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


   THE WINDER FAMILY settled in that part of Makefield 
township now known as Lower Makefield, about 1730, when 
Thomas Winder bought six hundred acres of land between 
Newtown and Yardley.  He was one of the Friends who came 
from England and was one of the proprietors of the colony of 
West Jersey, living where Hopewell now is.  Having large 
interests in England he crossed the Atlantic several times, 
and while starting on a final trip was drowned from a small 
boat in the Delaware river.  On the marriage of his son 
John, in 1832, he gave him the Bucks county tract.  John and 
his wife, Rebecca Richards, had a numerous family.  Their 
youngest son, Aaron, born in 1759, was married in 1812 to 
Sarah, daughter of Isaiah Van Horn, and died in 1824, his 
widow afterwards becoming the wife of Abner Morris, by whom 
she had several children.  While Aaron was a young man 
Washington was a guest of his father, and just before the 
battle of Trenton spent a night in his house.  Aaron's 
brother Moses was a tory, and was compelled to leave the 
country. After the war he returned, and soldiers were sent 
in search of him.  Aaron concealed him under an upturned 
hogshead in the cellar, on which the soldiers knocked, but 
it sounding empty they passed on, and he again escaped.  
Aaron had four children, viz:  Dr. Aaron, of Attleboro; 
Moses, who went to Ohio; Rebecca, married to John Ely, whose 
son Samuel L. became sheriff of Bucks county; and Mary, who 
was wife of Lawrence Johnson, who was born in Hull, England, 
in 1801, and came here with his parents in 1818, was married 
in 1837, and died in 1860.  His wife was born in 1814 on the 
land purchased in 1730, and which remained in the family 
until after her marriage, when it was sold.  She died in 
1877, and had ten children, of whom all but the oldest are 
now living.  Lawrence Johnson was the famous typefounder of 
Philadelphia, whose establishment had a world-wide 
celebrity, and is yet known by his name.  His family trace 
their ancestry in England back to the latter part of the 
sixteenth century.