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death occurring in September. 1759. He 

 was married at ]Micldletown Friends' Meet- 

 ing in IT mo. (January), 1722-3, to Sarah 

 Heaton, daughter of Robert and Grace 

 (Pearson) Heaton, of Middletown. the for- 

 mer of whom was born in Yorkshire, Eng- 

 land, in 1671, and came to America with his 

 parents, Robert and Alice Heaton, in the 

 "Welcome," with William Penn, in 16S2. 

 The children of Joseph and Sarah (Heaton) 

 Walker were: George, born 11 mo. 23, 

 1723-4; Joseph; Sarah, who married (first) 

 John Palmer, and (second) John Thorn- 

 ton ; Robert, born 6 mo. 8, 1731 ; Grace, who 

 married Benjamin Scott, of Southampton ; 

 Emanuel, who married Ann Carey ; and 

 Margaret, who married Samson- Carey. 

 Sarah Walker, the mother, survived her 

 husband and died in August, 1768. 



Robert Walker, third son of Joseph and 

 Sarah (Heaton) Walker, was born and 

 reared in Middletown township. Early in 

 life he learned the carpenter trade and fol- 

 lowed it in INIiddletown and Newtown town- 

 ships until March, 1762, when he purchased 

 of his mother-in-law, Mary Linton, three 

 hundred acres of land in Solebury town- 

 ship that had been taken up by his wife's 

 grandfather, Nehemiah Blackshaw, in right 

 of his father. Randal Blackshaw.in 1700. and 

 moved thereon. The tract included the 

 present village of Carversville. and extended 

 to the line of Plumstead and Buckingham 

 townships, forming the extreme northwest- 

 ern corner of Solebury township. Robert 

 Walker spent the remainder of his life on 

 this farm, dying there October 22. 1806. 

 He was twice married. His first wife was 

 Mary Linton, whom he married January 

 8, 1761. daughter of Joseph and Mary 

 (Blackshaw) Linton, of Northampton 

 township, and granddaughter of Nehemiah 

 Blackshaw, who came to America with his 

 parents Randolph and Alice Blackshaw and 

 the Pembertons and Harrisons in the ship 

 "Submission," of Liverpool, in 1682. (See 

 "Pemberton Family" in this volume). The 

 Walker homestead in Solebury was devised 

 by Nehemiah Blackshaw in 1743 to his 

 daughter Mary, who had married Joseph 

 Linton in 1725. Phebe Blackshaw. sister 

 of Nehemiah, was the first wife of Joseph 

 Kirkbride, the ancestor of all the Kirkbrides 

 of Bucks county. The children of Robert 

 and Mary (Linton) Walker were ten in 

 number, of whom but five lived to mature 

 years, viz.: Robert, born 10 mo. 3, 1761, 

 married Susanna Shaw, of Plumstead, and 

 died in Buckingham, soon after his father, 

 without issue ; Joseph, born 9 mo. 27, 1763, 

 died unmarried in 1790; ^lary, born i mo. 

 13, 1766, married John Townsend in 1787 ; 

 Phineas, born g mo. 18, 1776 (see forwardV; 

 Benjamin, born 3 mo. 12, 1779. married 

 Hannah Hartley, and died on the home- 

 stead in Solebury, leaving a large family 

 of children who have numerous descendants 

 in Bucks county. Mary (Linton) Walker 

 died I mo. 30. 1790, and 4 mo. 13, 1791, 

 Robert married Asenath Beans, daughter of 

 Jacob and Sarah (Paxson) Beans, who sur- 



vived him and died in 1831. They were 

 the parents of five children, Ann, Amos, 

 Stacy, John, and Elizabeth, none of whom 

 left descendants, though all lived to old age, 

 John dying in Doylestown, April 29, 1898, 

 in his one hundredth year. 



Phineas Walker was the eighth child and 

 seventh son of Robert and ]Mary (Linton) 

 Walker, four of his elder brothers (Randal, 

 Mahlon, Jesse and David) having died in 

 childhood. He was born and reared on the 

 old Solel)ury homestead and remained there 

 until his marriage. At the death of his 

 father in 1806 he elected to take the home- 

 stead of his maternal ancestors in North- 

 ampton township, Bucks county, consist- 

 ing of about 160 acres, which his father had 

 purchased in 1787, and lived thereon until 

 his death, February 10, 1848, in his seventy- 

 second 3'ear. His wife was Sarah Hol- 

 combe, daughter of John and !vlary (Green) 

 Holcombe, of Solebury, granddaughter of 

 Samuel and Eleanor (Barber) Holcombe, 

 of Hunterdon county. New Jersey, and great 

 granddaughter of John and Elizabeth 

 (Woolridge) Holcombe, natives of Eng- 

 land, who were early settlers near the pres- 

 ent site of Lambertville, New Jersey, and 

 an account of whose descendants is given 

 in this volume. The children of Phineas 

 and Sarah (Holcombe) Walker were: 

 Mary, married Amos Smith ; Robert, who 

 never married ; Susan, married James 

 Worstall ; Asenath, died unmarried ; Hol- 

 combe ; and Phineas, married Deborah 

 Mitchell, and had children : Augustus 

 Mitchell Walker, of Trenton ; Anna, wife 

 of Joseph Smith, of Trenton ; Margaret, 

 wife of Levi Risdon, of Trenton ; William 

 H., president of the Newtown National 

 Bank ; Phineas, of Yardley ; Sarah, wife of 

 Theodore Vansant, of Bristol; Elizabeth, 

 wife of Levi Risdon : Susan : and Le- 

 titia, wife of William H. Van Horn. 



Holcombe Walker, son of Phineas and 

 Sarah (Holcombe) Walker, was born in 

 Northampton township, Bucks county, and 

 was reared on the old homestead farm of his 

 ancestors. On arriving at manhood he lo- 

 cated in Solebur}^ where he followed farm- 

 ing until his early death in 1847. He mar- 

 ried Sarah Ann Longshore, daughter of 

 Abraham Longshore, who survived him 

 many years. Their children were: William 

 Longshore Walker, the subject of this 

 sketch ; Abraham L., now living in Cali- 

 fornia ; Sarah Jane, widow of Frederick 

 Beans, of Makefield ; and Elizabeth H., 

 who died in 1893, the wife of Samuel H. 

 Walton. 



William Longshore Walker was born and 

 reared in Solebury township, Bucks county, 

 and on attaining manhood began farming 

 in Upper Makefield township, where he 

 resided for three years. He then purchased 

 a farm in Falls township, where he resided 

 until the spring of 1879, when he removed 

 to New Jersey, near Pennington, where he 

 followed farming until 1888, when he re- 

 moved to Newtown, Bucks county, where he 

 has since conducted the milk business. Mr. 



