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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



paternal side the Swartzlanders are de- 

 scended from Philip Schwartzlander, 

 who came from Steinhardt, in Schwarz- 

 wald, arriving in Philadelphia on No- 

 vember 8, 1752, in the ship "Snow 

 Lonisa," Captain John Pitcairn, from 

 Rotterdam. The voyage had been a long 

 and perilous one, and many of the pas- 

 sengers had died on the way. Among 

 these was the wife of Philip Schwartz- 

 lander, leaving on his hands two chil- 

 dren, Gabriel, aged seven 3^ears, and Bar- 

 bara, aged five. Soon after his arrival 

 in Pennsylvania, Philip Schwartzlander 

 found a home in New Britain township, 

 Bucks county, where he married Mar- 

 garet Angel, by whom he had two chil- 

 dren, Conrad and Philip, descendants of 

 whom still reside in that locality. 

 Philip Schwartzlander, Sr., died in 1784, 

 and is buried in the New Britain church- 

 yard. 



Gabriel Schwartzlander, born in Stein- 

 hardt, March 31. 1747. spent his boy- 

 hood days in New Britain township, 

 where he learned the trade' of a miller. 

 At the age of twenty-seven years he 

 married Salome, the widow of Abraham 

 Freed, and daughter of Jacob and Anna 

 (Leisse-Miller) Stout, an account of 

 whose ancestr^^ is given on another page 

 X oi this volume. Abraham Freed, the 

 first husband of Salome Stout, had pur- 

 <:hased of his father-in-law the Pine Run 

 mill property, one mile north of Doyles- 

 town, and also owned about two hun- 

 dred acres of land adjoining the mill 

 and extending over into Plumstead 

 township. He died in 1773. leaving three 

 infant daughters, and a j-ear later the 

 widow married Gabriel Schwartzlander. 

 By proceedings in the orphans' court the 

 mill and about fift}^ acres of land were 

 sold for the pajmient of debts, and were 

 purchased by Gabriel Schwartzlander. 

 The remaining 150 acres of Freed de- 

 scended to his two surviving daughters, 

 one of whom married John Kratz, whose 

 descendants still own and reside on a 

 portion of the land on the Plumstead 

 side of the line. John Kratz later found 

 a second wife in a daughter of Gabriel 

 and Salome Schwartzlander. and half- 

 sister to his first wnfe. Jacob Stout 

 owned considerable other land adjoining 

 the mill on the west, which on his death 

 in 1779 descended to his daughter Sa- 

 lome, and was latej transferred to her 

 husband. Gabriel Schwartzlander. He 

 operated the mill until his death July 

 17. 1814. The children of Gabriel and 

 Salome Swartzlander were: John, Mag- 

 dalen, Jacob, Margaret, Catharine, Abra- 

 ham, Joseph, Philip, and David. Of 

 these. Abraham and Philip died j^oimg. 

 A number of the descendants of Joseph 

 and the daughters still reside in the 

 neighborhood of Pine Run. At the 

 death of Gabriel Swartzlander in 1814, 

 liis extensive real estate holdings were 

 partitioned among his children by pro- 



ceedings in the orphans' court, the mill 

 property falling to Joseph, who owned 

 and operated it until his death, the title 

 remaining in the famil}^ for nearly a 

 centurj-. 



Jacob* Swartzlander, the grandfather^ 

 of Dr. Swartzlander, was 'the second son -^ 

 of Gabriel and Salome, and was born at 

 the old Swartzlander mill property in 

 New Britain, now Doylestown township. 

 He learned the trade and assisted in 

 operating the mill until 1808, when he 

 removed to Southampton township, 

 where he purchased a mill property 

 which he operated until his death in 

 1845. He was twice married; by his first 

 wife, Elizabeth Cope, of Hilltown. he 

 had four children: Abraham. Gabriel, 

 Joseph and Salome. He married (sec- ■ 

 ond) Elizabeth Moode, of Southampton, 

 by whom he had four daughters: Emily, 

 Clara, Wilhelmina and Harriet. His 

 widow survived him man}^ years. Abra- 

 ham, the eldest son, was also a miller and 

 operated and owned a mill in Middle- 

 town. He was killed in May, 1839, by the 

 falling of a wall of a barn which work- 

 men, under his direction, were tearing 

 down. He left a widow Rebecca, and 

 three daughters, Elizabeth, Jane and 

 Sarah. ^ 



Joseph Swartzlander, the father of the 

 subject of this sketch, was born in 

 Southampton township, Bucks county, 

 January T. 1812, and ended an eventful 

 and useful career at Yardley. Bucks 

 county, in May, 1903. He obtained the 

 rudiments of an education at the public 

 schools of his native township, and later 

 attended the academy of Rev. Samuel 

 Aaron, at Burlington, New Jersey. He 

 learned the milling trade with his father 

 at the Rocksville mill. In 1834 'he started 

 on a memorable trip through what was 

 then our western states. Traveling by 

 stage coach, canal boat and on foot, he 

 reached Zanesville, Ohio, \vhere he was 

 stricken with smallpox. A stranger in a 

 strange land, and having a contagious 

 disease, he was fortunate in securing the 

 services of an aged negress who had 

 known the family in Bucks county. She 

 nursed him back to health in her hut in 

 the woods, and received for compensa- 

 tion his gold watch, which w^as returned 

 to him several years later. On his re- 

 covery he continued his journey, taking 

 passage on a flatboat down the Ohio- and 

 ^Mississippi to New Orleans. After a 

 brief stay in this cosmopolitan south- 

 ern city he returned by steamer to St. 

 Louis, from which point he and a corn- 

 panion tramped overland to Detroit, 

 Michigan, a distance of five hundred and 

 sixty-four miles. Crossing the swamps 

 and lagoons where Chicago now stands, 

 they stopped at Fort Dearborn, the nu- 

 cleus of the now famous "Windy City," 

 and proceeded on their way to Detroit. 

 From Detroit the travellers went to 

 Buffalo, thence down the F.ric canal to 



