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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



other than local office, filling the office of 

 school director for nine years. His wife 

 was a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth 

 (Schoch) Burger, and was born in Phila- 

 delphia in 1819, and died in Buckingham 

 in 1893. Her father was a jeweler in New 

 York city for a number of years and after 

 coming to Buckingham lived a retired life. 

 William Edmund Wilson, second son of 

 Samuel and Maria (Burger) Wilson, was 

 born on the old Wilson homestead at Me- 

 chanicsville, October 23, 1856. He acquir- 

 ed his education at the Tyro Hall School 

 and at the Doylestown English and Clas- 

 sical Seminary. On leaving school he as- 

 sisted his father in the seed business, and 

 after a few years took an interest in the 

 seed growing, part of the farm being al- 

 lotted to him for that purpose. He later 

 filled the position of postmaster at Me- 

 chanicsville for seven years. After his 

 mother's death he purchased the present 

 farm of fifty-three acres of his father, and 

 is a practical and enterprising farmer. He 

 is a member of Doylestown Presbyterian 

 church, in which he has been an elder for 

 several years. In politics he is a Repub- 

 lican. He. is a member of Doylestown 

 Lodge, No. 245, F. and A. j\I., and Doyles- 

 town Chapter, R. A. M. Mr. Wilson mar- 

 ried, October 19, 1898, Fannie Watson, 

 daughter of Henry and Emeline (Rich) 

 Watson, of Buckingham, an account of 

 whose ancestry is given in this work in the 

 sketch of her brother, William Watson. 

 Mr. and Mrs. Wilson have no children. 



ALLEN ROBERT MITCHELL, of 

 Langhorne, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, is 

 a representative in the seventh generation 

 of a family that have resided in that 

 vicinity since 1699. He was born in Middle- 

 town township, Bucks county, August 22. 

 1852, and is a son of the late Gove and 

 Catharine Mather (Croasdale) Mitchell. 



The first American ancestor of this fam- 

 ily was Henry Mitchell, of Marsden Lanes, 

 Lancashire, England, who was married ^lay 

 6, 1675, to Elizabeth Foulds, at the house 

 of Stephen Saeger, Marsden Lanes, under 

 the auspices of Marsden Monthly ^Meeting 

 of Friends. On 12 mo. (February) 16, 

 1698-9, a certificate was granted by Mars- 

 den Aleeting to Henry Mitchell, his wife 

 Elizabeth, and their three children, Henry, 

 Richard and ]\Iargaret, to Friends in Penn- 

 sylvania. They sailed in the '"Brittanica," 

 with a number of other Friends on their 

 way to Penn's colony, and Elizabeth and 

 the children arrived in the Delaware river 

 6 mo. (August) 25, 1699, Henry, the father, 

 having died on the voyage. Elizabeth sur- 

 vived but two months after her arrival, 

 dying 8 mo. 10, 1699. The certificate was 

 read and accepted at IMiddletown Meet- 

 ing 10 mo. 7. 1699, and the children taken 

 under the care of that meeting. Richard 

 Mitchell, witii the approval of the meet- 



ing, found a home with John Smith. He 

 married in 1712 Mary ^lilnor, two years 

 later Alice Shires, and late in life married 

 a third wife, Agnes Warner (nee Croas- 

 dale). He settled in Wrightstown, where 

 he operated a mill for many years at Rush 

 Valley. He became a very prominent man, 

 serving his county as justice and in the 

 colonial assembly for many years. Mar- 

 garet Mitchell married Stephen Twining 

 in 1709. 



HENRY MITCHELL, son of Henry and 

 Elizabeth (Foulds) ^litchell, was born in 

 iMarsden Lanes, Lancashire, England, in 

 1680, 9 mo. 17, and died in 1726 in Bristol, 

 Bucks county. He was a carpenter, and 

 soon after his arrival entered the employ 

 of Joseph Growdon, with whom he re- 

 mained until after his marriage to Sarah 

 Gove, daughter of Richard Gove, of Phila- 

 delphia. He was one of the builders, and 

 owners of Milford Mills, at Hulmeville. 

 In 1714 Growdon conveyed to him 125 

 acres of land in Bristol township, ad- 

 joining the Middletown line, which re- 

 mained in the family for several genera- 

 tions. Henry and Sarah (Gove) ]\Iitchell 

 were the parents of six children: Henry; 

 John ; ]\Iartha, who married Thomas Jan- 

 ney ; Sarah, who married Joseph Clark ; 

 ]\rary. who married Renald Burden; and 

 Elizabeth, who married James Barber. 



John Mitchell, second son of Henry and 

 Sarah, was born 3 mo. 10, 1711, and mar- 

 ried 12 mo. 19, 1738. Margaret Stack- 

 house, born 3 mo. 16. 1714. died 5 mo. 3, 

 1774. He died 4 mo. 31, 1789. He was also 

 a carpenter, and later a farmer, and resided 

 in Middletown on land taken up by his 

 father-in-law. They were the parents of 

 seven children : John, Richard, Henry, 

 Samuel, Margaret, Sarah and Pearson. 



Pearson Mitchell, youngest son of John 

 and Margaret (Stackhouse) Mitchell, was 

 born in IMiddletown township and resided 

 there all his life. He married Rebecca 

 Allen, daughter of John and Rebecca 

 (Gibbs) Allen, and granddaughter of Sam- 

 uel and Jane (Wain) Allen, and had four 

 children ; Gove, an eminent physician, John 

 Allen, William and Achsah. Pearson Mit- 

 chell died in 1834. John Allen Mitchell in- 

 herited- from his father a farm in Middle- 

 town, upon which he lived till late in life, 

 and then removed to the village of Attle- 

 borough, now Langhorne. where he died. 

 He married Tacie Stackhouse, and had 

 five children: Pearson; John S. ; Gove;, 

 Sarah, who married Rowland Mather : and 

 Rebecca, who married James W. New- 

 bold. Tacie Mitchell died in 1866. 



Gove Mitchell was born in Middletown 

 2 mo. 10. 1825. and was reared in the 

 simple faith of the Society of Friends, his 

 parents. John Allen and Tacie (Stackhouse) 

 Mitchell, both being elders in Middletown 

 Meeting. After a few years of mature life 

 as a farmer he removed to Philadelphia, 

 where he was actively engaged in business 

 for a number of years. He returned to 

 Middletown in 1883, and at the organiza- 



