HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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wick, New Jersey, in 1748, Gabriel Wil- 

 son, and settled at Great Meadows, in 

 Warren county, New Jersey, where she 

 <died 5 mo. 25, 181 1; their eight children 

 removed to North Carolina, Indiana^, 

 Canada and Kentucky. 



9. Margaret Lundy, born at Plum- 

 stead, Bucks county, 12 mo. 14, 1732, 

 died at Hardwick, New Jersey, in 4 mo., 

 1776. She had married in 1750 John 

 Wilson, who removed with her family 

 from Maiden Creek, Berks county, 

 Pennsylvania, in 1745. No record of 

 -children. 



Thomas Lundy, sixth child of Rich- 

 ard and Elizabeth Large Lundy, was a 

 mason by trade, and was the first of 

 the family to remove from Berks county 

 to the Pequest Valley in New Jersey. 

 He helped to erect the first jail of War- 

 ren county in 1754. His wife Joanna 

 Doan was probably a granddaughter of 

 Daniel and Mehetabel Doan, of Bucks 

 county. Thomas and Joanna had six 

 children: Susanna, who married Thomas 

 Parker, son of- Humphrey Parker, of 

 Wrightstown, Bucks county. Reuben, 

 l)orn 3 mo. 13, 1752. married in 1776 

 Esther Bunting, daughter of Joseph and 

 Sarah (Bidgood) Bunting, of Bristol. 

 Bucks county, and later settled in Co- 

 lumbia county, Pennsylvania. Ephraim, 

 son of Thomas and Joanna, married in 

 1776, Elizabeth Patterson, and after 'liv- 

 ing for twenty years in New Jersey re- 

 Tfioved with their five children to Cat- 

 awissa, Lycoming county, Pennsyl- 

 vania. Thomas, son of Thomas and Jo- 

 anna, married in 1779 Elizabeth Stock- 

 ton, and in 1787 removed to North Car- 

 olina. Elizabeth, youngest daughter of 

 Thomas and Joanna (Doane) Lundy, 

 iDorn 8 mo. 30, 1763. married in 1782, 

 Israel Bunting, son of Joseph and Sarah, 

 of Bucks county, and settled in Warren 

 county. New Jersey, where their seven 

 •children were born. 



Joseph Lundy, son of Thomas and Jo- 

 anna (Doane) Lundy and the great- 

 grandfather of the subject of this 

 sketch, was born in Warren county, 

 New Jersey. 3 mo. 19, 1762, and died at 

 Rancocas, Burlington county, New Jer- 

 sey, 8 mo. 13, 1846. He married 4 mo. 

 26, 1787, Elizabeth Shotwell, born 1762, 

 daughter of Benjamin and Amy ( Hal- 

 let) Shotwell, of Rahway. New Jersey, 

 who bore him one son. Benjamin Lundy. 

 the eminent abolitionist and editor of 

 ""The Genius of Universal Emancipa- 

 tion." He was born in Sussex county, 

 New Jersey, i mo. 4, 1789, and on 10 

 mo. 5. 1809 was granted a certificate of 

 removal to Westland Meeting Wash- 

 ingto^T county, Pennsylvania, and settled 

 in Wheeling, West Virginia, where he 

 learned the trade of a liarness maker, 

 and in 1812 located in Mt. Pleasant 

 Ohio, where he carried on his business 

 -of harness making. Becoming strongly 

 impressed with the horrors of human 



slavery, he about this time began to 

 speak against it and organize anti- 

 slavery societies, also contributing ar- 

 ticles to the "Philanthropist," a paper 

 published in Mt. Pleasant. In 1821 he 

 started the publication of "The Genius 

 of Universal Emancipation," the first 

 paper published, devoted exclusively to 

 that cause. He later traveled exten- 

 sively in the interest of emancipation, 

 and became one of the noted exponents 

 of the emancipation of slaves. He died 

 in Lowell, La Salle county, Illinois, 8 

 mo. 22, 1839. 



Joseph Lundy, the father, having lost 

 his first wife, married a second time, 

 I mo. 15, 1795, ]Mary Titus, of \yestbury. 

 Long Island. He continued to reside 

 in Hardwick. Sussex county, New Jer- 

 sey, until 1810, when he removed with 

 his family to Willingboro township, Bur- 

 lington county, New Jersey, where he 

 purchased a farm of 160 acres on Ran- 

 cocas Creek. The children of Joseph 

 and Mary (Titus) Lundy were eight in 

 number: Abigail, born 9 mo. 30, I795- 

 died 5 mo. 14, 1875, married Daniel 

 Woolston, of Eyrestown; Richard, born 



I mo. 30. 1797, died 7 mo. 30, 1875, at 

 Rancocas. married Mary Ward; Eliza- 

 beth, born 6 mo. 2, 1709, died 9 mo. 22, 

 1840, unmarried: Phebe, born 2 mo. 6, 

 1802, died May, 1849. married William 

 Hilton: Lydia Shotwell. born 7 mo. 25, 

 1804. died 5 mo. 27. 1864, married Joel 

 Wierman; Deborah, born 4 mo. 29, 1806, 

 died 5 mo. 7. 1896, married Ezra Wal- 

 ton: Asenath, born 1808, died 1809; 

 Mary, born 3 mo.. 26. 1811, died 10 

 mo 2, 1887, married William Barnard, a 

 minister of the Society of Friends and 

 prominent in the anti-slavery cause. 



Richard Lundy, second child of Joseph 

 and Marv (Titus) Lundy. was the grand- 

 father of the subject of this sketch. He 

 was born at Hardwick. Sussex county, 

 New Jersey, and removed to Rancocas 

 with his parents at the age of thirteen 

 vears, and spent the remainder of his 

 life there. His wife. Mary Ward, born 

 9 mo. 27, 180S. died 6 mo 14. 1888 was 

 a daughter of George and Edith (Wood) 

 Ward from near Salem, New Jersey. 

 Richard and Mary were the parents of 

 four children, viz.: George Ward born 

 6 mo. 25. 183s, married Mana Haines, 

 and resides at Mt. Holly. New Jersey. 

 Edith M.. born 6 mo., 21, 1838 d'ed Au- 

 gust 28, 1871. married Isaac S Wright, 

 of Falls, Bucks county, and left three 

 children, all born in Bucks county- 

 Walter S., Marv Ellen, wife of George 

 H Betts, and Ruth Anna: Joseph, born 

 it' mo ir. 1840: Charles, born n mo., 



II 1847. died 2 mo. 6, IQ04. was twice 

 married, and left one child. Mary. 



Joseph Lundy. the father of the sub- 

 ject of this sketch, was born at Ran- 

 cocas. II mo. II, 1840. He was edu- 

 cated at the Friends' schools, and has 

 been a farmer in Burlington county all 



