Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Parry, John
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Solebury Township


   JOHN PARRY of Moorland Manor, third child of Thomas 
Parry, was born July 25, 1721, and on September 21, 1751, 
married Margaret Tyson, having by her seven children.   He 
died November 10, 1789, aged 69 years.  Benjamin Parry, son 
of John and Margaret (Tyson) Parry, became an early resident 
of New Hope borough, settling there in 1784, while it was 
still styled Coryell's ferry, and bringing with him 
considerable means, obtained from his father.  He was born 
March 1, 1757, and came to Coryell's ferry from Philadelphia 
county.  He was a prominent and useful citizen, and foremost 
in all enterprises for the benefit of his neighborhood and 
the county.  He was, in connection with his friend, the Hon. 
Samuel D. Ingham, especially active in procuring from the 
legislatures of Pennsylvania and New Jersey the necessary 
charters permitting the erection of the New Hope Delaware 
bridge at that point, and was the first signer of the 
original list of stockholders, and a liberal subscriber to 
the stock.  Mr. Parry was fond of study and scientific 
research, and his reading covered a wide range of subjects.  
In 1810 he invented the well-known "kiln drying" process, 
and has bee largely engaged in exporting corn-meal to the 
West Indies and other tropical countries.  Beside being the 
proprietor of the linseed oil factory at New Hope, he owned 
mills for the manufacture of flour, lumber, etc., both at 
New Hope and in Amwell township, N. J., the latter being 
called the "Prime Hope mills."  He also had erected a 
warehouse and store, continuing his interest therein with 
his brothers, Thomas, David and Daniel, for a number of 
years.  A map of New Hope in 1798 shows most of the 
settlement to have belonged at that time to the Parry 
family.  Benjamin Parry was the senior member of the firm of 
B. Parry & Co., a partner in Parry & Cresson, and was also 
connected in Philadelphia with the old flour commission 
house of Timothy Paxson & Co., of which his relative, Mr. 
Paxson, was the head. Benjamin Parry was married November 4, 
1787, to Jane, a daughter of Oliver Paxson of "Maple Grove," 
Solebury township, by whom he had four children:  Oliver, 
Ruth, Jane and Margaret.  Mr. Parry died in 1839 at the "old 
Parry mansion" in New Hope, in the 83rd year of his age, and 
is buried in the family lot in the Friends' Solebury burying 
ground.