First-month 13, 1717; married Ann Roberts; died Fourthmonth 12, 1800. Ann, born Twelfth-month 11, 1719; married James Morgan; died Twelfth-month 28, 1797. Joseph, born 31st of Third-month, 1722; married Hannah Massey; died Third-month, 1774.

The descent is next counted through William Heacock, the third son and fourth child, who was a millwright by trade, and settled in Rockhill township, Bucks county, and who married Ann Roberts, of that locality.

They were married according to the order of the Society of Friends, "with the approbation of Gwynedd Monthly Meeting." He purchased a tract of land, containing two hundred and forty-four acres, of the proprietaries, Thomas and Richard Penn, in the year 1739, and erected upon it a saw and oil mill, and near them a grist mill. The former two were said to have been erected about 1739, and at that time the oil mill was thought to be a great curiosity. William and Ann Heacock had nine children, as follows:

THIRD GENERATION.

Jeremiah, born 8th of Eighth-month, 1742; married Sarah Morgan; died First-month 1, 1797. William, born Thirdmonth 22, 1747; married Meriam Thomas; died Eighth-month, 1814. Ann, born Fourth-month 19, 1750; married Joseph Rawlings; died Eighth-month 28, 1823. Mary, born Fifthmonth 11, 1752 (N. S.); married Thomas Strawhen; died Third-month 14, 1770; Jesse, born Second-month 20, 1754; died 1763. Alice, born Second-month 7, 1756; married Henry Wilson and Josiah Dennis; died Fourth-month 22, 1835. Jane, born Second-month 11, 1758; married Amos Dennis; died Eleventh-month 20, 1815. Jonathan, born Fourth-month 11, 1760; married Hannah Davis; died Twelfthmonth 21, 1828. Jesse, born Second-month 16, 1763; married Tacy Thomson; died Ninth-month 30, 1841.

The descent continues through Jesse, the youngest son and child of William and Ann Heacock, who married Tacy, daughter of Jonah and Tacy Thomson, as above written, and

settled on the homestead in Rockhill. After his father's death he purchased the farm and mill.

At his own demise, which occurred in 1841, he left the property, as set forth by will, to his fourth son, Joel, he holding the same until his death, which took place in 1853. The property then descended by law to his only child, Joel Levi, who held it until 1866, when he sold all but eleven acres. children of Jesse and Tacy Heacock were as follows:

The

FOURTH GENERATION.

John, born Eighth-month 28, 1786, married Christiana Strawn, afterward Rachel Kelley; died Ninth-month 5, 1868. Jonah, born Second-month 18, 1788, married Abigail Warner; died Sixth-month 14, 1861. William, born First-month 19, 1790, married Lavinia Penrose; died Twelfth-month 7, 1877Ann, born Twelfth-month 27, 1791, married Samuel M. Foulke; died Eighth-month 1, 1885. Joel, born Third-month 26, 1794, married Abigail Roberts; died Third-month 19, 1853Margaret, born Third-month 27, 1796, married John Good, afterwards Jonathan Carr; died Second-month 15, 1884. Jesse T., born Sixth-month 12, 1798, married Elizabeth Reese; died Second-month 25, 1873. Joseph (our subject), born Eighthmonth 26, 1800, married Esther Hallowell; died Third-month 22, 1883. Enos, born Twelfth-month 20, 1802, married Sarah. Foulke; died First-month 21, 1882. Nathan, born Fourthmonth 27, 1806, married Eliza Hallowell; died Third-month. 15, 1879. Aaron, born Seventh-month 27, 1808, married Hannah M. Wood.

Joseph Heacock, as stated above, married Esther, daughter of John Hallowell, Twelfth-month 30, 1824. He was a blacksmith, and during the early part of his life conducted that business at the village of Jenkintown, but in 1842 went to farming and later settled on a thirty-acre farm at Chelten Hills station, on the North Pennsylvania railroad, where, as above stated, he died in 1883.

Joseph Heacock was an industrious, temperate man, always enjoying good health, and faithful in attendance at Abington

Friends' Meeting, where he belonged and where his remains are interred.

Joseph and Esther Heacock had eleven children born to them, as follows:

FIFTH GENERATION.

John, Eliza, Gayner, William, Edward, Elwood (who died in infancy), Annie, Jane, Martha, Joseph and Henry S. These have formed the following connections and are located, at this writing, as follows: John, the eldest, is intermarried with Kate Shaub and resides in Cheltenham township, near the Philadelphia line, on the North Pennsylvania railroad, where he has erected a neat dwelling.

To this modest record the author begs to add that he has known John Heacock intimately for many years as a very earnest anti-slavery and temperance advocate. He recalls the fact also that he was some time in the territory of Kansas, while the "Border Ruffians" were striving to make a slave state of it, and doubtless did good work for freedom while residing there. Also during the war was Superintendent of a plantation in South Carolina under General Saxton. At present he is engaged in collecting taxes and other claims; also as Superintendent of Broad and Columbia avenue market for ten years past. William is married to Julia A. Overholtzer, of Skippackville, and they reside in Philadelphia, where he is in business. Their children are recorded as follows: Esther, who died in her fifteenth year; Elwood, a clerk in the Girard Bank; and Alice, an adopted daughter. Edward was married to Jeanette Isabella Andrews, of Camden, Ohio, and they settled at St. Louis, Missouri. He is a carpenter by trade, and served three years and three months in the Union army. wife Jeanette has one child, Annie Minerva, and the mother died Eighth-month 10, 1868. Edward married a second wife, Helen N. Whitmore, Fifth-month 3, 1870, and they have had one son, Joseph.

His

Joseph married Elizabeth B. Walker, of Chester Valley, and they are settled on the homestead farm at Chelten Hills. They have had children as follows: Fannie and Mary B., who died in infancy; James, Esther, Priscilla and Edward R. Of Joseph

Heacock's remaining children, Eliza and Jane are living in Washington, D. C.; Gayner, Annie and Martha, at this writing, are residing at the family homestead keeping a select school. Henry S. is living at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.

THOMAS ATKINSON.

John Atkinson, the great-great-great-grandfather of Thomas Atkinson, left no record of himself or wife or children so far as known, except a certificate from Lancaster Monthly Meeting of Friends, England, dated 3-2, 1699, giving himself and family a favorable recommendation "to our Friends in ye Province of Pennsylvania."

On the voyage over John and his wife, Susanna, died, presumably of small-pox, and they were buried at sea.

There were probably other Friends from Lancaster Monthly Meeting on the way to Pennsylvania in company, who cared for the three orphan children: William, Mary and John.

The certificate mentioned was presented and read in Middletown Monthly Meeting, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 9-2, 1699, and the children were brought up under the care of this Meeting. John, the third child of the emigrant, was born 8-22, 1695, in England, and married Mary Smith, the daughter of William and Mary Smith, of Wrightstown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania. They were married at the house of Stephen Twining, in Newtown. After his marriage he bought two hundred acres of land in Makefield township-part of the London Company's tract. Soon after their marriage John and his wife settled down in the wilderness, and raised a family of six sons and two daughters.

At this time, one hundred and sixty-nine years after the date of the deed for the farm, over two-thirds of the tract is still owned and occupied by his descendants, and has never been out of the family or name.

Of John and Mary's eight children, Thomas, the great-grandfather of the subject of our sketch, was the third, having been

born 3-5, 1772. Eighth-month 8, 1744, he married Mary Wildman, a daughter of Jacob and Sarah Wildman. She was a preacher in the Society of Friends. Thomas died in 1760, and his son Thomas, born 8-19, 1751, was the one child who survived him. This Thomas married 3-10, 1779, Sarah Smith, a daughter of Timothy and Sarah Smith, at Buckingham Meeting House. They had seven children, of whom Jonathan, born 3-9, 1782, was the second. Thomas, the father, died 1-29, 1815, and Sarah, his widow, 10-19, 1830.

Jonathan Atkinson married, in 1807, Esther Smith, the daughter of Benjamin and Sarah Smith, of Buckingham. Jonathan died 11-7, 1852. Of their eight children four are living at the present time: Phoebe S., Thomas, Edward and Sarah.

Thomas Atkinson, the third child of his parents, was born at Wrightstown, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, on 1-23, 1813. He married, 2-11, 1836, Hannah, daughter of James and Margaret Quinby, of Amwell township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey.

The subject of this sketch was born on a farm, and at the usual age was apprenticed to a wheelwright at Newtown, and afterwards worked at his trade in Wrightstown, and at the village of Concord, in Buckingham township, at which place he began housekeeping, and his oldest child, Emma E., was born.

In 1838 he bought a farm on the Neshaminy, in Warwick township, which he worked very successfully, having greatly increased its fertility and productiveness, until 1849, when he removed with his family, now consisting of wife and five children, two daughters and three sons, as follows: Emma E., Mary Anna, James Q., Wilmer and Albert, to Upper Dublin township, Montgomery county, to a farm purchased of Edward Beans, being a part of the Shoemaker tract. Upper Dublin Friends Meeting was built on one corner of this farm, on land donated by Phoebe Shoemaker. Here, as in Warwick, he and his amiable and devoted wife set about improving their land, which was at the purchase somewhat run down, and soon brought it up to a high state of productiveness. Here they devoted their best energies to the rearing and education of