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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



where Christopher married at Middle- 

 town Meeting, 3 mo. 1719, Ann Hunter. 



Robert Penrose, son of Robert and 

 Mary (Clayton) Penrose, born in Ire- 

 land, as before stated, followed his par- 

 ents to Pennsylvania and located near 

 them in Chester county. On September 

 13. '^723, he married at Springfield Meet- 

 ing, Mary Heacock, and in 1734 ob- 

 tained a certificate to Gwynedd Monthly 

 Meeting. He located in the Great 

 Swamp, later Richland township, be- 

 coming a member of Richland Monthly 

 Meeting at its organization in 1742. 

 Their children, all born in Richland, 

 were: Jonathan, born March i, 1736; Jo- 

 seph, born August 10, 1737; John, born 

 January 19, 1740. married Ann Roberts; 

 William, born April 15, 1742, married 

 Mary Roberts; Robert, Jr., born May 

 6. 1744; Samuel, born Arugust 21, 1748, 

 see forward; Benjamin, born Decem- 

 ber 30, 1749; Mary, born June 5. 1753; 

 and Jesse, born May 2, 1755. Of the 

 above named children of Robert and 

 Mary Penrose Jonathan, Joseph, John 

 and William remained in Richland and 

 reared families. Jesse, the youngest 

 son, removed to Warrington. York 

 county, by way of Exeter, 1776. 



Samuel Penrose, sixth son of Robert 

 and Mary (Heacock) Penrose, born in 

 Richland, August 21, 1748, remained 

 there until April, 1801, when he re- 

 moved with his wife and children, Will- 

 iam, Eeverard, Benjamin and Margaret, 

 to the Graeme Park farm in Horsham, 

 Montgomery count3\ which he had just 

 purchased. Graeme Park was established 

 as the country residence of Sir Will- 

 iam Keith, the last of the English pro- 

 vincial governors of Pennsylvania. The 

 old historic mansion erected by him in 

 1721 and still standing, an illustration 

 of which appears in these volumes, is 

 replete with historic associations as 

 narrated in a previous volume. He mar- 

 ried at Richland, November 9, 1777, 

 Sarah Roberts, born June, 1758, daugh- 

 ter of Abel and Gainor (Morris) Rob- 

 erts, and granddaughter of Edward 

 Roberts, born in Merionethshire. Wales. 

 in May, 1687, came to Pennsylvania in 

 1699, and settled in Byberry, Philadel- 

 phia county. He married in 1714 Mary 

 Bolton, daughter of Everard, and in 

 1816 removed to Richland, where he be- 

 came an extensive landholder and reared 

 a family of eight children. He was a 

 minister among Friends for many years, 

 and died on his Richland farm, Novem- 

 ber 25, 1768, in his eighty-second year. 

 His widow died July 22, 1784, in her 

 ninety-seventh year. Abel Roberts, 

 their second child and eldest son, born 

 October 23, T717, married, April 17, 1744, 

 Gainor Morris, daughter of Morris and 

 Susanna (Heath) Morris. Morris Mor- 

 ris was also a native of Wales. His 

 father, Evan Morris, born in Grikhoth, 

 Caernarvonshire, Wales, in 1654, became 



a convert to Friends' faith and suffered 

 persecution therefor. He emigrated to 

 Pennsylvania with his wife and family 

 about 1690, and lived for a time in the 

 present limits of Delaware, removing 

 later to near Abington, now Montgom- 

 ery county, where he died. His son Mor- 

 ris Morris, born 1674, was a farmer near 

 Abington for a number of years but be- 

 came one of the pioneers to the Great 

 Swamp, where he died June 2, 1764. His 

 wife Susanna was a daughter of Robert 

 Heath; she died in Richland, June 8^ 

 1755. The children of Samuel and Sarah 

 (Roberts) Penrose, all but the youngest 

 of whom were born at Richland, were- 

 as follows: Abel, born August 7, 1778, 

 died in Richland, married (first) Keziah 

 Speakman and (second) Abi.gail Foulke; 

 Gainor, born March 4, 1780; William^ 

 born March 13, 1782; Everard, born Oc- 

 tober 7, 1784; Mary, born May 11, 1787^ 

 died young; Benjamin, born September 

 16, 1791; Susanna, born August 21, 1793; , 

 Samuel, born August 10, 1796; Margaret,, 

 born September 20, 1798, and Morris, 

 born June 15, 1801. Samuel Penrose, 

 the father, on the marriage of his son 

 William sold him the Graeme Park 

 farm and removed to Warminster, 

 where he died February 2, 1833. 



William Penrose, second son of Sam- 

 uel and Sarah, born in Richland, March 

 14, 1782, removed with his parents to- 

 Horsham, in 1801. In i8ro he married' 

 Hannah Jarret, daughter of William and 

 Ann, of Horsham, purchased the home 

 farm of his father, and erecting a com- 

 modious residence on a natural building 

 site, lived thereon until a few years be- 

 fore his death, when he purchased a 

 farm adjoining and there spent his re- 

 maining days. His seven children were: 

 Ann J., born September 25. 181 1, married 

 Abraham Iredell, of Horsham; Samuel, 

 born April 18, 1813, died unmarried at 

 the age of thirty-five years; Jarret, bom 

 April' I, 1815; Abel, born May 3, 1817, 

 married Sarah Beisel, of Allentown, in 

 1856; Hannah, born February 28, 1820, 

 married Isaac W. Hicks, of Newtown. 

 (See Hicks Family) ; William, born 1822, 

 died in infancy; and Tacy S., born Oc- 

 tober 14, 1823, married Morris Davis, of 

 Warminster. William Penrose, the 

 father, died November 20, 1863. and his 

 wife in 1850. Both were consistent mem- 

 bers of Horsham Friends' Meeting, and 

 their children were reared in that faith. 



Jarrett Penrose, second son of Will- 

 iam and Hannah (Jarrett) Penrose. born- 

 April T, 1815, was reared at the Hor- 

 sham homestead and lived all his life \n 

 that township. On his marriage he pur- 

 chased the Abraham Iredell farm irr 

 Horsham and lived thereon until his 

 death in 1889. His life was one of un- 

 faltering industry and straightforward 

 dealing. He and his wife were members 

 of Horsham Meeting of Friends, and 

 their children were reared in that faith. 



