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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



abandoned in 1S93, being burned oul in 

 February. 



George C. Worstall lias been one nf 

 the pioneers in practically every puK- 

 lie improvement and corporate enter- 

 prise in and about Newtown since his 

 arrival at manhood. Edward H. Wor- 

 stall & Sons owned a twentieth interest 

 in the Newtown and Philadelphia Rail- 

 road, and were among the most active 

 promoters of that enterprise. George 

 C. was chairman of the meeting that or- 

 ganized the Newtown Artesian Water 

 Company in 1888, that now supplies the 

 town with water, and has been its presi- 

 dent from its organization to the present 

 time. He was one of the organizers 

 and an officer of the Newtown Building 

 Association in 1867. and is a director in 

 the present Association, organized m 

 1887. He was one of the organizers of 

 the Newtown Electric Light and Power 

 Company, and a director since its or- 

 ganization. He was one of the active 

 promoters and secretary of the New- 

 town, Langhorne & Bristol Railway 

 Company, and of the Newtown Electric 

 Railway Company, that built the trolley 

 line from Bristol to Newtown and to 

 Doylestown, and is still secretary and 

 director of the latter company. He was 

 one of the organizers of the Standard 

 Telephone Company, as well as of the 

 Newtown & Yardley Street Railway 

 Company, of which he is president. He 

 is president of the Newtown Canning 

 Company, secretary of the Excelsior 

 Bobbin and Spool Company, a director 

 of the Newtown Cemetery Company, 

 director of the Bridgetown & Newtown 

 Turnpike Company, and president of the 

 Newtown Reliance Horse Company. 

 During the Civil war he twice respond- 

 ed to his country's call, first in 1862, 

 when he went to Harrison's Landing, 

 Virginia, as a nurse, and assisted m car- 

 ing for the sick and wounded,, and sec- 

 ond in 1863 as a member of an emer- 

 gency regiment. He is a member of 

 T. H. Wyncoop Post, G. A. R., of New- 



town. 



He married, March 22, 1865. Hulda A. 

 Price, daughter of Samuel and Sarah 

 (Betts) Price of Buckingham, who died 

 January i. i8Qq. They were the par- 

 ents of two children.— Edward A., who 

 died in his seventh year, and Emma L., 

 residing with her father in Newtown. 

 He married (second) February 19. 1902. 

 Mary W. Barnsely. daughter of John and 

 Mary (Hough) P.arnsley. of Newtown, 

 who' died September 24, 1904. 



Tn politics Mr. Worstall is a Repub- 

 lican. He has served several terms in 

 town council, and filled other local of- 

 fices. He was appointed postmaster of 

 Newtown in February, 1901. and was re- 

 appointed in February, 1905. He is a 

 member of the Bucks County Historical 

 Society, and actively interested in its 

 work. 



DUBOIS FAMILY. The family of 

 DuBois is of French origin, the name 

 being derived from two French words 

 signifying "of the forest." The family 

 is an exceedingly old one, several rep- 

 resentatives having achieved distinction 

 there over five centuries ago. 



The ancestor of the American branch 

 of the family was Louis DuBois, who 

 fied from France to the Palatinate to es- 

 cape religious persecution, in 1658, re- 

 siding for two years in Manheim on the 

 Rhine, then the capital of the Palatin- 

 ate. He emigrated to America, with 

 his wife and two children in 1660. He lo- 

 cated at Kingston, Ulster county, New 

 York, with a number of other French 

 Huguenots, and became a very promi- 

 nent character there. His wife and 

 three children were carried into captiv- 

 ity by the Indians on July 6, 1663, and 

 he led a company of the enraged set- 

 tlers, who rescued them and dealt sum- 

 mary vengeance on their savage captors. 

 With his two sons, Abraham and Isaac, 

 and nine other French refuges, known 

 as the "Twelve Patentees," he organ- 

 ized the settlement of New Palz, on the 

 Hudson, opposite Poughkeepsie, in 

 1677, on 36.000 acres purchased of the 

 Indians and patented to them by Ed- 

 mund Andros, governor-general under 

 the Duke of York. The other nine pat- 

 entees were Christian and Pierre Deyou, 

 Abraham and Jean Hasbrouck. Andre 

 and Simon LeFevre, Louis Bevier, An- 

 toine Crespel and Hugh Frere. 



Louis DuBois was the first elder of 

 the New Palz Church, organized in 1683, 

 and the first records of the church are 

 in his handwriting. He returned to 

 Kingston in 1686, and died there ten 

 years later. His wife was Cathrine 

 Blancon, whom he married in France, 

 where he was born, near Lyons, in 1630. 

 They had ten children, viz: i. Abra- 

 ham, born in France in 1656, died in 

 New Palz, October 7, 1731, married Mar- 

 garet Deyou, and had seven children, 

 the youngest of whom Mary married 

 Philip Veree, and they settled on the 

 Conestoga, in Lancaster county, on land 

 purchased by Abraham in 1717. 2. Is- 

 aac, born at Manheim in 1658, married 

 Maria Hasbrouck, and died at New Palz 

 in 1690. 3. Jacob, born in Kingston, 

 New York. October, i66r, married Ger- 

 ritje Van Newkirk, died 1745. 4. Sarah, 

 married Joost Jansen. 5. David, whose 

 descendants settled and lived in Ulster 

 county. New York. 6. Solomon, born 

 1669, died 1759, married Trintje Van 

 Newkirk. 7. Rachel, died young. 8. Re- 

 becca, also died young. 9. Louis, born 

 1677. married Rad'iel Hasbrouck. 10 

 Mathcw, born 1679. married Sarah Mat- 

 hcwsen. Of these children — Jacob and 

 Solomon — have descendants in Bucks 

 county. 



Jacob DuBois. third son of Louis and 

 Catharine " (Blancon) DuBois, was the 



