HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



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(McLoughlin) Rouse, of Ogontz. where 

 they now reside. Mr. and Mrs. Doll are 

 members of St. Paul's Episcopal church, at 

 Ogontz, in the affairs of which Mrs. Doll 

 takes an active interest, serving as teacher 

 in the Sunday school connected therewith, 

 and a member of the Order of King's 

 Daughters. 



MARGARET WATER^IAN RICKEY, 

 of Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, is a de- 

 scendant of early settlers in Bucks county, 

 Pennsylvania. Alexander Rickey, her 

 great-great-grandfather, was born in Edin- 

 burgh, Scotland, in the year 1688, and died 

 in Lower Makefield township in 1758, at 

 the age of seventy years. He came to Penn- 

 sylvania when a young man, and married 

 in 1715, Anne Keirl, daughter of Thomas 

 and Julian Keirl, of Lower Makefield, and 

 in 1725 with his wife and children brought 

 a certificate from Abington (Philadelphia 

 county) Monthly Meeting of Friends to 

 Falls Meeting, Bucks county, and settled in 

 Lower Makefield, where he was a prom- 

 inent farmer and wool grower. Alexander 

 and Anne (Keirl) Rickey were the parents 

 of ten children: Thomas, born 2 nio. 15. 

 1716, married Hannah Dowdney ; John, 

 born II mo. 17, 1717, married INlary Hutch- 

 inson; Katharine, born 8 mo. 20, 1720, mar- 

 ried, first, Randal Hutchinson, and (sec- 

 ond) Joseph Milnor; Alexander, born 10 

 mo. 26, 1723; Rachel, born 12 mo. 26, 1726, 

 married Sims Betts ; James, born 9 mo. 3, 

 1729 ; Anne, born i mo. 26, 1732, married 

 Mahlon Kirkbride, Jr. ; ]Mary, born 10 mo. 

 10, 1734, married John Derbyshire : Sarah, 

 born 5 mo. 24, 1737; Keirl, born 6 mo. 2, 

 1740. married Sarah Milnor. 



John Rickey, _ second son of Alexander 

 and Anne (Keirl) Rickey, born January 17, 

 1717-18, died in Trenton, New Jersey, Sep- 

 tember 3, 1798. He lived in Trenton during 

 its occupancy by the Hessians in 1776. and 

 several of them quartered themselves in his 

 house. When they were attacked and de- 

 feated by Washington's army on the morn- 

 ing of December 26, 1776, a party of the 

 Hessians surrendered to Washington's 

 troops in John Rickey's orchard. John 

 Rickey married ]\Iary Hutchinson, daughter 

 of John and Sarah (Burges) Hutchinson, 

 of Falls, born February 28, 1728. Her ma- 

 ternal ancestry is given in this volume, in 

 "The Burges Family." Her father, John 

 Hutchinson, was for many years and up to 

 his death in 1745 an overseer of Falls ?^Ieet- 

 ing of Friends. He married first Phebe 

 Kirkbride. and had children : John, mar- 

 ried Ann Stanaland ; Thomas, married Eliz- 

 abeth Higgs ; Joseph, married Esther 

 Stanaland ; Michael, married A.nn Lucas ; 

 Randal, married Katharine Rickey as 

 his second wife, his first being Elizabeth 

 Harvey; Hannah, married a Murphy. John 

 Hutchinson married (second) 3 mo. 24, 

 1726, Sarah Burges, daughter of Samuel 

 and Elenor Burges, of Falls, who died in 



1748. They were the parents of four chil- 

 dren — Samuel, Priscilla, Mary, above men- 

 tioned, and Phebe. Thomas Hutchinson 

 married Dorothy Storr, at Beverly, York- 

 shire, England, and came to New Jersey 

 in the ship "Kent" in 1677, and was one of 

 the proprietors of West Jersey. He and 

 his wife Dorothy lived and died at Hutch- 

 inson Manor, on the eastern bank of the 

 Delaware, above Trenton, New Jersey. He 

 died about 1698, leaving a large landed es- 

 tate to his son John, whom Miss Rickey 

 claims as the John Hutchinson, before men- 

 tioned, who settled in Bucks county. 



Randal Rickey, son of John and ]\Iary 

 (Hutchinson) Rickey, was born near Tren- 

 ton, New Jersey, December 4, 1766, and 

 died at Trenton, December 3, 1802. He was 

 a hardware merchant at Trenton, and a 

 member of Friends' jNIeeting. He married 

 September 11, 1794, Margaret Waterman, 

 daughter of Benoni and Sarah Waterman, 

 born at Barbadoes, West Jndies, and a 

 member of the Episcopal church. 



Randal Hutchinson Rickey, son of Ran- 

 dal and INIargaret (Waterman) Rickey,' 

 was born in Trenton^ New Jersey, Feb- 

 ruary 19, 1799, and died in Cincinnati, 

 Ohio, August 6, 1855. He was for twenty 

 years city and county engineer at Cincin- 

 nati. In religion he was a Friend. He 

 married in Philadelphia, March 25, 1825, 

 Susannah jNIcAulley, and they were the 

 parents of ]\largaret W.'i'prni-m Rickey. 



FRANK HEATON. In colonial days 

 the Heaton family was established in Bucks 

 county. Edwin Heaton, the grandfather, 

 was born in Hilltown township, in 1795, 

 and in early life established a grocery trade 

 in Philadelphia, which he conducted with 

 success up to the time of his death, which 

 occurred in 1826. He married Miss Eliza 

 jMathias, and they became the parents of 

 two children; Mathias; and Mary Ann, the 

 wife of John Henry Gile. 



JMathias Heaton, father of Frank Heaton, 

 was born in Philadelphia, October 18, 1825, 

 and obtained his education in a private 

 school at Doylestown. Subsequently he 

 engaged in teaching for a number of years 

 in a school house that stood on a farm now 

 occupied by his son Frank. Later he 

 turned his attention to agricultural pur- 

 suits, which he continued up to the time 01 

 his death, which occurred March 24, 1886. 

 His political allegiance was given the Dem- 

 ocracy, and his fellow townsmen, recog- 

 nizing his worth and ability, called him to 

 local office. He served as justice of the 

 peace for a number of years, and also held 

 the position of school director. He was a 

 member of the Doylestown Presbyterian 

 church, and served as one of the building 

 committee when the new church edifice 

 was erected. He married Miss Elizabeth 

 Garges, a daughter of John and Margaret 

 Garges, and they became the parents of 

 three children : Nathan M., born Novem- 



