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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



Abraham L.. l)orn ]\Iarch 28, 1824, died 

 February 17, 1902. He married Letitia 

 Collins and their children were: Edward, 

 who married- Klla Ingall; Clara, John, 

 who married Miss Worthington; Emma, 

 who became the wife of Charles Cope; 

 and Hugh, who is living in Doylestown. 

 3. Mary Ann, born February 26, 1826. 

 died September 12, 1903. 4. Benjamin 

 Franklin, born October 3, 1827, married 

 Emeline Johnson, and had two children, 

 Harry and J. Wesley. 5. Charles, born 

 July 18, 1829. married Emily Van Horn 

 and they have two children: George H. 

 and Anna Mary. 6. John Praul, born 

 January 15, 1831, died in the winter of 

 1882. His wife was Lydia Knipe and they 

 had the following children: Albert, de- 

 ceased, and who married Sarah Holland, 

 now deceased, and their children were: 

 Albertta and Lydia; Kate, deceased, who 

 was the wife of James McGrath: Charles, 

 who married Henrietta Russel, and 

 three children were born to them: 

 Charles R., Warner C, deceased; and 

 Norman, deceased; Annie, who married 

 Herbert Alrich. 7. Henry, born May 2, 

 1833, married Mary Elizabeth Mathews 

 and their children were: Alice, who mar- 

 ried William Sacket; Bertha, unmarried 

 and Harry, who married Marietta Car- 

 ter and their children are: Elizabeth, 

 John and Alice. Henry Thompson died 

 April IS, 1901. 8. Margaret, born May 

 6, 1837, is the wife of William H. La- 

 Rue and they have a daughter, Jennie. 

 9. Elizabeth, born August 16, 1840, is 

 the wife of Charles Bemis. John Thomp- 

 son and his cousin, Hugh Thompson, 

 son of Robert Thompson, were each 

 captains of the militia and went to escort 

 General Lafayette from Briston to 

 Philadelphia when he visited this coun- 

 try in 1824. John was captain of the 

 Wrightstown militia and Hugh of the 

 Northampton; each rode a white horse, 

 and the blue plume tipped with red worn 

 by John Thompson is still in the posses- 

 sion of his descendants. 



BUNTING FAMILY. The pioneer 

 ancestors of the Bunting family of 

 America were three sons and a grandson 

 of Anthony and Ellen Bunting, of Mat- 

 lock, Derbyshire, England, the former of 

 whom was born in Derbj'shire, A. D. 

 1600, and died at Matlock, January 4, 

 1700, at the age of one hundred years, 

 his wife following him to the grave on 

 September i, 1700. They were the par- 

 ents of six children, four sons and two 

 daughters. The daughters married and 

 settled in Nottinghamshire. The sons 

 were: John, born 1655, came to New 

 Jersey in 1678, and married there in 

 1679, Sarah Foulke, and reared a large 

 family of children, some of whom 

 later settled in Delaware; William, 

 married May 6, 1683, Mary Stevenson, 

 and had five children, the youngest of 



whom, Samuel, born November 9, 1692, 

 came to Pennsylvania in 1722, married 

 Sarah Fearne, and is the ancestor of the 

 Darby Buntings; Samuel, came to New 

 Jersey and married, November 18, 1684, 

 Mary Foulke, and is the ancestor of the 

 New Jersey family of the name. 



Job Bunting, see forward, youngest 

 son of Anthony and Ellen, born in Mat- 

 lock, Derbyshire, also came to Cross- 

 wicks, New Jersey, and married there 

 Sarah Perkins, in 1685. She and her in- 

 fant daughter died in 1687, and Job 

 married at Falls Meeting, Bucks county, 

 June 27, 1689, Rachel Baker, daughter 

 of Henry and Margaret (Hardman) Ba- 

 ker, who was born in Hindley, West 

 Darbye, Lancashire, April 23, 1669, and 

 came to Bucks county with her parents 

 in 1684. Her father, Henry Baker, was a 

 prominent Friend in Lancashire, and 

 suffered persecution there for his princi- 

 ples. After coming to Bucks county he 

 became one of the most prominent men 

 in the colony, and served as provincial 

 councillor and member of assembly for 

 several years, as well as filling many 

 other high official positions in the county 

 and province. He married a second time, 

 in 1692, Mary Radcliffe, widow of James, 

 and had ten children, nine by the first 

 marriage and one by the second. His 

 son Samuel, also a prominent man in 

 Bucks county, was the ancestor of 

 Johns Hopkins, founder of the Univer- 

 sity that bears his name. Job Bunting 

 on his second marriage, located in Bucks 

 county, on land conveyed to him by his 

 father-in-law, and later purchased con- 

 siderable other land in Bucks and Ches- 

 ter counties. He died in 1703, when com- 

 paratively a young man, and his widow 

 married John Cowgill. The children of 

 Job and Rachel (Baker) Bimting were: 

 Rebecca, born March i, 1691, inarried 

 December 16, 1709, Joseph Wildman, 

 born March 23, 1683, son of Martin and 

 Ann Wildman, who came from England 

 and settled in Middeltown in 1682. Of 

 the four daughters of Joseph and Re- 

 becca only Rebecca, born January 9, 

 1715, survived infancy. 2. Samuel, born 

 October 4, 1692, see forward. 3. Sarah, 

 born 1694, died 1699; 4. Job, born March 

 26. 1696. 5. Rachel, born March 4, 1698. 



Samuel Bunting, eldest son of Job 

 and Rachel, settled in Falls township, 

 and was a member of Falls Meeting. He 

 died December, 1759. He married Pri- 

 cilla Burgess, and they were the par- 

 ents of thirteen children, viz: Rachel, 

 born August 25, 1717; Samuel, born 

 August 3, 1718, married Hannah Stock- 

 dale; John, born September 26, 1720; 

 Priscilla, born July 22, 1722. married, 

 1747, Thomas Buckman: Sarah , born 

 May II, 1724; Phebe, born March 2, 

 1726; Joseph, born May 4, 1728. married 

 1753, Sarah Bidgood; Rebecca, born 

 April 2, 1730, married. 1754. David Head- 

 ley; Daniel, born February i, 1733-4. 



