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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



tair.cy of his company was committed to 

 Henry Darrah, and William Hines became 

 its second lieutenant. The company saw 

 active service in the fall and winter of 

 1777 under General John Lacey, and par- 

 ticipated in the battle of Germantown. In 

 the reorganization of the militia in May, 

 1778, William Hines became first lieuten- 

 ant of Captain Darrah's company, which 

 did considerable active service in and around 

 Philadelphia, though not incorporated m 

 the regular Continental army. A well 

 founded tradition in the family relates that, 

 at one time during the struggle, Lieuten- 

 ant Hines was at a blacksmith shop near 

 his home having a horse shod, when new: 

 of a conflict with the British reached him, 

 and that he mounted his horse and hurried 

 to the front without returning home. In 

 the division of the Hines plantation in 

 I793> 143 acres were conveyed to William 

 Hines, 112 acres of which descended to his 

 son William and his grandchildren, remain- 

 ing in the tenure of the family for four 

 generations. He died January 17, 1830, 

 in his eightieth year. He married Eliza- 

 beth Harris, daughter of Henry and Mar- 

 tha Harris, of New Britain, and of Welsh 

 descent. Elizabeth died September 30, 

 1830, aged seventy-eight years, and both 

 are buried at New Britain Baptist church. 

 They were the parents of eight children : 

 viz: three sons, — John; Isaac and William; 

 and five daughters, — Elizabeth, who mar- 

 ried Simon James, of New Britain ; Ann, 

 wife of John Singer; Sarah, wife of John 

 Eder; Hannah, wife of Dr. Joseph Mathew ; 

 and Priscilla, wife of Britain V. Evans. 

 Colonel John, the eldest son, was a promi- 

 nent officer of militia, and the grandfather 

 of Charles Cox, of Doylestown. Isaac, the 

 second son, died a few months before his 

 father. 



William C. Hines, the father of Dr. A. 

 J. Hines, and the youngest of the three 

 sons of William and Elizabeth (Harris) 

 Hines, was born on the old homestead in 

 "Warrington township. He purchased it at 

 the death of his father, and died there in 

 1858. He married Elizabeth James, daugh- 

 ter of Abiah and Rachel (Williams) Jarpes, 

 of New Britain, both natives of New Brit- 

 ain and of Welsh descent. The former 

 born in 1749, died December i, 1834, was 

 a son of Isaac and Sarah (Thomas) James, 

 grandson of William and Mary James, an;: 

 great-grandson of John and Elizabeth 

 James, who emigrated from Caermarthen- 

 shire, Wales, in 1810 and settled in New 

 Britain. (See James Family in this work). 

 The children of William and Elizabeth 

 (James) Hines were: Nathan James, An- 

 drew Jackson, Elizabeth and Emily, none 

 of whom married with the exception of the 

 subject of this sketch. 



DR. ANDREW JACKSON HINES, 

 was born and reared on the old homestead, 

 and was educated at a private school at the 

 Hermitage, a well known academy conduct- 

 ed in Doylestown township by Professor T. 

 J. Clarke. He studied medicine under Dr. 



O. P. James, who was a iirst cousin to his 

 mother, and entered Jefferson Medical Col- 

 lege, Philadelphia, from which he graduated 

 in 1853. After practicing ior a little less 

 than a year at Centreville he purchased in 

 the fall of 1853 the properly, and practice 

 of Dr. Joseph Moyer, at Leidytown, Hill- 

 town township, where he practiced for 

 eight years with success, and then sold out 

 and located at Jarrettown, Montgomery 

 county, succeeding Dr. Albanus Styre. He 

 remained at Jarrettown until 1874, when he 

 removed to Doylestown, and after a few 

 months' rest resumed the practice of his 

 chosen profession and continued to prac- 

 tice until January i, 1901, when he was 

 taken seriously ill, and after three weeks of 

 intense suffering died on January 23, 1901. 

 He married, June 5, i860, Anna Maria 

 Armstrong, daughter of Jesse Armstrongs 

 of Doylestown, who died in 1876. They 

 were the parents of three children : Will- 

 iam P., who died in childhood; Eliza- 

 beth A., and Ella E., who resides at tuc 

 Doylestown homestead. Dr. Hines and his 

 family were members of the Baptist church, 

 as had been his father and grandmother 

 and his maternal ancestors for many gen- 

 erations. He was a member of the Bucks 

 County Medical Society, and a prominent 

 and successful practitioner. His wife was 

 a descendant of William Armstrong, a:. 

 early Scotch-Irish settler in Bedminster 

 township. Bucks county, whose descend- 

 ants were at one time very numerous in 

 Bucks county, some of them filling posi- 

 tions of eminence in the official, military 

 and professional life of the county and 

 elsewhere. 



A. HAYES JORDAN, editor and pub- 

 lisher of the "Republican," Doylestown, was 

 born in Riegelsville, Bucks county, Penn- 

 sylvania, July 13, 1868, and is a son of Dr. 

 Alexander S. and Amanda (Weikel) Jor- 

 dan, the former a native of Lehigh county^ 

 and the latter of Springfield township, 

 Bucks county. 



The first paternal ancestor of A. Hayes 

 Jordan of whom there is any definite rec- 

 ord was his great-great-grandfather, Frea- 

 erick Jordan, of English ancestry, who was 

 born in 1744, and in 1769 married Cathar- 

 ine Eckel, daughter of Henry and Susanna 

 Eckel, of Bedminster township, and settled 

 in Alexandria township, Hunterdon coun- 

 ty, near Milford, where he operated two- 

 mills during the Revolutionary war. Dr. 

 John W. Jordan, librarian of the Historical 

 Society of Pennsylvania, (a great-grand- 

 son) has in his possession letters from Col- 

 onel Howell, quartermaster of New Jersey, 

 to Frederick Jordan, arranging to meet the 

 farmers at IMr. Jordan's mill to pay them 

 for grain ground by Mr. Jordan for the use 

 of the Continental troops. Frederick Jor- 

 dan also served for a time as a sergeant in 

 tne New Jersey Line during the Revolu- 

 tion. He died in 1784 and his wife Cath- 

 arine in 1786, and both are buried in the 



