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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



Louisa Davis, and (second) in October, 

 1835, Cynthia Craig, born October, 1804, 

 daughter of Daniel and Jean (Jamison) 

 Craig, both natives of Warrington, 

 Bucks county, the former being a son of 

 Thomas and Jean (Jamison) Craig, also 

 natives of Warrington, and grandson of 

 Daniel Craig, who came from the north 

 of Ireland and settled in Warrington 

 about 1735. and died there in 1775- 

 Thomas Craig, grandfather of Mrs. Hill, 

 was a captain in the "Flying Camp" dur- 

 ing the Revolution, and the command 

 of the Bucks county regiment devolved 

 upon him on the death of Colonel Will- 

 iam Baxter, during the battle of Fort 

 Washington, November 16. 1776. His 

 brother John and his cousins Thomas, 

 John and William Craig, of Northamp- 

 ton, were also distinguished officers in 

 the Revolution. His sister Sarah, who 

 married John Barnhill. was the ances- 

 tress of President Roosevelt. The Craig 

 and Jamison families were among the 

 earliest Scotch-Irish settlers in Bucks 

 county. The former consisted of four 

 brothers: Thomas, Daniel, W'illiam. 

 and James; and three sisters: Sarah, 

 wife of Richard Walker, of Warrington, 

 a prominent justice and member of the 

 colonial assemblj': ^Margaret, wife of 

 John Gray, an earl}- elder of Nesham- 

 iny church, and the wife of John Boyd, 

 of the 'Irish settlement. The Craig 

 brothers, with the exception of Daniel, 

 all eventually settled at Craig's or the 

 Irish Settlement. The Jamison family 

 consisted of Henry Jamison and his 

 sons, Henry. Robert and Alexander, 

 who all settled in Warrington, Bucks 

 county, about. 1720. where they became 

 large landholders and prominent citi- 

 zens. Henry Jamison, Jr., married 

 IMary Stewart, and their daughter Jean, 

 born in 1738. became the wife of Cap- 

 tain Thomas Craig. Robert Jamison 

 married Jean Blackburn and their sec- 

 ond son. Robert, born in 1739 and mar- 

 ried in 1767 to Hannah Baird. was the 

 father of Jean Jamison, who became 

 the wife of Daniel Craig. Jr., who was 

 born in Warrington in 1794. and died 

 in Montgomery county in 1836. Dr. 

 John Howard Hill removed to Cali- 

 fornia in 1851, his two sons Harry and 

 Horace going there in i8=;2 — three older 

 sons eroinfT with their father and one 

 preceding him. ' 



Major Harry Craig Hill, has a dis- 

 tinguished war record, having served 

 throughout the civil war as a cavalry 

 officer, and will carry to his grave many 

 mementoes of that heroic service, 

 among them a sabre scar extending di- 

 agonally across the forehead, the result 

 of a wound received in a cavalry charge. 

 He served on the stafif of General Ben- 

 jamin F. Butler during most of the war. 

 Returning to California after the close 

 of the war. he became interested in sil- 

 ver mines in New Mexico, Colorado and 



Utah, and made his home in Utah for 

 several years. He takes special pride 

 in his descent from his Scotch-Irish an- 

 cestors in Bucks county, and has paid 

 several visits to their former homes. He 

 has retired from business, and now re- 

 sides in San Francisco, California. 



ELIAS DEEMER. For almost two> 

 centuries the Deemer family has been 

 represented in Pennsylvania. There 

 were at one time extensive historical 

 records concerning this family, but un- 

 fortunately many of these were de- 

 stroj'cd, although authentic record is ob- 

 tainable to some degree concerning the 

 early settlers of the representatives of 

 the name in the new world. 



The immigrant ancestors of the Amer- 

 ican branch of the Diemer (as was the 

 original form of the name) family came 

 from Rhenish. Bavaria. They were pro- 

 testants in religion, being adherents of 

 the doctrines of Zwingli. the great Swiss 

 reformer. They came to America very 

 early in the eighteenth century, presum- 

 ably with that great influx of their 

 countrymen who came about 1707. As 

 the family tradition has it, they came to- 

 Pennsylvania "more than one hundred 

 years previous to the second war with 

 Great Britain." This would fix the date 

 of their coming at not later than 1711, 

 but the earlier date of 1707 is generally- 

 accepted as the true one. They first set- 

 tled near Germantown. and engaged irr 

 clearing ofif land for other families, get- 

 ting out timber for building purposes, 

 burning charcoal, and cutting up wood 

 for fuel, which they marketed in Phila- 

 delphia. From the vicinity of German- 

 town they removed to Providence town- 

 ship, Philadelphia (now Montgomery) 

 county. 



John Deemer was a landowner in 

 Lower Providence township in 1734. but 

 the family was settled there before that 

 time. In 1727 a German Reform churclr 

 (said by some to be the first regularly 

 organized church of that denominatiorr 

 in the United States, but _ which Mr. 

 Lambert doubts), was organized at Skip- 

 pack by the Rev. George Michael Weiss. 

 Among the original officers of this 

 church was Jacob Diemer. and it is be- 

 lieved that he or his ancestors were 

 among the first German Reformers ir» 

 America. 



About 1740 a part of the Deemer fam- 

 ily (as the name now appears) removed 

 from their Montgomery county home 

 and settled in Durham. Bucks county. 

 Here they followed farming, charcoat 

 burning, and working in the iron fur- 

 naces. Some years after settling in Dur- 

 ham, a part of the family located in 

 Nockamixon. and the greater number 

 of their descendants of the present day 



