HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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an active business man. He operated the 

 saw and grist mill in connection with his 

 farm for several years, and greatly im- 

 proved the property. Mr. King was a man 

 of high standing in the community. Both 

 he and his wife, Mary Godshalk, were ^len- 

 nonites. In politics he was a Republican. 

 He died in August, 1892. 



John G. King, the subject of this sketch, 

 was born near Newville, in New Britain 

 township, and was reared on the farm, 

 obtaining a good common school educa- 

 tion. Being the only child of his parents 

 that grew to maturity, his only brother 

 Isaiah dying at the age of twelve years, his 

 services were in demand in the management 

 and conduct of the mill and farm, and he 

 never left home excepting for a period of 

 eighteen months, nine of which he spent in 

 travel and the other nine months in a 

 mill. 



After the death of his father he ac- 

 quired title to the farm, and has taken 

 great pride in its management. In the fall 

 of 1900 he was elected prothonotary of 

 Bucks county, and filled the office with 

 eminent ability for three years. At the 

 reorganization of the Doylestown National 

 Bank, in the fall of 1903, he was selected 

 as a director, and on February ist, 1904, 

 was elected vice-president and given a gen- 

 eral supervision over the affairs of the bank, 

 to which he devotes his entire time. In 

 April, 1894, he removed to Doylestown 

 borough. He was married, December 26, 

 1882, to Belle M. Worthington, daughter 

 of Aaron M. and Elizabeth ( Michener) 

 Worthington, of Plumstead, and has one 

 child, Mabel W., born September 19, 1895. 

 In politics Mr. King is a Republican, and 

 has always taken an active interest in its 

 councils. He is a member of Aquetong 

 Lodge, No. 193, I. O. O. R, and of Doyles- 

 town Encampment, No. 35. 



DR. A. J. HINES, deceas-d, of 

 Doylestown, was born August 5, 1826, 

 on the old Hines homestead, in the ex- 

 treme west corner of Warrington town- 

 ship, adjoining the Montgomery county 

 hne, and was a son of William C. and 

 Elizabeth (James) Hines. 



Mathew Hynes, the great-great-grand- 

 father of Dr. Hines. and the pioneer an- 

 cestor of the family, was born in Ire- 

 land in 1718. and came to Pennsylvania 

 in the year 1740 or thereabouts, locating 

 first in White ]\Iarsh township, now 

 Montgomery county, and removing a 

 few years later to a tract of five hundred 

 acres on the county line, partly in what 

 was then New Britain township, later ad- 

 ded to Warrington, and extending across 

 the county line into ' Montgomery. This 

 tract, like many other large tracts in that 

 locality, was held for half a century by 

 parties who were not actual settlers. It 

 was patented to Andrew Hamilton, and 

 conveyed by him in 1739 to his daughter 

 Margaret, wife of William Allen, by whom 



it was conveyed in trust for their use to 

 James Delaney of London. It is probable 

 that the title and possession was vested in 

 M&thew Hines about 1752, though no actual 

 transfer of title was made until 1793, when 

 it was conveyed by Delaney to the sons of 

 Mathew Hynes, except six acres "reserved 

 for the use of their father Mathew Hynes." 

 Mathew Hynes married Ann Simpson, a 

 widow who, tradition relates, preceded 

 Mathew to this country from Ireland, with 

 her son William Simpson, and that IMathew, 

 who had known her in Ireland, followed 

 her to America and married her soon attei 

 his arrival. Tradition further relates that 

 she was the ancestress of General U. S. 

 Grant, and that on the occasion of one of 

 his early visits to his relatives in Bucks 

 county he visited the Hines family, and the 

 relationship was discussed by members of 

 the family old enough to have some knowl- 

 edge of the connection. If this be true, 

 Ann Simpson was the widow of William 

 Simpson and the mother of another son 

 John, who was also a neighbor of the Hynes 

 family. He was born in 1738, and died 

 August 16, 1804, in Horsham township, 

 on the county line near the Hines residence. 

 He married Hannah Roberts, daughter of 

 Lewis Roberts, of Abington, and a sister 

 of Captain (later Colonel) William Rob- 

 erts, whose farm adjoined that of Hines, 

 and under whom William Hines, son of 

 Mathew, served in the Revolutionary war. 

 John Simpson and Hannah Roberts were 

 married November 25, 1762, and their son 

 John, who married Rebecca Weir, daugh- 

 ter of Samuel Weir, of New Britain, was 

 the grandfather of General Grant, John 

 Simpson having removed to Ohio, in 1799, 

 when his daughter Hannah, the mother of 

 General Grant, was a maiden. Mathew 

 Hines died December 23, 1804. aged eighty- 

 six years, and his wife Ann on December 

 I, 1790, aged eighty years. They are bur- 

 ied side by side at Neshaminy church, of 

 Warwick of which Mathew was a trustee 

 in 1755. They were the parents of three 

 sons, ^Mathew. Samuel and William, the 

 last two of whotn, at least, have descend- 

 ants in Bucks county. 



William Hines was born in 1749. He was 

 an ensign of the first regiment " raised in 

 Bucks county for service in the Continental 

 army, under the supervision of the Bucks 

 county committee of public safety, it being 

 the complement of four hundred men that 

 the county was to furnish for the forma- 

 tion of the Flying Camp for the Jersey 

 campaign in 1776. The commissions of 

 the officers were dated July 9, 1776, and 

 William Hines was assigned to the position 

 of ensign of the company of which Will- 

 iam Roberts was captain, and Henry Dar- 

 rah and James Shaw were respectively first 

 and second lieutenants. At the close of the 

 Jersey and Long Island campaign this reg- 

 iment returned to Bucks county and was 

 incorporated in the organization of the mi- 

 litia in May. 1777. when William Roberts 

 was made a lieutenant-colonel, and the cap- 



