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THIS is the most eastern township in the county, and is bounded on the north by Hatboro', northeast by Bucks County, southeast by Philadelphia, southwest by Abington, and northwest by Horsham and Upper Dublin. Its length is six miles, and its breadth three, with an area of ten thousand nine hundred and sixty acres, having been reduced upwards of five hundred acres in 1871, by the incorporation of Hatboro'. The surface is rolling, particularly in the vicinity of Willow Grove, Huntingdon Valley and the central portion. The soil is a fertile loam composed of some gravel, with but little clay. The Pennypack is the most considerable stream, and in a course of over six miles through the township turns four grist-mills and receives eleven tributary streams, the most considerable of which are Huntington Valley, Round Meadow and Terwood Runs, which also furnish water- power. On Lindstrom's map, of 1654 it is called Penichpacks, which Heckewelder says in the Delaware language signifies "deep, dead water, or having but little current." This stream is noted for forming a boundary to no less than four distinct purchases for lands made with the Indians by William Penn or his agents. In its general aspect Moreland is beautifully diversified with hill and dale, and watered with numerous small, unfailing streams. Edge Hill crosses through its centre, and continues in a western direction to the Schuylkill. Near Shelmire's Mills the Pennypack flows through it, imparting considerable wildness to the scenery. The highest eminence is near Willow Grove and affords fine distant prospects. 973 The geology of this township posses considerable interest and deserves further investigation. The prevailing rocks consist of syenite, granite, sandstone and mica-schist. At Willow Grove, iron-ore, fire clay, kaolin, quartz and feldspar abound. In this vicinity, in the primal white sandstone is found the scolithus linearis, supposed to be the oldest fossil yet found in Pennsylvania. These consist of straight, cylindrical, stem-like impressions, whose length varies from several inches to above two feet, with a diameter of from one-eighth to half an inch, the position being generally perpendicular to the stratification. Some have supposed it to be the remains of algae, others that it was the boring of a marine worm of the aforesaid name. "The Rocks," about half a mile to the east of Willow Grove, on the steep side of a wooded hill, are composed of a very hard conglomerate of small pebbles of blue quartz. This has been supposed to be the earliest known beach of the Cambrian formation. But what the evidences are of a beach, have not been advanced by the speculators. In the vicinity of Benjamin Morgan's grist-mill, on Round Meadow Run, a short mile to the northeast of the village, are to be found rocks composed of very coarse conglomerate, the pebbles being chiefly composed of white quartz, some of the size of eggs. The banks of the stream a few yards above the mill appear to be almost entirely composed of coarse white pebbles. In this vicinity marine remains have been found for eighty years past, consisting of shells of various kinds, some of which secured from the bed of the stream, are in the writers possession. In digging a well, some twenty-five years ago, about one-third of a mile southeast of Morgan's mill, a fine body of white kaolin was reached, which some day might he turned to profitable account. On the Welsh road, a few yards west of the Pennypack Creek, graphite or black-lead has been known for nearly a century. In the beginning of May, 1850, a mine was opened and a quantity excellent in quality secured, which was worked for a while when the attempt was abandoned. In the vicinity of Hatboro' are fine quarries of sandstone and a coarse sand adapted to building purposes. There are several turnpikes in the township; among these may be mentioned the Cheltenham and Willow Grove, finished in 1804 the Doylestown, in 1840 the Middle road, to the "Sorrel Horse," in 1848; and the Warminster in 1850. The North East Pennsylvania Railroad has two miles of road in this township, and has stations at Willow Grove, Heaton, Fulmor and Bonair. The branch extending from Jenkintown to New York, has a course of two miles and a half, and a station called Bethayres. The Newtown Railroad has three miles of track in the township with stations at Huntingdon Valley and Byberry road. The principal villages are Willow Grove Huntingdon Valley and Yerkesville. The population in 1790 was, 1284 in 1830, 2044 in 1880, 1746. For 1882, 510 taxables were returned, holding real estate valued at $1,897,415. As regards the average per taxables is the fifth in rank. In May, 1883, the township contained five hotels five general stores three dealers in flour and feed one in fertilizers one in agricultural implements one coal and one lumber-yard. There are three houses of worship, belonging, respectively, to the Orthodox Friends, Methodist Episcopalians and Presbyterians. According to the census of 1850, 410 houses, 410 families and 218 farms were returned Moreland forms one school district, and for the year ending with June 1, 1882, its seven public schools were open ten months, with an average attendance of one hundred and eighty-two pupils. These were held in five school-houses, located at Willow Grove, Huntingdon Valley, Paper-Mill Hill, Woods Hill and Walnut Valley. Education is encouraged, for the schools have been kept continuously open ten months every year since June 1, 1850. An act was passed June 30, 1836, establishing public schools throughout the State, which this districts, by a vote, did not accept. By the act of April 11, 1848, the common school system was enforced on the unaccepting districts, when the township opened five schools for six months, ending with the close of the school year, June 1, 1649. In 1850 two additional school-houses were built, one at the Paper-Mill and the other at Walnut Valley, on the Byberry road. Willow Grove is situated at the confluence of the Doylestown with the York Road, thirteen miles north of Philadelphia, and near the Abington township line. It contains two, hotels, two stores, post-office, several manufacturing establishments and mechanic shops, a railroad-station and about twenty houses. The country in the vicinity is rolling, and the highest eminence for some distance around rises to the east of the village. In 1711 the York Road was laid out through here to the city. The stream flowing through here in 1722 was known as Round Meadow Run, over which at that time a bridge was constructed. In 1719, James Dubree purchased here two hundred acres and Jacob Dubree one hundred acres, upon which they settled and probably made the first improvements. The latter devised his property, in 1742, to his son, whom we know advertised, in 1746, his two hundred acres for sale, stating it to contain "20 acres of meadow, a double house, good barn and a fine young orchard." 974 John Paul advertised, in 1768, his tavern, "sign of the Wagon", here for sale, with one hundred and two acres of land. He states that the "stables will contain near 100 horses. The house is allowed to be the best between the Rising Sun and Coryell's Ferry, with three roads passing by." This long known as the "Red Lion," was kept by Joseph Butler during the Revolution, by William Heaton in 1786, by Israel Michener from 1804 to 1822 and by Jacob E. Buck from 1842 to 1868, since which time it has been no longer a public-house. The stabling for "near 100 horses" would indicate considerable travel, even several years before the Revolution. The name of the place was given it by Reading Howell, as may be seen on his large township map of Pennsylvania, published in 1792. In James Mease's "Picture of Philadelphia," published in 1811, is this allusion to Willow Grove: "At Rex's tavern you can be well entertained; here is also a fine spring, highly impregnated with iron, and a spacious bath-house, supplied with mineral water, for the accommodation of visitors." About this time it commenced to be a noted summer resort to Philadelphians, which it has continued to be to this day. George Rex, Sr., had moved hither from Germantown before 1792, and after 1803 established the Mineral Spring Hotel, afterwards so long kept by George Rex, his nephew, to whom he had bequeathed the property. Israel Michener kept the post-office here in 1816, which must have been established several years previously. The first schoolhouse was built in 1839, on a half acre lot, presented for this purpose by George Rex, Sr. A fine two-story stone building now occupies the site of the public school. In 1851 five daily lines of stages passed through here to Philadelphia, from Easton, Doylestown, Lambertville find Hartsville. After the opening of the railroad, in December, 1872, a creamery was built here by an association of farmers, and phosphate-works erected, which are now conducted on an extensive scale by William C. Newport & Co. Huntingdon Valley is situated on the Middle road, near the Pennypack Creek, and but a short distance, from the Abington line. It contains two hotels, two stores, a hall, merchant mill, church, post-office, coal and lumber-yard, railroad-station and about forty houses. Eagle Hall, belonging to the I. 0. 0. F., was originally built in 1850, is a large two-story stone building, recently improved. The Presbyterian Church is a one-story stone building, surmounted with a steeple, erected in 1861. The pastors who have served the church from its organization are as follows: Revs. George J. Mingins James B. Kennedy Thomas Gray T. C. Anderson J. J. Cowles and the Rev. W. S. Barnes, the present pastor. The church has a membership of eighty-four. Adjoining the latter is a hall for concerts and lectures, containing a reading-room and library. The public school-house is two stories high, built in 1857. A factory has recently been erected here by a company for the manufacture of metallic caps for blasting purposes, employing about a dozen hands and capable of turning out forty thousand caps daily. Near the lower part of the village the Jenkintown Branch of the New York Railroad and the Newtown Railroad intersect each other, tending to add considerable to its prosperity. In 1852 the place contained only twelve or fourteen houses. In 1711 the Welsh road is mentioned as crossing at a ford here over the Pennypack, showing that there was then some travel and a settlement made. John Boutcher, of Moreland, by his will, dated June 25, 1707, bequeathed to his son Samuel three hundred and fifty acres of land, with all its improvements, and mentioned it as being "at Huntingdon." A part of this tract came in possession of Thomas Austin, whom we know had a grist-mill erected thereon before 1747, a public road to which is mentioned. This is the mill property now belonging to John Walton, from whose deeds we have received these facts. When application was made before for a post-office, which was previous to 1850, to retain the name of Huntingdon, Valley was added on account of the former Dame existing elsewhere in the State. About the beginning of this century the name of Goosetown was given it, derived, it is said, from the great numbers of geese raised in this vicinity along the Pennypack. On the completion of the railroad to New York, in 1876, the station here was called Bethayres, a contraction of Elizabeth Ayres, who was born here and mother of one of the directors of this improvement. Near where the Welsh road crosses the Pennypack are still to be seen the ruins of the old stone school-house, built about 1790, where the ancestors of numbers in the vicinity formerly received their education. The turnpike through here to the Fox Chase was finished in 1848, crossing the Pennypack by a substantial stone bridge, built by the county in 1811. Although the merchant mill of Mr. Walton here is situated nine miles from the source of the creek, which receives in this distance numerous, tributaries, the diminution of where in dry seasons became so great that in the summer of 1881 he had placed within it a steam- engine to afford additional power. Along the stream in this vicinity the ground lies low, and in time of freshets is subject to overflows. The surrounding country, however, is quite rolling and attains to some elevation. The Pennypack here affords boating and fishing, and a short distance below the Turnpike Bridge the scenery assumes a more romantic character. The census of 1880 exhibits one hundred and fifty-four inhabitants. Yerkesville is situated not far from the centre of the township, near Terwood Run, and has also been long known as Blaker's Corner. It contains about eight houses, a store and blacksmith-shop. Richard E. Yerkes carried on here a cotton-factory in 1830. On its site, in 1776, John Nesmith carried on a grist and saw-mill. Shelmire's Mills, on the Pennypack, was formerly a noted business place. Near the beginning of this century Jacob Shelmire carried on here extensively the manufacture of flour. The Sorrel Horse tavern is situated on the Middle road pike, about two miles above Huntingdon Valley. The township elections have been held here for about half a century, the Lower District voting here since 1878. The turnpike was extended from this place to Richborough in 1850. Morgan's Mill is near Heaton Station, and contains a grist-mill and ten houses. 975 This township was called by William Penn after Nicholas More, a physician of London, president of the Free Society of Traders and the first chief justice of Pennsylvania, who arrived here in November, 1682. More is a word of Celtic origin, signifying great. The warrant was granted 5th of Eleventh Month, 1682, for nine thousand eight hundred and fifteen acres, and it was located and the deed given the 7th of Sixth Month, 1684. In an examination of Holme's map of original surveys it -will be observed that a long, narrow strip between More's grant and the Bucks County line is mentioned thereon as belonging to Joel Jelson, Thomas Lloyd and Thomas Fairman, containing about fourteen hundred acres. With this exception, the original purchase comprised all of what was known by the name of Moreland, in Philadelphia County, down to the organization of Montgomery, in 1784, when much the larger portion was taken into the latter county. By the conditions of his patent, Nicholas More and his heirs and successors were required to pay forever unto the proprietary and his heirs and successors annually a silver English shilling for every hundred acres as quit-rent. This payment was about equivalent to the interest of three hundred and seventy-five dollars at six per cent. The commissioners of property issued a warrant, dated July 10, 1689, to Thomas Fairman, the deputy surveyor-general, to resurvey this grant, when an overplus of five hundred acres was found and was laid off in one piece on the upper part, adjoining the present township of Horsham. About 1685, Nicholas More commenced the erection of buildings on the eastern part of his tract, near the present village of Somerton, now in Philadelphia, and where he also built a mansion-house, which formed the first settlement in Moreland, and called it Green Spring. In April, 1685, the Council ordered that the boundary between Philadelphia and Bucks should be determined. In making this survey we learn that where the County Line road extends along the entire length of the township there was then a dense forest, and that they were compelled to mark the course on the trees. After his death, in 1688, the heirs of Nicholas More continued selling off portions of his extensive estate to actual settlers and others, so that the greater part was sold before 1720. In 1703 twelve hundred acres were purchased by Nicholas Waln and Thomas Shute; this embraced all the land in and around the Willow Grove and the western corner of the township. In 1719, Jacob and James Dubree purchased three hundred acres from the heirs and settled upon the same. In the vicinity of Huntingdon Valley, in 1702, three hundred and fifty acres were sold to John Boutcher. Richard Hill of Philadelphia, in 1711, purchased four hundred and five acres, and, in 1713, fourteen hundred and four acres additional, which lay along the Abington line and extended to the present Yerkesville. All this tract was still in the possession of the family in the year 1730. William Allen, of Philadelphia, sold to William Walton, in 1712, five hundred and fifty-two acres situated to the southeast of Hatboro'. James Cooper purchased three hundred acres, in 1711, in the vicinity of Morgans Mill, on which he settled and made the first improvements. On a part of this tract Thomas Parry built a grist-mill before 1736. The York Road, in 1711, was extended across the full breadth of the northwest part of the township up to the river Delaware; at the present Centre Bridge. The Welsh road was laid out the same year from Gwynedd to the present Huntingdon Valley, to enable the people settled there to reach the Pennypack Mills. The Byberry road was extended to Horsham Meeting-house in 1720. In 1722 roads were laid out from the York Road at the present Willow Grove, and on the Bucks County line to Governor Keith's settlement, in Horsham. All these improvements invited settlement and denoted that a rapid extension of population was taking place northwards from the city. In 1734 Moreland had already seventy-one taxables settled within its limits. Of this number, forty-three were land-holders and the balance tenants. Of the former John Van Buskirk is mentioned as owning 180 acres Benjamin Cooper, 100 Walter Comly, 100 John Comly, 100 John Dorland, 200 Thomas Pennington, 150 Sampson David, 50 John Ledyard, 100 James Dubree, 150 Joseph Comly, 100 John Simcock, 10 David Marple, Thomas Murrell, 15 John Dawson, 3 William Hancock, 1 Daniel Dawson, 4 William Murray, 29 William Mops, 19 Standish Ford, 4 Isaac Tustin, 100 Richard Marple, 170 Garret Wynkoop, 200 Henry Comly, 300 Isaac Walton, 100 Peter Luken, 100 Nicholas Gilbert, 200 Thomas Lloyd, 120 Thomas Wood, 200 Jeremiah Walton, 100 James Hawkins, 50 Thomas Walton, 50 Thomas Whitton, 100 John Boutcher, 100 Widow Dungworth, 9 Cornelius Wynkoop, 100 Thomas Kirke, 40 Patrick Kelly, 100 Joseph Duffield, 200 Joseph Van Buskirk, 150 Joseph McVaugh, 100 Harman Yerkes, 150 Theodorus Hall, 150 Samuel Boutcher, 50 acres From the list of tenants we extract the following names: James Watson Peter Jones John Michener Jacob Bennet Caleb Walton Samuel Worthington George Newell James Erwin Tunis Titus Joseph Lewis. 976 Of the descendants of those in the aforesaid list, we still find here those bearing the names of Van Buskirk Comly Marple Murray Wynkoop Walton Gilbert Lloyd Wood Boutcher Duffield McVaugh Yerkes Michener Worthington Erwin Titus. Of the aforesaid, the Yerkes' have become the most numerous. David and Anthony Yerkes, ancestors of the family, came from Germany and settled in Germantown before the year 1693. Harman Yerkes, in the above list, resided in the central part of the township, near the present Shelmire's Mills. Henry Comly, of Bucks County, in 1695, purchased of John Holme, Nicholas Mores mansion and six hundred acres near Somerton, which remained in the family until 1860, when, on the death of Franklin Comly, Esq., then came into possession of Moses Knight. Jeremiah Walton, Sr., came from Byberry, and was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Walmsley. They had children,- William, born 1719 Thomas, 1721 Rachel, 1724 Jeremiah, 1726 Jacob, 1728 James, 1730 Mary, 1732 Sarah, 1734 Elizabeth, 1737 Phebe, 1740. He died in 1740 and was buried at Horsham. John and Sarah Michener settled about a mile east of Willow Grove in 1715. They had six children, and their descendants are now numerous. In the assessment of Moreland for 1776 we find the names of Thomas Michener, holding one hundred and sixty acres William Michener, one hundred acres Arnold Michener, cordwainer is mentioned as residing in Abington in 1780. The aforesaid John Michener was one of the founders and overseers of Horsham Meeting, and was settled in Philadelphia before 1696. Concerning the disappearance of certain animals and birds in this section, the following facts have been ascertained: Thomas Hallowell shot two deer, in 1744, near the Upper Dublin line. A bear was seen in that vicinity as late as 1772. James Dubree, in 1762, shot a wild turkey that weighed thirty-two pounds, on a tall hickory-tree, half a mile west of Willow Grove. This tree was three feet in diameter and stood until about 1866, when it was blown down in a storm. Joseph Hallowell shot, in the same vicinity, between the years 1774 and 1776, four wild turkeys. Previous to 1810 wild pigeons bred in the woods, and as many as twenty nests were sometimes counted on one tree. Raccoon-hunting by moonlight was a favorite diversion as late as 1820. Such are the changes brought about by an increasing population since the first settlement! From the assessment of 1776 we obtain the following information: Samuel Shoemaker, a tan-yard and 75 acres; Isaac Cadwallader and Mordecai Thomas, smiths; Isaac Stoltz, Stephen Love and Samuel Shoemaker, masons; Isaac Longstreth, tan-yard and 9 acres; Samuel Swift, doctor John Blaker, joiner Philip Crips, cooper Robert Field, turner; Joseph Hart, grist-mill and 40 acres Silas Yerkes, grist-mill and 100 acres Daniel Regen, grist-mill and 47 acres John Parry, grist-mill and 106 acres John Nesmith, grist and saw-mill and 60 acres Isaac Warner, grist and saw-mill and 19 acres Thomas Austin, grist-mill and 140 acres Joseph Hart's mill is now owned by Dr. William Hallowell, and was built in 1762 by Samuel Lloyd John Parry's mill is now owned by Benjamin Morgan John Nesmith's mill was on the site of the cotton-factory at Yerkesville. Thomas Austin's mill at Huntingdon Valley, is now owned by John Walton. Silas Yerke's grist-mill is the property so long known as Shelmire's Mills. John Tomkin's kept store in Hatboro', and probably then the only one in the township. In the Revolution the British did some damage in Moreland, -most likely in some of their incursions while in possession of Philadelphia. For this cause Samuel Boutcher, residing near Huntingdon Valley, was allowed £402; William Tillyer, £250; James Dyer, £176 and John Wynkoop,Ê£119. In the assessment of Moreland for 1785 mention is made of 343 horses 373 cattle 4 bound servants 19 Negro slaves 14 riding-chairs 3 family wagons 1 phaeton 10 grist-mills 3 saw-mills one fulling-mill 1 oil-mill 2 tanneries 1 distillery. The largest land-holders were Jonathan Clayton, 370 acres Isaac Boileau, 220 Samuel Boutcher, 202 Mordecai Thomas, 194 Joseph Folwell, 186 Abraham Duffield, 157 Andrew Van Buskirk, 153 acres. According to the census of 1790 Isaac Boileau had 3 slaves Garret Wynkoop, 2 Andrew Van Buskirk, 2 Joseph Folwell, 1 Enoch Green, 1. In the assessment of 1787 mention is made of Peter Tyson having an oil and fulling-mill; David Cumming, store-keeper, 2 bought servants, 134 acres, 4 dwellings, 3 horses and a riding-chair; Mordecai Thomas, 194 acres, 4 dwellings, grist-mill and 3 horses; William Dean, Esq., 108 acres, 3 horses and a riding-chair. Mr. Cumming kept store at the Willow Grove, Mordecai Thomas resided at Hatboro', and Mr. Dean was a magistrate at Huntingdon Valley and colonel of the Fourth Battalion of the Philadelphia militia from 1777 to 1780. [NOTE: Col. Dean was one the first four Justices of Montgomery County Court. Died September 4, 1807 aged sixty-seven years.] Among the township officers Henry Comly was collector in 1718 Joseph Hall, 1719 Marcus Huling, 1720 Thomas Parry, 1723 William Britain, 1724 Walter Comly in 1742. Joseph Kelly was appointed to said office in 1741 and on his refusal to serve was fined ten shillings. Joseph Butler was constable in 1767 John Wynkoop in 1774 Philip Wynkoop and John Hancock supervisors in 1767 Isaac Cadwallader and John Sommer in 1773 Garret Van Buskirk and John Rhoads in 1785 Amos Addis and Charles Johnson in 1810. The elections for Moreland and twelve other townships were held at Whitemarsh for twelve years, when, in 1797, they were removed to Abington; next, in 1813, to Hatboro', and before 1838 to the "Sorrel Horse." Moreland was divided March 4, 1878, by order of court, into what is called the Upper and Lower Election Districts, the former voting at Willow Grove and the latter at the "Sorrel Horse." 977 Montgomery was formed into a county from Philadelphia by an act passed September 10, 1784. The twenty-first section of the act states that "it is represented by petition to the General Assembly that by the lines herein before mentioned a long, narrow neck or point of land, being part of the Manor of Moreland, and lying between the townships of Byberry and Lower Dublin, in the county of Philadelphia, would be included in the county of Montgomery, to the great inconvenience and injury of the inhabitants of the said neck of land, who have prayed that they may remain with the county of Philadelphia." In consequence it was determined "That the boundary lines of the said county of Montgomery shall be as follows: that is to say, beginning in the line of Bucks County, where the same is intersected by the line which divides the township of Byberry and the Manor of Moreland, thence southwesterly along the last-mentioned line to the first corner or turning thereof, and thence on the same southeasterly course to the line of Lower Dublin." The part of Moreland thus cut off and left to Philadelphia, by the census of 1800, contained three hundred and sixty-two inhabitants and three thousand seven hundred acres, reducing the population and area about one-fourth. Although the original survey of the manor was not quite ten thousand acres, through the addition made along the Bucks County line afterwards the portion that went to Montgomery County was estimated to contain in all eleven thousand four hundred and sixty-four acres, showing that a liberal allowance had been given. About 1794, Thomas Langstroth built a paper-mill on the Pennypack, near the central part of the township. Here, in 1795, Samuel D. Ingham, of Solebury, in his sixteenth year, went to serve as an apprentice to learn the business. In the school-house nearby Mr. Adrian taught a night-school during the winter, which Mr. Ingham diligently attended, and, as he afterwards stated greatly to his benefit. He worked here until he was twenty years old, when Mr. Langstroth releasing him from further service, he went to New Jersey and became a foreman in a paper-mill near Bloomfield. In 1812 he was elected to Congress from Bucks, which position he held the greater portion of the time until 1829. General Jackson, in that year, entering on his duties as President, appointed Mr. Ingham Secretary of the Treasury, which office he filled for two years. Thomas Langstroth afterwards formed a partnership with his brother John in the business here for several years, when, unfortunately, on the night of March 19, 1809, the mill was burned down. At the time the loss created considerable sympathy for the owners, and a public meeting was called and a considerable amount subscribed for their assistance. John Langstroth refused any relief and it was awarded to his brother. This property afterwards came in possession of Joseph McDowell, of Philadelphia, who carried the mill on many years. During his ownership it was greatly enlarged and the most improved machinery used. This mill too, on the night of July 1, 1858, was burned down, causing a loss of thirty thousand dollars, with an insurance, however, of twenty thousand dollars, and eighty hands were thrown out of employment. The mill since has not been rebuilt, its loss being quite a blow to the business interests of the neighborhood. The Rev. Joshua Potts lived in the house of the late Joseph B. Yerkes, near the York Road, below Hatboro', which he built in 1759, and which is still standing, containing a stone with his name and the date. He owned here at the time several hundred acres. He was the first pastor of the Southampton Baptist Church, built in 1746, and in which he officiated till the time of his death, which happened June 18, 1761, at the age of forty- six years. He was one of the founders of the Hatboro' Library, in 1755. John Gummere, son of Samuel, was born at Willow Grove in 1783. He commenced his career as schoolteacher at Horsham, and taught successively at Rancocas and Burlington, N.J., Westtown and Haverford, Pa. With his son, Samuel J. Gummere, he resumed the boarding-school at Burlington, N. J. His work on surveying was first published in 1814, and went through fourteen editions before being stereotyped. His "Elementary Treatise on Astronomy" was first published in 1822, and the sixth edition in 1854. He died in 1845. Samuel R. Gummere, brother of the aforesaid, was also born at Willow Grove in 1789. He was the principal for a number of years, of a popular boarding- school for girls at Burlington, author of the "Progressive Spelling Book," "Compendium of Elocution," and a "Treatise on Geography." The "Montgomery County Society for the recovery of stolen horses and bringing thieves to justice," originated in this township and the adjoining parts of Horsham and Upper Dublin in 1799. From an early period they have held their annual meetings chiefly at the Willow Grove. The officers in 1856 were, Joshua Y. Jones, president T. Elwood Comly, secretary William Hallowell, treasurer; the society consisting of forty-five members. A company was chartered to construct a turnpike road from Doylestown to Willow Grove in 1828, and though every exertion was made at the time, failed in raising the necessary amount to construct the same. The result was an application for a second charter in 1838, and the road was finally completed in 1840. John Warner, one of the supervisors, stated in 1859, that there was in that year in Moreland 95 township bridges; a greater number than perhaps any one would have supposed. The rolling character of its surface and its being watered by so many small streams will account for it. Scarcely a stream can be found in the township where crossed by a public road but is now bridged. 978 NICHOLAS MORE. -Among the early and distinguished settlers of Pennsylvania we may mention the subject of the present sketch, after whom, as its first proprietor, William Penn named the manor of Moreland. It is probable that he was a native of London; for the earliest we know about him is that he was a practicing physician there, styled in the documents of that period a "medical doctor." He embarked about October 1st in the new ship "Geoffrey," of near five hundred tons burthen, Thomas Arnold, master, which made the voyage in the remarkably short time of twenty-nine days, landing only a couple of days after the arrival of Penn. PICTURE OF SEAL OF NICHOLAS MORE, NOV. 28, 1682, APPEARS HERE. On the 22d and 23d of the previous March the proprietary conveyed to Dr. More and eight others twenty thousand acres of land, called the "Manor of Frank," which was afterward located in Bucks County. These parties constituted a company called "The Free Society of Traders in Pennsylvania," the object being the purchase of lands, with a view to agricultural settlement and for the establishment of manufactories and for carrying on the lumber trade and whale fisheries. At the first meeting Dr. More was elected president for seven years at a salary of one hundred and fifty pounds per annum. The charter was granted by Penn April 4, 1682, and may now be seen in the county records at Doylestown. The president and treasurer were required to hold in their own right not less than one hundred pounds of the stock, besides five thousand acres of land in the province. A warrant, in consequence, was given to him the 5th day of January, 1682, for nine thousand eight hundred and fifteen acres, located, and a deed given August 7, 1684. This tract then comprised very nearly all of what was known as the "Manor of Moreland," in Philadelphia County down to the organization of Montgomery in 1784, when much the larger portion was taken into the limits of the latter. The survey had been made only five days previously by the surveyor-general's order, and from the boundaries mentioned In the patent lay entirely in the wilderness, for not even a single land-owner is mentioned as adjoining it. It is stated therein as called by the name of Moreland," and granted from "William Penn by the Providence of God and the King's authority, Proprietary and Governor of the province of Pennsylvania and the territories thereunto belonging." By the conditions of his patent Dr. More, his heirs and successors, were required to pay forever a silver English shilling for every one hundred acres annually as quit-rent. About 1685 he commenced the erection of buildings on the eastern part of this tract near the present village of Somerton, and also a mansion house, which it is likely formed the first settlement in Moreland, and called it Green Spring, where be continued to reside till his death. Judging by his, purchase and the improvements he made, he must have been a person of some means, having more wealth than was generally possessed by the other early emigrants. We find that he was chosen chairman or speaker at the meeting of the first Provincial Assembly held at Chester, December 4, 1682; which, though in session only three days, passed important laws. At a council held at Lewes the 2d of May, 1683, we ascertain that Penn made him secretary of the same, and in the following September deputy for settling the boundary line with George Talbot, of Maryland. In the beginning of 1684 he was again chosen a member of Assembly for the county of Philadelphia, and much to the opposition of several in that body re-elected speaker at their next session held at New Castle, December 3d following. The previous 4th of August, Penn commissioned him, with four others, provincial judges for two years from that date. On the 12th of the following month the Council duly qualified him to act as chief-judge of this body, which laid the foundation of our present Supreme Court. Penn, having departed for England, the assembly impeached Dr. More for several misdemeanors. This it appears, did not please the Governor, for, on the 1st of February, 1686, he changed the executive government to a board of five commissioners, among whom was Judge More and two of his associates. A letter was written and sent to Penn dated "Green Spring, 18th of December, 1686," which the governor had published in England with a preface, the following year, to prevent "Divers false reports going about Town and Country to the Injury of the Province of Pennsylvania." As mention is made in the minutes of Assembly, under date of September 16, 1685, of his suffering from sickness and being "in a languishing condition," it is presumed that he must have died about the beginning of 1687; at least, we have not been able to find any evidence of his being alive at a later date. His surviving family consisted of Mary his wife, and children,- Samuel Nicholas Rebecca Mary Sarah. Samuel, the oldest son, and Rebecca, died before 1695. Mary married Elias Keach, a distinguished Baptist preacher, and Sarah William Sluby, who resided in Philadelphia. John Holme having married, January 3, 1687-88, the widow of Nicholas More, presented a petition as one of the creditors April 23, 1695, to the executive council, who appointed a committee to examine the account and who reported the estate indebted to several individuals to the amount of two hundred and seventy pounds. He was, therefore, empowered to sell the plantation of Green Spring with the improvements, for a sufficient sum to pay the just debts and the educational his surviving children and the better improvement of the remainder of the estate. For this purpose the homestead of six hundred acres was sold at public sale in that year and purchased by Henry Comly, of Middletown, Bucks Co., who, in 1704, rebuilt the mansion house. The remainder of the estate was divided among the several heirs, who kept selling off tract after tract therefrom, so that in 1720 the greater portion had gone out of the family. 979 SAMPSON'S HILL. -Though an inconsiderable eminence, its name for more than a century and a half has become a familiar household word in the vicinity. It is about half a mile north of the Willow Grove, and the old York Road passes directly in a straight line over its highest part. As a ridge it extends probably a mile east and west, and about half that distance is required in crossing it by the turnpike. The forest has long, ago disappeared with a trifling exception, and its has now become, pretty well cultivated and productive. In making the survey for the turnpike its summit was ascertained to be one hundred and twenty feet above the stream at its northern base, and one hundred and four feet above the bridge at the same place. The view from it top by the road is grand; looking northwards we seethe whole of Hatboro', also Lacey's battle-ground and the hills of Neshaminy; eastward we have close at hand the valley of Pennypack and the picturesque scenery of Huckleberry Hill. Looking southward we have the Willow Grove, Horseheaven and Edge Hill. There is no doubt that from this spot at least a hundred farm-houses are readily discernible. These in summer, with their numerous outbuilding, orchards and fields, variously checkered by the growing crops, afford to the citizen agreeable glimpses of country-life. The old York Road was laid out over this hill to Philadelphia in 1711, and thus became one of our earliest highways to the city. A writer in Miner's "Correspondent" of June 4, 1805, says,- "It is presumed that a beneficial improvement might be made at Sampson's Hill, in the county of Montgomery, by reducing the ascent to the common standard of turnpike roads. The natural increase of travel, especially from New Jersey, and the running of stages from Philadelphia to New York, and to Easton on that road, fully require that such an improvement be made." Forty-six years elapsed, we believe, before this design was fully carried out. From ancient deeds it appear that some time before 1720 Sampson Davis became the owner of all the land on the northeastern side, of the hill up to the present road and bridge. He was a Welshman by birth, and on the site of the present Water Cure he first built himself a cabin, which stood not far from the fine spring of water which is mentioned further on. From the "Votes or Assembly for 1728: we learn that Sir William Keith, who then resided in Horsham, was occasional visitor at his house. From the minutes of Abington Monthly meeting we learn that he had procured for himself and wife a certificate of removal to Philadelphia, dated 28th of Twelfth Month, 1736-37. It was from him as the principal owner that this hill derived its name, which was thus early applied by the original settlers. The Hatboro' and Warminster Turnpike Road Company was incorporated May 8, 1850, and this highway extends from Willow Grove to the Street road, a distance of four and a-half miles. It was made that year, on the bed of the old York Road with Stolle, twenty feet wide and twelve inches in depth. To bring this turnpike to the grade required by law it was necessary to cut into this hill a considerable depth. Stone enough was thus procured here to make the road for several miles. Great blasts were made in the solid rock near the northern summit, one of which sent a rock of nearly a ton weight thirty yards into an adjoining field, and another fragment of about four hundred pounds was lodged in the branches of a large cherry tree, where it hung suspended for five or six years some twenty feet above the road surface, much to the astonishment of travelers. The rock appears to be exceedingly hard and of a bluish cast, streaked with white quartz interspersed with particles of glittering mica, being a granite of a trappean nature. Half way up the southern slope of the hill a vein of steatite or soapstone crosses the road, which on a more thorough investigation might prove valuable. The bridge, at the northern base of the hill, and to which we have already made reference, was originally of wood, but in 1830 the county erected a substantial stone structure of one arch of fifteen feet span, which Was completed the following year. The Turnpike Company in consequence of reducing the grade of the hill considerably enlarged the southern wing- walls, making it now about two hundred feet long. The filling here being some eighteen or twenty feet above the water has materially lessened the ascent. The day may not be far distant when this bridge will be further raised and filled up to the greater convenience of pedestrians and horses toiling under heavy loads. A number of fine springs of purest water abound. Several of these cross the pike on the southern side, but the largest, in fact the most considerable in this section of country, issues from its northern slope about one hundred yards southeast of the bridge. It is sufficiently strong to furnish an unfailing supply to a village. The stream after a miles journey mingles its waters with the Pennypack. A venerable- looking milestone stood as late as 1850 on the eastern bank of the roadside, about forty yards up the hill from the present bridge, having cut on it "15 M. to P." It came away in making the turnpike and it is a pity that it cannot be restored to near the same place. Most probably it may have done duty here for all of a century. 980 An interesting sight was witnessed on this hill on the morning of the 23d of August, 1777, being no less than the crossing of General Washington and his army, accompanied by a lengthy baggage and artillery train. They had just broken up their encampment at the Cross-Roads, near the present Hartsville, six miles from here, where they had been the previous two weeks waiting to hear of the landing of the British. They were now marching to Philadelphia, and from thence towards the enemy, whom they finally encountered on the fields of Brandywine. ROUND MEADOW. -Should almost any other in its vicinity than an antiquarian be asked as to the locality of this place, it is very possible that it would cause some perplexity. This was the original name given by the early settlers to a small stream flowing through the present Willow Grove, and also to an adjacent swamp in which it had its origin. It rises from a number of springs in Abington township, and after a course of about two and a half miles, in a northeasterly direction, empties into the Pennypack. The only power it at present affords is in propelling the grist-mill of Benjamin Morgan, which is situated half a mile from its mouth, and which was originally built by Thomas Parry in 1731. As a further resuscitation and preservation of the name the writer had Mr. Scott to so place it on the map of Moreland township in his invaluable County Atlas published in 1877. The swamp must have once contained about one hundred and fifty acres, but by the continued progress of more than a century and a half in the settlement, improvement and cultivation of the soil, its area has been now reduced to less than twenty acres. This remaining portion has still growing on it huge bunches of tussock, calamus, several kinds of coarse sedge and carex grasses, besides a number of alder bushes and a few stunted red maples and sour gums. A part consists of a black peat bog of from six inches to four feet in depth, lying on a substratum of white clay. The pat is formed by a species of moss which grows only on the surface of the water, and as it decays beneath is slowly but constantly accumulating. Its rich black appearance often arrests the attention of observing individuals, especially farmers, in going to market over what was the plank road. On its southern edge cranberries are still found growing wild, and our oldest citizens have it from tradition that they are indigenous to the locality. From the abundance and variety of beautiful wild flowers found growing here autumn, young, ladies collect them for bouquets and ornaments; and often, too, have they been known to grace the magnificent parlor vases of the city. Not only are attraction, lavish here for the botanist, but also the zoologist for to our knowledge several species of that somewhat rare animal, the star-nosed mole, have here been captured. Muskrats abound, and nearly forty years ago built themselves neat and highly ingenious cabins. The sportsman shoots occasionally snipe and woodcock. And, alas! blackbirds still abound from spring to autumn, no doubt the veritable descendants of those whose ancestors lured several of the young men of this vicinity in the phantom pursuit of pleasure and gain, till they suddenly found themselves immersed in "a sea of troubles." From these casual glimpses it will be seen that Round Meadow is not devoid of interest to the naturalist, but that is not our particular object; for it is also invested with the charms of historical and traditionary associations that must be here only briefly touched upon. William Penn, first proprietary and Governor of Pennsylvania, purchased June 7, 1684, of the Indian chief, Metamicont, all his title to the lands lying on both sides of the Pennypack, and which also comprised within its limits this section of country. With this conveyance probably hereabouts passed away all aboriginal claims, Nicholas More, a physician of London, having in 1682 purchased an extensive grant which was by the surveyor- general's order laid out August 1, 1684, as the "Manor of Moreland." The southwestern boundary line of this tract runs directly across Round Meadow, and divides it nearly in two equal portions, the most southern part of which is situated in Abington township. The title to this latter section was purchased in 1696 of Captain Thomas Holme, by John Hallowell, from Darby, below Philadelphia, who built a house or cave thereon about that time a mile to the southwest of the present Willow Grove. This purchase comprised six hundred acres, and there are now numerous descendants of the original owner living in the neighborhood. As the country became more and more settled northward of the city, on application, the old York Road was laid out in November, 1711, from John Reading's landing, now Centre Bridge, on the Delaware, by way of this swamp and the present Jenkintown to, Fourth and Vine Streets, Philadelphia. About this time a small wooden bridge was built over the stream here so as to permit an easier transit for wagons. Often, no doubt, as strangers have traveled up or down this ancient highway, they have wondered how it came to pass that it should be laid out, through the Willow Grove as winding almost as the letter S. This was caused by the original miry nature of the ground and to secure the most solid surface for traveling purposes. Hence from going round the meadow to avoid the most treacherous places originated so appropriate it name. In the Colonial Records of 1722 we read that at the recommendation of the governor, Sir William Keith, who had made a settlement and built himself a mansion in Horsham, a road was laid out from there that year by Nicholas by way of "the Meeting-House, and from thence to a small bridge, commonly called Round Meadow Run, where it meets again the Abington or New York road." The bridge here we find thus mentioned several times, and it must have been so called between the years 1711 and 1720. The last mentioned road forms the lower portion of the present Doylestown and Willow Grove turnpike. We know that in 1734, if not some time earlier, James Dubree became the owner of one hundred and fifty acres of land in and around the Willow Grove, on the Moreland side, and which comprised all that portion of the swamp. One of his sons shortly after the Revolution erected a dam across the stream about eighty yards above the Round Meadow Bridge, and had a race from the same to propel the machinery of a scythe factory. Though no traces of this establishment are now visible, the race still remains. 981 In 1803 the Cheltenham and Willow Grove turnpike company was chartered and made the following year at an average cost of eight thousand dollars per mile, on the bed of the old York Road. It is stated that at the Round Meadow bridge and for about the distance of three hundred yards towards the city it took an immense quantity of stones before it acquired its present stability. Aged men of the vicinity, stated more than thirty years ago that they believed that the stones brought here had penetrated down from their weight and from the repeated irruptions of the water and the action of frost to a depth of from six to ten feet, to which since a considerable quantity has been added. This bed of stones is now from twenty-two to forty feet wide, and even within the last few years water has forced itself through, especially towards the latter end of winter and the beginning of spring. From tradition we learn that before the turnpike had been made the most miry and dangerous places were indicated by the ends of rails standing out, which had thus purposely been thrust in as a matter of precaution. The Germantown and Willow Grove Plank Road and Turnpike was laid out and made in 1856--57, and commenced on the old York Road, a few yards above the Round Meadow bridge, crossing the Moreland and Abington line nearly at right angles. This road passes nearly through half its length, or about the distance of a full half-mile in a southerly direction. Along this road there is much to interest a student of the natural sciences. In 1872 the North East Pennsylvania Railroad was laid out and completed through its eastern edge, and within a few years a public road opened on the township line. Newport's phosphate factory has also encroached somewhat on this domain so long assigned to the possession of muskrats, frogs, and its spring and summer sojourners, the black-birds, who have so long fed, fattened, feasted and rioted on the products of the neighboring fields. HORSEHEAVEN. -This is the name given to one of the highest elevations in the vicinity of the Willow Grove, and it is situated on the cast side of the York Road turnpike, with Round Meadow Run washing its northern boundary. Approach the village from whatever course you may, it looms up boldly before you in all its majestic grandeur, its northern and eastern sides are still covered with forest, and a portion of its summit is crowned with the perpetual verdure of red cedar. A strip of cultivated land extends over its centre from south to northeast, giving it the appearance of two parts. We can therefore day that it is of tolerably steep ascent, with a somewhat level summit, elevated probably about three hundred feet above the waters of the Pennypack, a mile distant. As might be expected, it affords a magnificent view of the surrounding country. The eminences of Valley Forge, Germantown, Trenton and Whitemarsh revive patriotic recollections. The blue hills of New Jersey can be traced towards the northeast, east and southeast for thirty or forty miles. Buckingham Mountain, though twelve miles off, appears quite near. The hills of the Delaware, the Schuylkill and Neshaminy can be traced for a considerable distance, while nearer at hand are the lesser eminences of Edge Hill, Camp Hill, Church-Hill and Huckleberry Hill. Among the towns and villages readily discernible are Frankford, Germantown, Chestnut Hill, Barren Hill, Flourtown, Jenkintown and Hatboro'. The river Delaware, for several miles above Philadelphia, with its steamboats and sailing-vessels can be seen with the naked eye on any clear day. This hill had received its somewhat singular name from peculiar circumstances. Near the close of the last century several lines of stages were established between Philadelphia, Bethlehem and Easton; also to New York, by way of Lambertville. Willow Grove, being thirteen miles north of Philadelphia, was readily adopted, from its convenient position, as the first suitable place for changing the horses of the several lines, and was generally retained for nearly half a century, or, in fact, till railroads caused their discontinuance. These being nearly all four-horse coaches, and there being but few or no turnpikes, caused, particularly from the condition of the roads, considerable damage to the horses. When these died, or were dispatched on account of age or for infirmities, their bodies were universally consigned to the northern declivity of the hill. Thus it became the stage-horse's final rest, from whence originated the name of Horseheaven. Several fine springs of water gush from out the hill-side, and in the Willow Grove furnish an unfailing supply to several fountains. On the north, northeast and west sides these flow into Round Meadow Run, which in less than two miles distance empties into the Pennypack. On the southeast side they give rise to Tearwood Run, another branch of the latter stream. Sandy Run has its origin from several springs on the south side. This is a trout stream and a branch of the Wissahickon. It will be observed that this hill forms a kind of dividing ridge, and that its waters flow into both the Delaware and Schuylkill. 982 On the bold summit of Horseheaven, in the summers of 1840 and 1841, Ferdinand Hassler, superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, and his assistants were encamped. They had here a superior collection of instruments and a signal station, communicating with similar ones at Mount Holly and Woodbury, N. J., Langhorne, Girard College and one or two in Delaware County. To facilitate these communications several openings had to be cut here through the woods in several directions. These remained visible for a number of years afterwards. The following anecdote was related concerning the cutting down of this timber: Mr. Hassler directed his assistants to cut away these trees wherever they were found to interfere with the progress of the work, and for damages the land-holders must look to him. There then resided in the neighborhood two farmers, whose lands and wealth were chiefly acquired by inheritance. They were both regarded as among our most respectable, upright and virtuous citizens. When Mr. Hassler had made every arrangement for his final departure, he waited on those men and asked the amount of damages they claimed; each one, strange to say, said lie would leave it to his judgment. As he thought their damages were about the same, he awarded each a similar sum. When one of them received it, he declined taking more than one-half, saying that amount amply remunerated him. The other complained of his award, desiring double the amount, which was paid him. Henry D. Rogers, afterwards professor of natural history in the University of Glasgow, but now for some time deceased, while engaged on the geological survey of the State in the summer of 1851, made his investigations of this hill, and the neighboring country. In the first volume of his work may be seen a sectional view of its structure and stratification, and he mentions therein that the primeval rocks lean at a moderate angle upon the gneiss. "Here," he says, "upon the northern slope and end of this hill the fragments of the sandstone contain numerous vestiges of scoliihus linearis, the fossil characteristic of the white primeval sandstone." He stated that the stone here wag identical with that in Edge Hill, and of course belonged to the same formation. Fragments of quartz are found scattered more or less over its surface. Near Round Meadow Run, on its northern declivity, are several mineral springs, indicating the presence of iron-ore, which is now being obtained in abundance at about a mile's distance towards the west. To the student of nature, the hill offers a number of attractions. Gray squirrels, ground squirrels, flying squirrels, weasels, rabbits and opossum abound. The wood robin, the brown thrasher, the chewink, the catbird, the scarlet tanager, the golden crowned thrush, the jay, and, above all, the crow, are partial to its woods. In the spring of 1852 it was supposed a pair of eagles had a nest somewhere in the vicinity of the rocks. They were seen hovering in the air and about here for several months. Wild pigeons formerly resorted to this hill and bred here in great number. This was particularly the case previous to the year 1810. In the spring and fall sometimes so many would be caught in nets as to require horses and wagons to haul them away. The last probably thus caught in this section of country was about 1844, and but few were taken. To a lover of botany this hill invites attention. Here grow indigenous the white, red, black, chestnut, Spanish, pin and post oaks, black and white walnuts, several kinds of hickory, maple, elm, gum, poplar and dogwood, besides beech, sassafras, mulberry, wild cherry, Juneberry, red cedar and witch-hazel, whortleberries of different kinds and bearing red, black and blue fruit. The laurel in June is seen whitened over with its magnificent flowers. Dittany, or mountain mint, flourishes abundantly, from which, in the olden times, the people made tea. Spicy wintergreen or teaberry also grows here, -a somewhat rare plant in this section of Pennsylvania. The mountain spikenard luxuriates amidst the crevices, of the rocks. As respects its vegetable treasures, they would take up too much space to name in detail. Our first acquaintance with this hill and its neighborhood began in 1842, and since that time it has become sufficiently endeared by its memories to thus record it few observations. Heretofore our writers have been too much led to believe through the influence of European authors, that our local scenery is too barren in historical and traditionary associations to be invested with the additional charms that literature could bestow. By standing on the summit of Horseheaven and gazing over the beautiful prospect there will something arise that denies such a charge. Near may be seen Round Meadow, Huckleberry Hill and the valley of Southampton Run where John Fitch first tried his model steamboat. Then around here dwelt the Indians, by yonder streams wondered the Swedes, on the hills and valleys of North and Southampton settled the Dutch, at Warwick the Irish, at Gwynedd the Welsh, at Germantown the Germans, at Horsham Sir William Keith and his Scotch associates, and in Abington and Moreland the English Quakers. Many spots and eminences that have witnessed the valiant struggle, and sufferings of a people in the sacred cause of freedom, -of a Washington and his brave copatriots, are in view. Are all these with the associations that linger around each, devoid of interest? Although this subject has been lengthened beyond what was comtemplated, there is much unsaid respecting Horseheaven. Many a ramble during the heat of summer has been taken over its summit while the cool and invigorating breezes were playing around. Often, too, in early spring have the swelling buds and blossoms been impatiently watched while mediating on the resumption of their foliage. Again in autumn would be observed their various hues and the departure of their foliage as they stood at last divested of their summer robes. But, like ourselves, Horseheaven is getting older and changed; his top, though it was once well covered, is getting bald, the furrows on his brow are becoming numerous and deeper, and his former life is imperceptibly leaving him. Across his northern slope, since 1882, the iron horse prances, and his shrill snortings betoken the changes of time. 983 ASSESSMENT OF MORELAND FOR 1776. John Swift, assessor, and John Wynkoop, collector. Jacob Rush, 25 acres, 2 horses, 3 cows Samuel Shoemaker, tanner, 75 a., and tan-yard, 4 h., 2 c John Gilbert, 77 a., 1 negro, 2 h., 3 c., a cripple Isaac Bond, 3 a Peter Bowman, 1 h., 1 c John Tompkins, inn-keeper, 1 h., 2 c Jacob Tompkins, shop-keeper, 56 a., 2 h., 3 c David Marpole, 98 a., 2 h., 3 c Enoch Marpole, 1 h Clement Dungan, doctor, 1 servant, 3 h., 3 c Samuel Irwin, Esq., 209 a., 1 negro, 4 h., 5 c Andrew Van Buskirk, 140 a., 1 negro, 2 h., 4 c William Scout, 9 a., 1 h., 2 c., infirm Joseph Bond, 3 h., 4 c George Shillets, John Dorland, 1 c Isaac Boileau, 200 a, 1 negro, 4 h., 8 c John Fisher, 1 c Michael Riderpoke, 15 a., 1 servant, 3 h., 4 c John Rhode, 1 servant, 2 h., 3 c Peter Souerman George Foster, 2 h., 3 c Lawrence Sentman, 100 a., 1 servant, 4 h., 5 c Mary Kirk, widow, 80 a., 1 h., 1 c Nathaniel Sands, 3 h., 3 c John Wynkoop, 212 a., 1 negro, 5 h., 5 c Garret Van Buskirk, 186 a., 4 h., 5 c John Hogeland, 1 negro, 260 a., 4 h., 5 c Thomas Walton, 100 a., 2 h., 3 c., old and decrepid Nathaniel Walton, 30 a., 2 h., 1 c John Heet, 3 h., 4 c John Blacklye, 140 a., 1 servant, 3 h., 3 c John Lewis, 1 c Jonathan Clayton, 150 a., 5 h., 5 c Richard Corson, 20 a., 1 negro, 2 h., 4 c James Dyer, 253 a, 3 h., 4 c Joseph Lewis, 1 h John Lloyd, 150 a., 1 h., 9 c Benjamin Lloyd, 1 h Samuel Lloyd, 4 h., 4 c Thomas Lloyd, Sr., 1 h Esther Perry, widow, 60 a. 1 h., 2 c David Perry, 36 a., 2 h., 2 c., 1 negro Samuel Shoemaker, mason, 100 a., 4 h., 4 c Jeremiah Walton, 48 a., 2 h., 2 c John More, 1 h., 1c Edward Eaton, 44 a., 2 h., 2 c William Folwell, 190 a., 1 negro, 3 h., 5 c Joseph Folwell, 2 h., 3 c Mordecai Thomas, smith, 90 a., 3 h., 3 c Isaac Longstreth, tanner, 9 a., 2 h., 1 c John Engle, 2 h., 2 c John Sommers, 98 a., 2 servants, 3 h., 5 c Abel Walton, 33 a., 1 h., 2 c Henry Walton, 67 a., 2 h., 1 c John Vanhorn, 1 c Nicholas Randal, 5 h., 5 c Comly Randal, 1 h Peter Vanhorn, 1 h., 1 c Jacob Comly, inn-keeper, 18 a., 2 h., 2 c Joseph Comly, 100 a., 2 h., 2 c John Swift, 205 a., 1 servant, 1 negro, 1 h., 7 c Samuel Swift, doctor, 150 a., 2 negroes, 4 h., 7 c Samuel Swift, Jr., 100 a., 2 h, 2 c Daniel Street 1 c John Blake, joiner, 26 a., 1 h., 2 c John Burk, 1 servant Albertson Walton, 70 a., 4 h., 4 c Philip Crips, cooper, 4 a., 1 c James Willard, 4 a., 1 h., 1 c Derrick Krewson, 4 h., 4 c William Tillyer, 200 a., 1 negro, 5 h., 5 c Peter Stickler, 52 a., in Lower Dublin Isaac Stoltz, mason, 1 c Rachel Robertson, 70 a., 1 h., 2 c Abraham Lewis John Boucher, 200 a., 5 h., 4 c Joseph Boucher, 2 h., 2 c Samuel Boucher, 200 a., 2 negroes, 3 h., 8 c William Roberts, 200 a., 1 h., 1 c William Roberts, Jr. 11 a., 1 negro, 3 h., 3 c Thomas King, 47 a., 2 h., 1 c., has eight children Timothy Roberts, 1 negro, 3 h., 3 c Jacob Johnson, 1 c James McGill, 4 a., 1 c Elias Yerkes, 1 h, 2 c Bernard Ideman, 2 h., 3 c James Harker, 1 c Casper Taylor Thomas Austin, 140a., 3 h., 4 c grist-mill Isaac Cadwallader, smith, 70 a., 3 h., 3 c Moses Vancourt, inn-keeper, 120 a., 4 h., 5 c Daniel Vancourt Samuel Ayers, 4 a., 1h 2 c Isaac Roberts, 30 a., 2 h., 2 c Elisha Thomas Abel Marpole, 1 h., 1 c Casper Fetters, 250 a., 1 negro, 5 h., 8 c Anthony Yerkes, 230 a., 3 h., 7 C., son a cripple Jacob Yerkes, 1 h., 1 c Anthony Yerkes, Jr., 2 b., 2 c Anthony McNeal, 50 a., 2 h., 2 c Jacob Spencer, 147 a., 3 h., 4 c Caleb Davis, 55 a., 1 h., 2 c , 7 children John Morgan, 1 h., 1 c Jarret Spencer, 70 a., 1 h., 2 c Thomas Hallowell, 125 a., 3 h., 5 c Jacob Dubree, 39 a., 2 h., 2 c William Dubree, 2 c Luke Boileau, 11 c Daniel Ragen, 47 a., 2 h., 2 c., a grist-mill Alexander Marls [Maris?], 4 h Benjamin Tomlinson, 1 c Robert Barnes, 75 a., I negro, 1 h Jeremiah Walton, 188 a., 3 h., 4 c Rachel Dubree, widow, 1 c Abraham Bennet, 2h., 2 c William Shoemaker, 119 a., 3 h., 3 c Colin McSwine, 100 a., 1 servant, 1 h., 2 c Joseph Hart, Esq., 40 a., 2 c., grist-mill Josiah Yerkes, 6 a., 2 h., 2 c Silas Yerkes, 100 a., 3 h., 5 c grist-mill, 9 children and 1 idiot John Nesmith, 60 a., 2 h., 2 c., grist and saw-mill William Patterson Robert Little, 25 a., 1 c John Kennedy William Littleton, 200 a., 1 negro, 4 h., 7 c Elias Yerkes, 150 a., 4 h., 5 c Joseph Butler, 2 h., 2 c Thomas Michenor, 160 a., 2 h., 4 c Thomas Walton, 220 a., 3 h., 5 c John Wood, 90 a., I h., 2 c Thomas Wood, 100 a., 2 h., 3 c Stephen Yerkes, 150 a, 4 h., 4 c David Fulton, 20 a, 2 h., 2 c., grist-Mill Sarah Janes, widow, 88 a., 2 h., 2 c John Ramsey, 40 a., 2 h., 1 c John Ledyard, 60 a., 2 h., 3 c Thomas Ledyard, 40 a., I h., 2 c John Cook, enlisted John Foster James Fulton, 24 a., 1 h., 1 c Daniel Boileau, 57 a., 2 h., 5 c Jacob Janes, 148 a., 3 h., 4 c Garret Wynkoop, 340 a., 1 negro, 4 h., 5 c Joseph Keen, Joshua Comly, 125 a., 2 h., 5 c Jonathan Comly, 105 a., 3 h., 3 c John Lufboro, 130 a., 1 negro, 3 h., 4 c Joseph Foster Daniel Thomas, 73 a., 1 negro, 2 h., 2 c Jesse Edwards Thomas Lloyd, Jr., joiner, 20 a., 2 h., 3 c David Hallowell Matthew Hallowell Henry Brous, 1 h., 1 c James Vansant, 21 a., 2 h., 2 c Hezekieh Vansant, 2 a., 1. c George George Charles Heterich, 1 h., 3 c William Collins, 28 a Jacob Timbrel, 1 h., 1 c Thomas Doughty, 1 h Lambert Dorland, 2 a Thomas Pennington, 130 a., 4 h., 7 c Jonathan Martin Cornelius Daily, 3 h., 2 c Lawrence Loudenberger, 1 h., 2 c Joseph Comely, 1 c Robert Field, turner, 1 h., 1 c Abel Fitzwater, 1 h., 1 c William Lukens, John Jones, 2 h., 1 c Charles McVaugh, I c Thomas Boor John Hillings George Trunk, 1 h., 1 c Joseph Duffield, 46 a., 2 h., 1 c. Isaac Dorland, William Walton, 5 h., 3 c Henry Murfits, I h., I c. William Walton Anthony Ships Jacob Warner Jacob Vanpelt Isaac Warner, 19 a., 2 h., 2 c grist and saw-mill Joseph Mitchell, 80 a., 2 h., 2 c Thomas Mitchell Jonathan Richardson, 1 h., 1 c James Craven, 70 a., 1 h., 2 c Richard Whitton, 163 a., 3 h., 2 c Paul Rust, 2 h., 2 c John McCullough Stephen Love, mason Edward Barnes William Williamson Andrew Bartle Joseph Brooks, 1 c James Watkins, Edward Duffield, 60 a., 1 servant, 1 negro, 2 h., 4 c William Purdy Henry Deshong, 1 servant, 2 h., 3 c Michael Warner George Nevil, I h Hugh McClure William McNeal SINGLE MEN.- John Erwin George Patrick William Gilbert Jonathan Gilbert John Gilbert Thomas Nixon Jacob Marpole Isaac Marpole Yost Van Buskirk John Van Buskirk Joseph Dyer Thomas Perry Peter Shoemaker Edward Fanner William Adams Periden Ernst Peterson James Street Benjamin Heaton Alexander Burk Derrick Krewson John Boucher, Jr John Murray John McGinnes Robert Austin George Stoneback Josiah Hart Harman Yerkes John Davis Nicholas Austin. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. JOHN WALTON. John Walton was born September 10, 1796, and at a very early period in life was left an orphan, and went to live with an uncle, Samuel Walton, one of the pioneers of what is now Montgomery County. Of his early life but little, if anything, of interest is known beyond the fact that he was industrious, and his moral and upright bearing a model for other young men. Dependent entirely upon his own resources, he started out to fight the battles of life, and by his indomitable energy overcame obstacles that to a less courageous nature would have been insurmountable. In 1831 he purchased of James Comly the farm and merchant mill owned by him at his death. The mill was known throughout this vicinity as "Walton's Mill," and the farm , for the beauty and picturesqueness of the location of the old mansion, was, and is still known by the name of "Hill's Highlands." This farm and mill lot was formerly a part of a grant of land from William Penn, to Nicolas More, and by him named the "Manor of Moreland," from which the present township of Moreland derived its name. This grant was made October 17, 1681. June 7, 1684, William Penn, for reasons not known, made a second grant to Nicolas More, of nine thousand eight hundred and fifteen acres of land, as a part of the ten thousand acre tract. Probably a shortage was found when the survey was made. 984 The next owner of the tract was Samuel, son of Nicolas More, and one of six heirs. November 6, 1694, Samuel More empowered his father-in-law, John Holmes, to sell so much of the estate as would pay his debts, and in the same year (1694) bequeathed to his brother Nicolas and sister Sarah the balance of his property. Sarah married Richard Hill, Sr., and in 1713, Nicolas More transferred all his right in the estate to Richard Hill, Sr. PICTURE OF JOHN WALTON, APPEARS HERE. In 1729, Richard Hill, Sr., bequeathed the property to Richard Hill, Jr., and in 1749, Richard Hill, Jr., transferred sixty-one acres to Thomas Austin. Upon this sixty-one acres was the old manor-house, known as "Hill's Highlands." November 13, 1747, Samuel Butcher and wife sold to this same Thomas Austin a part of their three hundred and fifty acre tract, and Thomas Austin (who was Mrs. Walton's great-uncle) sold to Joshua Comly, who bequeathed the same to his son, James Comly, and he subsequently sold the same to John Walton, the subject of this sketch. The old mansion or farm-house stood just on the brow of the hill, partly in front of the present dwelling. It was one of those quaint old relics of past ages, having stood for nearly or quite a century, when in 1849, Mr. Walton removed the old house, and in 1849-50 erected the present stately mansion, where he so pleasantly spent the remainder of his days. In 1851 he rebuilt the grist-mill. Of Mr. Walton's career a friend who knew him well thus writes: "Every year of his long life was spent in our midst, -an open book which all might read; no obscure passages nor sealed pages to kindle doubt or arouse distrust; and it has been the privilege of few men to win true affection and esteem from their immediate associates. "Square-dealing and sincere, genial and generous, his personal integrity and warm social qualities awakened and held the respect and friendship of two generations. "Public-spirited and progressive, he was closely identified with the development and improvement of his neighborhood. "Often the projector and always the earnest advocate of every worthy enterprise tending to promote its growth and advancement, he never failed to contribute material assistance, not only of his time and means, but no less by the inspiration of his enthusiasm and the confidence infused by his clear discernment and firm faith in the future possibilities of his native vale. 985 "Notwithstanding the engrossing nature of his business, his mind and hands were never so fully occupied with selfish interests but he found time to remember his neighbor; to respond to every appeal, to visit him in sickness and distress; to honor his inanimate form with the last tribute of respect. Positive in his, opinions, true in purpose, unfaltering and steadfast in right, he has gone to receive the reward of those faithful servants who have been true to their trust of life." In religious affairs Mr. Walton was a Friend, and in politics a Henry Clay Whig. In business habits he was ever zealous in the performance of every con tract, whether verbal or written, and until within a year of his death was actively engaged in the transaction of his every-day affairs. He was married, Third Month 8, 1832, to Miss Sarah, daughter of Elisha Thomas and grand-daughter of Joshua Comly. She was connected also with the pioneer Austin family, of what is now Huntingdon Valley. Mr. Walton died Fifth Month 26, 1884, the result of an accident. Mrs. Walton died Ninth Month 29, 1872. They were the parents of six children,- Mary (died in January, 1835) Eliza C. Charles Susan 0. Anna F. Henry Clay. MAJOR EVAN M. WOODWARD. Major Evan M. Woodward is a descendent of the Woodward family, who first settled in New Jersey. PICTURE OF EVAN M. WOODWARD, APPEARS HERE. The first record we have of any of that name is of Anthony Woodward (2nd), who, in some deeds dated as early as 1725, is styled "Yeoman," and in others "Gentleman." He located near Bordentown, N. J., and died in October, 1784, leaving five sons,- Israel Anthony Thomas Joseph George and a daughter, Margaret. Of these sons, Anthony was the great-grandfather of the subject of this sketch, and married Deborah Williams, of Shrewsbury, N. J. George, a son of the last-named Anthony, was born in 1744, and died December 25, 1817, aged seventy-three years. He married Margaret Mount in 1777. She was born near Middletown, Monmouth Co., N. J., in 1756, and died at White Hill, on the Delaware, May 4, 1830, aged seventy-four years. Of this marriage we find the following minute in the Friends record: Fourth Month 5, 1781. "The friends appointed report they informed George Woodward of the charges against him, he having married contrary to Discipline to a woman not in membership with us; the said friends informed he was married by a priest, therefore this meeting disowns him, the said George Woodward, from being a member of our religious society, until he comes to a sense of his errors and condemns the same as Discipline directs." This Margaret Mount was of a patriotic family, not less than fifteen of her relations serving in the Revolutionary war. Her brother, Colonel Timothy Mount, was one of Washington's most trusted confidential agents, he receiving from him a letter stating he had "rendered most important services in the cause," in recognition of which Congress granted him a large tract of land in Ohio. 986 It is traditional of Colonel Mount that he formed a daring plot to seize General Arnold in New York and carry him into our lines. For this purpose he entered the city in disguise, and obtained a situation as bartender at the tavern frequented by the general and other British officers. Two nights were fixed upon to carry the scheme into execution, his confederates, shoremen from Monmouth County, N. J., coming over in a large and swift barge to assist and carry the prisoner across the bay. A dinner party upon one occasion and a severe storm upon another frustrated their designs. The country around Middletown and Shrewsbury was filled with partisans, with Tories and Whigs, active and bitter in their hostilities. The patriots were continually receiving information of the British, and suspicion was created that Margaret Mount was one of the mediums through which it was conveyed. One night a party of British and Tory horsemen went to her father's house, searched her bed and discovered a letter she was to deliver to the patriots the next morning. She and the young lady friend who brought the letter were taken prisoners and carried away. The next night they escaped from the house in which they were confined, and concealing themselves in a cornfield, eluded the pursuit of the British cavalry. Margaret, fearing to return home, was concealed by her friends till the enemy left the country. It was during this period that she met her future husband, George Woodward. They had children,- Lydia, who married William Woodhouse, a merchant of Philadelphia Margaret, who married Jacob Sebohm, also a merchant of that city George. Of these children, George moved to Moreland township, Montgomery Co., where he married Margaret Wynkoop, and in 1854 went to Kansas, where he was killed. The sons of George and Margaret were Timothy K., who lives in Philadelphia Charles, a resident of Philadelphia James, resides in Camden, N. J.; Wynkoop, deceased Martha Mary Rebecca Anna Anna, who married William Schallcross, of Maryland Evan M., who was born March 16, 1813, on the old homestead, which he now owns, adjoining the one upon which he lives. The whole life of Evan M., except a few short intervals, has thus far been spent upon these two farms, pleasantly located on the table-land, about two miles west from Somerton Station on the Bound Brook Branch of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad. Besides attending to the duties pertaining to a large plantation, Major Woodward (as he is popularly known) has visited several of the States of the Union and thus become conversant with the prominent men of the country, and familiar with all the prominent points of interest. He is also the owner of two tracts of land, of twelve hundred acres each, in Mecklenburg County, Va. Since Major Woodward attained his majority he has been prominently identified with all the progressive movements of his township. Politically he was a Henry Clay Whig, then a Douglas Democrat, and both during and since the war of 1861-65, has been a stanch and unyielding Republican, several times leading a forlorn hope as its standard-bearer in legislative contests. He has been honored by his townsmen with official positions, and for twenty years with that of justice of the peace. He was married, March 7, 1838, to Miss Margaret Snyder, who was born May 6, 1814, in Montgomery County. They are the parents of two children,- Sarah S., born November 18, 1839, died March 5, 1841 Harrison, born January 20, 1842. Harrison's life thus far has been spent upon the old homestead, except that portion spent at Eastmans Business college, Poughkeepsie, N. Y., from which institution he graduated April 9, 1864. He has also taken a prominent part in the politics of the township, and was elected by the Republicans, in the spring of 1882, to the office of justice of the peace for a term of five years. He was married, January 5, 1870, to Miss Rebecca A. Clayton, of Montgomery County. The result of this union has been four children,- Clara, born July 18, 1871, died April 10, 1879 Mary Elizabeth, born August 4,1873 Justus C., born August 26, 1876, did March 10, 1879 Frank H., born April 2, 1880. JEREMIAH BERRELL LARZELERE. Jeremiah Berrell Larzelere, of Moreland township, Montgomery Co., comes of Huguenot stock. The famous Edict of Nantes, signed by Henry IV., of France, April, 1598, gave religious freedom to all parties. Eighty-seven years later Louis XIV., for political reasons, revoked it, October 22, 1685, and by the persecutions which followed France lost a half million of her best and sturdiest citizens. They fled to Germany, England, Scotland and North Ireland. Many families came to the colony of South Carolina, and from these Huguenots the South Carolinians inherited largely their intelligence, wealth, dauntless courage and political power. Both Calhoun and Hayne were of Huguenot blood. Among the Huguenot pilgrims who fled the persecutions of France in the latter part of the seventeenth century were Nicholas and John Larzelere, who settled on Long Island. Nicholas subsequently moved to Staten Island, where he married and raised a family of four children; two sons, Nicholas and John, and two daughters. In 1741, Nicholas, the younger, moved with his family to Bucks County, Pa., and settled in Lower Makefield township. He raised eight children, died at the age of eighty-four, and was buried in the Episcopal graveyard at Bristol. The eldest son of the second Nicholas was also named Nicholas, and was born on Staten Island in 1734. He married Hannah Britton, of Bristol township, and moved into Bensalem, where he owned a large estate, and raised a family of ten children; he fought in the Revolution and died at the age of eighty-four. Benjamin, the eldest son, married Sarah Brown, of Bristol, moved into that township, had eight children and died at eighty-four. Part of Bristol is built on his farm. 987 The eldest son of Benjamin was Nicholas, who was the father of the subject of the present sketch. Nicholas married Esther, daughter of Col. Jeremiah Berrell, of Abington, and moved into that township about the year 1825, and lived in that township and Moreland the balance of his life. He reared a family of twelve children, all of whom are living excepting one. Nicholas died in the year 1858, at the age of sixty-seven, and was buried at the Presbyterian graveyard at Abington. His widow still survives him at the advanced age of eighty-two. PICTURE OF JEREMIAH BERRELL LARZELERE, APPEARS HERE. Jeremiah was the third son of Nicholas, and was born in 1828, and, with the exception of a short residence in Ohio, has always lived in Montgomery County. In 1858 he married Elmina, daughter of James Lovett, of Doylestown, Bucks Co., who died in 1874, and in 1876 he was again married, to Carrie E., daughter of Dilworth Wentz, late of Philadelphia, deceased. He had a family of seven children; all of who are living save one. Inheriting the strength and health of his ancestors, he is now in the prime of life and in the midst of a busy and active career. At the age of eighteen he taught school in Horsham. United with his large agricultural interests, he has for many years been extensively engaged in the shipment and sale of livestock from the Western States. Among the projectors of the North East Pennsylvania Railroad, which was opened in 1870, he became a director, and remained such until it passed by lease into the possession of the Reading Railroad. The position of school and bank director he has held for years. Notwithstanding the taxation of his energies in business, he has always found time to take an active part in politics, and is naturally fond of a contest for honors. A pupil of the old Jeffersonian school of politics, he has, nevertheless, kept abreast with the advanced and progressive ideas of the better element of his party. 988 In 1871, selected as the candidate of his party for sheriff, he was elected by upwards of a thousand majority, and received the highest number of votes on the ticket. This office he held from January, 1872, until January, 1875, and administered its arduous and responsible duties to the eminent satisfaction of all. It may be said that in disposition, generous and benevolent, he has endeared himself to many, which, in darkest hours, have found in him the friend they needed. No higher test of character is required than the esteem in which one is held by his neighbors. THE HALLOWELL FAMILY. The Hallowell family was among the pioneer settlers along the Pennypack Valley, locating at what is now known as the Pennypack Mills, Abington township, in the early part of the last century. At that place was born, in 1777, Israel Hallowell, father of Jonas W., of Huntingdon Valley; John J, and W. Jarrett, of Pennypack Mills, also of the late Israel Hallowell, Jr. Mr. Hallowell, Sr., grew to manhood on the old homestead he became the owner of the mills, and lived until within a few years of his death, in the house where he was born. A few years prior to his death he removed to the dwelling now occupied by his son, John J., where he died December 22, 1856. His wife, born May 5, 1781, and died June 26, 1867, was Mary, daughter of the late William Jarrett of Horsham township. Mr. Hallowell was, for over half a century, proprietor of the Pennypack Mills, and was well and favorably known for his uprightness of character and fair dealing with his fellow-men. His heart and hand were always open to the demands of charity. He died as he had lived, a purely Christian gentleman, loved while he lived, and by all whom knew him mourned in death. He was the father of a highly-respected family, who are following closely in the path of Christian duty marked out by their honored sire. He was all his life a member of Abington Friends Meeting, and during the latter part of his life an elder in that society. PICTURE OF JONAS W. HALLOWELL, APPEARS HERE. JONAS W. HALLOWELL. Jonas W. Hallowell, son of Israel and Mary Hallowell, was born at Pennypack Mills, Abington township, April 10, 1824. His early life was spent at the old log school-house, on his fathers farm, and assisting in the merchant mill owned by his father. In 1838 or 1839 he was employed one year in the dry-goods store of Lippincott & Parry, then one of the old business-houses, of Philadelphia. In the latter part of 1840 and early part of 1841 he attended the academy of Benjamin Hallowell, of Alexandria, Va., in all about six months. Upon his return from school he entered into copartnership with his brother, W. Jarrett, in the milling business, in the old Pennypack Mill, where he remained till 1860, when he located on the farm now owned and occupied by him, it being a part of his fathers landed estate. The farm is pleasantly located along the creek, in Huntingdon Valley, on either side of the Philadelphia, Newtown and New York Railroad, the station being on the farm, and Bethayres Station, on the North Pennsylvania and Bound Brook, being but a half-mile distant. 989 Positions of honor or trust Mr. Hallowell has never sought, yet his neighbors have entrusted him with the honors of school director continuously since 1871, and the directors and stockholders of the Fox Chase and Huntingdon Turnpike Company have imposed upon him the burdens of treasurer of that corporation since 1871. Religiously, Mr. Hallowell is a Friend, not only in name, but also in deed, always practicing the golden rule in all his business transaction. He was married, April 7, 1859, to Esther L., daughter of James and Ann L. Fenton, of Abington township. Their children are Israel, born March 31, 1863 James F., born January 24, 1865 John J., Jr., born March 2, 1868. James Fenton, father of Mrs. Hallowell, was one of eight brothers, all at whom lived to old age, none of them less than seventy-four years, and none over eighty years of age, and James at the age of seventy-eight years. He was for a number of years one of the directors of the Fox Chase Turnpike Company, and was prominently identified with other enterprises of the vicinity in which he lived, and highly respected and loved by all who came in contact with him in a business capacity, and was a member of Abington Monthly Meeting, Society of Friends. He owned the two farms now occupied by his two sons, Ephraim and William, at what is known as Fenton Station, on the Philadelphia and Newtown Railroad. Mrs. Hallowell's grandfather, Anthony Livsey, was a resident of the locality known as Fox Chase, and owned the farm now owned and occupied by George Rhawn. Her grandmother's maiden-name was Esther Bailey. ISRAEL HALLOWELL. Israel Hallowell was a native of Abington township and the son of Israel and Mary Hallowell, and was born Second Month 18, 1819, on the old Hallowell homestead, at Pennypack Mills. His earlier years were spent at home on his father's farm and as an assistant in his father's merchant mill, now owned by W. Jarrett Hallowell. His education was derived from the common schools, or, rather, what was known at that time as "pay-school." After arriving at a suitable age he was sent to Benjamin Hallowell's academy at Alexandria, Va. He then entered into partnership with his brother, W. Jarrett, in the milling business, at the old Pennypack Mills, where he remained till about 1848, when he sold his interest in the mill to his brother, and devoted his entire time to the management and cultivation of the farm in Moreland township (now occupied by his widow, Rebecca, and son, Henry W.) until 1855, when he became afflicted with the loss of his eyesight, which incapacitated him for the labors of the farm. He died Fourth Month 16, 1862, in the forty-third year of his age. While in active life Mr. Hallowell was, in all his dealings with his fellow-men, strictly honorable, and was highly respected by all who knew him. In him the poor of the community lost a friend on whom they could always rely in their sorest times of need. He was truly a good man, and suffered his affliction with Christian fortitude and patience, without a murmur of complaint. He was a birthright member of the Society of Friends. He was married, Fifth Month 19, 1842, to Rebecca, daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth Williams, of Cheltenham township. Rebecca Hallowell was born Third Month 6, 1822, and is still living on the old homestead. They were the parents of two children, Mary Anna and Henry W. Henry W. married, October 11, 1871, Margaret T., daughter of John and Caroline Thomson. He still resides on and manages the homestead farm, upon which he was born. SIMON V. LEFFERTS. Simon V. Lefferts, one of the prominent agriculturalists of Moreland township, is a descendant of one of the pioneer families who located on what is now Long Island, N. Y., over two centuries ago, as will be seen by the following brief genealogical sketch: I. Lefferts Pieterson, a native of the village of Haughwort, located one and a half hours north of Hoorne, in the province of North Holland, emigrated to this country in 1660. With him, came a congregation of about two hundred souls, of whom forty were members of the church of the Reformed religion. Lefferts settled in Midwout, or what is now Flatbush, Long Island, N. Y., where he died December 8, 1704. His wife was Abigail, daughter of Auk Jans Van Nuyse. She bore him thirteen children, and died at the advanced age of ninety-five years. Of the children, six were sons, and seven daughters. The aggregate age of five of the sons was four hundred and ninety-six years. One of the brothers married at the good old age of one hundred years, and lived six years after, in perfect health. II. The third child of Lefferts and Abigail was Pieter Lefferts, from whence sprang the Lefferts family of Moreland Township. Pieter was born May 18, 1680, in Flatbush, L. I., and died March 13, 1774. His wife was Ida, daughter of Hendrick Suydam, of Flatbush. She died September 25, 1777. Her six sisters were aged, respectively, seventy-nine, seventy-five, seventy- three, sixty-eight, sixty-four and sixty-three. Pieter was an elder in the Reformed Church in 1752, and probably to the day of his death. 990 III. The next in direct line to Simon V. was Leffert Lefferts, the date of whose birth is not on record, but who died probably soon after October 6, 1773, the date of his will. His wife was Antic, daughter of Art Vanderbilt, of Flatbush, a farmer by occupation. In 1738, Leffert Lefferts, in company with others, visited Bucks County, Pa., on a prospecting tour, and in 1739, Leffert purchased a tract of four hundred acres of land in Northampton Township, Bucks Co. This was a part of the six hundred and thirty-one acre tract granted by William Penn to Edmund Pennington, father of William Pennington. Leffert was the father of children,- Peter Ida Art Aares or Arthur, baptized December 11, 1742, in Bucks County, Pa. Leffert, baptized December 25, 1744 Jane, baptized October 15, 1752 Abraham, baptized March 17, 1754 Cynthia or Sytie, baptized July 18, 1756 Jacobus or James, baptized August 24, 1760. IV. Abraham, next in line, was born February 17, 1754, and died January 8, 1819. About 1783, he married Alice Vanarsdale. He owned and occupied a farm of one hundred and fifteen acres, in Southampton Township, Bucks Co., Pa. His children were John, Alice, Simon, Abraham, James and Ann. V. John Lefferts (father of Simon V.) was born March 14, 1784, and on December 23, 1804, married Helena, daughter of Rev. Jonathan Du Bois. John purchased forty acres of the old homestead on the County-Line road in Bucks County, formerly owned by his father, to which he subsequently added one hundred acres. In 1843, he purchased the Hoagland farm, in Moreland township, Montgomery Co., containing one hundred and forty-seven acres, the property now owned and occupied by his son Simon V. Mr. Lefferts was prominently identified with all progressive movements in his township, and especially in church matters, in which he was for many years one of its office-bearers. He organized, and for several years superintended, the pioneer Sunday-school of this section. The school was for some time conducted in his carriage-house, there being at the time no other convenient or suitable place for its sessions. He was also interested in the political affairs of the country, and when the dark and threatening clouds of disloyalty and secession burst forth in all their hellish fury, he had full confidence in the ability of the then new administration to sustain the laws of the country and the perpetuity of the Union, and for some time breasted the storm of opposition around him, and was the first man in his immediate neighborhood to lend a helping hand to the Union cause, by loans of money, and in the darkest days of the slave-holders' abortive attempt at the destruction of this beautiful national fabric, his hopes of its salvation seemed brightest. 991 He was a man of wonderful energy and will-power, fearless to all danger, and never seemed to realize that there was such a word as "failure." An instance or two will show more fully his character. When he was but four years of age, his father was building a new barn, and one day, when nearly completed, the family and workmen being at dinner, young Lefferts found his way to the barn, and climbed up the ladder to the peak of the roof, on which he was quietly sitting when discovered by one of the workmen, and removed from his perilous position. In the winter of 1845, his barn and a portion of his stock was destroyed by fire. Upon the first, alarm, without waiting to dress for such an occasion, he hastened to the rescue of his horse and cattle, And despite the earnest entreaties of neighbors and friends, remained in a semi-nude condition in his fruitless effort to rescue his stock, until the frozen flesh fell from his feet, when for three months after, he was unable to walk. While yet at the age of ninety-five years, he enjoyed good health, labored with his men, and attended to his financial affairs as in years gone by. He was loved and revered in life and mourned in death. He died December 21, 1879, aged ninety-five years, nine months and eight days. VI. Simon V. Lefferts, son of John of the fifth generation, was born September 28, 1818. He was married, February 16, 1843, to Miss Susanna D., daughter of Abraham and Mary States (sometimes written Staats or Staates). She was born December 23, 1823. In 1844, Mr. Lefferts moved on to the old Hoagland farm, in Moreland township, where he now (1885) resides. He has always been actively engaged in church matters, especially in the church of which he is a member. He organized the Poplar Grove Sunday-school, and for twenty years was its superintendent. He has taken an active part in several incorporated companies, and at one time was president of four companies, and for twenty-five years an officer in the Somerton and Bustleton Turnpike Company. Politically, he is an enthusiastic Republican, and when the hydra- headed serpent of secession vomited forth its slimy and filthy pretensions to a place among the nations of the earth, his voice, pen and purse championed the cause of the Union, and many of the lyceums throughout this section of country resounded from 1861 to the laying down of the last rebel musket, with his voice for the suppression of one of the greatest curses of the nineteenth century, -secession. Although an ardent Republican, he is just as strong a temperance man, and has never tasted anything that would intoxicate. He was the first farmer in the township to gather large harvests without the use of intoxicants. His views on the tobacco question are equally as strong, he having never used it in any form. In his younger days, he was fond of the sports of the season, among which was that of catching wild pigeons with a net, and it is to his credit that he sprang the net on the last flock of pigeons ever caught in Montgomery County. VII. His children are John, born May 21, 1844 Mary Ann, born July 8, 1850. John studied law with John Goforth, of Philadelphia, and graduated April 14, 1867, and is now (1885) in practice in Philadelphia. He is also an elder in the Presbyterian Church, corner of Seventh and Brown Streets. He married Miss Helen C., daughter of Dr. Samuel and Helen C. Rich. Their children are Walter and Helen Lefferts. Mary Ann was married, December 28, 1876, to Henry L. Search, who was born September 18, 1846. Their children are Susanna L., born February 26, 1878 Theodore C., born October 3, 1884. Abraham States, the father of Mrs. Simon V. Lefferts, was born in 1791, and died in 1854. His wife was Mary, daughter of Joseph and Mary Franklin. Mrs. Lefferts grandfather was James States, of Bucks County, Pa., who owned a farm of one hundred acres. This farm was in the States family for over one hundred years. Jacob Rhodes, her maternal great grandfather, was a native of Germany, emigrated to America, and located near Somerton. JOHN LLOYD. John Lloyd, son of Benjamin Lloyd, was for many years one of the prominent citizens of Moreland township, near what is now the borough of Hatboro'. He was born, and lived all his life upon the farm now occupied by John Lloyd, Jr., and died in July, 1877, in the eighty-second year of his age. He was an earnest and persistent friend of education and all its varied interests, and upon the adoption of the present school law by, the people, he was made one of the school directors of the township, a position he held for many years. He was a friend of the friendless, kind to the poor, honorable in all his business transactions with his fellow-men, honored and respected while he lived, and his loss severely felt when gone to his eternal rest, to receive the reward awaiting the righteous. His was truly a life of purity and love, and he died as he had lived, firm in the faith of his fathers, as expressed in the doctrines laid down by the Society of Friends, of which he was a member, his name being enrolled on the books of the Horsham Monthly Meeting. PICTURE OF JOHN LLOYD, APPEARS HERE. His wife was Sidnea, daughter of Joshua Paul. Their children were Lydia Ann, deceased, whose husband was Jarrett W. Hallowell Hannah S., married Joseph W. Hallowell Ellen, married Charles H. Lukens Joshua P., name changed by Act of State Legislature to Joseph Paul Sarah C., deceased, whose husband was Israel H. Mather Emma, deceased, whose husband was Jonathan P. Iredell John, married Anna Williams, and now lives on the old homestead.