HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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into a Monthly Meeting, and later one of 

 its leading ministers. He died on his 

 Solebury plantation, I mo. 27, 1727, de- 

 vising it and the "Liberty Lot" at Fifth 

 and Spruce streets, Philadelphia, patent- 

 ed to him in 1705, in right of his father's 

 purchase of 250 acres, to his sons, Will- 

 iam, John and Robert. He was one of' 

 the commissioners appointed by the 

 Pennsylvania assembly in 1711 to lay out 

 the York road fr.om Reading's Ferry, 

 now Centre Bridge, to Philadelphia. The 

 children of John and Mary Scarbrough 

 were as follows: 



1. William, born 10 mo. 30, 1691; died 

 4 mo. 1727, married Mary; see forward. 



2. Sarah, born 2 mo. 4, 1694, died 3 

 mo. 4, 1748, married (first), 9 mo. 28, 

 1710/ George Haworth, and settled in 

 Upper Buckingham, where Mr. Haworth 

 died in 1730, and she married (second) 

 Mathew Hall, a native of Staffordshire, 

 by whom she had four children: David, 

 Mahlon, !\larger3' and Sarah. From 

 Mahlon, who married Jane Higgs in 

 1757. is descended a numerous family 

 of Hall in Bucks county. George and 

 Mary (Scarbrough) Haworth had five 

 children: Stephanus, George, Absalom, 

 James, and Mary, who married John 



Michener. George married Martha 



and died in Solebury without issue. The 

 other three boys moved to the Shen- 

 andoah valley, Virginia. 



3. iSIary Scarbrough, born 8 mo. 8, 

 1695, married 10 mo. 1712, Samuel Pick- 

 ering. An account of their descendants 

 is given elsewhere in this volume. 



4. Susannah Scarbrough, born 5 mo. 

 19. 1697, married in 1718, Richard 

 Brock, and died before her father, leav- 

 ing children: John, Elizabeth, Mary 

 and Susannah. 



5. Elizabeth Scarbrough, married 10 

 mo. 29, 1719. John Fisher. They located 

 on a farm adjoining the Haworths near 

 Carversville, where were born their ten 

 children: Robert; Sarah, married Mor- 

 decai Michener; John; Elizabeth, mar- 

 ried Thomas Stradling; Hannah, married 

 Paul Preston; Joseph, married Ann 

 Gary; Deborah, married Joseph Burgess; 

 Barbara; Samuel, married Margaret 

 Dawes; and Katharine, married William 

 Hartley. 



6. Hannah Scarbrough, born 8 mo. 

 31, 1704, died 2 mo. 21, 1743. married 

 Benjamin Fell. See Fell Family. 



7. John Scarbrough married Jane Mar- 

 gerum in 1731. but died childless. He re- 

 sided on the present farm of Wilson 

 Pearson in Solebury, and Avas a very 

 eminent minister among Friends from 

 the vear 1740 to his death. 5 mo. 5, 1769, 

 in his sixty-sixth year, traveling exten- 

 sively in .the ministry in New Jersey, 

 Virginia, and North Carolina. A sketch 

 of him is printed on page 274 of Cruik- 

 shank's ^Memorials. 



8. Robert, the youngest son of John 

 and Mary Scarbrough, inherited from 



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his father a farm of 157 acres in Sole- 

 bury, located opposite the present Sole- 

 bury Creamery, on which he resided un- 

 til 1737, when he sold it and removed 

 with his wife Elizabeth and two chil- 

 dren, John, born II mo. 28, 1734, and 

 Elizabeth born' 9 mo. 18, 1736, to the 

 Shenandoah valley in Virginia, taking a 

 certificate to Opeckon, now Hopewell 

 Monthly Meeting; at Winchester, Vir- 

 ginia. Another son James was born in 

 Virginia, and became prominent in the 

 affairs of that section. His son John was 

 an officer in different Virginia regiments 

 throughout the revolutionary war. 

 James and his children settled along the 

 headwaters of Indian creek, a branch of 

 the New river in Greenbrier county, 

 now Monroe county, West Virginia. 

 Som€ of his descendants still reside in 

 Fayette county. West Virginia, and spell 

 their names Scarbrough. 



John Scarbrough, eldest son of Rob* 

 ert, returned to Solebury in 1757, and on 

 5 mo. 5, 1760, took a certificate to 

 Wrightstown to- marry Margaret Kirk, 

 daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth 

 (Twining) Kirk, and soon after removed 

 with his wife to a tract of land owned 

 by her father in Springfield township, 

 where Margaret died, and her husband 

 and children returned to Wrightstown in 

 1779- John Scarbrough married (sec- 

 ond), 10 mo. II, 1779, Johanna Cahoon, 

 a widow. In 1791 he purchased of Cris- 

 pin Pearson 103 acres of the land orig- 

 inally taken up by his grandfather, John 

 Scarbrough, in 1700, in Solebury, and 

 is still owned and occupied by his great- 

 grandson, Isaac P. Scarborough. 



The children of John a;id Margaret 

 (Kirk) Scarbrough were as follows: I, 

 John, born 5 mo. 6, 1761, married Eliza- 

 beth Kelly, and settled in Cecil county, 

 Maryland; Robert, born 3 mo. 9, 1763, 

 married Ann Paxson; Rachel, born 5 

 mo. 8, 1765, married Ajax Osmond; 

 Joseph, born 2 mo. 15, 1767, married 

 Sarah Hartley, died 6 mo. 21, 1813; Is-' 

 aac, born 5 mo. 8, 1769, married Amy 

 Pearson; Elizabeth, born 11 mo. 30, 1772, 

 married Thomas Hartle}'; Charity, born 

 11 mo. 5, 1774, married Mahlon Hart- 

 ley, and settled at Quaker City, Guern- 

 sey county, Ohio. John Scarbrough 

 died in Solebury in 1813, all the above 

 named children surviving him. 



Isaac Scarbrough. fourth son of John 

 and Margaret (Kirk) Scarbrough, born 

 5 rro. 8. 1769, married 12 mo. 24, 1794, 

 Amy Pearson, daughter of Crispin and 

 Hannah (Willson) Pearson, who was 

 born in Solebur3', 10 mo. 10, 1769, and 

 died 10 mo. 8, 1835. In 1809 his father 

 conveyed to Isaac Scarbrough the Pear- 

 son farm purchased in 1791, where he 

 lived through the active j^ears of his 

 life. He subsequently lived with his 

 son Elijah W^ilson Scarborough near 

 Stony Hill school house, where he died 

 10 mo. 24, 1851, and is buried at Buck- 



