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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



legislature for tlie term of 1876-8. He 

 was a man of good business ability and 

 kindly disposition, and was widely and 

 favorably known. He was a member of 

 Lenni Lenape Lodge of Masons of Lam- 

 bertville, New Jersey, and had taken 

 most of the official degrees, and one of 

 the oldest Odd P'ellows in' the state at 

 his death. He was rectors warden in 

 St. Andrews Episcopal church of Lam- 

 bertville. New Jersey. He died in New 

 Hope. March 12, 1888. His wife was 

 Ann Jones, daughter of Joab and Eliza- 

 beth (Fisher) Jones, the former a coop- 

 er in Solebury township, and descend- 

 ant of an old Bucks county family, and 

 the latter a native of New Jersey. Ann 

 Scarborough died in New Hope, April 

 5, 1904. at the age of eighty years. The 

 children of Hiram and Ann (Jones) 

 Scarborough are: Rutledge T., residing 

 in Lambcrtville, New Jersey; Isaac; 

 Catharine, wife of Robert J. Morris, of 

 New York; Fletcher D., of Trenton, 

 New Jersey. 



Isaac Scarborough, of New Hope, is 

 the second son of Hiram and Ann 

 (Jones) Scarborough, and was born in 

 New Hope. May 19, 1848, and acquired 

 his education at the common schools 

 there and at Trenton Business College. 

 Almost from boyhood he has had charge 

 of one of the fisheries formerly owned 

 and operated by his father, and is still 

 engaged in the fishery business. In 

 politics he is a Democrat, and has al- 

 ways taken an active part in local and 

 countj' politics, filling many local offices 

 and serving as delegate to district, 

 county and state conventions. He is 

 now serving his second term of five 

 V years as justice of the peace. He is a 

 member of Castle No. 136. Knights of 

 the Golden Eagle. Mr. Scarborough 

 married in 1871. Mary O'Brien of Lam- 

 bertville, and they have been the parents 

 of seven children, five of whom survive; 

 Frank, of Lambertville, New Jersey; 

 Hiram, of Philadelphia; Anna, at home; 

 Andrew, telegraph operator for the P. 

 & R. R. R. at New Hope; and Albert, 

 a farmer in Solebury. 



Mrs. Robert James Morris, of New 

 Hope, Bucks county, formerly Miss 

 Catharine Scarborough, is the only 

 daughter, of Hon. Hiram and Ann 

 (Jones) Scarborough, an account of 

 whose ancestry and life is briefl}^ sketch- 

 ed in the preceding pages. She was 

 born and reared in New Hope. In 1875 

 she married Albert Wills Taylor, an 

 eminent journalist, who for several 

 years prior to his death, held a respon- 

 sible position on the staff of the Phila- 

 delphia Times. He died March 4. 1894. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Taylor were the parents 

 of two children; H. Ross Taylor, re- 

 siding \\\i\\ his mother in New Hoi)e: 

 and Albert Wills Taylor. Jr., who was 

 a member of Battery O. First I'. S. 

 Artillery, in the Spanish-AmericJ\n war. 



Mrs. Taylor married (second) Novem- 

 ber 17, 1898, Robert James Morris, also 

 a journalist by profession, who is em- 

 ployed in Philadelphia. 



THE LARUE FAMILY. The LaRue 

 family is of French origin, the name 

 being originally Le Roy, and the imme- 

 diate ancestors of the members of the 

 family who came to New York province 

 about 1680 were probably among the 

 millions of French Huguenots who fled 

 from their mother country about 1666- 

 and took refuge in Switzerland and the 

 Palatinate, many also migrating direct 

 to America and England. About 1680 

 Franz, Jacques, and Abraham Le Roy, 

 probably all, and at least the last two 

 brothers came from Manheim "In the 

 Palz" an.d located in the Province of 

 New York; Franz at or near the present 

 site of Albany, New York, where there 

 was a considerable colony of Huguenots 

 under the leadership of Lois Du Bois, 

 otherwise "Louis the Walloon." who had 

 himself fled from France to Manheim in 

 1658 and from there to America in 1660; 

 Jacques, on the Hackensack, in Bergen, 

 later Essex county, New Jersey; and 

 Abraham, on Staten Island. 



Franz Le Roy married Celia Janse 

 Damen, and his sons, Jonas and George 

 went with the Ferrees to the Conestoga 

 valley, and later located in York and 

 Lebanon counties. He was also prob- 

 ably the father of Abraham LaRue, who 

 settled near Mififlinburg, in 1754. though 

 tradition makes him a brother of Jean 

 Jacques Le Roy, who was killed by the 

 Indians in 1755, and his daughter Bar- 

 bara carried into captivity as related by 

 her and made part of the state archives. 

 This Jean Jacques Le Roy came direct 

 from Switzerland to America in 1750. 

 Some of the descendants of Franz Le 

 Roy Germanized the name into "Koe- 

 nig" and later Anglicized it to "King." 

 Bergen in his "Early Settlers of Kings 

 County" makes the curious mistake of 

 supposing that Franz Le Roy's wife 

 Celia Janse Damen was twice married, 

 first to Franz Koenig and later to Franz 

 Le Roy. because his name is given in 

 the two forms on the Dutch records of 

 baptisms of his children. 



The marriage of Jacques Le Ro3\ at 

 Bergen Dutch Reformed church, Janu- 

 ary 2. t68i. to Wybregh Hendricks, 

 states that he was "of Manheim in the 

 Palz," as does also that of his sister 

 Susanna to Thones Hendricks, May 20, 

 1683, at the same church. This might 

 niean that he was born at Manheim, or 

 that he had recently arrived from there; 

 the common practice with the Dutch 

 being to give the place of birth, .\bout 

 the time of his marriage, with other 

 Huguenots, he helped to organize a 

 "French Church" at Bergen, but later 

 affiliated with the Dutch church where 



