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I'll STORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



Twining, of Wrightstown. and a descend- 

 ant of the oldest and most prominent fam- 

 ilies of that section. They have no chil- 

 dren. 



AMOS S. WORTHINGTON. Lewis 

 Worthington, the father of the subject 

 of this sketch, was born in Buckingham 

 township, Bucks county, in 1820, and is a 

 descendant of the family of that name who 

 have been residents of Buckingham for sev- 

 eral generations, their earliest ancestors 

 having originally settled in Byberry, Phil.i- 

 delphia county, from whence the immedi- 

 ate progenitors of the Buckingham fam- 

 ily removed to Buckingham about the 

 middle of the eighteenth century._ Lewis 

 Worthington was reared to the life of a 

 farmer, and always followed that vocation. 

 In the year 1854 he purchased of a rela- 

 tive, Israel Worthington, the farm m 

 Doylestown township where the subject 

 of this sketch now resides, and contammg 

 eighty-two acres, and resided thereon until 

 his death in 1895. He married Tacy Dud- 

 bridge, daughter of William Dudbridge, of 

 Warwick township, and they were the par- 

 ents of two children: Theresa, wife of 

 Frank Keller, of Doylestown; and Amos S. 



Amos S. Worthington was born in 

 Doylestown township, August 19, 1855. He 

 was reared on the farm where he still re- 

 sides, and acquired his education at the 

 public schools. At the death of his father 

 he continued to manage the farm, and 

 a year later purchased his sister's interest 

 therein, and takes great pride in making 

 it one of the most productive and attrac- 

 tive farms in the neighborhood. 



STACY BROWN, of Newtown, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, was born at Browns- 

 burg, Upper Makefield township, Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania, February 28, 1864, 

 and is a son of the late William B. and 

 Hannah (Hough) Brown. 



Mr. Brown is descended on both mater- 

 nal and paternal sides from the oldest and 

 most distinguished families of Bucks 

 county. George Browne and Mercy his 

 wife, the pioneer ancestors of the family, 

 came from Lancashire, England, in 1679, 

 and were married on their arrival at New 

 Castle. They located in Falls township 

 on land surveyed to them under warrant 

 from Edmund Andros, governor-general 

 under the Duke of York. This land fronted 

 on the Delaware, above the Manor of 

 Pennsbury, and a part of it has remained 

 in the tenure of the de.scendents of George 

 and Mercy Browne to the present time. He 

 and his wife Mercy were said to have been 

 members of the Established church, but 

 most of their descendants of the third gen- 

 eration became members of the Society 

 of Friends. They had fourteen children. 



Joseph Brown, the great-great-grand- 

 father of the subject of this sketch, was 



a grandson of George and Mercy Browne 

 and supposed to be a son of Joseph and 

 Ann (Higgs) Brown. He was born in 

 l^'alls township, Bucks county, and residea 

 there all his life, dying in 1777. He mar- 

 ried, May 27, 1760, Mary Hutchinson, eld- 

 est child of Joseph and Esther (Stanaland) " 

 Hutchinson, and granddaughter of John 

 and Phebe (Kirkbride) Hutchinson, and 

 great-granddaughter of Joseph and Pheot 

 (Blackshaw) Kirkbride. Many of the de- 

 scendents of George and Mercy Browne 

 became prominent in the affairs of the in- 

 fant province, and later in that of the 

 state and nation. His son, Samuel, was 

 prominent member of the colonial assem- 

 bly, as were George and John, sons of Sam- 

 uel. The former was the grandfather 01 

 General Jacob Brown, of the United States 

 army. Of Joseph Kirkbride, the distin- 

 guished ancestor of the subject of this 

 sketch, it is hardly necessary to state that 

 he was one of the most pi 

 in the colonial history of Bucks county. 



Joseph and Mary (Hutchinson) Brown 

 were the parents of six children : Joseph 

 and Jesse, who died young; Levi, Stacy, 

 Phebe and Letitia. Mary, the mother, 

 died in 1783. 



Levi Brown, eldest surviving son of Jo- 

 seph and Mary (Hutchinson) Brown, was 

 born in Falls township in the year 17O5. 

 On arriving at manhood he located in 

 Buckingham and married Sarah Bennett, 

 daughter of William Bennett, of Holland 

 and English ancestry. In 1791, while a 

 resident of Buckingham, he purchased in 

 partnership with Joseph Harrold 150 acres 

 of land in Plumstead township, but prob- 

 ably never lived on it, as he was a resi- 

 dent of Warwick township, when he joined 

 in its conveyance in 1793. Little is known 

 of his subsequent history. 



Stacy Brown, son of Levi and Sarah 

 (Bennett) Brown, was born in Bucks 

 county, November 11, 1796. On Decembei 

 17, 1826, he married Lenah Beans, born 

 August 5, 1896, daughter of Thomas and- 

 Christiana (J,fl]i»son) Beans, of Warmin- 

 ster, and located at the present site of the 

 village of Brownsburg, Upper Makefield 

 township, Bucks county, of which village 

 he was the founder. He first purchased 

 five acres of land there, but eventually be- 

 came the owner of over 299 acres in that 

 locality, and was a prominent and succes- 

 ful business man, establishing a store, ho- 

 tel, sash and blind factory and coal and 

 limiber yard, and doing an extensive and 

 thriving business. He died September 20, 

 1879, and his wife Lenah on May 3, 1872. 

 They were the parents of five children: 

 Mary, the wife of Albert Agin ; Thomas 

 B. ; William B. ; Sara, the first wife of 

 the late Dr. J. P. Agnew; and Harriet 

 S., who never married. 



William B. Brown, second son of Stacy 

 and Lenah (Beans) Brown, died, 1875, 

 married Hannah Hough, daughter of Sam- 

 uel Moore Hough, of Newtown, and 

 granddaughter of Benjamin and Hannah 



