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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



veyed the greater part of both tracts to his 

 three sons, IMichael, Henrj' and George, 

 during his lifetime, devising to them at his 

 death what remained. Of these three sons, 

 Michael, the eldest, was twice married, his 

 first wife being Catharine and his second, 

 whom he married August 19, 1794, being 

 Mary Sorvcr. He purchased of his father 

 a portion of the homestead, and also pur- 

 chased a portion of his grandfather's origi- 

 nal purchase of his uncle Jacob, but later 

 sold his Bedminster land and located in 

 Tinicum township, where he died in 1830, 

 leaving four sons, Michael. Daniel, Tobias 

 and Samuel, and five daughters, who mar- 

 ried into the families of Smith, Bissey and 

 Swartz. George Weisel, the youngest son, 

 born March 11, 1773, married ]^Iargaret 

 Sheib, April 19, 1796. He received from 

 his father a portion of the old homestead, 

 butOater sold it and removed to ]\Iont- 

 gomery county, and late in life purchased a 

 farm in Warrington township, lafer occu- 

 pied by his son George and grandson Sam- 

 uel, where he died April 19, 1862, in his 

 ninetieth j^ear. 



Henry Weisel, second son of Michael, Jr., 

 and Magdalena, born in Bedminster about 

 1765, married Eve Shellenberger, a grand- 

 daughter of Johannes Shellenberger, who 

 came from Germany in 175 1 in the "Queen 

 of Denmark" and settled in Hatfield town- 

 ship, Montgomery county, later purchasing 

 large tracts of land in Hilltown, Bucks 

 county, upon which his son Conrad, who 

 married Eve Leidy, settled about 1775. 

 Michael and Mjlgdalena \^'ei5el on June- 28, 

 1790, conveyed to their son -Henry Weisel, 

 198 acres of the Allen tract in Bedminster, 

 and he was devised another portion of the 

 homestead by his father's will in 1796. In 

 addition to these he purchased a portion 

 of the land devised to his brother George, 

 and about twenty acres across the Swamp 

 road in Hilltown, the site of the old Green 

 Tree hotel, near Hagersville. In 1S22 he 

 conveyed sixty-five acres of the homestead 

 to his son George, and died seized of most 

 of the other tracts in 1831. Henry and 

 Eve (Shellenberger) Weisel were the par- 

 ents of six children: Susanna, born 1789, 

 married Philip Fluck ; George, born March 

 28, 1790, married I^Iarch 31, 1812, Catharine 

 Fluck; Joseph, born July 10. 1793, pur- 

 chased the homestead at his father's death ; 

 Henry, born January 29, 1796, marriecf Sep- 

 tember 3, 1820, Elizabeth Seiple, and re- 

 moved to Franconia, IMontgomery county ; 

 INlary, born 1802, married Henry Eckel, 

 of Bedminster; and Samuel, born August 

 I, 1804. 



Samuel Weisel, youngest son of Henry 

 and Eve, was a lifelong resident of Bed- 

 minster and adjoining parts of Hilltown. 

 and died in Hilltown, August 9, 1889. He 

 married. May 24, 1829, Catharine Solliday, 

 born June, 1807, daughter of Peter and 

 Magdalena (Godshalk) Solliday, grand- 

 daughter of Jacob and Barbara (Loux) 

 Solliday, and great-granddaughter of Fred- 

 erick and Barbara Solliday, who came from 



Switzerland and settled in Bedminster 

 about 1740. 



Frederick Sallade (as the name was 

 originally spelled) was a clockmaker and 

 armourer, and tradition relates that he 

 rendered efficient service to his adopted 

 country in the trying days of the Revolu- 

 tionary war in the making and repairing of 

 firearms for the use of her patriot soldiers. 

 He settled on a farm purchased of William 

 Allen, near Deep Run Mennonite meeting 

 house, and died there at an advanced age, 

 June 24, 1804. He was a noted clock- 

 maker, as was his son Jacob, and several of 

 his descendants down to the present day, 

 and many specimens of his and their handi- 

 work are still in use in Bucks »county. He 

 and his wife Barbara were members of the 

 Tohickon Reformed church, and among the 

 earliest records of baptisms there is that 

 of their son Jacob, born January 22, 1748, 

 baptized July 17, 1748. Their eldest son 

 Frederick was born in Germany, and died 

 in Bedminster several years before his 

 father. The children born to them in 

 America were : Jacob, before mentioned ; 

 John, baptized >May 20, 1750; Emanuel, 

 baptized February 4, 1753; and Elizabeth, 

 born April 26, 1758; and possiblj' others. 



Jacob Solliday, like his father, was an 

 eminent clockmaker and followed that vo- 

 cation in connection with farming in Bed- 

 minster for many years. On arriving at 

 manhood he purchased a farm near the 

 Weisel homestead, and lived thereon until 

 1812, when he sold it to his son Peter and 

 removed to IMilford township, where he 

 died April 15, 1815. aged seventy-seven 

 j-ears. He married June 10, 1773, Barbara 

 Loux, born April 24. 1754, died August 

 23, 1829, daughter of Peter Loux, born 

 1706, who came from Rotterdam in the 

 "Friendship," September 20. 1738, and set- 

 tled in Bedminster, where he purchased a 

 farm of 175 acres adjoining Frederick Solli- 

 day, which became the property of his 

 grandson, John Solliday, clockmaker, eldest 

 son of Jacob and Barbara, in 1790. The 

 children of Jacob and Barbara (Loux) Sol- 

 liday were: John, born 1775; Peter, born 

 September 24. 1783, of whom presently; 

 Samuel, born July 27, 1789; George, Cath- 

 arine, Nancy, ISIary. 



Peter Solliday, father of Catharine Wei- 

 sel, was the second son of Jacob and Bar- 

 bara (Loux) Solliday, and was born in Bed- 

 minster, Bucks county, September 24, 1783,. 

 and died there rvFarch. 1859. He was also 

 a clockmaker, and followed that vocation 

 all his life. He remained on the farm with 

 his father, and in 1812 purchased the home- 

 stead and 150 acres, which he conveyed to. 

 his son Peter G. Solliday, in 1857. He 

 married, October 6, 1805, Magdalena God- 

 shalk, born April i, 1785. died January 12, 

 1851, daughter of Michael Godshalk, of 

 Bedminster, and they had issue : Jacob, 

 born April 15, 1806, married December 6, 

 1829, Maria Hartzel : Catharine, bornjune, 

 1807, married May 24, 1829, Samuel Weisel ; 

 Barbara, born September 21, 1809, married 



