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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



ingham Friends burying ground. Though 

 he married "out of unity" he was sub 

 sequently forgiven this offense against 

 their discipline, and remained a meml)er 

 of Friends' Meeting through life. In 

 politics he was first a Federalist but 

 later a Whig. The children of Isaac 

 and Amy (Pearson) Scarbrough were: 

 Crispin, born lo mo. 31, 1/95; John, 

 born 2 mo. 13, 1797; William, born 4 mo. 

 22i< I799> married Martha K. Past; Asa, 

 born 9 mo. 12, 1800, died 11 mo. 24. 

 1800; Cynthia, born 11 mo. 17, 1801, 

 married Joseph Large; Isaac, born 7 mo. 

 I, 1804, married Mercy Pearson; Charles, 

 born 10 mo. 6, 1806, died 11 mo. 26, 1839. 

 He served under General Sam. Houston 

 in the war between Texas and Mexico, 

 was captured, and with eleven others 

 drew black beans which meant that he. 

 was to be shot. They escaped at night 

 and after being twelve days without 

 food reached friends. His daughter, Mrs 

 Dorothea Ann Burks, and her children 

 reside at Kerrville, Kerr county, Tex- 

 as. Amy, born 10 mo. 16, 1806, married 

 Watson' Smith; Pearson, born 4 mo. 7, 

 1813, married Hannah Worstall, died 2 

 mo. 7, 1874; and Elijah Wilson, born 

 10 mo. 7, 1817, married Sarah Adams. 

 Crispin, the eldest son, married Mary 

 Shaw, and they were the parents of Mrs. 

 Isaiah Quinby, of Lumberville, Penn- 

 sylvania. John, married Hannah Reed- 

 er, and their children were: Reeder, of 

 Wrightstown; Kirk, of Falls; Elizabeth, 

 wife of Dr. George W. Adams; Cynthia, 

 wife of Oliver H. Holcombe; Amy Ann, 

 wife of William Buckman; Alfred, and 

 Dr. John W. Scarborough, late of New 

 Hope. William Scarborough settled in 

 Buckingham adjoining the meeting 

 house where he died in 1875; one of his 

 daughters, Maria, married J. Watson 

 Case, and is still living with her son, 

 Edward G. Case, in Doylestown. 



Isaac Scarborough, fourth son o£ 

 Isaac and Amy (Pearson) Scar- 

 borough, born 7 mo. T, 1804, married 

 Mercy Wilkinson, daughter of Crispin 

 and Elizabeth (Wilkinson) Pearson, of 

 Solebury, who was born 7 mo. 3, 1810, 

 and died 10 mo. 16, 1884. In 1853 he 

 purchased the homestead farm and lived 

 thereon during the active years of his 

 life, retiring late in life to a lot adjoin- 

 ing the farm, at Canada Hill, where he 

 died 3 mo. 22, 1883. In politics he was 

 a Wiiig, and later a Republican, and 

 boasted 'that he never missed a presi- 

 dential election. Though neither he nor 

 his wife were members of Friends Meet- 

 ing, they always affiliated with the 

 Friends, and used the plain language. 

 The children of Isaac and Mercy 

 (Pearson) Scarborough were: Amy El- 

 len, who died young; Watson, born 4 mo. 

 24, 1839, fl'cd TO mo. 6, 1903; Elizabeth, 

 born 10 mo. 11, iSio, married Richard 

 C. Betts: Mercy Ellen, born 7 mo. 5, 

 1843, married Isaac C. Thomas, died 



8 mo. 27, 1886; Isaac Pearson, born 7 

 mo. 24, 1846, married Emma Hampton, 

 still living on the old homestead in 

 Solebury; and Margaret, who died in in- 

 fancy. 



Watson Scarborough, eldest son of 

 Isaac and Mercy (Pearson) Scar- 

 borough, married, i mo. i, 1868, Anna 

 M., daughter of Isaac and Elizabeth 

 (Wismer) Stover, of Carversville, Penn- 

 sylvania, and took up his residence on 

 one of his father's farms near Lumber- 

 ville, known as "The Whittier Farm" 

 « from the fact that the poet, John Green- 

 leaf Whittier, once spent a summer 

 there. In the fall of 1890 he retired to 

 Carversville, where he died 10 mo. 6, 

 1903. In politics he was a Republican. 

 His wife was a member of the Chris- 

 tian church at Carversville. Watson and 

 Anna (Stover) Scarborough were the 

 parents of one child, Henry Wismer 

 Scarborough. 



Henry W. Scarborough was born 

 in Solebury, 7 mo. 24, 1870. He received 

 his preliminary education at the Green 

 Hill school at Lumberville, entered the 

 West Chester Normal School, from 

 which he graduated in 1890. In 1894 he 

 received the degree of B. S. from Haver- 

 ford College, and in 1895 the degree of 

 M. A. In 1896 he graduated from the 

 law department of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the 

 bars of Bucks and Philadelphia counties. 

 He at once began the practice of his 

 profession in Philadelphia, with offices 

 at 522 Walnut street, and has met with 

 marked success, being one of the rising 

 young attorneys of the Philadelphia 

 bar. He also practices at the bar of his 

 native county. He is a professor of com- 

 mercial law and the law of real property 

 and conveyancing at the Temple Col- 

 lege. He married 7 mo. 20, 1904, Clara 

 Hagerty, daughter of ex-County Treas- 

 urer Jacob Hagerty, of Plumsteadville, 

 Bucks county, by his wife Mary (Lan- 

 dis) Hagerty. A son, Jacob Watson 

 Scarborough, was born in Germantown, 

 Philadelphia, 4 mo. 30, 1905. 



SCARBOROUGH FAMILY. William 

 Scarborough, eldest son of John and * 

 Mary Scarborough, and grandson of 

 John Scarborough, of St. Sepulchre par- 

 ish, London, England, was born in Mid- 

 dletown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 

 December 30, 1691, and removed with 

 his parents to Solebury township, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, when a lad of ten 

 years. He was a "turner" bj- trade, 

 which probably implied a cabinet maker 

 and all grades of local wood working, as 

 well as that of a wheelwright, which 

 latter trade he is known to have lol- 

 lowed. On arriving at manhood he mar-, 

 ried and settled on a tract of sixty acres 

 conveyed to him by his father in 1724, 



