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w XYZ Simultaneous with their arrival be¬ gan the I organization of the Presby¬ terian church, and frequently of i [schools in connection therewith. The [early records furnish abundant evi- jdence of their zeal, the purity of their | (lives, and their earnest effort to foster ! tin the minds of the young a‘reverence (for Divine teachings, and a due respect ■for our peculiar institutions. Their (piety, and their rigid enforcement of law and order in their section .stands out in strong contrast with the lawless¬ ness of the frontier settlements of later days. In writing anything like an authentic and connected history of the early Scotch-Irish settlers of America, the historian will find the way beset with difficulties. Unlike his Quaker contem¬ porary, who was most careful and | painstaking in such matters, the early Some of the Early Settlers Scotch-Irishman appears to have re¬ garded the preservation of family data ‘ in Bucks County. as of minor importance, and the rec- ! ords of the early churches have either (been lost or appropriated by the de¬ A Paper by Warren S. Ely, Read Before scendants of the former custodians. The information in reference to this the Bucks County Historical Society, at race must therefore be largely sought in the county records and the archives Its Midsummer Meeting, at Langhorne, of the State, with some little help from August 9th, 1898. the tombstone inscriptions in the old Presbyterian graveyards. ! Full justice has probably never been Prior to 1720 very few of the race had (done the Scotc-h-Irish race for the part jcome to America, but in that year ap- jpeared the vanguard of that great they played in the founding of our army of Ulster Scots, with their rugged great Commonwealth. The history of and aggressive qualiicies, nurtured the English Quaker, the Welsh Baptist, amid the adverse conditions of the j | the Swede, the German and Palatine, the English policy in church and State, who were destined to have such an im¬ (French Huegenot, has been fully writ¬ portant influence in the formation of ten, and their influence on our common our coming State and Nation. 'institutions fully credited, but little or They came in such increasing num¬ nothing has been said of this one of the bers that in 1729 , the great Secretary and mouthpiece of the most important and dominant forces in ProprietaryGovernment became alarm¬ |the formation of our composite Nation- ed. It looks he said as if “Ireland is to jal character. send all her inhabitants to this Prov¬ : It is not our object in this brief sketch ince,” and he feared they would make themselves master of it. The same dis¬ to go generally into the history of this trust of this yet untried element in [race in our county or country. The part Penn's “” was large- : 'they took in its settlement and the es¬ ly shared by the prominent people of ; the Province for many years. When, [ tablishment of a local self-government however, it became necessary to. raise j in accordance with Penn’s “Holy Ex¬ troops and formulate plans for the de- | periment,” but too briefly touch upon fence of our frontiers from the ravages [ their national characteristics, and the of the savage hordes, instigated by a National, enemy, it became very ap¬ | influence they exerted upon the com¬ parent that the Quaker, the hitherto munity. And follow tins with a brief dominant element in politics coulci not account of some of the early settlers j be relied upon as a Legislator. The and their immediate descendants. Scotch-Irish on the other hand had cheerfully responded to the call for Hardy, active, aggressive, intelligent, troops, and had in every way upheld keenly alive to the necessity of estab¬ the hands of the executive in this try¬ lishing a colony where perfect freedom ing time. Then it was that their intel¬ of conscience in the matter of religious ligence, courage and patriotism began faith could be enjoyed, yet almost fa¬ to receive proper recognition and that ! natically attached to their own re¬ they took their place shoulder to should- j ligious tenets, those of the Presbyterian i ler with men of all other nationalities [ kirk of Scotland, they formed an im¬ in the upholding and maintenance of portant adjunct to the peace-loving lour grand Commonwealth. The promi- Quaker and phlegmatic German in the Inent part played by the Scotch-Irish formation of our National character, (in the Revolution is well known. It is and in the preparation of the somewhat no detraction from the services render¬ conglomerate elements in our early ed by others to say that this race, and population for the burdens and respon¬ especially in this section, was the domi¬ sibilities of self-government. nant force in that movement; so mark- / 2

ed was their prominence therein that of their "atTTYhJ' irom th an English officer writing home in 1778 manyfof them being persons of somi designates the struggle then being what limited means, and accustomed waged for freedom, as “an Irish-Scotch the Feudal system in their native cou -Presbyterian Rebellion.’’ try, very few of them took a'ifee simp The principal gateways of the Scotch- title to their lands at first but took u Irish ‘'Invasion’’ before referred to considerable tracts of land on a leas< were Philadelphia and Newcastle, from hold with a title to the improvement: which points they radiated into the though by 1730 many of them had be-' counties of Chester, Bucks and Lancas¬ come quite extensive landholders. ter, and later from these localities, aug¬ Among the earliest arrivals were the mented by later arrivals into York and families of Craig. Jamison, Baird, Stew¬ Cumberland and the section west of art, Hair, Long, Weir, Armstrong, Gray, the Susquehanna. Graham r Graeme, Wallace and others. There is no doubt that one of the Warwick seems to have been the earliest settlements of the race was natural entre of the settlement, and within the borders of our county, and while so.ne of the settlers there early; that this was to a great extent the associated themselves with the Presby-' threshold from whence this sturdy ad¬ terian churches of Bensalem and Ab- venturous race sent forth its sons into ington, a church organization was evi¬ the then untried wilderness of our pres¬ dently effected at Neshaminy in 1726, at ent Northern and Central counties the site of the present Neshaminy where they achieved a na.me to which i church, and near the site of th? famous their descendants refer "with pride: at a still later period peopling the valleys “Log College.” of Virginia, the Cumberland Valley, William Miller, Senior, and his wile I Kentucky, Ohio and the Northwest, | Isabel, born in Scotland} in 1671 and Tennessee and portions of the South. I 1670 respectively, with three sons, Will-' We know that many of the earliest ar¬ j iam, Robert and Hugh, and at least rivals found homes in Bucks. In 1728 was ] two sons-in-law, Andrew Long and made the settlement knotvn as‘‘Craig's’’ John Earle, were among the earliest or the “Irish Settlement,” in the upper arrivals in the county. The date of part of what was then Bucks, but their arrival could not have been much, which, in 1752, became Northampton if any, later than 1720. as upon the rec¬ county. Among the original settlers be¬ ords of Abington Presbyterian Church ing Colonel Thomas Craig, William and is the following entry: “Margaret, James Craig, John Boyd, Hugh Wilson, daughter of Andrew Long,*' baptised* Nigel Gray, with the Lattimores, Horn¬ August ye 4th, 1722.” And agairPon the’ ers, Armstrongs, Wallaces Kerrs, records of Bensalem Church are the’ Greggs and others. There is little doubt following items, immediately following that this settlement was an off shoot each other: “October ye 2d, 1725, An-- from the settlement at Neshaminy. drew Long and Ezabel, his wife, had a Most of these people were closely allied daughter baptised, named Ezabel,” and j by kinship with those at Neshaminy, "John jjarle and Margaret, his wife, Col. Thomas Craig being a brother of had a daughter baptised, named Mary.” Daniel Craig, of Warrington, and a John Earle is mentioned as a land own¬ brother-in-law to Elders John Gray er on a draft of - Plumsteadi'township, and Richard Walker, of the same plade, I made March 11. 1724, and he and a the latter having married his sisters. j Thomas Earle were among? the peti- The Creightons, Millers and Jamisons, ! tioners for the organization of the of Neshaminy, were also connections of township in March. 1725, but* it is im¬ the Craigs. Col. Thomas Craig owned probable that he ever was a resident of a large plantation in Warrington for the township. Another item appearing many years after his settlement in on the records of Bensalem Church is Northampton, which he conveyed to this: ‘‘George Hare and his wife had a James Barclay on the marriage of the son baptised, named Benjamin, S-mo latter to his niece, Margaret, the ye 1st day, 1724.” This George Hare daughter of his brother Daniel; he also was one of the trustees mentioned in had a son Thomas, who married a the trust deed for the purchase of land Mary Wright and settled in New Brit¬ by the “New Lights in 1744, and died ain township, where he died in 1746. in 1769, leaving a legacy of 21 £, for the The neighborhood of Deep Run, in j "support of the Gospel at the new Plumstead and New Britain townships, meeting house at T-Ieshaminy, and was settled by many of the Scotch- makes his son Benjamin executor. In Irish as well as a portion of Tinicum 1756, the will of his son directs that and Bedminster, but far the most im¬ “Father be provided for;” this will also portant settlement in Bucks, and we mentions the Benjamin whose baptism | believe in the influences, religious, edu¬ , was above recorded, who died in 1S04, 1 cational and otherwise, vhich flowed - “aged about 80 years;” William Hare from it, one of the most notable in the devises S£ “for the support of the Gos¬ country, was the one made at he forks pel ministry at Neshaminy where Rev. of the Neshammy, with Warwick for Charles Beatty preaches.” On the list its centre. ■ of “Ye names of those yt have joyned j In 1726 there was already quite a set¬ with our Communion” at Bensalem, are | tlement of Scotch-Irish in Warwick, Henry Jamison and Jeanne, his wife, | Warrington, 'Warminster and North- and Robert Pock and Elizar, hjs wife, . amptvii, with a scattering representa¬ both earlv settlers at Neshaminy. tion of the same Nationality in Buck¬ In March, 1726, William Miller Sr., , ingham. Newtown, the Makefields and purchased from Jeremiah Langhorn! New Britain. and Joseph Kirkbride, some 400 acres I It is impossible to fix he exact date of land in Warwick, put of which he at orice'dFdicated a corner, about an acre, w nua•. Wilt j to the use of a church and graveyard, was Margaret Graham a niece of Elder i and ifi^'his wills, two of which being on John Gray, of Warrington, and either file in the office of the Register of Wills a sister or daughter of David Graham at Doylestown. specifically recites the who removed from Horsham to Tini- dedication and confirms it to the use of cum township, about 1750; Hugh who "Ye Congregation” forever. This tract died single in 1758-9 was a lieutenant comprises the present burying ground. in the provincial service in 1747 He The humble church building that once owned a tract of land at the time of stood there has long since disappeared his death a part of which is now in- and all that remains of it is a stone in cluded in the borough of Doylestown. the graveyard wall bearing the date The daughters of William Miller were 172T, and the initials "W. M.” and “W. Isabel, wife of Andrew Long; Marga¬ G.” The W. M. beyond doubt are the ret wife of John Earle, of Warminster, initials of William Miller; it is not before referred to and whose courteous known to whom the "W. G” refers, but qualities seemed to be vouched for by this ancient relic has suggested the the title “Gentleman John Earle” by theory that William Miller and the per¬ i which he was generally known, and son designated by the letters W. G. [Mary, the wife of James Curry, of may have been the first elders of the whom little is known, except that it church. This idea is somewhat sup¬ would seem that he lived in New Jer- ported by the fact that the published sey at the time of her father’s death in record of the eldership and other offi¬ cers of the church seem all to date William_Miller, Junior, as he was from 1743, the time of the division be- generally known7~became^a la&e Tafd twen the old and new light parties in owner m Bucks county. He owned and the church, those named being of the Tennent or New Light party, while William Miller remained with the “Old Light” party at the old church under |S5,nf n-r & 5S2S? JzTk the ministration of the Rev. Francis ^hich he was involved it would seem McHenry, to whom he refers in one of He died inTsfi* a litig'ious tendency. his wills as his “trusted and well be¬ 7 \ ,a 111 possessed of a eon^M loved friend” and made him one of the erable estate. His children and grant' executors. childien intermarried with the Ker-- William Miller was a leading man in the community, as is evidenced by his oCfrSir Scotch-Irfsh^anrflfesf donation to the church. He and his sons were evidently people of education and refinement. His eldest son, Will¬ iam, was one of the finest penmen of his time. It is not known that William Miller, Sr., served his township or county in any public capacity other than as a member of the grand jury at different times, and as Commissioner of Highways for a few years. In this connection it may be stated that the county officers from the earliest days to nearly the date of the Revolution , were monopolized by the and 4, v ° reL> bis wife, conveyed tn hie it was only within a few years of the Robert Miller’s children,after thefr date of the Revolution that a Scotch- ' the n1 S dea.th "being for some years in Irishman was elected to any office in ; the possession of the said Robert Mil the gift of the people of the county. ler but for which no conveyance had Richard Walker was elected to the pro¬ ever been made. This David £ nth ad vincial assembly in 1747, being the first was probably the father of Mrs RobeS and only one of his race to represent his county in that body, prior to 1760. bellerwhoR°hert left four 'bfidrem lseart He was re-elceted continuously until Wallace of 'wf® • 4£e. wife af James 1759, and the following year was suc¬ who married a vr'1Ck’ ln 1754; William, ceeded by James Melvine another who married Francfs^Ki» ?Ugh' Scotch-Irishman. Robert, the youngest Kllpatnck’ and James Wallace was elected coroner and duly commissioned .in 1768, being the first of his race whose name ap¬ I who first* rnarried ft pears on the rosters of the county offi¬ cers. William Miller died in 1758 at the ripe old age of 87 years, his wife, Isabel, preceding him but a few months, and both lie in the burying ground which lece his executors. The settlement rt he, thirty odd years before, had dedi¬ his estate furnishe* an illustrati m t cated to the congregation of “The Pres¬ byterian Church of Neshaminy.” This couple had six children, some of whom nh "E9 K SBrssat it would appear, were married prior to their arrival at Neshaminy. They were William, the eldest, whose wife was Ann Jamison, a daughter of Henry amounted to about 1900 poSundi Pm-tiv Jamison, who with his three sons set¬ tled at Neshaminy at the same time | I : partly no doubt to the unsettled’con- clition of the counti-y nothing further grandparents of Hon. Harman Yerkes, ; was clone in the estate until 1780 after President Judge of the Courts of Bucks I the. dclath of the widow, and James county, and William and Letitia Yer¬ Wallace being also deceased, letters of kes were the grandparents of Hon. administration with the will annexed William Yerkes, late Judge of the Com¬ were granted to Barnard Van Horn, a mon Pleas Court of . Both son-in-law, who filed another inventory Andrew and William Long were active of the same goods described in the for¬ during the Revolution, their names mer inventory. In this latter inven¬ 1 head the list of Warrington Association tory an eight-day clock was valued at I in 1775. William was selected by the 600 pounds, a table at 100 pounds, nine Committee of Safety to receive the . slaves valued in 1773 at from 8 pounds to arms of non-associates and Andrew 55 pounds each, were appraised in 1730at was a colonel in the service. front 3250 pounds “for a* boy” to 400 Hugh( third son of Andrew Long, Sr., pounds. Sixteen acres of oats' in the married in 1761 Mary Corbit, daughter ground are set down at 4000 pounds, of William Corbit, of Buckingham, who and wheat is valued at 25 pounds per was a son of John Corbit, a Scotch-' bushel. The personal estate in 1780 ag¬ Irish emigrant of Northampton town-' gregates 32,000 pounds, about seven¬ ship. Plugh Long was a first lieutenant teen times the apraisement seven in the Bucks County Battalion of the years before. In 1791 a balance of 20,000 Flying Camp, and died of camp feverj pounds, in settlement of the estate is in 1778. He had seven children, An- by agreement reduced by a ratio of 50 j drew, who married Mary, daughter of to 1, or to the sum of 414 pounds. Adam Kerr, Col. William Long, Hugh, ; John Earle was for many years a Isabella, Elizabeth, married-Whit- | justice of the peace, and was in every ton, and Mary, who married Robert I way a prominent member of the com¬ Wallace, of Warwick, her cousin, and munity. He acted as administrator Jane who married a McLean. The Rev, and executor of a great many estates, Mahlon Long and Professor Charles and was frequently appointed by the Long were the sons pf Hugh the sec¬ Court to lay out roads, etc. James Wal¬ ond. The Long c-onection is'an exten¬ lace frequently appearing as his col¬ sive one and many of the descendants league. still reside in Bucks county. As has already been shown Andrew- John Gray, who appears as an elder of Long was one of the original settlers at Neshaminy church in 1743, and as one Neshaminy and probably accompanied i of the trustees in the Trust Deed in his father-in-law, Miller, to this coun¬ 1744, was. from the north of Ireland, try. He became a considerable land and one of the early settlers land own-j owner, owning nearly 700 acres at his ed a ph'ltation on the northwest side death, which occurred in November, of the Bristol Road, extending north-! 1738, at the early age of 47 years. He wardly from the present village of' lies buried at Neshaminy, the stone Warrington. The opening of “Dyer’s marking his grave being one of the Mill Road,” now the Doylestown and oldest therein erected. His will shows Willow Grove turnpike, cut off a small1 that he had several daughters, all of corner of his farm where Warrington whom were evidently under age, but hotel now stands, and in 1736, he withj he does not specifically name them. a number of his neighbors petitioned The only two \yho appear of record in the Court to have the road changed so[ the settlement of his estate or rather as to follow his line, but without avail. in the -conveyance of his real estate John Gray married Margaret Craig, a are Mary, wife of Joseph Carr, of War¬ sister of Col. Thomas, of “Craig’s” and wick, a.nd Jane, wife of John McClena. Daniel of Warrington. clan of Grenidge, Sussex county, New He must not be confused with John Jersey. Grey alias Tatham, a large land own¬ Andrew Long, Sr., had three sons, er in Bensalem and other parts of low¬ William, born in 1727, died in 1793, mar¬ er Bucks. This Grey was from Lon¬ ried Elizabeth—and had six chil¬ don where he purchased land of Penn dren, Andrew, Alexander, John, "Will¬ as John Grey, a large tract of his iam, Hugh and Isabella, the latter land was located in Bensalem, where married Alexander Crawford, of Ply¬ it is said he built a palatial residence. mouth. His sons, Andrew and Alexan¬ He became involved in a long drawm der, removed to Fayette county prior out law suit with Joseph Growdon, the to the death of their father in 17937 termination of which showed Grey up William was devised by his father’s in a rather unenviable light. He after¬ will the “Merchant Mill, Saw Mill and wards removed to where 'Plantation of 130 acres, purchased of he appears as John Tatham, living at John Beard.” Hugh, 194 acres in War¬ Burlington in what the early records minster, and John the “Plantation I term a “lordly and princely style.” live on, devised by my father, contain¬ in a letter written to his ing 220 acres.” The mill above men¬ Commissioners in 1687, throws consid¬ tioned is still known as “Long’s Mill” erable light on this character, by in¬ structing them to “put a stop ye irreg¬ and the title remained in the family ular grants made to John Gray alias name until a few years ago. Andrew, second son of Andrew Sr., Tatham now discovered to be a Bene¬ dictine Monk of St. James Convent, as born 1730, died 1812, married Mary they call it, commanded over by ye Smith and had children, John, Andrew, king.” William, Isabella, wife of Solomon John Gray, of Warrington, died April Hart, Mary, wife of Barnard VanHorn, 27, 1749, at the age of 57 years, leaving Margaret, wife of Harman Yerkes, and Letitia,- wife of William Yerkes. Har- ! man and Margaret Yerkes were the r™l counties. Being averse to a partner¬ his widow, and two sons, John and ship in misfortune, and already, as she James, and two daughters, Mary and supposed, having a husband living, she Jean, the latter married to a MacDon- peremptorily declined. Sometime after 1 aid. He does not mention his sons in her husband’s death, however, she did his will, but, after giving several small marry again, her second husband being 'legacies to nephews and nieces, among (Enoch Williams, with whom she took I the latter being Margaret Graham, up her residence on the farm, settled “late wife of Robert Miller,” and to jby her husband on the Juniata River, some cousins in Ireland, he devised his in what was then Cumberland county. : whole estate to his wife, Margaret, for She does not seem to have made any life, then to "Brother” Richard Wait¬ |effort to have the will of her first hus¬ er, Rev. Charles Beatty and Rev. band proven until 1785, some 25 years 1 Richard Treat, in trust 2 pounds per after his death, and was then only par- -lannum to be paid for “support of min- Itially successful as only one of the j istry at Neshaminy” and one half of subscribing witnesses, Andrew Long, i residue “for the benefit of Rev. Charles Esq., was living, the matter was there¬ Beatty, during his ministry at the new fore delayed until 1790, when the hand¬ meeting house at Warwick.” The other writing of the other witnesses was half for the use of “Religious Students proven and letters of administration for the Ministry,” when Beatty ceases with the will annexed were granted to to preach, whole of the profits thereof her husband Enoch Williams, the sis¬ for the use of such students forever. , ter, Mary Gray, who was named as ex¬ In 1788, Richard Walker, Esq., TITecf a : ecutrix, then living in Mifflin county, settlement as surviving executor, show- 1 declining to act. The provisions of the ing a balance in hand of 199 pounds, 17 will, or a neglect to properly comply shillings and “exhibits receipts from with them, gave1 rise to the most cele¬ Rev. George Duffield and Jonathan brated law suit in Central Pennsylva¬ Byard Smith, his successors in the nia, and was before the courts of that trust for two loan office certificates for section for fifty years. It is known to $800. Receipt date August 20, 17S3.” the legal profession as “The Gray This is the sequel to Mr. Turner’s spec¬ Property Case” and is one of.the most ulation as to the soui’ce of the “Two celebrated ejectment suits ever tried in Years Annuity” received from Rev. the State, being reported in 10 Segeant Duffield in 1783. & Rawle, page 182, as Frederick vs. Margaret Gray survived her husband Gray. many years, dying some time between It will be noticed that it was char¬ April, 1782, and Marcd, 1783, they being acteristic of the early Scotch-Irish im¬ the dates of signing and proof of her migration that these people nearly al¬ will, respectively, “Far advanced in ways came over in family groups, as years” to use her own expression. in the Miller, Craig and Jamison fami¬ An interesting incident illustrative of lies. the uncertainties of life on the frontier This, it would seem was also the case may be detailed of John Gray, son of with the Wallace family, who we find the elder, who with his brother, James, settled at an early date in Plumstead, removed west to the Tuscarora Valley Tinieum, Warrington and Warwick. in what was later Juniata county, and Two of the name, Robert and John, in 1756 was living near Fort Bingham were settled in the neighborhood of the with his wife, Hannah, and little iTohickon. as appears by land warrants daughter, Jean, On the night of June granted to both about that time. There 11, 1756, while Gray, who had been to is little doubt that these two were Carlisle for provisions was on his way ! brothers and the progenitors of the home, the Indians attacked' and burn¬ other Wallaces found living in Tini- ed the fort, massacred most of the peo¬ jcurn, Warwick, Warrington and Plum- ple, and carried a few away into cap¬ i stead at a later date. tivity, among the latter being Mrs. They evidently arrived some time Gray and her little daughter. Gray prior to 173S. As before noted the date made many efforts to obtain intelli¬ (when the Scotch-Irish acquired lands gence of his lost family. He joined in fee is no sure indication of the date Col. Armstrong’s expedition against of their arrival, as the majority of Kittanninning in the fall of 1756, in the them appear to have resided on leased hope of recovering them, but learning lands many years before purchasing. nothing, he returned to Bucks county, Robert, John and James Wallace, all broken in health and spirit, made a ^appear as land owners in Tinieum prior will providing for his wife and child to its organization into a township in should they return and died broken¬ 1747. James Wallace, of Tinieum, who hearted in 1759. ! may have been a son of one of the After being carried to Canada, his 'others, though more probably a broth¬ wife with the help of some traders er, died in 1765, leaving a widow, Han¬ made her escape and returned to Bucks nah, and seven children, viz: Robert, county shortly after the death of her Jean, wife of Robert Hutchinson, Eli¬ husband, but the child had been carried nor, William, Samuel, Elizabeth and 1 farther west by the Indians and was i Mary. Samuel married Jemima Dean, j never heard of, though in 1764, when a (and lived for many years in New Brit¬ lot of captive children were brought to ain township. Philadelphia. Mrs. Gray went there in The Warrington Wallaces were Jo¬ hopes of finding her child, but without seph and William. John, eldest son of success. During her captivity Mrs. the former and Jane, his wife, was a Gray received an offer of marriage ' stone mason, and married a daughter from one George Woods, a fellow cap¬ of Archibald Finley, of New Britain, tive, a somewhat remarkable charac¬ who was also a mason, and with whom ter, who afterwards figured extensively he doubtless learned his trade. This in the history of Bedford and Allegheny was a mail of sortie means but from ..a Wallace artd his brother, Andrew, date of tie appearance of John Wal- were both Revolutionary soldiers, An¬ i lace is a prominent figure in the com- drew going as a recruit furnished by mun ty apout 1754-5, we hear nothing Bedminster township in 1778, and John more of John, except that his napie ap¬ being a lieutenant in Captain Beauty s pear^ on the tax lists of Warwick as a Company, was captured at Fort Wash¬ singly man living “at James Wallace’s,” ington, Long Island, November 16, 1776, whei 9 he died in 1777, about the same along with the greater part of Col. Ma- date as James. gaw’s Regiment, but was paroled. In 1754 John Earle and James Wal- I Memoranda in the hands of his grand¬ lace were appointed by the Orphans’ ] son. Rev. J. W. Wallace, of Independ¬ I Court of Bucks County, guardians of ence, Missouri, show that he was with 1 the minor children of Robert Miller, de- the army at ’TVhitemarsh and Valley ] ceased, of whom John Earle was an ; Forge. At the close of the Revolution, uncle, and a few months later James John, with his brothers and sisters and probably his parents, went to Virginia, Wallace appears as the husband as well and from there to near Lexington, | as the guardian of one of these minors, Kentucky, some of the family going Isabel Miller. Prior to 1762, James over the mountains on pack horses, and I Wallace lived on leased land, but in some down the Ohio to Maysville and that year he purchased from Andrew then by wagon to Lexington. These and William Long, his wife’s cousins, and manv other Bucks county folk some 300 acres in Warwick, being a doubtless' formed part of that move¬ part of the property which William ment of the Scotch-Irish into Ken¬ Miller, Sr., his wife’s grandfather pur- tucky, which set in after the Revolu¬ ; chased of Latighorne and Kirkbride in tion, and which is pictured so vividly 1726. It was upon this tract, that the by James Lane Allen in the Choir In¬ main body of Washington’s army en¬ camped in August, 1777. From the date visible.” William Wallace, of Warrington of his marriage until his death in 1777 married Agnes Creighton, widow of James Wallace figured prominently in William vreighton, one of the trustees j the affairs of the county, his nr me ap- named in the trust deed of 1774 of the j pearing very frequently on the records “New Lights” of Neshaminy church. I as one of a commission to lay out have always been strongly impressed roads and in various other positions of with the idea that he was the individu¬ trust. al represented by the initials, ‘‘W. G. In the year 1768 he was elected coro¬ in the graveyard wall at Neshaminy, ner of the county, continuing to serve tKat the “G” so interpreted was really until 1772, one of the longest terms for meant to be a “Cbut have no further which the office was held in Colonial corroboration of this theory than his days. As the relations between the col¬ interest in the church in its infancy onies and the mother country began to and his close connection with other be strained, he, like the rest of the leading members of the congregation. Scotch-Irish, took up the cause of the A close personal inspection of the init¬ colony as against the crown, and par¬ ials, however, convinces me that it was ticipated actively in the affairs of the clearly meant for a G. county and province. His wife, Agnes, was an Armstrong, At the meeting of the inhabitants of a sister of Joseph Armstrong, of Bed- j Bucks, held at Newtown, July 9, 1774, minster, and of Thomas Armstrong, to remonstrate against the oppressive who married a daughter of Francis : measures of the parent country, he was McHenry. William Creighton died in one of the six deputies of the county 1747, and his widow married William there elected and delegated to repre¬ Wallace soon after, and continued to sent it at Philadelphia in the Confer¬ reside with her children upon the ence of Provincial Deputies held in homestead, on the Bristol Road, be¬ Carpenter’s Hall, July 15 1774, which tween the present villages of Warring¬ meeting he attended. His name heads ton and Tradesville, the present farms the list of the Warwick associators of George and Levi Garner, until about taken August 21, 1775, and he was a 1760. when the entire family removed particularly active and prominent to Cumberland township, York county. member of the Bucks County Commit¬ From the foregoing it will be seen tee of Safety, the governing body of that the Wallaces were a large eon- the county from 1774-1776, attending all 1 nectipn in Bucks county, a long time its meetings but two, and being a mem¬ 1 bef ■■ e the Revolution, but those of the ber of the Committee of Correspond¬ i nam-’ who lived in Warwick seem to ence as well as of a number of com¬ ; have been the best known branch and mittees to “interview” and “reason to have remained the longest in the with” recalcitrant local Tories. county, as they continued to reside He was appointed the officer for the therein until about 1850, while the other ; middle section of the county to receive Wallaces left the county mostly in the | and pay for the arms purchased for the previous century. I use of the Associators. In January, The head of the Warwick family was ' 1776, James Wallace with Col. Keic'n- James Wallace, who from all indica¬ line and Joseph Fenton were selected tions-appears to have been the son of to proceed to Philadelphia and! ascer¬ John He was born in the north of tain the process for making saltpetre Ireland and we believe came as a boy with a view of explaining the method with his father to Bucks. to the inhabitants of the county, and About the year 1750 the name of John 1 thus facilitating the manufacture of Wallace appears frequently on the rec¬ ] powder. ords, of the Common Pleas Court of In May, 1776, he was again one of the Bucks County as plaintiff in a number committees appointed to represent the of suits of a nature indicating that he county in convention of other County Remittees at FTiTIaaeTphia, "But the married Mary, the daughter of Hugh Long and Mary Corbit, and three noY* «endnty dele§rates jt appears, did daughters, Jane, who married John He also represented Bucks as a dele¬ Carr, son of Joseph and Mary (Long) gate to the important Provincial Con- Carr; Margaret, who married Samuel ference at Carpenter’s Hall in June Polk, son of James and Eleanor Polk, -i.t.. his fellow delegates being Cob and Isabel, who died a spinster. His slfefe wtJnr Wynko°P and Benjamin grandchildren married into the families beiglc. W allace appears as a member of of Rogers, Sturgeon, Kennedv, Mearns, several committees of this body, which I James, Shewell, Hough, Ward, Both- ^n«'tthfthe avowed object of taking ! well, Krewsen and other well known oteps to form an independent Govern- Bucks county families. WhlC'h amonS other things Joseph Carr, of Warwick, was an¬ provided for and arranged details and other early settler who came from the machinery for the convention, Which North of Ireland. He was born in 1697 adopted the first Constitution of the and died in 1757. He appears at Ne¬ Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Col. shaminy as early as 1731, when he sign¬ xlart, Major Wynkoop and James Wal¬ ed the petition for the creation of War¬ lace were named by this Provincial minster township. He was a witness ^?.?nt,rer\Ce the three Judges of Bucks to the will of Andrew Long in 1738, and counts, to conduct the election for married Long’s eldest surving daugh¬ c-elegates to the Constitutional Conven¬ ter, Mary, (born 1725). His children, as tion. mentioned in his will and appearing of Upon the new Government going in¬ record in the conveyance of his real to effect he was appointed by the Su- estate were, John, the eldest, who be¬ premc Executive Council, (the Execu¬ came prominent in the Neshaminy te Power of the State,) one of the church, and married Jane, daughter of Judges of the Civil and Criminal Courts James and Isabel (Miller) Wallace- Backs’ and his commission dated Joseph and Andrew, who are said to March 31, Lw, is recorded in the office have gone to South Carolina; William of the Recorder of Deeds at Doyles- who remained in Warwick, and daugh- this time he was also ters Margaret, who married Thomas elected a Justice of the Peace for War¬ wick township. McCune; Isabella, wife of John Ander¬ son, and removed to Baltimore county It is apparent from this record that Maryland, and Mary, wife of Robert James Wallace, in his day, was a prom¬ Mcllhenny, of York county. inent figure and moving spirit in the (The descendants of Robert Carr affairs of Bucks county, and undoubt¬ Mariner, of Philadelphia, who pur¬ edly a leading character in the com¬ chased land in Warminster in 175- claim munity at Neshaminy one who held that he also was a son of Joseph, of their confidence as is evidenced by the w arwick, but we have no proof of this fact that he appears almost always as further than a tradition in their branch the representative of Warwick and its Of the family. It is just possible that Scoteh-Irish constituency. The history Joseph Carr was married prior to his of Bucks county during the Revolution¬ marriage with Mary Long, as it will ary period shows that Col. Hart, Judge be noticed that he was many years his Wynkoop and James Wallace, until vv ife s senior, being but six years his death, were the three most active and prominent men in the affairs of the younger than her father. If this be so county. As throwing some light on the and Robert, the issue of a former mar¬ latter's character and standing in the riage, and also absent on the high seas community, we refer to a letter written that may account for his not being b> Judge Wynkoop to the General mentioned in his father's will.) Committee of Safety, at Philadelphia, John Carr and Jane, his wife, had a in January, 1776, referring to the Bucks large family. William Carr for many County Committee appointed to go to years of the Orphans’ Court of j Philadelphia and investigate the pro¬ Bucks county, was a child of this mar- ; cess of manufacture of saltpetre above riage, the other children intermarried mentioned, he says, of them: “Those with the Rogers. Sturgeons, Mearns are persons of reputation and influence and Ivennedys and their numerous de¬ in different parts of the countv ” » * * * scendants are widely scattered through and speaking of James Wallace, who the county and country. had been selected as the member to re¬ Two other early families of Nesham- ceive and pay for the saltpetre he inj, to whom we have already briefly states further: “Mr. Wallace Is a’gen¬ alluded, and who are deserving of much tleman of property, strict honesty, and more than the brief mention we can firm attachment to our cause.” His in- give them in this sketch, were the t®rest 5he Neshaminy church is Walkers and Craigs. The Walkers were shown by the fact that in 1767 he was among the earliest arrivals, and the elected one of the trustees, and doubt¬ family appears to have consisted of less continued- to serve ae such until y. illiam and Ann, his wife, and their his aeath. four sons, John, Williai. Robert and farther uesfulness was cut short and at *east two daughters. by his death in the latter part of 1777. v\ illiam, Sr., died in 1738, aged 66 years While the cause of his death is not and Ann, his wife, in 1750. aged 70,’ known. It would seem that it was in they both lie buried at Neshaminy. We some v manner the result of the strife ^ata as to John other' than then being waged. His wife, Isabel sur- Vhat keT kad two sons, William and ,hlm. many years, being alive in John; William, son of William and Ann, 1810, also two sons, William, who lived d’e , m , 151, possessed of about 500 acres to an advanced age, and died single in of land, in Warrington, and left a his native township, and Robert, who widow, Margaret, children Robert Elizabeth, wife of Henry Finley; ('a'fh-H from various arine, Mary, James and Margaret. a connection of the Robert Walker (son of William and already referred to.) Ann) died in Northampton township, Thomas Craig’s eldest son in 1758, evidently unmarried and with¬ married like his father a Jean ' out issue, as after leaving a legacy of daughter of Robert Jamison, of 50 pounds to Rev. Richard Treat, Rev. shaminy, and his wife, Hannah Bai Charles Beatty and his brother Rich¬ daughter of John and Hannah (St ard, in trust for the benefit of Nesham- art) Baird,of Neshaminy. iny church, he bequeaths the balance of The Craigs were evidently flghti his estate to his brothers Richard and stock, as not only appears by the r John and his sisters Mary King and ord of Thomas, of Warrington, but b; Christine McNaire, and their children. that of his cousins, Capt. John Crai He further directed that “Friends join of the 4th Penna. Light Dragoons, who in placing a tombstone over Father.” it is said Washington pronounced the By far the most prominent of the best horseman in the army, and that family, however, was Richard Walker, of colonel afterwards; General Thomas Esq., born in 1702, he was probably yet Craig, who served from the beginning quite a young man when he arrived in to the end of the Revolution, and was the Province. He married Sarah Craig, in the battles of Quebec, Brandywine, a sister of Col. Thomas and Daniel, as Germantown and Monmouth, as well as before stated; she was four years his serving in North and South Carolina. junior, ■ being born in 1706. Richard It would also seem that their de¬ Walker was elected to the Provincial scendants inherited their ancestors Assembly in 1747 and continuously re¬ fighting and patriotic qualities, as we elected until 1759, when he was suc¬ know of at least one of the grandsons ceeded by James Melvine. of New Brit¬ of Daniel Craig, Jr., who served with ain. He was commissioned a Justice of distinction during our late civil war, the Peace and of the courts of Bucks and only his age and infirmities, re¬ county in 1749, and served continuous¬ sulting from wounds then received, ly-as a Justice until 1775, over a quar¬ prevent him from being at this time ter of a century. He was also commis¬ at the front in the service of his coun¬ sioned a captain in the Provincial Ser- ». try. vice Feb. 12, 1749, was a prominent Did time and space permit we would member of the Committee of Safety like to refer - to the Jamison, Grier, and an elder of Neshaminy church. He Baird, Armstrong and Stewart and died April 11, 1791, aged S9 years, and other such Scotch-Irish families of the his wife Sarah, April 24, 17S4, aged 78 time referred to, and we believe it years. He evidently left no children, as would not be uninteresting if some his estate was divided among collateral mention could be made of some of the heirs, the descendants of his sisters and descendants of thse early pioneers in brothers, among the distributees being later generations, but we can only say quite a number who were residents of that their children are to be found in the “Irish Settlement" in Northampton every section of our great land, their .county, viz: McNaires, Ralstons, Lati- worthy and courageous ancestors help¬ mers, Griers, Wilsons and Culberstons. ed to colonize, and in every, walk of Richard Walker’s plantation was on life, not only in agricultural pursuits, the Lower State road, extending west¬ that first and ever honorable occupa¬ ward from the Bristol road at Trades- tion of mankind, some even on the ville. They are both buried at Nesham¬ lands settled by their forefathers, but iny. as well in the marts of commerce, in The Craigs were a large family, the the pulpit, at the forum and in the heads being Col. Thomas, the founder army and navy of their country; and of the Irish Settlement, his brothers, we believe wherever found and how¬ William and James, of the same place, ever engaged, serving their day and and Daniel, of Warrington, w-ith sisters generation in a manner that shows married to Gray and Walker, of Ne¬ they have inherited unimpaired the shaminy, and James Boyd of the upper j' worthy and sturdy qualities and char¬ settlement. acteristics displayed by their forbear- Daniel Craig, as has been already ers amid the uncertainties and ad¬ stated, was one of the earliest settlers versities of pioneer life and the trying in Warrington, he died in 1776, leaving times of the Revolution. a widow, Margaret, and eight children —Thomas, John, William, Margaret, wife of James Barclay; Sarah, wife of John Barnhill; Jane, wife of Samuel Barnhill; Mary Lewis, and Rebecca, wife of Hugh Stephenson. His son Thomas took a prominent part in the From LiJ Revolution, was commissioned a cap¬ tain October 23, 1776, and rose to the rank of Colonel. He married Jean. Jam¬ ison, daughter of Henry Jamison, son j of the Emigrant Ancestor, and Mary ! Stewart, the daughter of another early j settler in Neshaminy. His daughter ; Date, J... (JJI Margaret married Capt. William Mil- i ler, founder of Millerstown, now Fair- I view, York county, for many years aj Representative and Senator of that REGI: county. ("This William Miller it is Jr. ifi-v'To''open schools under Dr. Smith’s plan in York, Lancaster, Reading and other places. At first no opposition to the scheme appeared and even the TRUGGLES. eminent Dr. Henry Melehoir Muhlen¬ berg. the father of Dutheramsm in America, approved the plan. But then An Early Educational Fight Christopher Saur, the noted German printer, scenting harm to his countiy- in Pennsylvania. men from Dr. Smith’s plan, began to combat it in his newspaper. He once lived in our Conestoga Valley, whence hr. Brumbaugh, of the University of he drifted to Germantown and became, Pennsylvania, Relates the History of with Franklin, one of the two great printers of the province. More than the Struggle That Involved the Nation¬ 150 books were printed at his press, among them the noted “Saur Bible, ality, Language and Religion of the the first Bible in any European lan¬ German Citizens. guage printed in America. His publi¬ cations reached every German home , Dr. M. G. Brumbaugh, of the Uni¬ in Pennsylvania and exerted a power¬ versity of Pennsylvania, as his inaug¬ ful influence. Saur believed Smith s plan would set at work influences to ural address as President of the Penn¬ rob the Germans not only of then- sylvania State Teachers’ Association, language, but of their independence at its meeting at Bellefonte, on July and property, and he struck the note J5, selected with excellent taste, instead of alarm. A counter scheme was or¬ ganized in every part of the province, | of one of the used worn out topics to neutralize any attempt to curtail customary on such occasions, to give the rights of the Germans. He had an jthe history of a great “Educational able assistant In John Conrad Weiser, | Struggle in Colonial Pennsylvania,” the interpreter, who went through the [country “setting up” boards of local iwaged between the years 1750 and 1770. trustees to be appointed when the It was a question that involved the scheme should be set in operation. In nationality, language and to some ex¬ .Lancaster the men selected were Ed¬ ward Shippen, Adam Simon Kuhn, tent the religion of the more than Mr Otcerbein, Sebastian Graff, Gera 150,000 German citizens in the province James Wright and John Baer; a ma¬ iof Pennsylvania- jority of them Germans. The same The leaders of this important, but plan was followed everywhere. little known, educational struggle were We have no room to follow this in¬ Dr. William Smith, Provost of the teresting struggle further. Saur was [College of Pennsylvania, and that no doubt unwise in opposing the edu¬ [well-known early German printer of cation of German children in English jGermantown, Christopher Saur. Dr. schools, and the German element m the peculation suffered in consequence. [Smith came to this country in 1751. But it had its compensations. Dr. ;He Was a graduate of the University Brumbaugh says it revealed the real [of Aberdeen, and undoubtedly repre¬ sented the higher education of the danger of the Germans in Pennsylva¬ day in this country. He came over nia It intensified their national spirit. from New York, where he landed, and It quickened their love for their moth¬ in 1753, was elected to the chair of er tongue. It revived and stimulated natural philosophy and logip in, the their religious ardor and drove them new College of Pennsylvania. After into the erection of churches in every being in Pennsylvania only \seven valley and on every hilltop. All this months, he addressed a long letter to and more is admirably set forth in the “Society for the Propagation of the this, Dr. Brumbaugh’s address, which, Gospel” in Great Britain. In that let- as we have already said, describes iter he laid down a scheme for the ed- i most fully and ably this early educa¬ ucaticn of the Germans in the prov¬ tional contest in our Commonwealth. ince. He said “their melancholy situ¬ ation, through want of instructors, and NORTHAMPTON SCHOOLS. their utter inability to maintain them, with the distressing prospect of ap¬ proaching darkness and idolatry A History of the Public Schools of North¬ among them, have been represented to their fellow Protestants in Europe in ampton Township by Miss E Ellen the most moving terms.” He spoke | Bennett. of their “danger of sinking into bar¬ barian ignorance,” and of being turned | Last October, at our county insti- from the religion “for which they and j I tute, Yi e were given two talks on his¬ their lathers have suffered so much.” I He said even their liberty was endan- tory

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Log: House in Hilltown-Built by Asa Thomas, a Soldier in the Revolutionary War, history of the Hi'ltown and Mont the elder went to work in th^de^ gomery Baptist churches, says Elder country after his settlement in Hill- “Thomas and his wife and first-born town, and before he died he left a :son, named Thomas, then an infant, left their native country to take up each of his several children. I which hr°m tIle tract of i’000 acres-1; their permanent residence in America. ^hich he purchased on his arrival in They agreed for passage on a vessel America. lying at Bristol, bound for Philadel¬ phia. The value of his possessions was such that the prospect bid fair • ewton for him to become a landholder to a large amount in this country, with BRISTOL FRIENDS’ MEETING. ! plenty of cash to eable him to build, • stock and improve to advantage. His leash, some valuables, together with all Interesting Sketch of One of the Oldest the clothing for himself and family, Meeting Houses in Bucks County. except what would be ready for their use for a few days were all put on The Friends of Bristol held their re¬ board the vessel. The freight was not ligious meetings at their dwellings for all on board nor the passengers all some years prior to 1704, when they ready, but a day was assigned on applied to Falls to which they should sail. In the interim have a meeting established, and in he took his family to the country, in¬ 1706 desired to have a meeting house tending to return at or before the ap¬ erected. These requests were gener¬ pointed day. They did return before ally agreed to, but were deferred and the time assigned, but found to their forwarded to the quarterly meeting great grief that the vessel had set for its concurrence and assistance. sail but was not yet out of sight. The quarterly meeting did not ap¬ Pursuit was made in some small craft, prove of the matter at that time, but signals were hoisted and kept up, but finally on 12th month, 22d, 1710, con¬ to no purpose. The vessel was lost sented and concluded that there be sight of and the family left destitute. a good substantial house built either iH

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or DncK or stone, aSc. a was held alternate”""at "M?ddletowi [ committee to attend to the consumma¬ and Bristol. Bristol was finally mad/ ' tion thereof. The committee obtained' a monthly meeting, its first session'^ | the grant of a lot of land of Samuel as such being held on sixth day, firs \ Carpenter. It appears the meeting month 2, 1874. Joint session of pre-B* house was built of brick during the1. parative meeting commenced nintlflB I years 1711-1712, and probably com¬ month 19, 1877. The same in monthly* pleted in the fore part of 1713 and oc- meeting commenced first month 30;V>1 [ cupied for meeting use in seventh1 1880. month, 1713. It was repaired in 1728. Bristol Friends’ meeting house was* In 1735 or ’36 an addition was built, the third erect¬ making it considerably larger, and in ed in Bucks County, and it is no doubt ' 1756 it was finished in the upper story. the oldest one now standing, the orig- In 1839 or 1840 it was thoroughly re-1 inal houses of the two other meeting's paired and considerable changes made. having been torn down and replaced ’’ The stairway to the upoer story in by newer structures. The meeting is the market street end of the house also owner of a part of a lot of land and an outside stairway affording ac- b on Cedar street between Mulberry and I cess to the second story of the smaller Walnut streets, which is a gift from or northeastern end were removed,' (John Pemberton, of Philadelphia, and and the house was given a coat of Hannah, his wife, who in 1793 con¬ rough-cast. The galleries were re- veyed it to trustees for the use of a modelled. Previous to this the gal¬ school to be under the care of Bristol leries faced Market street, their backs Preparative Meeting. Of this lot a . adjoined the partition "wall between -portion was --sold by order of theU1C tUUicourt l I the original house and the addition of. and the sum___ __•_.-areceived, combined with. .. I li35 or ’36. The aisle came from the OthProther legacies,lpP'O ocr wasuroc used for the4-t__ erec¬ -Market street end. proceeded to the tion in 1874 of a good substantial galleries, and probably through a door school house of brownstone on the re- - A | into the rear apartment. This aisle maining part of the lot, costing $4315.- divided the seats or benches into two 75. parts, the men taking one side, the The names of those who taught in women the other in meetings for wor¬ the meeting house are still remem- i ship; but in business meetings the '- bered, though they have long since '+■ ' women transacted their duties in the passed away. Dr. Henry Dippincott, 7 Smaller end. The galleries in this! Mary Prosser, Letitia Swain and Han- | room were arranged in the same man¬ nah Coleman successively instructed ner as those in the men’s end, against: the younger generation of their day. I the partition. . During this remodel¬ Of the monthly meeting elders who f". ling the dividing wall was removed resided in Bristol in the early days, I and a wooden partition put in its! Ennion Williams and his! wife, Eliza place as at present. During the Revo¬ beth, both died in 1780, he in his 83d lutionary War the meeting house is year and she aged 73. Joseph Atkin¬ said to have been used for a hospital, son died in 1781. Of the ministers be¬ and troops occupied the smaller end longing to Bristol meeting, Samuel in 1778. The second story and later Wright died in 1800 in his 59th year. > the smaller apartment were used sev¬ Later Michael Trump (who left with eral years as school rooms. the orthodox) and Hannah Mitchell, I The lot on which the meeting house who died about 1854 in the West. stands is situated at the north corner Still later Elizabeth Paxson and Re¬ of Wood and Market streets; its shape1 becca H. Iredell, whose gospel labors is that of a rhomboid and contains were exemplified by the beautiful sim¬ nineteen perches more or less. The plicity of their truly Christian lives j bui ying ground is on the northwest j and of each it may be said: side of Wood street between Walnut A : and Penn streets. It is rectangular. < “The dear Lord’s best interpreters in. shape and contains four acres more Are humble human souls; or less. These lots were deeded by The gospel of a life like hers feamuel Carpenter in one deed “To the Is more than books or scrolls. trustees appointed by the Quarterly Meeting of Friends of the people called From scheme and creed the light Quakers, in the county of Bucks, ini goes out. the for them The saintly fact survives; to hold for the benefit, use, and behoof The blessed Master none can doubt .°f the P°or People of the said Quaker® Revealed in holy lives.” belonging to the said meeting forever-1 and for a place to erect and continue Since becoming a monthly meeting a meeting house and for a place to many valued elders and members have bury their dead.” Adjacent to the passed to the “Better Land.” Dur¬ lot on which the meeting house stands ing the anti-slavery agitation Bristol is another which was deeded by Henry meeting was particularly united. Cy¬ Desborough to trustees for Bristol rus and Ruth Peirce, Joseph Warner, Preparative Meeting, sixth month Catherine M. Laing and many others 185/. The first overseers for Bristol aid much for the cause of emancipa¬ meeting were appointed in 1706 Bris- tion. A station of the underground tol was made a preparative meeting in'" railroad was successfully conducted J l/15 and joined to Middletown Montfa- here. / )y Meeting in 1788: beginning ' fourtl month 1st, 1857, the monthly meeting 14

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„ t- NEWTOWN. Hub of Southern Bucks County.

MOST IMPORTANT AND PROSPEROUS TRADING CENTRE. I

If not the oldest then next to the Ts of the town, which was the common oldest settlement in historic Bucks is | I centre. The first link in the great northern Newtown. It was here that Penn de- road, that to Bristol, was laid out in cided upon the erection of a village, I 1693. In 1723 another roaa was opened and ac far back as 1684 all the land in jj | to the river by way of Dolington and this section had been sold in sixteen another in 1724 which led to the falls. Newtown was made the county seat wedge-shaped farms converging to- | I in 1725 and the administration offices ward a common centre and varying /, removed from Bristol. It was at that in area from two hundred to seven hun- I a time the geographical centre of the ji most thickly populated portion of the dred acres. I county. These early owners were Richard . The court house was located on Price, Thomas Rowland, John Row¬ I Court street near Sullivan, the prison land, Eli Brober, Thomas Revel, Chris¬ 1 directly west and the county offices | on the opposite side of State street. topher Taylor, William Bennett, “Gov- I The first mention of any portion of ernors’’ Arthur Cook, John Otter, Jon¬ the town ^being regularly laid out was athan Eldrey, Abraham Whorley, Ben¬ I in 1733, When five: acres were bought R from John Wolley ifor county purposes jamin Roberts, Shadrack Wolley, Wil- I I and laid out into six squares of equal liam Sneed and Israel Taylor. S size. But little is known of these early *' Newtown became a borough in 1838, land owners, but it is evident that the offices being a chief burgess and assistant burgess elected annually, and some of them were more thrifty than nine c-ouncilmen, three of whom are the others, for a comparison of the £ d' elected triennially. During the Revo- map of 1702 with that of 1684 shows i M lutionary War Newtown gained im- that some of the original farms had f| portance in the chronicles of the na¬ absorbed others. ! il tion’s history. Thomas Rowlands’ five hundred General Washington stopped at the acres had passed into the possession house of John Harris across Newtown of Stephen Twining and William Buck- ■ Creek, and General Green s headquar- j man owned seven hundred acres form- I I ters were in the old Brick Hotel, and erly in possession of John Rowland. | frequent conferences between the two Shadrack Wolley had absorbed the ;; I great men were held at the latter place. possessions of five of his former neigh¬ * One of the interesting spots which | bors and was the proprietor of one | tradition tells us was used as a jail thousand two hundred acres. - and possibly as a hospital for Hessian I As to the origin of the name sev¬ | soldiers captured at the battle of Tren- I eral theories have been advanced, one j f ton is the old Presbyterian church, I of them being that Penn referred to •. « which was built in 1769 on ground do- I it as his new town, but it is more than nated by John Harris. likely that it has been thus called On the wall now covered with fres- I through the absence of any other des¬ coing the following lines were penned, I ignation, for there seems to have been supposed to have been written by I a general indifference among the early J some Hessian: settlers to the subject, and when a townchip was erected it was often re¬ In times of war and long before, ferred to as “the new township” for God and the soldier the people did ®| many years. adore, The first house was built here by But the war is over and all things I Penn’s personal orders, and in 1692 was righted, occupied by Willliam Spring. God is forgot and the soldier slighted, jj By virtue of the original plans it was the logical site for a village, and The sentiments of this Hessian writ- I it seems almost impossible for the town ten over a century ago are applicable I not to have come into existence. to the present day, when our triumph- I Eleven roads were opened on the ant citizen soldiers, having vanquished H dividing lines between the farms, and a foreign foe, are left to languish and H necesarily converged toward the plot .?•"— atfd neglect through I

I I the incompetency and coa'iescenc^^':' buildings were erected on Cemra .., ■ those m charge of the' commissary and nue near State street, and for many l I medica departments. The mother of years thereafter it was the seat of General Grant was born within the learning for many of Bucks county’s borders of this old church, and the ■ most distinguished citizens. Mr?6 4°if ^is® ,Bftsy Kennedy, aunt of ■ The site now occupied by the White ,Mrs. . Alfred--..a Blaker, is linkedmiacu withwiiii itsns 1g*BKF'’ D Hotel was at one time a school nistory as one of its old' and useful under the supervision or the Misses m^bers. "I 'HhKhSBaiIey> who conducted it for a num- The old Friends’ Meeting House on I 1 ber of years.vears. Canal street near Penn was erected! In 1852 the Newtown Academy was m 1817 on land purchased from Dr. i purchased by the Presbyterians and Phrneas Jenks. Its membership was was opened under that management gathered irom Wrightstown, Middle- by Rev. R. D. Morris. town and Falls. I Adjacent to the town is the George School, named after the founder, John M.' George, who in his will left the Education. sum of $700,000 for its erection. It is The national tendencies of the peo- a school for Friends. The buildings are plain and substantial, equipped with ?L61 bfe Plane °f norn,aI and“ so- cial life begot at an early time insti- all modern conveniences, such as steam °r the education of the young, heating, electric lights, etc. The build¬ the first form of which was the church ings were erected in 1893, and have school ithen the private academy and accommodations for 125 students. The ■ later the excellent public school sys present principal is that noted litera- turer and efficient instructor, George R. Maris, whose long experience with educational work in this state fits him with every qualification for his labors. Associated with him is a faculty of This school was maintained by pub- ■ . educators of the highest type, whose steadfast aim has been the promotion ipCn«f^HCIlP"0? fr°rn amon^ the citi- of the institution’s welfare. ?heSaacf o7aiLfr’ett0 aH Wh"n’ in S' ■ • The Newtown Library was estab¬ stilutinV I lished by the Newtown Library Com¬ . pany in 1780, and on March 27, 1789, it e™d“tte°ir '^hho^’ School' dedL j was incorporated. The building is lo¬ the board ofb^mig and aPPIia-uces to | tne poard ot school commissioners and « cated on Central avenue and Court street and contains many volumes, SsV^irS'V' !.h'S ‘"•MtoUon was embracing biography, fiction, history! juvenile politics, religious science and travels. _ •;- mis uuiiumg g *2 vrHM* la George A. Jenks, a gentleman of high ■fflfwas remodeled SfSMWHmS at a cost of $11,000 and j literary tastes and splendid person to-day it embraces every modern im- ality, has for many years been its \ provement for the comfort and con¬ president. venience of both teachers and pupils The Sectional Issues. .„N« iassr During the late war no better tes¬ timony to the patriotism of the citi-

■ fkens of Newtown can be otierea than acres; James McVaugh, IUU TTereS* the records of the great numbers that John Moore, 200 acres. In 1737 John went to the front to preserve the Baird, 250 acres; John George Buch- Union. man, 234 acres, and in 1774, Hugh When in those trying days the na¬ Foulke, 313 acres. The residents of tion called upon the youth and man¬ the place in 1730 were Hugh Foulke, hood of the people to uphold the sanc¬ John Lester, John Adamson, Arnal tity of the constitution the people of Heacock, John Phillips, William Mor¬ Newtown responded with no faltering ris, John Richards, William Jamison, steps. Edmund Phillips, John Ball, John Ed¬ Company C of the Pennsylvania Re¬ wards, Thomas Roberts, William Nix¬ serves was made up in full at this on, Arthur James and Edward Rob¬ place and went into the thickest of the erts. In 1770 the public house or inn fight. of Walter McCool at the junction of Two other companies were formed at the Bethlehem and Milford roads with¬ Newtown, one of which was sent to in the present limits of the borough Harrisburg during the time of Antie- and the Friends’ meeting house formed tam-and the other at the time of the the foundation upon which the settle¬ battles of Gettysburg. ment was built. In 1803 the place re¬ An interesting story is told of the ceived its name and its first post¬ boys of Company C at the time they master in the person of William went to the.Tront. Green. The ladies of the town had made At that time the Red Lion Hotel their shirts, each having a small pock¬ was the centre of attraction, and the et over the left breast, and the school houses that were subsequently built children had contributed to procure a were within a small radius of that small testament for each of the sob place. For years the growth was diers. scarcely perceptible, the condition of Upon the day of presentation George the roads was not flattering, and for A. Jenks, then chief burgess, with ap¬ many years the highway leading east propriate remarks made in front of the of the village was lined with a heavy Free Church, where Newtown Hall growth of timber and almost impas¬ now stands, presented to each of the sible except in the summer months. soldiers one of the sacred little vol¬ Even until the middle of the present umes. George W. Grady, who now century Quakertown was but a coun¬ lives in Norristown, and once its chief try village with scanty material burgess, was among the number. growth. While at the seven days’ battle be¬ In 1856 it was composed of sixty- fore Richmond he was struck by a min- two dwellings, an increase of twenty- nie ball from a Confederate musket, and two in thirty-four years. the little testament which was still During that year the North Penn¬ in the pocket over his heart was the sylvania Railroad was constructed, only thing that stood between him and and a new life was thrown into the instant death. The ball had penetrated growth and subsequent development more than half way through, had dent¬ of the town. ed the inside cover and passed out be¬ The land about the station was laid tween the leaves. out into streets and building lots, and Later on he was wounded in the leg, in a few years was the centre of a but the testament was not there to busy, active and progressive village. save him. so he went to the hospital. The Richland Centre post office was Mr. Grady preserves the little vol¬ established near the new centre of ume to the^resen^_daj^___=_=_=«==; growth in 186i. and hears that name QUAKERTOWN.

iarly Settlement—Rise and Progress of One of the Most

Enterprising Boroughs in Bucks County.

|until the present day. The early settlement of Quakertown About the same time Broad street is recent when compared with that of [was macadamized between Union and several of the other boroughs in Bucks (Front leading toward the west into [the Bethlehem road. County, but its high and healthy loca¬ Quakertown was incorporated as a tion, coupled with the frugality and Iborough in 1854, and the borough gov- stolid business worth of its early settlers has brought about a steady lernment installed. The population in development in trading as well as 11870 was 863, in 1880, 1769; in 1890, 2169, | manufacturing that has placed Quak¬ land to-day it is. estimated at about/fl ertown well in the front with her sis¬ ter towns. . In 1715 the owners of the land m the immediate vicinity were Morris Mor ris, 1,000 acres; Michael Atkinson 250 an i good double and sil HISTORICAL suit you. Ammunition and gi^ A/ARE— more. Our assortment com Wash Basins, and almost evt ■y to repair. It is a reprodl Brief Resume of Its Earl I NTS— Commercial T>evC^ ih,,eb"

have a large stock of both t my box papers. It is the finj ONE OF THE GREATEST AND ENTRAL HARDWARE P DOYLESTOWN, Sketches of Some of the Leadin Citizens, E (Done Ri

In a retrospective view of that rich tortuous and highly picturesque and prosperous section lying west and | courses, tumbling over almost vertical north of the great bend in the Dela- | cliffs to the pastoral beauty of a soft Ware, where in the early days our landscape dipping to the gentle wind¬ hardy ancestors hewed the way and | ings of the placid but forceful waters marked the first epoch in advancing of the majestic . civilization we can in the limit of this In almost endless panoramic view space deal only with generalities, giving may be found the most charming as it were one broad, sweeping, back¬ scenery, the bold faces of the preci¬ ward glance over the beautiful section pitous hills standing guard over the once inhabited by the Indian tribes and verdant slopes of fertile meadows and later was the chosen field for the “Holy rich farming lands, watered by innu- Experiment” under the new regime of merab}§ little streams the student of ’the great landlord who fashioned the mature find;? endless themes for research destinies of his estate. and admiration. The advent of William Penn was by Then, turning to the high tablelands no means the first chapter in the his¬ an the northwest where Quakertown, at tory-making era of this section, but it an elevation of 500 feet, surveys the is quite far enough back for the present surrounding country, we find a plateau purpose. ©£ undulating agricultural land unsur¬ The topographical features of that passed for the depth and richness of section forming Bucks county were its soil—the “richlands” of longtime, ■beautiful to behold. The northern por¬ fame. ' " is -•! ill • j tion bounded by the foot hills of the At Doyles town, aimoSt tide geograph¬ .'South mountains, a broad zone of red ical centre of the county, we find an ■shale and sandstone with rolling land¬ elevation of over 400 feet, gradually scape, while along the banks of the :Slcg»jng away with the descent of the Upper Delaware the general lay of the ■Nestoaminy through verdant fields and land had permitted the streams to .highly cultivated farms to the tide¬ shape its surface into a network of water jjgglbn. L_ .Mineral deposits of varying richness *-aWKKisfcgSx'vJa-u - —• Shave been located in certain sections of and 50 to the servants: this I do for the county, but mining has never I their sakes that cannot buy, fcr I must developed their resources to any con- $ either be paid, by purchase or ifent, that siderable extent, except in the extreme I those that canjiot buy may take up, if northern townships. H a master of a family 200 acres at Id an acre, afterwards 50 acres per head for every man and maid servant, but Early Settlers. I still at the same rent, else none wpuld buy or rent, and so I should make \ alfe it has become customary to * nothing of my country.” date he early colonization of this see- ■ Thus he not only encouraged the tion from the time the charter waa ^ immigration of diligent and thrifty •granted to William Penn, and the ar- iS, people, but would sell outright or./rent rival of thosfe who took up lands under : his lands in quantity according to the his supervision, such is by no means | ability of his tenant to pay. And this the time of the first white inhabitants jo, from the same letter: located, along the banks of the Dela- I “Now, if any about thee will engage ware, and it is safe to say we may go H and buy, there may be ten aye twenty, ibaek almost three-quarters of a century m to one share, which will be TJtWT £5 further, or shortly after the exploration |0 apiece, for which they will ea$h have .of the Chesapeake, when that section 250 acres. For those that cannot pay now forming Bucks county war, by no j J passage, let me know their names and means unknown to the first colonists. k number and ages; they must pay Civilization had already entered and double rent to 'those that help them was finding its way along up the river |j! over; but this know that thejr^pt will with its characteristic institutions, ■ never be raised and they are'to^njoy leaving their traces which carry the ■ investigator back to the time when the I if forever.” Dutch and Swedes contended for su- I jin the political development the I county, Penn was well equipped by his premacy. In 1643 John Printz came Bearing the ■ J early education and experience to shape commission of Governor of New 9 j the destiny of the people whom fortune Sweden and at that time the Strug- ■ i might place in his power and in i gling settlement along the Delaware E announcing to the colonists “that it was of little more than one hundred I j hath pleased God in His providence to persons. A settlement of Hollanders 9 cast you within my lott and care,” he j was also located in the vicinity, and n assured that though the undertaking ! it is certain that an English colony of B - was new to him, yet God had given ' some sixty persons was then hereabouts | him an understanding of his duty and for the new Governor’s commission re- I an “honest mind to do it uprightly.” ! fered to it and instructed him _ “to Upon the arrival of Penn i.n 1682 he j work underhand as much as possible, 18 1 immediately set about adopting the with good manners and with success.’’ 1 measures necessary to “settle a govern¬ In 1640 the Connecticut people made I ment.” Messengers were promptly dis- ■j purchases of land on both sides of the I • patched to arrange a meeting with J river, and in the following year effected I Lord Baltimore for the settlement of i a settlement at Salem, New Jersey, and I the disputed boundry line. Pennsylva¬ | established a trading-house on the I nia was divided into the counties of I Schuylkill. J Chester, Philadelphia and Bucks, and 7 In 1675 the ship Joseph and Mary ar- fl Penn issued writs to the’ different 1 | rived at Salem with a number of pas- ■ sheriffs for the election of seven per- | sengers for the New Jersey settlements jl l sons from each county to serve aa and s:on after Robert Wade with others I members of the first Assembly. After , of the society of Friends settled in , setting the machinery of government in Upland, this being the first record of motion his next care was the “casting that sect who subsequently founded the t of the counties into townships.” In great Commonwealth, and so it is from I [ this work, however, he seems to have year to year down to 1681 when ’William j j taken little pains in defining the lines I Markham, the deputy-governor of t , as the townships had no political signi- I William Penn arrived bearing the I : ficance, and even the county lines were manifesto of his office, the dates are I 3 ill-defined for it was not until the 8th I , co-incident with the arrivals of settlers : of April. 1685, that the boundary of * .and traders, the purchase of lands and Bucks county was definitely settled. Q the establishment of trading-posts. The first measure taken in the organi¬ By 1682 the new proprietor had sold zation of the local government was the j five hundred and sixty-five thousand | appointment of sheriffs for the counties, ‘'•I acres. Of these purchases fifty-two, I and later the justices of the inferior many of them bearing the names of our 4 2 courts. ! oldest families, had located a part or S The first court in Bucks county will the whole of their lands in Bucks I :• be found mentioned on another page in i county, aggregating 103,000 acres. I ’ our article on the Bench and Bar, with From this it is reasonable to assume 1 more detail than is permitted here. that William Penn must have been one I of the most astute and enterprising I ' real estate owners and operators that S Social Development. ; the world has ever seen. The following I & extract from a letter written by him to I The Colonies along the west bank of James Harrison, then in England, will J English control were chiefly of Dutch b prove interesting in this connection: and Swcedish emigrants and their “Now, dear James,” he writes, “for j descendants. At this time the social I the 50 acres a servant to the master, [| I element? were in more or less crude iMwm -

THE OLD JAIL—Built 1812, Removed 1884. >a

form, and Bucks county enjoys the dis¬ terian faith, and the esfamishmenF”ofsta tinction of exhibiting the social product that church in Bucks county dates of the ‘‘divine experiment,” for no¬ almost simultaneously with their ar¬ where else was such marked fidelity to rival. Many of the oldest and most the tenets of the Society of Friends influential families in this part of the and loyalty to William Penn so uni¬ country came from this sturdy Scotch- versal, the simplicity of manners and Irish stock who have displayed re¬ sobriety of life imparted by its creed markable zeal and energy in every walk so long preserved. of life. They were a second colony of Puri¬ The Germans stand next in impor¬ tans, but less aggressive and while tance to the Quakers in point of the this fact doomed them to decay as a early history of the province. Their predominating social factor, it was they customs and language were retained who in the days of pliability formed the with such tenacity as to leave a never- character of this great Commonwealth fading impress upon society. About and the effect will be felt for all time. 1725 their number became so great as The Welsh Friends reached Richland in 1710, and extended their settlement to to excite forebodings of alarm, but Springfield and Durham, but the Welsh such was their frugality and industry Baptists who entered Hilltown and coupled with a law-abiding and God¬ NewBritain associated but little with fearing instinct that their influence has their countrymen. been to the great benefit of those with The Scotch-Irish race entered prior whom they became associated. to 1719 and constituted a most import¬ The first monthly meeting of the ant element in the social and commer¬ Society of Friends was held on May cial life of the county. A paper 13th, 1683, at the house of , recently read before the Bucks County in Falls township, and seven families Historical Society says in its introduc¬ ^I^,represented‘ Down to 1730 Falls tory: Middletown, Wrightstown. Bucking¬ "Full justice has probably never been ham, Bristol, Plumstead and Richland done the Scotch-Irish race for the part were the centres of early Quakerism in they played in the founding of our the county. great Commonwealth. The history of With the exception of the Friends’ the English Quaker, the Welsh Baptist, meetigs the Dutch Reformed church of the Sw'ede, the German and Palatine, North and Southampton is probably the the French Hugenot has been fully oldest denominational organiaztion in written, and their influence on our the county. common institutions fully credited, but little or nothing has been said of this Schools. one of the most important and domin¬ ant forces in the formation of our t!?e churches came a popular composite national character.” system of education, the corner-stone They are described as hardy, active Upon which the colonial "Frame of aggressive and intelligent, while almost Government was founded.” A part of fanatically attached to the Presby¬ tne ‘‘Great Law” enacted in the first year of the province provided that

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schools should be established forthe felt abroad, was founded at Doyles- education of the young-,” and a school town in 1880, and incorporated under was opened in Philadelphia in 1683, at the State law in 1885. Its purposes which each student was charged a were set forth at the initial meeting as small sum for tuition, but not until follows: after the Revolution were public schools “Its objects shall be to cultivate and established in Bucks county under the disseminate knowledge of all branches auspices of secular authorities. In the of history and to collect and preserve Constitution of 1790 the Legislature was specimens thereof.” directed to establish schools throughout w The first meeting was attended by the the State in SUGh manner that the poor following well-known persons: Gen. W. may be taught gratis. Those who were W. H. Davis, Josiah B. Smith, Henry C. well-to-do wefe charged a small sum, Mercer, Alfred Paschall, Richard M. but where parents were unable to pay Lyman, John S. Baily, Thomas P. Otter, the commissioners were authorized to George S. McDowell. Mahlon Carver, do so. The act of 1834 inaugurated in Dr. A. M. Dickie, and Dr. Jos. B. Wal¬ Pennsylvania what is known as the ter. During the first few years the common school system. meetings of the society -were held quarterly, but they were afterwards Church Schools, changed to semi-annual meetings. While the general interest in the movement ha.s been unabated it was not The Friends were pioneers in the marked by any considerable increase cause of education as well as Christian in the membership until 1895. at which worship. With them education was the time there -were forty-eight members companion of religion. enrolled. Since this date the society The old Friends meeting house in has prospered greatly, owing to the Falls township as fitted up for a school social features introduced by the lady in 1733, The Friends at an early date members, and to-day the roll includes established a school in Middletown, 239 names, among them those of per¬ Wrightstown Friends’ school was built sons of high literary and professional in 1725, and Plumstead meeting house attainments. The work has been de¬ had a school under its care in 1752. voted to its chosen sphere. Many in¬ The change from purely religious to teresting and instructive papers, the purely secular control was effected by result of deep research and investiga¬ the establishment of the ‘‘neighborhood tion, have been read and a large and school” in which the influences of both valuable library has been accumulated. were blended. The teacher derived his The collection of relics, many of them support from the patrons instead of from pre-historic times, marking the from the church, and the best members era of legends and traditions when the of the community were intrusted with fair face of the land was inhabited by its management. In these early days wild animals and savage tribes, has the methods employed, the school also been a most interesting and im¬ houses and their equipments may be portant feature in the society’s work. described in a single word, crude, but Many documents of profound interest untutored as were the teachers and to the historian and student of nature’s untoward the conditions of the scholar realm have been published irt the local they have in their day served to turn press and others have been compiled in out men whose intellects have glittered pamphlet form and sent throughout in the councils of the State and Nation. the country to those who find pleasure To-day the great State of Pennsylvania in scientific research. A catalogue expends annually something over $5,- recently published and labeled “Tools of 000,000 for the support of its public the Nation Maker” contains a compre¬ school system, -which is more than any hensive description of 761 articles other State in the Union provides for acquired by the society, and this num¬ this purpose, the State of Massa¬ ber is rapidly increasing—local memor¬ chusetts coming next in point of money ials of the county’s early life. expended. The private institutions and The society’s room is on the second State Normal schools are unsurpassed floor of the court house building, and in the length and breadth of their cour¬ while quite spacious is becoming daily ses by those of any other State or Na¬ more inadequate for their use, and with tion, and Bucks county enjoys an this in view and an eye to the perpetua¬ equal share with her sister counties in tion of the organization, efforts are the incalculable benefits derived from now being made to raise $10,000 with this stupenduous system of free educa¬ which to purchase ground and erect a tion. handsome and adequate structure, which shall serve as a storehouse for Historical Research. their relics, a library, office and as¬ sembly building. About $4,000 has Just here along the line of “social already been subscribed and the list of activity” and the more recent develop¬ contributors is growing encouragingly. ment of the people to the highest The officers of the association are pinacle in the study of the arts and Gen. W. W. H. Davis, president: and letters it seems fitting and proper to Alfred Paschall. secretary and treas¬ give attention to the Bucks County ury. Historical Society. This society, repre¬ senting men and women of the highest Journalism. literary attainments many of whom have made their influence and genius At a very early date the local press | became a prominent! social factor.

>r- the 25th day of July, 1800, “The Far... to make a living in. ers’ Weekly Gazette,” at Doylestown, The Doylestown Democrat was es- issued its first number, Josiah Ralston i tablished in 1816 by Lewis Deffenbach being the proprietor and publisher. & Co., and was the first exponent of This paper died a natural death in democracy in the county. Another about a year and on July 7th, 1804, democratic paper, the “Bucks County Asher Miner established the “Pennsyl¬ Messenger,” was begun by Simon vania Correspondent and Farmers’ Siegfried on June 28th, 1819. but it seems Advertiser,” a strange name indeed, but the exponents of the party could not it seemed to suit the farmers, for it support two organs and Mr. Deffenbach met with better success, and he sufose- assigned in 1820 to William Watts and quently curtailed the name to “Penn- Benjamin Morris, who disposed of the ! sylvania Correspondent,” in 1818, and paper to Benjamin Mifflin, who resumed later in 1824, it was changed again to it on January 2d, 1821. At this time “Bucks County Patriot and Farmers’ there were again two democratic organs Advertiser,” the proprietors at that and it was deemed wise to consolidate I time being Edward Morris and Samuel the two; accordingly the “Democrat” E. Kramer, who had purchased it from and Messenger” were combined as the ! Mr. Miner upon his retirement. In | Bucks County Democrat.” In Decern- 1827 Elisha B. Jackson and James , 1821> William L. Rogers assumed Kelley assumed charge and changed j charged and the name was changed to the name to “Bucks County Intelli¬ “Democrat and Farmers’ Gazette.” gencer and General Advertiser.” Ow¬ The present title “Doylestown Demo¬ ing to the death of Mr. Jackson in 1828, crat” was given it by Manassah H the burden of the management devolved iMade^r-]T-h0 became Es proprietor in upon Mr. Kelley, and in 1835 William 1829. William H. Powell bought the M. Large became a partner. In 1838 paper in 1832, and sold to John S Mr. Large became sole proprietor, and Bryan m November, 1834. who, in 1845 in 1841 he was succeeded by Samuel conducted the paper until 1858, when it Fretz, and two years later Mr. Fretz sold to Samuel J. Paxson. Mr. Paxson was succeeded by John S. Brown. In was transfered to General W.. W H 1855 Enos Prizer and Henry T. Darling¬ Davis, the present editor. As a liter- ton became the proprietors, and after ateur and journalist General Davis the death of Mr. Prizer, in 1864, Mr. stands in the very front rank of those Darlington remained the sole proprietor m this cultured section who wield the until January 1st, 1876, when Alfred pen. His vast experience as a traveler Paschall became junior partner, and m foreign countries, as an officer in the the firm name was changed to Henry wars of the rebellion and the Mexican T. Darlington & Co. S. Edward Pas¬ var, as a historian and man of letters chall was admitted to the firm in April have thrown at his command those 1st, 1878. On July 1st of the next year eminent qualifications that characterize the paper became the property of his writings. Paschall Brothers. The “Bucks County Express and Re¬ Janury 1st, 1876, a semi-weekly was form was started by Manassah H. instituted, which continued to July 1st, Snjder m 1827, and underwent numer- 1879. The Daily Intelligencer, the first, Cnh^nge^ in its management until daily of Bucks county, was begun on 1866 when Dr. Morwitz established the September 6th, 1886, In 1886. S. Edward Refoim A on Bucks” and consolidated Paschall retired, by reason of ill health, the “ExPress” which was at and the business was conducted by that time owned by Allen H. and T. H. Alfred Paschall & Co. until April 29th, Heist. The present editor is Fred. 1898, when the Intelligencer Company Constantine, and the “Express and Re- was formed with Alfred Paschall, \heu Iast of many German editor; Arthur K. Thomas, business fown^ that have existed in Doyles- manager; and George W. McIntosh, superintendent. The steadfast policy The number of weekly, semi-weekly of the paper has been to furnish the ^PerS that have been pub^ most and best news service with an lished in the various boroughs and especial eye to local matters. The com¬ hamlets throughout Bucks county is mon welfare and prosperity of Bucks yveiy large and their history beset with county has marked its highest tenden¬ many of the vicissitudes of success cies and aspirations. and failure which would require a ~reat In the early sixties it will be remem¬ l^tb °f space to record, qbut we& wm bered as a strong war paper, and It has been devotedly Republican since the tailsbUlden thS reader with these de- organization and inception of that party. This special industrial number marks 1 ll>lSrylV£ the twelfth anniversary of the Dailv Intelligencer and its object is to record for the first time in newspaper form the fneft ,natu.ral and acquired resources that abound in Bucks county, to attract Familfen I'iun" the favorable attention of the financier ford Square; News. Ind., New Hope; in quest of a safe and suitable place for Enterprise, Ind., Newtown; Central lm estment in manufacturing and oth°r 5fews, ind.. Perkasie; Republican, Rep enterprises, to lay before the home- n Doylestown; Free Press, Ind., Quaker- seekers everywhere the possibilities' I town; Mennonite, Mennon, Quaker- afforded by the county of Bucks as a town; Times, Ind., Quakertown; News, good place to live in, and a good plact 1 1 Herald. Local, Sellers- S3: Vvi

THE NEW COURT HOUSE—Erected 1876. ville; Times, Ind., Springtown; Yardley period, and were indicated upon a map Review, local, Yardley. published in 1684, and at the instance of Governor Kieth, in 1723, the road along north of the Easton road was Farmers’ Clubs. surveyed. The Bristol road was opened to the public in varying sections from Bucks county has been called the 1730 to 1752. No effort was made to home of farmers’ clubs. Nowhere in preserve a regular system of roads in the country are the men who bring the country east of the Neshaminy. forth from the soil of the earth the In 1723 John Dyer, of Doylestown, who commodities with which to feed the had built a mill in the woods of Plum- Nation, more intelligent and educated, stead petitioned the court that a road almost universally they are readers and might be opened from his settlement \ reasoners and their research as to the to the Governor’s, to which consent best methods of tilling the soil is by was granted. This was known as the no means single handed. It was early Dyer's Mill road until the present cen¬ seen that full intercourse on these sub¬ tury, and constitutes the “Iw-m” street jects would be conducive of good re¬ of Doylestown. It was extended to sults. The following Farmers’ Clubs of Pipersville shortly after 1738. Bucks county are now in a healthy The road from Bristol to Newtown state of activity and their meetings are was opened by order of the Court of the occasion for the reading of papers Quarter Sessions in 1693, and was ex¬ and essays, and the discussion of topics tended to Wrightstown in 1696, to Buck¬ calculated to enlighten and entertain ingham in 1703, to Durham Forge in the audiences and add to the sum of 1746, and to Easton in 1755. This is the professional knowledge. Following are great interior highway of the county. the names of the farmers’ clubs in Among the towns through which it Bucks county: Solebury Farmers’ passes are Hulmeville, Langhorne. Club: Wrightstown Farmers’ Club; Newtown, Wrightstown, Pineville, Northampton Farmers’ Club, South¬ Buckingham, Gardenville, Hinkletown, ampton Farmers’ Club. Pipersvillle, Ottsville, Bucksville, and In another direction the farmers have Durham. It is the only continuous road endeavored to lighten their burdens connecting the extreme northern and through the co-operative measures of southern portions of the county. the Grange, and to this end these The first stage route through Bucks Granges have been formed: Middle- County was that of John Butler. His I town, Carversville, Excelsior, Edge- route followed the west banks of the j wood, Richborough and Springtown Delaware, crossing the river at Tren¬ Granges. ton. and thence to New York, the trin Transportation Facilities. requiring three days from Philadelphia, j An opposition line was established In Penn's comprehensive plans for I over the same route in 1765, on which the settlement of his country the sub¬ [ the fare was reduced to two pence per [ mile. ject of roads had not been forgotten. John Barnhill established a third line The Bristol streets and county line in 1166. He improved the wagons by mads were surveyed at a very early placing the seats on springs and also .ance Though one of the younger rotm^the from Elm street near Vine Philadel¬ North East is a fine enterprise through phia, to Amboy in two days. This a fine country. achievement was unparalleled in those Among the trolley roads that of re¬ days, and gained for his wagon the title cent years have'made their appearance of "Flying Machines.” Then came the with fast flying cars, passing at short establishment of the national postal intervals, affording on the highways of system in 1790, which contributed a former wilderness the facilities of a greatly to the success of the staae man¬ city street and bringing with them cor¬ agement, and new lines were opened to responding cheapness in transportation, many places hitherto untouched by the Bucks County has been especially fav- stages. -ored by the enterprise of its citizens. Nor was navigation neglected in these The Bucks County Railway, more times. The steamboat Phoenix, built popularly known as the Doylestown in New York and patterned after Ful¬ and Willow Grove trolley, con¬ ton’s- "Clermont” began to ply regularly nects directly with the Philadelphia between Philadelphia and Bristol in Traction Co., thus affording swift and 1S09. The “Philadelphia” followed . inexpensive transportation to the city, shortly afterward, and altogether thib- j which is not only cheaper than the ty-one steamboats have at different steam roads but offers to the sightseer times since the days of Fitch, the a smooth and delightful ride through original inventor of steamboats, plied country abounding with marvelously between these points. picturesque- and beautiful scenery, ro¬ The Lehigh Valley Coal and Navi- f mantic and historic, dotted with ver¬ gation Company, formed in 1822, ap¬ dant fields and splendid farms, made plied a system of dams and sluices, and ! the more interesting by those quaint thus transported their products to Phil- j old buildings characteristic of their adelphia. early masters. A tramway suitable for wheel carriages The cars of this road leave Doyles¬ and drawn by horses was the first de¬ town and Willow Grove every eighteen parture from the turnpike to the mod¬ minutes, ana cover the twelve miles ern steam railway. The Philadelphia in about fifty minutes. and Trenton Railroad Company was in¬ The power house is situated on the corporated on February 23d, 1832. They “Little Neshaminy” about midway be- were to prepare a schedule of rates or tween the two terminals, and is tolls similar to those charges by turn¬ equipped with two Sterling boilers of pikes and of rates for transportation 200 uorse power each, two McEwan en¬ in the carriages. Ground was broken gines of 200 horse power each, two in 1832, and in the following year the Thomson & Ryan dynamos of 150 kilo¬ road was completed. The first train watts each, and the switchboard, made passed from Trenton to Bristol drawn by the General Electric Co., is one of by horses. The first locomotive was the their latest and best. There are seven, “Trenton” in October, 1834. The sec¬ St. Louis cars with “General Electric" ond railroad to pass through the county motors of 35 horse power each and in was the Doylestown branch of the ! addition to these the company has been “North Penn,” which was projected in compelled by the heavy traffic to lease 1852 as the “Philadelphia, Easton and i three open cars from another road. The Water Gap,” but assumed its present officers of the company are Henry Lear, name in the following year. On Oc¬ president; W. Jenks Fell, secretary; tober 7th, 1856, the officers of the road George P. Brock, treasurer; Frank W. visited Doylestown in a special car and ‘ Janney, supt. Other elect.rie roads formally opened the road above Gwyn¬ in the county are the Newtown and edd. Langnorne, connecting the towns indi¬ The Philadelphia, Newtown and New cated by its natne, and the Langhorne York, which together with the “North and Bristol, which is a continuation of Penn’ is now operated by the Reading the system, and makes the route com¬ Railroad Company, are the only two plete to the Delaware, The Philadel¬ railroads that may be termed a county phia unu Bristq’, Trolley Railroad enterprise until August 18th of this makes connection between Bristol and year, when the first ten miles of the the Quaker City by a somewhat diver¬ Quakertown and Easton Line was sified system, first a horse car for a opened and the road was added to the short distance and then a stage; alight¬ list of wholly Bucks county railroads, ing from this a short walk across the North East, Bound Brook. tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad, The Bound Brook branch of the which has steadfastly refused permis¬ Reading system traverses Bucks coun¬ sion to competing lines to cross its ty from Southampton township to tracks, and from there on the journey Yardley borough, and was the second is made in a trolley car. trunk line to go through the county The Quakertown and Richlandtown connecting the two principal cities of Trolley Railroad is the only other elec¬ the Atlantic seaboard. The line is a tric system at present in the county, splendid double-track road, with nu¬ and is isolated from the others, since merous local stations, and affords un¬ it has no connection with any other surpassed facilities. electric railroad. It is however a busy and prosperous interurban railroad, The North East Pennsylvania was at first built to Ivyland, but later ex¬ which will doubtless in time be extend¬ ed to other fields, and acts as a feeder tended to New Hope. This latter part to the Reading Railway, wnich it is wholly in Bucks county and gives touches at Quakertown. facilities to a rich and prosperous ag¬ A new electric railway of great im- ricultural region, and lately is attract- in^th^attentioi^ofcitymvestors. JH ■

THE OLD COURT HOUSE—Built 1812, Removed 1876. portance to Doylestown and the south¬ over the age of four years number ern portion of the county in general is 248, and their value is $920,932. The neat now contemplated from Newtown, the cattle over the age specified number terminus of the Newtown and Lang- 21,166, and they are valued at $632,280. horne road. The value of salaries ana emoluments When completed this road will make of office, post or profit, professions, direct communications between Doyles¬ I j trades and occupations is estimated at town and Bristol by way of Newtown, $2,772,750. Langhorne and HulmgVille. It will The aggregate value of all property { oass through a large and important taxable ;for county purposes at the rate territory yet untraversed by any steam of .2% mills on the dollar is $38,311,439, j or electric road, and will bring the and the aggregate amount of county central and southern portions of the : tax assessed at the rate named is $105,'- county into immediate communication, ' 382.62. ■ a need that has long been keenly ap¬ The amount of money at interest, in¬ parent. cluding mortgages, judgments bonds, The Quakertown and Eastern Rail¬ notes, stocks, etc., is $9,485,838. road has just completed its line as far The value of stages, omnibuses, east as Springtown, and will in the hacks, cabs, etc., $7355. near future extend its tracks to Rieg- The aggregate value of propertv tax- elsville. This is a steam road, and like 1 able for state purposes at 4 mills on thel all the other internal railroads of the dollar, including money at interest, county, either steam or electric, its stages, hacks, etc-., is $9,493,193, and thel stock is subscribed almost entirely by aggregate amount of state tax assess-[ local capitalists. : ment is $37,972.72. Manufacturing. The County’s Wealth. Although Bucks County, one of thel That Bucks County stands well in the earliest setttlements in the state was| notable for the social activity and de- front, as compared with other counties Ivelopment in agricultural pursuits, but| in point of wealth, is clearly shown by little attention was paid to manufac¬ the following statement prepared by turing until a comparatively reeentj Commissioners’ Clerk Elmer E. Funk: period. The Bristol mills ware among ‘c the first to show life in this departure,! The total amount of taxables is 26,685. i and the first records we have of this! The amount of cleared land is 336,263 line of industry show the establishment! acres and the timber land 18 896. The I by Samuel Carpenter in 1701 of a saw! value of all real estate is $36,717,917. The || mill on Mill creek about a quarter of al value of the real estate exempt from p; mile from the . The mills taxation is $2,732,440, and the value of was seventy-five feet long, and had al that subject to tax is $33,985,477. II daily capacity of three thousand feet. | The horses and mules in the county THE NEW JAIL—Built 1884.

A woolen mill was established in 1815 The firm name has since been! by Joseph and Abraham Warner on the changed to the Sherman-Pierce Com-s* south side of Hill street now occupied' pany, and their product now embraces; by the canal and railroad. It had seven y.;. sash, doors, blinds, stair railings and!; hundred and eighty spindles with card¬ other ornamental architectural work,! ing and other machinery* two hand by’ :a . as well as an extensive business in the I looms for satins and six looms for manufacture of engraving boards, in I plaids and checks, employing twenty- which they enjoy a large and growing;'! four hands. The mill was later leased trade. to Isaac Pitcher, who removed the ma¬ The Bristol Worsted Mill was built up ' chinery to Graveville, N. J., and the by Grundy Brothers & Campion in abandoned building was destroyed bv 1876. The buildings comprise sixty, ] fire. thousand square feet of floor space, and J In 1850 a stock company -with $12,00.0 are fitted with intricate and valuablle capital built the Bristol forge and for machinery. a time the business was fairly success¬ The iron industry in Bucks county is ;; ful. They made the first armor plates S represented by the Durham furnaces, > for Government war ships, but this lost which date back to the early part of the '{■ the mill was abandoned. last century. The recorded history be-, j The Bristol Woolen Mill Company gins in 1727, when a stock company was was organized in 1864 with a capital of organized in which were such well; | $60,000, whicl) was afterwards increased known men as , to $75,000, and a large two-story build¬ , James Logan, Charles ing was erected. Later the property Reed, Robert Ellis, George Fitzwater, passed into other hands, and it was Clement Plumstead, , converted into a hosiery mill.’ Andrew Bradford, John Hopkins, The Livingston Mills were built in Thomas Lindsley, Joseph Turner. Grif¬ 1868 by Charles W. and Joshua Pearcg fith Owen and Samuel Powell. The iron for the manufacture of printed felt ore and limestone were abundant and druggets and floor cloth, but latter itg it is quite likely some operations v^ere product was changed and poo ladles' carried on prior to 1727, but of such felt skirts were made per day. The nothing authentic is known. The first exhibit of the company at the ’Centers furnace was about where the store of Tiietl Exposition was large and varied. the Bachman’s now stands. Durham The Bristol Foundry was established stoves and fire place plates were an : by the T. B. Harkins Foundry Com¬ early product, some of the latter being | pany in 1871. This plant is still in ac¬ mKmk: v ,jv- ~ found in thep resent days, in old houses, tive operation, and moulds street rail¬ and in the collection of the Historical way castings and other work of this I Society are several specimens. Shot and character, which-is sold all over the 1 shell for the American army were made . country. 2 at Durham during the Revolutionary The Bristol rolling mill was built in war. Among later owners of the Dur¬ 1875, and for a number of years en- ham furnaces were the names of Gal-# ^d_ajaj;ge and lucrative business loway, Nickleson, Smith, Morgan and: church is but the child of another- Back! HUSH the mother church is the “Presbyter¬ Cooper & Hewitt, and the superintend¬ ian Chifrch of Deep Run,” which was ent for a score of years has been B. P. I founded in the year 1732—and was Fackenthall, Jr. The output of these) built of logs. Presbytery supplied it furnaces has been large and valuable, until 1738, during which year Rev. but for some years they have been idle.! Francis McHenry, from Ireland, was With the opening of the new Quaker- chosen and installed pastor. He died town and Eastern railroad there is in the year 1757, and the congregation prospect of renewed activity and the remained vacant four years.. Rev. continuance of this old, useful and James Latta was installed pastor in creditable enterprise. 1761. The lot of ground, on which the During these years the manufacture church stands, together with the ad¬ j of staple articles was progressing in joining parsonage in Bedminster town¬ j other sections of the county. Mills of ship, about a mile from Dublin and various kinds were being built and seven miles from Doylestown, was operated both by steam and water conveyed by Hon. William Allen, of , where the streams were of sufficient Philadelphia, to Mr. Latta, and his power to render their use of practical successors in the ministry for the use ; service. To-day the county embraces of the congregation. In 1770 Mr. Latta manufacturing industries of various removed, and in three years the Rev. j kinds in cotton and woolen goods as Hugh Magill became pastor, and he, | well as iron and steel works, the cigar in 1776, also left. Then Rev. James i industry being a leading on together Grier was ordained and installed pas- with the large and important concerns j turning out unusually great quantities 1 of boots and shoes, stoves, uarness, | spokes and wheels, agricultura. imple¬ ments, bicycles, wagons, carriages,! ; musical instruments and a great va-1 y riety of other goods which find their i way into the great marts of the world1 I to satisfy the needs of the human race. ■ II __GIBSON CATLETT. I . I DEEP RUN AND DOYLESTOWN.

History of the Two Presbyterian Churches, by John L. ~7 , DuBois. / The Doylestown church, which is quite an imposing one, stands upon a lot of about an acre of ground, bounded by Church, Court and Me¬ chanic streets. The situation is beau¬ tiful, commanding an extensive view of the surrounding country. Its size I is sixty by ninety feet, and has a tower and spire one hundred and forty-six feet from the ground. It was built in 1872, the cornerstone hav¬ ing been laid in 1871; and the stone of DOYLESTOWN PRESBYTERIAN which it was constructed, and which is of a light brown color, wras taken CHURCH. from a quarry in Doylestown. It has tor over the united churches of Deep Gothic windows anri h&smtifnl stained glass; chapel, Sabbath school rooms, Run and Tinicum. He died in 1791, and session room on the first floor, leaving the congregation vacant until and an auditorium on the second, cap¬ 1798, when Rev. Uriah DuBois was in able of sitting a thousand persons. stalled pastor over them. The Union The building as it stands, furnished Academy of Doylestown was built in and all complete, cost about $31,000. 1S04 by subscriptions, and the Rev. iThe beautiful tones of a large organ Uriah DuBois became the principal. Scan be heard every Sunday. Back of A room in that building was set apart the pulpit in the recess against the free for the use of every denomination wall is placed a marble tablet, in of Christians... Mr. DuBois then began memory of its late pastor. Rev. S. to preach in .the academy with his M. Andrews, D.D., deceased, and in other charges. In 1808, having been the front vestibule down stairs is released from the Tinicum church, he lerected a large tablet, giving the his¬ began preaching alternately at Deep tory of the Deep Run and Doylestown Run and Doylestown. In August, 1813, Presbyterian Church. This is the the Presbyterians commenced build¬ Doylestown Presbyterian Church as ing their first church in Doylestown we now see it; but to give its his- on the site of the present building, jtory we must go back to 1732, a hun- funds for the same having been sub- *dred and fifty-one years ago. This - [Kara scribec m schools connected with the'" church. the church was dedicated to the wor¬ The two outposts, Bridge Point and ship of God. There were present Rev. Mechanicsville, are with their chap¬ Qacob J. Janeway, of Philadelphia; els under the control of the Doyles- Rev. Robert B. Belville, of Nesham- Presbyterian Church. The con¬ iny, and the Rev. Uriah DuBois, the gregation numbers about six hundred pastor. The congregations of Deep and thirty. There are a number of > Run and Doylestown thus being unit¬ Sunday-schools connected with the • ed numbered thirty members. They church. With the church at Doyles- 1 now have six hundred and thirty mem¬ ' : v ■ - :■ town a large library is connected. The f! bers. ruling elders from 1796 to 1898 have Li Rev. Uriah DuBois died on the 10th v ■ ;> been Thomas Stewart, James Fergu- ! of September, 1821, and his people were son, Andrew Dunlap, John Mann, John without a pastor until November, C. Ernst, Jonas Newton, John Beatty, ■ 1823. In July, 1823, Mr. Charles Hyde Dr. W. S. Hendrie, James McNeely,’ became the regular supply to the two Samuel Godshalk, Nathan Lewis, John ! churches, and on the 19th of Novem¬ Widdifield, John H. Anderson, Samuel ber, 1823, he was ordained and installed Hall, John Greer, Silas H. Thompson, pastor over them; Deep Run to have John G. Mann, Benjamin S. Rich, one-fourth of his time. November, John G. Harris, John K. Lovett 1829, Mr. Hyde left, and immediately George W. Hunt, John L. Ervin’ after Rev. Henry Hotchkiss became Henry W. Gross, Jacob Haggerty the supply, but died in the fall of Philip H. Fritz, Charles H. Mathews, 1831. In the summer of 1831 Silas M. John L. DuBois, Carlile Shepherd, Al¬ Andrews, a student in the theological bert J. Jones. The present session is seminary at Princeton, N. J., was in¬ composed of Philip H. Fritz, Jacob vited to become pastor, and the Pres¬ Haggerty, John L. DuBois Carlile bytery of Philadelphia met in Doyles¬ Shepherd and Henry W. Gross. This town, November 16, 1831, and ordained church has exerted a good, moral and ! and installed him pastor of the Deep religious influence in the community, Run and Doylestown churches. Rev. and it is revered and honored by all! Alexander Boyd presided; Rev. Robert Steel preached the sermon, and Rev. R. B. Belville delivered the charge. Solebury Friends’ Meeting. The names of communicants amounted to ninety-three; eighty-four of these The Solebury Friends’ Meeting resided in the congregation of Doyles¬ House wras built in the summer and fall of 1806. The first monthly town. The congregation of Doyles¬ town has preaching every Sabbath, meeting was held in the house twelfth month 30th, 1806. The first monthly morning and evening, except the third meeting was held seventh month 2 Sabbaths of April and September. In 1811. Prior to this time Solebury the summer of 1835 a building was h riends were members of Bucking¬ erected on the church grounds, in ham monthly meeting. A large com¬ which were held meetings of sessions, mittee was appointed to attend the Sabbath school and weekly lectures. opening of the monthly meeting. Oli¬ On the 7th of March, 1881, Dr. Silas Sa-c • ver Hampton was appointed clerk, in M. Andrews, our pastor, died. Had which capacity he served for ten he lived to the 16th of November, 1881, years. The house is situated on the he would have been the pastor for Sugan road at the corner of lands fifty years. On the 3d of May, 1881, now owned by Hugh B. Eastburn and Rev. William A. Patton, late of the M llliam C. Blackfan, at the intersec¬ Roxborough Presbyterian Church, was A wr . ■’ tion of the road leading to the turn¬ installed. March 5, 1890, Mr. Patton pike at Canada Hill, and about three resigned, and on September 2, 1890, W. miles from New Hope and one mile Hayes Moore was elected pastor, and from the village of Centre Hill which on the 26th of October, 1897, Mr. Moore is located near the centre of Sole¬ resigned. The church has been vacant Jill bury township. The size of the house ever since. is 63 feet long by 36 feet wide, and is The second building at Deep Run two stories high. The estimated cost was constructed of stone some time of the building was *1500, of which prior to 1766. The third, which now sum £1346 15s. was contributed by stands, was built of stone in 1841. It the Solebury members. The original is of record that as early as the year deed for the land purchased was made 1732 the Rev. William Tennent, of log twelfth month 21st, 1805. The grant¬ college memory, preached in Bedmin- ors were Aaron Paxson, Sr., and Le- ster, and the place where he preached titia Paxson, his wife. The trustees ■ was called “Mr. Tennent’s upper meet¬ who were to receive and hold the ing house.” In 1850 the church at title, and to whom the deed in trust Doylestown was enlarged and changed was made, were Benjamin Paxson, in appearance. Towers and a spire ; ' yeoman, Solebury; Jonathan Fell were constructed at the front of the yeoman, Warwick; Robert Smith' building. The writer well remembers surveyor, Buckingham; Thomas Phil- a pulpit in the old church—it was hps, miller, Solebury, and Samuel narrow and about twelve feet high, Gillingham, blacksmith, Buckingham, with a door at the base and a pair of the amount of land conveyed in the winding stairs inside to reach the top. first purchase was 4Ng|c;e acres, and When Dr. Andrews would enter he the consideration money, or price would close the door, and it was quite paid, was $180. Of the three acres a while before we saw his head above purchased one acre, lying* on the the pulpit. south side of the wood, was laid out as a graveyard. The size of the plots m There are a number of Snnria^ was made 8 by 21 feet, and were to I fi be assigned totne members of tne I M^^school sunder rtsespeci care. ) meeting' as necessity required. Ad- I which were superintended tfy com¬ | tional land has been purchased at ji mittees appointed toy the meeting, two different times to enlarge the I viz., the one at Centre Hill and the I graveyard. At the present time the I Solebury school. The ground for the graveyard contains three acres, and 9 Centre Hill school has been deeded the entire ground^, five acres of land. I to the township school directors, but ! The membership of the meeting in ■, the title for the Solebury school is | 1827 at the time of the separation or I still held by the meeting. A- school \ division in the society was over ; was first established here by John ] three hundred. At the present time j,' Blackfan, who built the house and 5 the membership has been decreased ; employed the teacher, for the educa¬ . by removals, by deaths and by a fail- j tion of his own children and for the ure “to increase and multiply” to J children of the neighborhood. This was about tv>^ vnar icon ij-] the year

TS31T Merrick Reeder called the attem abouta 'two hundred members. ^We tion of the meeting to the old and ! rmen who have served the meeting in dilapidated condition of the school the capacity of clerk or recording house that had been built upon land officer have been Oliver Hampton donated by Joseph Eastburn, and the from 1811 to 1821, Aaron Eastburn meeting was induced to sell at public from 1821 to 1827, Robert Livezey from sale the old school house and grounds 1828 to 1840, John Blackfan from^ 1840 and to purchase of John Blackfan the to 1864, Moses Eastburn from 1864 to new school house and land which was 1887, and Eastburn Reeder fromr 1889 adjoining the meeting property. This to the present date. exchange was effected in the year There have been but two recommend¬ 1840. The school was kept under the ed ministers belonging to the meet¬ care of the meeting, the scholars at¬ ing since its establishment. Rachel tending the mid-week meetings of the Johnson, daughter of John L. John¬ society until the adoption of the free son, who was recommended in 1843 school law by the township, and the and Jeremiah Hayhurst, who was care of the schools was passed over recommended in 1890. Mercy Phillips to the charge of the township school and Sarah Dugdale were also ac¬ directors. credited ministers of the society who The mid-week meetings of the so¬ traveled in the ministry, but their recommendations were issued by ciety, except monthly meetings, were other monthly meetings, and before discontinued in 1891 with the consent th'e establishment of Solebury monthly of the quarterly meeting. For several years past the meeting meeting. has conducted a First-day school, At one time Solebury meeting had which is under the charge of a com¬ mittee appointed by the monthly meeting k of the First-day. school is the hour ver Paxson-, an elder, by appointment immediately following the religious of the visits Friends meeting on First-day mornings, from in Maryland. He was probably the '.I the middle of the fifth month (May) husband of Ruth Paxson, who went to ' until the middle of tenth month (Oc- Maryland on a similar mission. In tober). The adult class of the First- 1192, Hannah Ivirkbride, “a minister in day school continue their sessions a£- good esteem, having in a weighty ) ter meeting the-entire year. The pres- rnanner informed us she desired at¬ i ent superintendent of the First-day tending the ensuing Yearly, Meeting in S school is Martha B. White, of Sole Baltimore town Maryland,” and Thom¬ 5 bury. as Smith signified his willingness to accompany her. In 1795, we have a most distinguished visitor with us. [Gervis Johnson produced on behalf of I himself a certificate from Friends of Antrim quarter, in province Ulster, | From,^2&ti jheld in Belinacree, Ireland, to Friends of New York, Philadelphia, or where he may offer the same in America. His certificate gave him a wide range for location, but his main point of in¬ terest settled here where he had rela¬ tives. Samuel Johnson, father of the Date,^f/. /fff late Anna J. Paxson, was a nephew of 1 his. He was a true representative of the Irish character, and the portrait Curran draws of an Irish gentleman, is not inapplicable to him. “The hospi¬ tality of an Irishman is not the run¬ ning account of posted and ledgered courtesies, as in other countries, it HISTORIC BUCKINGHAM. springs, like all his qualities, his faults, his virtues, directly from his heart. The heart of an Irishman is by Brief Sketches of Friends’ nature bold, and he confides: It is ten¬ der, and he loves; it is generous, and Meeting Since 1720. he gives; it is social, and he is hospit¬ _ able.” Friend Johnson was an edu¬ cated, scholarly man and his many A Paper Prepared by Albert S. Paxson, eloquent sermons in this house gave Esq., and Read Before Young Friends’ him prominence as an orator. Why he came to this land of ours may per¬ | Association at Buckingham Meeting haps be explained by the motto on the family coat of arms: "Ubi xibertas ibi j House, September 18, 1898. patria.” He may have seen, even then, the cloud that overshadowed his | W2 have now arrived at the revo¬ beloved native land, and possibly dis¬ lutionary period, and a conflict be¬ cerned in prophetic vision her subse¬ tween the infant colonies and the quent fearful struggle with oppression mother country is already at hand and and power. Margaret Ely is again heard from dark and lowering clouds witness the and pays a religious visit to Friends of fierce clash of steel on steel. Yet with- the Western quarter in 1797 and Oli¬ al Hannah Wilson is recommended in ver Paxson visits meetings in Canada. We are now about crossing the line of ahrv^ti,ISt^ ai}d her voice is heard abo\e the dm of conflict, cheering and the century just passed and enter upon encouraging Friends to uphold their the present one. Benjamin White a gifted and eloquent minister appears throu-hnthed tand cherished Principles through the trying period, and that in the fourth year of the new era and visits Friends in Abington and Phila¬ witvi th!^ I36 'vith thern and remain vwth them always. It must have been delphia, and also in New Jersey. Also “™«ue spectacle as the soldiers John Simpson likewise visits several v ith their muskets stacked around the quarterly meetings in this and adjoin¬ d °ors aiLd ,their bright uniforms, seated ing States and other meetings as among Friends to listen to a discourse “truth may open the way.” In 1807 he from a preacher of the gentler also visits Friends in Great Britain )The text upon which her sermon was and Ireland. In 1812 we find Grace Gil¬ n0t kn«wn' but as appropriate lingham is approved in the ministry. jit ma>,, have been, “Christ the good Two years later Sarah Watson ap¬ soldier. James Simpson is approved » pears in the role as preacher, and her j n the ministry in 1782. A few war. first mission was to hold a meeting later Friend Simpson expressed in the with the prisoners in Trenton jail and [meeting “a draught that attended his ‘also with the black people of that city. jmind to visit Friends in New Tersev In 1817 Hannah Kirkbride visits those In 1789 Ruth Paxson being under an who have been disconnected with pointment by the Yearly Meeting to Friends in Fails and Middletown. visit Friends in Maryland, the meetin° Benjamin White, having returned from Ihere encourages her in the work “she his visits to Europe attended this .being an elder in good esteem> In meeting and returned the minute |if°- . Friends recommended jgranted him in 1818, and produced cer¬ Margaret Ely in the ministry and Oh ■ tificates from the Yearly Meeting of -ministers and elders held in London 4 Dublin, certifying that ""his visit I istry? shalfTbte permitted to set in the uas truly acceptable, his ministry I select' meeting, until they have passed sound and edifying and his conduct the regular ordeal, tfte more I see the and conversation circumspect and be¬ inconsistency of this system, the more coming the Gospel.” I feel bound to testify against such We h?*ve now arrived at what may imposing intolerance.” be called the revolutionarv period in It will be observed thus far, that I the history of Friends wherein Elias have not criticized her course nor call¬ Hicks, of Long Island, figured so con¬ ed attention to her many devia¬ spicuously. His eventful career was tions from the old and time honored'i briefly sketched in my former paper practices of Friends, but here we find, j and need not be repeated here. A by her own admision a purpose to run. somewhat less conspicuous personage the blockade, if we may use such a| appeared upon the scene at this time term, and have a seat in the select and her teachings stirred the society | meeting at the Falls in August, 1826. to its inmost depths, but did not re¬ She says however in this, as in many sult in more than a division of senti¬ other cases: “she was but doing her ment. I allude to Martha Smith and Master’s will.” If this were so, “the her eventful career may be said to be Master’s will” and the discipline and the history of this meeting for a per¬ usages of Friends are not in accord. iod of twenty years. Many of our el¬ I will not decide the issue joined, but derly people now living will be able to leave it for your consideration. Her call to mind something concerning her travels in the ministry led her to many as she was in the line of generations distant meetings and upon her return just passed. She was the daughter of home from Rhode Island in 1826 com¬ Josiah and Deborah Brown, of Plum- plaints were received from there “that stead. and born the 8th of Second- she had introduced unsavory views month, 17S7. Her opportunities for ac¬ and sentiments and had moreover lain quiring school learning were limited, waste the Holy Scriptures.” The but as she grew to womanhood her charge as laid against her was read mind developed wonderful power. She in Plumstead meeting and received in appeared in public testimony about silence, but the proposition to have a the year 1819, but was not recogniz¬ committee in the case was thought un¬ ed as an approved minister until nine safe, for while it might have been un¬ years later, one year after the divis¬ savory to some it might have been ion. She lived in what may be termed satisfactory to others, and that they stormy times, which may have had could not come to a judgment in the much to do in developing the strong case without having it specified. Af¬ points that marked her eventful ca¬ ter much discussion she arose in her reer. She possessed a strong will pow¬ own defense and stated the manner in er and took hold of the reforms of the which the charge was brought, "with¬ day as paramount or above all other out the knowledge of the other over¬ considerations. She was fearless and seer and without the voice of the Pre¬ aggressive and in the crusade against parative Meeting: that she had never the twin evils, slavery and intemper¬ traveled as a minister, had never gone ance, she led the advance column, with the necessary appendages of one, throwing out her picket line, far in that she had never carried a written advance of any that had hitherto ven¬ certificate as a passport to the hearts tured, and close upon the enemy’s of the people and was but a common work. Figuratively speaking she threw member.” A long and exciting debate shot and shell into their strongholds, ensued between Martha and the over¬ creating consternation and dismay, seer and an elder in which she showed tier labors were not confined within her skill as a debater and more than a the lines of the society, but wherever a match for both of them, and no fur¬ field opened for active work, there she ther action was taken against her. labored. It matters not who her co¬ Later on in her ministry and after be¬ workers were if their views were in ing ordained as such, if we may use accord with hers. Consequently she the expression, she was granted cer¬ was thrown much in the society of tificates to various meetings within the clergymen and others whose salaried bounds of Philadelphia Yearly Meet¬ perquisites were not in accord with ing. but she now opened up a wider the teachings and usages of Friends. field of labor by requesting a minute She made long visits in a ministerial to attend the meetings of Genesee, In¬ way before passing the test in a cru¬ diana and Ohio. While Friend Smith cial as a recommended minister. This was an approved minister at this time she had a right and privilege to do, as the meeting hesitated and while a ma¬ might also any member of good stand¬ jority favored her proposed visit the ing in the society, but she claimed title dissenting ones were not a few. Her to a seat in the select meetings of min¬ request was granted however. This isters and elders, which was revolu¬ was at the monthly meeting held here tionary in its character in every sense. in May, 1S3S, and at the quarterly Yet she justifies it. She failed in sev¬ meeting here later in the month she eral attempts, yet in 1826 she says: laid her papers before that body for "I feel bound to visit the select meet¬ ! their approval. At the monthly meet- ing again, not knowing what, shall be¬ | ing in the 6th-month the following ap¬ come of me there; but the more I see pears: “Martha Smith returned the the iniquity of a system, where an at¬ [ minute granted her last month, with tention to the spirit of truth is profess¬ j information that the quarterly meet- ed to be our guide, and yet that sys¬ ] ing had declined endorsing it.” I was tem plainly says, that no person who \ present at both the monthly and quar- is considered to have a gift in the min¬ I terly meeting and a close observer of ^ .. ' . - K 31 all that transpired. In the monthly abo'undeth in the land. He followed no meeting there was a want o'f unity strange gods with the cry, "Lo Christ expressed in Friend Smith’s proposed is here, and lo He is there!” He would religious visit, and the clerk, Robert not invest all the bonds and stocks of Smith, instead of drawing the minute Quakerdom in one single risk or reform in the usual way, “as "being an ap- enterprise. Not so with Martha Smith. | proved minister in unity with us” was She would step outside the line of her obliged under the circumstances sur¬ rounding the case to omit the words own Society and invest all, even unto "in unity with us.” This must have "the last man and the last dollar,” and ! been seen by the , quarterly meeting take the strongholds of every iniquity ‘cket lines the battery camp and fell beyond in kept up cl heavy fire during the night the woods. Another went through the untn nearly daylight. About 6 o’clock- walls of the upper story of the asylum, the musketry burst out heavy and con¬ creating the wildest confusion and i'1?^ for half an hour. The enemy terror among the inmates, but no one thinking that the Union line had fallen was hurt. The troops were now put on m Cwi’thmntUrYd fT0^ his intrenchments half rations, being notified that such Y° Y Ihv! lhort distance of the Union would be the case until the 20th, by line when he was driven back with which time the railroad would be onen- considerable loss. The Western batte- ed. fired whh l6ft °,Pened their «uns and In the afternoon Johnston sent over a fired Y th Sreat rapidity. Beniamin flag of truce asking permission to bury nd'Vfir-dS opened a!so' so warmly his dead. General Smith conferred that Durell s men were in danger from with the truce officer and six hours Benjamin’s imperfect ammunition were given. The general reported that "faS br?aking rather close in- he had seen the most ludicrous sight stead of passing overhead as it was intended it should do. when out that he had ever -witnessed: Union troops seated in arm chairs, Aftei the storm had passed by and a rocking chairs, lying on sofas and on ^ °l affairs had again set carpets spread on the ground fighting tied along the lines, the men spent the the enemy. time as best they could; some by sleep¬ Sergeant Sailor’s piece was sent up ing, others by talking with the inmates to Benjamin’s Battery and ordered to of the asylum. Some of the inmate® fire into the. city at intervals of five especially the women, were very bitter minutes throughout the night and took on Yankees. Very little firing was the cupola of the State house a the tar¬ heard after meridian, when the Union get. Sergeant Bouse’s piece was also troops either tell back or were driven taken to the samd position the next about 300 yards. The battery was or¬ morning and opened upon the city, the dered to vacate the grounds to let the infantry have them to watch the 7 rebels replying witl an occasional shot. The cisterns in the vicinity having been vines and be ready for the enemv drained, water was hauled a mile dis¬ should he make an assault The h7t tant. Lieut. Leoser returned from tery was!then posted on a vacant m rear otf the asylum ant lot leave of absence, bringing with him v .flHH 4 newspapers gtvhi^an 'account of the element was aai important factor in the battle of Gettysburg. The battery was called up at 1 o’clock society of the^olony, and the success on the morning- of the 16th, with orders of the Revolution was to be gained by l to harness and be ready to move, at any the assistance of the Germans. When moment. Infantry jnarched by to the , front at daylight, and Steel’s division Peter Kaehline was in active life the of the 16th corps passed up the road to J county of Northampton included six the left tornedt an attack of the ene¬ large counties, and Easton was a fron¬ my’s cavalry expected from that quar- . tier, and thus became a place of great ter. The battery stood hitched up until •/,! noon, and hitched and unhitched the importance in the wars in which her horses several times during the after¬ | citizens, took active part. noon. Heavy cannonading opened on ' Many of these people came to the ; both sides early in the morning. The wilds of Pennsylvania, exiles fromtheir enemy threw three shots through the native land, driven hence by persecu¬ ‘j asylum, "wounding one of the patients. tion. They had been under the iron rule A number of shots were fired at the of kings and dukes, and the idea of per- | section stationed with Benjamin, all : sonal freedom found a ready home in ■ : rather short, with the exception of one, <, their minds. If some of them could not which struck in the midst of the bat- ; talk English, they could shoot English; tery, between the pieces and caissons, i I and they readily flew to arms when throwing dirt in every direction, and j danger demanded courageous devotion another which passed over, upsetting : to the cause of liberty. The German the breakfast of some infantry in the i clergy had much to do with the devel- .rear. The shots were 64-pounder per- } ’ opment of patriotism in the early his- \ cussion shell, filled with mud, the pow- i tory of our State. The patriotic ardor ' der having been taken out. The mus- ; ' of Rev. Schlatter did much to rouse i ketry was very heavy during part of the spirit of daring and devotion among : the forenoon. In the afternoon the the German. But none did more to fire enemy directed a fusilade with his ar¬ the German heart than Peter Kaehline. tillery, wasting ammunition, but ac-, He stepped into line when the first in¬ ; complished nothing perceptible. AllJ dications of the Revolutionary struggle was r>uiet along the lines on the morn/ | were seen. ing of the 17th and it was early ascer^- When the cloud arose no bigger than tained that the enemy had left. The a man’s hand, foretelling the coming first and third pieces were the only I storm, our first chief burgess was in guns of the battery actually engaged i the prime of life, in the full vigor of in this eight days’ siege, Sergeant Sail- manhood. He followed no man. He or’s piece firing 84 shots and Sergeants was a leader whom others readily fol¬ Bouse’s about the same number. / lowed. John Peter Kaehline, the father of Peter Kaehline. emigrated from Heidelberg and arrived in this coun¬ try September 21, 1742. and settled in ' THE KACKLINE LINEAGE. 1 Bedminster, Bucks county, in the same _ year. His son Peter was born in the family home October 8. 1722, and was An Old and Influential Family- twenty years old when he came to Pennsylvania. In 1755 his name was as¬ in Eastern Pennsylvania. sociated with James Martin, Peter Trexler and John Lefebre as trustees to take charge of the funds subscribed The First Immigrant Settled in Bed- in England for the education of the poor in Pennsylvania. minster Township—An Interesting: Peter Kaehline was twice married. Sketch of Men Prominent in the Affairs The name of his first wife was Mar- gretta Umbehen born December 10, of the State. 1720; died February 20. 1776. His second wife’s name was Dollan. born Decem¬ The Kaehline farmily is one of the ber 2, 1746; died March 22. 1783. Peter oldest and most influential in Eastern Ihrie, father of General Peter Ihrie, married Peter Kachline’s daughter Eliz¬ Pennsylvania. A very interesting ar- ; abeth. Peter Kaehline had a son also tide regarding the family has been j named Peter, who was the father of written by "The Historian of Easton,” Jacob, David, Peter. Michael and John the first instalment of which is as fol- and Mrs. Elizabeth Ackerman. Peter Kaehline was the father of Joseph j lows: Kaehline, who also had a son by the | Since the completion of the history name of Peter, and he. in turn, had a 1 of Easton and the spirited celebration son named Peter. Here we have six of the centennial anniversary of the sens of one name in a family line j Many of the descendants live in Eastor. borough incorporation, it has occurred and other parts of the State. General to the historian that a more particular Heckman cr Philadelphia, and Rev. Dr. account of the first chief burgess’ Heckman, of Reading. Pa., are de¬ would be acceptable to the citizens of scendants of this old German family. In 1774 the Revolutionary struggle Easton. Important papers have come seemed a foregone conclusion. The time to light which serve to enhance the seemed ripe for decided action looking value of the personal history of the forward to the defense of- the liberties of the people. It is a matter of pridej sturdy German citizens. The German that the citizens of Easton took a de¬ cided stand for war at so early a date troops Troth Bucks* aricf . Northampton. lnere was no hesitation when the This step was wisely taken, the records rumbling- of the distant thunder told say, on account of dissatisfaction with of coming* battle. On the 21st of De- a previously elected officer: so much cemDer, 1774, old Northampton began so, that it .was not. deemed'safe to have her work m the memorable struggle the division go into action under him. of the American Revolution. On this | Hence he was ^removed and Peter date the “Freeholders and Freemen” Kachline appointed lieutenant colonel of the “The Flying Camp.” PetLa m t?e court house, when -teeter Kachline and others were elect- It has caused some confusion in the ; minds of writers to find Peter Kach¬ nen3t=d§festh0ffelecti0n- and also eompo- of that remarkable body of men line colonel of the battalion and to find The Committee of Safety.” Peter Kachline second lieutenant in p The_ general committee met January Captain Arndt’s company. Upon re¬ y, ino, and elected representatives for reading the records of the committee Phi^oymmal convention to be held in of safety with more care, the 'historian Philadelphia, January 23. 1775 Here has found the word Junior attached to ^ Jee, the early history of our first . the name in Captain Arndt’s company. chief burgess standing shoulder to This is Peter number three mentioned shoulder, with Gordon. Robert Trail m the family line. Here we have the in¬ and Taylor .until they met in the pro¬ teresting fact of the father and son vincial convention in the city of Phila¬ fighting side by side in the battle of delphia We may safely follow him in Brooklyn, each a commissioned officer. ms noble military career. In May, 1775 The action was begun by Greenwood I ■ f60?1® of Northampton became cemetery. It was a hot contest, but no ! h rlv‘,n<;ed that the English government advantage was gained by the British | had determined on war. and it became in this part of the field. But it was at | a serious duty to organize for the com- this point where the Kachlines were mg stnfe. There were twenty-six tovm- engaged. This is a settled fact, as the W«= !, countv• Peter Kachline British commander wrote after the bat¬ v.as elected captain of the Easton tle that General Grant was killed by company. The battles of Concord and “Kachline’s Riflemen.” Colonel Kach¬ Eexmgton had been fought and that line was wounded and taken prisoner. of Bunker Hill was close at hand It After the battle Lieutenant Kachline : is quite difficult for us at the present was mustered in line unharmed, at J Elizabeth, N. J. w, °tfPnrT? the wild excitement v hich thrilled the hearts of the colon¬ ists and prepared them for the unequal and pamfui struggle. They had gone too far to retreat. There was no alter¬ SOLEBURY MEETING. native but that of battle. The commit- £ee, safefy met at Easton, October o, 1 • <5, and the officers from the re- Sxtracts from the Friends’ j spective townships were present and the county was divided into four dis- Old Minute Books. ti-mts. Over 700 men constituted the

Frat Battalion. Of this battalion Peter (r* Kachline was elected colonel, and was I Establishment of a Library for the Use of preparing for the front. This arrange- k Members—Passing Meeting by Well ' feut was made nearly ten months be- evmj^f battle ?.f Bt'ooklyn, and was Known Persons—Committee Appointed aronrri ll f Preliminary organization, to Supervise the Placing of Stones in iT *2 the records of the com- mittee of safety. Washington had driv¬ the Grave-Yard. en the British out of Boston. The pro¬ spective attack on New York called ' ffijj 5th-mo. 3d, 1853.—The Friends ap¬ the people of Northampton to more ac- pointed to nominate clerks reported the ti\e measures. The troops were speed- ily organized into a *‘Flvine* ” names of John Blackfan for clerk, and “?fa11 P°'ls/ble Preparations made for Cyrus Livezey for assistant. TnK I0” i-«he uummittee of safety met 6th~mo. 7th, 1853.—Cyrus Livezey, Jul> 17, 1,76. and called for letters re- Jacob Armitage and Cyrus Betts were ®e^;ed f-m General Boberdean, of Philadelphia, the contents .of which appointed to assist women Friends in were startling. Immediately a reso u- establishing a library. tmn was passed “that the tax agreed 7th-mo. 5th, 1853.—The Friends ap¬ upon the 9th of the month be rafsld to I .defray expenses of a bounty of three i pointed to assist women Friends in pounds to all who would enlist in the j establishing a library reported in fav- ! Flying Camp, which was the "Rifle I or of an appropriation of $50, which Company. A resolution was also parsed ! the treasurer of the school fund was j calling upon Captain Hubner for two ■ casks of gunpowder for the troops. The : authorized to pay. This appropriation : Flying Camp was a new organiza excluded the purchase of “works of I | tion. Peter Kachline had been alboint" fiction, as well as those tending to in¬ ed colnel of the First Battahon hearty a year before this new organization validate the Christian religion as pro¬ had been formed. He was now ap fessed by Friends.” j pointed lieutenant colonel of the new llth-mo. 8th, 1853.—Eastburn Reeder j battalion. which was composed of and Ellen Kenderdine laid their inten- 38 •M1: r of'marriage with each other before ftth-mo. 5th. 1854.—The committee ap¬ pointed at last meeting in relation to Ys meeting in writing,- with consent grave stones in our yard reported the of parents. Jacob Eastburn and John service was completed. Blackfan were appointed to make in¬ WOMEN’S MEETING. quiry and report to next meeting. 4th-mo. nth. 1853.—The subject of es¬ 12th-mo. 6th. 1853.—The Friends ap¬ tablishing a library funder the care of pointed to make inquiry in relation to the the meeting, Elizabeth R. Blackfan. marriage of Eastburn Reeder and Ellen Elizabeth K. Eastburn and Frances Kenderdine, reported no obstruction, Fell were appointed to receive con- ! and they were left at liberty to accom¬ tributions. plish the same at the house of John 3th-mo. 3d, 1S53.—The committee ap¬ E. Kenderdine on the 15th of this pointed to receive contributions for the month, and Jacob Eastburn and John library reported having collected $13.75. Blackfan were appointed to have the Letitia Simpson was appointed treasur¬ oversight thereof, return the certificate er of the library fund. to be recorded and report to next meet- 6th-mo. 7th. 1853.—The library com¬ tag. ^ . mittee reported having received 37 1st-mo. 3d, 1854 —The Friends ap¬ volumes or books, and Hannah Simp¬ pointed to have the oversight of the son was appointed librarian. marriage of Eastburn Reeder and Ellen 8th-mo. 2d, 1853.—The committee on Kenderdine reported that it was order¬ clerks reported the name of Elizabeth ly accomplished and the certificate was K. Eastburn for clerk, and Hannah returned to the recorder. Simpson for assistant. 2d-mo. 7th, 1854.—David R. Johnson 12th-mo. 6th, 1853.—Elizabeth K. East¬ requested a certificate to Abington burn and Elizabeth^ R. Blackfan were Monthly Meeting in order to proceed appointed to have the oversight of the in marriage with Elizabeth Walton, a marriage of Ellen Kenderdine and member of that meeting. Cyrus Live- Easburn Reeder. zey and John Blackfan were appointed lst-mo. 3d. 1854.—The committee ap¬ to make inquiry, and prepare one for pointed to attend the marriage of Ellen next meeting. Kenderdine and Eastburn Reeder re¬ George Watson and Hetty Ann Black¬ ported they attended and thought it fan appeared and laid their intention orderly accomplished at the time pro¬ »f marriage with each other in writing- posed. before the meeting with their parents’ 2rl-mo. 7th. 1854.—Mary Anna East- consent—George, not being a member burn and Elizabeth K. Eastburn were of this meeting, a certificate from the appointed to make inquiry in relation meeting of which he is a member, will be to Hetty Ann Blackfan proceeding in expected, before their further proceed¬ marriage with George Watson, and re¬ ing. port to next meeting. 3d-mo. 7th, 1853 —The Friends ap¬ 3d-mo. 7th. 1854.—The Friends an- pointed to prepare a certificate for pointed to inquire into Hetty Ann David R. Johnson to Abington Monthly Blackfan proceeding in marriage with Meeting in order to proceed in mar¬ George Watson, found nothing to pre- riage with Elizabeth R. Walton, pro¬ vent, and Mary Anna Eastburn and duced one. which, was signed and given Elizabeth K. Eastburn were appointed to himself to convey to that meeting. to have the oversight thereof. A certificate from Cherry street 4th-mo. 4th, 1854.—The Friends ap¬ Monthly Meeting, Philadelphia, on be¬ pointed to have the oversight of the half of George Watson was received marriage of Hetty Ann Blackfan and and read to his li 1 ilyliy y qil ililililil George Watson, reported they attend¬ and read in relation to his proceeding ed and thought it was orderly accom¬ in marriage with Hetty Ann Black- plished at the time proposed. fan. and they were left at liberty to lOth-iuo. 3d. 1854.—The Friends ap¬ accomplish the same, agreeably to dis- i pointed on the subject of clerks re¬ ioipline, at the house of John Blackfan. ported the name of Elizabeth K. East- on the 16th of this month, and Moses] jburn for clerk, and 1 la n nail Simpson ^ Eastburn and Jacob Eastburn were ap¬ for assistant._.-—»*» pointed to have the oversight thereof, return the certificate to be recorded and report to next meeting. 4th-mo. 4th, 1854.—The committee on 1 clerks reported the name of John Black¬ From , * Y.F'. - ‘ fan for clerk, and Cyrus Livezey for assistant. The Friends appointed to attend the cf- -—/•£ marriage of George Watson and Hetty . Ann Blackfan, reported they attended, and thought it orderly accomplished, and the certificate returned to be re¬ corded. Date, -- ; 7. Sth-mo. 8th. 1854.—The committee ap¬ pointed in 8th-mo., 1S52, to assist the person having the care of our grave {/ - —= yard in reducing the grave stones * * I therein, agreeable to discipline, were released at their own request, and Jacob Eastburn. Cyrus Livezey and Jacob Armitage, were appointed to complete the service. I

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fow It Came to be Inserted in the State Constitution. RfSr?sa\* (Opposition to Giving: the iSe^ro the ftig-ht fluence, two of the wst ln conse- i of Franchise—Paper by General W. W. jelected, one Countv e 0( ,hc and protect!on”to' rl'" °Ut The earliest qualification for electors in ™r££et'h°™ deputies Wj',, C^&VHpK** white man's blood " run with

calling a provisional convention for the voSnora?„yWl^hve f?e and indePendent ference?" ‘ unction such inter- Province'11 at" ££ ^ arouse th^Democratl^pSy E0 ' nr Vr of agre’ and had paid a tax held ^ July TTm' iJX eIe.Ctiop wa* prevent nee-m teps weie taken to ; formed that’year! and til fir public meetings werH/il/!!'!'6- Tllree centres of the count! . ’ at ™POrtant on “;vehrVffehetm°afnSUo^rthe fun of negro suffl!! w d'SCUSS the issue 1 »* » “S„Ta?, r, generation can h-irdiv ‘I’V- e pre»ent

paid taxes during- thl +• C V, ' and Constitution of 1790 the auuiffi the the CoTistitutionPP!lef iPfri^e«ient of electors was practically ^aailf5catlon for men of both >»rties ThlnSerVaUve present; the voter must 1® same as at were held at the White BeSr 1 SS the age of 21, resided n the statf’t °f 11 years, and paid a QtatJ „ e btate two This Constitution with r county.tax- township, and tit Buck’s"’tavetn^N^^0" amendment, remained in tn" occasional mixon. both on Saturday, October 2s l ceeded by that of ms " f°,rce, untiJ suo- 1 meeting wqs. likewise held „V n , 2 ' A At these meetings Id bl ! Doylestown. an^feectrS *>• «^Tsys ~ «”• -s&’rx’s: This event belongs to the mn-t „ ... I »*K 53S&JS nrss^str period of the anti-slavery LTmt'e "8' 1 to that immediately preceding th' pr,?r hrealc of the Rebellion iSSl-fs n„°U ' this period that mysterious 1 Dunn§' ■:«™ SutS'ln S. S, "’oe I known as the ••it,l,, 0US 018amzation

agency that brought many flv Wa‘! the -■onVeS,7h77™e»eo»r «»U.r,u», into- the southern conn L p Slaves vania. Down to this time the ne "nsyl‘ I not known as a political flit gr° was :s.* ar s?0-;, «f. ™ “ (State; he did not claim the rigMtl (•much less was it accorded t^V VOte’ Ifc'St. ”“S P longed the riR’ht to vote be- i occupied the same inferior ! 1™’ but had held since theesetntlementPo°fSittH(in h,e jOny. There was a tradition t'b-.t the C0 " Uijonal negro vote reached the'bVnl°iCCa" bilt so seldom, and the votes sn fi box’ filled to attract public attention thf>y JAt the October election in Burt' tlie*5vicedpresidents*1 Southam™ >’ •¥• 183'- there was a change in thl coun' liar ana public indignation I parn'" r. sevefd Polls negroes presented1"^?uSed'

jb"°“ '"<» j-ojTIUs.s 1 K' -UI!Sht. ap# Stokes L. Roberts, not'"t’ljie "right ol sum-age, ana tnere they, (the complainants) will now take ■ 1 1 the means necessary to ascertain the truth of the facts alleged in the com¬ tu me Birdies county Bar. plaint.” • f twenty-one persons was The Constitution Convention, of 1837- n General William T. Rog- 38, was called in pursuance* of an Act of x, to Report a preamble and Assembly approved by Governor Wolf, or the consideration of the April 14, 1835, for the purpose of amending second committee to submit a the Constitution of 1790: was submitted to emorial to be presented to the a vote of the people at the October elec¬ onal Convention; and to the tion, 1836, receiving a majority of 13.404, ire at its approaching session. in a total vote of 159,736; and tlie Con¬ ■ he Court of Quarter Sessions, the vention mot in the Hall of the House of for the purpose of testing the le- Representatives, Harrisburg. May 2, 1S37. of the election under the Act of The Convention had not been long in mbly. A second committee, of which ■session before the question of negro suf¬ late Judge Henry Chapman was frage was presented, tIre initial step being airman was given charge of the case a memorial from the. negroes of Pitts¬ hen he should reach the court: while a burg asking that they jbe secured in the .hird committee, with Mr. Wright at its right to vote. This was prior to the head, was appointed to present the pro¬ movement in Bucks county, for. as you ceedings. of the White Bear meeting, to will remember, this was not put on foot the Southampton and Nockamixon meet¬ until after the October election. The first ings to- be held the following Saturday. memorial, in this county, and tve believe In addition to this machinery, three men in the State, was presented November 16, were appointed, in each election district by John B. Steriger, a delegate from in the county, to procure signatures to Montgomery, asking that negro voting be the memorial to the Legislature. The prohibited by constitutional provision, preamble and resolutions, said to have and he movetl that it be. printed. On this been down by the late Judge Fox and the two parties first locked horns and it adopted unanimously, were an elaborate was objected to. On the question of and able statement of the premises from printing the memorial a spirited debate which it was argued that the negro was took place, but the motion was carried not a “freeman” within the scope of the by a vote of 84 to 29. The same day other Constitution and never had been. memorials were presented from Bucks We have thus presented both the legal and one front Montgomery. From this and political machinery, set in motion by time, until the question was settled, me¬ the astute men at the head of the move¬ morials continued to be presented from ment. to change the text of the organic various counties, but the number from Bucks was equal, if not greater, than law. on the subject of suffrage, througi those from all other parts of the State. the amended Constitution, and in one o Several of the eastern counties presented its most important features. As all tlu memorials against negro suffrage, a few conditions were favorable, their succes of them coming from Bucks. was complete. There were two lines o In November the Convention adjourned attack, so to speak, on the claimed righ to Philadelphia, where it re-assembled on of negroes to vote, one through tht the 2Sth. On the first reading of the courts, to decide the legality of the pol Third Article if the Constitution, that re¬ of votes and election of candidates by ne lating to suff'age, Benjamin Martin, a gro ballots; the other, more direct ant delegate from Philadelphia, a member of far reaching, through the Constitutiona the Society ot Friends, moved to insert Convention then, in session which had tht the word “whjte” before the word “free¬ power to decide .the question for the pres men." The chinge was made in commit¬ ent and future. tee. which reported oh Saturday, January The case came before the Bucks count} . 20. On the re: ort a debate was immedi- Court of Quarter Sessions at the Decem¬ | ately opened, he Convention remaining ber term. 1837, upon the complaint and in continuous -i ssion until the following petition of a number of freemen of the Monday morn ng at nine o'clock, when county as provided by Act of Assembly. it adjourned, On the vote being taken The defendant, the legality of whose elec: there were 77 n favor of sustaining the tion was challenged, made answer on De report of the ebmmittee and 45 against it. eember 12. denying they were unduly On its final pi ssage the vote was the elected, and, after full and able argu¬ same, changing the qualification for a ment, the opinion of the Court was de¬ voter in Penn.- •lvania from “freeman" to livered by Judge Fox, President Judge “white freemeti. The debate on this of the judicial district, on December 28 question was i notable one. the ablest 1837. members par lieipating in it. Among Judge Fox.'s opinion in the ease was one these were Messrs. Earle, Darlington, of the most exhaustive and learned re¬ Dickey, Forward, Joseph R. Chandler, views of the question ever delivered. It the distinguished William covered the .political status of the negro M. Meredith closing it on the negative. in Pennsylvania from the settlement of In so far as we can gather from the min¬ Penn s colony under the grant from utes of the Convention, the debate was Charles II. As a matter of fact the negro good tempered, with an entire absence of had no “political” status in the State. the excitement too often attending- later He came here a bondman and a bondman forensic displays. The question was met remained until the abolition of slavery, as all great ciuestions should be, with 1783. Whether this act of Assembly calm dignity, li'or the present .the ques¬ clothed the late bondsmen with the status tion of negro Suffrage was settled, and of citizenship, and qualified them to dis¬ not reversed until the nation bad emerg¬ charge the duties of electors, was the ed from the greatest Civil War of modern question before the Court. After a care¬ times, and resulted in placing the white ful examination., with the light of the man and the negro on the same political past and the then present shining full plane in this country. The opinion of upon the question the Court summed up Judge Fox on the constitutional and legal its conclusions in the following words: aspect of tlie question was printed by “For the reason given the Court are of authority of the Legislature, and widely opinion that a negro, in Pennsylvania has circulated, and De Tocqueville mention^ it in his great work entitled “Democ^acf!’ in America,” ' I i i iiiMHMiimr i f

THE PAM SAINT.” Those wdio TSST^Tu-ed civilized tribes of aborigines claim that their traditions are credible. La Hontau >ketch of Temanend, Chief s.-iid: "These, savages have the happiest memories in the world." Heckewelder of Lenni . the Moravian missionary, writes in his (harming narrative: “There are men who have by heart the whole history of Paper Read by Mrs. Sarah DuBois Mo wry, "hat has taken place between the white men and the Indians, and relate it with of Chester, a Member of Delaware Coun¬ ease and with an eloquence not to be im¬ itated. On the tablet of their memories ty Historical Society, at Midwinter thej preserve this history for posterity Meeting of Bucks County Society. It was etiquette at their councils for each speaker to report verbatim all mat ■') I It is a remarkable fact that the pic¬ his predecessors said and the whites c; turesque North American Indian has were often astonished at the verbal fi¬ i oeen so seldom the theme of our literary delity with which the natives recalled, f men. We have "The Story of Hiawa- the transactions of long-past treaties. tna; in the exquisite verses of Hiawa- The Lenni Lenape, at the time of Will- ■'! ; we find curious Indian legends, while iam Penn, were in a state of vassalage)' James Fenimore Cooper leads us through to the. Iroquois or Five Nations. They ,, a romantic Indian world. In the field of were consequently mild and peaceful and I | history, the forest life and Indian char-- . remained so until they realized, to use | acter are vividly portrayed by Francis : their own words, that "the whites will not rest contented until they have - and he tells us that he found de- this fiela uncultured and unreclaimed. stroyed the last of us, and made us dis- His work serves to show what a vast'- appear entirely from the face of the earth." world is here open to the imaginative ! writer or artist. These mild mannered were to The Delaware county artist, Benjamin X some extent an agricultural, but not a vVest, has left us his historical impres¬ pastoral people. They preferred open sion of the intercourse of the red men country to boundless forests. with the Friends, in his celebrated paint- __ William Penn in his letter to the Free Society of Traders, written August 16th. !3* of ”P|£n’l Treaty,”' under the great elm at Shackamaxon. James Reed a 1W1. gives an interesting account of these nephew of James Logan, said that the' native woods. "The fruit I find in the | Portraits of the Friends in this painting woods are the white and black mulber- | were so admirable that he could name i.'. chestnut, walnut, plum, strawberries them all. Benjamin West's grandfather cranberries, whortleberries and grapes of was one of the number. divers sorts. There are also very good What manner of men were those who peaches in great quantities; not an In¬ welcomed William Penn and his follow¬ dian plantation without them. They " ers to the fair woods now known as the make a pleasant drink. It is disputable Commonwealth of Pennsylvania? with me whether it is best to fall to re- 1 An early tradition tells us that the first lining the fruits of the country, espec-*- Indian to welcome the Quakers to the ially the prape, by the care and skill ofl ' art. or send for foreign stems already rmJf8 °r the Dflawate was the great chief, Temanend, whom we call Tam¬ good and approved. It seems reasonable many. His name is written in at least to believe that not only a thing groweth % six ways, but there is higher authority , 'st where it naturally grows, but will , lor the spelling Temanend than any oth¬ nanny lie equalled by another species oft • er form. the same kind that doth not naturally| There is no proof whatever that Tem¬ grow there. But to solve the doubt I in- i anend did extend the hand of fellowship Tend, it God give me life, to try both. L-- and hope the consequence will '° lhe, friendly leader at the time of his be as good wine as any of the European arrival. But some Indian played that conn-j tries of the same latitude do give." important part in the drama and it is Alas] for poor Temanend and his tribe! rather pleasant to believe the tradition 'The Proprietor continues such an in¬ and to inquire more carefully concern¬ an ing him and his tribe. teresting account of the Indians’ larder that we cannot forbear from reading Temanend was a sachem of the Lenni further. "Of living creatures: fish, Lenape tribe of the great Algonquin ' lowl and beasts of the woods, some for family of North American Indians, whose rood and profit, and some for profit only, j territory extended along the Atlantic 1- or food as well as for profit, the eik 'nab a-10™, thf.SL Lawrence to Savan-I nali. To the Algonquin family belonged '• I us as a smaH ox; deer, bigger than ours; heaver, raccoon, rabbits and squir¬ Poeohontas, King Philip, Pontiac and | rels. and some eat young bear and com-I Iemanend. Of all the elans of the Al¬ mend- it. Of fowl, there is the turkey, I gonquin, the Lenni Lenape or Delaware I Indians especially interest us, for we oc- ^ forty and fifty pounds in weight, which I eupy their native hunting grounds and ^ is very great: pheasants, heath-birds I enjoy their beautiful hills and valleys I pigeons and partridges. Of fowl of the I water, the swan, goose, brants, ducks I with a proud sense of ownership in one * of the fairest spots in. the country teal, also the snipe and curlew." Then I follows , an enumeration of fish and di-1 The Lenni Lenape or "original people ” as their name signifies, were the ances¬ vers plants, which the Indians tell them i and they have good occasion to know I tral tribe, and this claim was recognized are of great virtue. by other Algonquin tribes, in givine- them the title of Grandfather Their "The woods are adorned with lovely & own story was that they had migrated flowers for color, greatness and variety."! from the westward hundreds of years In a h.storical description of Pennsyl-B ago and traveled by land and water un" j vania by Gabriel Thomas, printed in flf London in 169S, we find this allusion to! til they discovered the Lenape-whitut the grape industry: tuck, or rapid stream of the Lenape re -named by the Knglish, the Delaware. * || "There are excellent grapes, which « upon frequent experience have produced a ■ l choice wines. They will have good liq- S prise us to hear that the Pennsylvania -—? ■ Tv,h-r own anu' some to supply troops of the American Revolution, chose, nor ot thfeir o» Teat advantage. him for their patron saint and, inscribed sophisucatlng and his name on their banner. One writer assigns May 1st as the Saint's Day, but adults citing of \v • ‘ sn .,n nroba- several other authorities name the 12th day of May as set aside in honor of Saint Tammany, as he finally was designated. The day was celebrated with great rs$sss ?J* «™»»»»- gaiety. Wigwams were erected, poles tirnie." r'uHripl with the same were planted in the earth surmounted by a liberty cap and tomahawk. After an address by a representative of the Sa¬ chem, the troops danced with feathers and bucks’ tails in their caps. The prac¬ tice spread throughout the army and fl any in Europe. oiimns*1 l„x n the ^ burial place. Tn the preparation of this of Temanend became paper i have found many reference? to :a greatness- and* goodness. of the fact of Temanjend's death and burial When Colonel eortB * Congress in this vicinity. There is no doubt that Princeton, in H .6, w^esfern mdians, the in 1750 an Indian chief was buried there as an agent to . T j., conferred by white men. The stumbling block to or T.enni ^ ‘ 1 e the the sceptical mind is that Temanend s on him the name of T* which they name is on thev deed drawn in 1083, which if he were only aged twenty at jSuWesLowato one whom they considered the time, would make him eighty-seven j worthy of the name when he died- With my love for local tradition. I am unwilling to allow the matter of age to overturn the long established local histories. I wave"satisfied.” | andhats,of.kettlesawls,fish | whitemanfa-apaltry-listofstockings tj icturesqueNeshaminy-creekjustbe- ■ TatDelawarechief,shutofffromthe | thereisnoloveliervisionthanthat j goodMiquoncameandbroughtuswords!, j hillsandvalley,foreststream, I venerationamongus.Butitwasturned 1 wordsandhismemoryisstillheldin i ofpeaceandgoodwill.Webelievedhis' | ofhisgoodcounsellorswhowere ! tosorrow:Ourbrothersdiedandthose: not r.uuswhetherhewentdown"tothe "contented aijdsatisfied!”Historydoes hooks andnekllessaidthathewas an eminencewhichoverlooksapartof I hatisnotedforitscharmingviewsof I ondthedesignatedspot.Inavicinity the fairterritorywhichhesoldto y iTTErestingpln.ceforthe sionary teacher,Heckewelder? soul someyearslaterto "Let fancywithherdream of theLenapewhituttuckwhitepeo¬ brothers byourfatherswhogavethem ple landed.Theywerewelcomedas shadowy groundoftradition. and glancedforthemomentat of thewoods.Suchwasourconductto "And thatWhichHistorygivesnotto them andfurnishedwithmeatout lands toliveonandevenhuntedfor lifted "thetwilightcurtainofthepast” the whitemenwhoinhabitedthiscoun-Ij m tribedidwhenhepouredforth Prospect HillStanding'therewehave which meetstheeyeatsummitof try- untilourelderbrotherthegreatand| down bythesideofeachotherasbroth¬ stranger nolongerspoketousofsitting mind werenolongerlistenedto.The ship whichwastolastuntiltheendof ers ofonefamily-,theyforgotthefriend¬ time, theyonly-strovetogetourland be placedinthesewords.’” by fraudorforce.‘Thereisnofaithto Neshaminy. Hisvirtueschallengethe beneath theswardonbanksof1 the Indianchiefwaslaidbywhitemen May henothavefeltasanother-* And whoshalldeemthespotunblest,1 admiration ofourmoderncivilization.

__ Where Nature’syoungerchildrenrest. Lulled ontheirsorrowingmother's As sweeto’erthemherwildflowers These bronzedformsofthewilderness,it Deem yethatmotherlovethless She foldethinherlongcaress? The blueeyedSaxonsleepsbelow. As ifwithfairerhairandbrow The greatsjigeandchieftainrestson Listen tohiswords:“Oneveryside orld's highway,withthehankof It isonehundredandfiftyyearssince From, jjL Date, brush supply." the eye,”wehave breast. blow, m. | M vr . m 7 / (lipped ■ TB /~ * ber ofpapers,preparedbyableessay¬ promises tobeoneofmorethanordi¬ House isinitselfhistorical. nary interest.Inadditiontoanum¬ the BucksCounty-HistoricalSociety- Friends wereappointedtoconsiderthe eastern Buckingham,nowembracedin portune asSoleburyFriends’Meeting To theEditorofIntelligencer: The SoleburyFriends’MeetingHousea Solebury. desiredtohaveameetingin ists, theplaceofmeetingismostop¬ and JonathanShaw.Ayearlaterthe ips, AbrahamPaxson,JamesArmitage Carlisle, JosephStradling,AaronPhil¬ Samuel Gillingham,ThomasBye,John son, StephenWilson,JonathanFell, subject: JohnGillingham,Wat¬ Moses Paxson,EdwardGood,Daniel Kinsey, JohnEly,BenjaminPaxson, their neighborhoodandthefollowing house shouldbebuilt. committee reportedfavorablythereon, posed change,”thematterwasdismiss¬ ing awantoflifeandunityinthepro¬ Friends forseveralmonths,“therebe¬ but werenotunitedastowherethe and afterclaimingtheattentionof rest longforwefindin1805Solebury ed fromtheminutes.Butitdidnot a neyvmeetinghouse,andcommittee Friends againagitatedthesubjectof Aaron Paxson,andrecommendederect¬ the cornerofJohnBlackfan’sandRob¬ could behadatamoderateprice reported “thatgroundforabuilding ing ahouse,sixty-threefeetlongand made thethinganassuredsuccess. the oneatBuckingham,estimated ert Eastburn’slandsandof themselves subscribed£1346,which cost being£1500,andthecommittee thirty-six feetwide,onthemodelof tribute toBuckinghambutintheSev¬ ed, butwhatyearitwasbuiltIamun¬ then wefindSoleburynolongerpaid able tosay,butearlierthan1811,for dignity ofamonthlymeeting. enth-month ofthisy-eararosetothe able men,yesandwomentoo,forSole¬ the Delaware,manyrepresentativeand bury womenareuptodate,andkeep tended fromtheBuckinghamlineto ants fortwoormoregenerations,with of thenewmeetingandtheirdescend¬ whom thewriterhadintercourse,will up theircorners. whom Ihadlittleornopersonal knowl¬ iamses, Blackfans,Johnsons, Reeders, call tomindtheKenderdines,Armi- edge, butwhosehomeinfluence helped Betts andElys,with many other tages, Fells,Paxsons,Magills, Will¬ place inthequarterlymeeting. to giveSoleburymeeting aprominent families equallymeritorious butwith view-. Claims ofa historical chara in havingwhat wenowhavebefore that itisjust onecenturysincet are well founded. iniative step was takenthatresub The comingmid-summermeetingof We findasearly1799Friendsof Gathering. Very Appropriate.PlaceforaHistorical The subjectagaincameupin1802 I supposeitstandsnow-asthenerect¬ It. hadwithinitsbounds,whichex¬ Prominent familiesatthefounding It w-illbeseen fromtheabovesket< Holicong, Aug. 5. A HISTORICSPOT. 45 a stone?; thence .Tobias Dymock anfiPvae „„„ perches to a white oak t— standing by the river Delaware, thence down said river by several courses 149 perches to the place of beginning. Con¬ taining 500 acres. (This tract was af¬ terwards known as the Ferry Tract) the whole of the two tracts being 1000 acres, to hold to him the" said Richard Heath, his heirs and assigns forever, under the yearly quit rent of one Eng¬ lish silver shilling for every 100 acres as on and by the said patent set forth, bearing date the 2d day of llth-month, 1710, and recorded in Philadelphia, in Patent Book A,Vol. 4, page, 242. The upper or northern of these tracts was called the Ferry Tract, after John Wells, who became proprietor in 1716 and established the ferry, known by his name. The lower of these described SOLBBURY SETTLERS. tracts was afterwards called the Mill Tract, the mill of Robert Heath, sup¬ posed to have been built as early as Landholders of the Township 1707. This tract subsequently passed into the hands of Jacob Holcomb, Will¬ for 200 Years. iam Yardley, Benjamin Canby, Phillip Atkinson and many others. The fore¬ going described tracts of 1000 acres bor¬ A Series of Papers, Prepared by Eastburn der on the river Delaware 324 perches, Reeder, Showing the Owners of Sole-' being four perches over a mile, and ex¬ tending west to the Great Spring tract burv Land for Two Centuries, With nearly two miles, embracing the whole of the present borough of New Hope, Some Account of the Men and Families. and containing three, of the five excel¬ NOS. 4 and 5. lent mill sites which are on the Great Spring stream. The two tracts of Richard Heath for CONVEYANCE TO JOHN WELLS. 1000 acres. No. 4.—The Ferry Tract, By a certain indenture, sextupartite, 500 acres. No. 5.—The Mill Tract, 500 hearing date the 27th day of April, An¬ acres.. no Domini 1716, between Morris Morris CONVEYANCE TO RICHARD and Susanna his wife, of Abington, of HEATH. the first part, and Richard Wallen and] Whereas, William Penn, Proprietary Ann, his wife, of the Northern Liber¬ ties. of the second part, and Thomas and Governor in chief of the province Livezey, of Dublin township, yeoman, of Pennsylvania, in and by a certain and Elizabeth, his wife, of the third! patent, or instrument under the hands part, and Richard Worrall, of Dublin,! of Edward Shippin, Griffith Owen and aforesaid, and Hannah, his wife, of the Thomas Story, commissioners of prop¬ fourth part, and Mary Heath, of Abing¬ erty, did grant, release and confirm un¬ ton, spinster, of the fifth part, (the said to Richard Heath of the Northern Lib¬ Susannah, Ann, Elizabeth, Hannah and erties, city of Philadelphia, gentleman, Mary, being the sisters of Richard a certain tract of land in the township Heath) and Charles Brockden, of Phil¬ of Solebury, in the county of Bucks, in adelphia, gent., of the sixth part, grant¬ the said province; Beginning at a cor¬ ed and confirmed the said 1000 acres to ner marked tree by the river Delaware, Charles Brockden, who, in turn deeded thence west by land then vacant 524 the same to Morris Morris and Richard perches to a post by a broken white oak Wallen, who, for the consideration of tree in the line of the Great Spring- the sum of 92 £ conveyed the said 500 act, then by said tract northeast 160 acres (being the north half of the 1000 erches, to two black oak saplings acres) to John Wells, carpenter of dead) at a corner of said Great Spring Lower Dublin township, by their deed > tract, thence northwest by the same dated June 26th, 1717, recorded in SS perches to a post, thence by other office of Bucks county in book B. vol.l land of Robert Heath (being the land page 204. hereinafter described) east 475 perches John Wells was a bachelor and h to a post by the river Delaware, thence came from Lower Dublin township t> down the same by the several courses Solebury in the year 1717. It is related thereof 175 perches to the place of be¬ of him that he met one day by the road ginning. Containing 500 acres. (This side a young man named William foregoing described tract was after¬ Kitchin. who was a weaver by trade, I wards called the Mill Tract.) And also, and in great distress of mind because a certain other tract of land. Begin¬ he could get no work. He took the ning at a post standing by the river young man home with him and said Delaware, in the line of the said 500 jo him. “If thou will stay will me thou acres before described, thence west by shalt never want.” The acquaintance the same 475 perches to a post, thence thus began, ripened into a life long by the Great Spring land, in the tenure friendship. In due course of time Will¬ of James Logan, ncrthwest 210 perches iam Kitchin married Rebecca Norton, a niece of John Wells, with whom they both lived, and kept the house for their bachelor uncle. 45

ttri the year 1721. William Kitchin Highlands ror uxe reau> accommoda¬ archased of John Wells a strip of land tion and passage of persons traveling j rods wide, on jthe north side of his from this province to the Jersies and jO acre tract, and extending from the New York, for the encouragement bgan line to the river, and containing thereof an act of General Assembly of 50 acres, upon which he built a house our said province “ was passed in fa¬ ;n the bank of the river. vor of the said John Wells for the term WILLIAM KITCHIN’S WILL. of seven years next ensuing, and at the expiration of said term our Lieuten¬ William Kitchin, being in poor bodily ant Governor granted his license to the health, made his will which was dated said John Wells for seven years con¬ July 18th, 1723. As the form of this tinuing and maintaining said ferry: | will is somewhat unusual at the pres- jent day, a copy of the preamble is here And it beinjg represented to us, that the 'given. "In the name of God Amen, said John Wells hath with care and the 18th day of July, 1723, I, William diligence attended and supported said Kitchin,'\ of Solebury, county of Bucks, ferry to the consent and satisfaction of being very sick and weak in body, but the persons that have passed over the of perfect mind and memory, thanks same: and now requested that he would be given unto God, therefore calling be pleased to grant him a further term unto mind the mortality of my body, therein. Know Ye, that as well for and knowing that it is appointed for all and in consideration of the former men once to die, doe make and ordain charge and expense which the said this my last will and testament, that is John Wells hath been at in erecting to say, principally and first of all, I give and maintaining said ferry, and for en¬ and recommend my soul unto the hands couragement to continue the same, and of God that gave it, and as for my body for the yearly rent hereinafter receiv¬ I recommend it to the earth, to be bur¬ ed, we have granted and confirmed un¬ ied. at the discretion of my executor, to the said John Wells, his executors, nothing doubting but at the jineral res¬ administrators and assigns the said urrection I shall receive the same again ferry where the same has been kept, ■ by the mighty power of God. And as and is still kept over the riv.er Dela- j touching such wordly estate wherewith ware, next above our said Manor of 1 it hath pleased God to bless me in this Highlands. And we do hereby grant life, I give and dispose of the same in to said John Wells, his executors, etc., the following manner and form: that no person whatsoever shall be per¬ Imprimis. I give and bequeath to mitted or allowed to keep any ferry Rebecca, my dearly beloved wife, all boat or canoe for carrying for hire or my personal estate, to doe with and wages any passengers, horses or cattle dispose of as she may think fit while during the term herein granted with¬ she keeps in her widowhood, and then in the space or distance of four to have her thirds and no more. miles above and below the said ferry.” Imprimis. I give and bequeath to my The yearly rent for the above describ¬ well beloved son, Thomas Kitchin, ed ferry was 40 shillings, to be paid at whom I likewise make, constitute and Pennsbury on the first day .of March. ordain my only heir of my last will and This lease was for seven years and was testament, all and singular of lands signed the 26th day of the first month and messuages to be. by him freely pos¬ (March) 1733, and recorded in Patent sessed and enjoyed, when he shall come Book A, vol. 6, page 185, August 10th, to the age of 21 years. 1733, by Charles Brockdeth, recorder. I give to my son, William Kitchin 5£, WILL OF JOHN WELLS. to Ruth Kitchin 3£, to Olive Kitchin The will of John Wells was made 3£ and 3£ to Mary Kitchin, all to be July 16th, 1748. In it he bequeaths to paid when they shall come to the age of William Kitchin the second, son of his 21 years, by my well beloved son, adopted son, William Kitchin the first, Thomas Kitchin, Joseph Ashton, of a farm of 105 acres of land and makes Philadelphia, and John Wells, of Bucks him sole executor of his estate. He also county,” who were made executors to bequeaths various legacies to relatives take care of the children and put them and friends in money, from 100£ dowp to trades. This will was witnessed to 10£, all to be paid by his executor in fifteen months after his decease.' He further provided, "It is my will that William Kitchin wall in my graveyard May 15th, 1727, and recorded October with a stone a'nd lime wall.” This ,27th, 1746. graveyard is situated on the south side DEED FOR THE FERRY. of the Old York road about one mile | John Wells was the. first to establish from the river on the farm now belong¬ a ferry in Solebury over the Delaware ing to Henry Heuston. The wall is now- as appears by a deed made by John much dilapidated and the ground en¬ Penn, Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, closed growing up with trees. John Esquires, proprietaries and governors Wells was buried there and several in chief of the province of Pennsyl¬ members of his family. vania. and counties of New Castle, The land owners of the Ferry or Kent and Sussex on Delaware; To all Wells Tract of 500 acres after the death whom these presents come send greet¬ of John Wells, were William Magill and ing: Whereas, John Wells, of Sole¬ John Magill, who purchased on the bury, in the county of Bucks, having at west end of the tract llth-mo. 20th, 1790, considerable charge and expense, erect¬ a farm of 93 acres. John Creyell, inn ed and settled a ferry over the river holder, also purchased 161 acres, ex¬ Delaware next above our Manor of tending to the river, and being part of land granted by John Wells to Ben¬ , -j ' * i jamin Ca^by. John Creyell (Coryell) sold the same 4th-mo. 19th. 1768 to Eu- clydes Scarbororfgji. This land was afterwards disposed of to Oliver Pax- ; jMf.' COtlYELL’S FERRY. After the death of John Wells, a por vei Hampton and Joseph EasD tion of the ferry tract (including the:;1 ... The. present owners of the land ferry) was purchased by John Coryell. ,.e tlje Pajxson heirs 66 acres, William The deed was made by Joseph Wether- T. Eastbu>m 37 acres, Simpson B. Mich- all and Ar}nie his wife, who was a ener 78 acfijgs. daughter of Benjamin Canly, and from GENEALOGY of the kitchin whom she inherited the same, and was FAMILY. dated 5th-month 9th, 1765, and was for 106 acres of land, recorded in book 48, The, following- genealogical sketch of page 516. John Coryell by the purchase the Kitchin family was prepared by of a large tract of land of Joseph Reuben P. Ely. Mitchell (the greater portion of tract William Kitchin the first was born No. 11. known as the Bassillian Foster about the year 1690. He married Re¬ land) at a high price, because very becca Norton when he was 23 years of much involved in debt. The Ferry age. He bought 150 acres of land of property was sold from him in 1782 by John Wells in 1721. He made his will Samuel Dean, high sheriff of Bucks in 1723, and mentions the names of five county. It was sold under a writ, in children, Thomas, William, Ruth, Mary which Joseph Mitchell was plaintiff, and Olive. and John Coryell defendant. The sale William, ;the second, born June 15th, was held at the public house of David 1721, married Sarah Crook, December Forst, in Sdlebury, February 14th, and 28th. 1743, : and had three children, the deed was acknowledged in open David born November 3d. 1744, never court May 1st, 1782. The purchaser married and died in 1830. Richard born was John Beaumont, of Upper Make- January 20th, 1747, died young. Will¬ field and the price paid was 900£. The iam, the third, born February 12th, 1749, amount of land conveyed with the ferry and married Ann Paxson, daughter of by this sale was 72 acres. 34 perches. Thomas Paxson and had two children, See book 26, page 326. Thus the name Sarah and William. Sarah Kitchin, and ownership of Coryell’s Ferry pass¬ mother of ; the above children, died ed away. about the year 1751, and William then married Sqrah Ely for his second wife MAFLE GROVE FARM. and had two children by this marriage, The property known as Maple Grove Rebecca, born September 9th, 1751, Farm is upon the Frrry tract. After married Joseph Eastburn. Jr., in 1777. it passed from the possession of the John, born April 3, 1756, married Han-, ,j Wells and Kitchin families, it became nah Ely, his first cousin, William Kitchin, title second, father oftheabove the property of John Coryell in 1765. children died in 1796, aged 75 years. John Coryell and Elizabeth, his wife, He was a very large man, weighing 300 by their deed dated 4th-month 19th, pounds. He wTas two years old when 1768, recorde in book 14, page 113, sold his father made his will leaving him 5£ 161 acres of land to Euclides Scarbor¬ and all his land to his oldest son, ough, and Euclides Scarborough and Thomas. Olive Kitchin married John Mary, his wife, by their deed dated 4th- Heed. Ruth Kitchin married Paul month 30th, 1770, sold 66 acres 84 perch¬ Heston and Mary married Samuel es to Oliver Paxson for 310£. The ge¬ Crook. Rebecca, the widow of William nealogy of Oliver Paxson has been fur¬ Kitchin the first, married Thomas nished me by Richard Randolph Parry, Phillips and had two children by this of New Hope. marriage, ,Aaron, who married Mary Oliver Paxson, of Maple Grove, third Clauson in 1756 and Thomas, who mar¬ son of Thomas Paxson, married first, ried -- Baker. John Wells, it is Ruth Watson, by whom he had two believed married Mary Norton, late in children: Ruth Paxson, who married life, a daughter of Richard Norton, who Hugh Ely, grandparents of Richard tooH up and settled upon tract No. 32 Elias Ely, of New Hope. Jane Pax¬ in 1737 adjoining the tract of William son, who married Benjamin Parry, Blackfan. grandparents of Richard Randolph Olive Heed, after the death of her Parry, of New Hope. O iver Paxson husband, married Reese Davis, being married second, Ruth Johnson—no is- his second Kvife. Reese Davis was the 5 sue. father of Martha Davis, who married Jane Paxson, daughter of Oliver and Crispen Blackfan in 1756. He settled Ruth Watson Paxson, married Benja- and lived upon tract No. 41, but never mon Parry, of Coryell’ Ferry (now obtained a leed for it, and it was sub¬ New Hope, Bucks coun y, Pa. They sequently sjld to Samuel Wilson in 1767. had four children: Oliver_ Par- The chiic ren of John Kitchin, who |ry, born at the “Old Ptrry Mansion”, married H nnah Ely were Ely, Jona¬ '’.December 20, 1794; Jane Parry, born at than and John Kitchin, Jr. David “Old Parry Mansior,” January 4, Kitchin by his will made in 1809 be¬ 1797; Jane Parry, born at the “Old queathed 11 his land to his nephew. Parry Mansion,” August! 27, 1899; Mar¬ John Kite) i, Jr., who married Rachel garet Parry, born December 7th, 1804, Smith. Jo-i Kitchin, Jr., by his will and married Charles B. Knowles. dated llth-uonth 30th, 1868, bequeathed Oliver Parry, son of Benjamin Parry, the same to his son, Howard, and married Rachel Randolph in 1827, daughters,/Sarah and Rachel Ann . daughter of Captain Edward F. Rand- Kitchin. toward Kitchin died in 18S7 dolph "Patriot of 1776.” They had is- and the piperty soon afterward pass¬ 1 sue of 12 children, 4 sons and 8 daugh¬ ed from tl family name. ters. Richard Randolph Parry, sixth child of above Oliver and Rachel Parry, married Ellen L. Reed, of Portland, Maine, and have three children. /' Oliver Randolph Parry, son of Rich- lard and Ellen R. Parry, married Lida _,-n-- _ _• ' ir ■» I Mae Kreamer, October 15th, 1898, in HEATH'S MILL—1.07. New York city. Ruth Paxson, who The first mill for grinding grain in married Hugh Ely had two children, a Solebury, was, no doubt, that of Rob¬ son, Elias, and a daughter. Elizabeth. ert Heath, on the Great Spring stream Elias Ely married Sarah Wilson in 1707 Robert Heath was the father at Buckingham meeting and Elizabeth of Richard Heath, and he must have married Richard Randolph, of Philadel¬ occupied the land by lease, as the deed phia, at Solebury meeting. They had was made to his son, Richard Heath, three children, Ruthanna, Margaret in 1710. and Richard Elias Ely. Ruthanna Ely Before the erection of this mill_ the married Oliver Paxson, son of Thomas people had to go to the Neshaminah Paxson, of Aquetong, and had four j and the Pennypack. The residents of children, Margaret, Sarah, Caroline and I piumstead came down to the Heath Oliver. Richard Elias Ely married mill by the Sugan road which entered Caroline Newbold, of Burlington, New the township at the northwest corner Jersey. They had two children, Will¬ and passed through Milton (now Car- iam N. and Daisy Ely. Margaret Ely versville) and Centre Hill, to Heath s Dr. Joseph Rhoads, of Germantown. mill. The Heath mill subsequently passed into the hands of Anthony To be continued. Morris, a brewer of Philadelphia, who by indenture dated the 15th of Janu¬ [These papers on the Early Settlers ary 1751, conveyed to Thomas Yard- in Solebury Township will be published ley,’ Sr., of Upper Makefield, three un¬ in pamphlet form, with map showing divided fourth parts, and the execu¬ the relative.position of the tracts, after tors of Benjamin Canby the other un¬ their appearance in the Intelligencer. divided fourth part, who bequeathed The pamphlet will contain about forty the premises to his son, Samuel Yard- pages, printed in the same type as ly. who dying intestate, it came to his above. The edition will be limited' to brother, , who con¬ two hundred copies. Price 35 cents. veyed the same to Phillip Atkinson m ] Orders may be sent to the Intelligen- 1761. Phillip Atkinson and Sarah, his 1 cer.] wife for the sum of 285£ conveyed the ' same to William Kitchin, _ May A Series of Papers, Prepared by Eastburn 20th, 1762. (This deed I have in my possession.) Reeder, Showing the Owners of Sole- William Kitchin subsequently sold burv Land for Two Centuries, With the same mill property with 51 acres of land to Samuel Crook June 10th, Some Account of the Men and Families. 1762. for the sum of 215£. 8 shillings, retaining 25 acres of land adjoining NO. 5. THE MILL TRACT. 1W other lands. This is only a few The following is a brief of the title of the changes of ownership in the history of this old and time honored of the lower Heath or mill tract. Solebury mill, o vering a period from 1710. Proprietaries patent as before 1751 to 1762—11 years. Below the recited to Richard Heath. Heath mill, and close to t, in later 4th-mo. 12th, 1712. Heirs of Rich¬ years William Maris built the large ard Heath to Jacob Holcomb, of Sole¬ four story building for a cotton spin¬ bury. ning and weaving mill. This mill, or 12th-mo. 3d, 1717. Jacob Holcomb factory has been operated within my and Mary, his wife, to Thomas Canby recollection by Simon G. Gove, John for two-thirds part of the tract, and Bowman and Joshua Whitely. It is to Morris Morris one-sixth and to now known as the silk mill of New Richard Wain one-sixth part, making Hope. The coming of William Maris the other third part. to New Hope caused a great boom in 5th-mo. 1st, 1718. Thomas Canby business circles. He built the laige | and Mary, his wife, to Anthony Mor¬ cotton mill, the brick hotel, now own¬ ris. for one-sixth part. ed by Jacob Munch, Jr., and the large I 12th-mo. 20th, 1720. Thomas Canby stone house called the "Cintra House, | to,- Thomas Chalkley for one-fourth which is now owned and occupied by part. Richard Elias Ely, of -New Hope. 4th-mo. 25th, 1724. Thomas Chalkley Lower down the stream is the flax to Anthony Morris for one-fourth mill, owned by the estate of Syming¬ 1 part. ton Phillips, of Bristol, and is now op¬ Ij lst-mo. 10,th, 1753. Anthony Morris erated as a paper bag factory. At the 1 and Phoebe, his wife, to Thomas junction of the Great Spring stream Yardley for three-fourth parts, said to with the river, is located the extensive contain 400 acres. 'flouring mill and saw mill of J. Simp- lst-mo. 10th, 1753. Deed of William eon Betts, of New Hope. Hill, William Yardley and Thomas Of the earlier owners of the lower Yardley, Jr., executors of the will of 500 acres, or mill tract, as far back as Thomas Yardley, Sr., disposing of 500 the recollection of the writer goes, acres in nine different lots to as many J were Lewis S. Coryell 123 acres, (now purchasers. This deed is recorded at I owned in part by James McDonald), Doylestown, book 26, page 278, and Thomas Ely 123 acres, (now owned by contains a draught of the property. Casper Kauffman), Joseph Duer 84 The purchasers were Jonathan Ing¬ ham, William Kitchin, Richard Cor¬ son, William Pettit, Oliver Paxson, George Ely, William Magill and John Hillborn, executor of Joseph Wilkin¬ son. sate.,- / ■es. (now owned by .j. William Pid- ■/ock), Charles Huffnagle part of 200 day of March, which will be in the acres, (now owned by Samuel Heuton, year of our Lord 1751, and after the of Philadelphia), and Eastburn Reeder expiration of the said 7 years, for and 1-10 acres, extending west to the Lo¬ .during the full term of 100 years, the ganian line. The south line of the yearly rent to be the sum of 25£ an¬ Heath tract borders on the land nually on the first day of March year¬ known as “Penn’s Manor of High¬ ly; the first payment of which last lands”, the name of Highlands being mentioned rent to be made March 1st, given in distinction from Penn’s Man¬ 1760, and after the expiration of this or at Pennsbury. The Highlands are last mentioned term of 100 years, now known as the Solebury mountain, which will be A. D., 1860, the said and extends from the river opposite tract of land, with all the improve¬ Wells’ Palls across the lower portion of ments thereon to be valued by four the township to the Buckingham line judicious, impartial men, to be indif¬ on the Street rokd, a mile south of ferently chosen by the heirs and as¬ Lahaska, where there is a gap or nat¬ signs of James Logan of the one part, ural passage for a road, separating it and the executors, administrators and from Buckingham mountain. assigns of the said Jonathan Ingham of the other part, and by how much NO. 6.—THE JAMES LOGAN TRACT the true value of the said land and This tract of land is said to have improvements, shall in the estimation been granted by William Penn to of the said four persons exceed the James Logan, of Philadelphia, No¬ rent herein reserved, one full half or vember 3d, 1701. It was for 500 acres, moety of said excess shall be added to but a subsequent survey made it very the said rent herein reserved, and nearly 600 acres. It was confirmed to from that time become a new rent and Logan September 12th, 1735. This shall be yearly paid to the heirs and tract of land is bounded on the north assigns of James Logan, by the exec¬ by the Scarborough tract, on the east utors or assigns of the said Jona¬ by the Heath tract, on the south by than Ingham, on the first day of the Heath tract and Penn’s Manor of March yearly forever. And in like Highlands, and on the west by the manner the like proceedings shall be Scarborough tract. The lines bound¬ renewed at the expiration of every ing this tract are as follows; Com¬ term of 121 years forever hereafter. mencing in the public road a few rods By the terpis of the rent for the first northwest of the toll gate on the New term of 100 years, that is twenty-five Hope and Lahaska turnpike, thence pounds sterling, on the 400 acres, the N. 40 E. by lands then of John annual rent would amount toiabout 31 Scarborough 350 perches to a corner, cents per acre, upon each acre of land ithence _ S. 51 E. by the Heath held. This, on a farm of 100 acres tract 2.6 perches to a corner, thence would make an annual rent of $31, S. 38 V2 W. by the Heath tract which seemed to be a small rental, and the Manor of Highlands 350 and, no doubt, James Logan thought perches to a corner, thence N. 50V2 he was making easy terms with his W. 276 perches to the place of be¬ purchasers, and also securing some¬ ginning. The celebrated Aquetong, or thing to be paid to himself, and after Great Spring, is located near the cen¬ his decease to the library company in tre of this tract, and affords five of Philadelphia which he had founded, the finest water powers in the county. and which was a special object of his James Logan disposed of this tract as pride and care. Things thus went on follows: By a deed dated 5th-mo. very smoothly for the term of 100 26th, 1741, he sold 200 acres to Jacob years, the occupants of the lands Dean, being about one-third of the making improvements the same as tract, and on the southwestern side; though the lands were wholly their and by deed, dated 5th-mo. 1st, 1747’ own. But in 1860 there was destined he sold the remainder to Jonathan to come a great and marked change. Ingham, being 396 acres and 120 The year 1860 ushered in the time perches. In both of the deeds made when the land was to be revalued and by Logan to Dean, and to Ingham he appraisers were appointed. On the placed perpetual ground rents, to be part of the library company David paid annually to him during his life Landreth and Charles Muerheid, of time, and by his will to the Loganian Philadelphia, were chosen, and on the Library C®mpany, of Philadelphia, part of the occupants of the land John forever thereafter. The terms of Blackfan and Stacy Brown, of Bucks these ground rents, as set forth in the county, were chosen. The meetings of respective deeds were as follows: In the appraisers were held at New the deed made to Jacob Dean it was Hope. Several sessions were hfeld, ex¬ stipulated that the yearly rent was to amining witnesses as to their value of begin in 1754, and for seven years the the property and in viewing the same. rent was to be be 10 *pistoles of fine The result of this appraisement was coined gold weighing 4 pennyweight that hereafter the yearly rental was and seven grains, or other good sil¬ to be $1.80 per acre, being nearly six ver coin of equal value, on March 1st times as much as it had been before. of each year, and at the end of seven A farm of 100 acres that formerly paid years for the next one hundred years, about $30 annually would now have to from 1761 to 1861, the rent was to be! ten pounds sterling annually. ! pay $180 annually. The entire tract which had pi'eviously yielded an in¬ In the deed made to Jonathan Ing¬ ham in 1747 it was stipulated that the come of $180 a year, would now pro- said Ingham was to pay “a yearly rent or sum of 21£ sterling in English money, or in foreign good coined sil¬ ver or gold of equal value on the first fluce an income of more than $1000 a year. This sum now is equal to a full real and personal signed Tnhn rent of the property, and the present Honrv ™ owners of the land are now put in the position of renters in practice, as well as in name. It has had the effect to Jn^^kF^Vli^e on S6 stop all improvements both to the by111he^Scai-borough g£ buildings and to the land itself. It is by no means unlikely or improbable, W north near or to SK KerK that, in some instances, at least, the land will revert back to the heirs and assigns of James Logan, by default of ml\ps rrth3ouJt°hhenrnDLWeS°onf W rent, before the time for the next val¬ ri'ac-f to Thomas Heed Thrima-.0 u uation rolls around in the year 1981. by deed oft gift conveyed fhTsan^to The soil of this tract is principally taKtcSOn’/°hrl Heed- died totes fate, and without issue ntes limestone, and the reputation of the Ingham lime has extended far and His brother, Abraham Heed heinhich shall first hap- sfi ssass gs KhsahniaAT 1 oen—"Provided, they do not marry he. Elizabeth and Edward Blackfan I without the consent of parents or con- irrarv to the approved method of WencH called Quakers.” Lastly I give and bequeath to my son Thomas Do arson a1! the rest of my estate‘ both James Logan by deed dated 3d-: William C. Blackfan, with his 25th, 17Q9, conveyed the same to Jaco daughter Elizabeth and son Edward Holcombe, who, the next day, 3d-mo. are all the descendants of John Daw- 26th, 1709, conveyed the same two sou living on the original tract. Af¬ tracts of land to John Scarborough. ter the death of William Blackfan, Jr., This was k no doubt an exchange for a farm of about 100 acres, lying north' the 500 acre tract (No. 10), previously 9f the Sugan road, was left to his son occupied by John Scarborough since Thomas Blackfan. This farm after- 1705. Of the family of John Scarbor¬ wards passed into the hands of i ough nothing is known except what Abraham Heed, who died there in 1838 has been gathered from the record of at the advanced age of 101 years, and deeds and wills at Doylestown, and was buried in Sqlebury Friends’ from the records of Falls and Buck¬ burial grounds. The farm is now own¬ ingham monthly meetings of the re- ed by Jesse B. Fell, Solebury. The I ligious Society of Friends. The name limestone belt also crosses the Daw- j of his wife was Mary Scarborough. con tract on the farms of William The records of Falls monthly meeting C. Blackfan and Hugh B. Eastburn. | show that on lst-mo. 10th, 1710, Sar¬ One of the best springs of water in the ah Scarborough was married to township is on the Blackfan farm, George Hayworth. The records of the maintaining a uniform temperature of same meeting show that in 10th-mo., 10 degrees during the year. 1712, Mary Scarborough, daughter of The present owners of the Dawson John and Mary Scarborough, was tract are Hugh B. Eastburn 100 acres, married to Samuel Pickering, a mem¬ William C. Blackfan 190 acres, How¬ ber with a certificate from Middletown ard Kesler 75 acres, Jesse B. Fell 75 monthly meeting. The records of the acres, John Lear, and several other same meeting further show that on small lots in the vicinity of Centre lOth-mo. 29th, 1719, Elizabeth Scar¬ HIT!. borough, third daughter of John and The records of Buckingham meeting Mary Scarborough, was married to .-how that Thomas Brown and Eliza¬ John Fisher. Here we have the rec¬ beth Dawson were married lst-mo. ord of the marriages of three daugh¬ 29_ 1721. This was the first marriage ters of John Scarborough at the Falls at Buckingham, and the Elizabeth meeting, between the years 1710 and Dawson, was a daughter of John 1719. John Scarborough lived in Sole¬ Dawson, of Solebury. Edmund Smith bury at this time, and prior to the married Sarah Dawson, daughter oi year 1720 all the Buckingham and Thomas Dawson, 4th-mo. 22, 1767. Solebury Friends belonged to Falls jro 8.—THE SCARBOROUGF Monthly Meeting, and the marriages TRACTS. were all held there. Robert Scarbor¬ The first purchase of land made bj ough, a son of John and Mary Scar¬ John Scarborough, a blacksmith of the borough was probably married in 1733. city of London, of William Penn, o The records of Buckingham meeting Worminghurst; county of Sussex do not show this marriage. The name England, was made July 4, 1682, ant of his wife was Elizabeth. The Buck¬ the deed is recorded at Doylestown ingham records do show the date of Book 2, page 10. The amount of lam birth of two of their children, before purchased was 250 acres to be locate- they removed to Virginia, viz. John, after arrival in the province, and th born - llth-mo. 28th, 1734. Elizabeth, consideration was 5 shillings and born 9th-mo. ISth. 1736. yearly quit rental. Sarah Scarborough, daughter of In the year 1696 John Scarborough John Scarborough, who married qf London, gave power of attorney t George Haworth in 1710, married the bis son, John Scarborough, Jr 4 second time, Mathew Hall, who came Solebury, to make sale of such of his! from Staffordshire, England, about lands as was desirable, as appears by the year 1701. They were married in the following recital: Whereas, John 1732, and lived in the northwest corner Scarborough, of the Parish of St. of Buckingham, near Cottageville, and Sepulchers, London, (blacksmith) subsequently removed to Chester hereby constitutes and appoints his county. Pa. Then followed three gen¬ son, John Scarborough, Jr.. of Sole¬ erations of Mahlon Hall, in succes¬ bury, Bucks county, his true and law sion to Mathias H. Hall, who is a lin¬ lul attorney, etc. This instrument of eal descendent of John Scarborough, writing was made October 15th, in the and resides near TVrightstown, Bucks •year 1696, and was acknowledged be¬ county. fore William Penn and is recorded at Hannah Scarborough, the youngest Doylestown, hook 2, page 251. It is not daughter of John Scarborough, and known that John Scarborough, the who was single at the time of her father’s death, married Benjamin London blacksmith, ever came to this Feb at Buckingham 6:h-mo 27th, 1728. country. John Scarborough, Jr., first jj John Scarborough, the third, son of settled upon tract No. 10 about the j John and Mary Scarborough, married year 1705, as will be shown when we Jane Mariarum at Buckingham, in 1731. The deceased was 3 2years of age and come to that tract. The purchase of From the records at Doylestown, and the two tracts of land, comprising No. other sources, it has been learned that 8, was effected in the following man¬ John and Mary Scarborough had three ner: William Penn, by his commis¬ sons, named Wqliam, Robert and sioners, Edward Shippin, Griffith John. Owen and Thomas Story, by a deed John Scarborough, the second, in his dated 12th-mo. 30th, 1702, conveyed life time disposed of portions of his two tracts of land in Solebury, con- j real estate, as follows: By a deed dat¬ taining 500 acres and 320 acres re- | ed Sth-mo. 19th, 1711, he sold 200 acres spectively, to James Logan; and of land to Henry Paxson, off the east side of his tract, and adjoining the Great Spring and Dawson tracts. By brother deed dated 2d-mo. 2Sth, 1714, Middletown Monthly Meeting, held L sold 200 acres to his son-in-law' 5th month 2d, 1712. Samuel Pickering /Samuel Pickering, adjoining the land appeared at this meeting and de¬ sold to Henry Paxson. The considera¬ clared his intention of marriage with tion, or nurchase money, for the 200 Mary Scarborough, daughter of John acres sold to Samuel Pickering was Scarborough, she being a member of 5$£ sterling; and the deed is recorded Falls Monthly Meeting, and requests in hook 5, page 73. His next sale of a certificate for that purpose. There- | land was to his son John Scarborough, fore Thomas Baynes and John Wild- the 3rd, 12th-mo. 17th, 1724, and re¬ man are appointed to make inquiry of corded in book 26, page 29S. The his clearness from all other women on amount of land sold this time was 155 that account and report to next meet¬ acres, and the consideration 50£. ing. This farm was on the northwest Middletown Monthly Meeting, held corner of his tract, and comprised 9th month 6th, 1712. This being the nearly one-half of the 320 acre tract. second time that Samuel Pickering ap¬ This farm is now owned and occume^ peared and declared his intention of j by Wilson Pearson, of Solebury. .jr marriage with Mary Scarborough, and inquiry having been made and noth¬ ing- appearing, but that he is clear, j Much assistance has been obtained therefore the meeting doth consent fn collecting the transfers of owner¬ that he have a certificate, which was ship, and the titles of this tract of Hgned and delivered to him. Falls Monthly Meeting, held 9th land from an old deed now in the pos- nonth 5th. 1712. Samuel Pickering i session of James M. Wilkinson, of j >nd Mary Scarborough proposed their Doylestown. The deed is from Will- htention of marriage the first time I iam Penn proprietor and Governor of md Samuel belonging to Middletown' neeting he is desired to bring a cer- i the province of Pennsylvania, and was ificate to next meeting. ! dated the 17th and 18th days of June, Falls Monthly Meeting, held 10th 1684. It conveyed 5000 acres of land ; nonth 3d, 1712. Samuel Pickering to John Latham, gent, of London, who md Mary Scarborough proposed their by will .leaves it to his wife, Elizabeth htention of marriage, it being the I Latham, who by her will, dated Octo- ■ second time, and nothing appearing to I ber 15th. 1700, conveys the same to hstruct they are left at liberty to Thomas Revell, of Burlington, West), Ktced, Samuel having produced a Jersey. Thomas Revell sells one-half certificate from Friends of Middle- of the 5000 acres to John Budd, brewer, f W n. Agreed that Joseph Fell and ' of Philadelphia, and John Budd, Au¬ riromas Bye do take care to see it gust 1st, 1700, sells 500 acres of the rrCerly accomplished and make report same land to James Logan, of Phila¬ to next meeting. delphia. The deed is signed by Ed¬ Falls Monthly Meeting, held 11th ward Shippen, Griffith Owen and month 7th, 1712. The Friends appoint¬ Thomas Story, commissioners, and is ed to see the marriage of Samuel i recorded in Philadelphia in patent Pickering and Mary Scarborough re¬ book A, vol. 2, pages 431 to 433. After port it was done orderly. this comes the sale to Jacob Holcomb, From records of Buckingham Month¬ to John Scarborough, and by will to ly Meeting the following record of the William Scarborough, by deed to births of the children of Samuel Pick¬ Euclides Scarborough, 3-2-1762. Eu- ering, Jr., who married Grace Stack- clides Scarborough to John Bogart, house in 1747: Mary, born 10th month j 4-1-1767. John Bogart to Samuel Wil- 30th, 1748; Jacob, born 9th month 4th, ‘ son. 4-23-1773. Samuel Wilson to John 1750; Benjamin, born 9th month 1st, Watson, 1-12-1793. John Watson to 1752; Sarah, born 9th month. 2d, 1754; Joseph Wilkinson, 4-1-1796, for 125 Samuel, born 2d month 5th, 1757; acres, the Wilkinson farm. Isaac, botn 5th month 18th, 1759; Jona¬ The other half of the 260 acres that than, born 3d month 28th, 1761. ! descended to William Scarborough in I have found in the Buckingham 1762, was afterwards owned by Samuel records the death of Mary Pickering, , Wilson in 1773 and who sold the same wife of Samuel Pickering, as occur¬ to Joseph Eastburn, and was occupied ring 1st month 14th, 1787. by his son, Benjamin, from about 1785 As showing the changes in the price to 1797. and after that by Moses East- ef land in Solebury during the last burn, by Jacob Eastburn, who owned sne hundred years, the various sales of [ it until his death in 1860. The two sne of the original Pickering farms I farms at present are owned by John affords a good illustration. I H. Ely and T. Howard Atkinson, 1796—Jesse Pickering to Jonathan i The farm on the northwest corner of Pickering for £1005 or $5025 for 100 this tract was the former home of lores, or about $50 per acre. John Scarborough 3d, the minister, 1811~-Isaac Pickering to Jonathan and is now owned by Wilson Pearson. oberts for $S0Q0, being about $80 per The farm on the northeast corner of Cre. this tract was the former home of 1817—Jonathan Roberts to Moses I Isaac Pickering and Jonathan Pick¬ Eastburn for $11,000, being about $110 I ering, and is now owned by Sackett per acre. Lear. 1831—-Moses Eastburn to Knowles The records of Middletown and Lancaster for $6600, being about $66 Palls Monthly Meetings show the fol- per acre. I lowing proceedings in relation to the 1852—Knowles Lancaster to Oliver marriage of Samuel Pickering and Paxson for $7150, being about $71.50 IMarv Scarborough:_ per acre. .' - 1859—Oliver Paxson to Thomas Ely dll'-' S' .» .4!. lbr $11,000, being about $110 per acre. Heirs of Thomas Ely to Jeremiah S. Ely, the present owner and occupant If or the last named price. T 20th. lTt&. 'James Pellar and b'trah, his HENRY PAXSON’S TRACT. wife, executed a mortgage to Thomas The 200 hundred acres of land which Paxson and Timothy Smith, trustees was sold by John Scarborough to Hen¬ of Buckingham Monthly Meeting, up¬ ry Paxson, by deed dated August 14th on the farm of said James Pellar, con¬ and 15th, 1711, has not as yet received taining 144 acres, which was describ¬ attention. It occupies the southeast¬ ed as adjoining lands of John Bogart, ern corner of the 500-acre tract, being Roger Hartley, Isaac Pellar and bounded on the south by the Logan others. This description fixes the lo¬ tract and on the east by the Dawson cation of James Pel'ar’s land as being tract. on the east side of the tract next to Henry Paxson, by his will, dated the Scarborough line, while the farm 4th month 23d, 1723, made his son-in- of Isaac. Pellar adjoined it on the law. John Plumley, and his nephew, west. In the deed made by Isaac William Paxson, his executors, who Pellar to Isaac Pellar Betts, dated 7th ■deeded the same to Henry Paxson, Jr., month 14th, 1S14, and recorded in 6th month 2d, 1724. book 43, page 362, reference is made to Henry Paxson, Jr., divided the same the same land, or portions of it, hav¬ by his will between his two sons, Isaac ing been conveyed from Isaac Pellar, and Mahlon Paxson, giving the last Sr., to Isaac Pellar, Jr., 12th month named 80 acres lying soutn of the 21st, 1768. From this it appears that road. Mahlon Paxson was the father James and Isaac Pellar were sons of of Asher Paxson, who was the father James Pellar the first, and that each of Grace, Sarah, John. Howard H. and of them had a son named after him¬ Hugh P. Paxson. This farm of 80 self, and that the persons named in acres still remains in the Paxson these transactions were the sons and name, being now owned and occupied grandsons respectively of James Pel¬ i by Alfred Paxson, son of Howard H. lar. the first settler. As a further con¬ Paxson. Isaac Paxson, by a release firmation of this theory and also that deed, dated 5th month 7th, 1803, re¬ the original Pellar land did not have leased the 80 acres to his brother, ' title to the Buckingham line, and did Mahlon Paxson. This instrument was not contain more than 300 acres of '\ witnessed by Asher Paxson and Mer-| land is the record of the deed in rick Reeder, Jr. The remaining por¬ book 16, page 283, as follows: Where¬ tion of the 200 acres was afterwards as. Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, owned by Mary Paxson, who married under the hand of James Hamilton, Joseph Dilworth, thus passing out of Lieutenant Governor of the Province the Paxson name. Since the death of of Pensylvania, granted to Geysbert Joseph Dilworth this portion has pass¬ Bogart, Jr., the following described ed through many hands and is now land, by deed, dated 4th' month 3d, owned by Joseph Mathews and 1762, containing 205 acres and adjoin¬ Charles White. ing land of Isaac and James Pellar, TRACT NO. 9—JAMES PELLAR. Roger Hartly, James Streater and In his history of Bucks county Gen. Thomas Canby. This shows that this “W. W. H. Davis says: “James Pellar 205 acres was on the west side of the was one of the earliest settlers of tract and that it extended to the Solebury. Several hundred acres were Buckingham line. surveyed to him, on which he built a This 205 acres was afterwards own¬ dwelling house in 1689.” He was de¬ ed by Mathias Hutchinson, who sold scribed as being a man of good con- it to Thomas Ellicott, 2d month 15th, Tersational powers. I do not find any 1775. Thomas Ellicott sold it to Josiah deed in his name on record in Doy- Shaw (book 40, page 113) by deed, dat¬ lestown, and have come to the con¬ ed 4th month 1st, 1787, From Josiah clusion that he must have occupied Shaw it descended to his son. Mathias Y. Shaw, late of Solebury, and is now the land by lease. In Cutler's Survey owned by Thomas Atkinson, John made about 1702, the Pellar land is lo¬ Mood and others. Returning now to cated west of the Scarborough tract, the east, Or Pellar side of this tract, and south of the Hartley tract, ex- we have the marriage of Isaac Betts, tending west to the Buckingham line. son of Thomas and Sarah Betts, and The earliest record that I can find of Tamer Pellar, daughter of Isaac and the family is the marriage of James Sarah Pellar, which occurred at Buck¬ i Pellar and Sarah Pearson. who were ingham meeting in the year 1788. They married at Buckingham 9th month settled upon a portion of the Pellar -1st. 1(50. The names of their parents land and the old house is still stand¬ are recorded as being Isaac and Sarah ing on the farm of Mrs. John R. Pellar and Enoch and Margaret Pear- Mathews, near the turnpike at Cana¬ son. This record would seem to es¬ da Hill. The children of Isaac and tablish the fact that this James Pel- Tamer Pellar Betts were Thomas, Cy- 5 lai. who married Margaret Pearson, rus. Charles, James P., Sarah and was a grandson of James Pellar, the Mathias. Isaac Betts purchased ad- p nrsr. settler. As a confirmation of ditional land of James Pellar, as is | the assumption that James Pellar, the shown by ihe deed previously referred j hrst, occupied the land by lease, I to. August 14th, 1S05, containing SO j find the record of a deed, dated Feb¬ acres and 152 perches. This deed was I ruary 24th, 1762, wherein Thomas Penn made by James Pellar, gentleman, to I and Richard Penn granted by their Isaac Betts, yeoman. Isaac Pellar J patent c eed 144 acres of land to James ! sold to his grandson, Isaac Pellar I Pellar in fee. This deed is referred to Betts, a tract of 42 acres of land, deed I in the deed made by James Pellar to dated July 1-Rh, 1814. i I Isaac Belts, August 14th, 1S05, and re- !' corded in book 35, page 198. The rec¬ ords fui ther show that on January I Some of Hi is' land afterward became the property of Cyrus Betts, who mar- October 22d, 1705. Patent to ned first Hannah Simpson in ISM hv I ^-borough for 510 acres, recorded in ^ £ad three children John S* , Philadelphia book A, vol. 3, page 170 Elizabeth S„ and Sarah. Cyrus Betts’ I . ^Ialeh 26th, L09. John Scarborough married second Elizabeth 'Hampton to Jacob Holcomb for 510 acres re- by whom he had six children Oliver I corded in book D, vol. 1 page ISO ^a1ltha' Ellen, Richard C., Thomas December 3d, 1717. Jacob Holcomb ! and Franklin. Richard C. Betts mar¬ to Thomas Canby for 444 acres of said ked Lizzie Scarborough, daughter of land. of?0 Sca/borough. of Solebu.y That April 27th, 1731. Thomas Canby to : portion of the Pellar tract which was Benjamin Canby, for 232 acres of said land. February IStb, 1745. Benjamin Can¬ by to Geysbert Bogart, for 232 acres of &£ 3tg£S- « zss. said land. huTlT ,,h- old house , September 3d, 1761. G. Bogart to Ja- ouut in 1689, and said to have been 1 cob Bogart, for 232 acres of said land. Apul ith, 1773. Jacob Bogart to f„d17s °£smb* £?rn Yeomans Gillingham, for said land. About 200 aeres on the west side of fined UTehel,r a l0ng time- ’ brnnow ing neaT hv nlfu appIe tree stand¬ mis tract came into the possession of ing- near b# called the "James Pellar Mathias Hutchinson. After this the apple ” of natural fruit and good ouai same property finally passed into the ity. A tree grafted from the orighfii possession of William Stavelv, and 100 1 Bom"!1? Tr °f ,he '«"fol.n aeres of said land are now owned and . rsetts. The apple is described occupied by his son. Dr. William R. ,*}?!?/, >rse’ Wih red streaks, coming f Stavely, of Solebury. The other or b“!te ’ater in the fall than the cele- eastern portion of this tract, was own- of Townsend apple, also a native ed by Benjamin Paxson, now by his of Solebury. Among the families of grandson, Elias Ely Paxson, the Bye ^ Pel?a.U1on ci?lrnins' descent from James family and the descendants, of the Scarborough family. It has been pre¬ named ^BeUs^n^ .“ay be viously stated in tract No. 8 that the nolds’, Moore’s and others”8 The pres- records of Buckingham meeting show and blpr °n 0children of Robert | named n^fizafbe?h and Elizabeth Scarborough before 1 asrTTJ°hn R' Mathews.60 acres Thom’ their removal to Virginia, viz: John 55 acres aE,ial°rTrrn^Iy Emlen Institute) fecai boiough, born llth-mo. 28th 1134 r> ’ i ias E. Paxson 18 acres and the Ruckman estate 12 acres Thi mo M Scarborough, born 9th-’ twelve acres now belonging to It appears that John Scarobrough John rfni 'VSS S0ld by Isaac Betts to son of Robert, returned from Virginia I ohn Ruckman March 15th, 1814 and when he became of age, and that he l ?** aK PaI't of the 80 acres, 152 perches married Margaret Kirk, at Wrights- I ! JameS Pellar t0 I^ac^Betls town meeting house 5th-mo. 8th, 1760. ihe certificate of this marriage, which 1 >,The.gr,eater Portion of the Hurkman is m the possession of Isaac Sca-bor- I ward upon the tract of Ed- 77 ’ Solebury, states that John clusfveYv Th'; %thf, de€ds show con- "as the son ot Robert Scarborough : nn/ljJ+L The Ruckmans trace their } rom thls marriage many of the Scar- ancestry from John Ruckman ™->,„neir ' boiuughs of Bucks county have de¬ scended Their children were: John, born 6th-mo. 5th, 1761. Robert, born yth-mo. 3d, 1763. Rachel, born 8th- ? 7°h l-fi- V65- Joseph> born 2d-mo. ,Who married' Rebecca JPwL'r“in'""1803’ wV- Isaac, born 8th-mo. 5th, came to Solebury in 180“ 3’ I, 69. Elizabeth born Hth-mo. 30th, Charity, born 5th-mo. 11th 1774 On October 11th, 1779, John Scarbor¬ TRACT NO. 10—JOHN SCARBOR¬ ough widower, of Wrightstovn, again OUGH—510 ACRES. ™arr!fd’ Johanna Cahoon, also of This tract of land lies west of the gint?h.tSt°'' u idow- before Michael ■-lotter, minister of the Gospel at Ger Great Spring tract, and extends to the-l m an town, Pa. This certificate of niar- Buckingham line. It is bounded on thej J, .aQs? 1S a!s° m the Possession of Isaac north by the Pellar tract, and on thei Scarborough, of Solebury south by the Bye tract. The deed was! fic°en 5eCt,7b% 24th’ T1794’ bef0« Jus- made by William Penn to John Scar¬ cc °£ lhle Feace Isaac VanHorn borough, October 22d, 1705. John Scar¬ Isaac Scarborough, son of John and borough owned this tract about four Margaret Scarborough, of Soleburv years, when he sold it to Jacob Hol¬ m; township, married Amy Pearson 1 combe by deed dated 3d-mo. 26th, 1709. daughter of Crispin and Hannah p|ar i This sale was no doubt the result of son, of Solebury. The children of hk I the exchange made with said Hol¬ mamag. . Crispin, bornWth-ma combe for the 830 acre tract. The rec- In,' Joh,n’ born 2d-mo. 13th I •.ords of the various changes of owner- V niiam, born 4th-mo. 23d 179a’ I Iship, through -which portions of this Cynthia, born llth-mo. 17th isoi ! tract of land have passed I have ob- Isaac, born ,th-mo. 1st, 1S04. Charles i 1 tained from a brief of title, endorsed b?™ lOth-mo. 6th, 1806. Amy born on an old deed now in the possession lOth-mo. 16th, 1S08. Pearson, born 4th ' of Isaac Scarborough, who is now the owner and occupant of a farm of 100 Elijah Wilson acres on this tract. __ Henry W. Scarborough, Esq., of Philadelphia, a descendant of the fam¬ faster:? a* tbfru ®.e.nJani'n Paxson married a ily, has furnished me with some mem¬ oranda of the family. Jonathan ’PlfkerrinJiCofrisfl h’id°W °f Amy Pearson, wife of Isaac Scai children by thrives S°,ebUry* No borough, was born in 1769 and died ii 1835. William Scarborough died ii Paxson aSmPaa.XrIed' Ha" °f Ben^min 1S75. Charles Scarborough died Janu daughter of ThSnas CaX^r Canby- mo. 26th 3si4 n,h Canby, Jr., 4th- ary 26th, 1839. He served under Gen Sam. Houston in the war between L‘hn^h’ J^LPlf’x.phildren. L . Texas and Mexico, and was killed ir 8th-mo. 25th, 1894. Elias Ely, born battle. He left a daughter name' lOth-mo. 25th, 1817, married Margaret Dorothea Ann, who is believed to b Wilson, in 1861. Oliver, born 3d-mo. living in Texas at the present time. 18th, 1820, married Ruthanna Ely, in Pearson Scarborough died 2d-mo, 1861. Beulah, born 12th-mo. 2d, 1823, 7th 1874. Crispin Scarborough mar died lOth-mo. 9th, 1826. Ruthanna, ried Mary Shaw, and they were th born lOth-mo. 25th, 1826, died 4th-mo. parents of Mrs. Ruth S. Quinby, of 2d, 1827. Richard, born 3d-mo. 30th, Lumberville, Pa. John Scarborough 1828, married Eleanor Ely, in 1851. married Hannah Reeder and they Richard R. Paxson died 9th-mo. 5th, were the parents of Reeder Scarborl 1898. ough, of Wrightstown; Kirk Scarbor-\ The children of Elias Ely Paxson, ough late of Falls township; Eliza¬ i who owns and occupies the farm of his beth S. Adams, wife of George W. Ad¬ grandfather, were four in number, viz: ams; Cynthia S. Holcombe, of New¬ Samuel, who died in his 28th year. town; Dr. John W. Scarborough, late Sarah, unmarried. Deborah, who died, of New Hope, and also of Alfred and young. Hannameel, unmarried. Amy Ann Scarborough. The above genealogy was taken Cynthia Scarborough married Joseph from the family Bible of Benjamin Large, and among their children may Paxson, printed in 1769, (Oxford Uni¬ be named, Amanda, wife of Lev: versity edition), now in the possession Black; Hannah, widow of Edward of Elias E. Paxson, of Aquetong. The Smith, and sons, Isaac, William and bindii g is of leather tanned with the Joseph. Amy Scarborough married hair on. Watson Smith, and among their chiH dren are Margery and Dr. Harrison TRACT NO. 11—BASSILLIAN FOS- Smith. ,, TER. William Scarborough was the father of Maria, who married J. Watson! | Bassillian Foster, gent, of the Isle of Case, and of Maggie Scarborough, who : Ely, county of Cambridge, England, married a Connard. Isaac Scarboi- purchased of William Penn 1000 acres ough, the second, married Mercy Pear- of land, which was surveyed to him sen. They had four children, viz: llth-mo. 12th, 1696. At least 500 acres Watson, who married Annie Stover: of this land was located in Solebury, Isaac, who married Emma, daughtei on both sides of the upper York road, ,if Quinby Hampton; Lizzie, who mar¬ and on the river at Centre Bridge. ried Richard C. Betts, and Ella, who Bassillian Foster died intestate, and his sister, Sarah Foster, the wife of married Dr. I. C. Thomas. Isaac Scarborough, the third, is the John Hazelgrove became heir at law. present owner and occupant of the After the death of John and Sarah farm of 100 acres, running through the Hazelgrove, their heirs united in a ■entre of the original tract. deed to Joseph Mitchell, dated 2d-mo. In the history of the Scarborough 5th, 1765, who came to Solebury from family we have six generations ot Treadryffin township, Chester county, John Scarborough, as follows; 1st. Penna. The names, residences and John Scarborough, of London. ~d. occupations of these heirs, as set forth John Scarborough, of Solebury, 1<05 to in this deed are, Thomas Knowles, of 1727. 3d. John Scarborough, the mas¬ jjEly, yeoman, and Mary, his wife, late ter at Buckingham meeting. 4th. John ;Mary Barnes, spinstress; Elizabeth Scarborough, son of Robert, married Barnes, of Ely, spinstress; John Margaret Kirk in 1760. 5th. John Scar¬ Barnes, yeoman, of Cambridge, and borough married Hannah Reedei. «tn. Susanna, his wife; James Turner, yeo¬ John Scarborough married Cornelia man, of Ely, and Martha, his wife, ate Martha Barnes, spinstress; Wili¬ Hartley. , , Benjamin Paxson and descendants am Bridgefoot, of Ely, single man, occupying a farm on northeast coinei eldest son and heir at law of Annie of tract No. 10. Bridgefoot, late of Ely, deceased; said Benjamin Paxson. son of Thomas Mary, Elizabeth, John, Martha and Paxson, Sr., married Deborah Tayloi, j Annie being grandchildren of John laughter of Benjamin Taylor 6th-mo. and Sarah Hazelgrove, of Sutton, Isle 16th, 1763. They had eight children. of Ely, England. Timothy, born 5th-mo. 29th. 1764 mar¬ Joseph Mitchell sold a tract of this ried Ruth Johnson. Hannah, born 2d- land on both sides of the road to John mo. 19th, 1766, married Jesse Betts, m ‘Coryell, of New Hope, by deed dated 1787. Thomas, born 9th-mo. 2d, 1169, 6th-mo. 26th, 1768, and recorded in married Hannameel Canby,_in 1814. book 21, page 183, containing 465 acres, Benjamin, born 4th-mo. 22d, 17i6, mar¬ for £2700 sterling. The price paid was ried Sarah White, of Shrewsbury, N. jequal to $31 per acre and was certain¬ J. Sarah, born 12th-mo. 25th, 17(8, ly a very high price at that time. died young. Deborah, born 9th-mo. Joseph Mitchell established the ferry 3d, 1780, married M. Amos Bye, son of at Centre Bridge, which was known by Enoch Bye. Rachel, born 7th-mo. 28th, his name before the present century. 1783, unmarried and died in I860. The next sale' upon this property was Charles, born 4th-mo. 16th, 1787, mar¬ by Samuel Dean, High Sheriff of j ried Mercy Pickering, in 1812. Bucks county, February 19th, 1785, I 1 iwUargewHumnupon fins tract of land was the one owned by William Kitchin. It contains 134 acres and is now owned by Henry Lear, Esq., of Efrlis“Kr's' “am Doylestown. William Kitchin, who owned this farm until his death, was a son of William Kitchin, the third, who married Ann Paxson. William Kitchin, the fourth, married Cleanor -1lm the land descended to Cary, of Quakertown, Pa. They had aons, John and Elias B FpI? hAS t" 34, married Thomas Hartley, of Balti¬ more, in 1725. ecorded in book 57. page 200. Benjamin Canby purchased this land GENEALOGY OF THE PAXSON Thomas Chalkley, who was attor- FAMILY OF THE BURGESS TRACT. ,ey of John Smith, son of Daniel James Paxson and Jane, his wife, ;mith, of Marlborough, England, and jwScame from Marshgibbon, England, in ohn Dawson and Katharine, his wife, 1682. They had four children: Sarah, >y deed dated 3d-mo. 17th. 1731. From ( born 8th-mo. 28th, 1671, married John his it appeal's that this 250 acres was Burling, in 1692. William, born 10th- nade up from purchases off the ends m • mo. 25th, 1675, married Abigail Pow- >f two original tracts, Nos. 2 and No. nall, in 1695. Henry, born 7th-mo. 20th, ’ The deed from Benjamin Canby to , 1683, married Ann Plumly, in 170Br"‘'J Samuel Eastburn is now in the posses¬ James, born 4th-mo. 10th, 1687, dieci sion of James H. Ely, of Solebury the j 7th-mo. 16th, 1687. Jane Paxson diec owner of the homestead portion of the m2d-mo. 7th, 1710. James Paxson diec Eastburn property. The deed was ac¬ ! 2d-mo. 29th, 1722. knowledged before John Wells, one of William Paxson, son of James anc the justices of the county, and the Jane Paxson, married Abigail Pow- property adjoined lands of Henry Pax¬ • i. pall in 1695. They had seven children son on the north, James Hambleton on joviz: .Mary, born llth-mo. 2d, 1696 the west. John Dawson on the south, Abigail, born 6th-mo. 20th, 1700, mar¬ George Pownall and the Foster tract ried - Lamplugh. James, borrr-' on the east. ' i 9th-mo. 5th, 1702, married first,’ Mary Samuel Eastburn was a son of Rob¬ Horsman, in 1723, second, Margaret ert and Sarah Eastburn, who came Hodge, in 1730. Thomas, born 9th-mo. from England to Philadelphia. They ■ 20th, 1712, married Jane Canby, in 1732( brought with them a certificate from \ Reuben, married Alice Limcock. Esh Brigham Monthly Meeting of Friends, ther, married -1— Clayton. Amy. Yorkshire, England, dated 12th-mo. William Paxson died intestate in 6th. 1713, which included their nnnoi 1719. Abigail Pownall Paxson waSH children, and was accepted by Phila¬ recommended minister in the Society | delphia Monthly Meeting. The names 3 of Friends, and died 4th-mo. 17th, 1749, of these children were not stated in. ■ V* aged 71 years. certificate, but they have been obtain¬ James Paxson, son of William and ed from the will of Robert Eastburn, Abigail Paxson, married first, Mary which w-as made llth-mo. _lst, / Ioj-, Horsham in 1723, and had two chil- and probated lOth-mo. 13th, liom ■ dren by this marriage, William, born Their children were: John, to/wdiom 12th-mo. 20th, 1725, and Abigail, born was bequeathed £10; Esther, _£100, 6th-mo. 23d, 1727. Samuel, £100, Robert, Jr., £60; Sarah, James Paxson married second, Mar- £60: Elizabeth. £100. £ garet Hodge in 1730, and had by this Of these children, John, Lstnei, marriage seven children: Thomas, Samuel. Robert. Jr., and Sarah were j born 12th-mo. 20th, 1731, married Mary born in England before 1.13, and Eliz¬ Hambleton, in 1752. Hannah, born abeth was born in Philadelphia after lOth-mo. 27th, 1732, married Stephen 1713 Esther Eastburn married Jona¬ Hambleton, in 1752. Jonas, born 6th than Livezey, of HV-sh^i mL W mo. 25th, 1735, married first, Mary Samuel Eastburn married Elizabeth Fester, second, Mary Broadhurst, in Gillingham in 1728, at Oxford 1785. James, born 2d-mo. 11th, 1738 House, under the care ot Alston married Sarah Letch, in 1762. Jane, Monthly Meeting. Robeit Eas born 6th-mo. 3d, 1739, married Joseph Jr., married Agn^s Jones m Pickering, in 1762. Mary, born lst-mo. was born in 1710 and died in 1m8 22d, 1743, married Joseph Smith, in ah Eastburn married Hu”)l/h£Tvid L6J. Margaret, born Sth-mo. 24th, Elizabeth Eastburn mai lied Dam 1745. ! i Clark in 1737 and died in Thomas Paxson, Sr., son of Wniiai, The preamble of the marriage eer^ and Abigail Paxson, married Jane tificate of Samuel Eastbuin lead ■ ■ i Canby, in 1732. They had eight chil ■fniiows* Whereas, Samuel Eastbum, ; dren. as follows: Joseph, born 9th- of Frankford, county of Philadelphia, mo. 10th, 1733, married Mary Heston, province of Pennsylvania, blacksmith, 6th-mo. 28th, 1758. Benjamin, born son of Robert Eastburn, of Phila^ Jj 8th-mo. 1st, 1739, married Deborah phia and Elizabeth Gillingham, Taylor, 6th-mo. 16th, 1763. Oliver, daughter of Mary Gillingham late of born 7th-mo. 9th, 1741, married Ruth Oxford, etc., were married 14th of 3d Watson. 1766. Rachel, born 3d-mo. mo 1728, in the meeting house at Ox 6th, 1744, married John Watson, 1764. ford a branch of Abington raeetin». Jacob, born llth-mo. 6th, 1745, marrie This marriage certificate was signed Lydia_ Rlakev. 6th-mo. 19ttL_17§9 bv Samuel Eastburn (groom), Eliza m, born llth-mo 14th, 1748, married beth Eastburn (bride), E0*3®1* E;a. Klchel Biles, 1771. Isaiah, born 9th- burn, Sarah Eastburn (parents), L_s__ o. 20th, 1751, married Mary Knowles, 1775. Martha, died young. Benjamin Paxson married second, Rachel Newbold 1797. Benjamin Pax¬ son married third, Mary Pickering 1807. Oliver Paxson married second, Ruth Johnson, widow of Jonathan, 1776. Jacob Paxson married second, Mary Shaw, 1777. t.theirn children were’"eie. jwnbJoseph, bornn’ i7th-753' beth Eaa

:n Dth m’o 10thmaWfd &eb.ecca Ki^- EaStbu^afAUr,vaf^rincIeB-irS rth-ino 4th i -rA Benjamin, born °"e.tIme surveyor general of Pennsvi X*”'?rS “! ' v. T u11’ Mary Wilson. Sarah Sni tei. James Gillingham. John Gilling¬ S-n,0°thSr 1788' J°h"- ham. Anna Eastburn, Grace Eastb n-n~ I S Eae,r-Henry ^illborn 5th-mo. 7th 1R0« ^annan >orn 5th-mo 14th • ^^omas, .Ohalkey, R^&BuT^fJohn^Zf bailey 5tf-°nm“ Mth/ M,ercy thSa c°Lnnf,hanCi'0SS’ Evan David^Mar- •hfpps,' o2fd’piymo6uthmaiJried io*e°^1 Shaiicross Sai4hn shmn"'168’ Hannah th-mo i3tb I-91’ ma,’1'iedaMerabbEIy SS?fE,iZabe^eS^t. ThS •eeitmcate ot marriag-e is now in thQ h.? « KSD °f HU8h R Ea^-n, o? in-Q *■ * Ba\ id, born 4th-mo 97th

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! land6 for flve'ye^^ut ^ ^ EfjS pSS S: I '1734 as before stated. J3Urchased in itlarv Eastburn. my b'es^bed d 7‘fe’ ! T,he children of Samuel and I beth Eastburn were six in „,.Ei | Benjamin, born 2d-mo Uth te ^kKssFsF i llth-mo ’1st t-q= r , 1 • x‘29, died mo isth ‘ i-or, 3 JosePh. born 12th- St-mo nth3V«arIied Mary Wilson 7"e- ,,he <«■ ket«8 aid in ,ea mS' 12th, 1732, married f™, 7tll“mo- born 2d-mo Ifltb 170, Bell. Mary,

lam Edwards Sarah ’ ™arried Will- * 14th 1 -Of? . ab> born 4th™mo ! I7ie V k married Benjamin Smith in 1006. Robert, born 6th-mo ' itoq

mamed Elizabeth Duer th'i. d,’ 11 22 of dower or thirds tw ^ ln Iieu

otherwise claim out o/ mv ^ ,mi&ht

jmy son, Joseph Eastbur^-n Stat^ To I made llth-mo urn h — ! M [ lio£» & my* "an To ! in"d770b* To1 bm°yU^n°f K burn, all my Zti in’ -RS^mael East- my son, iohn Eastburn 7° paid him by mv ™ rf’ t100’ t0 be arrives at 21 ^elrs of am?P 1’ When Thomas Eastburn? £100 to be ISdT’ Si Jpg* my son, Benjamin, when he arrives %

: Samuel and John To hif° &lands°ns, Eastburn,°lioo,etoTb°e pa^d^y Jame3

and ^•andSon?hnsam°ui1StSh0en’fa™be i'n osra^ ztzArr *7*8% 'acr esimToerh-neai' the Dickon o? 2 0 soTjohn, htheS°fSrm «*«■«£ 100 acres We -e1 n Blumstead of

mvSdhaaiCir& each, trTbe paid'out and Mary> £50 'fis. %i its:.

feecca and Mary Eastburn £20 ea^t pis grandson, James Eastb,,™•eacil-

yarned in the win The use ’nf T tlmtShliV"1„„mSoh,“i‘h“ provision plantation on which his rf the §r?„ - 'Trw »our or room'iSieS w,,J [Eastburn, widow, unti, to hve m, and keep her « Wlfe

youngest sons, Amos and

sn?l-Ulm arriVe to the age of 11 years or suitable age to go to trades.”

L 1 he executors of this will were hi = Bon. Robert Eastburn and °-,~,fdt h

Bamuel and John Eastburn ° The wlf’ nesses were Aaron Phillips, Abraham Paxson and Thomas Brown. ”

Joseph Eastburn, the second child of Aaron Phillips, Oliv—,-er Timothy Smith were appon Ci,'..... view_ hisV. I ■-< writingslT-vitino-c JlTlfland produceOl'* MFi parts of them as they may ]udg< pedient, together with a memorrial! Oliver Paxso, and Joseph Easthurn concerning him to a future meeting. Phillips, Joseph The records of the meeting do not show that this service was ever per¬ Paxson and Abraham Paxson. Qf formed. and his body lies in an un¬ Robert Ef‘Set Tastburn, mar- marked grave in the old part of Buck¬ Samuel and Enzaoei ,, meeting ingham graveyard for more than one hundred years. « E'“’Slh1?6rrH S3 «« chi,- llth-mo. 2 2d, lib a- » g. Sarah, born Samuel Easthurn was a friend of dven by Hus mai Thomas] education. He donated half an acre lst-nio. litn, 1<_DU’ ir.Qfi AToses, born of his faipn at Centre Hill for the Phillips 5th-mo. ith, ‘T)arrled Rachel erection of a school house. The deed 4th-mo . 1st, I168. Elizabeth, was made tfo John Scarborough. Joshua Knowles 10th-mo 21st 1^aJS'12th.mo. Ely Isaac Pickering, Thomas Pax- son’ Jr., Jonathan Cutting and Sam- | 355: uel Armitage, trustees. The deed was made lOth-ifio. 30th. 1750. and was for Srn ‘SSimoJ?®, 1775. marriecl John 81 perches of land for a school house Comfort in E9S, the second lot This was probably the first Robert Bastburn main 1 9th-mo. school house in Solebury. It was un- time Rachel Paxson, wi chil- der the care of Buckingham meeting. 16th. 17S1. at t?uchmgha . Mary The minute s of this meeting of lst-mm 3d, 1785, show the location of t»e S”,,MnWS hernia. «« ™11- meeting’s schools to be three,^-r of Joseph Easthntn. apart as marly as practicable as toi !°j]S on land granted by Samuel East- fb "™tT!'fif.JSv » i burn on thi* Upper York road. lift'. 1778. matried «««“*''* 2 On land granted by Thomas in 1802. Redni'hh-mo. 1st,’ 1833. 1 Goode on road from Newtown to unmarried ard d d unmar- Coryell’s Furry, near the line of Cusp- Sarah. born lfth-mo. 11U , 1862 in and William Blackfan s land ned and d.ed ■ 12th> 1T85, died 3 \t the intersection of lover Yoik | Charles, hor ' Mercy, born 7th road and Street road near the end ot 10th, 1791.| Thomas Ca 4. On Di rham road near Thomas Hannah. ^f'^^'od-mo 1815. Mary. On F umstead meeting house bornnilth nmf2d, 1795, unmarried and] *a,'Which distribution of the schools diSs5eShmE°aEn, Jr., died 5th-mo„ was consid wed satisfactory as the 18i t?_buried at Solebuiy. river, moui tain and other things per- The children of Benjamin Eastburm mit.” who married Kesiah R°ssMn ^9th’ 1783. This report was signed by a large committee. About this time Friends in Solebury applied for a school neai horn Is -mo. Mst, 178.- 15th, 3d-mo. 8th, U1^!r i-fi-t 179° 1793. Sarah, born -d-mo. ‘ ’?,*&Joseph Easthurn. wS?" Thomas *•» Phillips 1I86andj Aaron Pax ion were appointed tiustees to hold the title for land for a school ‘SSS.’STyr Jgj-g- « house on Hugh Ely s land. It is be¬ lieved that this school house was built near Josei* Easthurn s and V dham g1“'if,frss?n‘«aSe Kitchen’s lands, and which vas subse 77% acres tcf Aaron Qumby, by deed quently krown as the “Reeder school dated 4th-mf • 1st, .iv, 1 house.” Samuel Efcstburn was an act ! CERTIFICATES AND REMOVALS. member of Buckingham meeting fo- 4th-mo. id. 1786. John Easthurn ask¬ many years. He servedi m the capac ed for a certificate to Wrigh.tstown. in 1 ity of clerk, overseer and y as rec^ order to proceed in maruage w mended in tile mmistiy. ^ th Elizabeth Wiggins. .Hlivv, overseer in 1743 served as 6th-mo. 4th, 1787. Thomas Easthurn meeting from the deatn^ ede removed his certificate to Middletown ’anby, in 1742, until he was»cceede canny, m up. "17r- bega monthlv meeting. by Paul Preston m 175a. He 6th-mo. 2d. 1788, Mary Easthurn ie- traveling:raveling in the ministry in>i 1H°, visit ng Friends in Maryland, New Jers y ouests certificates for her minor sons Amos, who lives with Jesse Betts and and other places. At mcr » David, who lives with Thomas East- Monthly Meeting h.el^t„S ,haf Lpar burn. to Middletown monthlv meet beloved) Friend. Samuel Easthurn deceases ingth-mo.. 1795. Amos Easthurn asked for a certificate to Middletown meet¬ ing to proceed in marriage with Man SfSPtdFriends with desires that some mem S Thus°gradually the Eastburns began oirs of his life may be transmitted^ drifting away from Solebury unt posterity, therefore Thomas V at , now but one of the name owns a horn. within its borders. nr’noinal The present owners of the j ;nart of this tract of land are Jai * ~ H. Fly, Jacob Kooker and i Mood. TRACTS NOS. 14 and 15—HENRY Ann jriumiey Raxson, me wue o, PAXSON. Henry Paxson, was born in 1688 and died in 1728, aged 40 years. Henry The Paxsons were among the earli¬ Paxson was born in 1683 and died 9th- est settlers of Solebury. Of this fam¬ mo. 5th, 1756, aged 73 years. Henry ily history tells us that there were Paxson also bought other land in Sole¬ bury, notably 200 acres of John Scar¬ three brothers, James, Henry and borough in 1711. Henry Paxson was a William Paxson, who came to Penn¬ prominent man in public affairs, being sylvania in 1682, in the ship “Samuel” a member of the Provincial Assembly of London. The first of the name to in the years 1705 to 1707. , Thomas Paxson, Jr., the eleventh settle in Solebury was Henry, a son child of Henry and Ann Paxson, pur¬ of James, who was born in 1683, and chased in the years 1762 and 1763, 200 who married Ann Plumley at Falls acres on the west end of the Pike meeting in 1706. The land occupied by tract. He married Sarah Harvey, at Falls meeting 3d-mo. 17th, 1748. Their Henry Paxson was deeded by William children were: Abraham Paxson Penn in England 4th-mo. 22d, 1682, for born June 19th, 1749, married Elizabeth 500 acres to Thomas Croasdale, of the Brown in 1775, Aaron Paxson, born county of York, England. At least 250 August- 4th, 1751, married Letitia acres of this land was surveyed and Knowles in 1775. Moses Paxson, born 'aid out for William Croasdale, a son August J>3d, 1754, married Mary Pown- of Thomas Croasdale. I found the ail in 1780, and Sarah Paxson his sec¬ original warrant for this land filed at ond wife. Ann Paxson, born July 3d, Harrisburg, dated 6th-mo. 11th 1702 175«, married William Kitchin. Thom¬ William Croasdale sold this 250 acres as Paxson, Jr., died January 13th, 1767, of land to Henry Paxson, by deed dat¬ aged 40 years. Sarah, his wife, died ed 9th-mo. 15th, 1704, recorded in book June 16th, 1762, aged 31 years. Thom¬ 3, page 170. At that early date this as Paxson, Jr., married a second time |traet was meted and bounded as fol- Hannah Blac-kfan, daughter of Will¬ Jows: Northwest 115 perches, by land iam Blackfan in 1764; no children. jof Stephen Beaks, afterward S. Armi- Of the children of Thomas Paxson, itage. Northeast 349 perches, by land Jr.. Abraham, the eldest, married Eliz¬ jthen vacant, afterward Jesse Lang- abeth Brown, of Plumstead. at Buck¬ ihorne. Southeast 120 perches, by land ingham meeting llth-mo. 23d, 1775, and |of Richard Burg-ess. Southwest 337 remained upon a portion of the home¬ peiches, by land afterward conveyed stead of Henry Paxson. Aaron, the [to Samuel Eastburn. second son, married Letitia Knowles at | Henry Paxson settled upon this tract Buckingham meeting in 1775, arid set¬ tled upon one of the farms purchased if 111 H04. He subsequently bought another tract of 250 acres, ad¬ on the Pike tract. Moses Paxson, the joining on the north, of Jeremiah third son, settled on a portion of the tract purchased of Jere Langhorne in Lang-horne, by deed dated 4th-mo. 6th 1<06, recorded in book 3, page 343. The 1706. Ann Paxson, the daughter, mar¬ description of this tract is as follows- ried William Kitchin, and settled upon Beginning at a chestnut tree bv the land formerly of the Burgess tract. The children of Aaron and Letitia river Delaware, thence southeast by Paxson were Phineas, born March Richard Burgess’ land 129 perches 26th. 1776, died young. Letitia, born scuthwest "23 perches by land September 28th, 1778, married John PfWi'liam Croasdale now Eaxson’s Blakey. Ezra, born July 1st, 1780, un¬ land, thence northwest 180 perches bv married. EJiada, born March 2d, 1782, (land of Francis White (afterward con¬ married Mary Cooper in -1804. Aaron! veyed to Samuel Armitage), thence Tr.. born May 13th, 1785, married Eliz¬ northeast 146 perches by vacant land abeth Phillips in 1807. John K., born [(afterward conveyed to John Rose) to December 12th, 1794, married Aehsah a pine tree standing by the Hver D 1 Dennis, of New Jersey, in 1828. aware, thence down the river +o the It was Aaron Paxson, Sr., who own- place of beginning, containing -"50 acres of land. ?d and sold the land now occupied by Solebury Friends meeting. The chil¬ Henry Paxson married Ann Plam- dren of Eliada Paxson, who married ley in 1,06. The children o: Henry and Mary Cooper in 1804, were two in num¬ W wanSOn KWere tweIve in num- ber: Amos C., born 9th-mo. 17tli, 1805, bei Vv 1 Ilian born January 31st 1707 married Rachel Ely, daughter of Mark died in 1731. Elizabeth, born ’ June Ely. Josiah, born 2d-mo. 17th, 1807, r-H’ Mh’ m^rned Thomas Hartley in died llth-mo. 7th, 1826. He had gone L25. Mary, born April 24th, 1711, mar¬ ried Henry Roberts in 1729 Sarah gunning and was found in the woods. ;born January 25th, 7 712, married Jo- Mary Cooper, the wife of Eliada seph Duer in' 1730. Jane, born Janu Paxson, is said to have been the first female school teacher in Bucks coun¬ lary 14th, 1714, married Jonas Pres?on ty. ™ 1732. Margery, born September The children of Amos C., and Rachel 24th. 1716. married Matthew Beans in |E. Paxson were nine in number, viz: l

r8lh3° wereiefd Elizabeth Dillingham, in 1813, were two in number. William b°r" 9th-mo. 23d, 1S14, unmarried jo- «■** seph D., born 3d-mo. 13th 1S16 mir Alfred Paxson is the present ned Emeline Small, in 1837. ’ ar" rhe children of Joseph D. and Eme MahlonCUpaxson^ TZ^IT tff1? * me Armitage were five in number Scarborough tract No *8 f th J°hn viz: Ann Elizabeth, born 6th-mo 7th’ Dihvo^hPi^01^oW^.nr,Tiedn Jo“*>h 5th°’inTlaiS6iedr-^iViam Kitehin, rhe upon the 120 acres of the “llnd68^ I mo uth L.iGull«lma G" boin 7th- I Fell fn ’wf»™ed J‘ Remington lased b/ Hen^ Paxson They had mo 4 h mi M illiam G„ born 7th- ' ende c5I*d™n- Martha, born 1821 mar ThomasV h man;,ed Mary Fenton; I >rn 1823 m" Gowdrick- Thomas. f nomas G., born ith-mo. 4th 1844 mi married. Ruth Ella, born 3d- Rjn JcSef bo^TSt J?C mo. 21st, 1854, unmarried.

isqi0Se&h ^ Armitage died 2d-mo. 7th Chon. Annie, born 1832. married Dr 21M,’ Armitage died 5th-mo. pbraham Livezey 1850. William born ..I11? QnJy livino descendants of 8am- Jarah born ISSS3110” Greenougb 1856. bearing the name of price mo 1838’ married Edward A. Ai m it age, now living in the township are Ruth Ella, daughter of Joseph D / The Paxson and Dilworth farm of i9n Aimitage, residing in Lumberville and Arnos, son of Samuel Armitage re- » and^'joLph''' Mathet.sby Charles whU^- ii fat her m SoIebury on the farm of his

,,The resent owners of this tract are NO. 16.—SAMUEL ARMITAGE. Maria Fries, the mill property of 50 I This tract of land is a part of 250 acies, , the John \i- I acres which was surveyed and laid I hi m v!'n^' and Roben Haddock. j out for Francis white, by warrant, II—the Joseph D. Armitage oronerrv J dated 5-18-1703, by patent from Will¬ iam Penn to George White, dec’d, the GS^TIP----1-58' PSfilf] original purchaser, and by him de¬ rtS”"'1 Jr" 6« S-16-1760, unmar- [ vised to his son, Francis White, bv his ™ , last will and testament. Beginning | at a post in William Croasdale's line, '£S;JT S;:' i thence .1 S. W. 222 perches by William j Croasdale and Stephen Beakes; ar 2 N. W. 180 perches by Samuel Beakes’ land; ffim,e,S«ns t!,ewTt°hTh“na 3 N. E. 222 perches by vacant land; 4 S. E. 180 perches by Jeremiah Langhorne to beginning-, containing 250 acres. »e°re TClSu, *fPnT ,h Francis White conveyed this land to James Carter, S-29-1704. hook 3, page 228. James Carter, of Northampton town¬ ship (blacksmith), conveyed the same to George Brown, of Falls town¬ j-:.. ^-be school house at Centre Hill in ship, 2-24-1708, book 4. page 122. ; George Brown by lease and release : to Hepry Paxson, 1-19-1724. | Whether Henry Paxson sold to SSS'ttKS* * Samuel Armitage, or whether it pass¬ ed through other intervening hands, I TheLw„?^,Si“UE,L ARMITAOE. have not been able to ascertain, but j Samuel Armitage became the owner of 200 acres of this tract about the | year 174S. I T in? r —To my son- John, the hou'-e bind dve.ln- the mill and 50 acres of Samuel Armitage came from Eng¬ l land adjoining Stephen ; 1 land in 1739. He brought a certificate ! f>'om Friends in Yorkshire, England 1 SnS'Kiff- to Buckingham Monthly Meeting. He married Elizabeth Hambleton. daugh- . ter of James Hambleton, in 174S, and had two children by this marriage James, born 1-27-1749, married Mar¬ io3ThT,u„ejy w tha Dennis, in 1775. John, born 2-23-1751, unmarried. ;k!S. IrSmS; **•*«“- s"‘h Elizabeth, his wife, died 2-29-1752 and Samuel Armitage married the ry!'lf sl5li£Kry aa“5hter- “•«■» Rar- second time, Mary bv whom j he had five children, viz; Xteni 7 To ?y S°n’ SamueI- £5. Jane, born 10-23-1754, married \n? CT° y son’ Amos, £5 And the remainder of his eom+o . Adams. sons, John and James „-i,' estate to Sarah. born_ 6-19-1756, married John executors. The witnesses m "the® ,e-n Merrick in 1777. were Moses Paxson, Joshua F?v r 1 and Joseph Townsend. The release {Igv •' i -v* "ttv r- deeds or eac^ ~ brotheiY John and -_ D;. ,t m* 'v,t»r James, to the other were dated 9 th- nlo. 1st, 1801, and are on record. No. 17—JOHN ROSE. Samuel Armitage, Sr., dies lst-mo. John Penn, Thomas Penn and Rich¬ 29th, 1S01. James Armitage, son of Samuel, married Martha Dennis, ard Penn, by their deed, dated 5th-mo. daughter of Henry Dennis, of Sole- 29, 1741, conveyed about 200 acres of bury, lOth-mo. 11th, 1775. Their chil¬ land to one John Hough, and John dren were nine in number: Eliza¬ beth, born 8th-mo. 2d, 1776, unmarried.' Hough. Yeoman and Elinor his wife, Hannah, born 5th-mo. 2d, 1778, mar¬ by a deed of the same date conveyed ried Jacob Walton in 1801. John, born the same tract of land to John Rose, 8d-mo. 12th, 1780, married Alice Wal¬ Yeoman, who came from . ton, in 1803. Martha., born llth-mo. 19:h, 17S2, unmarried. Henry, born This tract of land was bounded on lst-mo. 13th, 1785, married Sarah Wal¬ the north by the mine tract, on the ton, in 1811. Samuel, 3d, born lOth-mo. east by the Delaware river, on the 16th, 1786, married Elizabeth Gilling¬ south by land of Henry Paxson, and ham, in 1813. Letitia, horn 4th-mo. on the west by the Towmsend tract, 22d, 1788, married Samuel Hartley in as the following description of the 1810. Charles, born 2d-mo. 14th, 1794, property fully shows. Beginning at a married Jane Beans in 1822. Amos, pine tree on the river Delaware, men-, born lst-mo. 7th, 1796, married Rebec¬ tioned in the deed from Jeremiah ca Hoffman in 1812. Langhorne to Henry Paxson, thence The children of John Armitage, who southwest 286 perches by land of married Alice Walton, in 1803, were Henry Paxson, thence northwest 162 eight in number, viz: Lvdia, born perches, by land of Stephen Town¬ lOth-mo. 1st, 1804, unmarried, and send, thence northeast 162 perches by died in 1860. Hannah, born 2d-mo. the mine land to a chestnut tree on 25th, 1806. unmarried. James, born the bank of the river Delaware, 2d-mo. 1st, 1S10. married Mary Quin- thence down the river 206 perches to bv, in 1836. Julia, born llth-mo. 11th, the place of beginning, containing 194 1812, married Amos Ellis. Martha, acres, with the allowance of 6 per born 5th-mo. 21st, 1814, unmarried. cent for roads, would make over 200 Charles, born 6th-mo. 6th, 1816, unmar¬ acres of land, John Rose established I ried. Harriet, born 4th-mo. 27th, 1820, the first ferry at this place, now ! unmarried. Maria, born lOth-mo. 2d, known as Lumberton, a mile helowr 1821, married Tobias Helwig. Lumberville. It was called Rose's The children of Henry Armitage, Kerry before the Revolution. In 1796, who married Sarah Walton, in 1811, it became the property of Jacob Pain¬ were eight in number, viz: Jacob, ter. and was called Painter’^ ferry. born 7th-mo. 9th, 1814, married Han--, Among the earlier owners ^ oT this nah Walton, in 1839. Elizabeth, born tract of land in the present* century lOth-mo . 9th, 1816, married Austin may be named, Joshua Gilbert,

TEPHEN TOWNSEND. -THE MINE TRACT. ,f Stephen Townsend was This tract occupies the northeastern 10, 1757. The first item orner of the township; extending on .is land between his two ts eastern border to “Hill Edge,” or phen and William, Stephen he edge of the hill fronting the river. the south part and William The strip of lowland along the river rth part. Legacies were left to rom the Plumstead line down to Cop¬ -ughters, Elizabeth Kennard £8, per Nose, and being the site of the Alary Skelton £8, to Sarah Smith village of Lumberville, was referred to daughter Ann Townsend 5 to in the old deed by the name of shillings, to grand-children, J™n, "Temple Bar.” This tract is bounded IMary, Ellen and Jonathan Hough, on the south by the Rose tract, and the sum of £8. The executors were the west by the Townsend and Upper ! John Scarborough and Samuel E as t- Pike tracts. burn, and the witnesses to the Its north boundary being the Plum- | were Jonas Paxson, Sarah S. Hough stead line. The earliest

■ mr 'The !ines~'«i7'£Hs •' land are given as '.lows; Beginning at a poplar tree Elizabeth Ingham to Jacob Fretz, hi a creek op the line of John Rose’s 6-mo. 7, 1788,' and Jacob Fretz, who land, thence northwest 74 perches by came from Plumstead, established the line of the mine tract, thence north¬ fulling mill on the Paunacussing east 32 perches to a corner of William creek in 1789. Hamilton’s land, thence southeast 74 The land then descended by ad¬ perches to a' corner in line of said judication to Phillip Fretz in 1810, Rose’s land, thence southwest 32 who raised a large family of children, perches to the place of beginning, mostly daughters, and one son the containing 14 acres and 12S perches, late Jacob Fretz, of Lumberville, who and was a part of 66 acres which bequeath* the principal part of his es¬ Isaac Greenleaf and Katharine, his tate valued at $100,000 to the George wife, by deed d.ated 1-mo. 17, 1.69, School at Newtown, Pa. This prop¬ conveyed to Josiah "Winter. By this erty has been known as the Fretz purchase George Wall, Jr., became property since 1788. The late Jacob the owner of the present site of Lum- Fretz operated this property at dif¬ berville. ferent times as a wool carding mill, Theprincipal owners of this tract ot and a clover hulling mill. land in 1859 were John Marston, 127 Lots Nos. 1 and 2 were sold by j acres, Lukens Thomas, 100 acres. The Charles Norris, attorney for Richard [ Marston farm was owned by William- Pike about the same time as the sale i B. Leedom in 1S76, and is now owned of lots 3 and 4 to Yeomans Gilling¬ by Reuben P. Ely. The Lukens ham, although the original deeds do Thomas property is now owned by not appear on record; but from later William Tinsman. deeds it appears that lot No. 2 was sold to John Sebring, Senior, who by a NO. 20—THE UPPER PIKE TRACT. deed recorded in book 14, page 60, Joseph Pike had two tracts of land dated in 1771, sold 99 acres between in Solebury. The upper tract con¬ the lands of Joseph Pryor and Yeo¬ tained 400 acres and was the middle mans Gillingham to John Sebring, tract in the upper tier of tracts bord¬ Junior, being the same land which ering on the Plumstead line, and ly¬ ing between the Blackshaw tract Carles Norris did grant and convey to which occupied the northwest corner John Sebring, Senior, in 1762. of the township, and the Mine Tract Lot No. 1, being the most westerly- the northeastern corner. This tract lot of the tract was sold previously | was divided into four lots of 100 acres to the Pryors, who established a mill each, and was sold out by Charles on the Paunacussing creek, known by Norris, attorney for Richard Pike in the name of ‘'Pryor’s water corn grist the vear 1762. The lots were number¬ mill,” as appears byr a deed of Thomas ed 1,' 2, 3 and 4, (and it will be remem¬ and Samuel Pryor, of Burlington, N. bered that the sale of the other Pike J., to Joseph Prymr, of Solebury, dat¬ tract in 1763, the lots were numbered ed 3-mo. 26 1761, and recorded in book 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 respectively.) 16, page 273. This land was bounded | By a deed dated 9-mo. 30, 1762, and by land of Randall Blackshaw on the [recorded in book 11, page 443, it ap- west, and by other land of said Pike jpears that Charles Norris, attorney on the east (afterward sold to Sebring laforesaid, sold lots Nos. 3 and 4 of the and Gillingham). The lands of the Upper Pike tract to Yeomans Gilling¬ southern parts of lots Nos. 1 and 2 ham, containing 200 acres and 112 afterwards came into the possession ‘perches. The location of this land of Thomas Carey and others. The was on the eastern side of the tract Pryors were grandsons of Nehemiah next to the Mine tract. Blackshaw, son of Randall Black¬ The boundaries were as follows: shaw, who obtained the grant for his north 48 degrees west, 192 perches by land of James Harrison, commission¬ the Mine and Townsend tracts, thence er of William Penn in 1682. southwest 167% perches by vacant The principal owners of this tract land, thence south 48 degrees, east of land in 1S59 were Daniel Helwig, 192 perches by lots Nos. 1 and 2; Jacob Fretz, Joseph Heed, Jacob thence northeast 167% perches by Stout. Robert Good, Benjamin Hes¬ lands of George Brown. ton, Henry E. Carver, William R. Yeomans Gillingham subsequently Evans, Isaac Stover, Joseph Auld, i sold this land to different purchasers. Daniel and John Hays. He sold 95 acres of the southern por¬ ! The owners in 1876 had changed to tion of the 200 acres to Joseph Beans Silas Helwig, Joseph Sackett and I. in 1792, recorded in book 26, page 395. 1 Closson, the other properties mostly • [This land remained in the possession ;1 remaining- as in 1S59. IS of the Beans family until after the Joseph Beads had three children, - death of his son Samuel Beans. The viz: Samuel, Jesse and Sarah. / homestead portion was retained by Samuel Beans married Letitia Beans, wife of Robert Good, at Buckingham Meeting /111 t by whom it was owned in 1859. In had six children, vj.~- Hannah, 1876 the property had passed to the married Aaron w/. Jones, Ann, ownership of Joseph Sackett. married Jesse AArmitage; Letitia, The upper portion of this tract was married RobeM Good; Ruth Anna, previously sold by Yeomans Gilling¬ who married Benjamin Heston, ham and Bridget, his wife by deed Francp»frfaT unmarried; Joseph, un- dated 5-mo. 1. 1773, to Josiah Winter, fhfried. ... . -and Josiah Winter and Christiana his Jesse Beans studied medicine and ‘wife to Paul Kester, 5-mo. 1, 1775, practiced in the vicinity of Carvers- and Paul and Hannah Kester to ville for many years. He married Jacob Beans, 10-mo. 30, 1775, and first Eliza Harrold Carver. His sec¬ Jacob and Sarah__Beans to Jonas Ing¬ ond wife was Mary Peters. The ham 11-mo. 1, 1779, and Jonas and names of his children were Eliza Sarah Ann, Mercy, Nelson, Manetta and Charles. . Eliza married Henry L. Corson, and resides in Forest Grove; Sarah Beans married Charles Armitag^ ^ * NO. 21—GEORGE BROWN. TV llliam' Bennett by his last will and In pursuance of an order from Wil¬ testament in 1766, divided this prou- liam Penn, proprietor, dated 10-mo. erty equally between his widow 20, 1701, the commissioners of prop¬ Charity Bennett and children, viz-’ erty issued a warrant dated 2-mo. 1, Isaac , Bennett and Margaret his 1702 for 200 acres of land to be survey¬ wife, William- Bennett and Mary his ed to George Brown. In Cutler's sur¬ wife, John Bennett, Thomas Craven vey of portions of Buckingham and . £ aad TLierla’ uhlS wife> Derick Hogeland Soiebury townships made in 1703 this and Idah, his wife. These heirs by tract of land is located immediately iheir deed dated i-mo. 17, 1775, convey- south of Joseph Pike’s 400 acre trac't. ed 100 acres, or one-half of this tract The amount of land conveyed was 200 to James Vanzant, book 17. page 597 acres. George Brown conveyed the and book 21, page 173. James Van- same by deed dated 12-mo. 10. 1721, zant, and Yanaca, his wife, by their to his son Edmund Brown. Edmund deed dated 9-mo. 27, 1782, conveyed Brown by his deed dated 12-mo. 4, the same 100 acres to Jonathan Bald¬ 1723, conveyed the same to Joseph erston. Sometime after this the prop¬ Kirkbride, Jr. erty came into the hands of the Joseph Kirkbride, Jr., by his deed Hut chin.sons. John Hutchinson and conveyed the same to Mathew Hugh¬ fqarah- hls wife, by deed dated 8-mo. es, 4-mo. 25, 1730. Mathew Hughes 12 182a, conveyed 86 acres of this land did not appear to be satisfied with his to Elizabeth Hutc-hdnson, who bv a title, for the following proceedings deed dated 6-mo. li, 1^49, conveyed appear on record: Whereas John the same to Samuel G. Watson.' 4. Penn, Thomas Penn and Richard short time previous to 1876 Samuel G. Penn, at the request of Mathew Watson sold the same £0 Jacob F Hughes did by their patent dated Barron, the present owner and oc- 8-mo. 10, 1733, confirm to the said -■ ‘Cupant. Mathew Hughes the said 200 acres of Forty-seven acres of the central land. Dort.on of this tract was sold by John Mathew Hughes by deed dated 10-mo. Hutchinson to Charles Armitage 5, 1738, conveyed the same to Richard 8-m°. 12. 1825. Charles Armitage sold Van Dyke, who disposed of the prop¬ the same forty-seven acres to Abra¬ erty to various persons. ham T eothers, 4-mo. 1, 1829, and re¬ The principal owners of this prop¬ moved to the west. erty in 1859 were Stedman Cowdrick, Abraham Yeothers deeded the same 22 acres; Mary Scarborough, 89 acres; to John Walton, 4-mo. 1. 1S42 and Aaron W. Jones, 71 acres; Paxson John Walton to James Qudnby, ’ 4-mo. Carver, 20 acres and Joseph Large, , Slnae wh,ich date it has been 14 acres. owned by Harvey Stout, James H Of the earlier owners of this tract Ely and Willis Walton. may be mentioned Dr. Jesse Bearg, The western portion of the Croas- 22 acres, which was subsequently owned by his brother Samuel Beans, ;,a e vV-aiClt canle into tlle Possession of then by Stedman Cowdrick, and at ' In i t0n ,fami,y- Hugh Meredith the present time by Wilson Flack. Todd,TodrlM ?fof yNewxi h‘ S -oBritain,Wife’ • andboth- Williamoracti- The largest farm upon this tract is tK,ne,s of physic conveyed 81 acres of now owned by Charles S. Paxson. Hlls1-t,act by their deed, dated S-mo. This property was sold by Stephen j1’ DM, to John Walton, Senior re-j Brock, high sheriff of Bucks county, , y°rded in book 26, page 284. The re¬ 2-mo. 18, 1829, to Crispin Scarborough, lease deeds of the brothers, Jacob' who by his will devised the same to his Walton and Hannah and John Wal-f wife Mary Scarborough, who by her and Margery, and Jesse Walton deed sold the same to Stedman Cowd¬ -Bid Mary were made 3-mo. 28, 1827. I rick 4-mo. 1, I860, and was purchased Jacob Walton had married Hannah by its present owner and occupant in 1864. MaTaerf RJohn Walton had manded The second farm in size on this ' Imd emar,BeiantV and Jesse Walton tract was owned by Samuel Beans, vvfn n d • Mary Holcombe. Johnl who by his last will ahd testament of this northwest corneJ dated 2-mo. 16, 1857, devised the same the south ° and Jesse WaitoiJ ton i. corner. jesse Wal-I to his daughter Hannah, wife of ton also owned 381/. acresU Aaron W. Jones. The next sale was by them to Jacob Frederick, and the was^sold’1 ithe Balderston tract, which farm is now owned and occupied by Deborah * Jt hn Ba>derston and Charles Price, son of Henry Pricey ! mo. 7 1768 Jonathan Balderston,I ; late of Soiebury. S 1S591 hv 1 Ta ° 1 , V'f 1 a n d 'vas o w n ed ini NO. 22—EZRA CROASDALE. Marv f>n B' Walton, 4% acres, | This tract of land was granted to 47 acres «°n 43 aores- James Quinby B Ezra Croasdale by warrant of the Amos H ,!3amuel G Walton 73 acres. I Good m 'V,S 14'Acves and Robert ! commissioners of property, Edward ' ood ,1- acres. The Walton family H Shippin, Griffith Owen, Thomas ?' are 1 n§’eneous mechanics, being c-ele- i Storyard and James Logan. I found it filed at the land office at Harrisburg. Me ear, vS nC'"ck -and watch-majfers in ■ The survey was made 3-mo. 15, ^ 1702, John LrP,ait tlle Present century, fl and the land was located in “Soul- nahffim- p' Senior, married Han-1 berry.” . . nf hn,i ePrevmus t0 his Purchase 1.3 Ezra Croasdale and Sarah, his wire, three 1 Solebui-y in 1791 he had | and William Croasdale, by Indenture Jacob v-’d Ja('ob- J“hn and Jesse | ll,,a owned land on the! Tripartite dated 5-mo. 1, 1751, con- veyed the same 200 acres of land to remain ,, 1''1 - "'bile John and Jesse Jes'e iV.'1!1, the °roasdale tract. William Bennett, of Northampton -j7 Deborah Balderston, married Eliza¬ married Mary Jones. Isaac, born beth Buckman, 11-mo. 19, 1800. 12-mo. 26, 1827, married Abby Noble. GENEALOGY OF THE BALDER¬ Maryetta, born 1-mo. 18, 1830,married STON FAMILY. Jacob A. Walton. Rhode Ann, born The children of John and Hannah '9-mo. 7. 1834, married Doctor Robin¬ son. Almira, born 3-mo'. 5, 1837, mar- | Balderston, who were married in 1739, l.ried Joseph G. Preston. Elizabeth, ! were eleven in number, viz: John, born 3-mo. 1. 1840, married Thomas H. born 1-mo. 15, 1740, married Deborah -Mag'ill. Charlotte, born 5-mo. 3, 1845, Watson. 10-mo. 21, 1767. Jonathan I married Samuel Preston. Balderston, married Jane Ely in 1771. | Jacob Walton married Hannah Bartholomew Balderston, Timothy | .Armitage, in 1801. They had five Balderston, Jacob Balderston, mar¬ |'Children, viz: Evelina Walton, born in ried Mary Kennard in 1769. Hannah 1 803, married Abraham Paxson, Jr. Balderston, Isaiah Balderston, Sarah |-John Walton, married Elizabeth Balderston, married Hugh Ely, Jr., in Thomas. Eliza Walton, married Na¬ 1773. Mordecai Balderston, Lydia than Ely, his 3rd wife. James Wal- Balderston, married Aaron Quinby ! ton, married Jane Thomas. Martha in 1782. Mary Balderston. Walton, married Samuel Bradshaw. John Balderston the 2nd, married John Walton married Margery Deborah Watson, daughter of Mark I Beans. They had two children, ■ and Ann Watson. 10-mo. 21, 1767. Jonathan Beans Walton, married They had. eight children, Merab Bald,- J Catharine Yost. Charles Walton, was erstofl, born 7-mo. 25, 1770. Hannah lulled when a young man by horse Balderston, born 5-mo. 30, 1772. John ’running away and throwing- him W. Balderston, born 2-mo. 24, 1775, .against a tree. married Elizabeth Buckman in 1800. NO. 23—JOHN BALDERSTON. Mark Balderston, born 5-mo. 1, 1778, The title to the Balderston tract of Ann Balderston, born 21-mo. 15, 1780, land traces back to the warrant of and three others who died young. William Penn to Richard Thacher, John W. Balderston, 3d, married dated 5-mo. 4, 1682, for 1000 acres of Elizabeth Buckman, 11-mo. 19, 1800. land. Richard Thacher by will 10-mo. They had seven children, viz: John 13, 1690, devised 350 acres of said land D.. born 9-mo. 1, 1801. married Martha to his sons Bartholomew and Joseph Eastburn. William, born 12-mo. 15, I Thacher. 1805, mjarried Lydia Shaw. Abner, | The said Batholomew and Joseph • born 2-mo. 23, 1808. unmarried. Oliv- Thacher conveyed the same to Sam¬ er, born 7-mo. 20, 1812, married Mary uel Beaks, 4-mo. 6, 1700. Samuel P. Shaw. Deborah, born 5-mo. 4, Beaks had this land surveyed to him 1815, unmarried. Hannah, born 6-rpo. 10-mo. 15, 1702, and confirmed by 20, 1S19. unmarried. Martha,' born i patent dated, 3-mo. 4. 1703. He sold 12-mo. 3. 1S21, unmarried. the same to William Chadwick. 3-mo. I John D. and Martha Balderston, j 4, 1725. had no children. He was a practical j William Chadwick was believed to surveyor, and was the first president j have erected the first buildings upon of the Solebury Farmers’ Club. Wil- | the property. One day as he was be¬ Ham and Lydia Balderston had no j ing ferried across the Delaware river , children. He was the first secretary I he fell overboard and was drowned. and treasurer of the Lahaska Insur- j The heirs of William Chadwick, viz: ance Company, and was engaged in ! Ellen Chadwick, widow and children, ■ mercantile pursuits. John Chadwick, Thomas Chadwick, Oliver Balderston and Mary P. Enos Ramsden and Mary, his wife, Shaw were married 11-mo. 15, 1843. ;and Margaret Bo’thomby conveyed They had four children, viz: Josiah, the same by their deed dated 6-mo. born 1-mo. 27, 1845. Elizabeth, born 21, 1766, to John Balderston, Senior, 5-mo. 6, 1S46, married Jesse B. Fell recorded in book 13, page 349. John W.. born 12-mo. 9, 1850. married The ancestry of the Balderston Anna T. Betts. Charles S., born :family is as follows: John Balderston 11-mo. 30, 1854, unmarried. ■emigrated fr'om Holland to England Oliver Bciderston remained upon j | about the time the Prince of Orange the homestead and followed farming I died, in 1688, and settled in or near He was the second president of :he [ the City of Norwich, England. Solebury Farmers’ Club. The owners I His children were John, Bartholo¬ if this tract of land in 1859 wer- OUv- j mew and Mary. From Bartholomew er Balderston 12S acres, Nathan Ely •descended Timothy Balderston, who i 144 acres. Mary Walton 38 acres, Wil¬ left two daughters and one son. Bar- ' liam J. Jewell 50 acres, and a few tholomew. John Balderston, the son small lots. Charles S. Balderston is •of John who moved to England, the present owner and occupant of the i buried his first wife and married homestead farm of 12S acres. ■Lydia Sc-haife for his. second wife. They had two children, a son, John, NO. 24—JAMES HAMBLETON. and a daughter. Elizabeth. John, the sson 'was bom in 1702, and learned the Stephen Beakes was the owner at a trade of weaving silk and worsted. verv early date of a large tract of 63S He came to America in 1727 and acres of land in Solebury. The tiact married Hannah Cooper. of Upper was originally grafted to William Makefield in 1739. They lived first in North Wales, then in Upper Make- Beakes. Stephen Beakes was the only ; field, and finally settled in Solebury. [son and heir of Abraham Beakes, who He died in 1782, having raised seven was a son of William Beakes. Stephen sons and four daughters. John, the (Beakes married Elizabeth Bites .. at (Falls Meeting 8-mo. 31. 1688. 'i ~ • 1 1 *. “When about to undertake a voyage ■_ to England he made a will dividing his Stephen Hambleton married Hannah Paxson, a dalighter of James, in 1852. Dart to his wife Elizabeth Beakes. !4 arid Mary Idarii.bleton married Thomas part to his daughter, Mary Beakes, 14. Paxson the same year, a son of James, part to his daughter, Grace Beakes,' which was an exchange of brother and and 14 part to his daughter, Elizabeth sister, Beakes. A copy of this will is in the Stephen Hambleton had a son James, possession of Hampton W. Rice, of who was born in 1733 nr 4. James Solebury. The journey to the mother Hambleton. Jr., married Elizabeth country was successfully made and the Paxson, daughter of Henry Paxson, will was not probated. I find on re¬ Jr., about the year 1778 or 9. The resi¬ dence of James Hambleton, Jr., was at cord that Nathan Hughes, who had narried Elizabeth Beakes, and John the intersection of the Upper York and Beakes, executrix and executor, Su°an roads, at Centre Hill; is a sub¬ neirs of Stephen Beakes sold one-half stantial stone structure and in a good f)f the 638 acres, or 319 acres, to James state of preservation. It is now owned Ham> leton by deed dated 3-rno. 27, and occupied by Joseph C. Clum. 1721, book 26, page 423. The children of James Hambleton, , Jr., and Elizabeth, were eleven in num¬ The other half of the property came ber. as follows: Peninah. born 4-mo. into the possession of Grace Beakes, 5-mo. 25, 1724. who had married 17. 1780. Hannah, born 5-mo. 8, 1781. Mercy, born 4-mo. 14. 1783. Alice, born Thomas Howard, of Philadelphia. The I-rrio. 10, 1785. Elizabeth, born 5-mo. Hambleton tract is north of the Scar¬ 14. 1786. Rachel, born 5-mo. 23, 1787, borough tract, east of the Hartley married M'ark Ely, (2d wife). Mary, tract, south of the Balderston tract, and west of the Paxson and East'mrn born 10-mo. 2, 1788. John, born 2-mo. 1790. Joseph, born 5-mo. 10. 1791. lands. 2, Stephen, born 7-mo. 30, 1793. Sarah, The executors of the estate of James .born 3-mo. 17, 1795. Hambleton, were his son Stenhen Rachel Hambleton. the sixth daugh¬ Hambleton, and son-in-law Samuel ter of James and Elizabeth Hamble¬ Armitage, who were directed by the ton. married Mark Ely, son of George will after the death of James Hamble¬ and Sarah Magill Ely, of Solebury, be¬ ton, to make sale of 200 acres of ’and ing his second wife, and was the moth¬ on the west side of the tract for the er of James H. Ely now residing at payment of debts. This direction the executors carried Centre Hill in his 84th year. Isaac H. Hamb'eton, late of Centre Hill, was a out and by deed dated 3-mo. 24, 1758, they conveyed the aforesaid 200 acres descendant of the William Hamb'eton. branch of the family. to William Hambleton for the sum of £400, book 26, page 422. The house built by William Hamble¬ ton after his purchase of the 200 acres William Hambleton was a son of in 1758 is still standing and is now James Hambleton. The survey of this owned and occupied by Albert W. land is as follows: Beginning at a Preston, superintendent of the Sole¬ stone, corner of Thomas Hartley's land, bury creamery. thence southeast 244 perches by said The following additional information Hartley's land, thence northeast 131 in relation to the descendants of James perches by Isaac Pickering’s land Hambleton and the disposition of his (formerly Scarborough’s) thence north¬ property has been obtained from the west 244 perches by Stephen Hamble- record of variou's wills. tom’s land, thence southwest by the The will of James Hambleton dated late William Chadwick’s land to the 7-mo. 9, 1751, recorded in book 2, page place of beginning. This locates the 233. 200 acres sold as lying between the Item 1.—Provides for the sale of 200 Hartley tract on the west and the land acre of his land for the payment of \ of Stephen Hambleton on the east. debts, by his executors, the land to be The site of the Solebury creamery is taken from the west side of his plan¬ .upon this tract of land, and the sever¬ tation adjoining land of Thomas Hart- al excellent springs of water have their lev. starting point here. Item 2.—Gives to' his son Stephen' The owners of the 200 acres sold to Hambleton all the residue of his land, Wiiliam Hambleton-in 1859 were Jona¬ also £100, 2 cows, 2 horses, 1 bed and] hs n Wilson 83 acres, David Wilson 63 furniture fit for winter; these on con-i acre:-. Joseph Mathews 51 acres, and two small "lots. The balance of the dition that he provides for his mother, my well beloved wife Mary, a warm original Hambleton tract was owned in 1859 by Amps Armitage 36 acres, Jacob and convenient room for her to live in as long as she may desire so to do. | ■gJWilsm, 80 acres, Isaac PI. Hamh'aton Item 3.—To my daughter Grace £6. J acres, and some lots of chestnut libber. The farm then owned by Item 4.—All the rest and residue off my estate to my son William, my son-1 Jacob Wilson is believed to be th homestead of James Hambleton. :n-Iaw Samuel Armitage, my daughter From the records of wills, deeds and Mary Gennett and Grace, share and share alike. marriages it appears that James The executors were son Stephen' Hambleton had at least four children, viz, Elizabeth, who married Samuel Hambleton and son-in-law Samuel! * Armitage, Stephen, who married Han¬ Armitage. The witnesses were Johnj nah Paxson; Mary. who married Scarborough, Joseph Skelton and Thomas Paxson, and William, who Samuel Eastburn. purchased 20Q acres of the tract, 3-mo. This will fixes the number of children) of James Hambleton living and re- 69

. membered at the time" of his death”as Rem1.-—Gives to wife Hannah £20. I six, two sons and four daughters, viz, household goods, the full use of 36 , sons, Stephen and William; daughters, acres of land, to be divided off from Elizabeth (/rife of Samuel Armitage) southeast part of my plantation by a and Mary, Gennett and Grace. line to run from Robert Eastburn s Will of Mary Hambleton, widow of land on Lugan road, thence southwest I (James, dated 9-mo. 6, 1756, recorded in parallel with York road to William | hook 2, page 298. This will provides Hambleton's land. The use of this , j 1st, to son William, 5 shillings, to : land was t-o be for life, and in lieu ot j [ daughter Grace Roberts, £5. To grandchildren, James and John Hambleton £20, to be equally divided Cl'l'tem 2.—To son Aaron a piece of land between them when they come to 21 to be divided off from northwest end of my plantation, beginning at Lugan years of age. To grandchildren, Nicholas and Samuel Austin £20, to be road, thence southwest parallel to John Armitage’s land through a large apple equally divided between them when tree standing in a meadow to Joseph they come to 21 years of age, this Hambleton’s land, supposed to contain about 27 acres. To son Aaron was also ( money to be put out at interest and the given £100. .... interest paid to their mother Jennett Item 3.—To grand-daughter Letitia I Austin until that time. To grand- Hambleton was given 100 cents, all the j daughter Hannah Austin, my bed and remainder of the estate, real and 'ei- ' bedding. To grandchildren, James and sonal to be sold and the proceeds | John Armitage 5 shillings each. To divided into 14 equal shares. Two ot daughter Mary Paxson set of bed cur¬ these shares were to be paid to each ot tains. All the residue to be divided-be¬ his five sons. James, John, William. tween three children, Mary Paxson, Jonas and Moses, and also one of these Jennett Austin and son Stephen shares to each of his four daughteis, Hambleton. The executors to this will Jane Webster, Rachel Kester, Margaret were son Stephen and son-in-law, Kinsev and Mary Coaites. _ , Thomas Paxson. witnesses, Mathew The will makes further provision Hughes,. Elizabeth Hughes and George that after the decease or marriage of Hughes. his widow, the executors were to cause WILL, OF WILLIAM HAMBLETON. the 36 acres of land to be divided into The will of William Hambleton two equal parts by a line running dated 7-me>. 31, 1795, recorded in book northwest from York road, parallel to 6, page 468. The first item gives to William Hambleton’s land, and shall wife Martha, £100, household goods, paid to his son Aaron, and the re¬ also the yjhole still house, with the mainder to be divided and paid lo his . stills, the mill and- press and all- the five sons and four daughters. utensils for carrying on the distilling The executors to this will were his business, also 10 pounds of wool, 40 nephew John Armitage, and his faith¬ oounds of'flax and £12 in cash. ful friend Aaron Paxson. To daughter Mary £100, to daughter The witnesses- were Abraham lax Sarah £100, to be paid to them by my ; son John Watson and Mases Paxson. ! son Joseph Hambleton. To Benjamin ; I Hambleton. son of my son Benjamin, : £30, when 21, to Amy HamMeton, | NO. 25—THOMAS HARTLEY. daughter of Benjamin £25, when 21. To [ The title to this tpact of land is as grandson William, son of Thomas, to, j- follows: Executors of Stephen Beakes he paid by son Joseph, To daughter j to Thomas Howard, of Philadelphia, Elizabeth ,£100, to daughter Martha r £100, to daughter Hannah Dean £70 j 5-mo. 25, 1724. The quantity of land co be paid-each of them by son Wil- I conveyed was 319 acres and the consid¬ Mam. eration was £11. Thomas Howard was The will! provides for the division his 200 ae^es into two equal parcel- j he husband of Grace Beakes, a daugh- beginning ;in the line of Hartley’s land er of Stephen Beakes. The descrip¬ 135 perches north of the York -road, l- tion of the tract is northeast 209 perch¬ | near a ditjch, and running across to i es by land of Samuel Beakes, southeast -Stephen Hambletonrs land so as to en- 244 perches by James Hamb’eton, I close a spring on the north tract, which t southwest 209 perches by John Scar¬ j was given to his son Joseph and the [ borough, northwest 244 perches by Ed¬ south trace to son William. ward Hartley. To son Thomas Hambleton was given f Thomas Howard and Grace his wile, ail that plantation where he now fives conveyed the same land to Joseph Duer called “Temple Bar,” with the fishery I 9-mo.'24, 1729 for £150. In the year on the shore, and the island in the riv- » 1730 Joseph Duer sold 60 acres of the | or opposite. northwest corner of this tract to An¬ The will makes further provisions as ' drew Ellicott. In the year 1739 Jcsepn follows: “My will is that not more than ! Duer, corpenter, and Sarah, his wife two person shall reside with my wife |, sold the remainder of the tract259 acres at any one time.” , to Thomas Hartley, by deed dated I The executors were sons Joseph and 1-mo 26 1739, recorded in book 12, William. The witnesses were Ben¬ pa°-e 14 The Ellicotts retained posses¬ jamin Paxson, John Watson and James j sion of this 60 acres until 17SS when Hambleton, Jr. they sold it to William Hartley, a son WILL OF STEPHEN HAMBLETON. f of Thomas Hartley. JpM :? m ' msmm 451

^avwavquirccfanB rejalneff"nossession. Among'the later marriages of the The descendants of the Harfl'ey Hartley family may be mentioned, i family were many as the marriages at Mary Hartley and Joseph Townsend in Buckingham meeting give evidence. 1789: Rebecca Hartley and Mahlc.n j Thomas Hartley was a son of Edward Doan in 1795. Samuel Hartley and Hartley. Thomas Hartley married Letitia Armitage in 1810; Sidney Hart- Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Paxson Iev and William Rice in 1803: Thomas at Buckingham meeting in 1725. Wil¬ Hartley and Elizabeth Paxson, daugh¬ liam Hartlev, son of Thomas, married ter of Elias Paxsbn, in 1818, daugh- i 'athanine Fisher in 1757. William ed to Baltimore county, Maryland. Hartley succeeded to ■ the homestead AN OLD CLOCK. after the death of his father. Rachel The Ellicott family were celebrated Hartley, daughter of Thomas, married as makers of the old fashioned eie-ht- Ephriam Smith in 1765. dav clocks. The writer has in his pos¬ The history of the Hartley family on session to-day a clock made by Josepn this tract, is so interwoven with the Ellicott for Joseph Eastburn, Senior. history of the Rice family that they i This clock was made sometime be¬ will be treated together. Edward Rice 1 tween 1763 and 1770, and is still keeping came from Killaman, county of Tyrone, 1 good time, having been in the family Ireland, in 1736. His children were ft nearly one hundred and fifty years. It married as follows; Elizabeth Rfl| is No 27, the face of brass. It has married Mathew Beans in 1763. Marv done duty as a time piece for five gen¬ Rice married John Kinsey in 1774. erations. viz. Joseph Eastburn, Senior Joseph Rice married Letitia Hartley’ 1763 to 1780, Joseph Eastburn, Jr., to in 1779. James Rice married Naomi 1813 heirs of Joseph Eastburn, Jr., to Preston in 1785. 1827, Joseph E. Reeder to 1853,' East- The children of Joseph Rice and burn Reeder to present date, 1900. Letitia Hartley were Catharine Rice The following- additional particulars , who married Elias Paxson in 1798; Wil¬ of the descendants of the Hartleys | liam Rice who married Sidney Hartley have been gathered from extracts of the , about 1803; Joseph Rice. Jr., who mar¬ ried Julia Iden, of Richland township, following wills: in 1825; Letitia R'ic-e married John WILL OF THOMAS HARTLEY. Bothers. The children of William Rice The will of Thomas Hartley _ dated and Sidney Hartley, were Samuel H., 1-mo. 27, 1787, recorded in book 5, page i Hiram, Charles and Eliza Rice. The 139. children of Joseph Rice, Jr., and Julia To my son Anthony, the plantation I j Iden, were Joseph G., born 'in 1827 and now live on, (being on the Edward married Ann Elizabeth Black; William Hartley tract.) „ .. Rice, born 9-mo. 22, 1828, married To my son Benjamin, 110 acres cu the Phoebe Taylor; George Iden Rice, horn tract of land purchased of Joseph Duer, in 1831 and married Julia. Newport and adjoining land of William Hambleton, removed to Ohio; Lewis C. Rice, born John Balderston and the Ellicotts. in 1833, married Lucilla Ely, daughter To my son William, all the remainder of Holcombe and Rebecca Ely. Both of said'tract adjoining Jane S^rbor George and Lewis C. Rice studied ough Isaac Pickering and William medicine. Lewis C. Rice was a sur¬ geon in the army during the war of the "jKwS. Joseph. £100- To 4 . rebellion where he served with dis¬ three daughters, Sarah Bfans Eliza¬ tinction: after which he practiced his beth Fell and Rachel Smith, £30, each profession at Centre Hill and Lambert-j To daughter Martha, £5, and to tlr ville, N. J., until his death. five children of my daughter Martha Samuel H. Rice, sou of William and which she had by Luke Williams, £d. Sidney Hartley Rice was born in 1805. Ka married Euphemia Watson in 1829 411 the remainder to < my sons. and had one daughter. Mary Ellen. I Anthony, William and Benjamin Samuel H. Rice married a second 1 shave and share alike. The executors time, Ann Livezey, daughter of Robert v were sons Anthony and William. The and Sarah Liveezy, in 1810. The chil¬ I witnesses to the will were R(>t?ert East¬ dren by this marriage were Euphemia, ft! burn, John Balderston, Joseph Wilkin¬ Hampton > w., and Bailie L. Rice. son and James Hambleton. Two hundred acres of the Hartley From the above will it appears that ttaet came into the possession of the ft; Thomas Hartley left seven children, K ces sometime after the marriage of three sons and four daughters. Sons, Joseph and Letitia Hartley in 1779, Anthony. William and Benjamin, v illiam Rice being the owner of' a daughters, Sarah, Elizabeth. Rachel farm of 100 acres bordering on the up- and Martha. . n r York road, and Joseph Rice being To grand-daughter Catharine Pax¬ ibe owner of 100 acres on the north- son, £12. _ . . ... , •)stern part adjoining the Balderston To grand-daughter Letitia Rice. £1-. tract.- These farms have descended To grand-son Joseph Rice, £30. respectively the one to Samuel H. Rice v To Achsah Hill £6. The will con¬ nd to Hampton W. Rice, present own- "'J. r VLp tains this further provision: • and the other to Joseph G., and Whereas my son-in-law Joseph Rice. William Henry Rice, 50 acres each. The t-o acres of this tract sold to the having purchased the tract of land the Clllocotts in. 1730. was sold by them in : property of Benjamin Hartley, my ’170 to William Hartley. grandson William Rice is to pay one- They were owned by Hiram Seiner half the purchase money of said tract m 1859 and are now owned by Fred¬ to, my son-in-law Joseph Rice, or to rick Pearson. A sinal farm on the my daughter Letitia his wife. To his southwest corner of the tract now be¬ grandson William Rice all the residue longs to Wilson Pearson. The Hartley of my estate. The executors were Wil¬ family have gradually drifted away liam Rice and Elias Paxson. The wit-, from this tract, while the Rice family nesses were John Armitage, Oliver TT cnnntnn o nd TcrJJPl f'll'lildS. 71

We her&" Rife marri . Josexm ter of William Hanie?’’^^ a.da«g;h- way the Kir^ famn*r . ’ anc* ln this «»» A .?aSe SoS--e..'n,° me Thrrr tract which was on the Property! “m »«<* »f <•>« Hartley southeast corner of this tract was so'd by Nehemiah Blackshaw to John tA ILL OF WILLIAM HARTLEY. Hough and Ambrose Barcroft prior to 1730. In March, 1730, John ! Hough and Ambrose petition¬ ed for a road to their mill lately erect¬ ed. John Hough’s interest in the mill Jnwwa «■ **«»«£& was sold by the sheriff 9-mo. 16, 1737, to Ebenezer Large, of Burlington, N. J.. and 2-mo. 21, 1737 Ambrose Barcroft famil his sold his interest in the mill property to From Ebenezer Large. The mill property thus purchased contained 1714 acres of ; land. Ebenezer Large purchased of Nehemiah Blackshaw 12 acres of land 2-mo. 7, 1739, making 30 acres. Plain that im‘had « lhe wiH it Is Ebenezer Large by will in 1759 devis- , ed the mill tract of 17 acres and the 13 'VSamue7ieKJ°ffphCRi^Ufn 1779. acres additional making 30 acres to his Armitage h^lSlO^H married Letitia three grandsons, Thomas, Samuel and Joseph Pryor, of Burlington, N. J. Thomas and Samuel Pryor conveyed the same to Joseph Pryor 3-mo. 6, 1761, book 16, page 273. This mill property for many years past has been in the possession of the the lumbS buslneesSyandS he *ent into Stover family, being owned in 1859 by of the firms of H®® f"d fa? a member Isaac Stover, and is now owned by of Hoppoek & H^v HAa.r«ey and Harry Stover. The ancient village of cfnal ca&e'lie de^It in c„ai F the Milton, (now Carversville), is located stoves. Samuel wa,.n f ’ lron and on the eastern border of this tract and 10, 1832. HilfaJf.t ^^ ,died 12-mo. the Sugan road runs through it from and are now scTtter^d%”ly went west, Cottageville to Carversville. The land owners of the 300 acres of Dela‘ the north part of the tract in 1859 were Dr. Isaiah Michener 59 acres, David '|SJ,eyA ,Z “«V°|t0lAfSH Booz 97 acres, Mary Scarborough 24 acres, James Briggs 67 acres, Thomas* Smith 15 acres, 'William Robinson 21 acres, Isaac Stover 31 acres. and a Colonel in SulUvaffis Revoh;.bion' I The land owners of the 200 acres of against the Indian, h!t ,eXI)ed,tion the south part of the tract in 1859 were p-rte,,sr^e^!,;s„srrf David Holcomb 71 acres, John S. Wiley ati 26 acres, James B. Fell 51 acres, David Kirk 20 acres, James Walton about 30 I NO. 26—RANDALL BLACKSHAW. acres and Joseph Hubbs about 20 acres. A tract of 500 acres of land was The Paunaeussing creek runs (granted by James Harrison commis- through the northern part of the tract Isioner of William Penn, to Randall from Cottageville to Carversville, and Blac-kshaw 6-mo. 30, 1682. This tract thence to the Delaware river at Lum- shaw, dated 1-mo. 1, 1696, to berville. his son Nehemiah Blackshaw. It The principal changes in ownership was then unlocated, but was from 1859 to the present time are Dr. j afterwards surveyed, confirmed and Isaiah Michener to Ezra Michener, located in the northwest corner of Sole- J David Booz to Alfred Knight. bury. The size of the tract was 250 The records of Falls meeting show j perches by 320 perches. the dates of birth of the following Nehemiah Blackshaw sold 200acresof children of Nehemiah _ Blackshaw: the south part of the tract 4-mo. 14, |Mary, born 12-mo. 28, 1705; Martha, 1711 to Ephraim Fenton. Ephraim born 12-mo. 2, 1707; Sarah, born 3-mo. Fenton and Mary his wife sold the same 200 acres to John Hough, Jr., : 22, 1709. Nehemiah Blackshaw married Mary 5-mo. 18, 1723. The will of John Hough I Linton, 12-mo. 20. 1716. The children of devised 50 acres of this land to his this second marriage were, Mary, who wife Elinor, and directed the balance married Joseph Linton; Rebecca, who to be sold. The executors of John married David Wharton and Phebe, Hough sold 59 acres and 105 perches to who married Joseph Wharton. John Barcroft, 6-mo. 29, 1753, and 103 The farm of 6.0 acres owned by James acres to William Skelton in 1754, and Walton in 1S59, lying partly in the William Skelton sold out to John Har- Blackshaw tract, and partly in the croft the same year. ; Cornes tract, was sold in 1864 to Isaac Nehemiah Blackshaw by will made ! Twining who has been the owner and . in 1743 devised 300 acres of the • north i occupant for the past thirty-five years cart of the tract to Mary Linton. Mary Linton sold the same to her son- to the present time. NO. 27—THOMAS CORNES. in-law Robert Walker 3-mo. 1, 1762, Deed book 10, page 413. *_ This tract of 450 acres was granted „. _ by warrant of the commissioners of property , Griffith Owen Thomas Story and James Logan dated' 4-mo. 29, 1702. The original warrant I found filed in the land office ——r

tract, as shoVen by the farm map of at Harristiurg. 'mere is a arafr or the Solebury township made by Mathew nroperty upon it, the size being o-0 Hughes in 1859. were as follows;.. James perches' long by 225 perches wide, and P Betts 123 acres, David K. Grim 117 giving' the names of the adjacent land acres, Elias Ott 18 acres, Thomas Nay¬ owners; on the north by Blackshaw, on lor 52 acres, Jesse Fluck 10 acres, the east by George Brown and Ezra Abraham Ent 19 acres, J. B. Walton 10 i roasdale, on the south by Jedediah acres, William Ellis 97 acres. George P. Allen and on the west by Buckingham. Skelton 35 acres, James Walton 25 Thomas Cornes by will to his aunt acres, Joseph Hubbs 14 acres. Ellen Sanders, of Yorkshire, England, Since 1859 the James P. Betts farm and she to George Parker also ol York¬ has been divided between his sons, shire, England, March 24th, DIS- Joseph J. Betts and George P. Betts. George Parker came to Philadelphia The William Ellis farm to John Magill. and conveyed the same to Ambrose who is the present owner. Barcroft, of Talbot county, Maryland, The farm now owned and occupied in 1723, book 66, page 366. by David K. Grim has the most numer¬ Ambrose Barcroft was drowned in ous and complete chain of title from the river Delaware in December D24. 1702 to 1859, of any farm that I have being inestate. His three sons were met with, of which is here presented a William, Ambrose and John. William brief synopsis: Barcroft conveyed his two shares, as To Thomas Cornes in 1702, by will to eldest son. to his brother Ambrose Ellen Sanders, Ellen Sanders and chil¬ (who was the miller on the Blackshaw dren to George Parker in 1718, Parker tract ) Ambrose Barcroft in 1747 con- and wife to Ambrose Barcroft, in 1723, veved all his interest to John Sebring. Barcroft to John Sebring in 1747, re¬ John Barcroft and John Sebring divid¬ maining in the Sebring family about ed the property between them. Bar 47 years, when Fulkred Sebring sold to croft getting one-fourth part or 112 h Aaron Quinby in 1749, Aaron Quinhy acres on the west side of the tract, and Lydia his wife to John Worthing¬ next to the Buckingham line and John ton in 1801. How long it remained Sebring the balance or 337V2 acres ex¬ ithout changing owners not ascer¬ tending to the CarversVille road on the tained hut in 1821. Samuel Johnson eastern border. nd John Watson, of Buckingham sold John Sebring laid out a family gia\e the farm to David R. Simmons; Sim¬ vard on the west side of the Suiran mons to Dr. Azor L. Gregory in 1833; load, and he, and his descendants were t Gregorv to Stephen Payron, Jr., in buried in it. John Sebring died in It<3 841; Pay ran to Elliston Perot in 1844; and devised 100 acres on southwest Perot to Mordeccai Lewis in 1847; M. corner next to Barcroft s land to nis Lewis to George W. Carver in 1855. and son Fulkerd Sebring, and 100 acres on "Carver to David K. Grim, of Philadel¬ the southeast corner to his son Thomas phia,, in 1859, who has owned and suc- Sebring. The balance, or whole upper HScessfully farmed the same for forty part of his tract was devised to his years. wife Elinor Sebring. for life, then to go A to his four sons, Roeloff, John Ful£* -erd and Thomas Sebring. After th„ NO. 28—JEDEDIAH ALLEN. (’oath of the widow it all eventually be¬ I This tract of land was granted by came the property of Fulkeid and Thomas Sebring in 1799. William Penn to Nicholas Wain 4-mo. The recital of the title in deed book j22, 1682. Nicholas Wain had his resi- 16 page 366 of George Parker to Am¬ $ dence at Frankford, near Philadel¬ brose Barcroft is as follows: Whereas, Thomas Cornes of the city of Philadel¬ phia, and there is a street there which phia. by will dated December 1st, DOT, bears his name to this dav. Nicholas devised unto his aunt Ellen Sandeis, Wain conveyed the same to Jedediah (wife of John Sanders late of Tho‘ 7 Allen, who came from Shrewsberry, ton), and Ellen Sanders, of ,Thoint°" countv, of York, England, widow, and 7New Jersey; by deed dated 8-mo. 18, her children, Thomas Sanders, Maltha 16S6, recorded in book 1, page 76. Sanders, spinsti'ess. Joseph P'">ea!lston, Nicholas Wain was a yeoman, and of Settle, County of York, and Eliza had other lands bordering on the heth his wife to George Parker, of Neshaminah creek. This tract of ’and Boasden. parish of Slaidburne, count} is £20 perches long by 115 perches wide contains 230 acres, and is on the west¬ The description of the. land as given ern border of the township, being in the same deed of George Parker and abounded by the- tract of Thomas I Cornes on the south, by the Balder- Flizabeth his wife, is' as ginning at a corner of Jedediah Allen o Iston tract on the east, by the tract of land, thence by land laid out foi a road Paul Wolfe on the south, and on the northwest 225 nerehes (this road wa» I west by Buckingham. called the Proprietor’s road and va Edward Pennington, surveyor gener- the line between Buckingham an !*al, surveved this land to Jedediah Solebury), thence northeast by Randall 1 Allen, and the warrant was issued Blackshaw 320 perches, Whence by Uf 10-mo. IS, 16S6. Jedediah Allen was vacant land southeast 225 Ter^e*' 1 the father of Ephriam Allen, to w|h Jede- Jthe land desc-en ed, by his last will and riiah Allen to place of beginning, con¬ (testament was devised to his sijn Ephraim Allen. This will was h taining 450 acres. The owners of the property ot dated, but is recited in deed book page 317. ' 4* • tel**1 _ Ephraim Alien Elizabeth his vv ells and Jane Appleby. Thomas wife, of Salem-eounty, S' . J., conveyed Brown and Robert Smith attorneys for the property to John Skelton, of Buck the same to William Preston, 5-mo. 1, insfham.^S-mri.’ 25, 1713, rd-eed book C 1741, and William Preston to Roger page 317? The survey of the land isr\ V Hartley, 6-mo. 20, 1741, 50 acres, and follows: 1st. Southeast by SamVV John Hartley, 100 acres. These trans¬ | Brakes: 2d. Southwest'by Paul -Wclii. actions show that the Hartleys came |3d. Northwest by'road and Bucking¬ into possession of 150 acres of the ham; 4th. Northeast by Thomas Wolfe tract, on the east side in 1741. 'Trues. John Skelton by will in 1748 One hundred years later this prop¬ :-d this land to his son Joseph erty was cut up and divided as follows; 'tor, who died intestate about 1760. John M. Rich 83 acres; Jacob Cad- The heirs of Joseph Skelton conveyed wallader 78 acres; Enoch Lake 16 ■property to Joseph Skelton, J‘r., in acres: Mordecai Carver 14 acres; Wil¬ liam Mitchell 32 acres; Ezekiel Everett The owners of this tract of land in 75 acres; Alexander Johnson Case 80 1859 were A. Worthington Rich 117 acres. acres-; Mark V/ismer 100 acres; John T. The farm owned by Ezekiel Everett 'Price 40 acres. in 1859. was the residence of Captain The farm of 100- acres owned by Mark Zebulon Pike in 1786. Alfthat time he Wismer in 1859 is now owned bv S. owned land in Northumberland county. Carey Betts, and the small farm of 40 Pa. He sold 298 acres of land in said acres, then owned by John T. Price, is county. The deed was made by Cap¬ now owned by James B. Fell. tain Zebulon Pike and Isabella his I The farm of 117 acres owned by A. wife, to Jonathan Kinsey, both of Sole- W. Rich in 1859, and which is still own-! bury, deed dated 10-mo. 28, 1786. e' and occunied by him, has the fol¬ The land was located on Bald Eagle lowing record of changes in ownership creek, Bald Eagle township, Northum¬ las follows: £ berland county, Pa. This deed is in William Pern to Nicholas Wain 1682; the possession of the Ruckman sisters Wain to Jedediah Allen in 1686; by will of Soleburv, w'ho say that Captain to his son Ephraim Allen; Enhraim Pike lived on this farm at that time. Allen and wife to John Skelton in 1713; Captain Zebulon Pike and Isabella, by will to his son Joseph Skelton in his wife, were the parents of General 1748. who died intestate in 1760; heirs Zebulon Montgomery Pike, who was of Josenh Skelton to Joseph Skelton. doubtless born in Solebury. I have I Jr., in 1781; John Skelton, executor of taken three of the principal farms on Joseph Skelton, Jr., to Jonathan Ely, this tract and have traced the titles Jr., in 1833; Jonathan Ely, Jr., to A^ner back from 1859. Atkinson in 1837; Charles Atkinson to 1st. The farm of Ezekiel Everett 75 A. Worthington Rich in 1859. acres, who bought of Daniel Robinson This property was in the Skelton in 1855, who bought of John Rose in family from 1713 to 1833—120 years. 1844, who bought of James Ruckman in no. 29—paul Wolfe. 1843, who bought of Samuel Barber in This tract of 300'acres of land was 1838, who bought of the executors of granted by William Penn to SDike Ajax Osmond the same year. Ajax Anke by deed dated April 4th, 1683, and Osmond bought of Hugh Meredith in recorded in book 3, page 319. It is situ¬ ,1796. who bought of Richard Meredith ated on the western border of the Jin 1781 101 acres, book 20, page 171. township, being bounded on the north Richard Meredith bought of the heirs by Jedediah Allen, on the east by of Titus DeWitt in 1761, Titus DeWitt Stephen Beakes, on the south by Ed¬ purchased of John Wilson who bought ward Hartley and on the west by the of the heirs of John Hartley in 1758, Proprietor’s great road, separating it 121 acres, book 19, page 220. from Buckingham.. As Hugh Meredith was the owner Spike Anke conveyed this land to from 1781 to 1796, Captain Pike must Rainer Jansen 9-mo. 5, 1687, and Rainer have rented the farm of him. Jansen eonveved the same to Paul 2nd. The farm owned by Jacob Cad- Wolfe, by deed dated 8-mo. 16, 1700. wallader in 1859 of 75 acres, who Paul Wolfe was a weaver and lived purchased of William Kitchin and in Germantown. On December 10th, John D. Balderston, assignees of Adam 1703, the land was again surveyed and Brooks and Hepsebah, his wife in 1842. laid out t.o Paul Wolfe for 300 ^cres. Adam Brooks purchased of Dr. Jesse Paul Wolfe conveyed this land to Beans and Mary his wife, in 1841, who Thomas James 7-mo. 22, 1706. purchased the same of Samuel and The land subsequently came into the Sarah Beans in 1837, who purchased of possession of Edward Beck, and he, Samuel Hartley and Jonathan Beans, and Sarah his wife, conveyed Decem¬ administrators of Mahlon Beans in ber 16th, 1730, 25% acres to John Hart¬ 1828. Mahlon Beans was a son of ley. The heirs of Edward Beck con¬ Jacob Beans and inherited the prop¬ veyed to Jacob Beans September 13th, erty by will from his father. Jacob 1748, 81 acres, and to Edward Beck Jr ’ Beans purchased of Edward Beck, who 42% acres May 16th, 1755. has been referred to previously. Thomas James conveyed to Edward 3d. The farm owned by John. M. Beck 2-mo. 18, 1724; Edward Beck to Rich of 83 acres, in 1859. He bought of Eleazar Doane 10-mo. 30, 1725, 150 his brother Benjamin T. Rich in 1847, acres; Eleazar Doane to Richard | who purchased of Abraham Longshore Lundy, 5-mo. 16, 1729; Richard Lundy ! in 1842. Abraham Longshore purchas¬ by’ ” will, 1736. to his sisters, Dorothy ed 46 acres of Samuel Beans and 38 acres of John Skelton, executor of Joseph Skelton in 1833. book 68, page 9. i From this it appears that a great SjSf ’4" part of this tract, of land came into the possession of the Hartley’s, Skel¬ ton’s and Beans’, some of it as far H '■ back as 1730, 1748 and 1755. real estate was disposed of by his will as follows: a farm of over 100 acres . ... .v.fi: 1‘ ,r Xffviyy _ on the west end of the tract to his No. 2.—THE ELY TRACT. son Joshua, a farm of over 100 acres, The Ely tract is bounded on the adjoining the farm sold in 1755 was north by the Pownall tract, on the east left to his son George. The homestead farm of over 100 acres to his son John, by tlfe Delaware river, on the south by and the farm of 123 acres, which he the Pike tract, and on the west by the had purchased in 1763 on the Pike Dawson tract. It was surveyed and tract, but adjoining his homestead laid out for 500 acres, and although it farm, was left to his son Hugh Ely. Joshua Ely, Jr., was born in Trenton, was one of the first tracts laid out and N. J., in 1730., He married Elizabeth sold, it was not until the year 1757, that Hughes in 1758 and died in 1805. leav¬ it was purchased by an actual perma¬ ing the farm to his son Jonathan Ely. George Ely was born in New Jersey in nent settler. Between the years 1682 1733. He married Susan Magill in 1760. and 1750 this tract passed through He bought of Jonathan Paxson in more hands than almost any other 1774 one of the farms on the Pike tract tract in the township. The brief of which was left to his son Joseph Ely. The farm which he inherited from his the title to this tract of land as I have father, afterwards became the prop¬ been able to trace it, is as follows: erty of George Ely, Sr. George Ely, Capt. William Markham, Governor of Jr., and . John H. Ely, and the province made a deed dated 6-mo. is now owned by Laura Ely 6th, 1682, to Andrew Robeson, of West Walton. The homestead farm which was left to his son John Ely, has Jersey, for this 500 acres of land. On since descended to Asher Ely, to 8-2, 1686, Robeson sold the same to Daniel Ely, and is now owned by Wil¬ Daniel Jones, of Philadelphia, and liam L. Ely and Charlotte Ely Mc¬ 10-11, 1696, Daniel Jones sold it to Laughlin. The farm which wras left Daniel Smith, late of Marlborough, to Hugh Fly, descended to John Ely, England, for the sum of 60£, Sterling. to Holcombe Ely. who sold fhe same The next transfer was by Randall about 1S60 out of the family name. Speakman administrator of Daniel The present owners of this tract of Smith, who sold the same to John land are William-M. Ely, 147 acres, Smith, son of Daniel Smith by deed William L. Fly and Charlotte Ely dated 4-6, 1702. Then Thomas Chalk- McLaughlin 140 awes, Laura Ely Wal¬ ley attorney for John Smith sold the ton H2 acres and Dr. George Morley land to Owen Roberts, 5-2, 1722. Owen MoT-chall HO acres. Roberts sold to William Blakey 2-13, Wi’liam M. Fly who owns and occu¬ 1724. In the year 1737 Joshua Ely and pies the west farm of the tract is a wife came from Trenton and leased direct descendant of Joshua Ely, the land of William Blakey for 7 years though George Ely, Mark Ely and in 1738 and subsequently purchased Isaac Ely, being the fifth generation the same 4th-mo. 4th, 1751. In the from Joshua Ely. This farm was the year 1755, Joshua Ely sold a farm of home of Jonathan Ely, Esq., a de¬ 110 acres off the cast end of the tract scendant from Joshua Ely, Jr., and to William Kitchin and made the deed who -was the father of Edward Ely, 10-20, 1755. The balance of the tract born in 1827, and afterwards consul to he kept until his death in 1776. The Bombay where he died in 1858. Wil¬ farm sold to William Kitchin in 1755, liam L. Ely who is joint owner with was sold by him 1-29, 1756, to Aaron his sister, occupies the homestead Phillips, Senior, who built the first farm, which has descended to them mill on the stream which runs through from John, Asher and Daniel Ely. the centre of this tract of land. That Laura Ely Walton, owns and occupies farm .with a few intervals, has re¬ the farm left to George Ely, which has mained in the possession of the Phil¬ descended to her through the same lips family from 1756 until a few years lines as the one to her brother Wil¬ ago when it was sold to Dr. G. M. liam M. Ely. From this it will be seen Marshall, of Philadelphia, who is that the greater portion of this tract making great improvements upon the of land is still owned and occupied by property. rhe direct lineal descendants of the Joshua Ely was a prominent man in first actual settler and resident of the his time in Solebury. He was admit¬ township, a thing which probably ted to membership with Friends at cannot be said of any other tract in Buckingham 4-5, 1738. He became an Bolebury. elder in the society in 1752 and was The lime stone belt runs across the recommended in the ministry in 175S. western half of the tract on the farms Joshua and Elizabeth (Bell) Ely had of William M. and William L. Ely. seven children, four sons and three On the last named farm there is a daughters, viz. Joshua, Jr., George, quarry of stone, which, when burned, John, Hugh, Sarah, Hannah and Jane. makes a good article of cement. There Joshua Ely disposed of his property is also a good mill site on this farm, hy his will which was dated 9-4, 1776. where the late Daniel Ely in former His personal estate was appraised by years had the reputation of making Aaron Phillips and Oliver Paxson, wheat flour of superior quality. There amounted to 419£, 16s, which was is also a mineral .spring on this farm. | divided among his three daughters. the water having a taste of iron. The His four sons were each to pay a year¬ stream which flows through the centre \- ly sum, sufficient to keep his widow or bottom of this valley tra.ct.has :f-= during the. remainder of her life. His Ll .... . • xjr'~p. ■*" r~r

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^ nn^r born 7-mo. o i^erq t.,...^ born 9-mo iq 17^ T 1‘ivy Joshua. f^V’ g«2-' Klizabeih nabS?„n’ 9-mo" 10th-mo. 19th, 1768 ’ ’ Page 239’ on w»-mo. 24 ” 76ft. Oe”^ Ely' 1766’ SS, SrannMaffi11 SSSter®?f w^-' so^o>Lr«.Mj-in-« dren iJgV* Solebury. Their eM- ^TfteeiiSfea f6°;the h or m Trn 0b s'" ”17«4 m °t i3" 176p Jane. 4 a ’’ J°sbua, born 7-mo 2d mo 6 Ist WH63mfd f^ reel7?- bnrn 2-mo. «. n69; No. 25, page 232. recorded book h‘am. born llmo a^™25’ * 1772- Wfl- 7m0 24 I777 m*» Ely married Lots nS. f7inin, «*?•*,»£ eh^dren were. K. f N Jersey- Their jB^arv. born 6-m^ 91 1786 * i, o.fefL'.a'Ia"" S born 7-mn 11 . h66. Asher, s-m-' v i'ycA11',, ^ ; Elizabeth, born 1777 ' QarJfcv Merah- born 5-mo. 29 1 , * arah- born 3-mo. 27 1773 ned^beth W*i Hurt E,y- Their chiffi were?0fi. nf ^Buckingham. »MLto * Rebecca, born R-mo. ?n tygt; eorQp the purchaser of lot No 9 i born 5-mo 2 i7«o u 'bb; barah. the deed was made"0!!^^63'!^ 6-mo 30 1771 TePn Hannah, born tv, 1771. John, born 12-mo. 19, The e d ■l;ecorded in book 25, nave 231 was 498nIldTfiati°hnn °r P^^ase money Fr4ndS’ meet* llh^S' The Solebury 177a J°hn- Krn 4-mo. 9, 1778, mar ried Rachel Hartley. yard0are i^cate^neS'UV and r§TaV^ No. 3—-THE PIKE TRACT. comer of this lot ^Thus t A recital of the title to the Pike William PenninhS°lebUry iS as foll°ws: rS/, ?' by patent deed recorded 9?«Ph dfIphla ln book A- Voi. 3 page 236 and dated 12th-mo. 3d, 1705 gram ed to the said Joseph Pike, of Ireland" Dot No. 5, descended hv win + , . ed™ i^Soleburtf-ln ooiebury township, TbJS tractbeginning « *°“t- on son Oliver Paxson, Senior and Tmi hlS mams in the possesion of thpd T re' the river Delaware at the north Hn. family of New Hope h Paxson >iew0Mldary °f the present borough of New Hope, and removing nearlv d,?f west about 640 perches Sr two^ mits ,?fcs p«- thence nearly north abouot one hun ’ Jonathan Paxson in the year" 7m idred and sixty perches to a corner sold3 thethe” samePaxson to Geore-Par)d Rachel pi^r his wifeire* Thence nearly due east to the nAer Joshua Ely. The deecf -SOn' of Delaware and down said river The was made 3d-mo. 1st 1774 whV0&Jance beg!Snue&mning. n^^The The 11"entire6?1 t0 tractthe place hein. ot fcresat-°Th belns 500’£' ■ f°rTiheClH neariy two rfles in length, and ovef half a mile i^t width, being eoual to square mile, ir 640 acres. S q 1 1 a wiTn a ^e^d,}f JosePh Pike to his son Ebenezer Pikfc, recorded in Phiiadel fttha v-i7b°olt { " page 105' dated 3d-mo 9th, 1,17 sari' tract of 624 acres wa,' ISS** "'f" « si conveyed. Ebenezer , Pike by Till : dated Sth-m,o. 19th, * 1724, conveyed ElyTV^!’ andSdPescendSeddbbvyThB!To fh TraCt t0 bls son Richard PikeJ of the City of Cork, Ireland. ’ 0f|| Hoi com? El yTwh o ^ol dVt h e ‘f a rm T boil t the year 1860, when the nr-La. m ahout The above mentioned and described «Ltl«nj.the fee !*»">«• «»• tract of land remained unimproved for nearly 50 years after the gramln- <,f fJ10 original patent in 1705. e was :a senior, in no-5. ,uIt ae«sce«u- irn to his son Joseph East- and from ihe^eil^s q [turn, Jr., who died in 1813. -- Reader, who ow.n- l in-.-1892, when the jamin Parry, of Coryells Ferry, now property I by willtohis of New Hope, and who were the 1'son Ea; the-t ^present grandparents of Richard Randolph owner a: 'ccupa'ot, Parry, who now occupies the Old Lot No. 9, was puT’ jmas Parry Mansion in New Hope. Paxson, Jr..’ in 1763, from whom it Thomas Paxson, Jr., was a son of .descended by will .to Aaron Paxton? Henry Paxson who settled in Sole¬ Senior, to Aaron Paxson, Jr., and bury in 1704. again by will to his two sons, Aaron 3d-mo. 17, 1748. Thomas Paxson, Paxson and Ezra Paxson, who sold Jr. married Sarah Harvey, at Falls the . farm to Simeon P. Hampton, a Meeting. Their children were, 6. brother-in-law, in 1847, and thus this Abraham, born 6-mo. 19, 1749. property has passed away from the Aaron, born 8-mo. 4, 1750. Moses, born name of Paxson. It has since been 8-mo. 23, 1754. Ann, born 7-mo. 3, .owned by Simon G. Gove, Merrick 1757. Thomas, Paxson, Jr., died 1-mo. Reeder, David K. Reeder and William 13, 1767, aged 40 years. Sarah Pax- S. Closson, of New Hope. sono, died 6-mo. 16, 1762, aged 31 years. Lot No. ( 10, was purchased by Aaron Paxson married Letitia Thomas Paxson, Jr., in 1763 , from Knowles in 1775. There children were, whom it has descended by will to g Aaron Paxson, Senior, to John K. Phinehas, born 3-mo. _26, 1776. Paxson, after whose death it was pur¬ Letitia, born 9-mo. 28, 1778. Ezra, chased by ithe oldest son William born 7-mo. 1, 1780. Eliada, born 3-mo. Wallace Paxson the present owner 2, 1782. Aaron, Jr., born 5-mo. 13, and occupant. The limestone belt 1785. John K., born 12-mo. 12, 1794. crosses the Pike ttract on the western end of it, on the farms of William NO. 33—WILLIAM BLACKFAN. Closson and W. W. Paxson. A singu¬ This tract of land occupies the lar circumstance is connected with this tract, and that is that original jouthwest corner of the township. It boundary lines have never been brok¬ was deeded by John. Thomas and en to this day. but remain as they Richard Penn, part sale, and part gift, were in 1705. The internal lines of the in consideration of the fact th&t W41- six lots into which the tract was divid¬ liam Blackfan was a kinsman and had ed in 1763 have been changed but very lived with his mother Rebecca Crismn little. The present owners of the Blackfan, in the Penn famI^nPen his i Pike tract are, the Paxson sisters 100 burg from about the year L00, until his | acres, Eastburn Reeder 130 acres, Wil¬ marriage with Eleanor Wood, of Phila¬ liam S. Closson 97 acres. Solebury delphia, in the year 1721. Friends’ meeting 5 acres, William The land was surveyed and laid out Wallace Paxson 117 acres, Stacy John¬ 12-mo. 27, 171S, but the deed was not re¬ son 85 acres, Samuel A. Slack 40 corded until 2-mo. 22, 1733, mPhilade- acres, Thoxnas H. Magill 60 acres. uhia, book A. vol. 6, page 234. This William S. Worthington 16 acres and original deed is now in the possession William S. Closson 14 acres. of Julia W. Blackfan in Trenton, N. J. THE PAXSON FAMILY. The description of the tract as corned | Genealogy of the Paxson family who from this deed is as follows: Beginning| were the principal purchasers of the at a marked white oak tree at a corner) Pike tract in 1763. of Jeffrey Burgess’ land, thence Thomas Paxson, Senior, was a ' By lands of the London Company On, grandson of Hon. James Paxson, Upper Makefleld) 128 perches to a post member of the Provincial Assembly, rhence northwest by Thomas Kirk and who came to America from Eng¬ land (in Buckingham) 172 perches to a, land on ship Samuel in 1682. The first post, thence northeast by the Ma"or wife died at sea. His second wife was Highlands 152 perches to a marked, the widow Margaret Plumley whom black oak tree, thence southeast by he married in 1684. He had a son said Manor .lands 204 perches to a William Paxson by this marriage who black oak in said Burgess land, thence married Abigail Pownall and they by said line south 84 perches to the were the parents of Thomas Paxson, olace of beginning, containing -o0 Senior. acres William Blackfan purchased Thomas Paxson, of Maple Grove, adjoining lands of the Penns asi is married J^ne Canby, daughter of ■shown by the following deed. Thimas Thomas Canby, by whom he had eight j Penn and Richard Penn to William children: viz: Joseph Paxson, to whom I Blackfan, deed dated 9-mo. 4, L63, lo3 he left a farm at Limeport, in Sole- j acres and 154 perches, adjoining Pa; Benjamin Paxson, to whom he Burgess, Thomas Ross, and other left a farm at Aquetong, in Solebury, lands. This last purchase, William Pa: Oliver Paxson, to whom he left Blackfan and Eleanor his wife convey¬ the Maple Grove farm, in Solebury, j 'd to their son William Blackfan, Ji.. Pa: Isaiah Paxson to whom he left the y, by deed dated 4-mo. 28, 1764, recorded farm known as Paxson’s Island, in I in book 22, page 84. Solebury, Pa; Jacob Paxson, to whom William Blackfan. Jr., purchased 6d he left a farm in Upper Solebury: I acres. 80 perches off the north side of Jonathan Paxson, to whom he left the Burgess tract 4-mo. 2, making real and personal estate; Rachel Pax¬ 1 dim the owner of about 220 acres of son. to whom he left personal estate: land. William Blackfan, 'Senior, died another child making the eight died L m 1771, aged 80 years. After his de- young. sease the whole 470 acres was dn ided Oliver Paxson, of Maple Grove, mar- I between the two sons, Crispin Black- ried Ruth Watson by whom he had fan retaining the homestead on the issue. western part and William Blacktan, Ruth Paxson. married Hugh Jr., the eastern part.__ Ely, and who were the grandparents of Richard Elias Ely and his two sisters. Jane Paxson, who married Ben- 77

geneology: Samuel ( lodfreyCdt M-aiyiana, William Blackfan, Senior, was a son’ •gnes. horn 3d-mo. 10th. 1769, f Edward Blackfan, who was a son of ihn Schofield, of Solebury, in •Cohn Blackfan, of Stenning, county of j,'»born 2d-mo. 8th, 1771, Sussex, England. Edward Blackfan William, born 3d-mo. married Rebecca Crispin, daughter of 4bth, 1773. died in infancy. William, William Crispin, of Kinsale, Ireland. born ith-mo. 23d, 1774, died in infancy. The marriage was at Friends’ meeting Aaron, born Sth-mo. 11th, 1776, died in in Ifleld, Sussex, 8-mo, 24, 1688. This infancy. Jesse, born 2d-mo. 17th, 1779, marriage certificate contains the signa¬ married Jane Deffendorf. of New York. tures as witnesses, the names of Wil¬ The daughters of William and liam Penn, Gulielma Maria Penn, Eleanor Blackfan married as follows: Sprineett Penn, Letitia Penn and Elizabeth, married Hugh Ely, of Buck¬ manir other Friends: and it is now in ingham, and had six children, viz: ahe possession of William C. Blackfan, John, William, Elizabeth, Hugh, Jesse »f Solebury. »nd Joseph. Sarah, married Richard Rebecca Crispin and William Penn Wood, of Philadelphia, and had two srere first cousins, her father and Ad¬ children: James, and Hannah, who miral Penn having married sisters. married . Rebecca, mar¬ fidWard Blackfan died in England ried Joseph Bye. of Buckingham: no about the year lg90. Rebecca Black- children: Hannah, married Thomas Can and her son Willi am went im¬ Paxson, of Solebury: no children. mediately to Pennsburg in Pennsyl¬ Edward Blackfan, son of Crispin and vania to live in the family of 'William Martha Blackfan, who married Mary Penn, where they continued to live un¬ Smith,, in 1781, had four children, viz: til'sometime after the marriage of her Crispin, who married Eleanor, son William Blackfan with Eleanor daughter of Elisha Wilkinson, had Wood, of Philadelphia, 2-mo. 20, 1721. three children by said marriage. His This marriage certificate was signed [second wife was Hannah, also a By Joseph "Wood, Sarah Wood. Rebecca daughter of Elisha Wilkinson, and Blackfan (parents) and bv many oth¬ ers. iad four children, viz: John, Joseph. ■Ogden and Elizabeth. The children of William and Eleanor Samuel, who married, Elizabeth, Blackfan were six in number Crispin laughter of Moses Eastburn, of Sole- Blackfan, horn at Pennsburg, 4th-mo. bur:", in 1813, by which marriage he ath. 1722. Elizabeth Blackfan born at Had three children, viz: William. Moses Pennsburg, 3d-mo. 3d, 1724. Rebekah E., and Mary Blackfan. The home¬ Bfackfan. born in Solebury, 8th-mo. stead farm of William and Eleanor TOth, 1726. Sarah Blackfan, born in Blackfan was successively owned and [Solebury, Zd-mo. 3d, 1729. William occupied 'by his son, Crispin Blackfan, Blackfan, Jr., born in Solebury, 5th-mo. his grandson. Edward Blackfan, until Z8th, 1732. Hannah Blackfan, born in ais grandson, Edward Blackfan, and Solebury. 3d-mo. 20th. 1735. ■treat-grandson, Samuel Blackfan. From the above record it will be seen •nnrfl his death about 1840, and after¬ ihat "William Blackfan did not remove wards hjt his widow. Elizabeth E. fo his farm in Solebury until the vear ' Biackfan, until 1860. This farm is now IS25" or 6. He removed his certificate1 owned by Charles S. Atkinson and from Falls meeting to Buckingham ! wife. Jth-mo. 1727. The eastern portion of the tract own¬ • Crispin Blackfan married Martha : ed by William Blackfan, Jr., subse¬ ['Davis, daughter of Reese Davis, of quently came into the possession of I Solebury, Jt Buckingham meeting, John Schofield, who married Agnes, 4-mo. 14. 1756.^ Their children were nine lAanaditer of William Blackfan, Jr., in in number, viz: Edward, who married Mary Smith. daughter of Thomas 1797. This farm is now owned by John Smith in 1781. Hannah, who married S. Williams, a grandson of John Scho¬ Stephen Betts, son of Thomas Betts in field. 1/Sfi. Letitia. who married Thomas A portion of the homestead farm of Smith, of Wriehtstown in 1784. Sarah. 118 acres subsequently came into the

'.'s&vvw., 'WfV - w-a cCM The'Tarm in Solebury John Bui'gess “aria Sarah,''“His wife, by^ Doylestolm. sold the fa spnt 4_m0 their deed dated 3d~mo. 11th, 1763, con¬ of 15t> acres tpEdwaia 512_ The veyed the same to Joseph Burgess, and 1. 1853. /Deed £ook 83, Pag about he the same year conveyed 65 acres of remaining portion ^of th- p the tract to William Blackfan, Jr. The remaining 135 acres of this tract Maritt lrTl859 and still belongs to his was divided into two farms, one of estate _ „„ which, 88 acres, came into the posses¬ WILL OF THOMAS ROSS. sion of Isaac Simpson, son of John Simpson, and was owned in 1859 by The 'will of Thomas Ross, of s*‘ i William N. Simpson, son of Robert •bury, recorded in^ook^, ^g bed’aing Simpson, and grandson of John Simp¬ Vjses to b's '-t1^.e her Bible, and what son, who married Elizabeth Blackfan, and bed furniture, ni<;o two rooms in 1795. The remaining portion of the tract about 60 acres, was owned by i ^fiPi^e ‘SStS 8hto1 James Briggs in 1S59. It is now owned and occupied by Charles Janney. sen hiS°land in \ Jeffrey Burgess was a member of the Society of Friends. He bought a certi¬ ficate from Morley Monthly Meeting, Cheshire, England, to Friends in Penn¬ h "and^Joseph sylvania, dated lOth-mo. 6th. 1705. This jobn Ross sons^I gon in_law Thomas certificate was received and recorded at Middletown meeting. The tract of land located by Jeffrey Burgess, was ! mainly bottom land adjoining Pid- neighborhood. All the^ Thomas Ross. i cock’s creek, and is some of the best of my estate to mi* • Thomas in Soleburv. extending to the Make- The executors v ere -OI chanrrian. ross and Job <-h ^ , field line, where it joins land owned by ■ nephew, the London Company. The witnesses veie cat tell The Rehekah Lewis, Peter D Catte . NO. 35—THOMAS ROSS. will was proven 4-mo. 12. 1<»4. Patent, Thomas. Richard and John WILL OF KESIAH ROSS _ Penn to Thomas Ross, 1737—154 acres The will of Kesiah Ross book o. and allowance of 6 per cent, for high¬ nage IS. Proven 1-mo. 13, L8<- i0. ways. Laid out on map Manor of i ^ Tni-m Ross my Bible, balce ltoxi, Highlands In 1755 as about 172 acres. ! ^a ketue brass kettle, and one cover- Beginning corner of John Pideock N let. To Mary Ross, wife of ^ 276 perches, thence by vacant land, I John Ross, my long c^>ak. a j west 160 perches, thence south 112 1 short gowns, six shifts, an my > > perches partly by land of William | (excepting four, one check apron, one Blackfan. thence east by Jeffrey Bur¬ I white apron, two pait of sheets on gess 120 perches, south by same 160 ryf fltiv linen, with tne oinei perches, east 41 perches to beginning. SS tow" Sy warming m* He by will 1784 directs same to be sold. Thomas Ross et. a). executor. Thomas Ross, deceased, to Jacob VanHorn, January 27, 1787. . Deed hS'SZL £ book 23, page 26S. 206 acres being above tract, 50 acres of 200 a tract 3 granilclaughter. »«|ret ^““'evaSe patented to Thomas Ross 1765 and 2 | acres, 65 perches, purchased by Jeffrey Burgess in 1755. January 29, 1787, deed book 23, page 270. Jacob VanHorn to Thomas Boss feSssssS above three tracts. chief, two pillow-cases. All the rest of November 14, 1789. deed bonk 25. page my wearing apparel and household I 242, Thomas Ross and Keziah, his wife goods to my two granddaughgranddaughters, ! to William Neeley 23 acres. 130 perches. Kesiah Smith and Susanna Smith. Thomas anu Richard Penn made To my son Thomas Ross, 4 shillings. deed to Thomas Ross, of Soleburv, for To my grandson Samuel Smith, son of 200 acres of land in the Manor of High¬ my daughter, Mary, £3. Residue to be lands, on the south sid-e. The deed sold. The executor was William was dated 5-mo. 20, 1765. Thomas Blackfan. The witnesses were Crispin Ross was the accredited owner before Blackfan and Thomas Smith. this deed was made to him. The deed Fromv rum theirie willwin ofor Thomasrnomas Ross, is recorded in book 22, page 143. It I Senior, it appeajrsappes that he had sons, joined the Simpson tract on the north, Thomas and Jo in Ross, and a daugh¬ m the top of the mountain, on the ter. Mary, who married Thomas S. vest the Blackfan tract, on the south Smith in 1750,Ji.rrt/, aapd 5 d a daughter- he Burgess tract, and on the east the who married a-— ■Chapman. Imith tract. The deed made by Thomas_ Ross, _ Thomas Ross and Kesiah, his wife, ?!u LJOU.,Esci., toLU XLiUWfcLIUEdwarq Vansent in 1853, con- sold 150 acres of this land to their son I tainsrct.tic thetne follovjiluuuvmng recital: “Whereas, John Ross 8-mo. 20, 1768. Book 13, Thomas P.oss by his indenture dated page 22. Thomas Ross married Kesiah I 3-mo. 28. 1 Fr- »■ Wilkinson in 1731, and John Ross, their son. married Mary Duer, in 1754. The land subseouently came into the pos¬ session of Judge John Ross, of Dovles- town. whose son Thomas Ross. Esq.jjyf \ 7!)

will or i nomas Koss, dated August ' TTu.UTC—ROLtRitT THOMPSON. 29th, 1814, devised the whole of ftis es¬ tate, real and personal to his brtither, The title to this tract of land, as ^ it John Koss, of Easton. Will book 9. appears on record is as follows, lhe page 73. This was the will of Thbmas deed made to Robert Thompson con¬ Ross, formerly of Newtown, then * of tains this recital: The proprietaries of New Hope, and included the farm, in the Province of Pennsylvania to Wil¬ Solebury. liam Coleman, Esq., of Philadelphia; The will of Jqhn Ross, Esq., record¬ then James Hamilton and wife, ot ed^ in book 11, page 119, dated 3-mo, 5. Philadelphia; William Allen and wife, 1834, makes the following bequests:-, 1 of Philadelphia; Lawrence Growden, ot John Ross, of Doylestown, Associate Bucks county; Langhorne Biles and Justice of the Supreme Court of Penn¬ wife, of Bucks county; Joseph Turnei sylvania. etc. and wife, and William Plumstead and To my wife 20 acres of land near the wife, all united in a deed to Ro ert Presbyterian meeting house in Doy¬ Thompson, of Solebury; the land being lestown, during life, and after her de¬ meted and bounded as follows; Begin¬ cease, to my sou Thomas in trust, for ning- at a tree by the river Delaware, the use of my son John during life, and corner of Gilbert Wheeler’s land (in after his death to my daughter, Ada- Upper Makefield) thence up the river laide Ross. His executors were direct¬ 216*perches, thence south SS perches, ed to place out and keep at interest west 342 perches to a corner; thence $12,000 in land s curit5r. or Government south 3% perches, east 241 perches to a stocks, the interest to be applied to the eorner; thence north 78 perches, east support of my vife, and son John, 491 perches by Gilbert W'heeler s land during life. All my land in Northamp- to the place of beginning, containing ton county, and houses and lots in 505 acres, recorded in book 10, page Easton, to my t ree children, Camilla 229, in the year 1761. There was an al¬ Ikrie, William loss and Jenkins Ross. lowance of six per cent, made for roads Camilla’s share< to her huband Peter and highways. Ihrie, in trust or her sole and seoar- This tract occupies the southeastern ate use. To my 3on Thomas, the house eorner of Solebury. Robert Thompson and lot where now lives in Doyles¬ was a farmer, and also a miller. He town, and the f.rm in Solebury. married Hannah Delapaine Simpson, The executors were his three sons. widow of John Simpson, the fiist, and Thomas, Williai and Jenkins Rcss. aad one child. Elizabeth Thompson, The witnesses were Charles Huston tvho was.born 11-mo. 29, 1748. It is re¬ and Th. Kittera. From the above -will lated that William Neely, -who was it appears that fudge Ross left five born in Ireland, 8-mo. 31, 1742, came to children’, viz: Oimilla, Thomas, Wil¬ this country when a small boy with his liam. Jenkins and Adalaide. widowed mother. He learned the mill¬ name of the wife not being mentioned ing business with Robert Thompson in the will. and married his daughter, Elizabeth Thomas Ross was born in Y, Thompson. 6-mo. 24, 1766. They had Tyrone, Ireland.; He came to Ami two children: Jane Neely and Robert in 1728, and settled first in Upper T. Neely. „ Makefield. He probably brought a sis¬ Jane Neely married John Poor and ter with him, foi the records show that they had five children, viz: Daniel Eliza^eth Ross |narried Thomas Bye, Poor, who married Maria Merrick, in 1732. Thorna: Ross joined the So- lane Poor, who married Charles Boss, ciety of Friends at Wrightstowr , in ind Second Josiah Hart, of New Jersey. 1729, and bec-am a distinguished min- Eliza Poor, who died in infancy. Han- ister in the Sr ciety. He ma rried !iah Poor, who married Solomon Up- Kesiah Wilkinso in 1831. He ourrhas- lyke. Eliza Poor, 2d, who also died ed land in Soleb try in 1765. In 17514 he -oung. sailed for Engla id on a religious - visit, Robert Thompson Neely married where he died ir 1786, in the 78th year arah Beaumont, daughter of John of his age. Beaumont. They had three children, The children of John Ross who : mar¬ iz: John T. Neely, who married ried Mary Duer were seven in nunpfcer. ’larissa Johnson. Jane Neely, who viz: Sarah Ross, born 10-mo. 1, narried Jared Boyd. Elizabeth T. and died in 1760. Thomas Ross Nfeely, who married William Hough. 6-mo. 24, 1757. Kesiah Ross, born *3 Robert Thompson died in 1804, aged 3, 1760, married Benjamin Eastbm 12 years. Elizabeth Thompson Neely 1778. John Ross, Jr., born 5-mo. ied in 1834, aged 86 years. Joseph Ross, born 5-mo. 29, This tract of land was divided after Isaiah Ross, born 12-mo. 18, 1766. rhe death of Robert T. Neely into three Ross, born 4-mo. 21, 1769. ’farms as follows: John T. Neely, 207 John Ross died intestate, acres; Jane, wife of Jared Boyd, 167 Thomas Ross, his nephew administ acres- Elizabeth T., wife of William to his estate in 1811. Hough, 150 acres. The Thompson ^Memorial Prsbyterian church is on this tract of land, and Pidcock’s creek flows through it furnishing the power |for the mill. The farm owned by ohn T. Neely is now owned by Reu- ien High; the farm owned by Jared Boyd is now owned by Thomas Beau¬ mont, and the farm owned by Willliam Hough is now owned by Andrew iley. . _ AiW-treen- inenomeRtcad from the time .fif the first purchase in 1(84, until the ♦present time. The title to tract No 37 William, unmarned, Eliz«U>etn, 'fs as follows: The Hon. John Penn, Jr., married Joseph Hut: B. Land John Penn, Esq., sold to Thomas who married Betty Ridley. „ i Srmtft .187 acre? of land in the Manor ginia: Sarah Jane, unmarried Han ,.if Highlands, south side. The deed nah Maria, who died young-, J° - ’ ms made 9-mo. 30. 1784. and the con¬ vho married Fanny Walker, Anna M sideration was £350. lawful silver nd Catharine, both of whom died money of Pennsylvania. There was an allowance of six acres to be made for The children of Jane Xeeb. roads and highways, which was stated m the deed to be the usual allowance, I™- .tnd would make the tract 200 acres of .nocTern survey. This tract was bound- lorn* * * * S12-mon^6 ri|e; married Eliza Lef■ ■ m fry the Ross tract on the west, the Certs. Jane Boyd, born 2-mo.4, Jj£9n Thompson tract on the south, by Beau¬ anmarned. Amanda M B ^ T, mont and Pidcoek on the east, and by ' tract No. 38 on the north . Puckman Eteris^ Boyrl. died young The title to tract No. 38 which had Jar^l Boyd died in 1863. and Jane been purchased previously is as fol¬ lows: The Proprietaries of Penn to ^ The Children of Elizabeth T. Thomas Smith by de'd dated July Hth. .ho married William H-gh were^t. o 7770 for 196 acres, pa-t of the Manor of Highlands: Beginning at a corner of ‘So^rwfc married Dr. George F- Parry. Robert N. Hough, who died m John Pidcick’s land.by the river Dela- TS64 northware south 86 degrees, east 21 “NTOS 37 and 38—THOMAS SMITH. perches, tlence north 35 degrees, west Thomas Smith, of Solebury, was a 111 perch s by Beaumont’s land, grandson of William Smith of thence sou h 86 degrees, west 114 Wriehtstown, who came from perches by Humphrey’s land, thence shire England, and who married Ma y north 2 degrees, west 122 perches, eroasdal® 9-mo 20 1690. He was a thence sou h 89 degrees, west 13M. son of William Smith, who marnea perches, thEnee north 1 degree, west Rebecca Wilson, daughter of Steohe. 209 perches! by land late of Thomas and Sarah Wilson in ^23 Phillips, tiience north 87 degrees, east Smith was born 10-mo. 30, “ 105 perches! by William Tardley’s land married Sarah Townsend, daughtei ot to a marked tree liy the river, thence Stephen Townsend in lio-. «arah down the rive 446 perches to the place The children of Thomas and^ Sa of beginnirg, containing 196% acres. 35r»iith were nine, viz- iin3.m, This purchase of land made Thomas i-mo. 23. 1753, married Sarah Buckman -i-on Oorah horn 10-mo. 3o, Smith own-r of all the river front ly¬ married John*Smith. May. born 3-mo ing between the Heath tract, No. 5. on the north, end the Thompson tract, No. 3. 1758 married Edward Blackfa 36, on the -south, 446 perches, or one 1782. Thomas, born i-mo. 6, 1 Rebecca mile and nearly a half. The title to tract No. 37, purchased by Thomas Smith in 1784, descended to William Snath 4-mo. 1, 1799. From William Smith it has descended to his grandson R chard H. Janney, who Is S',?' ..’SSlf «s«T 12-mS ^ the owner a id occupant of 150 acres of pa.a;oVnetS»m»fc°n; this tract. This original tract must have extend id east to the river, for I 1773. married Mary Worstall and yen. find by deec dated 4-mo. 1, 1807. that John Smith youngest son of Thomas ^Thc children of William Smith, who mlrriefsarah Buckman of Newtown, Smith, sold :o Charles and John Pid- cock, of Am veil, N. J., recorded in rSl7 * married S^rah Moore, of New Jer- book 37, Dag 459. This land then sold \S: "arahedhoarn 1783. carried James was bounded and described, as follows: 1st, north 72 degrees, east 22 perches Worstall. Mary, born 1785 Vr? mar- by Thomas (ooper’s land, thence north John Watts. Esther, born 1787. mar¬ ried Thomas Hutchinson Jacob B 5 degrees, w« 3t 69 perches by the same, thence north/77 degrees, east 79 Derches Born 1789. married Martha Bett by Garret M^ldrum’s land to low water 1814. Amos, born 1791. Aar- Walton. Rebecca, born 1794, unmar mark in tha river Delaware, thence down the river 190 perches, thence ried. Samuel, born l'9?- ^ T inton south 78 degrees, west 23 perches by Jane, born 1798. married John Bmt ; Robert Neele’s land, thence north 38 John, born 1803, married Agnes Hal degrees, west 33 perches by Thomas " William Smith, son of William and Smith’s land, thence north 46 decrees, Sarah Buckman Smith, married Sarah west 86 perches by the same, thence north 4 degrees, west 46 perches to Moore, daughter of Stephen M » Sew Jersey, and had three children, place of beginning, containing 127 acres. oiz: Martha M.. died aged 21 yea. Rebec-ca, married William _Jann y Thomas Smith by his will dated 8-mo. 8, 1798 conveyed his real estate to IS30. William M„ died aSed.“4ei'am Rebecca Smith, who married W:illiam his sons Thomas and John Smith. Jannev In 1830 had nine children^ m - The block of land contained in tracts No. 37 and 38 was found to contain con¬ Richard H., William S. , SarJb Stephen M.. Oliver. George. Martha A.. siderably more than 400 acres of land Rebecca J. and M. Ella. Richard H which had been sold to Thomas Smith Tannev married Mary Hibbs, daugnter in 1770 and ll(84. of William Hibbs, of Pineville, a ‘ the present omef and occupant principal part of tract No. -l- * SI

l nnci on record that the Hon. John Penn Jr., and Hon John Penn, Senior, by their attorney John T. Mxifflin, Eso. sold 170 acres to Samuel Lewis. The deed is dated June 1st, 1790, recorded in book 25, page 455. This land is in th \Tanor of Highlands, and adjoined lands of Thomas Smith, John Simpson, William McGill and others. Samuel Lewis sold thl®, ^ a to Thomas Cooper May 5th L96. and a portion of it remained in the Co >per famiW. until a year or two ago when it was sold to Judge Edward M. Pax- son, of Buckingham. The other and western nortiori of the tract n as sola to Watson P. Magill. and is now' known aR the Highland Manor Farm. This land has/been the home of the Coooeis, Thomas Cooper. Joseph CooperJ\nnr0 Charles (looper, from L96 to 1S96 100

^ These tracts Vheing' mountain soil, are well adapted to fruit growing, and indeed all the Manor of Highland s soil hao-e been the natural home of the peach and other, fruits, for many years 82 fyryvt <\ ifeeoTndl 0 UVvf ) <3to 3 if

Home-Coming Set for Friday The Newtown Chamber of Com¬ merce will take charge on Friday, having arranged to use the Friends' s Meeting House grounds for a home- * coming day. Former residents, many of them prominent in other commu- : nities in which they have now taken ILL BE EHSPUuED I'I up residence, are expected to take pan in discussions, musical programs rnd an oldtlmers’ baseball game in . the evening. BY OLD RESIDENTS Saturday will be Firemen's Day, with a parade that will see ail fire J companies of Bucks county in com¬ petition for prizes. Other firemen Taverns Expected to Do from Montgomery county, as well as from town's along the Delaware shore Business as of Yore; f in New Jersey, will be in line. Prom¬ inent speakers will make brief ad¬ Homecoming: Friday. dresses. Although the week's, program will This is the eighth of a series do signal honor to pioneers and their day in the shadow of the very build- of articles recalling forgotten 1 Jngs they knew so well, Newtown to¬ scenes and legends concerning day prides itself on its mien of his¬ historic towns of Pennsyl¬ toric appreciation and alert mod- vania. j ernity. The center of six improved Bv HENRY S. BECK highways, it is a town of well-lighted Today Newtown will begin a week’s ■; streets, six churches, civic clubs, a celebration of her birthday. It is just ^ century-old library, modern shops, a 250 years since William Penn, looking l.: pottery and balanced community life. However, Newtown in its celebra¬ across the flowering nelds to the dense tion is marking the passage of time, and awesome forest stretches of Bucks the integrity of its founders and the county, said to the little band that well-ordered beginnings that weath¬ had accompanied him up the Del¬ ered political and religious storms aware on horseback: "This is the site through years that one author has of my new town!" aptly captioned "Days of Delusion.” Today is Church Day in Newtown, There is a house that rests on with special services in all churches foundations that once served the this morning and a community serv¬ dungeon of the old jail and county ice this afternoon at the Old Pres¬ buildings, erected in 1726, The sec¬ byterian Church, where Hessian pris¬ ond treasury building remains to tell oners were quartered following the oi 1796, when depredations of the Battle of Trenton. Dr. Wilmer Kru- Doan boys in earlier years violated sen will make an address at this the strong box and made "fool¬ service. proof" quarters a public necessity. On Tuesday the Newtown Exchange The Court Inn, where jubilant pris¬ Club will be host at a banquet in the oners drank the health of their tri¬ dining hall of the George School. umphant legal representatives, stands Lowell Thomas, famous radio com¬ but slightly altered from its first mentator, will speak. years, which began when Joseph Wednesday will be New Century Thornton was minehost, in 1733. Club Day. The club will exhibit an¬ tiques at their clubrooms all day, serving tea to guests expected from all parts of Pennsylvania. Visitors will be taken on tours of the town, viewing many shrines remaining from the era when Newtown served as county seat of Bucks. Thursday has been set aside by the celebration committee as school Day. The senior class of Newtown High School will present an historical pa¬ geant in the afternoon at Newtown Hall. Graduation exercises will take place that night in the same hall. m

■ be shown in houses still occupied by Temperance House descendants of the first village foun- j and Other Inns clers.:i s>. The celebration committee has been The Bird-in-Hand Tavern, with its working many months on its pro¬ small windows and wide, overhang¬ gram. J. Wilmer Lundy, energetic ing roof, stands to tell of years be¬ a president, is a descendant of Richard tween 1726 and 1812, when It Lundy, one of Bucks county's first quenched many a thirst before the settlers, whose home is still to be vis¬ county seat w'as moved to Doylestown. ited near Holicong, where admirers Just north of the Bird-in-Hand and of Booker T. Washington once sought once separated from it by a driveway to establish a country club exclu¬ now filled in by a tiny dwelling, is old sively for colored sportsmen. Other Justice’s Inn. erected in 1768, where members of the committee are Ada the more "high hat” members of the p. Fabian, vice president; William S. bar avoided mingling with the so- Tomlinson, secretary; Roland W. Por¬ i called rowdies who frequented other ter, Edward R. Barnsley, Walter H. : nearby public houses. The Temper - Mohr, John S. Wright, Lewis W. Fitz¬ ■ ance House, whose very name brings gerald, Morris savidge, Stanley A. ' back those days when Quakers Watson, Mrs. W. A. Roberts, R. John ] frowned on' strong liquor except at Foster, Charles V. Urban, Mrs. J. Wil¬ weddings and funerals, was built, mer Lundy and David C. Voorhees. j piece by piece, from 1769. The Brick The unusual feature of the cele- i I Hotel is possibly the most imposing bratior? is that it is an affair in which hostelry doing business in Newtown j adjoining counties will participate. I . today. Here Joseph Archambault, one is not exclusively Newtown’s rejoicing, of the guard chosen to go to St. ‘by any means. Folk from Bristol, Helena with Napoleon, set up a tav¬ Langhorne, Hulmeville, Mornsville, ern to entertain his former army asso¬ i] Yardley, Trenton, Tullytown, Fallsing- ciates, at the sign of the “Red Lion.” j ton, Feasterville, Doylestown, Quaker-1 Newtown, too, has a “Washington’s ' town and many other places will ! headquarters." Here, within walls that gather to remember days when roads have been little changed, Washington echoed to the tread of the military I spent two days following the Battle forces of several wars, cheers and of Trenton, December 25, 1776. The shouts of welcome to Lafayette, and ! house of Treasurer Hart, where the acclamation to the first experimenters j official was overcome and robbed by who brought lasting fame through the Doan outlaws, is also intact and important inventions to this cornel j serving as a. picturesque residence. I The sites of the home of James of the Commonwealth. It is perhaps significant, too, that j Yeates, first settler, who took part the celebration begins today, Sun¬ j m the famous Walking Purchase of day, with devotions in various j land from hte Indians; of the old I tanyard, where the Worstall family churches, for it was in the religious continued a business from 1774 to life and activities that Newtown made j 1882, and of the old Yellow School, so solid a beginning. So zealous, in 1 where the first free institution of its fact were the first church groups, j kind was erected in 1827, will also that competition in church interest figure in the week's activities. colored every day. Nor was that competition a ma ,ter Adelina Patti Ring of a few flares in the dark sent up at intervals with years between. From Will Be Displayed 1 those Sunday morning Friends’ meet- 1 ings of long ago, when settlers were In the old Episcopal Church of St. penalized for lack of regularity in at- 1 Luke there is a Della Robbia reredos, “I tendance, when young women pre of which the only other replica is in I served forgotten modesty in descend I the Metropolitan Museum of New serv et-i -— j ing from horseback on stone “uppmg- iYork. This work of art, installed to blocks” that remain everywhere in 'the memory of Horace 6. Reeder, has almost every meeting-house yard, ja fine Colonial setting and will be Pennsylvania roads were crowded with viewed by many visitors. itinerant preachers. Hospitality and Many other treasures, such as a an enviable lack of bigotry awaited all who expressed their conceptions of 'ring given by Adelina Patti and now God and His worship, even though in possession of the recipient's d.augh- were highly original. l.ter, Mrs. David Fea^ter; a spool of silk woven in days when Newtown was in the throes of the “multi-multi- caulis fever” and believed it would become the center of a world-wide silk industry, and countless relics, will Shakers Firm Believers j Proving Communism in Second Coming Is Not Very New Chance mention In these articles| Lady stanhope went farther. She of a wandering band of Shakers whof settled among the Druses atop Mount ' chanced down the river road toward Lebanon, living in the lonely villa Philadelphia In the 1780's, elicited i ^ Djoun, about eight miles from ; two letters last week, one doubting Sidon, and waiting, obviously, for the that the followers of Ann Lee ven¬ : Lord's appearing. She gained absolute tured this far South and another ask¬ authority among surrounding tribes- I ing Information concerning the rise men and Ibrahim Pasha, about to i and tenets of a sect whose last mem raid Syria in 1832, felt her so impor- j bers must be scattered through the tant that he sought her pledge of J hills of Pennsylvania, the mountains neutrality. She died June 23, 1839, of New York and way-places of New :: among broken dreams, a retinue of | England. servants assembled by a mannish Im¬ It is not too much to believe—in fact, there is historical record to prove periousness and two pure white Ara¬ that Ann (or Anna) Lee visited An¬ bian horses, on one of which she had dalusia and other villages in person I expected to ride to heaven with the after she had come from England. other reverently reserved for the Lord. The Shakers founded one of the Modern Communists ought to look | earliest communistic sects, officially back to the Shakers and realize that known as "The United Believers in their views are ancient stuff. The, Christ’s Second Coming” and "The ideals of the Shaker community were I Millenial Church.” common possession of property, a life ' The Millerites, associated with Wil¬ of celibacy, confession of sin, power! liam Miller, decided that Christ would of physical disease and separation, appear a second time in the clouds from the world and its lures! of heaven some time between 1843 Disease, according to the first Shak-| and 1844, first basing their figuring on ers, was a sin against God. The theory Hebraic dating in conjunction with of separation from the world ex-1 the prophecies of Daniel and later j pressed itself in the establishment of switching to Roman calendars when I "families" of from 30 to 90 members, Si ' ■ nothing happened. So firm was the | all living in one house, curiously con- | faith of some in Miller’s preaching at j structed, with floors assigned alter- mass meetings in Massachusetts, New j nately to men and women. The dis- ! Jersey and even Philadelphia, that tinctive merit of celebacy was an or- many bought white robes, erased . iginal tenet of the first Shakers in their debts and climbed to rooftops. England, where the society had its! Others likewise moved, some with beginning in a Quaker revival, with minds psychologically affected by the Jane and James Wardley the leaders, appearance of a comet and other a leadership to which Ann Lee suc- starry wonders, Included not only the ' ceeded. The Shakers did not prohibit Shakers, but also a converted Jew, marriage, but they refused to accept I Joseph Wolff, as well as Harriet Liver¬ It as a Christian institution, consid- I more, beautiful and eccentric daugh¬ ering it less perfect than the celibate ter of a Massachusetts Congressman, 3 state. and Lady Hester Stanhope, niece of Ann Lee and her group of six men William Pitt, granddaughter of Lord ; and two women came to America be- i Chatham. This lady, in Whittier’s I cause of persecution and what, Ann poem, "Snowbound." is called "The j claimed, was a revelation. After a two Crazy Queen of Lenanon.” ! years’ stay in New York city they Wolff predicted the second advent 1 settled in Watervliet, N. Y., where ! for 1847—and lost. Miss Livermore j the second Shaker society in this j not only went about preaching the I country was founded. The first was' Second Coming, but advocated de¬ ! in New Lebanon, N. Y., following the portation of the American Indians "i religious revival of 1780, taking on to Palestine in time for the Millen¬ i specific organization in 1787. Mother nial, saying she had convincing proof ■ Lee, with her preaching and with her that the Redskin was a member of j followers providing weird singing and | the Lost Tribe of Israel. Lady Stan¬ j dancing, moved down the Delaware 1 hope lived in Kent, England, until ‘J shore, shocking the pious Quakers of her father's temper sent her scurrying ] early Pennsylvania towns. to her grandmother’s house at Bur¬ There were converts in Pennsyl- ton Pynsent. In 1803 she became the vania, but it seems that at the time manager of her uncle’s household, I of Ann’s death, in 1784, the chief dl¬

later serving as his secretary. l'] ciples were to be found in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut. A i t group came out of the Kentucky re- | i vival of 1800-1802 when the group ! at New Lebanon sent three members to expound their doctrines. As our inquirers apparently do not know, the Shakers held that God was both male and female and that Adam, having been created in the image of God, had in him the nature of both sexes. ‘Male and Female Embodied in One’ Even the angels and departed spir¬ its shared this unusual plane. Christ, \ said the Shakers, was one of the su¬ perior spirits who appeared in Jesus, the son of a Jewish carpenter, repre¬ senting the male principle, just as Ann Lee. the daughter of an English blacksmith, represented the female. In Mother Lee, it was their belief, the promise of the Second Coming was fulfilled and so the establish¬ ment of Christ's second kingdom on earth began with the founding of the Millennial Church. Today, as Newtown's churches are recalling the first days when it was necessary for homes that could not afford a wandering tailor, to weave, cut and sew its own clothes, those first Shakers who outlawed any adornments, made their own cloth and subsisted by making leather, sell¬ ing herbs and garden seeds, must be remembered too. In so many ways the beliefs of the Quakers were sim- • ilar—and in as many they were vastly I different. In 1874 there were 58 Shaker com- ! munitles with 2415 souls, owning s about 100,000 acres of land and scat¬ tered over a wide area. In 1905 there were but 1000 members and we have reason to believe that there are one- tenth of this number today who have not merged their ideas and ideals with other Adventists. Earliest years of Pennsylvania, when Father Penn vainly hoped for retirement to his country manor, when the stocks was a public amuse¬ ment on the village common, when women W'ere branded for “unmen¬ tionable’ offenses, when a hanging was cause for a county holiday scene, i when Washington dined officers of captured enemy forces and when human affection was as binding as ■any contract—all these are recalled - with difficulty or imagined only with great effort in many provinces. Not so with Newtown, 250 yearn young today1 rpy- • 4

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