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


   JOSEPH SATTERTHWAITE farmer, P.O. Edgewood, was born in 
Falls township, this county, February 3, 1813, and is a son 
of William and Elizabeth (Watson) Satterthwaite.  His 
paternal grandfather was William Satterthwaite, a native of 
Bucks county, whose father was a native of England, and 
among the early settlers of this county.  His maternal 
grandfather was Amos Watson, of Oxford, Bucks county.  Mr. 
Satterthwaite's parents were residents of Falls township.  
They had eight children:  Amos, William, Mary, Elizabeth, 
Joseph, Susanna (Mrs. Samuel Woolman), Giles and Michael.  
Joseph was reared in Falls township, and resided there until 
1838, when he removed to Lower Makefield to the farm he now 
occupies.  He has resided there since then, and has made 
most of the improvements on the place.  He was twice 
married; first to Phebe, daughter of William and Phebe 
(Kelley) Harper, of Falls township, by whom he had one son, 
John.  His second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Samuel and 
Sarah (Parsons) Crozer, of Falls township.  By the second 
marriage he had two children:  Charles H. (deceased), and 
Samuel C., who married Ida, daughter of Charles and Ann 
(Yardley) Janney, of this county, and has two children, 
Joseph Norman and Anna Y.