Joseph Hough ^{1 2}

   FamilySearch ID: LCPT-V63.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Residence: in Lower Makefield Twp., Bucks, PA. ¹

2. Book: Pennsylvania Genealogies, 1896. ¹
Mr. Bucher [George Horter Bucher] was twice married; m., first, October 15, 1822, Rebecca Pool, of Harrisburg, who d. June 19, 1829, s. p.; m., secondly, May 19, 1831, Hannah Hough, b. April 15, 1811; dau. Of Joseph Hough,* of Bainbridge, Lancaster county, Pa.

*Joseph Hough was a descendant of Richard Hough, or Mackelsfield, Chester, England, who arrived in the province of August, 1683, and settled in Lower Makefield, Bucks county. He married Mary Ann, daughter of John Clows, the same year. He represented Bucks county in the General Assembly, and was drowned in 1705 on his way down the Delaware river to take his seat, in Philadelphia. When William Penn heard of it he wrote to James Logan "I lament the loss of Honest Richard Hough, such men must needs be wanted." The family is of Roman-French descent and of great antiquity. - Davis' History of Bucks County.

3. Book: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1905. ²
The Houghs, New Britain, connected with the Mathiases by marriage, were descended from Richard, whose son Joseph married Elizabeth West. Her parents were early settlers in Warwick, and she was a sister of Joseph Mathias's grandmother on the maternal side. Joseph and Elizabeth Hough had sons Richard, Joseph, and John and seven daughters. The late General Joseph Hough, Point Pleasant, was a descendant of Joseph the elder.

Joseph married Elizabeth West.