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


   JOHN S. WILLIAMS farmer, P.O. New Hope, was born in 
Buckingham township, March 21, 1831, and is a son of Edward 
and Esther (Scholfield) Williams.  His grandparents were 
Samuel and Sarah (Watson) Williams.   Samuel was a son of 
Benjamin and Mercy (Stevenson) Williams, and Benjamin was a 
son of Jeremiah and Mary (Newberry) Howland Williams, who 
were among the pioneers of Tinicum township, this county.  
Jeremiah was a native of New England.  The maternal 
grandparents of John S. were John and Agnes (Blackfan) 
Scholfield.  John was a son of Samuel and Edith (Newlin) 
Marshall Scholfield, and Samuel a son of John and Ann 
(Lenoire) Scholfield.  The latter (wife of John Scholfield 
last mentioned) was of French Huguenot descent, and came to 
Falls township, this county, from Acadia, Canada.   Edward 
Williams was a native of Buckingham township, and a farmer.  
He was twice married; first to Esther Scholfield, above 
mentioned, by whom he had one son, John S., and two 
daughters (deceased).  His second wife was Ellen 
(Scholfield) Hunter, by whom he had six children:  Charles 
H. (deceased), Hetty (Mrs. James R. Hibbs), Mary (Mrs. T. H. 
Atkinson), Frank H. (physician in Trenton, N. J.), E. 
Marshall and Harriet (Mrs. Benjamin E. Johnson).  Our 
subject was reared in Buckingham, and located in Solebury in 
1855, where he has since resided.  In 1854 he married Rachel 
M., daughter of Jonathan P. and Mary (Watson) Magill, of 
Solebury township, by whom he has three children:  Carroll 
R., attorney-at-law in Philadelphia; Anges B. and E. Newlin.