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married, 1754. Marry Bartliolomew; 

 David, born February 15, 1735-6, mar- 

 ried, 1757, Martha Hough; Timothy, 

 born July 4, 1736, married Elizabeth 

 Headley; Isaac, born January 28, 1738; 

 Benjamin, born September 7, 1740. 



John Bunting, second son of Samuel 

 and Priscilla, born September 28, 1720, 

 married, January 16, 1745, Christiana 

 Headley, born May 3, 1723, daughter of 

 Joseph and Hannah (Palmer) Headley, 

 of Middletown, and granddaughter of 

 John and Christiana Palmer, the pioneer 

 ancestors of that family in Bucks coun- 

 ty. The children of John and Christiana 

 (Headley) Bunting were: Joshua, born 

 March 16, 1746. married Mary Brown; 

 Samuel, born September 18, 1748, mar- 

 ried, May II, 1775, Ann Moon; Hannah; 

 Joseph, see forward; John, born 1755; 

 Sarah; Lydia, and Asa. 



Joseph Bunting, son of John and 

 Christiana, married November 27, 1783, 

 Phebe Moon, daughter of William and 

 Elizabeth Moon, of Falls, and a descend- 

 ant of one of the oldest families in 

 Bucks county, and later located in Low- 

 er Dublin township. Philadelphia coun- 

 ty, where they resided until 1808, when 

 he purchased a farm in Bristol town- 

 ship, between Nawportville and Bris- 

 tol, where he resided until his death in 

 April, 1830. He joined the Associated 

 Company of Falls township in 1775, un- 

 der Captain Thomas Harvey, of which 

 his uncle, Daniel Bunting, was ensign, 

 and was disowned by Falls Meeting the 

 same year. The children of Joseph and 

 Phoebe (Moon) Bunting were: William, 

 born June 17, 1784; Ann, born August 6, 

 1785, died February 27, 1786; Solomon, 

 born August 9, 1786, see forward; 

 James, born January 11, 1788: Joshua, 

 born December 17, 1788, married Eliza- 

 beth Wright; Christiana, born Decem- 

 ber 2, 1789, married Walter W. Bald- 

 win; John, born May 12, 1792, never 

 married; Timothy, born June 9, 1793. 

 died young; Samuel, born July 4, i795- 

 died young; Charles, born October i, 

 1796, married Isabella Hood; Phoebe, 

 born December 23, 1797, died young; 

 Lydia, born January 20, 1799. married 

 Joshua Wright; David, born January 20, 

 1802, died August 11, 1802. Joshua, the 

 fourth son. married Elizabeth Wright, 

 daughter of James and Rebecca (Pat- 

 terson) Wright. January 13, 1820. and 

 they were the parents of the following 

 children: James W. 2^, born October 30, 

 1831, married Sarah Swart; Joseph, born 

 October 26. 1823, married Beersheba 

 Rue; Joshua E.. born October 16, 1825, 

 married Lucy Smith; John, born March 

 3. 1827, married Matilda Boate; Lydia, 

 who married Joshua Wright, son of 

 James and Rebecca, and has Phoebe 

 .A.nn, James H. and Elizabeth; residence, 

 Bristol. Pennsylvania. 



Solomon, second son of Joseph and 

 Phoebe (Moon) Bunting, born August 



9, 1786, lived for several years on the 

 old homestead in Bristol township, was 

 later a farmer at Andalusia, and finally 

 removed to Philadelphia, where he died. 

 He married, January 17, 181 1, Ruth 

 Mathias. Solomon and Ruth (Math- 

 ias) Bunting were the parents of eight 

 children: Eliza, born 1812, married 

 Aaron MacDonald, a car builder, of 

 Philadelphia, and died at St. Joseph, 

 Missouri; Lydia. born 1814, married 

 (first) Samuel Osier, a merchant of Phil- 

 adelphia, and (second) Jacob Rambo, a 

 cooper of the same city; Catharine 

 Moon, born in 1816, married Nicholas 

 La Rue, see LaRue family in this vol- 

 ume; Mary, born 1818, married Thomas 

 I. Meyers, a saddler of Philadelphia, 

 and died in that city; Spencer, born 1820, 

 married Susan Noble, and was a car- 

 penter in Philadelphia; Joseph, born in 

 1S22, married Malvina Kessler; John, 

 born 1824, died young; Solomon, born 

 1829, married Annie Steele, and was a 

 saddler in Philadelphia for some years, 

 removing later to the south, where he 

 died. Solomon, the father is buried at 

 the Hanover street cemetery, Phila- 

 delphia. 



Joseph Bunting, second son of Solo- 

 mon and Ruth (Mathias) Bunting, born 

 on the old homestead in Bristol town- 

 ship, was a farmer and lived for a time 

 on the old homestead, and later farmed 

 near Bridgewater, Bensalem township, 

 where he died in November, 1891. He 

 married Malvina Kessler, and they were 

 the parents of seveii children: Edwin 

 M., see forward; Elwood, a farmer in 

 Bensalem township; Anna, wife of Jo- 

 seph Preston, who died in Philadelphia 

 twenty years ago; Ruthanna. wife of Ed- 

 ward T. Jenks, a prominent resident of 

 Bensalem; Eliza, wife of Johnson Min- 

 ster, of Bensalem; Catharine, wife of 

 Theodore Lippincott, of Bensalem; and 

 John S., a farmer in Bristol township, a 

 sketch of whom appears in this volume. 



The Buntings have been members of 

 the Society of Friends, almost since 

 George Fox began his ministry, but 

 some of the family early drifted out of 

 membership through marriage to non- 

 members, though retaining their asso- 

 ciations with the Society, whose meet- 

 ing they attended. The branch of the 

 family above noted lost their member- 

 ship in the Society, through the patriot- 

 ism of their ancestor, Joseph Bunting, 

 Jr., son of John and Christiana, who vio- 

 lated the rules and principles of the sect 

 by joining the Associated Company of 

 Falls township, in 1775. "nder Captam 

 Thomas Harvey, for the defense of tlie 

 rights of his country. His uncle, Daniel 

 Bunting, was ensign of the company. 



Edwin M. Bunting, eldest son of Jo- 

 seph and Malvina (Kessler) Bunting, 

 born August 25, 1847, was reared in Ben- 

 salem township and educated in the pub- 

 lic schools of that township. He fol- 



