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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTY. 



1818. In early manhood he learned the 

 wheelwright trade and opened a shop in 

 New Hope about 1840. In 1842 he re- 

 moved to Richboro, where he remained for 

 a year or two and then established his 

 home at Johnsville, where he owned and 

 conducted an extensive .machine shon which 

 became one of the leading industrial con- 

 cerns of the locality, furnishing employment 

 to twenty or more men. He was an ac- 

 ■complished mechanic, and patented a mow- 

 ing machine. He was very active in busi- 

 life, a man of keen discernment and un- 

 faltering enterprise as well as unblemished 

 integrity, and through the capable manage- 

 ment of his affairs acquired a handsome 

 competency. He always voted with the Re- 

 publican party, giving stalwart support to 

 the cause, and was a recognized leader in 

 its local councils, and, in fact, his influence 

 extended ■ to political circles in the state. 

 He was at one time a candidate for state 

 senator, and although his district was 

 strongly Democratic he was defeated by a 

 very small vote, running far ahead of his 

 ticket. He served for a number of years 

 as justice of the peace, and was one of the 

 liighly esteemed and influential men of his 

 locality. He married Miss Ann Carver, 

 who was born in Northampton township, 

 December 9, 1818, a daughter of Robert and 

 Mary (Smith) Carver. Her father was a 

 prominent farmer of Northampton town- 

 ship, and was a son of Joel and Ann 

 (Smith) Carver. Robert and Ann (Carver) 

 Beans became the parents of five children, 

 of whom four are living: Mrs. Carrie R. 

 B. Paxson; Annie E., the wife of Frank 

 A. Phillips, assistant cashier of the Lam- 

 bertville National Bank of Lambertville, 

 New Jersey; Mary C, wife of Watson 

 K. Reeder, of New Hope, Bucks county; 

 and Alice, wife of Milton Wood. 



Mrs. Paxson spent her girlhood days in 

 her parents' home, and her early education, 

 acquired in the common schools, was sup- 

 plemented bv study in the State normal 

 school at Millersville, from which institu- 

 tion she was graduated with the class of 

 1875. In 1863 she began teaching, and fol- 

 lowed that profession with splendid suc- 

 cess in the district schools for twelve years. 

 In 1879 she gave her hand in marriage to 

 J. Warren Paxson, a son of Abraham and 

 Evelina (Walton) Paxson. His father 

 was born July 17, 1802. in Solebury town- 

 ship, where his entire life was passed. He 

 was in ill health for a long time, and died 

 when comparatively a young man. 



J. Warren Paxson was born in Solebury 

 township on the farm where he now resides, 

 his natal day being June 25, 1845. He was 

 here reared, and the common schools af- 

 forded him his educational privileges. In 

 1863 he enlisted for three months service 

 in "the Union army, and returned to his 

 home at the end of that time in very poor 

 health, so that for three years he was under 

 the doctor's care, and for a lonp- time little 

 hone was entertained for his recovery. 

 After regaining his health he worked on the 



farm of his father until 1876, when he and 

 a brother purchased the old homestead, 

 which they farmed together until 1879. In 

 that year Harvey Paxson assumed the man- 

 agement of the home place, and J. Warren 

 Paxson removed to his late home, where 

 he and his wife thereafter resided. For sev- 

 eral years he was engaged in the under- 

 taking business. He was a cabinet-maker 

 and carpenter by trade, and followed these 

 pursuits occasionally. Mr. Paxson was a 

 Republican in his political views, and be- 

 longed to the Friends' ijieeting. Botii Mr. 

 and Mrs. Paxson represent old families of 

 Bucks county, and have enjoyed the high ' 

 regard of a large circle of friends. J. War- 

 ren Paixson died suddenly of heart trouble 

 on June 27, 1905. 



HARRY R. TREGO, of Pineville, 

 Wrightstown township, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, was born March 2, 1866. on 

 the farm upon which he still resides, and 

 which had been the property of his ances- 

 tors for several generations, having been 

 , purchased by John Trego, the ancestor of 

 the Bucks county branch of the famib- of 

 George Newburn, October 10, 1743. The 

 family of Trego is of French origin, the 

 ancestors Peter and Judith Trego emigrat- 

 ing from France about 1685, and settling 

 in Middletown township, now Delaware 

 county, where Peter purchased land in 

 1690. The children of Peter and Judith 

 Trego were: Jacob, born 8 mo. 17, 1687; 

 James, born 4 mo. 26, 1690; William, born 

 6 mo. 3, 1693 ; Ann, born 8 mo. 28, 1702, 

 married Dr. James Rushton ; John, born 12 

 mo. 15, 1696; Peter, born about i /oo. Peter, 

 the father, died in Middletown at the age 

 of seventy-five years, in 1730. 



Jacob Trego, the eldest son of Peter and 

 Judith, born in 1687, married at Darby 

 Meeting of Friends in 1710, Mary Cart- 

 ledge, daughter of Edmund and Mary Cart- 

 ledge, who had come from Darby, Derby- 

 shire, in 1683. Mary was born at Darby, 

 Chester county, Pennsylvania, 8 mo. 25, 

 1685. Jacob resided in Merion, Chester 

 county until 1717, when he moved to Darbv. 

 where he died 4 mo. 10. 1720, his eldest 

 daughter Hannah dying on the same day. 

 He left two children : John, born ^ mo. 6, 

 1715; and Rachel, born 7 mo. 27. 1719. On 

 October 5, 1722. his widow, Marv Trego, 

 married John Laycock, who had emigrated 

 from Lancashire, England, and settled in 

 Wrightstown. Bucks county. Their only 

 child. Mary Laycock, married Daniel White, 

 of Buckingham, 9 mo. 12, 1751. 



James and William Trego, sons of Peter 

 and Judith, married sisters bv the name of 

 Moore, and remained in Chester county, 

 the former rearing a family, and the latter 

 dying soon after his marriage, childless. 

 Peter, Jr. married Ann Whitaker, and 

 reared a family. John, the youngest son. 

 followed the sea for many years. Rachel, 

 the surviving daughter of Jacob and Mary 



