Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Jamison, William M.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Warwick Township


   WILLIAM M. JAMISON farmer, P.O. Hartsville, was born in 
Warwick township, Bucks county, June 11, 1831, his parents 
being William and Ann (Taylor) Jamison.  The Jamisons are of 
Scotch-Irish descent, and the first one who came to the 
country was Henry Jamison, who came with his family and 
located at Southampton township.  Henry Jamison was the 
great-great-grandfather of our subject.  He returned to the 
old country, while his son Henry started to Florida on a 
sailing vessel, and was never heard of again, and it is 
supposed the vessel was lost.  His wife is buried on the 
site of the old Neshaminy church.  He had a son Robert, 
grandfather of our subject, and three other sons, who 
afterward removed to Washington and Green counties.  He also 
had five daughters.  Robert married Sarah Mearns, and they 
lived and died on the farm where our subject now resides.  
The former died about 1826, and his wife about 1804.  They 
are buried in the old Neshaminy cemetery.  William, our 
subject's father, was born in 1788, and was reared on the 
farm, which has been in the family since 1728.  He had ten 
children, of whom two died young.  The remaining children 
were:  Phebe, Sarah A. (Thompson), died in 1871; Mari, B. 
T., Rachel F., William M., Emma and Robert, deceased.  
William, father of the above, died in 1864, aged 76.  His 
wife died in 1883, aged 84.  They are buried at Hartsville.  
William M. has always resided where he now lives.  He was 
married March 13, 1867, to Elizabeth Meredith, of Bucks 
county, a daughter of James Meredith.  Mr. and Mrs. Jamison 
are the parents of two children, Henry and Sarah.  His 
grandfather had six children:  Mary, wife of Marshall Means, 
moved to Franklin county; Hugh; Henry had four children, one 
living, Henry, now in Warrington township; Rachel, wife of 
James Flack, moved to Baltimore; and William.