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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



auspices of Falls Meeting, 4 mo. 3, 

 1714. He was for ten years caretaker of 

 Buckingham Meeting House and 

 "grave digger." The records of the 

 Meeting on 10 mo. 2, 1724, recites the 

 fact that he had "moved too for off" to 

 further officiate in this capacity, and 

 fixes the date of his removal to Plum- 

 stead, where he was later made one of 

 the trustees of the land on which Plum- 

 stead Meeting House was erected though 

 the deed for the land (200 acres) on 

 which he lived was not made to him 

 until November 2, 1734, less than six 

 months before the date on- which he 

 conveyed it preparatory to his removal 

 to Berks county, viz.: 3 mo. 24, 1735. 

 On 3 mo. 5, 1735, he was granted a cer- 

 tificate by Buckingham Meeting to re- 

 move with his family to Maiden Creek, 

 Berks county, the certificate being di- 

 rected to Gwynedd Meeting, from which 

 Exeter was organized two years later,' 

 and of which latter meeting he was ap- 

 pointed an elder in 1737. Richard Lundy 

 and his family remained in Berks county 

 twelve years, removing in 5th mo., 1747 

 to the valley of Pequest river, in what 

 is now Allmuchy township, Warren 

 county, he and his family bringing cer- 

 tificates to Bethlehem (later Kingwood, 

 and now Quakertown Meeting) in Hunt- 

 erdon county. New Jersey., but becom- 

 ing later attendants at Hardwick Meet- 

 ing, a branch of Kingwood. Several of 

 his children had married prior to the 

 removal to New Jersey, but all removed 

 there with their families, though a few 

 years later several of his children and 

 grandchildren removed elsewhere. On 

 March 28, 1749, Richard Lundy was 

 commissioned a justice of the peace for 

 the county of Morris, in which his res- 

 idence was then included. In the same 

 year he was made an elder of the 

 Friends Meeting at Great Meadows, and 

 frequent mention is made of meetings 

 being held at his house. He died in 

 Allemuchy, 2 mo. 28, 1772, and was bur- 

 ied at Hardwick Friends' burying 

 ground. On the records of Kingwood 

 Monthly meeting is recorded a testi- 

 mony of his worth, which says among 

 other things, "he was a man much es- 

 teemed among Friends and others, being 

 of a meek and quiet spirit, exemplary in 

 life and conversation, and a pattern of 

 plainness and simplicity * * * jjg 

 was an affectionate husband, a tender 

 father, a kind friend, punctual and just 

 in his dealings among men, evidencing 

 to the world that he was concerned to 

 do to others as he would have them do 

 to him." His eighty years of life had 

 not been lived in vain. 



The children of Richard and Eliza- 

 beth (Large) Lundy were nine in num- 

 ber, all of whom were born in BuckiiTg- 

 ham and Plumstead townships, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, and all of whom 

 removed with their parents to Berks 



county, and all of whom either pre- 

 ceded or accompanied them back to 

 New Jersey; they were as follows: 



1. Richard, born 4 mo. 23, 1715, in 

 Buckingham, died at Allemuchy, New 

 Jersey, 11 mo. 7, 1757; married at 

 Maiden Creek, Berks county, in 1739^ 

 Ann Wilson, and removed to the Pe- 

 quest Valley, New Jersey, in 1746. He 

 had eleven children, ten of whom grew 

 to maturity: Samuel, William, Amos, 

 Sarah, Richard, Ann, Ebenezer, John 

 Eleazer and Azariah. Samuel and Will- 

 iam removed to Canada, Samuel to New- 

 market, and William to Lundy's Lane, it 

 being upon his property that the famous 

 battle of Lundy's Lane was fought in 

 1814. Ebenezer and Azariah returned 

 to Bucks county. Amos, Sarah (Kes- 

 ter) Richard, John, and the family of 

 Azariah removed to Virginia. 



2. Mary Lundy, born in Buckingham, 

 Bucks county, 11 mo. 6, 1716, married in 

 Plumstead in 1734, Robert Wilson, re- 

 moved with him to Berks county, Penn- 

 sylvania in 1735, and to Sussex county. 

 New Jersey, in 1748, where she died 3 

 mo. 4, 1807, at the age of ninety years. 

 She left numerous descendants., some of 

 whom still retain the Sussex homestead. 



3. Joseph Lundy, born in Buckingham 

 4 mo. 24, 1719, removed with the family 

 to Berks county in 1735, married there 

 in 1743 Susanna Hutton, and removed to 

 Warren county. New Jersey, in 1745; 

 died- there about 1759; left children: 

 Sarah, who married Joseph Carpenter, 

 and returned to Berks county, as did his 

 son Enos, who in 1805 removed to York 

 county, Ontario. His daughter Hannah 

 married Samuel Shotwell, and settled in 

 Sussex countj% New Jersey. 



4. Jacob Lundy, born in Buckingham 

 6 mo. 15, 1721, married at Maiden Creek, 

 1748, Mary Wilson, removed to New 

 Jersey same year, and died there in 1800, 

 leaving children, Jacob, Mary (Schmuck), 

 Jonathan, and Deborah (Dennis). 



5. Martha Lundy, born in Bucking- 

 ham, 6 mo. I, 1723, married in New Jer- 

 sey in 1755, Benjamin Schooley; died 

 there 9 mo. 11, 1803; left four children. 



6. Thomas Lundy, born in Plumstead, 

 Bucks county, and died in Warren 

 countj^' New Jersey, about 1775; he mar- 

 ried there in 1750, Joanna Doan, and had 

 si.x children. See forward. 



7. Samuel Lundj', born in Plumstead, 

 Bucks county, 12 mo. 13, 1727, died in 

 Sussex count}'. New Jersey, 2 mo. 14, 

 1801. He was a judge of Sussex county 

 court, and was twice married, first in 

 1731 to Ann Schooley, and second in 

 1765 to Sarah Willets, and had twelve 

 children. His son Levi removed to 

 Ohio, Samuel to Seneca county. New 

 York, and Jesse to Ontario. Canada. ' 

 The others of his children remained in 

 New Jersey. 



8. Elizabeth Lundy, bom at Plum- 

 rtead, Bucks county, marr.cd at Hard- 



