HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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-wallader) Price, of Doylestown. Their 

 •only child — John L., was born Decem- 

 ber 5, 1903. 



JOSEPH DEBENNEVILLE AB- 

 BOTT, burgess of Bristol, Bucks coun- 

 ty, Pennsylvania, is a native of the state, 

 born in Philadelphia, (Tioga), June 28, 

 1866, eldest son of Francis and Julia 

 ■(Churchman Shewell) Abbott. He is de- 

 scended on his father's side from John 

 Abbat (subsequently spelled by this an- 

 cestor, "Abbott") who came to America 

 from Farnslield, Nottingham, England, 

 in 1684, and "settled a plantation on 

 Crosswicks Creek," between Borden- 

 town and Trenton, New Jersey, consist- 

 ing at the time of his death in 1739 of 

 ■eight hundred and ten acres. An active 

 Friend, he took a prominent part in^ all 

 that concerned the Chesterfield Meet- 

 ing at Crosswicks, Burlington county. 

 New Jersey. He was constable of Not- 

 tingham and surveyor of highways. In 

 1695 he married Anne Mauleverer, 

 -daughter of Edmund and Anne (Pear- 

 son) Mauleverer. She, like her husband, 

 was an active Friend, an elder of the 

 meeting, and prominent in all meeting 

 interests, as the records indicate. She 

 died in 1754. John and Anne (Maulever- 

 er) Abbott had, with other issue, 



Timothy Abbott, born in 1717, died 

 1776. He married Anne Satterthwaite. 

 He succeeded to his father's estate in 

 part, and was prominent like his parents 

 in the Society of Friends. He was a 

 merchant as well as farmer, and had 

 •vessels plying up and down the Dela- 

 ware river to Philadelphia from the plan- 

 tation on Crosswicks Creek, then a navi- 

 gable stream for boats of. for those 

 days, considerable draught. Timothy and 

 Anne (Satterthwaite) Abbott had, with 

 other issue, 



John Abbott, born 1748, died 1809. 

 He married Susannah Bulloch. He suc- 

 ceeded to his father's estate and_ was 

 actively engaged in the business insti- 

 tuted by his father, continuing the mer- 

 cantile phase of it until 1800, when his 

 large land-holdings demanded all his at- 

 tention. He took an active part in local 

 public afifairs and in those of the relig- 

 ious body to which he belonged. John 

 and Susannah (Bulloch) Abbott ' had, 

 with other issue, 



Joseph Abbott, born 1779, died 1861. 

 He married Anne Rickey. In his father's 

 lifetime he moved to a portion of the 

 original "Watson plantation," east of 

 the Abbott homestead, and was a far- 

 mer. Joseph and Anne (Rickey) Ab- 

 bott had, with other issue, 



Timothy Abbott, born 1809, died 1882. 

 He married Susan Conrad. In early life 

 he was a merchant, then was long asso- 

 ciated with Peter Cooper, and later with 

 Cooper. Hewitt & Co.. in the Iron busi- 

 ness. He was president of the Mechan- 



ics' National Bank, Trenton, New Jer- 

 sey. Timothy and Susan (Conrad) Ab- 

 bott had, with other issue, 



Francis Abbott, born 1840. He mar- 

 ried (first) Julia Churchman Shewell. 

 Mr. Abbott entered the banking house 

 of the late F. M. Dre.xel in February. 

 1857, and at this date (November, 1904) 

 still holds an important position in the 

 same house. Francis and Julia C. (She- 

 well) Abbott had, with other issue, Jo- 

 seph de Benneville Abbott, mentioned 

 at length hereinafter. 



Through the pioneer ancestor, John 

 Abbat, Dr. Abbott is descended from 

 the Ingrams, Colvilles and Maulever- 

 ers, who successively, as named, were 

 owners of Ingleby Arneclifife, Yorkshire, 

 England, an estate in existence as such 

 since the middle ages. Through the 

 Maulevers the descent may be traced 

 back to nearly all of the Barons of 

 Magna Charta, 1215. The ancestry of 

 Anne Mauleverer Abbott is of unusual 

 interest because of this fact. Edmund 

 Mauleverer, the father of Anne, became 

 a Quaker, and was apparently the only 

 member of the family who changed his 

 faith. The Mauleverers have been 

 Church of England folk since the time 

 of Henry VIII, and were previously 

 Roman Catholics. Edmund's father was * 

 James, who married Beatrice, daughter 

 of Sir Timothy Hutton. James' father 

 was William, who married Eleanor, 

 daughter of Richard Oldborough. Will- 

 iam's father was Sir Edmund, who mar- 

 ried Mary, daughter of Sir Christopher 

 Danby. Sir Edmund's father was Rob- 

 ert, who married Alice, daughter of Sir 

 Niman Markenfield. Roberts father 

 was Sir William, (knighted at Flodden 

 in T513) who married Anne, daughter 

 of Sir William Conyers, and through 

 this line the descent from Edward III is 

 readily traced. Sir William's father was 

 Robert, who married Joan, daughter of 

 Sir Henry Vavasour. Robert's father 

 was Edmund, who married Alionara, 

 daughter of Sir James Strangwayes. 

 Edmund's father was Robert, who mar- 

 ried, Joan , and his father was Sir 



William Mauleverer, who married Joan 

 de Colville, and succeeded to the Ingle- 

 by Arnecliffe estate. The marriage of 

 Robert Mauleverer and Alice Marken- 

 field linked the family to descent from 

 eighteen of the Magna Charter barons, 

 the descent having intermarried between 

 1215 and 1500. This descent in all its 

 details is traced in the beautiful Mars- 

 shall-Clement chart published in 1904, to 

 which the reader is referred. (Vide "In- 

 gleby Arnecliffe and its Owners." by 

 William Brown, Esq., Secretary of the 

 Yorkshire Archaeological and Surtees 

 Societies, Leeds. John Whitehead & Son, 

 1901.) 



On his mother's side Dr. Abbott is 

 descended from Walter Shewell, born 

 near the village of Painswick, Glouces- 



