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Isaac Hough

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Isaac Hough

Birth
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Death
13 Apr 1786 (aged 59)
Warminster, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Southampton, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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ISAAC HOUGH removed to Warminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania where he was a considerable landowner. REVOLUTIONARY WAR: Isaac Hough and his sons joined the Warminster Company of Associaters the Second Batallion of Bucks County Militia, Colonel Dr. John Beatty, 1775; was on administrative committees appointed by the Bucks County Committee of Safety during the Revolution, 1776-1777. In July of 1776, Isaac Hough was appointed by the County Committee of Safety of the committee to distribute allowances to families in need whose husbands were in the military service [to feed their families] during the years of the Revolutionary War 1775 - 1783.

On August 29, 1777 led by Isaac Hough whom was appointed by the committee from Warminster to attend to the driving off of cattle he and sons Isaac Hough, Jr. and others, prevented the cattle prevent them from falling into the hands of the British.

Isaac Hough was a son of John Hough Sr., and Elizabeth Taylor. His father, John Hough, Sr. was a Justice of Bucks County's Courts. John Hough, Sr. was a son of Richard Hough the Emigrant from England who arrived on the ship Endeavor in 1683. Richard Hough seved as Provincial Councillor 1693 - 1700, and was a member of Assembly eight terms, between 1684 and 1704.

Isaac Hough and Edith Hart married 24th September 1748 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Edith Hart, born 14th May, 1727, died 27th March 1805, daughter of John Hart, Jr., High Sheriff, Coroner and Justice of the Court of Bucks County, by his wife, Eleanor Crispin Hart, daughter of Silas Crispin, first cousin of William Penn, Proprietary of Pennsylvania; she was granddaughter of Capt. Thomas Holme, of the Parlimentary Army, Surveyor - General of Pennsylvania, and sometime President of the Provincial Council; and of Capt. William Crispin, British Navy, Proprietary's Commissioner for settling the Colony in Pennsylvania; she was the sister of Colonel Joseph Hart, Lieutenant of Bucks County, Colonel Pennsylvania Militia, Chairman Bucks County Committee of Safety during the Revolutionary War, member Provincial Conference and of Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania.

Isaac Hough: Military Service in War of the Revolution and Genealogy Data: Pennsylvania Archives 5th Series, Volume 2, page 233 and page 346. Isaac Hough: Sons of the American Revolution #79742.

From 1691 until 1730 members met for worship in the homes of members until John Morris gave land for the meetinghouse which was built in 1731. Edith Hart Hough's father John Hart was one of the founders of the Southampton Baptist Church, Southampton, Pennsylvania. He was one of the first Deacons. Isaac and Edith Hough worshiped there and were baptized there. Upon death Isaac Hough and Edith Hart Hough were laid to rest in Southampton Baptist Church Cemetery which adjoins the church. It is the resting place of 24 Revolutionary War soldiers, 6 veterans of the French and Indian Wars.

Source: Colonial Families of the United States of America Volume 2, Page 373
Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Volume 3 by William H. Davis
ISAAC HOUGH removed to Warminster Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania where he was a considerable landowner. REVOLUTIONARY WAR: Isaac Hough and his sons joined the Warminster Company of Associaters the Second Batallion of Bucks County Militia, Colonel Dr. John Beatty, 1775; was on administrative committees appointed by the Bucks County Committee of Safety during the Revolution, 1776-1777. In July of 1776, Isaac Hough was appointed by the County Committee of Safety of the committee to distribute allowances to families in need whose husbands were in the military service [to feed their families] during the years of the Revolutionary War 1775 - 1783.

On August 29, 1777 led by Isaac Hough whom was appointed by the committee from Warminster to attend to the driving off of cattle he and sons Isaac Hough, Jr. and others, prevented the cattle prevent them from falling into the hands of the British.

Isaac Hough was a son of John Hough Sr., and Elizabeth Taylor. His father, John Hough, Sr. was a Justice of Bucks County's Courts. John Hough, Sr. was a son of Richard Hough the Emigrant from England who arrived on the ship Endeavor in 1683. Richard Hough seved as Provincial Councillor 1693 - 1700, and was a member of Assembly eight terms, between 1684 and 1704.

Isaac Hough and Edith Hart married 24th September 1748 in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Edith Hart, born 14th May, 1727, died 27th March 1805, daughter of John Hart, Jr., High Sheriff, Coroner and Justice of the Court of Bucks County, by his wife, Eleanor Crispin Hart, daughter of Silas Crispin, first cousin of William Penn, Proprietary of Pennsylvania; she was granddaughter of Capt. Thomas Holme, of the Parlimentary Army, Surveyor - General of Pennsylvania, and sometime President of the Provincial Council; and of Capt. William Crispin, British Navy, Proprietary's Commissioner for settling the Colony in Pennsylvania; she was the sister of Colonel Joseph Hart, Lieutenant of Bucks County, Colonel Pennsylvania Militia, Chairman Bucks County Committee of Safety during the Revolutionary War, member Provincial Conference and of Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania.

Isaac Hough: Military Service in War of the Revolution and Genealogy Data: Pennsylvania Archives 5th Series, Volume 2, page 233 and page 346. Isaac Hough: Sons of the American Revolution #79742.

From 1691 until 1730 members met for worship in the homes of members until John Morris gave land for the meetinghouse which was built in 1731. Edith Hart Hough's father John Hart was one of the founders of the Southampton Baptist Church, Southampton, Pennsylvania. He was one of the first Deacons. Isaac and Edith Hough worshiped there and were baptized there. Upon death Isaac Hough and Edith Hart Hough were laid to rest in Southampton Baptist Church Cemetery which adjoins the church. It is the resting place of 24 Revolutionary War soldiers, 6 veterans of the French and Indian Wars.

Source: Colonial Families of the United States of America Volume 2, Page 373
Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Volume 3 by William H. Davis


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