HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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to his death he removed to Doylestown, 

 where he died June 3, 1886. His wife, 

 Margaret Kneedler, was born in Mont- 

 gomery county in 181 5, and died in Doyles- 

 town in 1882. They, as well as their 

 daughter, were members of the Presbyterian 

 church. Mrs. Harvey was their only 

 child. 



ASA MATLACK STACK'HOUSE, 

 M. D., of Moorestown, New Jersey, 

 formerly of Langhorne, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, was born in Philadelphia, 

 7 mo. 21, 184s, and is a representative 

 of one of the oldest and most prominent 

 families in Bucks county. He is a son 

 of Robert and Ann Roberts (Matlack) 

 Stackhouse. The ancestry of the Stack- 

 house family is traced in England to the 

 year 1086, and in America traces back to 

 the year 1682, when Thomas Stackhouse, 

 of the village of Stackhouse, in the dean- 

 ery of Craven, West Riding of York- 

 shire, came to America, arriving at New 

 Castle 10 mo. 27, 1682, accompanied by 

 his wife Margery and two nephews, 

 Thomas and John Stackhouse. They all 

 settled in Middletown township and took 

 up large tracts of land. Thomas Stack- 

 house, the elder, lost his wife Margery, 

 who died 11 mo. 15, 1682, and he mar- 

 ried in I mo., 1702, Margaret Atkinson, 

 nee Fell, daughter of Christopher Fell, 

 of Newtown, Lancashire, and widow of 

 Christopher Atkinson, who had died on 

 board the "Britanica" in 1699 on his 

 way to Pennsylvania. Thomas Stack- 

 house died in 1706 without issue. Thomas 

 and John Stackhouse both reared large 

 families in Middletown, and have both 

 left numerous descendants. The latter 

 died in Middletown in 1757. 



Thomas Stackhouse was a very prom- 

 inent man in the community, represent- 

 ing his county in the colonial assembly 

 of Pennsylvania for the years 171 1 to 17 15, 

 inclusive, and then declining a re-elec- 

 tion. He was also collector of proprie- 

 tary qifit-rents for Bucks county; served 

 !as one of the commissioners to lay out 

 roads, and in many other capacities of 

 trust. He was one of the active mem- 

 mers of Middletown Monthly Meeting 

 of Friends, and built their meeting house 

 in 1690. He took up 507 acres of land in 

 Middletown on th6 Neshaminy, and in 

 1707 bought 1200 acres of Francis Rich- 

 ardson. He died 4 mo. 26, 1744. He was 

 three times married; first, on 7mo. 27, 

 1688, to Grace Heaton, daughter of Rob- 

 ert and Alice Heaton, who was born in 

 Yorkshire, I mo. 14, 1667, and accom- 

 panied her parents to Pennsylvania in 

 1682 in the "Welcome" with William 

 Penn ; she died 8 mo. 8, 1708, and Thomas 

 married (second) on i mo. i, 1711, at 

 Falls Meeting, Ann Mayos, widow of Ed- 

 Ward Ma3'Os, who died 5 mo. 6, 1724. and 

 Thomas married a third tiine, in 8 mo., 



1725, Dorothy Heston, widow of Ze- 

 bulon Heston of Wrightstown, who sur- 

 vived him. Thomas and Grace (Hea- 

 ton) Stackhouse were the parents of 

 nine children, viz. : Samuel, John, Rob- 

 ert, Henry, Grace, Alice, Thomas, Jo- 

 seph and Benjamin. 



Thomas and Ann (Mayos) Stackhouse 

 were the parents of live children, viz.: 

 Isaac died at age of two years; Jacob, 

 Ann, Sarah and Isaac. Nearly all these 

 children lived to rear families and have 

 left numerous descendants, the four 

 daughters marrying into the families of 

 Longshore, Plumly, Wilson and Gary. 

 Thomas and Dorothy (Heston) Stack- 

 house left no children. 



Robert Stackhouse, third son of 

 Thomas and Grace, was born 9 mo. 8, 

 1692. He married Margaret Stone and 

 settled on a tract of land purchased by 

 his father, "adjoining Pigeon Swamp" 

 in Bristol township, which was later de- 

 vised to him by his father's will. He 

 later removed to Berwick on the Sus- 

 quehanna, where he resided until his 

 death in 1788, at the advanced age of 

 ninety-six years. Robert and Margaret 

 were the parents of eight children: 

 Thomas, Joseph, James, Grace, Benja- 

 min, Alice, William and Robert. 



James Stackhouse, third son of Rob- 

 ert and Margaret (Stone) Stackhouse, 

 was born in Bucks county 11 mo. (Jan- 

 uary), II, 1725-6, and married 10 mo. 

 13, 1750, Martha Hastings, who was born 

 4 mo. 27, 1722. daughter of Samuel and 

 Mary (Hill) Hastings, and granddaugh- 

 ter of Joshua Hastings, who represented 

 Chester county in the colonial assembly, 

 residing then near Chester, but later re- 

 moved to Philadelphia. His son John^ 

 Hastings married Grace Stackhouse, sis- 

 ter of James. The children of James and 

 Martha (Hastings) Stackhouse were: 

 Margaret, Hastings, Mary, Amos, Mar- 

 tha, James, and another Amos, who died 

 in infancy. James, the father, died in 

 Philadelphia, 8 mo. 16, 1759, and his wife 

 Martha died 6 mo. 23, 1806. He is in- 

 terred at the Arch street Friends' bury- 

 ing ground. 



Amos Stackhouse, third son of James 

 and Martha (Hastings) Stackhouse, was 

 born 5 mo. 4, T757, and was 'married at 

 Mt. Holly. New Jersey, i mo. 14, 1779, 

 to Mary Powell, born 7 mo. 9, 1763, 

 daughter of John and Susanna (Bryan) 

 Powell, granddaughter of Isaac and 

 Elizabeth (Perdue) Powell, who were 

 married August 10, 1729. Isaac being a 

 son of John and Elizabeth (Parker) 

 Powell, and a grandson of Robert and 

 Prudence Powell, the former of whom 

 came to New Jersey in the ship "Kent." 



6 mo. 16. 1667. and settled near Bur- 

 lington, West Jersey. Amos Stackhouse 

 died 4 mo. 5. 1825. and his widow Mary 



7 mo. IS, 1841. They were the parents 

 of thirteen children, viz.: Susanna, Hast- 

 ings, Martha, Powell, Esther, Martha, 



