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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



Stillwcll the l);ilance of the Falls plan- 

 tation; Daiighter-in-law Apama. widow 

 of son David. 200 pounds if she have, 

 issue. The children of Daniel and Ann 

 (Praul) LaRue were: I. Peter LaRue, 

 eldest son of Daniel and Ann, was born 

 in 1732, and died August 3, 1797, is bur- 

 ied at the Larzelere burying ground 

 near Hulmeville, now Beechwood ceme- 

 tery. He lived and died on the home- 

 stead in Falls township, was probably 

 never married, at least had no children. 

 II. Abraham, born 1734, died March 26, 

 1790. married Alice, daughter of Folek- 

 ert Vandegrift, born April, 1731, died 

 died September 24, 1801. They had chil- 

 dren: Abraham; Anna, baptized at 

 Southampton church in 1757, married 

 John Larzelere; Elizabeth, married Gar- 

 ret Vansant; and Eleanor, married Jo- 

 seph Sackett. III. Mary LaRue, mar- 

 ried, April 25. 1769, Captain Richard 

 Stillwell, Qf the revolution, and had son 

 Daniel. IV. Daniel LaRue, born 1737, 

 died February 27, 1819, married. May 

 21, 1763, Elizabeth Sutton, daughter of 

 Daniel Sutton, of Burlington county. 

 New Jersey, no issue. V. Moses La 

 Rue, born 1744. died February 28, 179S, 

 less than a month after the death of his 

 father. He lived on a part of his father's 

 plantation in Falls long before the de- 

 cease of his father; probably from the 

 date of his marriage, October 19, 1769, 

 to Catharine Larzelere, daughter of 

 Nicholas, before referred to as coming 

 from Staten Island to Makefield. They 

 were the parents of six sons : Jesse. Dan- 

 iel, John, Moses. Nicholas and Aaron. 

 See forward. VI. David LaRue. died 

 late in 1785 or early in 1786 as his un- 

 born child is referred to in the will of his 

 father, March 19, 1786. He was a private 

 in the company of his brother-in-law, 

 Captain Richard Stillwell, Bucks county 

 militia, in 1781. His widow Apama, 

 married a Parsons. He had one child, 

 Rebecca, born after his death. 



Of the children of Moses and Cath- 

 arine (Larzelere) LaRue. Elizabeth, the 

 only daughter, married a Mr. Carlile. 

 Jesse, the eldest son, lived on the home- 

 stead in Falls, where he died in 1814, 

 leaving a widow Barbara, and eight chil- 

 dren: Catharine, wife of John W. Van- 

 degrift; Elizabeth, wife of Jonas Cox; 

 Samuel; Marv Ann, wife of William Do- 

 ble; Sarah Vandegrift; Julianna; Jesse 

 and Martha. Daniel, the second son, was 

 born September 9, 1774, and died April 

 29, 1853. He was a carpenter, and a 

 considerable land owner in Falls town- 

 ship. He married, February 8. 1798, 

 Elizabeth Vandegrift, born October 16, 

 1777, died June 30, 1871, in her ninety- 

 fourth year. Thev were the parents of 

 eleven children. William, who married 

 Sarah Palmer and is still livin.g; John, 

 who married Rebecca Burton and died 

 at the age of ninetv years; Sarah, who 

 marrfe-d William Biles; .A^nn Eliza, died 



December 9, 1867, at the age of sixty- 

 four years; Mary, who married Jonathan 

 Burton and died at the age of eighty- 

 eight years; Moses, wdio married Eliza- 

 beth Russell and is living in Philadel- 

 phia at the age of ninety-seven years; 

 Harriet, died at the age of nineteen 

 years; Caroline, who married Abraham 

 English, of Trenton, New Jersey; Eliza- 

 beth, who married Jesse Hellings and is 

 living at the age of eighty-eight years. 

 Susan, wlio married Tuni':; Hellings, 

 brother of Jesse, and is liv- 

 ing a-t the age of eighty-six 

 years; and Catharine, who married 

 Abraham Howell and is living at the age 

 of eighty-five years. John, third son of 

 Moses and Catharine LaRue, was a 

 stone mason and lived in Byberry. He 

 had children: Daniel, Marmaduke, Mary, 

 wife of Joseph Knight, Ezra, Carey, 

 Moses and Ann. Moses, the fourth son, 

 mentioned hereinafter; Aaron, the fifth 

 son, resided at Yardleville; he was 

 county treasurer of Bucks county in 

 1827. Nicholas, the yongest son, mar- 

 ried Elizabeth Kinsey, and also resided' 

 at Yardley; they had children: John 

 Kinsey, and Mary. 



Moses La Rue, fourth son and fifth 

 child of Moses and Catharine (Larzel- 

 ere) LaRue, was born in Falls town- 

 ship, Bucks county, November it, 1779, 

 and -died at Newportville, Bristol town- 

 ship, August 7, i860. He learned the 

 trade of a coach maker early in life, 

 and carried on an extensive business in 

 carriage building at Newportville for 

 many years. He was a prominent man 

 in the community, serving for many 

 years as a justice of the peace and filling 

 the office of county treasurer in 1838.. 

 He married Rachel Johnson, born June 

 6, 1785, died July 19, 1852. and they 

 were the parents of ten children as fol- 

 lows: I. Mary, born August 28, 1803, 

 married Lewis Reeder and removed to- 

 Muncy, Pennsylvania. She died at 

 Bridesburg, Pennsylvania, July 5, 1879. 

 Children: Kate, Annie and Sarah. 2. 

 Catharine, born August ^. 1805, married' 

 1864, John Wright, of Tullytown, died 

 August 31, 1883. No children. 3. Nicho- 

 las, born October 14. 1807, died Philadel- 

 phia, August 9, 1849, married Catharine 

 M. Bunting, see forward. 4. Daniel, born 

 August 25, 1809. 5. Peter Johnson,, born- 

 January, 1812. died young. 6. George» 

 born September 15. 1813. died March 8, 

 1890, succeeded his father as carriage 

 maker at Newportville, but later re- 

 moved to Bristol where he died. He 

 married first Christianna Headly, ont 

 child. John H., of Bristol township. 

 Married second, Sarah A. White, one 

 child, Mnr}' Elizabeth, who marrie*d Dr. 

 James Osman. 7. Sarah, born Febru- 

 ary 14. i8t6. died February to. 1896,. 

 married J. Hibbs Goforth, of Hulme- 

 ville. One child, Catharine, single. 8. 

 Rachel Ann. born April 22, 1S19, died 



