HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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Francis Daniel Pastorius, and contains the 

 names of the Cunrads, Keysers, Luckens, 

 Tysons, Shoemakers, Neuses and many 

 others, whose descendants became later 

 residents of Bucks county. Among these 

 persons then naturalized were William Hen- 

 dricks and his sons Henry and Lawrence 

 Hendricks. Lawrence (or Lourentz) Hen- 

 dricks was one of the first settlers on the 

 Skippack, in what is now Towamencm 

 township, Montgomery county, having pur- 

 chased of Jomes Shattuck, February 30, 

 1713, 120 acres in that section on which he 

 settled. At the time of his purchase he 

 was a resident of Upper Dublin township, 

 and is denominated in the deed as a "hus- 

 bandman." He later became a tanner. On 

 November 22, 1724, Isaac Pennington, ot 

 Bucks county, conveyed to Lawrence Hen- 

 dricks, of Skippack, fifty acres of land 

 "near Skippack" and adioinmg his first 

 purchase. In 1748 he purchased 246 acres 

 in Hatfield township, iii acres of which 

 he immediately conveyed to his son Henry 

 Hendricks. Towamencin was formed into 

 a township in 1728, and on the tax lists of 

 1734 appear the names of the following 

 landholders: Paul Hendricks, 100 acres; 

 Lawrence Hendricks, 150 acres ; Leonard 

 Hendricks, 100 acres; and Henry Hen- 

 dricks, 123 acres. Henry was the brother 

 naturalized with Lawrence, and Paul and 

 Leonard were doubtless also brothers, 

 though born in America. Leonard mar- 

 ried Elizabeth Turner, daughter of Herman 

 Turner, of Germantown, and purchased his 

 land in Towamencin at about the same date 

 as Lawrence's second purchase, December 

 20, 1720. He died in 1776, leaving children: 

 William. Mathias, Herman, Mary and Eliza- 

 beth. Paul Hendricks died in 1775, leav- 

 ing widow Margaret and sons Paul, Will- 

 iam, John and Peter ; and daughters Cath- 

 arine ; Mary, wife of Henry Fry; Sophia, 

 w'ife of Nicholas Godschalk; Susanna; 

 Elizabeth, wife of Herman Hendricks ; and 

 Rachel, wife of William Nash. 



Lawrence Hendricks' wife was Janneke 

 or Jane Tyson, daughter of Cornelius Ty- 

 sen, of Germantown, who died in 1716, 

 leaving a widow Margaret and two sons, - 

 Mathias and Peter; and daughters; Barba- 

 ra, wife of Mathias Cunrad; Alice, wife of 

 John jCunrad; Willietnptie, wife of Pail 

 Engle ; and Jannicke, wife of Laurentz 

 Hendricks. Paul Engle settled near 

 his brother-in-law, Lawrence Hendricks, 

 on the Skippack, and his tombstone 

 dated 1723 is the oldest in the Skip- 

 pack jMennonite burying ground. Law- 

 rence Hendricks died in Towamencin 

 township in September, 1753, his wife Jan- 

 neke surviving him. Their children were 

 Peter, Benjamin, Cornelius, Margaret, wife 

 of Peter Tyson; Henry; Sedgen (or 

 Seytje), wife of Walter Jansen : William, 

 John and ]\Iathias. Benjamin married 

 Katharine, daughter of William Nash. 

 William died in 1776 leaving an only child 

 Jane, who married Daniel Sampey. 



Cornelius Hendricks, the ancestor of the 

 Bucks county branch of the family, was 

 born in Towamencin township, now Mont- 

 gomery county, about the year 1720. He 

 married prior to the death of his father in 

 1753, Mary Bean, who bore him two chil- 

 dren, Benjamin and Christiana. He was a 

 farmer in Worcester and" Towamencin 

 townships. 



Benjamin Hendricks, son of Cornelius 

 and Mary (Bean) Hendricks, was born and 

 reared in Montgomery county, and married 

 there Esther Clemens, and followed the life 

 of a farmer for some years in Lower Sal- 

 ford township, in connection with his trade 

 of a weaver. Iii April, 1800, he purchased 

 of Samuel Moyer a farm of 107 acres in 

 Hilltown township, Bucks county, and re- 

 moved thither. He was one of the sub- 

 stantial and prominent agriculturists and 

 business men of the community, and ac- 

 quired a competence. He died on the Hill- 

 town farm in 1831, his widow Esther sur- 

 viving him. Their children were as fol- 

 lows : Catharine, who married Isaac Bech- 

 tel ; Abraham, married Barbara Bean, and 

 died in 1820, leaving children, Henry, Ben- 

 jamin, Susan and Jacob; Jacob (the great- 

 grandfather of J. Freeman Hendricks, of 

 Doylestown) married Mary Drissel ; John, 

 married Mary Alder fer, see forward; I\Iary, 

 who married Samuel Moyer; George, died 

 young; Elizabeth, who married Benjamin 

 Bergy ; Joseph, who married Elizabeth 

 George ; and Susanna, who married Joseph 

 Swartz. Benjamin, the father, having- con- 

 veyed sixty-seven acres of his first pur- 

 chase to his son Abraham in 1814, had pur- 

 chased in 1812 of Benjamin ^ouder 106 

 acres adjoining. This old homestead has 

 remained in the family ever since, and is 

 now occupied by Joseph G. Hendricks, son 

 of Joseph and Elizabeth (George) Hen- 

 dricks. 



John C. Hendricks, fourth child of Ben- 

 jami"h and Esther (Clemens) Hendricks, 

 was born in Montgomery county, Decem- 

 ber 20, 1794, and was reared and educated 

 in Hilltown township, Bucks county, where 

 his parents settled when he was at the age 

 ■ of five years. He married April 4, 1820, 

 Mary Alderfer, daughter of Frederick Al- 

 derfer, born September 21, 1796. John C. 

 Hendricks was a successful farmer in Hill- 

 town all his life. He died at Blooming 

 Glen. Hilltown township. October 7, 1881, 

 and his wife Mary died February 4, 1861. 

 They, like their ancestors, were Mennonites, 

 and "belonged to the Blooming Glen con- 

 gregation. He was a prominent man in the 

 community. The children of John C. and 

 ]\Iary (Alderfer) Hendricks, were seven in 

 number, as follows : Benjamin, rnarried 

 Susanna Leatherman and has six children ; 

 Frederick, never married ; Jacob, married 

 Anna Moyer and has three chndren; Jo- 

 seph A., see forward; Abraham, married 

 (first) Lydia Hunsicker (second) her sister 

 Mrs. Feilman, and (third) Eliza Moyer; 

 Elizabeth became the wife of Amos Penny- 



