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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



seven children as follows: Mary, born 

 October 9, 1S08, married June 17, 1S34, 

 William C. Jamison, of Warwick. IJiza- 

 beth, born January 22, 1810, died unmar- 

 ried. Josiah, born September 15, iSii, 

 died 1898, married November 24, 1842, 

 Sarah Brock. William, born August 24, 

 1813, married April 19, 1844, Isabella 

 Mann. He died February 25, 1867. Ir- 

 win, born December 9, 1815, died young. 

 George, born April 4, 1817, died Febru- 

 ary 7, 1871. Nathaniel, born October 15, 

 1819, died November 14, 1862, married 

 December 10, 1843, Susan L. Cox. Sam- 

 uel Hart was a member of Neshaminy 

 Presbyterian church, of which he was 

 trustee for thirteen years — 1810 to 1823. 

 In 1829 he joined th-e Society of Friends. 

 He married Amy, widow of John \Ia- 

 thews, and daughter of Benjamin Kin- 

 sey, of Buckingham. His only child by 

 the second marriage was Samuel Hart, 

 of Doylestown township, born in 1832, 

 married Ellen Eastburn. 



George Hart, son of Samuel and Mary 

 Hart, studied law and was admitted to 

 the Bucks county bar November 16, 

 1843. He was a man universally ad- 

 mired and respected for his many good 

 qualities. He was thrice married; (first) 

 February i, 1842, to Zallida, daughter of 

 James and Amelia (Brockway) Gofif; 

 (second) January 22, 1846, to Sarah, 

 daughter of Nathan and Sarah (Cal- 

 lender) Cornell; and (third) February 

 I, 1854, to Martha, daughter of John and 

 Martha CDuncan) Watson, a sister to 

 Judge Richard Watson. 



Josiah Hart, son of Samuel and Mary 

 Hart, was born in Warwick township, 

 September 15, 181 1. He received a lib- 

 eral education and on June 18, 1834, was 

 appointed a clerk in the Doylestown 

 Bank and December 8, 1847, was pro- 

 moted to the position of cashier, which 

 position he filled for ten years, being 

 succeeded by John J. Brock, November 

 19, 1857. In the following year he or- 

 ganized a banking institution in con- 

 nection with his brother, George Hart, 

 Richard Watson, Willam M. Large and 

 Jonas Fretz, under the name of J. Hart 

 & Co. During the civil war Messrs. 

 Fretz, Large and Watson retired, and 

 after the death of George Hart, John 

 and Frank Hart became partners with 

 their father and sole proprietors of the 

 bank. Josiah Hart died October 16, 

 1885, and the sons continued the busi- 

 ness until 1896. when the business was 

 closed out. Josiah Hart married, No- 

 vember 24. 1842, Sarah, Daughter of 

 Stephen and Mary (Jones) Brock. John 

 and Frank were their only children. 

 On the organization of the Doylestown 

 Trust Company, March 24, 1896. John 

 Hart became its president. Both John 

 and Frank Hart received a liberal edu- 

 cation and early in life became clerks in 

 their father's bank and later proprietors 

 as above stated. At the closing of the 



bank Frank retired from active business. 

 John married Grace Vansant, and has 

 one child, Rebie. Frank married Lizzie 

 Pallett, who is now deceased, and he 

 has one son George. 



MARY HOLCOMBE, of Newtown, is 

 a native of Plumstead township, Bucks 

 county, being a daughter o^ Charles and 

 Hannah Robinson Ilolcombe, and a de- 

 scendant of John and Mary (Green) 

 Holcombe, an account of whose descen- 

 dants is given in the preceding sketch. 



Richard Holcombe, the grandfather of 

 Mary Holcombe, was the second son of 

 John and Mary (Closson) Holcombe, of 

 Amwell township, Hunterdon county. 

 New Jersey, where he was born in 1767. 

 On November 20, 1792, he married Eliza- 

 beth Closson, daughter of Cornelius and 

 Jennet Closson, of Solebury, and settled 

 on his father's farm in Amwell, where he 

 spent his whole life, dying in 1827. He 

 was a carpenter by trade, and was dis- 

 tinguished from his cousins of the same 

 name by the appelation of "Carpenter 

 Richard Holcombe." Richard and Eliza- 

 beth (Closson) Holcombe were the pa- 

 rents of nine children: John C, who 

 resided on the old Amwell plantation, 

 dying at the age of ninety years; 

 Thomas; Charles; Mary, married Ab- 

 salom Phillips; Allen; Elizabeth, mar- 

 ried Wilson Moore, and Aaron. 



Charles Holcombe, son of Richard and 

 Elizabeth, was a wheelwright by trade, 

 but for many years prior to his death 

 was a farmer in Plumstead township, 

 Bucks county. He married (first) Mary 

 Roberts, who bore him seven children, 

 only one of whom grew to maturity, 

 Elizabeth, who married Charles P. Fen- 

 ton. He married (second) Hannah Rob- 

 inson and had four children: Mary, the 

 subject of this sketch; Allen, and Sarah 

 Ellen, both of whom died young;' and 

 Charles, who married Phebe Ellen Betts, 

 and is now deceased, leaving three chil- 

 dren: Reuben, who married, September 

 15, 1898, Amy Cooper, daughter of 

 George and Sarah (Miller) Cooper, of 

 Avondale, Chester county, Pennsylvania; 

 Rachel B., and Charles, who is a local 

 minister of the Methodist church: he 

 married, February 22, 1899, Flora Sny- 

 der, daughter of Silas and Catherine Sny- 

 der, of Bucks county, Pennsj-lvania; 

 Phebe Ellen, the widow of Charles Hol- 

 combe. Jr., resides with the subject of 

 this sketch at Newtown. Charles Hol- 

 combe, Sr., died in Plumstead, August 

 7, 1881, aged eighty-two years. 



OLIVER H. HOLCOMBE. of 

 Wrightstown. is a worthy descendant 

 of one of the oldest families in Bucks 

 county. Lie is a son of John and Eliza- 

 beth (Hibbs) Holcombe. and was born 

 in Upper Makefield township, Bucks 



