Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Cadwallader, Moses
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Lower Makefield Township


   MOSES CADWALLADER farmer and fruit grower, P.O. 
Fallsington, was born on the farm where he now lives in 
Lower Makefield township, November 24, 1829, and is a son of 
Benjamin and Sarah (Comfort) Cadwallader, natives of Bucks 
county.  John Cadwallader, the predecessor, was descended 
from the King of  Wales.  Tradition says, that he is the 
original ancestor of all the present Cadwallader family  The 
Comforts are of English descent.  The first to emigrate to 
America was the great-great-geat-grandfather, or the sixth 
generation back. He died on the island of Tortula, in the 
West Indies, while on a religious visit in 1742.  He was a 
minister of the Society of Friends.  The family are 
descended on the Taylor side from John Sotcher and Mary 
Loftie, who were William Penn's upper servants, having 
charge of his property.  Mrs. Mary Taylor was Benjamin 
Cadwallader's mother.  John Cadwallader was our subject's 
great-great-great-grandfather, and Jacob his 
great-great-grandfather.  Jacob, Jr., his great-grandfather, 
married Phebe Radcliffe, and Cyrus, the grandfather, married 
Mary Taylor in 1790.  He was a farmer and resided in Lower 
Makefield township on the farm where George Justice now 
lives.  He was a member of the legislature at one time and 
took considerable interest in politics.  He was a man of 
fine appearance.  Benjamin, the father of Moses Cadwallader, 
married Sarah Comfort, by whom he had six children:  
Elizabeth (deceased), Mary, wife of Joseph H. Satterthwaite; 
Cyrus, Moses, Benjamin (deceased), and Sarah (deceased).  
Benjamin was a minister of the Society of Friends.  Moses 
Cadwallader was reared on a farm, and has always lived where 
he now resides, on the homestead of his father.  He is a 
successful farmer, and is also engaged quite extensively in 
fruit growing.  He was married in May, 1853, to Lucy Burton, 
by whom he had two children:  Ann, deceased, and Charles.  
Mr. and Mrs. Cadwallader are members of the Society of 
Friends.  Mr. Cadwallader is an industrious intelligent 
citizen and an upright, honest man.