HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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his six children were baptised. He died 

 in 1730, leaving ten children, all of whom 

 seem to have remained in Bergen and 

 Essex counties, New Jersey, and in New 

 York. 



Abraham La Roe, as both he and his 

 brother Jacques came later to spell their 

 name, located on Staten Island where he 

 was still residing when he made his will 

 in 1702, though prior to 1712, when it 

 is first offered for probate, he had re- 

 moved to the neighborhood of Hopewell, 

 then Burlington county, later Hunter- 

 don, and now Mercer county, New Jer- 

 sey. His will mentions his children, but 

 not by name. From contemporary rec- 

 ords we learn that his sons were: Peter, 

 Abraham, Daniel, David and Isaac. The 

 witnesses to the will, William Tillyer, 

 Francis L'Roe, Louis DuBois, and Will- 

 iam Grassett, being all either deceased 

 or removed to such distance that their 

 testimony could not be obtained, his 

 will failed of probate and letters of ad- 

 ministration were granted on June 14, 

 1712, to his widow Olshe (Alice) who 

 had been named as executrix and al- 

 most sole legatee in the will. Olshe, 

 Alshe, or Aiken, the wife of Abraham 

 La Roe, was prior to her marriage to 

 him the widow of Joshua Cresson, 

 youngest son of Pierre Cresson, a na- 

 tive of France, who had come to Amer- 

 ica from Holland, where he had mar- 

 ried a Dutch Woman, and located on 

 Long Island. Joshua Cresson was bap- 

 tised in 1658, and died prior to 1690, 

 which later date is approximately that of 

 the marriage of his widow to Abraham 

 La Roe. The names of Peter, Abraham, 

 Isaac and David La Rue appear on the 

 tax lists of Hopewell township, in 

 1722, and the first and last were 

 contributors to a fund to purchase a 

 plantation as a home for the pastor of 

 Hopewell Presbyterian church in I7,3i- 

 Abraham died in Hopewell "in the cor- 

 poration of Trenton" leaving a will dat- 

 ed February 26, 1747, and proved Feb- 

 ruary 15, 1749. It mentions his wife 

 Harmekie, and children; Abraham. Is- 

 aac, Susannah, wife of Cornelius Slack; 

 Altie, Catren (Catharine); another 

 daughter, without giving her name, and 

 Jacob. It devises his plantation in Hope- 

 well to his sons. Abraham and Isaac, 

 jointly at the death or marriage of his 

 wife. Isaac was yet a minor. These 

 sons. Abraham. Isaac and Jacob, are 

 doubtless the three brothers referred 

 to by Stapleton in his "Memorial of 

 Huguenots," page 136, as the ancestors 

 of the southern family of the name of 

 La Rue; the first and last of whom he 

 states were "pioneers in Kentucky, 

 where LaRue county commemorates 

 their name." If this be true, however, 

 the date of their removal was consider- 

 ably later than there given, as Isaac 

 was still a minor and all were residents 

 of Hunterdon county at the death of 



their father in 1747. "Isaac," he states, 

 "born in Hunterdon county, New Jer- 

 sey, in 1712, removed in 1743 to the 

 Shenandoah valley and established the 

 Virginia family of the name." David La- 

 Rue died intestate in Hopewell town- 

 ship, and letters of administration were 

 granted on his estate to Abraham La- 

 Rue, February 18, 1732; nothing is 

 known of his descendants. The remain- 

 ing three brothers; Peter, Daniel, and 

 Isaac LaRue, all settled, at least for a 

 time, in Bucks county. "Peter La Row," 

 of Hopewell in the western division of 

 New Jersey Yeoman, on December 11, 

 1738, purchased of Abel Janney 288 acres 

 in Makefield, and settled thereon, later 

 purchasing 216 acres adjoining. On May 

 16, 1749, he conveyed 258 acres, part of 

 both tracts, to Nicholas Larzelere. the 

 ancestor of the Bucks county family of 

 that name, who at that date removed 

 from Staten Island to Bucks county. 

 No further record appears in Bucks 

 county of Peter LaRue. Isaac LaRue 

 evidently located in Bucks county at 

 about the same date as his brother Peter. 

 On October 6, 1743, he married, at Ab- 

 ington Presbyterian church, Rebeckah 

 Vansant. daughter of Jacobus Vansant, 

 of Middletown. (See Vansant Family). 

 He purchased land in Bensalem in 174S, 

 and died there about 1760, leaving chil- 

 dren: Rebecca, who married James Van 

 Arsdalen; Abraham, Isaac and David, 

 all of whom left descendants. 



Daniel LaRue, with whose descend- 

 ants this narrative is chiefly interested, 

 was without doubt a son of Abraham 

 and Alshe (Alice) Cresson LaRoe, or 

 Le Roy. of Staten Island, later of Hope- 

 well, New Jersey. He was born on 

 Staten Island in the year 1697, and was 

 reared at Hopewell, where, as before 

 stated he contributed to the support of 

 Hopewell Presbyterian church in 1722. 

 On June 15, 1751, the executors of Mark 

 Watson, convey to "Daniel La Roe. of 

 Hunterdon county. Province of West 

 Jersey." 300 acres in Fall.s township, 

 Bucks county. Pennsylvania, and on 

 January 26, 1763. John Plumley conveys 

 to "Daniel La Roc. of Falls township, 

 Bucks county" 200 acres in Middletown 

 township. He died in Middletown town- 

 ship. February i. I79S. at the age of 

 ninety-eight years, and is buried in the 

 old Presbyterian burying ground in 

 Bensalem. ' His wife was Ann Praul. 

 who died October 23, 1776, at the age of 

 sixty-two years, and is buried in the 

 same cemetery. The will of "Daniel 

 Larrew, the elder, of IMiddletown town- 

 ship, dated March 19, 1786, and proven 

 February 16. 1795. devised to son Abra- 

 ham, five pds. "he already having had his 

 share" Son Daniel the plantation where 

 the testator then lived. 200 acres "bought 

 of John Plumlev;" Son Moses the north- 

 easterly part of the plantation in Falls. 

 212 acres; Son Peter and Daughter Mary 



