HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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for £480, two hundred and eighteen and one- 

 quarter acres of land in Middletown town- 

 ship, now known as "Woodbourne," where 

 he resided the remainder of his life, and 

 in 1905 it is owned and occupied by his 

 descendants. Beside ordinary farming he 

 was a nurseryman, as entries in his cash- 

 book testify, one reading thus: "nth mo. 

 22nd 1775. Joseph Lovett bought six New- 

 town pippins and two grafted pear trees for 

 eight shillings.'' He thus started a business 

 which his descendants have followed to a 

 greater or less extent for over one hundred 

 and thirty years. 



Moses Moon was born 10 mo. 9, 1754. 

 Beside following the occupations of his fa- 

 ther as farmer and nurseryman, he also 

 was a noted surveyor. He married Rachel 

 Burges, at Falls Meeting of Friends, and 

 deceased 4 mo. 19, 1822, having resided his 

 entire life at Woodbourne, which he in- 

 herited from his father and bequeathed to 

 his only son James, who adhered more 

 closely to farming than did his predecessors. 

 James Moon married Jane Haines, at Eve- 

 sham Meeting, N. J., 5 mo. 13, 1813, and 

 continued to reside at the homestead until 

 his death in 1855. He left six children : 

 Mahlon, Eliza, Charles Rachel, James n. 

 and Jane C. 



Mahlon, the oldest son of James and Jane 

 (Haines) Moon, followed the nursery busi- 

 ness for quite a period of time, alter which 

 liis brother James H. Moon purchased the 

 greater part of the land. Charles Henry 

 Moon, son of Charles Moon, is a prom- 

 inent surveyor and engineer, and lives on 

 the western portion of the place, he being 

 the fifth generation of the family to occupy 

 these ancestral acres. 



James H. Moon, the third son of James 

 and Jane (Flaines) Moon, married Eliza- 

 beth Balderston, in 1853, and settled two 

 miles west of Fallsington, where they still 

 reside with their son, Alfred H. Moon. Of 

 their nine children five are still living: 

 Everett, LL. D., Alfred H.. Willett B., M. 

 D., Elizabeth Laetitia, Ph. D., and Rachel, 

 M. D. 



Of James and Jane Haines Moon's daugh- 

 ters, Eliza married Morton A. Walmsley, 

 of Byberry, Pa. ; Rachel married William 

 Tatnall, of Wilmington, Delaware, and Jane 

 C. married Hon. Jonathan Chace, of Rhode 

 Island. 



Of the eleven children which survived 

 Koger Moon, we have partially traced but 

 one line, that of his eldest son James. The 

 descendants of the five sons who survived 

 him are scattered in all directions, although 

 there is proof that many remained near 

 home, the name occurring frequently in 

 this vicinity and in New Jersey. His son 

 William married Elizabeth Nutt; and settled 

 on Moon's Island in the Delaware River. 

 An account of his descendants is given later. 

 Ann married Jonathan Pursell ; Elizabeth 

 married William Janney, 7 mo., 1739. at 

 Falls Meeting and they moved near Water- 

 ford, Loudoun county. Va. ; John. Roger 

 and Isaac died without issue. Of the sec- 



ond wife's children; John married and left 

 descendants; Mary married John Linton; 

 Sarah married Daniel Burges; Timothy 

 married Martha Richie; Hannah married 

 ISlahlon Hartley, and removed to Ohio; 

 Jasper, unknown. 



PRICE FAMILY. Elizabeth Price, sec- 

 ond wife of Roger Moon, was of Welsh 

 origin and a daughter of Reese and Marv 

 Price (or Preese), who settled in Bucks 

 county about the year 1700. 



The ancestors of Mrs. Samuel C. Moon, 

 of Morrisville, were Nathaniel and Sarah 

 (Bnggs-Shaw) Price, who emigrated from 

 Rhode Island and settled in Middletown 

 township, Bucks county, near the present 

 site of Langhorne about the middle of the 

 eighteenth century. They were the par- 

 ents of three children ; Nathaniel, of whom 

 a more particular account follows: Eliza- 

 beth, married Edward Worstall; and Su- 

 sanna, married Thomas Jones. Sarah 

 (Briggs-Shaw) Price died 10 mo. 22, 1808, 

 in her eighty-seventh year. 



Nathaniel Price, son of Nathaniel and 

 Sarah, born February 8, 1759, was received 

 into membership with Friends and married 

 October 18, 1786, Ann Bailey, daughter of 

 Edward and Ann (Satterthwaite) 'Bailey, 

 of Bucks county, and had three children: 

 (i) William, born September 14, 1787, died 

 June 4, 1852, married April 18, 1808, Mary 

 jNIahan, and had nine children : Cornelius, 

 Mary, John. Deborah, Ann, Amos, Susan, 

 Catharine and William. (2) John, born 

 November 23, 1788, died April 5, 1867, mar- 

 ried Rachel Burgess, daughter of Joseph 

 and Sarah (Matson) Burgess, and had chil- 

 dren : Daniel B., of whom an account fol- 

 lows ; Lydia B., Sarah Ann, and Phebe B., 

 none of whom married, living and dying 

 near Fallsington, Bucks county. (3) Edith, 

 born 1790, died 1792. Ann (Bailey) Price 

 died January 8, 1791, and Nathaniel mar- 

 ried (second) December 13, 1792, Mary 

 Spicer, daughter of James and Rachel 

 Spicer, and they were, the parents of four 

 children: (4) Joseph, born March 10, 1793, 

 married October 14, 1821, Eliza Wildman, 

 and had children, Mary and Elizabeth. (5) 

 Ann, born February 23, 1795, married, 1819, 

 Israel Burgess, and had two children, Will- 

 iam and Mary, both of whom married into 

 the Longshore family. (6) Isaiah, Dorn 

 December 20, 1798, married May 20, 1824, 

 Margaret Burges, daughter of William and 

 Rachel Burges, and had four children : Ra- 

 chel, married Benjamin Woolston ; Ann, 

 married a Hance; Jane, married a Cro- 

 shaw ; Martha, married Dr. William E. 

 Case, and has two sons, William and Philip 

 of Morrisville. (7) Rachel, born December 

 4, 1800, lived to an advanced age at Lang- 

 horne, but never married. Mary (Spicer) 

 Price, the mother of the above named four 

 children, died December 8, 1829. 



Daniel B. Price, only son of John and 

 Rachel (Burges) Price, was born December 



