[Ancestor] Hurst

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Husband [Ancestor] Hurst

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            AKA: [Ancestor] Hirst
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1 M Nathaniel Hurst ¹

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General Notes: Husband - [Ancestor] Hurst

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Between Buckingham mountain and the Wrightstown line lay two tracts of land of one thousand acres each which were patented to John Reynolds and Edward West, respectively, neither of whom ever settled on the land or made any claim to it. On these tracts in the first part of the eighteenth century settled sons of the earlier settlers of the community and a number of Scotch-Irish emigrants, who improved the land, and later they or the representatives of those that died thereon, sold the "Improvement," and in most cases the title was acquired by "adverse possession," though some of the tracts were later confirmed by patent. Among those early settlers was John Hirst, as the name was then spelled, who was supposed to have been a native of England, and was of English or possibly Scotch-Irish origin. He died in Buckingham about 1754, and his widow, Ann Hirst, administered on his estate and sold the "Improvement" and his personal estate. On December 11, 1754, she petitioned the Orphans' court of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, setting forth these facts, and asked that auditors be appointed to pass upon and settle her accounts of administration. She also states that the decedent left "divers children who are under the age of twenty-one years," and asked that guardians be appointed for them so that the distribution of the estate might be made. She then gave the names and ages of the children, as follows:
"Nancy Hirst was 21 on ye 28th day of July, 1754."
"Betty Hirst was 20 on ye 4th day of October, 1754."
"John Hirst was 18 on ye 31st day of August, 1754."
"William Hirst was 14 on ye 5th day of October, 1754."
"Sarah Hirst was 12 on ye 5th day of February, 1754."
"Richard Hirst was 10 on ye 10th day of March, 1754."
"Judah Hirst was 7 on ye 17th day of May, 1754."
The Improvement was sold for one hundred and fifty-four pounds and ten schillings, and must therefore have been of considerable acreage. The balance shown by the account was two hundred and forty-eight pounds, eleven shillings and two pence, but no distribution appears of record, therefore there is nothing to show who the children were who were already of age in 1754. Of the above named family John and William Hirst settled in Solebury; in 1760 John Hirst married Mary Heston, daughter of Zebulon Heston, of Wrightstown, having applied for membership at Buckingham Friends Meeting in 1759. Their children were: John, Rebeckah, Sarah, Jesse, David and Ann. They left Bucks County about 1774. William, the other brother, married Ann Thomas, April 25, 1761; he was a blacksmith by trade.

1 John W. Jordan, History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Genealogical Memoirs, Vol. II (Chicago, IL: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1906), Pg 161.