battle, with three minor officers of the American army, were buried. Their graves are marked by a small monument in the Menonite burying ground near by. Also a deserter was shot while headquarters were here.

Frederick Wampole died February, 1800; his wife, Catharine Magdalena, died February, 1805, both at advanced age. He had four sons, Henry, Abraham, Jacob and Isaac, and four daughters.

Jacob Wampole, the third son of Frederick, the emigrant, was born on the old homestead in 1765, and lived there till his death in April, 1818, aged fifty-three years. His wife died the same month in her fifty-second year. In this year, 1818, the old house was rebuilt.

Isaac, the youngest brother of Jacob, born September 23, 1767, left the farm for the city in March, 1788; bought the old homestead and owned it till his death, and willed it to his nephew, Frederick. He was Deputy Recorder of Wills of the city of Philadelphia from July 4, 1791, for eighteen years and three months, and afterwards conveyancer till his death August 8, 1837, leaving estate valued at $74,000.

Frederick, the oldest son of Jacob Wampole, the grandfather of our subject, was born in 1786. He was a director of the old Montgomery County Bank, in Norristown, for nearly twenty years. His wife was Mary Magdalena Leister, who died at the residence of her son, in North Wales, in 1869, aged 77 years. He was an active churchman and Sunday school worker. He died on the old homestead in 1868 in the eighty-second year of his age. And although he inherited this then vast estate from his uncle Isaac, the proverb "Come easy go easy," was fully verified in his case, as he was utterly bankrupt at the time of his death. His brother Jacob, a clergyman, preached, died and was buried at Trappe in 1838, aged thirty-eight years. A son of the above clergyman, Jacob Frederick, is also a clergyman at present located at Freeburg, Pennsylvania.

Isaac W. Wampole, the above Frederick's oldest son, Justice of the Peace of North Wales, was born on the old homestead in 1817, and resided there until 1858. He was elected Justice of the Peace when twenty-two years old, a position he has filled

nearly consecutively for forty-five years, being then the youngest justices in the county as he is now one of the oldest. He removed to North Wales in 1867 from the Pleasant Valley Steam Mills, where he resided for nine years. He is regarded as a very capable and trusty business man, and constantly employed by his fellow-citizens in various departments of service, and has been for eighteen years Secretary and Librarian of St. Peter's Lutheran Sunday school, of North Wales, and for the same time been a member of the church council of said church.

Charles L. Wampole, youngest brother of Isaac W., an uncle of our subject, purchased the old Godshalk mill property, in Towamencin township, one mile west of Kulpsville. He was the first person to introduce steam as a motive power in a flour and grist mill in Montgomery county-about the year 1850. He also near that time constructed an incubator to hatch chickens by steam. It was partially successful but was finally abandoned. Now the incubator is a success; then it was in its infancy. He was also for a number of years a Director of the old Montgomery Bank. steam mill, which he named "The Pleasant Valley Steam Mills," having also a saw mill attached, was destroyed by fire in 1855 or 1856; he proceeded to reconstruct it on a much larger scale, also commenced the erection of a large mansion, and finally was stricken with sickness, which caused his death at the age of thirty-two years. A financial crash followed, which swept away his and his father's estate. We here take up again the narrative of our subject proper.

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Dr. William H. Wampole, when a growing youth, had the misfortune to be attacked with inflammatory rheumatism, which developed into a white swelling, and was not cured until one leg was permanently disabled, but being resolute and persevering he has employed his mental gifts so well that he has mastered the dental profession, which he has followed successfully since 1868. He has resided in North Wales since 1867, having studied and learned the mechanical branches of his profession there, Dr. R. Yost being his preceptor. He had three sisters and two brothers, namely, Sarah, the eldest

of the family, who was the wife of Jesse Oberholtzer; she is deceased since February, 1864; Mary Ann, wife of A. A. Delp, and Emily. His elder brother, Isaac, is foreman in E. K. Freed & Co.'s flouring mill, in North Wales, a position he has held for nineteen years, and his younger brother, Harvey, is editor and proprietor of the Malvern Item, Chester county, Pa. Doctor Wampole was married to Anna M. Bright, February 10, 1876, she dying December 20, 1877, leaving one daughter, Alma May. He was married again May 21, 1879, to Lydia N. Scott, who has borne him three children, Charles Scott, Elsie Jennie and William Howard; the last died in infancy September, 1886. Dr. Wampole's family attachments have been with the Lutheran Church, but for some years he has been an active member of the Methodist Episcopal; he has also been a life-long Sunday school worker, as also a prominent temperance advocate, being allied with the Good Templar and Sons of Temperance Orders, which in a great measure caused the change in his church relations, as he could not conscientiously commune where intoxicating wine was used at the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

By close attention to business Dr. Wampole has acquired a large practice in surrounding townships, as also at Germantown, Norristown, and other neighboring towns. Being a country dentist, much of his work is done from home, requiring considerable traveling, which he does by private conveyance, thus obtaining the benefit of fresh, pure air, which he regards very conducive to good health. He is also proprietor of "Dr. Wampole's Excelsior Liniment," a popular household remedy.

Dr. Wampole's grandparents, on his mother's side, were Israel and Sarah Yocum, nee Snyder. Israel Yocum owned and lived on a small farm in Hatfield township. He followed the occupation of drover, which in those days, about 1830, was very different from droving now, having no railroads to travel on. Then the man took his money, mounted his horse and rode for weeks, until he arrived in the vicinity where the purchasing was done, which took several weeks more, as large herds, often one hundred head or more, were purchased be

fore the home trip was commenced, which took several weeks or a month more. On a trip of this kind, in 1834, when he arrived at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, he was taken sick, died, and was buried there, none of his folks having ever seen his grave, as he was dead and buried long before the sad news could be communicated to his home. His widow survived him many years, and died at her daughter's, in North Wales, in 1867, aged seventy-seven years. They had only two children-daughters-Mary, the mother of our subject, and Margaret, who married Reuben Boorse, who left his home at what is now known as Mainland, on horseback one day, went to Skippackville, and stated there that he was "going to Zieglersville to trade horses." He left Skippackville and that was the last seen or heard of him or his horse. It was supposed that he was murdered between Skippackville and Zieglersville. A person who lived along the Perkiomen was suspected of being the perpetrator of the crime. But up to this day Reuben Boorse's disappearance remains a mystery. Mrs. Boorse died soon after this mysterious event without issue.

JOSEPH HEACOCK.

THE HEACOCK FAMILY.

This family is known to be of English origin, Friends in religious persuasion, and is one of the most widely extended in Pennsylvania, as appears from genealogical records still in the hands of some of its members. The earliest known progenitors, Jonathan and Ann Heacock, emigrated from England and settled in Marple township, now Delaware county, Pennsylvania. They brought certificates of membership from Wolverhampton Monthly Meeting, in Staffordshire, dated 13th of Twelfth-month, 1710, directed to Chester Monthly Meeting, then Chester county, Pennsylvania. Being probably unsettled for a time, they were not received to membership there until 29th of Seventh-month, 1718. Ann Heacock was the daugh

ter of John Till, of Whitegrove, Staffordshire, and belonged to Stafford Meeting. It is recorded of him that in the year 1666 he, with others, was committed to prison for absence from the national worship, and remained incarcerated until 1672, a period of six years, when Charles II. issued his letters-patent discharging the people called Quakers from such confinement, when he, with others, was set at liberty.

In an old account book kept by Jonathan Heacock we find the following entries and memoranda, evidently in his own handwriting, the same being still in the possession of the members of the family. The following are specimens:

"Sent a letter on 19th of Second-month from Belfast Lough, in Ireland, by the Nepten Brigeteen, bound for Liverpool, and come from Barbadoes."

"Jonathan Heacock, Second-month 27, direct for Joseph Heacock at Jonathan Harrison's, in Trione Corte, Red Lyon street, Spittalfields, London." "Sent a letter on 20 instant from Ireland to Staffordshire."

"Jonathan Heacock and Ann, his wife, went on board the Three Sisters the 13th of Third-month, 1710, bound to Belfast, in Ireland, the 14th inst. Left Ireland the 23d, and came to Loughrane, Scotland, on the same day, about 1 o'clock in the afternoon. Sailed from thence 26th at 1 o'clock in the morning."

As appears also from accounts kept with individuals, he was a dealer in or purchaser of wool, and manufactured worsted, drugget, taminy, &c. At first he rented, but afterwards purchased a tract of land in Marple township, then Chester county, upon which he settled. The following are the children of Jonathan and Ann as we find their names entered in an old Bible now in possession of one of the family:

SECOND GENERATION.

Mary, born 26th of Third-month, 1712; married Robert Penrose; died Third-month 21, 1795. John, born 23d of Ninthmonth, 1713; married Sarah Taylor; died Eleventh-month 13, 1794. Jonathan, born Third-month 10, 1715; married Susannah Morgan; died Second-month 16, 1765. William, born