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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUX'JV 



Walker has been twice married. I lis first 

 wife, wliom he married 3 mo. 14, 1859. was 

 Lizzie Hellings. born in Middletown. 9 mo. 

 5, 1838, daughter of Jared Hellings ; she 

 died in Falls township, 5 mo. 19, 187 1. They 

 were the parents of six children, all o'f 

 whom died in infancy. Mr. Walker mar- 

 ried 3 mo. 14. T873, Deborah T. Cadwallader, 

 daughter of Timothy and Julia A. (Leland) 

 Cadwallader; she died October 25, 1905. 

 Their only child is Frank E. Walker, who 

 was born 7 mo. 22, 1877. He married June 

 7, 1899, Harriet Brown, daughter of Benja- 

 min Brown, of Binghamton, New York. 



Mr. Walker is a Republican in politics. 

 He has always taken an interest in the 

 affairs of the community in which he lived. 

 He has served two terms as chief burgess of 

 Newtown, from 1892 to 1896, and 1899 to 

 1902, and is at present a member of the 

 town council. In religion he conforms to 

 the faith and principles of the Society of 

 Friends as have all his ancestors. He be- 

 came affiliated with the Knights of Pythias, 

 as a charter member of Hermes Lodge. No. 

 109, of Bristol, in 1868, and is now a mem- 

 ber of Defiance Lodge, No. 135. of New- 

 town, and has passed all the chairs. He was 

 formerly connected with the Red Men and 

 Knights of the Golden Eagle. 



CHARLES J. SMITH, of Buckingham, 

 one of the enterprising and progressive- 

 farmers of that vicinity, is a representative 

 of two of the oldest families of Bucking- 

 ham. He is a son of Jonathan and Sarah 

 (Johnson) Smith, and was born in Buck- 

 nigham, on the farm on which he now re- 

 sides, September 15, 1865. 



The pioneer ancestors of the subject of 

 this sketch were Robert and William Smith, 

 both natives of Yorkshire, England, though 

 not known to be of common ancestry, botn 

 of whom settled near Wrightstown, Bucks 

 county. William Smith was the first to 

 arrive, coming in 1684 in a ship which 

 landed its passengers at New Castle, now 

 Delaware, from which point William 

 Smith, then a young and unmarried man, 

 engaged passage on a boat up the river, 

 and was entertained for some time at the 

 house of Phinehas Pemberton, a native of 

 Yorkshire, who was at that time one of 

 the most prominent men of the little Quak- 

 er colony on the Delaware. On 9 mo. 20, 

 1690, William Smith married Mary Croas- 

 dale. daughter of Thomas and Agne^ 

 Croasdale. who had come from Settle, in 

 Yorkshire, in 1682, in the "Welcome." 

 They were married at the house of John 

 Chapman, the pioneer settler of Wrights- 

 town, from whom William Smith made his 

 first purchase of land, adjoining Penn's 

 Park. Mary (Croasdale) Smith died in 

 1716. and in 1720 William Smith married 

 a second wife, Mercy, by whom he had 

 seven children. He died in 1743. Of the 

 eight children of the first marriage, Thom- 

 as Smith was the ancestor of the subject 



of this sketch. He married in 6 mo., 1727, 

 Elizabeth Sanders, and took up his resi- 

 dence at '"Windy Bush," in Upper Make- 

 field township, near the point where the 

 four townships of Bijckingham, Wrights- 

 town, Solebury and Upper Makefield join, 

 on a tract of land surveyed to his father in 

 1709 by Penn's land commissioners. He 

 died in 1750. 



Samuel Smith, the second of the eight 

 children of Thomas and Elizabeth (San- 

 ders) Smith, was born at Windy Bush, i 

 mo. 17, 1729-30 (March 17, 1730), and died 

 there 2 mo. 14, 1812. He married in 1750, 

 at Buckingham Friends' Meeting, Jane, the 

 daughter of John and Ann (Lenoir) Scho- 

 field, of Solebury, who died 10 mo. 29, 

 1815, at the age of eighty-nine years. Anr» 

 Smith, the third of the ten children of 

 Samuel and Jane, was born 11 mo. 15, 1754, 

 and died in 1854 at the age of ninety-nine 

 years, ten months and twenty-seven days. 

 She married at Wrightstown Meeting, 11 

 mo. 19, 1774, Joseph Smith, a grandson 01 

 Robert Smith, the other pioneer of the 

 name. 



Robert Smith is said to have come from 

 England with a brother Timothy and two 

 or three sisters, the parents dying on the 

 passage to America. He was a resident of 

 Makefield in 1710, when he witnessed the 

 marriage of his sister Ruth to Joshua 

 Cheesman. His brother Timothy marn'ed 

 Rachel Milnor in 1716, and became a prom- 

 inent man in the community. Robert 

 Smith married, 7 mo. 30, 1719, Phebe Can- 

 by, daughter of Thomas Canby, one of the 

 most prominent men of his time, a preacher 

 among Friends, and many years a member 

 of colonial assembly. Robert Smith set- 

 tled on a farm in Buckingham, adjoining 

 the Makefield farm of William Smith, and 

 died there 6 mo. 26, 1745. The house built 

 by him on this tract in 1738 was the home 

 of his descendants for six generations. He 

 was an overseer of Buckingham Meeting, 

 and his wife was an approved minister 

 among Friends. She married in 1753, Hugh 

 Ely, of Buckingham, and died i mo. 19, 

 1774- 



Timothy Smith, the second of the nine 

 children of Robert and Phebe (Canby) 

 Smith, was born i mo. 29, 1722, and died 

 5 mo. 14, 1798. He married at Bucking- 

 ham Meeting, 2 mo. 17, 1745. Sarah Kin- 

 sey, daughter of Edmund and Sarah Og- 

 burn Kinsey, early settlers at the site of 

 Buckingham meeting house, where Ed- 

 mund was an approved minister. Sarah 

 Kinsey Smith died 5 mo. 17, 1812. 



Joseph Smith, fourth of the seven chil- 

 dren of Timothy and Sarah (Kinsey) 

 Smith, was born in Buckingham, 7 mo. 7, 

 I753j and died at Smithtown, in Tinicum 

 township, Bucks county. 9 mo. 28. 1826. He 

 was the inventor and patentee of the first 

 plow with an iron mouldboard, and in con- 

 nection with his brother Robert engaged 

 in their manufacture in 1800. In 1802 he 

 removed to Smithtown and erected dwell- 

 ings and shops, and carried on the mana- 



