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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUXTY. 



by name in his will. Jacob was made ex- 

 ecutor with a brother-in-law, Jacob Mus- 

 selman, and the plantation was devised to 

 Samuel, he to have possession wlipn the 

 youngest son should be nineteen years of 

 age, "which will be in January, 1759." 

 Samuel Landis, the son, died in 1771, leav- 

 ing a widow iVlargaret, who married Mich- 

 ael jMusselman, and children : John, Ja- 

 cob, George, Anna; Barbara, wife of Ja- 

 cob Shelly ; Abraham, Eve and Samuel. 



Jacob Landis, the second son of Samuel 

 and Margaret, born about 1745, purchased 

 a large tract of land in Richland, near 

 California, and lived thereon until about 

 1800, having previous to that date con- 

 veyed the greater part to his sons, John 

 George and Jacob. He probably located 

 later m life in Lehigh or Montgomery coun- 

 ty, as there is no further record of him in 

 Bucks. 



George Landis, son of Jacob and Bar- 

 bara, was a turner by trade, and located 

 prior to 1788 in Springfield township, 

 where he purchased a farm of fifty acres 

 in that year. In 1794. he located at Cali- 

 fornia, Richland township, where he fol- 

 lowed his trade in connection with farm- 

 ing. In 1806 he purchased a farm of 137 

 acres in Haycock, and lived there until his 

 death in 1842, at an advanced age. He 

 married Anna Meyers, and they were the 

 parents of eight children ; two sons, George 

 and John; and six daughters — Barbara, 

 Catharine, Anna, Sarah, Maria and Eliza- 

 beth. 



George M. Landis, eldest son of George 

 and Anna (Meyers) Landis, was born at 

 California, Richland township, December 

 20, 1796. He learned the trade of a turn- 

 er with his father, and followed it in Hay- 

 cock, in connection with the con'duct of 

 fifty acres of the old homestead conveyed 

 to him by his father in 1822, until 1857, 

 when he sold his farm and .removed to 

 Hilltown, where he purchased the farm 

 and mill belonging to the estate of Peter 

 Loux, where he resided the remainder of 

 his life. He was a preacher in the Men- 

 nonite church, being the first preacher at 

 the Flatland church in Richland, which he 

 helped to build, contributing both money 

 and labor. On the Hilltown homestead, 

 purchased in 1859, was a mill known as the 

 old Fretz Mill, erected by Martin Fretz, 

 which George Moyer operated after settling 

 in Hilltown. He died August 28, 1881. He 

 was twice married, first on March 28, 1820, 

 to Barbara Rosenberger, daughter of Ja- 

 cob and Catharine (Rickert) Rosenber- 

 ger, of Rockhill, who died November 30, 

 1842, and their children were; Jacob, born 

 July 7, 1822; Ephraim, born December 13, 

 1824; George R., born November 2, 1828; 

 John L., born March 25, 1832. George M. 

 Landis married (second) August 22, 1843, 

 Mary Bechtel, born August 12, 1804, and 

 they were the parents of one child, Samuel 

 . Landis. the subject of this sketch. 

 Sanniei B. Landis, born on the old home- 

 stead in , Haycock, October 4, 1849, re- 



moved with his parents -to Hilltown when 

 a lad, and was educated in the public 

 schools of Haycock and Hilltown. He re- 

 mained on the farm with his parents as- 

 sisting in the operation of the farm and 

 mill, and at the death of his father pur- 

 chased the farm and still resides there. He 

 has attended the Philadelphia markets for 

 eighteen years, doing a large commission 

 business in the marketing of his neigh- 

 bor's produce. Like his ancestors for 

 many generations, he is a member of the 

 Mennonite church. In politics he is a Re- 

 publican. Mr. Landis married, January 2^, 

 1869, Mary Ann Hockman, born June 3, 

 1848, daughter of Ulrich and Margaret 

 (Myers) Hockman, of Bedminster, and 

 they were the parents of twelve children, 

 as follows: John, died in infancy; George, 

 born June 8, 1870, married Ida Kachline, 

 and has three children, — Charles, Sam- 

 uel and Mary; Mary, born September 8, 

 1872, wife of Jonas Hockman,; Catharine, 

 born September 22, 1874, wife of John 

 Musselman ; Ella, born September 9, 1876, 

 wife of Samuel Moyer; Sallie, born No- 

 vember 24, 1878, wife of William Keller; 

 Daniel, born July 31, 1881, died August 

 28, 1882; Emma, born May 10, 1883, mar- 

 ried William Dunlap ; William and Ida, 

 twins, died in infancy ; Anna, born Decem- 

 ber 27, 1890; Lettie, born March 28, 1892. 



Mr. and Mrs. Samuel B. Landis have 

 twelve grandchildren : Charles, Samuel and 

 Mary Landis, children of their son George ; 

 Samuel, Mabel, George and Walter Hock- 

 man, children of Jonas and Ida ; Samuel 

 Musselman, son of John and Catharine; 

 Samuel and Mathias Moyer, children of 

 John and Ella ; and IMamie and Evelyn 

 Gertrude Keller, daughters of William and 

 Sallie. 



JOHN WYNKOOP, proprietor of the 

 Buck Tavern, in Southampton township, 

 Bucks county, was born in Moreland town- 

 ship, Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, 

 July 22, 1837. His paternal grandfather, 

 Philip Wynkoop, married a Miss Norcross 

 and they had six children, namely : Henry, 

 who wedded Mary Hogeland. and had 

 three children, William H., Kate and 

 Lucy ; John, who married Sarah Yerkes, 

 and had one son, Franklin; Mary, who be- 

 came the w'ife of Enos Boutcher, and had 

 two children, George and Albert ; Garrett, 

 who was born October 6, 1802, and wed- 

 ded Mary Carr; Ann, who became the wife 

 Amos Yerkes, and had two children, 

 Albert and Katherine ; and Margaret, who 

 became Mrs. Boutcher, and had six chil- 

 dren : Charles, Wynkoop, Catherine, Lucy, 

 William and John. Garrett and Mary 

 (Carr) Wynkoop had three children: 

 John ; Charles, who married Amy Yerkes, 

 and has a daughter, Rebecca ; and Theo- 

 dore, wlin married Miss Morrison. 



John Wykoop. eldest son of Garrett and 

 Mary (Carr) Wynkoop, was reared in his 

 native township and acquired a public 



