HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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Ivliddlesex (now deceased) and now the 

 wife of the aforesaid Richard Lundy." 

 William Bennett was accompanied to 

 America by his wife Rebecca and 

 daughters Elizabeth, before mentioned, 

 Ann and Sarah. This book also gives 

 the record of the marriage of Richard 

 Lundy and Elizabeth Bennett, 6 'mo. 24, 

 1684. Elizabeth survived her marriage 

 "but three years, and was buried 6 mo. 

 14, 1687. Still another entry in the old 

 "Book of Arrivals" is interesting to the 

 descendants of Richard Lundy, that 

 which records the arrival of James Harrison 

 and the Pembertons in the ship "Submis- 

 sion," on 5 mo. 7, T682, at Choptank, 

 Maryland, and their subsequent trip 

 overland to Bucks county, detailed in 

 this volume in a brief sketch of "The 

 Pemerton Family," in which is given a 

 list of the passengers on the ship "Sub- 

 mission." With the family of James 

 Harrison came. Jane Lyon, who was to 

 serve in his family for four years to 

 9 mo. 2, 1686, and was then to receive 

 fifty acres of land. On 4 mo. 24, 1691. this 

 Jane Lyon became the second wife of 

 Richard Lundy, at Middletown Meet- 

 ing of Friends. Jane was born in the 

 year 1666, and was therefore sixteen 

 years of age when she arrived in Penn- 

 sylvania, and twenty-five years old when 

 she became the wife of Richard Lundy. 

 On 10 mo. 6th, 1682-3 there was laid out 

 to Richard Lundy two hundred acres in 

 what is now Bristol township, just west 

 of the Manor of Pennsbury, which' was 

 patented to him 5 mo. 6th, 1684. 8 mo. 

 7th, 1685, he exchanged this tract with 

 Jacob Telner for 1000 acres in what 

 is now Buckingham, "back in the 

 woods", as it is described in the deed 

 recorded at Doylestown under date of 

 2 mo. I2th, 1688. It comprised all the 

 land below the York road, eastward 

 from the west line of Judge Paxson's 

 "Nonesuch" farm to the village of Holi- 

 cong, and extending to the top of Buck- 

 ingham mountain. 



Richard Lundy did not at once take 

 up his residence "back in the woods" of 

 Buckingham, but purchased of Samuel 

 Burgess a tract of 103 acres on the up- 

 per side of Pennsbury Manor, part of 

 the same tract on which Falls Meeting 

 House was erected, and probably re- 

 sided there until close to 1700. He 

 finally conveyed this land to Thomas 

 Duer, and took up his residence on his 

 Buckingham purchase, either • where 

 Charles J. Smith now resides, or across 

 the creek at the old Ely homestead now 

 owned by the estate of Anna J. Will- 

 iams. On 7 mo. 12. 1692, he conveyed to 

 Francis Rossel. 500 acres off the west- 

 ern end of his tract, lying in about equal 

 quantities on both sides of the present 

 Durham Road. Rossel dying in 1695, 

 devised it to William Smith, Ralph Boon 

 and the "sons of Samuel Burgess." By 

 various conveyances prior to 1705 that 



west of the Durham road came to 

 Mathew Hughes, whose family owned 

 and occupied it for over a century, or 

 until the death of Amos Austin Plughes 

 in 181 1. The east side of the road was 

 first occupied by Lawrence and Enoch 

 Pearson in 1702-3, and came to be the 

 home of Thomas Canby in 1729. On 4 

 mo_. 7, 1709, Richard Lundy, then rcj- 

 residing in Buckingham, conveyed 100 

 acres to Joseph Large (now the Broad- 

 hurst farm) and some time prior to 

 1719 sold to his son Richard Lundy, Jr., 

 300 acres of the remaining 400 acres of 

 his tract "back in the woods." The date 

 was probably that of the marriag,e of 

 Richard, Jr., in 1714. He, however, 

 failed to convey the land to his son, 

 and he having agreed to sell it to Isaac 

 Norris. Richard Lundy, Sr., and Jane 

 his wife and Richard. Jr., and Elizabeth 

 his wife in 1710 conveyed it to Norris, 

 and a year later it became the property 

 of Hugh Ely, and remained in the fam- 

 ily several generations. In 1724 "Rich- 

 ard Lundy, Sr., conveyed the remaining 

 100 acres to Hugh Ely. This was prob- 

 ably the approximate date of the death 

 of his wife Jane, and he took up his 

 residence with his son Richard, Jr., who 

 at this date had removed to Plumstead 

 township and located on land belonging 

 to his brother-in-law, Ebenezer Large, 

 which he subsequently purchased. 



Richard Lundy was a prominent mem- 

 ber of Falls Meeting, and is frequently 

 mentioned on their records. On his 

 removal to Buckingham he became affil- 

 iated with the ^Meeting there, then a 

 branch of Falls Meeting, and on it be- 

 coming a separate monthly meeting 

 with Wrightstown in 1720, became one 

 of the overseers and elders. On 8 mo. 

 5. '^7i7' he requested a certificate to re- 

 move himself to Maiden Creek. Berks 

 county, where his son and family had re- 

 moved two years previously. and 

 though the Friends remonstrated against 

 his removing himself so far back on 

 the frontiers at his advanced age, he 

 persisted, and was granted a certificate 

 to Exeter Meeting, which he deposited 

 there the month following. He prob- 

 ably died at Maiden Creek soon after 

 his removal there, as we find no further 

 record of him, and at the marriage of 

 his grandson there in 1789 his name 

 does not appear among the witnesses. 



Richard Lundy (2), son of Richard 

 and Jane (Lyon) Lundy, was born 3 

 mo. (May) 20. 1692, in Bucks county, 

 probably in Falls township, and died 

 2 mo. (February) 28, 1772. at Alla- 

 muchy, Warren county. New Jersey. 

 At least part of his boyhood days were 

 probably spent on the Buckingham plan- 

 tation. 300 acres of which was conveved 

 to him on his marriage in 1714. H-is 

 wife was Elizabeth Large, daughter of 

 Joseph Large, then deceased, and they 

 were married at Buckingham under the 



