Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Kinsey, Samuel
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Richland Township A-M


   SAMUEL KINSEY retired, P.O. Quakertown, is a 
great-grandson of Samuel Kinsey, who, it is supposed, came 
from England prior to the revolution and made his settlement 
in Buckingham township, where he reared a family and died.  
He was a Friend.  One of his sons, John Kinsey, grandfather 
of our subject, grew up in the same township and married 
Margaret Kitchen, a Solebury Friend, by whom he had several 
children, one of whom, John, the father of Samuel, was born 
October 18, 1794, and married Margaret, a daughter of Samuel 
and Ann (Swayne) Woodward, of London Grove township, Chester 
county.  In 1811 John Kinsey, Sr., moved to Delaware, and in 
that state John, Jr., studied medicine under Dr. Baker, of 
Wilmington, graduating at the Pennsylvania Medical college 
in 1828 or 1829.  He removed to Chester county in 1831, and 
continued in practice for years.  He died January 24, 1864.  
Samuel, son of the above, was born in Newcastle county, 
Delaware, February 24, 1822, removed with his parents to 
Chester county in 1831, and to this place in 1839.  He 
learned the potter trade with Richard Moore and continued in 
this business until 1852, when he engaged in farming and 
stock dealing.  He was married March 14, 1844, to Martha F., 
daughter of George and Hannah (Foulke) Custar.  She died 
December 5, 1860.  Of six children born to them three lived 
to maturity, viz., Charles F., George C. and Emma I. (wife 
of Dr. W. H. Meredith of this place).  His present wife is 
Jane, daughter of Dr. Samuel and Abigail (Green) Carey.