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Date Posted: 14:34:45 08/22/04 Sun
In reply to:
Linda
's message, "Re: Your HOUGH lineage chart posted on this site" on 06:04:25 06/18/04 Fri
>>Your lineage chart is incorrect as to Richard Hough's
>>parents. For one thing, his father would have been 65
>>and his mother 62, when Richard was born. The claimed
>>parents, Edward and Ann were actually the parents of
>>another Hough, William, who came to Boston prior to
>>tThe life of Richard Hough, the Emigrant from Cheshire, England, has been so thoroughly covered by such historians as Oliver Hough in his article, "Richard Hough, Provincial Councillor," published in Pa. Mag. V. 18, pages 20-34, and Davis in "History of Bucks County, Pa.," V. 3, pages 5-15, that only a capsule outline will be included here.
Richard Hough, the progenitor of this family, part of which became so closely associated with the early days of Loudoun County, Virginia, was born about 1650 in Macclesfield in the eastern part of County Chester, or Cheshire in England. He was a descendant of a long line of Houghs in Cheshire to the middle of the 13th Century, through the precise connection becomes muddy between about 1600 and 1650.
Richard, and other Quaker members of the Congleton Monthly Meeting, came to America to occupy land granted them by the Proprietary, William Penn. He arrived in Philadelphia on the ship "Endeavor" in September 29, 1683, taking two tracts of land along the Delaware River above the Falls.
On March 17, 1684, he married Margery Clows at the house of John Clows, the first to be recorded by Falls Meeting. Margery, too, had come from Cheshire on the "Endeavor" with her parents, John and Margery Clows, and a brother and sister.
He built a stone house from rock quarried on his land, on the lower tract, in Makefield Township, just above Falls, and became active in the life of the colony. He represented Bucks Co. in vincial Assembly 1693 and 1700.
Richard died by drowning in the Delaware going to Philadelphia March 25, 1705. His will dated May 1, 1704, proved - - (not included here) - - gave his eldest son Richard the lower tract, son John, the upper tract, and son Joseph his land (acquired from John Clows) on the Neshaminy.
There were nine emigrants of the name who came to America and settled in Pennsylvania about 1683. Probably the first of these was Richard Hough, who came from Cheshire, England, and settled at Yardley, In Bucks County, Pa. in 1683. He was married in 1684 to Margery, daughter of John Clowes, and had issue by her of Mary, Sarah, Richard, John, and Joseph. Of the three sons of the emigrant Richard, Richard was the father by his first wife Hester, daughter of Henry Baker and widow of Thomas Yardley and William Brown, of a son named Richard who died in infancy, as well as by his second wife Deborah, widow of John Gumley, of William, Deborah, Margery, Henry, and Mary. John married Elizabeth, daughter of Philip Taylor, In 1718 and was the father by her of John, Joseph, Benjamin, Isaac, William, Thomas, Septimus, Elizabeth, Bernard, Martha, and Samuel; and Joseph married Elizabeth, daughter of Nathaniel West, in 1725 and was the father by her of Sarah, Martha, Mary Rebecca, Joseph, John, Margery, Elizabeth, and Hannah.
Richard's , arrived from Hough, England(near Nantwich), at Philadelphia on "Friendship of Liverpool." The brothers (John and Richard) were a part of William Penn's colony, which was begun in 1682. Also, in 1683, a Francis Hough, a Samuel Hough, Thomas and Michael Hough--all from the vicinity of Hough, England, settled in Bucks Co., Penn.
he founding of PA and founded a Dynasty of Houghs in
>>CT. Do ask for free help on your line by writing the
>>editor of the HUFF/HOUGH/HOFF Genealogy Journal at
>>www.maxhuff.com
>
>The information on the Hough family was sent to me by
>a Hough Decendant. I do not verify Genealogy unless it
>affects my direct family. I will pass on your views to
>the person that sent the information
>"The Rosemom"
>>
>>Among other things, you will learn that the parents of
>>Richard, of PA, are still unknown, but that you do
>>have much information that is correct.
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