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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



packer, and has three children; Hettie Ann 

 wedded Jacob Landis and has five children. 



JOSEPH A. HENDRICKS, one of the 

 most prominent and successful business nicn 

 of upper Bucks, and for the last thirty 

 years a resident of the thriving borough 

 of Perkasie, which town he helped to lay 

 out, is a son of John C. and Mary (Alder-.. 

 fer) Plendricks, and was born in Hilltown 

 township, May 20, 1827. He was reareu 

 on his father's farm and acquired his edu- 

 cation at the local schools. He learned the 

 carpenter trade at the age of twenty years, 

 and followed that vocation until his mar- 

 riage in 1859, when he embarked in the 

 feed, coal and lumber business at Seilers- 

 ville. After successfully conducting that 

 enterprise for thirteen years he sold out to 

 Abraham S. Cressman, and in partnership 

 with Mahlon H. Moyer purchased the old 

 Nace farm, where the town of Perkasie now 

 stands, and laid it out in building lots. The 

 project was a success from the start, and 

 the town grew rapidly. He erected a large 

 three-story building near the railroad, and 

 engaged in the mercantile business. His 

 old stand is now the thrivmg estauiishment 

 of Bissey & Baringer, dealers in clothing 

 and general merchandise. Mr. Hendricks 

 has been interested in various business en- 

 terprises, but now lives retired in his hand- 

 some residence at the corner of S'^vonth 

 and Market streets, Perkasie. He has been 

 a director of the Lansdale National Bank 

 for thirty-two years; is treasurer of the 

 borough of Perkasie; treasurer of the Per- 

 kasie and Bridgetown Turnpike Company; 

 was treasurer for several years of the Per- 

 kasie Water Company, and has served sev- 

 eral years as school director. He is a mem- 

 ber of the Mennonite congregation at 

 Blooming Glen, and in politics is a Repub- 

 lican. 



He married December i, 1859, Mary 

 Yeakle, daughter of Samuel Yeakle. and 

 they are the parents of one child,- Emma, 

 born February ir, 1865, now the wife of 

 Tobias S. Bissey, senior member of the 

 firm of Bissey & Baringer, before referred 

 to. Mr. and Mrs. Bissey have one child, 

 Stella May. 



JOHN AUBREY CREWITT, M. D., of 

 Newtown, was born at Reidsville, ]\Iifflin 

 county, Pennsylvania, March 29, 1853, and 

 is a son of Alfred and Jane (Dorland) 

 Crewitt, the former of English and the lat- 

 ter of Holland descent. 



Richard Chandler Crewitt, grandfather of 

 Dr. Crewitt, was born in Marjdand and 

 married at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 

 1805, Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander 

 Bcrryhill, of Harrisburg, where she was 

 born January 5, 1777. Their children were 

 Fannie, ]\fatilda, Aubrey, and Alfred, the 

 father of Dr. Crewitt. Alfred Crewitt was 

 born in t8ii. He became a prominent iron 

 master in Huntingdon county, Pennsyl- 

 vania. He was a man of prominence in 



that county, where he resided for many- 

 years. He and his family were prominent 

 members of the Presbyterian church, as- 

 were his ancestors for three hundred years. 

 He died April 5, 1857, while holding the 

 ofifice of county treasurer. Ilis wife was 

 Jane Dorland, daughter of Isaac and Jane 

 (McNamara) Dorland, who died May 8, 

 1884. 



The paternal ancestor of Jane (Dorland) 

 Crewitt, was Jan Gerretse Dorland, who 

 emigrated from Holland in the year 1652, 

 and settled at Brooklyn, Long Island, where 

 he was an elder in the Dutch Reformed 

 church. He was twice married. By his 

 first wife, who was a Jans, he had three 

 children: Maeretje, baptized April 11, 

 1672; Geertje, baptized August 19, 1674; 

 and Gerret. He married (second) An- 

 nettje Remsen, born April 11, 1669, d ugh- 

 ter of Rem Jansen Vanderbeeck, a native 

 of Drenthe,- Holland, who married Dec ~i- 

 ber 21, 1642, Jannetje, daughter of T 

 Rapalie. His descendants dropped t ur- 

 name and were known by the na. .e of 

 Remsen, signifying sons of Rem. Jnhn (or 

 Jan) Dorlandt, baptized at, E ooklyn 

 church. March 20, 16S1, married (first) 

 Marretje (Mary) and his son John, bap- 

 tized at Brooklyn, July 17, 1701, was the 

 great-great-great-grandfather of the sub- 

 ject of this sketch. The other children 

 were: Cornelia, baptized August 7, 1705; 

 Lambert, George, Jacob, Isaac, Hermina^ 

 Eve, and Abraham. John Dorian It, Sr., 

 married (second) in 1718 Barbair; Aukes 

 Van Nuys, daughter of Auke Jii se Van 

 Nuys, who was baptized April 2ii [702. In 

 1720 he left Brooklyn, and after ap lort stay 

 among his relatives on the Rariti in New 

 Jersey, removed to Moreland ■ "iiownship, 

 Philadelphia, now Montgome;y county, 

 Pennsylvania, and purchased in 1726 a farm 

 from William Brittian, near Somerton. 

 Lambert Dorlandt married in September, 

 17,31, Elizabeth Brittian; George married in 

 1735 Catharine Whiteman ; Jacob married 

 in 1741 Ann Hewitt ; Isaac, in 1753, Mar- 

 garet Johnson ; Hermina married Charles 

 Hufte; Eve married in 1751 John Brit- 

 tian, all the above having accompanied their 

 father to Pennsylvania. Elizabeth Brittian, 

 who married Lambert Dorlandt, was a 

 granddaughter of Nathaniel Brittian, an 

 early English settler in Kings county, L. I., 

 where he married in 1660 Anna, daughter 

 of Nicholas Stilwell, and later removed to 

 Staten Island, where he died in 1683. Of 

 his ten children several removed to Penn- 

 sylvania at about the same date as the 

 Dorlandt family, and have numerous de- 

 scendants in Bucks county. The children 

 of Lambert and Elizabeth (Brittian) Dor- 

 landt were Nathaniel, John, Lambert, 

 Esther, all born in Moreland. 



John Dorland, the great-grandfather of 

 the subject of this sketch, was born at 

 Somerton in T754. He was a soldier in the 

 Revolutionary war, and an active man in 

 the community. He married Ann Robin- 

 son and had children, Joseph, Rebecca,. 



