Thomas Stackhouse, Sr.

Had a plantation on Neshaminy Creek in Middletown Township, Pennsylvania.

Thomas Stackhouse and wife Margery (Hayhurst) and 2nd Margaret

arrived in the Welcome, 1682, and settled on 312 acres on the Neshaminy, where Langhorne stands. He was born at Stackhouse, Yorkshire, 1635. His wife, a Heahurst, dying 11 mo. 15, 1682, he married Margaret, Christopher Atkinson's widow, 1 mo. 1702, and removed to Bensalem where he died 1706, without descendants.

The Stackhouses of Bucks are descended from Thomas and John, nephews of the Welcome immigrant, who came over prior to 1685. Thomas married Grace Heaton, daughter of Robert and Alice, of Middletown Meeting, 7 mo. 27, 1688; second wife Ann, widow of Edward Mayos, 1 mo. 1, and third wife Dorothy, widow of Zebulon Heston, Wrightstown. Thomas Stackhouse was the father of fourteen children and died 4 mo. 26, 1744. John Stackhouse married Elizabeth Pearson or Pierson, 7 mo. 1702, and had nine children. She died 1743 and he, 1757, and both were buried at Middletown. The children of Thomas and John Stackhouse, in the first generation intermarried with the families of Clark, Stone, Wilson, Longshore, Copeland, Gilbert, Watson, Plumley, Cary, Haring, Janney, Mitchell, Stephenson, Tomlinson and others and their descendants are almost legion.