HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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acres in Upper ]\Takefield, where he died 

 in 1780. He became a lars^e landowner in 

 Upper and Lower Makefield. and was one 

 of the prominent men of his time in that 

 locality. He was a member of Falls 

 Monthly Meeting of Friends. He married 

 in 1719 Hannah Towne, daughter of John 

 and Deborah (Booth) Towne, and they 

 were the parents of four sons ; Bernard, 

 Benjamin, Timothy and John : and daugh- 

 ters ; Hannah, wife of Joseph White: 

 Deborah, wife of Benjamin Paxson ; and 

 another who married a Gillingham. 



Timothy Taylor, son of Benjamin and 

 Hannah (Towne) Taylor, born at New- 

 town in 1729, was a carpenter and lived 

 all his life in the neighborhood of New- 

 town, his father conveying to him 158 acres 

 of his Newtown plantation in 1754. He was 

 a justice of the peace and of the court 

 of common pleas of Bucks county, being 

 commissioned the former on June 7, 1784, 

 and the latter on September 29 of the same 

 year. Timothy and Bernard Taylor were 

 two of the trustees appointed by Falls 

 Monthly Meeting in T753 to purchase the 

 land and erect Makefield meeting house. 

 Timothy Taylor died in 1790. He was 

 twice married, first on 12 mo. 27, 1752, 

 to Letitia Kirkbride, daughter of Mahlon 

 ' and Mary (Sotcher) Kirkbride, and grand- 

 daughter of Joseph and Sarah (Stacy) 

 Kirkbride, and great-granddaughter of 

 Mahlon and Rebecca (Ely) Stacy, who 

 were married at Cinder Hill, Yorkshire, 

 England, in 1668. Both Joseph and Mah- 

 lon Kirkbride were for many years mem- 

 bers of the colonial assembly and justices 

 of the courts of Bucks county, and were 

 the largest landowners in Bucks county. 

 The children of Timothy and Letitia 

 (Kirkbride) Taylor were: Joseph; Hannah, 

 wife of William Field; Stacy ;_ Timothy ; 

 Mahlon ; David ; Jonathan K. and Bernard. 

 Timothy Taylor married (second) it mo. 

 19, 1772, Sarah Yardley, daughter of Wil- 

 liam and Ann (Budd) Yardley,* who bore 

 him four children : Ann, who married 

 Jacob Cadwallader ; William ; Deborah, who 

 married Samuel Cary ; and Sarah, who 

 married Phineas Briggs. 



Joseph Taylor, eldest son of Timothy 

 and Letitia (Kirkbride) Taylor, born at 

 Newtown in 1753, married, 12 mo. 11, 

 1777. Mercy Knowles, daughter of John 

 and Mary (Sotcher) Knowles, grand- 

 daughter of Robert and Mercy (Brown) 

 Sotcher, and great-granddaughter of John 

 and Mary (Lofty) Sotcher, before men- 

 tioned. He was a farmer in Lower Make- 

 field, where he died in 1832. The children 

 of Joseph and Mercy (Knowles) Taylor 

 were: Letitia, born 1778, married Samuel 

 Bunting; Mary, born 1780, second wife 

 of Cyrus Cadwallader; Sarah, born 1783, 

 married John Comfort; Hannah, born 1784, 

 married Mahlon Buckman; Mahlon, born 

 1787, married Eliza Comfort ; Rachel, born 

 1789, died 1879, married Matthew Cun- 



* See " Yardley Family." 



ningham ; Ann, born 1784, married Richard/ 

 Janney; Susanna, born 1797, married John*^ 

 Palmer : and Joseph, born 1799, married 

 Anna Betts. 



Matthew and Rachel (Taylor) .Cunning- 

 ham were the parent? of two sons — Joseph 

 T., born January 6, 1814; and George W., 

 born May 21. 1816, died 1896. The latter 

 married in 1852 Alary Ivins, daughter of 

 Barclay and Mary (Thompson) Ivins, and 

 died in Newtown township in 1896, leav- 

 ing three daughters — Agnes, Mary L, and 

 Edith. Rachel (Taylor) Cunningham sur- 

 vived her husband many years, dying in 

 1879 at the age of ninety years. 



Joseph Taylor Cunningham, eldest son 

 of Matthew and Rachel (Taylor) Cun- 

 ningham, was born in Lower Makefield 

 township, Bucks county, January 6, 1814, 

 and was reared on the old homestead in 

 Newtown township, where he spent his 

 entire life from the age of a few months. 

 At the death of his father in 1835 the farm 

 was divided between him and his brother 

 George W., the part adjudged to Joseph 

 consisting of about eighty acres. Joseph 

 T. Cunningham married Rebecca J. Cad- 

 wallader, born February 14, 1822, daughter 

 of Jacob and Mary (Brown) Cadwallader, 

 and granddaughter of Cyrus and Mary 

 (Taylor) Cadwallader, and therefore, like 

 her husband, a descendant of Benjamin and 

 Hannah (Towne) Taylor, her grandmother, 

 Mary Taylor, being a daughter of Benja- 

 min' and Elizabeth (Burroughs) Taylor, 

 and granddaughter of Bernard Taylor, 

 (son of Benjamin and Hannah), and his 

 wife Mary Kirkbride, the latter being an- 

 other daughter of Mahlon and Mary 

 (Sotcher) Kirkbride. Joseph T. Cunning- 

 ham died on his farm in Newtown town- 

 ship, October 16, 1867, in his fifty-fourth 

 year, and his wife Rebecca died November 

 8. 1865. Thev were the parents of three 

 children : Maiy C. born 1844, died August 

 6, 1887, married George B. Buckman, of 

 Newtown; Matthew C. ; William; and two 

 other children, George and Jennie, who died 

 in infancy. 



The maternal ancestors of these children 

 were among the earliest settlers in War- 

 minster township. The pioneer ancestor, 

 John Cadwallader. a native of Wales, was 

 a distinguished minister among Friends 

 and died on the island of Tortula, in the 

 West Indies, in 1742, while on a religious 

 visit. He left several children, among 

 whom was Jacob, who died in Moreland 

 township. His wife was a granddaughter 

 of Tunis (or Dennis) Kunders (Conrad) 

 whose family was one of the thirteen who 

 sailed from London on the "Concord" on 

 Julv 24. 1683, and landed at Philadelphia, 

 October 6, and fourteen days later located 

 at the present site of Germantown. of 

 which they were the founders. Dennis 

 Kunders was one of the first burgesses. He 

 was a native of Westphalia, and brought 

 with him to Germantown three sons, and 

 five other children were born to him in 

 Germantown. Jacob Cadwallader, son of 



