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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 



served as its clerk of the exchequer for 

 several years, and has been a member 

 of the grand caStle of Pennsylvania for 

 twelve years and in May, 1905, 

 was installed as grand chief of 

 the • order in the state. He 

 arranged, codified and published a digest 

 ftf the laws of the order which has been 

 in use for several years. He is a past 

 grand of Aquetong Lodge, No. 193, I. 

 O. O. F., of Doylestown, and has tilled 

 the position of musical director and de- 

 gree master of that lodge for several 

 years. As such he organized and in- 

 structed a degree stafif that has the rep- 

 utation of being one of the best in the 

 state, taking second prize in a com- 

 petition this year before a Committee 

 of the Sovereign Grand Lodge, in which 

 were entries in all parts of the United 

 States. He has been the collector of 

 Lenape Council, No. 1117, Royal Ar- 

 canum, since 1890, and is treasurer of 

 the fraternal accident order, known as 

 the "True Blue." He has served as a 

 director of Eastern Union Building and 

 Loan Society of Philadelphia since 1890, 

 and is connected with a number of other 

 business enterprises. He has prepared . 

 and published two directories of Bucks ' 

 county, and is at work upon a third 

 edition. In August, 1904, he purchased 

 a controlling interest in the Doylestown 

 Publishing Company, the proprietors of 

 the "Doylestown Democrat," daily and 

 weekly, which he has since personally 

 conducted as president of the company, 

 and has greatly improved the standard 

 of the paper. 



Senator Grim was married August 9, 

 1890, to M. Alice Sassaman, daughter of 

 Jacob and Emeline (Wildonger) Sas- 

 saman of Bucksville, Bucks county, and 

 they are the parents of two children, 

 Ruth S. and George W. 



MOON FAMILY. James Moon and 

 Joan Burges were married near Bristol, 

 England, and with a family of children 

 were among the early emigrants to settle in 

 Pennsylvania. By deed dated 10 mo. 13, 

 1688, he purchased of James Hill 125 acres 

 of land in Falls township, one and a half 

 miles west from Morrisville, and largely 

 covered in 1905 by the classification yard 

 of the Trenton branch of the Pennsylvania 

 Railroad. On 12 mo. 11, 1706, he conveyed 

 the same by deed in fee to his son Roger. 

 James Moon's will mentions six children : 

 Sarah, James, Jonas, Jasper, Mary and 

 Roger. James married Mary Wilsford, i 

 mo., 1696, and afterward Agnes Priestly, 

 in 1714; he deceased 4th mo. 6. 1755. 



Jonas, born 10 mo., 24, 1671, married 

 Alice Chissum, about 1707, and deceased 

 10 mo. 4, 1732; Mary married a Curtis. 

 Tradition says that Ja.sper went to Virginia 

 and was the progenitor of the Moon 

 family of that state. He marrried Su- 



sanna . Among the earmarks of 



cattle recorded at the clerk's office 

 in a book preserved in the Library 

 of the Bucks County Historical So- 

 ciety are those of James Moon. He was 

 a^ member of Falls Monthly Meeting of 

 Friends, and was buried in the old grave- 

 yard at Fallsington. His wife Joan's Eng- 

 lish relatives sent her money with which 

 she purchased a farm near the river Dela- 

 ware, two miles north of Yardleyville, since 

 owned by Zachariah Betts. She resided 

 with her son Roger at the homestead un- 

 til her death, at nearly ninety, having sur- 

 vived her husband twenty-six years. She 

 was an active member of Falls Monthly 

 Meeting, and frequently preferred to walk 

 to meeting when in advanced years. 



Roger Moon, son of James and Joan 

 Moon, born about 1680, married Ann Nutt, 

 of England, at Palls Meeting of Friends, 8 

 mo. 23, 1708; they had seven children: 

 James, born i mo., 1713, died 5 mo. 9, 1796; 

 John, born 5 mo. 27, 1717, died 9 mo. 24, 

 1732; Elizabeth, born 10 mo. 16, 1719, died 

 aged eighty-five and one-half years, 1805; 

 Roger, born i mo. 20, 1722, died 12 mo. 4, 

 1759; Isaac, born 11 mo. 6, 1724, died 6 mo. 

 23, 1748; William, born 3 mo. 6, 1727, died 

 10 mo. 4, 1795; Ann, born 4 mo. 7, 1730, 

 died 3 mo. 28, 1764. Roger Moon's second 

 marriage was to Elizabeth Price (daughter 

 of Reese and Mary Price), i mo., 1734. 

 Their children were : John, born 12 mo. 

 28, 1734, died I mo. 6, 1788; Mary, born 3 

 mo. 8, 1736, died 11 mo. 20, 1815; Sarah, 

 born ID mo. 29, 1737; Timothy, born 10 mo. 

 15, 1739, died 7 mo. 5, 1813; Samuel, born 

 7 mo. I, 1744; Jasper, born i mo. 12, 1748; 

 Hannah, born 8 mo. 29, 1749. 



Roger Moon said he had lived seventy 

 years in the same place, and had never dis- 

 charged a gun or quarrelled with any man. 

 lie deceased 2 mo. 16, 1759, on the ancestral 

 acres, at the ripe old age of seventy-nine 

 years ; eleven of his children surviving him. 



James Moon, eldest child of Roger and 

 Ann Nutt Moon, married three times, and 

 one child of each marriage lived to grow 

 up; first to Hannah Price, 11 mo. 18, 1737; 

 their son James married Sarah Dowdney, 

 and had two children, James and Mary. 

 James married and had several children, 

 lived and died on the same farm his father 

 did near the river two miles above Morris- 

 ville. Mary married John Thornton, had a 

 large family of children. James, son of 

 Roger and Ann Nutt Moon's second mar- 

 riage was to Elizabeth, daughter of Edward 

 and Bridget Luca.s, 3 mo. 18, 1742; she de- 

 ceased 6 mo. 14, 1748. One daughter sur- 

 vived her mother, who married Yeomans 

 Gillingham, at Falls Meeting, i mo. 13, 

 1708, and had nine children. James Moon's 

 (son of Roger and Ann Nutt Moon) third 

 marriage was to Ann Watson, widow of 

 Mark Watson, and daughter of John and 

 Mary (Lofty) Sotcher, at Falls Meeting, 

 3 mo. 28, 1753. One child, Moses Moon, 

 survived this marriage. On i mo. 29, 1749, 

 James Moon purchased of Robert Lucas, 



