Henry Huddleston Sr.

  General Notes:

Henry Huddleston, Sr. was born about 1660-65, probably in England, maybe the son of Richard. He was an early settler in Pennsylvania, though he was not a Quaker. Henry evidently left England during the reign of Catholic King James II, who Persecuted protestants until the Glorious Revolution of 1688, when he was overthrown by the people and William & Mary were given the throne.
In 1682 William Perm led a group of Quakers from England and built Philadelphia. Bucks County was one of the 3 original counties established in 1682. Many of the Quakers who had come over with Perm on the Welcome had migrated from Buckinghamshire. Six years later, the first trace of Henry is Dec. 23,16S8 when he received a deed to 100 acres land at Four Lanes
End (now Langhome, about 8 miles west of Trenton, NJ and about 25 miles northeast of Philadelphia) in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Langhome began in the 17th century as a crossroads called Four Lanes End. The road from Bristol to Durham intersected with the road between Philadelphia and Trenton at the center of the village. Henry served on a jury in 1689,1690, and 1693.
In 1701 he was married in Langhorn, Pa. to Elizabeth Cooper (daughter of William Cooper/Cowper who came from Snapt, Low Ellington, Yorkshire. England in 1699, just 2 years before his daughter married Henry Huddleston). She was a Quaker; Henry was not.
They lived in Bucks Co., Pa. where in 1704 Henry built a house in Langhome, Bucks Co, Pa, which is still occupied today. (The Langhome Hotel was also built in 1704.) He died in 1706, leaving Elizabeth with 3 small children (William 4, Elizabeth 2, & Hemy It.. unborn). His father-in-law, William Cooper, was the executor of his estate.

Henry married Elizabeth Cooper, daughter of William Cooper Jr. and Thomasine Porter, in 1701 in Pennsylvania. (Elizabeth Cooper was born about 1673 in Yorkshire, England and died in 1720 in Bucks Co. PA..)