HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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<jeorge and Sarah (Magill) Ely were 

 as follows: 



1. Joseph, born August 13, 1761, mar- 

 ried Mary Whitson, daughter of Thom- 

 as Whitson, Jr., and granddaughter of 

 Thomas Whitson, who came from Beth- 

 page, Long Island, and a descendant of 

 the Powells. Hallecks and Estes of Long 

 Island. Joseph Ely received from his 

 father the Rabbit Run farm, now occu- 

 pied by his great-grandson Thomas Ma- 

 ,gill, and lived and died there. 



2. Jane Ely, born January 5, 1764, mar- 

 ried Benjamin Paxson. 



3. Joshua, born July 4, 1766, died 

 young. 



4. Amos, born February 6, 1769. 



5. George, born July 25, 1772, married 

 Sarah Smith, and lived and died on the 

 Tiomestead, where his sons, Robert, 

 Smith. George and Gervas, late of Lam- 

 bertville. New Jersey, were born and 

 reared. 



6. William, born November 26, 1774. 

 inherited his father's Newtown farm. 



7. Aaron married Alada Britton, was 

 ■the father of Hiram and Britton Ely, of 

 New Hope, and the grandfather of Dan- 

 iel Britton Ely, of Montclair, New Jer- 

 sey. 



8. Joshua, born October 24, if79, died 

 young. 



9. Mark, born September 18, 1781; see 

 forward. 



10. Mathias, born September 5, 1783, 

 was twice married, and was the grand- 

 father of Esward W. Ely, of Doyles- 

 town. 



11. Amasa, born November 12, 1787. 

 Mark Ely, ninth chiM of George and 



Sarah (Magill) Ely, born on the old 

 homestead, September 18, 1781, was a 

 shoemaker by trade, and followed that 

 vocation in connection with farming all 

 Tiis. life. He inherited from his father 

 a small farm adjoining the homestead, 

 -and lived thereon until his death in 1835. 

 He was twice married, first on June 2, 

 1802, to Hannah Johnson, who bore him 

 three daughters, and second, December 

 12, 1815. to Rachel Hambleton, born 

 May 23. 1787, died August 21, 1878, 

 daughter of James and Elizabeth (Pax- 

 son) Hambleton, of Solebury, later of 

 Drumore, Lancaster county, grand- 

 daughter of Stephen and Hannah (Pax- 

 son) Hambleton. and great-granddaugh- 

 ter of James and Mary (Beakes) Ham- 

 bleton, of Solebury. James Hamble- 

 ton came to Solebury in the early part 

 of the eighteenth century from Mary- 

 land, where his ancestors had resided 

 ■for two or three generations. Hannah 

 Paxson, wife of Stephen Hambleton, born 

 December 28, 1732, died November i, 

 1812. was the daughter of James and 

 Margaret (Hodges) Paxson. and grand- 

 daughter of William and Abigail (Pow- 

 nal) Paxson: and Elizabeth, the wife of 

 James Hambleton, was a daughter of 

 Henry and Elizabeth (Lupton) Paxson, 



and granddaughter of Henry and Ann 

 Plumly Paxson, the latter being a broth- 

 er to William before mentioned, and 

 both sons of James and Jane Paxson, 

 who came from Bucks county, England, 

 m 1682. Mary Beakes, wife of James 

 Hambleton, was a daughter of Stephen 

 and Elizabeth (Biles) Beakes, both of 

 whom were natives of England, the for- 

 mer born April 28, 1665, in Blackwell, 

 Somerset, England, son ,of William and 

 Mary (Wall) Beakes, ca'me to Pennsyl- 

 vania with his parents in 1682 and died 

 in 1699. Both he and his father wc e 

 members of colonial assembly. His wife 

 Elizabeth, bom in Dorchester, England, 

 June 3, 1670, was a daughter of William 

 and Joanna Biles, who came to Bucks 

 county in 1679, William was a member 

 of the first provincial council, and rep- 

 resented his county for many years. 



Of the three daughters of Mark and 

 Hannah (Johnson) Ely, one married a 

 Hall, and had a large family of children; 

 Rachel married Amos C. Paxson, of 

 Solebury, and had a large family, most 

 of whom are now deceased: and Rachel 

 Ann, married first Joseph Lownes, and 

 second Samuel Cooper, having several 

 children by the first marriage, and one 

 (Mrs. Rachel Pidcock, of New Hope) by 

 the second. 



The children of Mark and Rachel 

 (Hambleton) Ely, were. 



1. James H. died September 29, 1905, in 

 Solebury, married Emeline Magill, and had 

 four daughters and one son, Mark, of Ew- 

 ing township, Hunterdon county. New 

 Jersey. Of the daughters, Henrietta 

 married Ellis Walton, and is living in 

 Solebury; Josephine is the wife of 

 George Quinby. of Warrington; Eliza- 

 beth married Joseph Lear, and is de- 

 ceased; and Amy, unmarried, resides 

 with her father. 



2. Amy, married Isaac Heston Wor- 

 stall. and is deceased, leaving two chil- 

 dren, Mrs. George Wiley of Solebury 

 and Mrs. Emma Wilson of California. 



3. Mercy, married William H. McDow- 

 ell, and resided for many years in Cecil 

 county, Maryland, both are deceased 

 leaving four sons and a daughter. 



4. Mary, married Howard Paxson of 

 Solebury and has been a widow for many 

 years, residing with her daughter Mrs. 

 Harvey Warner in Solebury. 



5. Isaac Ely. second son of Mark and 

 Rachel, born in Solebury. May 23. 1819, 

 was reared in that township and lived 

 there and in the borough of New Hope 

 all his life. He was a farmer, and, after 

 renting a farm for about five years, pur- 

 chased a farm in the Pownall tract ad- 

 joining the homestead of his ancestors, 

 where he lived until i86.q, when he pur- 

 chased the farm on which his grandpar- 

 ents, George and Sarah (Magill) Ely, 

 had settled in 1760, and where his father 

 was born, and lived there until 1884, 

 when he retired from active business and 



