446 



HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



est of whom is deceased, the others being 

 Clifford and Mary. 4. George Newton, who 

 married Eva, daughter of Benjamin and 

 Emma (Harr) Barndt, of Souderton, and 

 has two children, Abram Randall and Alma. 

 Mr. Zendt holds a position in a bank at 

 Souderton. 5. Joseph Ncrrman, who mar- 

 ried Gertrude, daughter of Joseph Moyer, 

 of Perkasie, has one son, James Edward, 

 and lives in Philadelphia. 6. Ivan Freder- 

 ick, who is a cloth manufacturer at Soud- 

 erton and is unmarried. 7. May Pearl, 

 who was born September 17, 1886. 8. Beulah 

 H., who was born November, 1892. Both 

 the last named members of the fan>ily re- 

 side at home. 



BENJAMIN LARZELERE, of Bristol 

 township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, is 

 a descendant of Jacob La Resaleur, who 

 came to Long Island about 1675, sup- 

 posedly from Antwerp, where a French 

 inerchant of that name had settled some 

 years earlier and was probably of the same 

 lineage as Nicholas Largilliere, the distin- 

 guished portrait painter of the age of Louis 

 XIV (.born in Paris, 1656, removed witli 

 his father to Antwerp, 1659). 



Jacob Larzelere (La Keseleur) was a 

 member of Flatbush church in 1677. He 

 owned considerable land in the New Lotts 

 of Flatbush at the time of his death, about 

 1687. He married Maria Granger, and 

 had issue: Claes Jacobse (Nicholas) ; Mag- 

 dalen, born January 5, 1679 ; Maria, bap- 

 tized January 12, 1681 ; and Catharine, who 

 married Daniel Stillwell. Nicholas Lar- 

 zelere, removed to Staten Island and be- 

 came a land owner there in 1693, and was 

 sheriff of Richmond county. 



Nicholas Larzelere, son of above, born 

 in Richmond county, Staten Island, pur- 

 chased May 16, 1740, two tracts of land ag- 

 gregating 264 acres in Lower Makefield 

 township, Bucks county, and settled there- 

 on, his residerxe as given in the deed of 

 the above date being "of the County 01 

 Richmond, Stratton Island, in the Province 

 of New York." He later purchased several 

 other tracts of land in Lower Makefield, 

 ■where he died in 1799. The name of his 

 first wife and mother of his children has 

 not been ascertained. He married about 

 1766 Sarah DePuy, a widow with several 

 children, who died in 1791. The children 

 of Nicholas Larzelere were: Nicholas; 

 John, who married Margaret Van Horn in 

 1768; Catharine, who married Moses La- 

 Rue in 1767 ; Esther, who married Rich- 

 ard Mitchell in 1771 ; Anne, married Cor- 

 nelius Vansant ; Mary, who married George 

 Appleton ; Elizabeth, who married John 

 Cape ; and Margaret married John- 

 son. 



Nicholas Larzelere. eldest .son of the 

 above named Nicholas, married Hannah 

 Brittain, daughter of Benjamin and Mary 

 (Johnson) Brittain, of Philadelphia, and 

 settled on land devised to Hannah by her 

 father in Bensalem township, opposite 



Hulmeville. Benjamin Brittain was a grand- 

 son of Nathaniel Brittian, an early Eng- 

 lish settler on Long Island, who married 

 Anna, daughter of Nicholas Stillwell in 

 1660, and settled on Staten Island in 1664. 

 The children of Nicholas and Hannah 

 (Brittain) Larzelere were: Benjamin (see 

 forward) ; Nicholas; John; Abraham; Brit- 

 ton ; Mary, married Nicholas Vansandt ; 

 Elizabeth, married Asa Sutton ; ,§arah, mar- 

 ried Andrew Gilkeson; Hannah, married 

 Thomas Rue; Ann, married John Thomp- 

 son, and Margaret. Nicholas and Hannah 

 Larzelere both died prior to 1818. 



Benjamin Larzelere married Sarah 

 Brown, daughter of Joseph and Mary 

 (Higgs) Brown, of Bristol township. Jo- 

 seph Brown was a son of Thomas Brown, 

 and a grandson of George and Mercy 

 Brown, who emigrated from England, land- 

 ing at New Castle in 1679, and settling in 

 Falls township, Bucks county. Joseph 

 Brown died in Bristol township in April, 

 1796, and his land, a farm of 117 acres, 

 was conveyed to Benjamin and Sarah Lar- 

 zelere in 1802, through proceedings in par- 

 tition. Here Benjamin Larzelere and his 

 wife lived and died. Their children were: 

 Joseph; Nicholas; Benjamin; William, 

 (see forward); Ann, died unmarried; 

 Mary, died unmarried January 18, 1879 ^ 

 Hannah, married James Harrison; Eliza- 

 beth, married Richardson. Sarah 



(Brown) Larzelere died March i, 1839, 

 and her husband, Benjamin Larzelere, died 

 September 7, 1850. 



William Larzelere, fifth son of Benja- 

 min and Sarah (Brown) Larzelere, born 

 January 24, 1809, married January 22, 1852, 

 Anna Maria Antrim, daughter of Thomas 

 Antrim, and settled in Bristol township, 

 Bucks county, wliere he died January 18, 

 1889, leaving two sons, Benjamin and 

 Frederick, and a daughter Sarah, wife of 

 John Tomlinson. Mrs. Lazelere died in 

 1885. 



Benjamin Larzelere, the subject of this 

 sketch, is the eldest son of William and 

 Anna Maria (Antrim) Larzelere, and was 

 born in Bristol township, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, December 25, 1854. He re- 

 ceived his education at the private school 

 of Hannah Coleman, Pierce's Boarding 

 School at Bristol, and Bryant and Strat- 

 ton's Business College. On arriving at 

 manhood he engaged in farming on his 

 father's farm, in Bristol township, where he 

 has since resided. He married, December 

 22, 1875, Sarah Jane Subers, of Emilie, 

 Bucks county, daughter of William LaFay- 

 ette and Elizabeth LaRue (Vansant) Su- 

 btrs. Htr paternal grandparents were_ John 



and (Booz) Subers, and her maternal 



Garret and Sarah (Stevens) Vansant. Mr. 

 and Mrs. Larzelere are the parents of two 

 children : Harry Shippy, born April 5, 1880. 

 and Lily Subers, born May 3, 1882. Both 

 these children are graduates of Bristol 

 high school. Harry S. resides on the 

 homestead with his parents, and assists in 

 the management of the farm. Lily S. was 



