History of Bucks
County, Pa Volume 3 by William H. Davis
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MATTHIAS H. HALL MATTHIAS H. HALL. Third son of Mahlon and Isabella
(ROBINSON) HALL was born in Doylestown Township, Bucks
county, Pennsylvania, April 29, 1844. He was
reared to the life of a farmer and acquired his education at the public schools of that
vicinity. His whole life has been devoted to
agricultural pursuits in the county of his birth. The
following spring after his marriage he began farming for himself in Wrightstown township,
and after five years; residence there he removed to Upper Makefield, and in 1883 purchased
his present farm in that township, on the line of Wrightstown, near the site of the
historic Indian village of Playwicky, where he has since resided. While conforming to the tenets of the Society of
Friends, in which faith his paternal ancestors were reared, he is not a member of the
society. Though deeply interested in the
affairs of his county, state and nation, he has taken little part in partisan politics. He is an active member of the Bucks county
historical Society, and a regular attendant of its meetings. He recently contributed a valuable paper to its
archives on the local history and folk-lore of his locality, so rich in historic interest
as the border line between the original settlement of the pioneers of Penn’s colony
in America and the land taken up by their descendants and the later arrivals. He married, November 18, 1874, Sarah WIGGINS, daughter of Jesse and Margaret (HAMPTON) WIGGINS,
of Wrightstown. She is a descendant of
Benjamin WIGGINS, one of the earliest settlers
in the locality in which she lives, and who is said to have, come thence from New England. He married in 1708, Susan JENKS, widow of Thomas JENKS, of Shropshire, England, on the borders of
Wales, who came into Bucks county with her infant son Thomas, about 1700, and is the
ancestress of the prominent family of that name in Bucks county. By her second marriage with Benjamin WIGGINS she had one son, Benzaleel WIGGINS, born in 1709, from whom the prominent
family of that name as well as numerous others of Wrightstown, Buckingham, Solebury and
Makefield are descended. The pioneer maternal
ancestor of Mrs. HALL was John HAMPTON, of Ephingstoun, East Lothian, Scotland,
who purchased land at Amboy Point, East Jersey, November 23, 1682, and later settled at
Freehold, New Jersey, where he died in February, 1702-3, leaving sons: John, Joseph,
Andrew, David, Jonathan and Noah. Joseph HAMPTON, his son by a second marriage with Jane OGBURN, widow of John OGBURN, and mother of Sarah OGBURN, wife of Edmund KINSEY, was one of the first ministers among
Friends of Buckingham. Jane was four times
married and came to Buckingham about 1720, then the widow SHARP, and died there in 1731. Joseph HAMPTON
either accompanied or preceded his mother to Bucks county and located in Wrightstown. He married Mary, daughter of Thomas CANBY and has left numerous descendants. He died in 1767, leaving two sons, John and
Benjamin, and three daughters. The children
of Matthias H. and Sarah (WIGGINS) HALL are: Frances, Margaret, Hanna, Jesse, and
Emma, all of whom reside with their parents. Test taken from page
149-150 of: Davis, William W. H.,
A.M., History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania [New York-Chicago: The Lewis Publishing
Company, 1905] Volume III Transcribed February 2001
by Joan Lollis of IN. as part of the Bucks Co., Pa., Early Family
Project, www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/bucksindex.html Published March 2001 on
the Bucks County, Pa., USGenWeb pages at www.rootsweb.com/~pabucks/ |
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