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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



3, 1823. He was a successful farmer and 

 died at his residence, Brookdale farm, two 

 miles from Fallsington, Bucks county, 

 March 26, 1891, at the age of sixty-seven 

 years. He married, first. May 18, 1848, 

 Hannah B. Childs, of Le Raysville, New 

 York, and they were the parents of four 

 children : Rachel Anna, married Samuel 

 C. Moon; Clinton, died young; Elizabeth, 

 married John W. Tatum, of Wilmington, 

 Delaware, and has three children — Anna 

 P., Lucy R. and John W. Tatum, Jr.; Mary 

 C, remained single. 



The Burges Family, with whom the 

 Moon and Price families are much inter- 

 married, are descended from Samuel and 

 Eleanor Burges, who came from England 

 in 1685 and settled in Falls township, on 

 200 acres of land purchased of William 

 Penn, for one silver shilling per acre, the 

 original deed for which is still in possession 

 of their descendants. This land joined that 

 on which James and Joan (Burges) Moon 

 settled, and Samuel was probably a brother 

 of Joan Moon. On this tract lymg oh both 

 sides of the road now leading through the 

 village of Fallsington, all the Friends' meet- 

 ing houses of Falls Meeting have been built. 

 In 1689, when the Friends decided to build 

 a meetmg house, Samuel Burges gave them 

 six acres on which the first meeting house 

 and graveyard were located. The first 

 building was of logs and the second of 

 brick. In the ' latter a school was kept for 

 many years in which the great-grandchil- 

 dren of Samuel Burges, living in 1855, re- 

 member attending, being used as a school 

 after the erection of the third meeting 

 house, a little distant from the first site and 

 now (1905) used as a dwelling house. The 

 fourth meeting house was erected in 1789 

 on the first location, north of the graveyard 

 and Newportville -road, and is still used by 

 one branch of the society. The fifth meet- 

 ing house was built in 1840, when a stone 

 school house erected in 1799 was removed 

 to make room for it, the present school 

 house being erected in 1817. The will of 

 Samuel Burges, made in 1713, mentions 

 wife Eleanor, sons Joseph, Samuel, John 

 and Daniel, and daughters Priscilla and 

 Sarah. Priscilla became the wife of Sam- 

 uel Bunting, and an ajccount of her de- 

 scendants is given in this volume. Sarah 

 married John Hutchinson and an account 

 of her descendants is also given in the 

 Rickey family. Samuel, thf jon, a member of 

 assembly in 1712, married Ann Snowdcn, 

 and had three children— Margaret, married 

 Joseph Jackson ; Rebecca, married Joseph 

 Church ; Ann, died single. 



Joseph Burgess married Flannah Wilson, 

 and had five children : Daniel, of whom a 

 more particular account follows; Joseph, 

 married Deborah Fisher and removed to 

 Buckingham, later to Baltimore, Maryland, 

 and subsequently to Virginia; had children; 

 Thomas, Sarah, John, Tacy, .Martha and 

 Daniel, of whom Thomas married Eliza- 

 beth Hendricks, and removed to Highland 



county, Ohio, about 1813; John, Sarah, and 

 Hannah. John, son of Samuel and Eleanor, 

 married Mary Duer, and had six children, 

 Samuel Ellen, Jonathan, Mary, Susanna, 

 and Martha. 



Daniel Burges, son of Samuel and 

 Eleanor, was twice married, but left no 

 issue, devising his farm, part of 600 acres 

 purchased by Samuel, the pioneer in 1695, 

 to his brother Joseph's son Daniel. 



Daniel Burges, son of Joseph and Hannah 

 (Wilson) Burges, married 6 mo. 17, 1750, 

 Lydia Sisom, and had eight children : Jo- 

 seph, born 3 mo. 31, 1752, married, 11 mo. 

 8, 1780, Sarah Matson ; Rachel, born 11 mo, 

 14, 1753) married Moses Moon; Hannah, 

 born 12 mo. 23, 1755, married Joseph Child; 

 Sarah, born 9 mo. 17, 1758, died at the age 

 of ninety-six years; Rebecca, born 10 mo. 

 26^ 1763, married John Burton; Edith, born 

 3 mo. 15, 1766, married Joseph Headley; 

 Phebe, born 6 mo. 20, 1769, died single lu 

 1839; Amos, born 10 mo. 11, 1772, married 

 Sarah Boulton. Daniel Burges married (sec- 

 ond), Sarah Moon and had two children; 

 Daniel, born 10 mo. 15, 1780, married De- 

 borah Wood, and lived on the homestead 

 for some years and then removed to New 

 York state; and Elizabeth, born 11 mo. 28, 

 1784, died at the age of eighteen years. 



Joseph Burges, eldest son of Daniel and 

 Lydia, married Sarah ISIatson, and had eight 

 children: Moses, born 8 mo. 17, 1781, mar- 

 ried Ann Hancock ; Lydia, born 8 mo. 28, 

 1783, and Amy, born 11 mo. 28, 1785, both 

 died single; Daniel, born 4 mo. 30, 1787, 

 also died single ; Rachel, born 7 mo. 26, 

 1789, married John Price; John, Joseph and 

 Aaron, died young. Joseph Burges mar- 

 ried, second, Deborah Bailey and hkd one 

 child, Mary born 12 mo. 24, 1803, died 

 }'Oung. Moses and Ann (Hancock) Burge-s 

 had eight children, Joseph, Sarah, Phebe, 

 Moses, Rebecca, Robert, Ann, and George, 

 of whom Robert and Phebe still reside on 

 the ancestral homestead, and are nearing 

 the sunset of life. Anna Price Moon, Eliza- 

 beth Price Tatum, and Mary C. Price, 

 daughters of Daniel B. and Sarah (Burges) 

 Price, with their children are the only liv- 

 ing descendants of Joseph and Sarah (Mat- 

 son) Burges. 



OWEN MOON, Jr., of the Trenton 

 (New Jersey) Times," is a descendant of 

 James and Joan (Burges) Moon, the pio- 

 neer ancestors of the family, as shown by 

 the preceding narrative, throughout the fol- 

 lowing line: 



William iNIoon, fifth .son and sixth child 

 of Roger and Ann (Nutt) Moon, was born 

 March 6, 1727, and died October 4. I795- 

 He married his cousin Elizabeth Nutt, and 

 was treated with therefor by the Friends' 

 Meeting at Falls, the marriage of first cous- 

 ins being "against the good order maintained 

 among Friends." Among the children of 

 William and Elizabeth (Nutt) Moon were 

 Ann, married. May 17, 1775, Samuel Bunt- 

 ing; and William Moon, born February 5, 



