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Isaac, Sarah, Eve, Elizabeth, Jacob, John, 

 Jr.. Mary, Ann. Isaac Dorland, the grand- 

 father of Dr. Crewitt, was born at Somer- 

 ton, December 8, 1782, and married Feb- 

 ruary 25, 181 1, Jane ]McNamara, of Scotch- 

 Irish descent, who bore him eight children, 

 of whom the third was Jane, who married 

 Alfred Crewitt, and became the mother of 

 the subject of this sketch. The children 

 of Alfred and Jane (Dorland) Crewitt 

 were : Isaac, Elizabeth, Howard, Andrew, 

 Jane, Edward, William; John Aubrey, the 

 subject of this sketch, born March 29, 

 1853 ; Thomas. Isaac and Howard Crewitt 

 were both in the service of their country 

 during the Civil war, the former holding 

 the rank of lieutenant and the latter that 

 of sergeant. 



Dr. Crewitt was reared at Huntingdon 

 and attended the public school there. He 

 filled the position of mail agent for three 

 years, and in the meantime studied medicine 

 with Dr. D. P. Miller, of Huntingdon. In 

 1874 he entered the College of Phy- 

 sicians and Surgeons at Baltimore, 

 Maryland, from which he graduated in 

 1876. In the year of his graduation he lo- 

 cated at Robertsdale, Pa., where he was in 

 active practice for eight years. In 1884 

 he came to Newtown, Bucks county, where 

 he has since practiced his chosen profes- 

 sion with success, having built up a large 

 practice. He is a member of and was presi- 

 dent in 1905 of the Bucks County ^ledi- 

 cal Society, and is a member of the Lehigh 

 Valley iNIedical Association, the Pennsyl- 

 vania State Medical Society, and the 

 American Medical Association. He served 

 five years in Bucks county as school di- 

 rector. He has been a member of the 

 Presbyterian church for thirty-seven j-ears, 

 and a trustee of the Newtown Presbyterian 

 church for eighteen years. 



Dr. Crewitt married, December 18, 1878, 

 Joanna Bayard Stewart, daughter of 

 Charles and Elizabeth (Bayard) Stewart, 

 of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, and they are 

 the parents of three children : Alfred 

 Bayard Crewitt, B.'S., is a medical student 

 at the University of Pennsylvania ; Lillian, 

 at home ; and John Aubrey, Jr., who is a 

 student at the George School. Alfred Bay- 

 ard Crewitt became an active worker in the 

 temperance cause before he was sixteen 

 years of age, and was one of the organizers 

 of the Young People's Temperance Asso- 

 ciation of Bucks county in 1899, and presi- 

 dent of the Association until the fall of 

 1904. when he resigned and his brother, 

 John Aubrey Crewitt, Jr., was elected 

 president. 



DR. NERI BARNDT WILLIAMS, of 

 Perkasie, physician and druggist, was born 

 in Easton, Pennsylvania, February 12. 1863. 

 and is a son of Dr. Cyrenius and Margaret 

 (Barndt) William?, of Easton, both of 

 whom are natives of Bucks county. On the 

 paternal side he is of Welsh descent, the 

 earliest ancestor of whom he have any 

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definite record being John Williams, who 

 in 1737 purchased two hundred acres of 

 land in New Britain township, near Crier's 

 corner, on the Hilltown township line, and 

 in 1747 purchased one hundred and fifty 

 acres additional in Hilltown, and one' hun- 

 dred and thirty-five acres adjoining in New 

 Britain. Both he and his wife died prior 

 to 1787, leaving five children : John, an in- 

 valid; Isaac; William; Sarah, wiie of John 

 Parker; and Rebecca, wife of William 

 James, of New Britain, William being ;v 

 Baptist minister. The last three children 

 in 1787 conveyed their interest in their 

 father's real estate to their brother Isaac 

 on condition that he care for their elder 

 brother, John. Isaac Williams, married 

 Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of Thomas and 

 Mary (.Williams) Thomas,* and lived all 

 his life on the part of the homestead lying in 

 Hilltown. In 1800 he conveyed the land 

 in New Britain to his sons, Thomas and 

 Benjamin. Elizabeth Thomas was a grand- 

 daughter of Elder William Thomas, who 

 came from Wales in 1712 and settled in 

 Hilltown in 1724. (See Thomas Family). 

 Thomas Williams, son of Isaac and Eliza- 

 beth (Thomas) Williams, born in Hill- 

 town township, Bucks county, Pennsvlvania, 

 May 14, 1776, was the grandfather of Dr.' 

 Williams. April 8, 1800, his father con- 

 veyed to him fifty acres of the land pur- 

 chased by his grandfather, John Williams, 

 i" ^72,7, lying in New Britain township, on 

 the stump road. Here he lived until 1834, 

 when he purchased at sherifif's sale the farm 

 of Nathan Thomas near Silverdale, m Hill- 

 town township, part of the Ephraim Thom- 

 as homestead whereon his wife was born, 

 consisting of ninety acres, and lived thereon 

 until his death, December 8, 1844. He mar- 

 ried about 1800 Eleanor Thomas, born No- 

 vember 10, 1779, died March 31, 1856. I'hey 

 were the parents of the following children : 

 Anna, born May 13, 1804, died June 23, 

 1822; Eleanor, born October 3, 1805, died 

 March 8, 1817; Joseph, born Februarv, 1808. 

 died, August 2, 1808; Nathan Thomas, 

 born August 21, 1818, died at AHentown. 

 Pennsylvania, January 18, 1901 ; Cyrenious, 

 born January 26. 1821, died 1881 ; Amy, 

 born 1824, died 1865, unmarried; and 

 Thomas, who removed to Reading, where 

 he has descendants. Eleanor (Thomas) 

 Williams was a daughter of Joseph and 

 Sarah (Brittain) Thomas, and a descendant 

 on both maternal and paternal side from 

 Elder William Thomas, above mentioned., 

 her father, Joseph Thomas, being a son 

 of Ephraim (born 1719, died 1776) and 

 Eleanor (Bates) Thomas, and her mother 

 a daughter of Nathan and Ann (Thomas) 

 Brittain, and granddaughter of Rev. John 

 Thomas, born December. 1713. died 1790., 

 for many years pastor of Hilltown Baptist 

 church, and the eldest son of Elder Will- 

 iam. His wife was Sarah James of Radnor. 

 Dr. Cyrenious Williams, father of Dr. N. 



*The "History of the Thomas Family" says Eliza- 

 beth married Henry Godshalk. She was the wife of 

 Isaac Williams when her mother made her will in 1781 



