Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Stockton, Isaiah V.
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Joe Patterson, Patricia Bastik & Susan Walters Dec 2009

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


   ISAIAH V. STOCKTON farmer, P.O. Yardley, was born in 
Lower Makefield township, September 1, 1817, and is a son of 
John and Mary (Vansant) Stockton.  John Stockton was a 
native of New Jersey, and was born near Princeton.  He was a 
son of John and Sarah (Brealey) Stockton, the former of whom 
was the owner of a large tract of land near Princeton, and 
was a brother of Richard Stockton, one of the signers of the 
Declaration of Independence.  John Stockton was in sympathy 
with the English and went to New York, and his property was 
confiscated.  His son, John, came with his mother to Lower 
Makefield township at the close of the war, and purchased a 
small tract of land on the eastern end of the farm now owned 
by Isaiah V.   Later John married Mary, daughter of Gabriel 
Vansant, and settled on the farm now owned by Joseph 
Flowers.  Still later he removed to the farm now owned by A. 
T. Vansant.  He was a noted horse farrier and surgeon.  He 
had ten children:  Nancy, Joseph, Sarah, Eliza, Mary, John, 
Charity, Ellen, Elijah and Isaiah V.   The latter occupies a 
part of his father's homestead, including all of the tract 
his grandmother purchased when she fled from New Jersey with 
her son John, who was then a small boy.  Isaiah V. has 
resided there since 1846.  He married Sarah, daughter of 
Amos and Nancy (Carson) Thackary, of Lower Makefield 
township, and has two sons, Lendrum and John B.   Lendrum 
married Abbie White, daughter of Charles White, and has 
three children:  Charles, Anna, and Sallie.