HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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H., deceased ; Esther S. ; Mary E. ; Wil- 

 liam, deceased; Marshall, who resides in 

 Florida ; Frank H., a practicing physician 

 of Trenton ; and Harriet F. The father, 

 Edward Williams, died at the age of sev- 

 enty-two years. 



John S. Williams, son of Edward and 

 Phoebe Esther (Schofield) Williams, was 

 reared under the parental roof, acquired 

 his early education in the common schools 

 and afterward attended the Friends' school 

 in Buckingham, also in Langhorne as a 

 student in a boarding school conducted by 

 James Anderson, and in the boarding 

 school at Abington conducted by Samuel 

 Smith, and in the Tremont Seminary at 

 Norristown, Pennsylvania, of which Sam- 

 uel Aaron was principal. When twenty-one 

 years of age he assumed the management 

 of the farm in Solebury township, which 

 was the ancestral home of the Scholield 

 family and descended to him through his 

 maternal grandfather, John Schofield. He 

 has since been actively and prominently 

 identified with agricultural interests along 

 progressive lines, and his splendidly im- 

 proved property is an indication of his un- 

 flagging thrift and enterprise. He has been 

 vice president and director of the Bucks 

 County Trust Company since its organiza- 

 tion, has for thirty years been a director 

 of the Farmers' and Mechanics' Insurance 

 Company, and for twenty years its treasur- 

 er, and is secretary and treasurer of the 

 New Hope and Delaware Bridge Company, 

 in which capacity he has served for several 

 years. His interest in public progress and 

 the material upbuilding and improvement 

 of his county has found tangible evidence 

 in the hearty co-operation which he has 

 given to many measures for the benefit of 

 his community. In politics he is a Repub- 

 lican, and for several years served as school 

 director, but otherwise has declined public 

 office. He belongs to the Friends' Society, 

 and stands today as one of the best known 

 and honored men of Solebury township. 



Mr. Williams was married to Miss Ra- 

 chel R. Magill, a daughter of Jonathan 

 Paxson and Mary (Watson) MeGill, of 

 Solebury towaiship, one of the early fam- 

 ilies of the county. Mr. and Mrs. Williams 

 have three children: Carroll R., the eld- 

 est, was graduated from Swarthmore Col- 

 lege in 1877 and completed the latter course 

 in the University of Pennsylvania with the 

 class of 1880. He was admitted to the bar 

 the same year, began the practice of his 

 profession in Philadelphia, and is today 

 one of the most successful lawyers of that 

 city. He was elected a member of the 

 common council from the twenty-fourth 

 ward, serving thereon from 1835 until 1839. 

 On January 23, 1890, he married Eleanor 

 (Boyd) Palmer, of Baltimore, Maryland, 

 and they have three children : Catherine 

 B., born September 26, 1891 ; John S., born 

 April 8, 1893 ; and Carroll R., born Sep- 

 tember 3. 1903. Agnes Blackfan, the only 

 daughter of John S. and Rachel Williams, 

 is at home. Edward Newlin, the younger 

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son, died when but twenty-six years of age. 

 He was a graduate of the medical depart- 

 ment of the University of Pennsylvania, 

 and was acting as physician and surgeon on 

 the American Line steamship plying be- 

 tween London and New York. 



THE WILLIAMS FAMILY of 

 Nockamixon and Tinicum, and other 

 parts of Bucks county, trace their an- 

 cestry to Joseph Williams, of Boston, 

 Massachusetts. He and his wife, Lydia, 

 had ten children, namely: Joseph, 

 born 12 mo., 14, 1670 (O. S.) ; William, 10 

 mo., 13, 1671 ; Richard, 12 mo., 8, 1673; 

 Hannah, 3 mo., 20, 1674, died in infancy; 

 Daniel, 10 mo., 25, 1676; Hannah, 3 mo., 

 26, 1679; Jeremiah,. 6 mo., 22, 1683 (refer- 

 red to hereafter) ; Elizabeth, 7 mo., 22, 

 1686, died in infancy; Elizabeth, 10 mo., 9, 

 1688; and Mary, 9 mo., 6, 1869. 



Jeremiah at an early age was bound to 

 a ship carpenter to learn the trade. Dur- 

 ing his apprenticeship he left the church 

 of England and joined the Friends or Qua- 

 kers. I mo, 28, 1706-07 (O. S.), he pre- 

 sented a certificate to the monthly meeting 

 of Philadelphia from the Monthly Meeting 

 of Rhode Island, i mo., 1707-08, he 

 requested a "Certificate of Clearness" from 

 the Philadelphia Monthly Meeting to Flush- 

 ing Monthly Meeting to marry Philadel- 

 phia, daughter of George and Mary (Wil- 

 lis) Masters. In 1680 or '81 George Mast- 

 ers, a tailor of New York, married Mary, 

 daughter of Henry Willis, of Flushing, 

 Long Island. Henry was fined for allow- 

 ing his daughter to be married by Friends 

 ceremony. After their marriage they went 

 to England, where their first child, a daugh- 

 ter named Mary, was born in 1682. Upon 

 their return to this country they must have 

 been in Philadelphia for a time, as their 

 second child, a daughter, was born there 

 in 1684. She was the first white female 

 child born in the city, and was named 

 Philadelphia for the city in which she was 

 born. Jeremiah and Philadelphia Williams 

 lived in the city of New York. They had 

 two children. Joseph, born 3 mo., 15, 1710, 

 died in infancy; and Hannah, born 9 mo., 

 8, 171 1, married Benjamin, son of Charles 

 and Elizabeth (Jackson) Doughty, of Long 

 Island, in 1737. Philadelphia Williams died 

 3 mo., 16, 1715, and the same year, 5 mo., 

 5, he bought a m.ill property at Hempstead 

 Harbor, Nassau Island, Queens county. 

 New York, of John Robinson. The follow- 

 ing year, 7 mo., 11, 1716, Jeremiah married 

 Mary, daughter of Walter and Anne (Col- 

 lins) New^bury, of Newport, Rhode Island, 

 and widow of Jedediah How-land. This is 

 a copy of their marriage certificate. 



Marriage Certificate — Whereas, Jeremiah 

 Williams, late of New York, but now of 

 Hempstead in Long Island, and Mary 

 Howland, widow and relict of Jedediah 

 Howland. of Newport, in Rhoad Island, 

 Having declared their intention of taking 



