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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



Irish settled in Bucks county in the early 

 part of 1700. November 3, 171 1, James 

 Carroll purchased the old Carrcll home- 

 stead (Carrellton) from Thomas and 

 Clement Dungan, it being a tract of land 

 purchased by the said Dungans of the 

 widow of Arthur Cook on May 11, 1699, 

 for the sum of five shillings lawful money, 

 it being a part of a tract of one thousand 

 acres purchased by Arthur Cook of James 

 Claypool and Robert Turner, commission- 

 ers for William Penn, April i, 1686. This 

 old homestead has been in the Carrell fam- 

 ily since this date (1711) descending from 

 father to son to its present owner, Isaac 

 Carrell. James Carrell seems to have been 

 a man of great energy and push, and ac- 

 cumulated quite a large property for those 

 days, leaving three fine farms and about 

 four thousand dollars in money at his death. 

 He was married to Diana VanKirk, and she 

 bore him eleven children. Of Scotch-Irish 

 Presbyterian stock, he identified himself 

 with the establishment of the Neshaminy 

 church, at which he was a regular wor- 

 shipper. Identified as he was with the early 

 history of the county, an account of his 

 children will doubtless be interesting. His 

 first child, Rebecca, was born May 25, 1725, 

 married Robert Weir, and settled in Vir- 

 ginia. Sarah, born September 25, 1726, 

 married Robert Patterson and settled in 

 Bucks county, but later generations removed 

 to Maryland and later to Ohio and Mis- 

 souri, where some of the family now live. 

 Barnard married Lucretia McKnure, and 

 settled on one of his father's farms lo- 

 cated in Warminster township, it being pur- 

 chased of William Tennent, the founder of 

 the old Log College, which afterwards was 

 removed to Princeton, New Jersey, and is 

 the parent of the Princeton University. 

 This old college was first across the old 

 York road from the Carrell purchase. This 

 farm remained in Barnard's family until a 

 few years ago. By intermarriage the 

 Service, McNair, Fleck and other families 

 were brought into the family. James was 

 born March 26, 1730. He married Sarah 



and settled in Tinicum township, 



Bucks county, on a farm about two miles 

 west of Point Pleasant, now occupied by 

 Mr. Seikenfuss. From his four children, 

 James, Daniel, Ann and Rachel, are de- 

 scended many families in upper Bucks 

 county and in New Jersey. Jacob and 

 Rachel were born December 12, 1732. A 

 full account of Jacob has been o-iven. 

 Rachel married Robert Stewart and set- 

 tled in Bucks county. Benjamin, born 

 April 27, 1735, served in the Revolutionary 

 war. Phoebe, born August 20, 1737, mar- 

 ried Andrew Scout. Solomon, born May 

 25, 1740, married Mary . and pur- 

 chased a farm of over one hundred acres 

 in Tinicum township. Elizabeth, born May 



16, 1742, and Diana, married • ■ 



Dungan. Her daughter, Rachel, married 

 Jesse Johnson, and by whom the Johnson- 

 Thompson family is brought into connec- 

 tion with the Carrells. Diana also had two 



sons, traces of whom have been lost. The 

 family of Carrell came to this country from 

 the North of Ireland and was of Scotcn- 

 Irish extraction with an infusion of French 

 Huguenot blood. Family tradition says that 

 the Carrell who came here about 1690 was a 

 weaver who, with his wife, was imprisoned 

 in Londonderry during that memorable siege 

 of one hundred and five days, and soon 

 after came to America. The family is prob- 

 ably a branch of the house of Carrell who 

 were rulers in the northern counties of 

 Ireland, and Dr. William Carroll in his 

 history of the family traces them back 

 through the different generations to the be- 

 ginning of the third century. 



HORACE G. BROADHURST, a farmer 

 residing in Buckingham township, was 

 born within its borders, April 2, 1855, his 

 parents being Samuel E. and Sarah T. 

 (Reeder) Broadhurst. The family con- 

 nection with Bucks county dates from the 

 early part of the seventeenth century, when 

 this was a pioneer district, the work of im- 

 provement and development being scarcely 

 begun. Thomas Broadhurst, the great- 

 grandfather, was a farmer during his early 

 life, and for a number of years resided in 

 Solebury township, but his last days were 

 spent in Centerville, Bucks county. His 

 son, Joseph Broadhurst, became a resident 

 of Buckingham township in 1826, and pur- 

 chased the farm which later became the 

 property of Samuel E. Broadhurst. There 

 he carried on agricultural pursuits with 

 good success for some time, but eventually 

 purchased a small place and lived in hon- 

 orable retirement from further labor until 

 called to his final rest in 1868. To him and 

 his wife, Rachel Broadhurst, were born 

 four childlren : A son who died the same 

 day ; Mary Anna, the wife of Samuel John- 

 son Paxson ; Samuel E. ; and Caroline L., 

 the wife of Oliver Howard Wilson. 



Samuel Eastburn Broadhurst, son of Jo- 

 seph and Rachel Broadhurst, was born in 

 Solebury township, February 25, 1823, and 

 died June 16, 1905, in his eighty-third year. 

 He spent his youth in the usual manner of 

 farmer lads of that period. He decided to 

 make the occupation to which he had been 

 reared his life work, and has since been 

 interested in farming in this county. He 

 was also' at one lime president of the Buck- 

 ingham and Doylestown Turnpike Company 

 and for a number of years was a trustee 

 of the Hughesian Free School. In 1848 he 

 married Sarah Twining Reeder, to whom 

 were born three children : Joseph J., 

 Anna M. and Horace G. Anna M. died at 

 the age of twenty-one. 



Horace G. Broadhurst, reared upon his 

 father's farm, was a student in the Hughes- 

 ian Free School, and afterward entered 

 the Holicong public school, while subse- 

 quently he becarne a student in the Doyles- 

 town English and Classical Seminary, in 

 which he completed his education. Return- 

 ing to his father's home he then took charge 



