Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Blaker, Joshua C.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Newtown Township


   JOSHUA C. BLAKER retired farmer, P.O. Newtown, was born 
in Northampton township, this county, August 6, 1816, and is 
a son of Paul and Rachel (Corson) Blaker.  His father was a 
farmer and reared a family of six children:  Joseph, 
Benjamin, Paul, Joshua C., Rachel and Alfred. His paternal 
grandfather was Paul Blaker, who married Agnes Buckman, by 
whom he had three sons:  Paul, John and Peter.  His 
great-grandfather was John Blaker, only son of Peter, who 
married Ruth Buckman.  Peter was a son of John, a native of 
Germany, who immigrated to America in 1683 and settled in 
Germantown, from which place he came in 1700 to Northampton 
township, this county, where he purchased one thousand acres 
of land and lived there until his death.  He had three sons: 
Peter, Samuel and Paul, and two daughters.  The maternal 
grandfather of Joshua C. was Benjamin Gorson, a farmer of 
Northampton township and a son of Benjamin, who was a son of 
Benjamin, who settled in Northampton about 1726.  Joshua C. 
Blaker was reared in Northampton township and was engaged in 
farming there until 1883, when he removed to Newtown.  In 
1840 he married Ann, daughter of Benjamin and Agnes 
(Harding) Croasdale, of Northampton township, by whom he has 
seven children, living:  Rachel A. (Mrs. William Wynkoop), 
Benjamin, Alfred, Evaline (wife of Reverend L. B. Brown), 
Emma (Mrs. George C. Pool), Paul and Susan.