HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY 



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1654, married Ruth Cole ; Eliza, married 

 John Rogers, of Eastham ; Anne and Jo- 

 anna, both of whom were successively the 

 wives of Thomas Bills ; Stephen ; Susanna, 

 who died young and Mehitabel, who mar- 

 ried Daniel Doane, and settled in Bucks 

 county, Pennsylvania. William was a dea- 

 con of Eastham church in 1677, but in 1695 

 became converted to the principals of 

 Friends, and removed to Newtown, Bucks 

 county, where he died November 4, 1703. 

 His wife died December 28, 1708. 



Stephen Twining, son of William and 

 Elizabeth (Deane) Twining, was born at 

 Eastham, Massachusetts, February 6, 1659, 

 and died at Newtown, Bucks county, Penn- 

 sylvania, April 8, 1720. He married. Jan- 

 uary 1-3, 1682-3, Abigail Young, dauehter 

 of John and Abigail Young of P2aslham, 

 Massachusetts, and came to Bucks county 

 with his father in 1695, where he became 

 a large landholder and a prominent and in- 

 fluential citizen. He was one of the original 

 members of Wrightstown Friends' Meet- 

 ing, and meetings were frequently held at 

 his house prior to the erection of the meet- 

 ing house. He had children : Stephen, 

 Nathaniel, Eleazer, John, Rachel, Mercy, 

 Joseph, David and William. His wife 

 Abigail died April 9, 1715. 



Stephen Twining, eldest son of Stephen 

 and Abigail (Young) Twining, was born 

 at Eastham, Massachusetts, December 30, 

 1684, and died at Newtown, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, June 28, 1772. He married 

 in 1709, Margaret Mitchell, daughter of 

 Henry and Elizabeth (Foulds) Mitchell, 

 ■who was born at Marsden's Lane, Lan- 

 cashire, in 1686, and came to Bucks county 

 with her mother in 1699; her father having 

 died on the, ill fated "Brittanica," on the 

 way to America. She died July 9, 1784, in 

 her ninety-ninth -year. Stephen and Mar- 

 garet (Mitchell) Twining, were the parenls 

 of seven children : William, who died in in- 

 fancy ; Elizabeth, who married Isaac Kirk; 

 Abigail, who married Samuel Hillborn ; 

 Stephen ; Mary, who married John Chap- 

 man; another William, who also died 

 young ; and Margaret, who married Thomas 

 Hambleton. 



Stephen Twining, son of Stephen and 

 Margaret (Mitchell) Twining, was born 

 in Wrightstown, April 20, 1717. His father 

 purchased in 1738 a tract of five hundred 

 and fifty acres in Springfield township, 

 Bucks county, upon which he resided with 

 liis family for a number of years, return- 

 ing to Wrightstown about 1761, Stephen, 

 the son, being left in charge of the Spring- 

 field farm for some years. At his father's 

 death in 1772 he was devised a farm in 

 Wrightstown of one hundred and eiorhteen 

 acres on the Neshaminy, where he died on 

 September 3, 1777. He married, in 1773, 

 "Sarah Janney, widow of Richard Tnnnev, 

 and daughter of Joseph Worth, of Stony 

 TBrook, Burlington county. New Jersey, 

 where Sarah was born in 17 11. She mar- 

 ried a third time, in 1782, James Burson, 

 and died in Wrightstown, August 20, 1833, 



at the age of ninety-two years. Stephen 

 and Sarah (Worth) Twining, were the pa- 

 rents of two children, Mary, born Septem- 

 ber 16, 1774, married Joseph Burson, died 

 March 3, 1815, and Stephen, born in 1776. 



Stephen Twining, son of Stephen and 

 Sarah, left an orphan at a tender age, was 

 reared in Wrightstown. He learned the 

 trade of a tanner at the Chapman tannery 

 in Wrightstown, and followed that busi- 

 ness in Wrightstown and Newtown in con- 

 nection with farming until about 1818, when 

 he married Elizabeth Baldwin, an eminent 

 minister among Friends, who had been a 

 preacher since the age of nineteen years, 

 and with the approbation of Philadelphia 

 Yearly Meeting went as a teacher and 

 counsellor to the Cattaraugus Indians, on 

 their reservation near Troy, New York, 

 where he remained for nine years. His 

 wife dying in 1827. he returned to New- 

 town, where he resided until 1835. when 

 he purchased a farm of one hundred acres 

 in Upper Makefield, and, having remar- 

 ried, lived thereon until his death in 1849. 

 Stephen and Elizabeth (Baldwin) Twining 

 were the parents of two children: Charles; 

 and Sarah B., who married Isaac Simpson, 

 and removed to Independence, Kansas. 



Charles Twining, only son of Stephen 

 and Elizabeth (Baldwin) Twining, was 

 born at Troy. New Y'ork, August 9. 1820. 

 Returning to Bucks county with his father 

 after the decease of his mother, he was 

 reared in Newtown and Upper Makefield. 

 At the death of his father he inherited 

 the homestead in Upper Makefield, upon 

 which he lived for a time, removing later 

 to Yardley, Lower Makefield township, now 

 Yardlcy borough, where he engaged in the 

 lime and coal business. He died February 

 10. 1902. He married, December 7, 1842, 

 Elizabeth West, daughter of Mahlon and 

 Mary (Trego) West, of Harford county^. 

 Maryland, who was born January 29, 1821, 

 and died at Yardley, February 3, 1884. Mr. 

 Twining married (second) on September i, 

 1886. Hannah Y. Bunting. The children 

 of Charles and Elizabeth H. (West) Twin- 

 ing are: Stephen B., to be further men- 

 tioned hereinafter; Edward W., of Yard- 

 ley; Mary E., born March 27, 1849, wife of 

 Franklin Eastburn, of Philadelphia ; Emma, 

 born August 5. 185 1, married R. Franklin 

 Schofield; Charles P.. who died at the age 

 of ten years ; 'Rebecca, born March 7, 1856, 

 wife of Watson G. Large of Yardley; Will- 

 iam R., Adeline, and Sarah, who died in 

 childhood. 



STEPHEN B. TWINING was born in 

 Upper Makefield township on the farm near 

 Dolington, January 19, 1844. He was reared 

 in the Makefields. and received the major 

 part of his education at the Friends' Central 

 School, at Fifteenth and Race streets, Phil- 

 adelphia, later taking a course in Bryant 

 & Stratton's Business College in Philadel- 

 phia. After the completion of his educa- 

 tion he engaged with his f.nther in the lime 

 and coal business at Yardley. Stephen B., 

 in partnership with his brother, under the 



