History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . reland, England,Thomas Langhorne, the ancestor, settling in Middletovvn, 1682, anddying there, 1687. He took up 800 acres in that township, and thefamily increased their holdings largely by purchase. His son, Jere-miah, became a man of mark and held many places of public trust;Justice of the Peace, I7i5-i9; commissioned to build the jail at New-town, 1724; Speaker of the Provincial Coimcil, Justice of the SupremeCourt, 1726-39, and Chief Justice, 1739, dying in 1742. The Kirkbrides came
History of Doylestown, old and new : from its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 . reland, England,Thomas Langhorne, the ancestor, settling in Middletovvn, 1682, anddying there, 1687. He took up 800 acres in that township, and thefamily increased their holdings largely by purchase. His son, Jere-miah, became a man of mark and held many places of public trust;Justice of the Peace, I7i5-i9; commissioned to build the jail at New-town, 1724; Speaker of the Provincial Coimcil, Justice of the SupremeCourt, 1726-39, and Chief Justice, 1739, dying in 1742. The Kirkbrides came from Cumberland, Joseph, the ancestor,arriving in the Welcome, 1682, and settling in Falls township; an in-dentured apprentice, he ran away from his master at the age of nine- I Penns largest and oldest grant in the county was made to the FreeSociety of Traders, in London, the 22d and 23rd of INIarch, 1682, and covered20,000 acres. The object of the company, mostly composed of gentlemen ofI^ondon, was to carry on trading operations on an extensive .scale, but its pro-visions were never carried out. 304. JUDGE JOHN FUX. DOYLESTOWN, OLD AND NEW. 305 teen, starting for the new world with a little wallet of clothing and aflail. He was first employed at Pennsbury, but removed to WestJersey and there married a daughter of Randall Blackshaw, 1688. Hebecame influential and wealthy, and a leading minister among friends,dying 1738, at the age of seventy-five. From his son Mahlon havedescended all that bear the name, and a numerous posterity in thefemale line. Mahlon Kirkbride married Mary, daughter of John andMary Sotcher, favorites of William Penn. Walter Shewell, an early settler in that part of New Britain thatfell into Doylestovvn township, was an immigrant from Gloucestershire,England, arriving in 1732. Landing at Philadelphia, he made hisway to Bucks county and took up a tract, on the State Road twomiles from Doylestovvn. Here he built a handsome dwelling, 1769,and called it Pains
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