HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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Chief Nutimus and his tribe, and this chief 

 was always an honored guest of Benjamin 

 WiUiams, Sr., whose home was nearly on 

 the site of the mansion built by Jacob Sto- 

 ver soon after purchasing in 1818. Benja- 

 min Williams, Sr., and his family lived 

 here during the time of the raids by the 

 Doans, and having a valuable horse of 

 which he was very fond, and hearing of the 

 approach of the Doans, he quietly stabled 

 his favorite horse in his kitchen and it was 

 thus saved from falling into the hands of 

 the lawless gang. Soon after taking pos- 

 session of the land in Nockamixon the 

 young Indians roaming over it at will, 

 gathered the apples from the trees and 

 took them away, and disturbed the water 

 in the spring until it was unfit for use for 

 a time. Benjamin expostulated with Nuti- 

 mus, and asiced why they did it. Nutimus 

 replied it was true the Indians had sold the 

 land, but not the apples and spring. Ben- 

 jamin asked them how much they wanted 

 for the apples and spring, and the chief 

 replied, five bushels of Indian corn, five 

 bushels of buckwheat and five loaves of 

 rye bread. After that the spring and the 

 apples were not disturbed. In 1778 or '79 

 Benjamin bought about 500 acres of land 

 in Tinicum township, Bucks county, Penn- 

 sylvania, and built the house on the river 

 road now owned by Clinton Haney, near 

 the little hamlet of Lodi. The little creek 

 which empties into the Delaware was the 

 northern boundary of this tract. His son, 

 Jeremiah, took possession of this tract in 

 1779. Some time after this Benjamin 

 bought about 500 acres in the beautiful 

 Buckingham Valley, which was occupied 

 by his youngest son Samuel. 



In his will, which was dated Nockamix- 

 on township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. 

 3 mo., 16, 1809, and probated 5 mo- 3°, 

 i8og lie mentions "a general arrangement 

 of my estate," in which, on the '4th d of 

 the 1st m. in the year one thousand eight 

 hundred and three" he deeded to his three 

 sons, Jeremiah and Benjamin the land on 

 which they were living, and on the "3ra 

 of the first m. in the year one thousand 

 eight hundred and four" he deeded the land 

 in Buckingham to his son Samuel, who 

 was then residing there. Benjamin died 

 at the home of his son Samuel in Bucking- 

 ham and was buried in the grave yard at 

 the Buckingham Meeting House. He died 

 in 1809, probably in the early part of the 

 fifth month. 



Jeremiah, son of Benjamin and Mercy 

 (Stevenson) Williams, born 5 mo.. 9, I749- 

 married 4 mo. 25, 1779 (N. S.), ^lary, 

 daughter of Thomas and Elizabeth Black- 

 ledge, of Richland township, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania. Their children were : John, 

 born I mo., 27, 1780 (referred to here- 

 after) ; Thomas B., born 4 mo., 11, 1781. 

 married Rebecca Arndt ; Benjamin, born 

 12 mo.. 18, 1782, married, first, Mary (Mer- 

 edith), widow of (?) Burson, sec- 

 ond, Rachel, daughter of Benjamin and 

 Dorothy (Leiper) Williams; Susan, born 



6 mo., 10, 1785, never married; William, 

 born 6 mo., 12, 1789, married Hannah 

 Whiting; Samuel, born 6 mo., 18, 1792, 

 died 1812; Isaac B., born 4 mo., 23, 1794, 

 married Martha Shelton White; Margaret, 

 born 4 mo., 28, 1796, married Abel Lester; 

 Jeremiah, born 12 mo., 28, 1798, married 

 Elizabeth Lake. 



John, son of Jeremiah and Mary (Black- 

 ledge) Williams, born i mo., 27, 1780, mar- 

 ried July, 1804, Christiana, daughter of 

 John and Anne (Kimple or Kimball) 

 Moore. Christiana was born 3 mo., 5, 1781, 

 Their children were: Marj-, born 5 mo. 

 20, 1805, married Nathan Whiting; New- 

 bury Davenport, born 5 mo. 9, 1807, mar- 

 ried Lucy Adelaide Gould; was made the 

 first cashier of the Frenchtown, New Jer- 

 sey, National Bank, when that institution 

 was established ; James, born 8 mo. 23, 

 1809, married first Phoebe Treichler, sec- 

 ond, Josephine Krause (widow). He died 

 March 14, 1903, at the age of nearly ninety- 

 four years ; Ann Eliza, born 7 mo. 30, 

 1812, married Jonas Smith, at this writ- 

 ing, August 26, 1905, she is still living in 

 possession of all her faculities, and enjoying 

 a ripe old age in the home of her only 

 child, John W. Smith, at Stockton, New 

 Jersey. Barzilla Newbold, born 7 mo. 4, 

 1814, referred to later; and Caroline, born 

 I mo. 18, 182 1, married Thomas W. Har- 

 ris. John and Christiana Williams built 

 a home on the estate of his father, at 

 Lodi, at the intersection of the river road 

 and a road leading back to the western 

 part of the township. The place is now 

 owned by a Mr. Adams. After the death 

 of his father, Jeremiah Williams, in 1834, 

 John bought land, in Tinicum township, 

 of the William Erwin estate, about 300 

 acres, and moved there in the spring of 

 1837. In the settlement of his father's 

 estate, Thomas was the only purchaser of 

 any part of the original estate ; his pur- 

 chase being about one-half of the land on 

 the north and west side of the tract. His 

 three brothers, Benjamin, Isaac and Jere- 

 miah, with their sisters, Margaret Lester 

 and Susan Williams moved to Ohio with 

 their families about 1840. John died 6 mo. 

 6, 1858. Prior to his death he sold the 

 middle portion of the tract, bought of the 

 Erwins, to Conrad Wyker and at the sale, 

 after his death, the northern portion w-as 

 bought by his son Barzilla and the re- 

 maining portion by his daughter Caro- 

 line. There had been a few lots sold to 

 others for building purposes, and these 

 together with three houses on the south 

 side of the Dublic road comprise the little 

 village of Erwinna. 



Barzilla Newbold Williams, born 7 mo. 

 4, 1814, married first, in 1839. Mary, daugh- 

 ter of Azariah and Anna Cummings Davis, 

 of Sussex countv. New Jersey, and had 

 two daughters: Stella, born 6 mo. 13, 1841, 

 died 10 mo. 4, 1843 : and Anna M., born 

 I mo. 4, 1844, married. 2 mo. 15. 1877, 

 William H.. r^on of Rev. Samuel and 

 Katherine (Wolfinger) Stahr. William 



