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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



married Rebecca Hibbs, September 19, 

 1768, and had eleven children. 



Mahlon Trego, second son of WilHam 

 and Rebecca, was born November 25, 1770, 

 and married Rachel Briggs, daughter of 

 Joseph and Elizabeth, who bore him thir- 

 teen children: Charles B., the famous 

 scholar, state geologist, surveyor, professor 

 in the University of Pennsylvania, etc., 

 born II mo. 25, 1794, died ii mo. 10, 1874, 

 married Martha Smith, of Buckingham. 



2. Albert, born 1796, died 1797. 3. Phineas, 

 born I mo. 12, 1796, died 5 mo. 21, 1875. 

 4. Elizabeth, born 11 mo. 26, 1798, died 6 

 mo. II, 1881, married John Merrick; 5. 

 Louis, born 11 mo. i, 1801. 6. Robert S., 

 born 9 mo. 24, 1803, died 3 mo. 29, 1886. 



7. Mary, born 9 mo. 14, 1805, died in Illi- 

 nois, unmarried. 8. James, born 8 mo. i, 

 1807, removed to Illinois in 1858. 9. Jo- 

 seph B., born 5 mo. 19, 1809, removed to Il- 

 linois in 1839. 10. Cyrus, born 9 mo. 15, 

 1810, died 12 mo. 11, 1866. 11. Edward, 

 born II mo. 3, 1812, died December 12, 

 1886. 12. Mahlon, born 9 mo. 8, 1815, died 

 unmarried in 1839. 13. Morris, born I mo. 

 18, 1819, died 10 mo. 14, 1843. Mahlon, the 

 father, died in 1849, and his wife in 1840. 



Edward Trego, eleventh child of Mahlon 

 and Rachel (Briggs) Trego, born 11 mo. 



3, 1812, married Sarah Fenton, born 1817, 

 daughter of Richard and Elizabeth, on 

 4 mo. 21, 1836 and had seven children, the 

 eldest of whom, "William Wallace Trego, 

 of Newtown, born March 20, 1837, is the 

 father of Mrs. Hogeland. Her mother, 

 Sarah Bennett, born August 9, 1841, is a 

 daughter of John and Abi Bennett, of Up- 

 per Makefield. 



MORRIS HOGELAND, seventh child 

 of Abraham and Mary Ann (Fenton) 

 Hogeland, was born on the old family 

 homestead in Southampton in 1835, and 

 died May 6, 1866. He was reared on the 

 old homestead and received his education 

 in the local schools. On arriving at man- 

 hood he took up the vocation of a farmer, 

 and after his marriage took charge of one 

 of his father's farms in Southampton, which 

 he conducted until his death. Lie was 

 affiliated with the Baptist church of South- 

 ampton, and was a consistant Christian 

 and highly respected in t^ie community. 

 His wife was Mary Jane Willard, born near 

 Rocksville, April 6, 1839, a daughter of 

 James V. and Mary (Delaney) Willard. 

 and a granddaughter of Jesse and Mar- 

 garet (Van Artsdalen) Willard. Mrs. 

 Hogeland is still living in Southampton. 

 The children of Morris and Mary Jane 

 (Willard) Hogeland are as follows: i. 

 Ella, born February 25, 1861, married 

 Holmes DeCoursey. of Warminster, and 

 has two children, — Etta L., born September 

 3, 1884; and Morris H., born August 9, 

 T890. 2. Margaret W.. married Albert C. 

 Twining, and has two children, — Jessie W., 

 born November 28, 188S, and A. Chester, 

 born July 18, 1892. 3. Abraham, born May 



8, 1865, died in infancy. 



James V. Willard, the father of Mrs. 

 Mary Jane Hogeland, and also of Keziah 

 D. Hogeland, widow of John Hogeland, of 

 Southampton, was a son of Jesse Willard, 

 and was born in Abington, Montgomery 

 county, April 23, 1806. His father, Jesse 

 Willard, was twice married ; by his first 

 wife, who was Wynkoop, he had two sons, 

 David and Wynkoop. He married (sec- 

 ond) Margaret Van Artsdalen, and had by 

 her seven children, as follows: Jesse; 

 Esther; James; Charles, married (first) 

 Rachel Stockdale and (second) Phebe Lee; 

 Jackson, never married ; William, married 

 and had two children, Geary, and Esther; 

 and Jane, married Harmon Marshall, and 

 had four children, all of whom are de- 

 cea'sed. 



James V. Willard, a third child of Jesse 

 and Margaret (Van Artsdalen) Willard, 

 married Mary Delaney and settled near 

 Rocksville, Northampton township, Bucks 

 county. _ They were the parents of thir- 

 teen children : 



1. Jesse, born December 19, 1830, married 

 Emma C. Streeper and had two children, 

 xA.ry W. and Harold E. 



2. Eliza Ann, born May 2, 1832, mar- 

 ried James T. Blair in 1852, and has five 

 children, Frank P., Mary W., Orvilla, Ida 

 Belle, and William James. 



3. Matilda, born September 18, 1833, mar- 

 ried Samuel Stillwell, of Doylestown ; chil- 

 dren : Willard, Irene, John W. and Sarah. 



4. John, born December 9, 1835, died 

 March 7, 1866. 



5. Keziah D., widow of John Hogeland, 

 born July 23, 1837 (see sketch). 



6. Mary Jane, see above. 



7. Emily, born June 22, 1840. married 

 Martin V. Dager, and has children; Char- 

 les O., Jesse, and Martin V. B. 



8. Julia, born August 30, 1842, married 

 John Fenton, and has children ; James M., 

 Simon, Anna, Morris, Mary W., J. Pur- 

 ington, John, and Blanche. 



9. Loisa, born June 30, 1844, married 

 Samuel D. Cornell, and has children; 

 David, Harold, Horace, and Mary W. 



10. Esther, born August 14, 1846, died in 

 infancy. 



11. J. Monroe, born February 13, 1848, 

 married Sarah Stout, and has one daugh- 

 ter, Florence G. 



12. Josephine, born November 4, 1849, 

 married Morris H. Trego, and 'has one 

 daughter, Marian. 



13. Margaret, born December 16, 1851, 

 died at the age of ten years. 



(For ancestry of Mary Jane Hogeland 

 and Keziah D. Hogeland, see Willard 

 family.) 



THE WILLARD FAMILY have been 

 residents of lower Bucks county and ad- 

 joining parts of Montgomery county for 

 the pilst two hundred years. George Wil- 

 lard, of Marple township. Chester county, 

 on Januarj' 24. 1696, purchased 100 acres of 

 land in Northampton township. Bucks 



