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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



born 6 mo. 30, 1728; Ann, born 11 mo. 

 15, 1730-1; Eber, born i mo. 28, 1733; and 

 Abijah, born 10 mo. 5, 1735; Macre and 

 Achsah. Jeremiah died in 1748. 



Robert Croasdale, son of Jeremiah and 

 Grace, married 9 mo. 15, 1750, Margery 

 Hayhur.st, born in Middletown, 2 mo. 15, 

 1730, daughter of Cuthbert and Deliverance 

 (bills) Hayhurst. Cuthbert Hayhurst was 

 a son of William and Rachel (Radc'liffe) 

 Hayhurst, and a granddaughter of Cuth- 

 bert and jNIary Hayhurst, who also came 

 over in the "Welcome"' from Settle, York- 

 shire, in 1682. James Radcliffe, the father 

 of Rachel, was an eminent preacher among 

 Friends, and came from Rosendale, Lan- 

 cashire, to Middletown in 1685. Robert 

 Croasdale died 8 mo. 9, 1780, and his widow 

 Margery 6 mo. 29, 1783. They had seven 

 children: Jeremiah, born 6 mo. 20, 1751, 

 irarried Ann Quinby, of New Jersey, and 

 died 9 mo. 27. 1829; Abi. born 7 mo. 16, 

 1753; Rachel, born 3 mo. 7, 1756; Margery, 

 born 7 mo. 3, 1758 ; Macre, born 12 mo. 

 7, 1760, married Samuel Eastburn ; and 

 Robert, born 2 mo. 20, 1763. 



Robert Croasdale, son of Robert and Mar- 

 gery, married (first) Tacy Knight, and had 

 three children, all of whom died young. 

 Tacie died 5 mo. 30, 1791, and he married 

 10 mo. 25, 1792, Hannah (Woolston) 

 Mitchell, daughter of Jeremiah Woolston. 

 w-ho died 9 mo. 14, 1793, leaving a son, 

 Jeremiah W., born 8 mo. 14, 1793. Robert 

 Croasdale married a third time. 11 mo. 

 II, 1802, Ruth Richardson, daughter Of 

 Joshua Richardson, who bore him five 

 children, Mary, born 8 mo. 7, 1803; Joseph 

 H., born i mo. 8, 1806; Rachel, born 1807. 

 died 1815; Tacy, born 11 mo. 28, 1819; and 

 Robert Morris, born 2 mo. 6, 1812. Robert, 

 the father, died 6 mo. 15. 1821, and his 

 widow Ruth 9 mo. 30, 1854, at the age 

 of eighty-one years. 



Jeremiah W. Croasdale, only child of 

 Robert by his second wife Hannah, was 

 born and reared in Middletown township, 

 and spent the active years of his life as a 

 farmer in that township. After the death 

 of his wife in 1866 he removed to Newtown, 

 where he died in 1873. He married 12 mo. 

 27, 1825, Sarah Wilson, who bore him four 

 children. She was a daughter of Joseph 

 and Mary (Blakey) Wilson, and was born 

 7 mo. 9, 1799. and died 7 mo. i, 1866. The 

 children of Jeremiah W. and Sarah (Wil- 

 son) Croasdale were: Mary W.. born 8 

 mo. 2, 1826, married Moses Pax;on : John 

 Wilson, born 5 mo. i, 1829; Hannah, born 

 I mo. 28, 1831, married Charles W. Kirk- 

 bride; and Robert Morris, born 10 mo. 14. 



1834. 



John Wilson Croasdale. the father of the 

 subject of this sketch, was born and reared 

 in Middletown township, and remained on 

 the farm with his parents until 1853, when 

 he removed to Newtown and embarked in 

 the mercantile business, which he followed 

 until his death, i mo. 19. 1894. He married 

 in 1862 Elizabeth B. Parry, daughter of 

 Thomas Fell and Mary (Eastburn) Parry 



of Langhorne, whose ancestry is given in 

 another part of this work. Their children 

 are: Robert M., the subject of this sketch; 

 Thomas P., also of Newtown; and Mary 

 E., married R. B. McKinney, of Philadel- 

 phia ; she died February i, 1905. 



Robert M. Croasdale was born and reared 

 in Newtown, and received his education at 

 the local schools, and at an early age be- 

 came a clerk in his father's store, where 

 he was employed until thirty, years of age. 

 After his father's death he was clerk in 

 different stores in Newtown until 1903. On 

 July I, 1903, he was appointed United 

 States revenue collector for the first district 

 of Pennsylvania, which position he still 

 fills. Mr. Croasdale is an ardent Republi- 

 can, and has always taken an active in- 

 terest in the councils of his party, serving 

 for several years as a member of the county 

 committee. He has served as chief bur- 

 gess of Newtown for three years, as 

 borough auditor for seven years; and is 

 the present president of the town council. 

 He married, October 9, 1902, Helen Cast- 

 ner, of New Jersey. 



ARMITAGE B. QUICK, of Northamp- 

 ton township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 

 was born in Hunterdon county. New Jer- 

 sey, on June 10, 1848, and is a son of 

 Joseph G. and Cornelia (Blackwell) Quick, 

 both of whom are representatives of the 

 oldest families in Hunterdon, that have 

 been prominent in the affairs of that county 

 since its first settlement. Tunis Quick, the 

 ancestor of all of the name in America, 

 was of Holland descent, and probably a 

 native of the Low Countries. In 1713 he 

 and his widowed mother, Romora Quick, 

 purchased a very large tract of land in 

 Hunterdon county, where he has left num- 

 erous descendants. He married. October 

 30. 1689, Vroutje Haring. born March 3, 

 1663, daughter of Jan Petersen Haring, 

 who was born in Holland, December 26, 

 1633, and married Grietje Cosyn in 1662, 



Ezekiel Quick, the great-grandfather of 

 the subject of this sketch, was born and 

 reared in the county of Hunterdon, where 

 he followed farming all his life, in con- 

 nection with the distilling of apple whiskey, 

 a common industry among the farmers of 

 Hunterdon county two generations ago. 



Ezekiel Quick, son of the above, was also 

 born in Hunterdon county, and was like- 

 wise a farmer and distiller, residing on a 

 farm about six miles from Flemington. He 

 was the father of four children as follows . 

 Charles. Ezekiel. Richard, Joseph G. 



Joseph G. Quick, fourth son of Ezekiel 

 (2), was born on the old homestead in 

 Hunterdon, and on arriving at manhood de- 

 voted his attention exclusively to the cul- 

 tivation of the soil, and followed that voca- 

 tion during life. He was one of the earliest 

 peach growers of Hunterdcm county, and 

 an extensive and successful fruit grower 

 for many years. He was an active mem- 



