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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



Jacobus Van Sandt in 1732; Hendrick; 

 Nealke, who married John Rodman: John, 

 who married l^Hzabcth Praul and died in 

 1751; Sarah and Hamiah, who were minors 

 at their father's death in 1740. 



Hendrick (or Henry) Breece (3) married 

 Margaret McCarty at Abington Presby- 

 terian church, December 17, 1742. In 1755 

 he conveyed the two hundred acres of land 

 in Bensalem devised to him by his father, 

 to Isaac Larew, and soon after removed to 

 Harford county, Maryland. In 1790 he re- 

 turned to Bucks county with wife Sarah 

 and at least three sons, Charles, John and 

 Henry, and daughters Elizabeth and Mar- 

 garet. He purchased a farm near Bush- 

 ington, in Buckingham, Bucks county, and 

 died there in 1802. His daughter Margaret 

 was the wife of Jonathan C. Bond, and his 

 son Henry was the father of Susan T., the 

 wife of Cadwalader Dilworth Bond. 



Henry Breece (4) married Hannah Wal- 

 ton, daughter of John Walton, of Sole- 

 bury, and lived for a time in Wrightstbwn 

 township, removing later to Solebury, where 

 he died in 1850. 



Cadwalader Dilworth and Susan T. 

 (Breece) Bond, left to survive them three 

 sons : Dilworth and Charles, who are 

 farmers in Solebury township ; and Lewis 

 Rice Bond, the subject of this sketch. 



Lewis Rice Bond was born near Lahaska, 

 in Solebury township, on January 28, 1866, 

 and was reared in Solebury township, ac- 

 quiring his education at the public schools 

 of that township and at the New Hope High 

 school. At the age of seventeen years he 

 became a teacher in the public schools of 

 the county, teaching one year in Bridgeton, 

 one in Bedminster, and seven in Solebury, 

 six of which he was principal of Green 

 Hill grammar school, near Lumberville. In 

 September, 1892. he took charge of the 

 schools of Morrisville borough, serving as 

 principal until July, 1896, when he removed 

 to Doylestown and began the study of law 

 in the office of Hugh B. Eastburn, Esq., 

 also teaching at Sunnyside school in Doyles- 

 town township during the term of 1896-97. 

 He was admitted to the Bucks county bar 

 on June 6, 1898, and began the practice of 

 his profession at Doylestown, having a 

 branch office in Morrisville, where he at- 

 tended one day each week. In 1902 he re- 

 moved to Morrisville and opened a perma- 

 nent office, where he has since practiced his 

 profession with success. Mr. Bond's father 

 was a stanch Democrat in politics, but soon 

 after attaining his majority, Lewis R. be- 

 came a Republican, with which party he has 

 since affiliated. He was borough auditor of 

 Morrisville for three years, and now holds 

 the position of borough solicitor. In Feb- 

 ruary, 1905, he was electetd a member of 

 the Morrisville school board by the largest 

 majority ever given to a Republican in that 

 borough. He is a practical surveyor and 

 holds the position of borough surveyor and 

 engineer. He was a charter member of 

 Morrisville Council, No. 915, Jr. O. U. A. 

 M., and also of the Morrisville Free 



Library Association, and is a director of 

 the Young Men's Military Association of 

 Morrisville. He and his family are affili- 

 ated with the Presbyterian church. 



Mr. Bond married, January 29, 1887, at 

 the Presbyterian church, Carversville, Penn- 

 sylvania, Anna E. Moore, daughter of Will- 

 iam and Mary (Ott) Moore, both of Ger- 

 man ancestry, the former a native of Picd- 

 minster, and the latter of West Rockhill 

 township, Bucks county. Mr. Moore was- 

 born in the year 1825, and came to Buck- 

 ingham when a young man, removing later 

 to Solebury, and resided there until his- 

 death on August 10, 1896. He was mar- 

 ried to Mary Ott, daughter of William Ott^ 

 of West Rockhill, then residing in Solebury, 

 before William Fenton, Esq.,of Buckingham^ 

 August 10, 1844. Their daughter Anna E. 

 was born in Solebury, June 3, 1866, and was- ■ 

 educated in the public schools of that town- 

 ship. The children of Lewis R. and Anna 

 E. (Moore) Bond are: Roxanna Lalla^ 

 born at Lumberville, December 15, 1887, 

 now a typewriter and stenographer in her 

 father's law office, who was educated in the 

 high schools of Morrisville and Doylestown, 

 graduating from the latter in the class of 

 1903, and afterwards took a course in the 

 Ride'r-Moore-Stewart Business College at 

 Trenton, New Jersey; Cadwalader Moore 

 Bond, born in Doylestown, February 11, 

 1900; and Ruth Lewis Bond, born at Mor- 

 risville, January 22, 1905. 



LEWIS WORTHINGTON, of Lower 

 Buckingham, was born in Buckingham-, 

 township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania,. 

 May 6, 1843; a son of John and Amy 

 Worthington. Both of his parents were 

 descendants of John and Mary (Walms- 

 ley) Worthington, of Byberry, whose 

 ninth child, Joseph, born 6 mo. 12, I737r 

 came to Buckingham about 1760, where 

 he became a large landholder. He vyas 

 thrice married. By his second wife, 

 Esther Kimble, whom he married Oc- 

 tober 18, 1778. he had seven children — 

 Anthony, William, Joel, Elisha, Amy, 

 Jesse and Isaac. Joel Worthington, 

 third son of Joseph and Esther (Kimble) 

 Worthington, was the grandfather of the 

 subject of this sketch. He heired from 

 his father a farm in Buckingham, and 

 lived there all his life. He married Ag- 

 nes Walton, and reared a family of four 

 children — two sons, John and Abner;. 

 and two daughters. 



John Worthington, father of the sub- 

 ject of this sketch, was the youngest son 

 of Joel and Agnes (Walton) Worthing- 

 ton, and was born in Buckingham, Sep- 

 tember 27, 1814, and died there Novem- 

 ber 13, 1901. He was one of the most 

 prominent and successful merchants and 

 business men in the neighborhood, con- 

 ducting a store near Bridge Valley for 

 upwards of fifty years. He was for 

 many years a director of the Doylestowt* 



