born October 17, 

 1821, died December 28, 1883, married 

 August 21, 1846, Mary S. Gillam, and had 

 three children; William G. Winder, M. 

 D., of Andalusia, Bucks county and Phila- 

 delphia ; Mary Ely Winder, wife of Henry 

 B. Knight of Bucks county ; and Lawrence 

 Johnson Winder, M. D. 



5. Moses Winder, born December 20, 

 1823, died April, 1864, married December 

 25, 1844, Margaretta Thornton, and had six 

 children, five of whom grew to maturity, 

 viz : Sarah, born 1849, married Blackstone 

 P. Doddridge; Mary Rebecca, born 1851; 

 died 1893, married Walter Richards John- 

 son, of Bensalem, Bucks county, Pennsyl- 

 vania; Anna Louisa, born February 4, 

 1854, married April 6, 1885, Isaac Holbor- 

 row Robertson ; John Ely Winder, born 

 1857, died 1866 ; and Aaron Augustus Win- 

 der, born February 8, 1859, married Octo- 

 ber 12, 1880, Jane Phillips Slugg, died 

 September 5, 1903. 



Sarah (Van Horn) Winder married 

 (second ) August 24, 1825, Abner Morris, 

 and had four children. 



JACOB M. WINDER, of Bristol, 

 was born in that borough August 28, 



1858, and is a son of Isaac and Mary 

 Jane (Hetherington) Winder. He is of 

 English descent, his paternal ancestors 

 having been early English settlers in 

 New Jersey. Samuel Winder, the great- 

 grandfather of the subject of this sketch, 

 was a farmer in Falls township, and 

 died there in April, 1816, devising his 

 small estate to his wife Sarah who sur- 

 vived him several years. 



Giles Satterthwaite Winder, _ son of 

 Samuel and Sarah, was born in Falls 

 township about 1795, being just arrived 

 at legal age at the death of his father, 

 and was named as executor of the will. 

 He received a good education and taught 

 school in Middletown township for 

 thirty years. He died in Bristol in 

 1857. He married Sarah Yonker, 

 daughter of George Yonker, of Middle- 

 town, and granddaughter of Daniel 

 Yonker, of Solebury. George Yonker 

 was the father of twelve children, one 

 son George, and eleven daughters, all 

 of whom lived to mature age, and all ex- 

 cept two of whom married and reared 

 families. The father resided on his farm 

 in Middletown, near Langhorne, until 



1859, and then sold it on account of in- 

 ability to care for it, being very old 

 and infirm, and lived with a married 

 daughter in Burlington for one year, 

 and then removed to Bristol, Bucks 

 county, where he died in 1861 at a very 

 advanced age. Sarah Satterthwaite was 

 his eldest daughter. She also lived to 

 an advanced age. dying in Bristol, June 

 21, 1880. The children of Giles S. and 



