4. Richard Lundy (Sylvester , Sylvester , Richard ) was born in England. He died about 1738 in Maiden Creek, PA.
Richard LUNDY, the first American ancestor of the subject of this sketch, was a son of Sylvester LUNDY, of Axminster, in thecounty of Devon, England, and came to Boston, Massachusetts in 6mo., 1776, "and from thence came to the Delaware River the 19thof the 3d mo., 1682." So says the ancient record in the quaintlittle tattered "Book of Arrivals" in the handwriting of PhineasPEMBERTON (the first clerk of the Bucks county courts), now inpossession of the Bucks County Historical society. The samevolume records the arrival in the Delaware river in "8th mo.,1683, in the ship Concord of London, the Master William JEFFRY,of Elizabeth BENNETT, daughter of William BENNETT ofHammondsworth, in the county of Middlesex (now deceased) and nowthe wife of the aforesaid Richard LUNDY." William BENNETT wasaccompanied to America by his wife Rebecca and daughtersElizabeth, before mentioned, Ann and Sarah. This book alsogives the record of the marriage of Richard LUNDY and ElizabethBENNETT, 6 mo. 24, 1684. Elizabeth survived her marriage butthree years, and was buried 6 mo.14, 1687. Still another entryin the old "Book of Arrivals" is interesting to the descendantsof Richard LUNDY, that which records the arrival of JamesHARRISON and the PEMBERTONs in the ship "Submission," on 5 mo.7, 1682, at Choptank, Maryland, and their subsequent tripoverland to Bucks county, detailed in this volume in a briefsketch of "The PEMBERTON Family," in which is given a list ofthe passengers on the ship "Submission." With the family ofJames HARRISON came Jane LYON, who was to serve in his familyfor four years to 9 mo. 2, 1686, and was then to receive fiftyacres of land. On 4 mo. 24, 1691, this Jane LYON became thesecond wife of Richard LUNDY, at Middletown Meeting of Friends.Jane was born in the year 1666, and was therefore sixteen yearsof age when she arrived in Pennsylvania, and twenty-five yearsold when she became the wife of Richard LUNDY. On 10 mo. 6th,1682-3 there was laid out to Richard LUNDY Two Hundred Acres inwhat is now Bristol Township, just west of the Manor ofPennsbury, which was patented to him 5 mo. 6th, 1684. 8 mo. 7th,1685, he exchanged this tract with Jacob TEINER for 1000 acresin what is now Buckingham, "back in the woods", as it isdescribed in the deed recorded at Doylestown under date of 2 mo.12th, 1688. It comprised all the land below the York road,eastward from the west line of Judge PAXSON's "Nonesuch" farm tothe village of Holicong, and extending to the top of Buckingham mountain.
Richard married Jane Lyon on 24 Jun 1691 in Falls Monthly Meeting. Jane was born Apr 1666 in England.
They had the following children:
+ 5 M i Richard II Lundy was born 20 Mar 1692 and died 28 Feb 1772.