Robert Lucas (abt. 1630 - 1688)

Born about 1630 in Longbridge Deverill, Wiltshire, England

Descendants

Died 1688 at about age 58 in Bucks, Pennsylvania

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Biography

Robert was a Friend (Quaker)

Robert Lucas was born circa 1630, a son of David Lucas and Amanda (Mehan) Lucas of Wilshire, England, In 1651, Robert married Elizabeth Coggill (aka Cowgill) and lived in Longbridge, Deverill, just south of Warminster, Wilshire. In 167, he embarked on the ship "Elizabeth & Mary" out of Weymouth and emigrated to Bucks county, in William Penn's colony. In the next year, his wife with their eight children took ship in the "Content" out of London and followed him to America.

Robert was a surveyor whose farm lay along Falls River in Bucks county. He became a member of the first Assembly called in Pennsylvania, serving from 1683-85 and again from 1687-88. He died in the latter year.

The Robert Lucas home in Falls Township, Bucks County, descended in the family of a great granddaughter, Elizabeth Lucas (born 1740) who married a Lovett. Lovetts occupied it until the early 1900s, when it was demolished to make way for a development.

Two of Robert's sons married sisters, daughters of Benjamin Scott of Burlington, New Jersey, just across the Delaware River. Robert Lucas, Jr. who died in 1703, married Elizabeth Scott, in 1681. Edward Lucas, the sixth of Robert's eight children, was supervisor of Falls Township and a member of that Friends Monthly Meeting (Quakers) for thirteen years. Edward married Bridgett Scott on July 8, 1700. There was a sister Rebecca Lucas who never married.

Researcher's Notes

Frederica Holmes Trapnell, genealogist whose biography of the Lucas family was published by Jefferson county, West Virginia Historical Society states that this Robert Lucas is the brother of Susannah Lucas, who married John Rush on the 8th of June 1648 at Hortun, Oxfordshire, England. If that is the case, then the parents of Lucas-178 are incorrect.

Sources

• Biography from Jefferson County Historical Society (WV) Magazine, December 31, 1994, Dr. John E. Stealey, III, editor, Article, "Some Lucases of Jefferson County," by Frederica Holmes Trapnell, page 17
• William Howard Hauser Genealogy
• Janet and Robert Wolfe Genealogy

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to William Hauser for starting this profile.