An American Family History

Joseph Lupton married Mercy Twining on July 10, 1713 in Langhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

They settled in Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania and their first four children were born there. Their births were recorded in the Middletown Monthly Meeting minutes where they were members.

Joseph was a weaver.

William Lupton was born March 14, 1713/14.

Sarah Lupton Pickering was born June 22, 1716.

Joseph Lupton was born January 5, 1718.

Elizabeth Lupton Paxson was born February 28, 1721.

John Lupton was born on March 4, 1725.

About the time John was born, they moved to Solebury, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. In December, 1725, the certificate from the Middletown Meeting to Buckingham Monthly Meeting for Joseph Lupton and Nathaniel Twining and their wives was read and accepted.

Mercy died on May 25, 1726.

In 1730, Joseph married Mary Scarborough Pickering.

1730, 6 mo 4, Joseph Lupton and Mary Pickering. widow, declare their intention of marriage.

Mary was the widow of Samuel Pickering and already had five children. Eventually two of Mary's children married two of Joseph's.

Ann Lupton Thompson was born in 1733.

Mercy Lupton McCormick Haines was born in 1734.

Jonathan Lupton was born December 1, 1739.

In 1740, Joseph was granted land just west of Winchester in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. The land centered around the area known as Round Hill. He spent the winter of 1740-41 camping on the land with his son, John. The family moved to there in 1741. It was then part of Orange County, Virginia.

1741, 2 mo 6. Joseph Lupton requests certificate for himself, wife, and family to move to Hopewell. John Dawson and Thos. Canby Jr. to inquire.

1741, 3 mo 4. Report favorable to Joseph Lupton and his son Joseph; they also give a certificate.

In Frederick County they were members of the Hopewell and Crooked Run Monthly Meeting.

Joseph, Sr. died on August 9, 1758.

The Lupton children in Frederick County split into two branches. The Quaker branch started with David Lupton, the son of Joseph and Rachael Lupton. The Quakers lived along Apple Pie Ridge Road.

John started the Presbyterian branch of the Lupton family and they lived near Round Hill Presbyterian Church.

In 1782, only John and Jonathan appeared in the census of Frederick County.

Apple Pie Ridge Road is in Frederick County, Virginia. In 1751 Quaker families settled along Ridge Road. The road became known as Apple Pie Ridge Road when Hessian soldiers, captured during the revolution, would go to the ridge to eat the apple pies baked by the Quakers.

Culpeper County, Virginia was established in 1749 from Orange County.

Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn in 1684. It is north of Philadelphia and just west of Trenton, New Jersey.

Round Hill is an unincorporated community in Frederick County, Virginia just west of Winchester.