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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



born 8 mo. 17, 1728, and died 5 mo. 10, 

 1812. On their marriage they settled 

 on a tract of land in Blockley township, 

 Pliiladelphia, devised to him by his 

 father hiter, much of which is now with- 

 in the limits of the park. It adjoined 

 Belmont, the residence of Judge Peters, 

 and Lansdowne, the residence of Gov- 

 ernor John Penn, the last of the colon- 

 ial governors. Mahlon Hall relatecLjto 

 his granddaughter, Matilda Hestpn, that 

 during the revolutionary war a party of 

 British soldiers visited his home, and 

 the officer in command after some con- 

 versation with Mahlon Hall told him 

 that he was a native of Birmingham, 

 England, and on learning that the 

 father of Mahlon Hall was also a na- 

 tive of that place gave strict orders that 

 nothing about the place should be dis- 

 turbed by the soldiers. Mahlon Hall 

 died 7 mo. 26, 1818, and he and his wife 

 are buried at Merion JNIeeting. Their 

 children were as follows: i. John, born 

 at Blockley, 6 mo. 16, 1758, died there 



I mo 17, 1842, married, li mo. 21, 1783, 

 Anna Morris, daughter of Edward Mor- 

 ris, of Montgomery township, now 

 Montgomery county, Pennsylvania; she 

 died 6 mo. 17, 1845, aged ninety-one 

 years; they had children: Martha, wtio 

 married Nathan Dickinson, and was the 

 mother of Mahlon Hall Dickinson, late 

 president of the State Board of Chari- 

 ties, and an eminent Philadelphian ; 

 James, George, John, Morris, Hannah, 

 Sarah and Charles. 2. Mahlon, born 11 

 mo. 29, 1759, died 4 mo. 7, 1805; see for- 

 ward. _3^ Sarah, born 4 mo. 16, 1763, 

 died 8 mo. 18, 1856, married li mo. 18, 

 1784, Ed"ward Warner Heston, the foun- 

 der of Hestonville, now part of the city 

 of Philadelphia. She was his second 

 wife, he having previously married Mary 

 Griffith, by whom he had children; 

 Abraham, Isaac, Bathsheba, Mary, who 

 married Mahlon Hall; Jacob F. and 

 Thomas W. The children of the second 

 wife, Sarah Hall, were: Jane, who mar- 

 ried Joseph Worstall, of Newtown, 

 Bucks county, in 1808; Rachel, Anna, 

 Matilda, Isaac, Sarah, William Penn and 

 Louisa. 



Mahlon Hall, second son of Mahlon 

 and Jane (Higgs) Hall, was born in 

 Blockley township. Philadelphia county, 



II mo. 29, 1759. He married, 5 mo. 15, 

 1791, Mary Heston, born 3 mo. 26, I775> 

 died 12 . mo. 12, 1858, daughter of Ed- 

 ward Warner and Mary (Griffith) Hes- 

 ton, of Blockley, before mentioned. Ed- 

 ward Warner Heston was born in Bucks 

 county, and was a son of Jacob and 

 Mary (Warner) IJeston, of Makefield, 

 and a grandson of Zebulon and Doro- 

 thy Heston, early settlers in Wrights- 

 town, Bucks county. He inherited frona 

 his father the lands at what was named 

 Hestonville, in Blockley township, and 

 was the founder of the village. He was 

 an officer of the Seventh Battalion, 



Pennsylvania Militia, during the revolu-, 

 tion and saw active service and was- 

 subsequently one of the judges of the 

 court of common pleas of Philadelphia 

 county. His second wife was a sister 

 of Mahlon Hall, who married his daugh- 

 ter. On his marriage Mahlon HallS 

 erected a house on what is now Elm 

 avenue, West Philadelphia, close to Fair- 

 mount Park, where he died 4 mo. 7, 

 1805. He was an active business man of 

 Philadelphia. His widow married Will- 

 iam Sanders, and had one son, Jacob 

 Sanders, born 5 mo. 22. 1810. Mahlon 

 and Mary (Heston) Hall were the par- 

 ents of nine children: i. Edward H.,. 

 born at Hestonville, 4 mo. 30, 1792, died 

 in Columbiana county, Ohio, 4 mo. 10,- 

 1831, married at West Chester, Pennsyl- 

 vania, 2 mo. 5, 1816, Jane Paxson, daugh- 

 ter of Benjamin and Jane (Ely) Paxson,. 

 of Solebury, and removed to Ohio irt 

 1820. 2. Mahlon, born 3 mo. 11, I793, 

 died in Doylestown township, Bucks 

 county, II mo. 3, 1872; see forward. 3. 

 Thomas W., born 3 mo. 4, 1795, died in- 

 Cain township, Chester county, 4 mo. 

 7, 1896, aged over one hundred and one 

 years; he married Mary Heston, daugh- 

 ter of Abr^jim HesUyi, and had nine 

 children."^. Isaac, born 4 mo. 29, 1796, 

 died 4 mo. 21, 1810. 5. John, born 8 mo. 

 17, 1797, died 2 mo. 3, 1897, at West 

 Chester. He married, 10 mo. 23, 1862, 

 Sarah (Thatcher) Yarnall, a widow, 

 who survives him. He was a farmer at 

 Hestonville for many years and removed 

 to West Chester in 1872. 6. Jane, born 

 II mo. 24, 1798, died at West Chester, 

 10 mo. 4, 1876, unmarried. 7. William 

 H., born i mo. 21, 1801, died in West 

 Chester, 5 mo. 20, 1886, married Ann- 

 Paxson, but had no children. 8. Sarah, 

 born 12 mo. 28, 1802, died at West Ches- 

 ter, 2 mo. 3, 1900, married Edward Dick- 

 inson, leaving no issue. 9. Ann, born 

 3"mo. 29, 1804, died 12 mo. 23, 1813. This 

 family was very remarkable for longev- 

 ity, one of them having exceeded the 

 century mark, another came short of it 

 but six months, wdiile four others passed 

 four score years. 



Mahlon Hall, second son of Mahlon 

 and Mary (Heston) Hall, born at Hes- 

 tonville. Philadelphia, March 11, I793r 

 was the father of Mathias H. Hall and 

 the grandfather of William W. Hall,, 

 sketches of whom follow. He was a 

 blacksmith by trade, and came to Buck- 

 ingham, near Pineville, Bucks county,, 

 when a young man and followed his 

 trade there for some years, returning 

 later to Philadelphia where he was a 

 partner with his brother John in the 

 milk business. Subsequently he removed' 

 again to Bucks county, and in 1836 pur- 

 chased a farm of fifty acres in Dovles-, 

 town township, where his son, Isaac H. 

 Hall, still lives, and thereon died No-, 

 vember 3, 1872. He married (first) Han- 

 nah P. Hampton, of Buckingham, by 



