HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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county, Pennsylvania, in 1766, purchas- 

 ing on December 16, 1766, of Robert 

 MacFarland, 153 acres near the present 

 site of Hinkletown, on the Durham 

 Road, between Gardenville and Pipers- 

 ville. He was a blacksmith by trade, 

 and followed that vocation there for a 

 number of years. He later purchased 

 considerable other land in Plumstead, 

 owning at the time of his death, in 1814, 

 over 200 acres of land, and had conveyed 

 to his sons, Casper and Charles, each a 

 farm prior to his death. During the later 

 years of his life he was the proprietor 

 of an inn or tavern, at Hinkletown. He 

 was a member of Captain William Mc- 

 Calla's company of Associators in Plum- 

 stead in 1775, and later served in the Con- 

 tinental Line. Philip and Mary Hinckle 

 were the parents of five sons: Joseph; 

 Casper, who died in Plumstead in 1850; 

 Charles, who died in 1819; Anthony, who 

 died in 1815; and Philip. He had also 

 six daughters: Catharine, wife of Joshua 

 Richards; ^lary, wife of Jacob Hol- 

 bush ; Elizabeth ; Margaret, wife of Samuel 

 Beakes ; Barbara, wife of William Grove ^ 

 and Ann. 



Joseph Hinkle, eldest son of Philip, 

 was the grandfather of Dr. Hinkle. He 

 married Ann Marshall, one of the nine 

 daughters of Edward Marshall, who 

 made the one and a half days walk in 

 1737, that defined the purchase of the 

 land known as the "Walking Purchase." 

 Edward Marshall died in Tinicum town- 

 ship, November 6. 1789, aged seventy- 

 nine years. A full account of him and 

 his exploits with the Indians is given in 

 this work in the chapter entitled "The 

 Walking Purchase." Ann Hinkle was a 

 daughter of the second marriage to Eliz- 

 abeth Mease, who died October 12, 1807, 

 aged eighty years. Joseph Hinkle died in 

 Plumstead township June 24, 1821, aged 

 fifty-six years. 



William Hinkle. son of Joseph and 

 Ann (Marshall) Hinkle, was born in 

 Plumstead township, and spent his whole 

 life there as a farmer. He died in July, 

 i860. His wife was Elizabeth Walter, 

 daughter of Michael W^alter. Esq., for 

 many years a prominent farmer and jus- 

 tice of the peace of Plumstead township. 

 Dr. Albert G. B. Hinkle was reared on 

 the farm in Plumstead township. Bucks 

 county, attended the public schools of 

 that neighborhood and finished his ele- 

 mentary education' at Point Pleasant 

 Seminary, under the Rev. Dr. Hyde. He 

 studied medicine under his relative. Dr. 

 James M. Ridge, then of Tinicum town- 

 ship, later of Camden. New Jersey, now 

 deceased, who was also a descendant of 

 Edward Marshall. Dr. Hinkle entered 

 the Medical Department of the Univer- 

 sity of Pennsylvania, from which he 

 graduated in 1857. and practiced his pro- 

 fession in Philadelphia, until the sum- 

 mer of 1862. when he was appointed as- 

 sistant surgeon in charge of the trans- 



port, Daniel Webster No. 2, and served 

 until taken sick with typhoid fever, 

 when he was relieved from service. On 

 his recovery he resumed the practice of 

 medicine in Philadelphia, where he has 

 since been in active practice. 



Dr. Hinkle married in i860, Emma 

 Sevelenge Downie, of Philadelphia, and 

 they are the parents of two children: 

 Sallie, wife of William R. Warner, Jr., 

 a prominent wholesale druggist and 

 chemist of Philadelphia; and William 

 ]\Iarshall Hinkle, M. D., also a graduate 

 of the University of Peryisylvania. 



VALMORE M. HELLYER, of the mer- 

 cantile firm of A. S. Hellyer's Sons, was 

 born at Mechanics Valley, Buckingham 

 township, Bucks county, September 15, 

 1857, and is a son of Amos S. and Annie 

 (Penrose) Hellyer. His paternal great- 

 grandfather, Bernard Hellyer, is said to 

 have been the .son of an English baronet, 

 and came to this country about the middle 

 of the eighteenth century, when a lad. He 

 spent his life in central Bucks county, and 

 reared a large family of children. He was 

 twice married, the second time somewhat 

 late in life, on December 24, 1795, to Sarah 

 Walton, by whom he had four children — 

 Hettie, who married Aaron Crooks ; Mary, 

 who married Aaron Bradshaw ; Benjamin; 

 and Anderson. 



Anderson Hellyer the grandfather of the 

 subject of this sketch, was born in Bucking- 

 ham township, Bucks county, and spent the 

 greater part of his life there. He married 

 Mary Cress, daughter of Michael ' Cress, 

 and they were the parents of nine children — 

 George, who lived and died at Newtown, 

 Bucks county ; Amos, of Doylestown ; 

 Cress, of Crawford county, Pennsylvania ; 

 William who died young ; Myrom B., of 

 Bucks county : Mahlon, of Crawford coun- 

 ty, Pennsylvania ; Joseph, of Ohio ; Jenks, 

 of lower Bucks county; and Catharine, who 

 married John Griffith, and is deceased. 



Amos S. Hellyer was born in Buckino^- 

 ham, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, May 20, 

 1828. His younger days were spent upon 

 farms in Buckingham and Solebury town- 

 ships. On his marriage in 1854 he located 

 at Mechanics Valley, where he was the pro- 

 prietor of the hotel for several years. He 

 later removed to Mechanicsville and was 

 employed as a lightning rod salesman. In 

 1872 he took charge of the farm belonging 

 to the Hughesian Free School, at Buck- 

 ingham, which he conducted for fourteen 

 vears. In 1886 he sold out and removed to 

 Doylestown and entered into the mercantile 

 business with his son, Samuel A. Hellyer. 

 under the firm name of A. S. Hellyer & 

 Son, which continued until 1898. when he 

 retired from the firm, his elder son Val- 

 more M. becoming a partner with Samuel 

 A. under the firm name of A. S. Hellyer's 

 Sons. Mr. Hellyer is distinctly a self-made 

 m:.n. Left at an early age to his own re- 



