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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



second of the name; James, Samuel i'., 

 Amos, Robert, Mary P., John P., and 

 another Robert who had died in infancy. 

 Robert Stackhouse, son of Amos and 

 Mary (Powell) Stackhouse, was born in 

 Philadelphia 12 mo. il, 1801, and died 



I mo. 6, 1881. He married (first) 4 mo. 

 23, 1829, Elizabeth Davis Kimber, of 

 Richard and Elizabeth, by whom he 

 had: Tacy J., born 3 mo. 13, 1830, died 



II mo. 2, 1837; Edward Livingston, born 

 3 mo. 27, 1833; Tacy Elizabeth, born 11 

 mo. 25, 1838. He married (second) Ann 

 Roberts Matlack, daughter of Asa and 

 Tamar (Roberts) Matlack, 9 mo. 21, 

 1841, by whom he had Asa ^latlack 

 Stackhouse, born 7 mo. 21, 1845. Tacy 

 Elizabeth, of Robert and Elizabeth, 

 married i mo. 2, 1862, Allen Lippencott, 

 M. D., of Fallsington, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania. Dr. Lippincott died 2 mo. 

 28. 1863, when she married 11 mo. 25, 

 1867, Milnor Gillingham, who is also de- 

 ceased; no issue. Tacy E. Gillingham 

 and her brother Edward L. Stackhouse 

 reside at Fallsington, Pennsylvania. 



The paternal ancestor of Matlock fam- 

 ily was William Matlack, born about the 

 year 1648 in Cropwell Bishop, Notting- 

 hamshire, England, who came to Bur- 

 lington county, West Jersey, with Dan- 

 iel Wills in the ship "Kent," arriving at 

 Burlington in October, 1677. In 1682 he 

 married Mary Hancock, from Brayles, 

 Warwickshire, England, aged about six- 

 teen years at the time of her marriage. 

 They were the parents of nine children: 

 John, George, Mary, William, Jr., Rich- 

 ard, Joseph, Timothy, Jane and Sarah. 

 Of these Timothy, who married Mary 

 Haines in 1720, was the father of Tim- 

 othy Matlack, at one time secretary of 

 the continental congress and for many 

 years secretary of the supreme executive 

 council of Pennsylvania during the Rev- 

 olution. 



William Matlack, Jr., third son of 

 William and Mary (Hancock) Matlack, 

 married in 1713 Ann Antrim, daughter 

 of John and Frances Antrim, of North- 

 ampton township, Burlington county, 

 who were among the earliest settlers in 

 Burlington county. New Jersey, where 

 John died in 1719. William Matlack, Jr., 

 died in Chester township, Burlington 

 county. New Jersey, in 1730, leaving chil- 

 dren, Jeremiah, William, Rebeckah, Rachel, 

 Leah, Mary, James and Ann. 



William Matlack (3) born 6 mo. 31, 

 1725, married Mary Turner in 10 mo. 

 I, 1748, and their son Reuben Matlack, 

 born II mo. 17, 1757, married Elizabeth 

 Coles, in i mo. 22,. 1783, a descendant of 

 Samuel Coles and of William and 

 Thomas Budd, all early members of the 

 colonial assembly of New Jersey, and 

 their son Asa Matlack. born 10 mo. 21, 

 1783, who married Tamar Roberts 5 mo. 

 12, 1807, was the father of Anna Rob- 

 erts Matlack, who married Robert Stack- 

 house. 



ASA MATLACK STACKHOUSE was. 

 educated in the public schools of Moores- 

 town, New Jersey, and entered the 

 junior class of the University of 

 Pennsylvania, and graduated from that 

 institution in the class of 1865. He sub- 

 sequently studied medicine, graduating 

 from Hahnemann Medical College of 

 Philadelphia, in 1868, and practiced med- 

 icine in Attleborough (now Langhorne) 

 Bucks county, and elsewhere for a num- 

 ber of years, but has now retired from 

 practice and resides at Moorestown,. 

 New Jersey. He has always taken, an 

 interest in local history and the gen- 

 ealogy of the old families of Bucks 

 county and vicinity, and has contributed 

 'a number of articles on these subjects to 

 the local papers. 



Dr. Stackhouse was married at Allen- 

 town, Pennsylvania, 12 mo. 8, 1868, to- 

 Ella Jane Romig, daughter of William 

 J. and Mary Ann Catharine (Royer) 

 Romig, and they are the parents of two- 

 children: Williain Romig Stackhouse, of 

 Moorestown, New Jersey, who was born 

 in Chester township, Burlington county, 

 New Jersey, January 10, 1870, and mar- 

 ried Rebecca Gibson; and Ernest Robert 

 Stackhouse, born at Allentown, Pennsyl- 

 vania, December 3, 1884. Another child, 

 Ernest Raymond, born January 17, 1874,. 

 died young. 



William R. Stackhouse above mentioned 

 has been for several years past engaged 

 in connection with his cousin, the late 

 Powell Stackhouse, ^in extensive gen- 

 ealogical researches, and his history of 

 the Stackhouse Family is now in press. 



SUMMERS FAMILY. Hance Georgt 

 Summers ( Sommer in German), the an- 

 sector of the Summers family, and great- 

 great-grandfather of William Summers, of 

 Conshohocken, with his wife Elizabeth and 

 children Johannes, Hans Martin, George, 

 Peter and Margaretha Elizabeth, arrived in 

 Philadelphia from Germany on Septem- 

 ber 22, 1752, in the ship "Brothers," Cap- 

 tain William IVIuir. Philip and Henry, also 

 sons, arrived Septenfber 22, 1754, in the 

 ship "Edinburg," James Russel, master. 

 Hance George Summers resided in Lower 

 Dublin township in 1769. 



Johannes, born 1737, married, January 

 24, 1764, Elizabeth Reidannauer; at the 

 date of his marriage his residence was near 

 New Hanover. (There was a John in 

 Moreland in 1774.) Children: John, born 

 February 24, 1765. 



Martin died in March. 1804 ; married July 

 6, 1769, Anna Barbara Geiss ; children: 

 Philip ; Henry ; and Elizabeth, married 

 Loedwyk Sharp. Martin lived in Lower 

 Dublin in 1769; he was an employe in the 

 United States mint from its organization 

 to 1804, as were also some of his descend- 

 ants down to 1899 ; he was a private in Cap- 

 tain Ezekial Lett's company in the war of 



