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county, and on August 23, 1697, purchased 

 two hundred and forty-six acres in South- 

 ampton township, same county, on which 

 he then settled. February 17, 1699, he 

 purchased one hundred acres adjoining his 

 last purchase and lived thereon until his 

 death prior to 1718, when his executors 

 conveyed his land, reciting his will as dated 

 January 24, 1706. He left one son George, 

 who was named as executor, with John 

 Shaw, a neighbor. 



George Willard, Jr., died in Northamp- 

 ton prior to 1739, at which date letters of 

 administration were granted on his estate. 

 It is not known by the present generation 

 of the family what children he left or how 

 they are descended from George Willard 

 who settled in Bucks county in 1697. Jon- 

 athan and George Willard were residents 

 of Northampton township in 1775, and 

 were members of Captain Henry Lott's 

 company of Northampton Associators, and 

 as such participated in the Jersey cam- 

 paign of 1776-7, being stationed at Billings- 

 port. New Jersey, November 16, 1777. As 

 tradition relates that the father of Jesse 

 Willard (an account of whom and his de- 

 scendants follows) served in the revolu- 

 tionary war in a Bucks county company, 

 he was doubtless a son of either Jonathan 

 or George above mentioned. Jonathan 

 Willard died early in the century, leaving 

 a widow Elizabeth, who died in 1825, at 

 the age of ninety-three years, and a large 

 familv of children. 



JESSE WILLARD, the grandfather 

 of Dr. J. Monroe Willard. principal 

 of the Philadelphia Normal School !or 

 Girls, and of Mrs. Keziah D. Hogeland, 

 and Mary Jane Hogeland, of Southampton, 

 Bucks county, born about 1765 or earlier, 

 resided in early life in the township of 

 Moreland, now Montgomery county. On 

 January 7, 1786, he purchased three tracts 

 of land" in Southampton, Bucks county, and 

 settled thereon, but in 1799 sold his Bucks 

 county real estate and is said to have re- 

 turned to Moreland.- Jesse Willard was 

 married twice, his first wife being a Wyn- 

 koop, his second Margaret Van Artsdalen 

 whom he married December 20, 1800. He 

 had two sons, David and Wynkoop, by his 

 first marriage, and by his second marriage 

 seven children : Jesse, Esther, James V.. 

 Charles, Jackson, William and Jane. 

 Charles married, first, Rachel Stockdale. 

 and second Phebe Lee. William married 



Christiana ■ • and left two children, 



William and Esther. Jane married Har- 

 mon Marshall, and had four children, two 

 of whom are deceased. 



James V. Willard, third child of Jesse 

 and Margaret Van Artsdalen Willard, was 

 born in Moreland, ^Montgomery county, 

 April 23, 1806, and married Mary Delany 

 (born April 30, 1812), daughter of William 

 and Mary Delaney. of Southampton, Bucks 

 county, on February 25, 1830. He settled 

 near Rocksville. Bucks county, Pennsyl- 

 vania. They were the parents of thirteen 

 children : 



1. Jesse, born December 19, 1830, mar- 

 ried Emma C. Streeper, and had two chil- 

 dren, Mary W. and Harold Ethelbert. 

 Jesse was a teacher and was drowned at 

 Flat Rock Dam, Schuylkill river, August 



15, 1859- 



2. Eliza Ann, born May 2, 1832, married 

 James T. Blair in 1852 and had five chil- 

 dren : Frank P., Mary W., Orilla, Ida Belle 

 and William James. 



3. Matilda, born September 18, 1833, 

 married Samuel Stilwell, of Doylestown, 

 and had four children : James Willard, 

 Irene, John Willard and Sarah. Matilda 

 died May li, 1901. 



4. John v., born December 9, 1835, died 

 March 7. 1866, unmarried. 



5. Keziah D., born July 23, 1837, married 

 John Hogeland. 



6. Mary Jane, born April 6, 1839, married 

 Morris Hogeland. 



7. Emily M., born June 22, 1840, married 

 Martin V. B. Dager, and had three chil- 

 dren: Charles O. Dager, D. D. S. ; Jesse, 

 and Martin V. B. Jesse died in infancj'. 



8. Julia, born August 30, 1842, married 

 John C. Fenton and had eight children: 

 James Monroe W., Simon, Anna, Morris, 

 Mary W., J. Purington, John and Blanche. 



9. Louisa, born June 30, 1844, married 

 Samuel D. Cornell, and had four children: 

 David, Harold, Horace and Mary W.' 

 Louisa died September 23, 1904. 



10. Esther, born August 14, 1846, died 

 in infancy. 



ir. James Monroe, born February 13, 



1848. married Sarah A. Stout, and had one 

 daughter, Florence Gillingham. 



12. Josephine Delany, born November 4, 



1849, married Morris H. Trego, and had 

 one daughter, Marian W. 



13. Margaret, born December 16, 1851, 

 died October 8, 1862. 



On the death of his father, J. Monroe 

 Willard accepted a position as teacher in a 

 little school near Willow Grove, at a place 

 known as Kirk's Corner, and taught there 

 for a short time. Finding that it was pos- 

 sible for him to return to finish his course 

 at the Philadelphia High School, he re- 

 signed this position. After finishing his 

 course at the high school, he taught for 

 three months in Springfield school, Spring- 

 field township, Montgomery county, Penn- 

 sylvania. He began his career as a teacher 

 in the public schools of Philadelphia in 

 January, 1866, as principal of the Washing- 

 ton Consolidated School, Twentj^'-third Sec- 

 tion : January I, 1868, he was made prin- 

 cipal of the Randolph School, Twenty-fifth 

 Section ; November, 1869, elected to the 

 principalship of the Forest School, Twen- 

 ty-eighth Section ; in March, 1880, to the 

 principalship of the Germantown School, 

 Twenty-second Section, which he resigned 

 July 7. 1896, upon his election to the prin- 

 cipalship of the Northeast Manual Train- 

 ing School, which position he relinquished 

 in September, 1898, to become principal of 

 the Philadelphia Normal School for Girls. 

 In April, 1903, the honorary degree of D. 



