HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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the age of fourteen years. Her clothes 

 caught fire from a stove, and running 

 out doors, she was badly burned before 

 the flames could be extinguished, and 

 only lived thirty-six hours after the ac- 

 cident. 



Isaac H. Moyer, son of Rev. Abram 

 F. Moyer, was born on the old family 

 homestead in Hilltown township, Jan- 

 I, 1856. He is indebted to the pub- 

 lis schools of the neighborhood for 

 the educational privileges he enjoyed in 

 his youth. He has always followed 

 farming, and in 1884 purchased a farm 

 in Hilltown township, where he now 

 Jives, thus providing for the wants of 

 ■himself and family, and at the same 

 time, through his careful management, 

 improving an excellent farm property 

 and accumulating a comfortable com- 

 petency. Any measure or movement 

 which tends to promote the material, so- 

 cial, intellectual or moral progress of 

 his community receives his endorsement 

 and support. The cause of education in 

 his home locality has profited by his 

 efforts in behalf of the public schools, 

 and he is now serving as a school direc- 

 tor. He keeps well informed on the po- 

 litical questions and issues of the day, 

 and votes with the Republican party, but 

 has never been a seeker for political 

 office. Not like his ancestors, he is a 

 Lutheran in religious faith, holding mem- 

 bership with the congregation at Dub- 

 lin, Pennsylvafiia, where he is serving 

 as a deacon. 



Mr. Moyer was married June 24, 1876, 

 to Amanda Detweiler, who was born De- 

 cember 10, 1855, and is a daughter of 

 George A. and Esther (Eckert) Det- 

 weiler. They became the parents of 

 seven children: Oscar D., born Decem- 

 ber 3, 1876. died April 30,. 1877; Howard 

 D., born January 28, 1S79; Ellis D., July 

 IS, 1882; Calvin D., February 12, 1885; 

 Linford D., May 6, 1888; Elwood D., De- 

 cember 24, 1890; and Mabel D., Decem- 

 ber 24, 1895. 



LEWIS R. BOND, of Morrisville, was 

 born in Solebury township, Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania, January 28, 1866, and is a 

 son of Cadwalader Dilworth and Susan 

 T. (Breece) Bond. 



Adam Bond, the paternal ancestor of the 

 subject of this sketch, with two brothers, 

 Abraham and Cadwalader Bond, came to 

 America from the place of their nativity, 

 just outside the city of London, England, 

 about the year 1720, and located in what 

 is now Delaware county, Pennsylvania. 

 Adam Bond was the father of Abraham 

 Bond, who was a farmer and lifelong resi- 

 dent of Delaware county. The latter was 

 the father of Jonathan C. Bond, who was 

 born in Delaware countv, the grandfather 

 of Lewis R. Bond. He married Margaret 

 Breece, daughter of Henry and Sarah 

 Breece, of Buckingham, and resided in 



Ridley, Delaware county, until 1854, when 

 he removed to Solebury -township, Bucks 

 county, where he died August 29, 1870. 

 His wife died in Solebury, April 14, 1866. 

 They were the parents of five children, 

 viz. : Henry ; Cadawalader Dilworth ; Eliza- 

 beth, who married William Turban, a Bap- 

 tist minister and a native of England ; 

 Adam ; and Jonathan Plummer Bond. 



Cadwalader Dilworth Bond was born in 

 Ridley township, Delaware county, Penn- 

 sylvania, February 27, 1812. Early in life 

 he learned the shoemaker trade, which he 

 followed for several years. At the time 

 of the Mexican war of 1848 he was em- 

 ployed at his trade in the United States 

 arsenal at Gray's Ferry, Philadelphia. He 

 later followed his trade in New Hope and 

 Solebury, Bucks county, but an indoor life 

 proving detrimental to his health, he en- 

 gaged in farming and followed that voca- 

 tion in Solebury until shortly before the 

 death of his wife, August 20, 1893. He died 

 at the home of his son, LewLs R. Bond, in 

 Morrisville, January 4, 1895. Both he and 

 his wife are buried at the Solebury Friends' 

 burying groimd. He was an industrious, 

 hard working man and an exemplary and 

 consistent Christian, for many years a mem- 

 ber of the Christian church at Carversville. 

 In politics he was a Democrat. His wife 

 was his cousin, Susan T. Breece, daughter 

 of Henry and Hannah (Walton) Breece, 

 and was born in Wrightstown township, 

 September 18, 1819. Her paternal ancestor 

 was Hendrick Bries, who purchased in 

 1732 four hundred acres in Bensalem town- 

 ship, Bucks county, and died there in 1740. 

 He was a grandson of Hendrick Bries, who 

 emigrated from Holland about 1660 and lo- 

 cated near Albany, New York. The latter 

 was a shoemaker by trade, and had at least 

 two sons — Folkert Hendrick?e Bries and 

 Jurian Hendrickse Bries, who located at 

 Brooklyn, Long Island. The former mar- 

 ried April I, 1680, Neeltje Jans, widow of 

 Garret Dirckse Croeger, and later married 

 Elizabeth Poulis. He was an ensign of the 

 Brooklyn militia in 1698, and sold his land 

 near Brooklyn on October 20, 1701, and re- 

 moved to Piscataway, New Jersey, where 

 he died in 1712, leaving widow Elizabeth, 

 and children Hendrick, Gerbrandt, Neeltje, 

 Wyntje, Elizabeth, Greetje (Margaret) and 

 Vnon. His will dated May 15, .1711, and 

 proved April 15, 1712, makes his wife and 

 brother-in-law, Johannes Poulse, executors. 



The son, Hendrick, married Hannah, 

 daughter of John Field, of Piscataway, 

 where he was living as late as 1724. Be- 

 tween the latter date and 1732 he removed 

 to Bensalem township, Bucks county, where 

 he was one of the trustees of the Dutch 

 Reformed church. He was the eldest son 

 of Folkert and Neeltje Bries, and was 

 probably born about 1681 ; no record of his 

 baptism appears at Brooklyn, though that 

 of his half sisters Neeltje. and Weyntje in 

 1798 and 1701 does appear. Hendrick and 

 Hannah (Field) Bries were the parents of 

 six children: Margaret, who married 



