Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Brudon, James Madison
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Bristol Township


JAMES MADISON BRUDON retired merchant, P.O. Bristol, was 
born in the borough of Bristol, March 4, 1805.  His 
grandfather, Captain Joseph Brudon, was a native of Ireland, 
where he was married.  He came to Philadelphia prior to the 
revolution, and was one of the first to volunteer his 
services on the side of the patriots.  He was one of the 
twenty picked volunteers who formed the advance of the 
forlorn hope as it was called.  Of these twenty, seventeen 
were either killed or wounded.  Mr. Brudon was wounded in 
the jaw by a bullet.  He was elected captain and crossed the 
Delaware with Washington on the memorable night of the 25th 
of December, 1776.  He lost an eye at Trenton, and was shot 
in the leg at Princeton.  He drew a pension until his death, 
and also received a land grant in Ohio.  He was a very large 
man and stood six feet two inches in his stockings.  He died 
in Bristol at a ripe old age.  He and his wife, Bridget, 
were members of the Episcopal church.  They had five sons 
and two daughters:  Mary, who married Enos Wright; William, 
who married Elizabeth Van Hart, and was a farmer in Falls 
township, and died at the age of 95; John, who married a 
Miss Latt, and was a farmer of Bristol; Joseph; Thomas, who 
was a cooper and died unmarried; James, also a cooper, 
married a widow Winner; and Richard, a tailor and a 
bachelor.  Joseph Brudon was born in Bristol, August 15, 
1776, and died July 29, 1854.  He was married to Hannah 
Gosline, born in Bristol, March 24, 1782, and died April 7, 
1868. He learned the cooper's trade, which he followed a 
number of years.  He was in the war of 1812, was a great 
temperance man, and a member of the Methodist Episcopal 
church over fifty years.  His wife was also a member of this 
church.  She was a daughter of Richard and Rachel (Greene) 
Gosline, the latter a nieve of General Greene, of the 
revolutionary war. Richard Gosline was a property owner in 
Bristol.  He was imprisoned at Philadelphia while the 
English were in possession of the city.  Richard and Hannah 
Brudon had six sons and four daughters:  Mary, married 
Euclidus Stackhouse, November 20, 1827; James, married Sarah 
Osmond, November 20, 1828; Ann, married John Saudy, March 1, 
1832; Joanna Painter, married Jonathan Milnor, February 14, 
1839; Charles Tompkins, married Mary Ann Cook, December 26, 
1841; Elizabeth, married John Fisher; and John, who married 
Henrietta Appleton.  James Brudon, the second child and 
oldest son of Joseph, was educated in Bristol, learned the 
cooper's trade with his father, and was in partnership with 
him.  He married twice.  His first wife was Sarah Osborne, 
to whom he was married November 20, 1828.  She was born in 
Bristol, April 14, 1808, and was a daughter of Joseph and 
Hannah (Lott) Osborne.  She died December 26, 1860.  She was 
the mother of six sons and four daughters:  Mary A., wife of 
John Adams; Edward C. married Caroline Patterson; Joseph 
married Susannah Gordon; James Madison died unmarried; John 
Wesley died in infancy; William and Sarah, twins (William 
married twice, Rebecca Hibbs and Lydia Newton; Sarah married 
Charles Wollard); Lizzie L. married T. Watson Bewley, April 
7, 1869.  They had three children:  Mattie T., James and 
Eddie B.  Charles F. married Mary E. Jones, March 22, 1871.  
They have two children:  Tillie and May Belle; Hannah O. 
married John Force. James M. Brudon married for his second 
wife, Maria T. Bewley, February 11, 1863.  She was bon near 
Newtown, Bucks county, and was a daughter of Charles and 
Rebecca (Hellings) Bewley.  The result of this marriage was 
two children who died in infancy.  Mrs Brudon died April 16, 
1884.  James Brudon engaged in the mercantile business in 
1836, and retired in 1854, since which time he has been 
engaged in erecting buildings and looking after his 
property.  He has been chief burgess of Bristol two terms, 
and has been a member of the council thirty years.  He has 
the confidence and respect of all who know him.  He is now 
in his 82nd year, and enjoys good health.  In politics he is 
a democrat.  He has twenty grandchildren and eleven 
great-grandchildren.