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24. William Thomas, son of Mary 

 Thomas, of Laudahack, as shown by lease 

 (December 20, 1606-7) of Cardiff. He died 

 in 1655 ; he married Joan, daughter of 

 Howell Mathew of Lwelden, and she was 

 living in i66g. 



25. Thomas Thomas, son of William 

 Thomas, was of Landhadack and Rhyd- 

 lavar. He married Dorothy, daughter of 

 Sir John Carew, of Somerset. 



26. Elizabeth Thomas, daughter of 

 Thomas Thomas, married William Aubrey 

 of Pencoed, near Llauiltern, Glamorgan- 

 shire, son of Rev. William Aubrey, M. A., 

 and descendant of Sir Reginald Aubrey, one 

 of the Norman conquerors of Wales. She 

 was living in 1678. Her brother, William 

 Thomas, in his will dated June 7, 1636, 

 mentions his brother-in-law William Au- 

 brey, of Pencoed. 



27. Barbara Aubrey, daughter of Eliza- 

 beth Thomas and William Aubrey, was 

 born in 1637, and died November 16, 1710. 

 She was a member of the Church of Eng- 

 land but subsequently followed her hus- 

 band into the Society of Friends. She 

 married John Bevan, who lived upon his 

 estate in Glamorganshire. He was a rnan 

 of considerable w-ealth, a friend of Will- 

 iam Penn, and a preacher of influence 

 among the Quakers. He came to Pennsyl- 

 vania in 183, and was a judge of the coun- 

 ty court of Philadelphia, a member of the 

 Pennsylvania Assembly, and a man of af- 

 fairs. He returned to Wales in 1774, and 

 died at Treverlig. 



28. Elizabeth Bevan, a daughter of Bar- 

 bara Aubrey, was born at Treverlig in 

 1696; married Joseph Richardson of Cle- 

 thyr, at the mouth of Perkiomen creek in 

 Pennsylvania, son of Samuel Richardson, 

 provincial councilor and judge in Phila- 

 delphia. She died before February 27, 

 1760. 



29. Edward Richardson, son of Eliza- 

 beth Bevan, in 1712, went to school to 

 Francis Daniel Pastorius, in Germantown. 

 He married Ann Jones, December 15, 1730. 

 His father sold to him for fifty dollars a 

 tract of two hundred and forty-eight acres 

 in Clethyr. He died in November, 1751. 



30. Sarah Richardson, daughter of Ed- 

 ward, was born January 14, 1732. She 

 married, October 14, I754, at Christ churcn, 

 in Philadelphia, Edward Lane, of Provi- 

 dence, Philadelphia county, Pennsylvania, 

 a distant relative, also a descendant of Sam- 

 uel Richardson. She moved with her hus- 

 band to Charleston township. Chester 

 county, before the Revolution. During the 

 war she fed the soldiers. She died July b, 

 1818, and is buried in the Anderson family 

 burying ground in Schuylkill township, 

 Chester county. 



31. Elizabeth Lane, daughter of Sarah 

 Richardson and Edward Lane, married 

 William Schofield, first lieutenant in the 

 Americaa army during the war of the 

 Revolution. This William Schofield was 

 the grandfather of Rebecca Schofield, wife 

 of Benjamin Franklin Kerbaugh. Her 



grandmother and Governor Pennypacker's 

 grandmother were sisters, both being the 

 cnildren of Edward Lane. 



DR. JOHN HAGGERTY BISHOP, 

 whose skill as a dentist and medical prac- 

 titioner has gained him rank with the lead- 

 ing professional men of Bucks county, 

 is descended from one of two brothers of 

 German birth, who in colonial days came 

 to America and settled at AUentown, 

 Pennsylvania. Both were weavers, and as 

 George Bishop, son of one of these broth- 

 ers, and the grandfather of Dr. Bishop, 

 reached a suitable age, he adopted his 

 father's calling, which he followed for 

 many years. He was probably born in Al- 

 lentown, and it is definitely known was 

 reared there. He married Rachel Mc- 

 Cool, and in order to provide for his fam- 

 ily he engaged in weaving until the trou- 

 ble with England brought on the war of 

 1812, when he enlisted in defense of Amer- 

 ican interests. After the cessation of hos- 

 tilities he returned home, and, being given 

 some land by the government, he started 

 With a small party for the western section 

 of the state to locate his claim, but none 

 of the party were ever heard from after- 

 ward and it is supposed that all were killed 

 by the Indians. In proof of this theory, 

 a number of years afterward human bones 

 were found in the district to which they 

 were supposed to have gone. He left a 

 widow and children. His wafe, who was a 

 graduate of Muhlenberg College and a lady 

 of superior culture, afterward married a 

 2\Ir. Jordan, and by that union had one 

 child, Griffith, who was for three years in 

 the cavalry service in the civil war, ana 

 now resides in Flourtown, ^lontgomery 

 county, Pennsylvania. 



Samuel Bishop, son of George and Ra- 

 chel (McCool) Bishop, was born in Bucks 

 county, near Springtown, in 1814, and af- 

 ter his father's death was reared by a fam- 

 ily of the name of Bryant, living nea»- 

 Springtown. He learned the shoemaker's 

 trade, which he followed in early life, but 

 later he adopted farming as a source of 

 livelihood, and also conducted a hotel in 

 New Jersey for one year and for one year 

 in Danboro, Pennsylvania. As it was cus- 

 tomary for all hotels to serve liquors, and 

 as he was opposed to drinking, he gave 

 up the hotel business and directed his en- 

 ergies exclusively to farming in Solebury 

 township. He died in Lumberville, June 

 9, 1886, at about seventy-two years of age. 

 In early life he had been a member of 

 the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, 

 and in his political views he was a Demo- 

 crat, and a strong Union man at the time 

 of the civil war. Samuel Bishop married 

 Miss Mary Walter, a daughter of William 

 and Elizabeth (Huff) Walter. She was 

 born in New Jersey in 1818, and in tht 

 maternal line was descended from Revo- 

 lutionary stock. Her^ paternal grandfather 



