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.eighty-three. The oldest son, William, had in his possession the family Bible brought from Germany by Conrad, which was printed in 1770, and hand- somely illustrated. The descendants of George Scheetz are living in Bedmin- ster, Richland, Quakertown and Doylestown.
John Clymer's mill, on the Tohickon, is thought to have been the first built in the township and before 1749. The mills of Jacob Kraut, on Deep Run, and Joseph Tyson, Cabin run, were erected next in order. We have authority for saying that the oldest mill in the township is supposed to have been built on the site of Engany's, on a small stream that joins Deep Run, east of the Presbyterian church. These mills were followed by Jacob Stover's on Tohickon and Henry Black's oil-mill on Cabin run and Durham road, half a mile below Pipersville, since torn down. In 1753 the widow Sheaver owned a mill but we do not know the location, and the same year a road was laid out from it to Deep Run meeting-house. One of the petitioners was Reverend Francis McHenry. Among early mills on Tohickon were those of Ichabod Wilkinson, White's and Henry Lot's.
A school-house formerly stood on the Easton road at the foot of Deep Run hill, three-fourths of a mile above Pipersville, but torn down many years ago. It was built, 1805 by Colonel Piper, Abraham Hight, William Meyers and Frederick Keehler, and among those who taught in it was the late Charles B. Trego, a native of Bucks county, subsequently went to Philadelphia, be- came prominent in politics, and was a member of the State Senate. In early times peaches were raised in great quantities in Bedminster, the crops most prolific between 1811 and 1825. The production was greater than the con- sumption, and the surplus was hauled by wagon-loads to the distilleries to be made into peach-brandy. From about 1780 to 1820 Bedminster was a great field for catching wild pigeons, which gave rise to much sport. They came in large flocks, and were caught in nets. Those who most excelled in catching them were Abraham Kulp, Jacob Wismer, Jacob Engany, and Abram Over- holt. Wismer frequently caught as many as would fill two or three barrels before breakfast. Many were salted down for future use, but large numbers were sold in the neighborhood, at twenty-five cents a dozen, or sent to the Philadelphia market.
Bedminster has five villages, at least localities that bear the name, Pipers- ville, on the Easton road, in the southeast corner. Dublin, on the Swamp road, in the southwest corner, Hagersville and Keelersville on the Old Bethlehem road, in the northwest corner, and Bedminsterville, at the intersection of the roads that lead from the Mennonite meeting-house to Keller's shop and from the Durham to the Dublin road. Of these, Dublin is the most considerable. It is said to have taken its name from the old log tavern that first dispensed the good things of life to man and beast at this point. It was a double building and got the name of the double-inn, and, in the course of time, the name was a little changed, and the hamlet that grew up around it was called Dublin. This was nearly a century ago. Three taverns have stood on the spot occu- pied by the old hostelry. During the Revolution it was kept by a man named Robinson, whose son was a royalist and an associate of the Doanes. We are told that after the war was over it is supposed he lay concealed a long time in the house between two partitions. He was watched, but not discovered. The father was drowned in a creek on the premises. Here there are a tavern, church, store, mechanics, several dwellings, and a post-office, established, 1827. with Newton Rowland postmaster, and a carriage-factory. Each of the other villages has a tavern, store, and a few dwellings. Pipersville, Ha-
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gersville and Bedminsterville are post-villages, where offices were established 1845 and 1851. This township is well watered by Cabin, Deep, Wolf. Deer and Mink runs, branches of Tohickon and by the north branch of Perkiomen. The surface is rolling, with but few hills, the soil is generally fertile, and produces good crops under careful German tillage. In 1784 the population was 988 white inhabitants. 3 blacks, and 143 dwellings. In 1810 it was 1.199: 1820, 1,248; 1830, 1.594, with 338 taxables : 1840, 1,630; 1850, 1,911 ; 1860. 2,238; and in 1870, 2,370 of which 6 were colored and 40 foreign-born ; 1880, 2,482; 1890, 2,385.
Among the early settlers in Bedminster, we find that Mrs. Agnes Darrah died August 3, 1820, at the age of ninety, Abraham Leatherman, 1823. in his eighty-fourth year, and Barbara Fretz the same year, eighty-five.
Bedminster is entitled to the honor of having been and probably still is the home of the most prolific family in children in the county. The father is William Buehrle, born in Baden, Germany. 1834, the son of a Republican agitator, whom the trouble of 1848 compelled to flee to America. He settled in Bedminster, 1856, and married Ann Freiling. then only fourteen years old. To them nineteen children were born between 1857 and 1889, of which fifteen were living in 1802. The father followed canal boating for twenty-one years on the Delaware division and in the west, and then settled down to farming. The sons and daughters married near home and also went into business. The father has been a well known citizen in Upper Bucks and if living still is a native of Bucks county, subsequently went to Philadelphia, became prominent in politics and was a member of the State Senate.
The accompanying map of the "Upper end of Bucks County" was copied from an old one drawn between 1742 to 1750. It gives the location of the townships formed in the upper section at that period after Springfield had been organized. but before its "adjacents" had been laid out and declared Hay- cock township. It shows several townships now in Northampton and Le- high, namely: Bethlehem. Millcreek and Lower Saucon in the former, and Upper Saucon. Upper Milford and Macungie in the latter. That Williams township, organized 1750, is not given on it is evidence the original map was drawn prior to that year. . Durham township was not organized until 1775-
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SPRINGFIELD.
1743.
An extreme northern township .- Route of first settlers .- Earliest purchase .- William Bryan, Stephen Twining, George Bachman, John Briggs .- Moldavia .- Name of set- tlers in 1743 .- Horne homestead .- Rev. A. R. Horne .- The Buck family .- Dennis McCarty .- Township organized .- Apple family .- John Barclay .- Ziegenfus .- Schug- genhaus .- Lottery lands .- Abraham Redzer .- First grist-mill .- Mills of Funk and Houpt .- Springfield church and pastors .- The Ruths .- Schools .- The Frankenfields .- Mennonite congregation .- Zion Hill Church .- Old school house .- Springfield Friends. -Roads .- Villages .- Springtown, et al .- Old tavern at Stony Point .- Quakertown and Easton Railroad .- Buckwampum .- The Wittes .- Population .- Bursons .- Red clover introduced .- Area.
Springfield, one of the extreme northern townships, bordering on North- ampton and Lehigh counties, is inhabited almost exclusively by Germans. With the exception of Durham and Haycock it was the last of the original townships organized.
The earliest settlers of Springfield probably found their way to it up the valley of Durham creek, rising in the interior of the township. The settlement. about Durham furnace, was the first permanent inroad on the wilderness of that section of the county, the Delaware affording an open highway to Philadelphia being the most accessible route. Durham was an English settlement and the first settlers in Springfield were of the same race. Some English reached this township through the "Swamp" and "Richlands," and, when the Germans came into it. a little later, it was by the same route. We behold this interesting fact in the settlement of this township, that the two flanking currents of emigration, one up the Delaware, the other up the Perkiomen, met in the valleys of Spring- field where Teuton and Anglo-Saxon had a peaceful contest for the mastery.
The earliest purchase of land we have met with, although settlers were there several years prior, was 1737, when the tract on which Houpt's mill stands. was surveyed to John Hughes, but patented to William Bryan in 1758. On the Ist of May, 1738, the Proprietaries conveyed six hundred and fifty one acres on Cook's creek to Casper Wister, of Philadelphia, but was never a settler in the township, and sold five hundred acres to Stephen Twining, of Wrights- town or Buckingham, the 26th of the same month, for the consideration of £187. IOS. This tract was on Durham or Cook's creek, below Springtown. Twining became a resident of the township. The 3d of October, 1739, two hun-
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dred and seventy acres on Cook's creek, embracing the site of Springfield church, were granted to Christian Shuck. On the 12th of May, 1741, the Proprietaries confirmed one hundred additional acres to Stephen Twining, adjoining the first purchase. The warrant was dated June 8th, 1739, and the land laid out October 15th, on a "branch of Cook's run." The same year Nicholas Hill purchased three hundred and twenty-one acres on a branch of the same creek near the Durham line. In 1740 George Bachman, an early settler in Richland, and one of the earliest German pioneers in the upper end of the county, purchased two hundred and thirteen acres "at the branches of the Tohickon and Saucon creeks" in the north-west part of the township. The following year John Briggs pur- chased four hundred and seventy-two acres, also on a branch of Cook's creek, near Durham, and probably he and Hill both located in the valley above Burson- ville. In 1745 Joseph Blair purchased one hundred and fifty acres adjoining John Briggs. In 1743, by virtue of a warrant dated May 8th, eighty-five acres, called "Moldavia," were surveyed to John Moffitt, adjoining Stephen Twining. In 1755 Moffitt conveyed it to Jonathan Carr, in 1762 Carr to William Baker, in 1773 Baker to William Trapp, of Northampton county, and in 1786, Trapp conveyed to John Siford (Seifert). James Logan was the original holder of a large tract in Springfield, including the Houpt farms, extending to the Durham line. In 1787 Samuel Brackenridge (sometimes spelled Breckenridge) pat- ented one hundred and twenty-nine and a half acres, partly in Springfield and partly in Lower Saucon, called "Springhill," now known as Colehill.
Immigrants came rapidly into the township during the first years of its settlement, for we have the names of over thirty, probably all heads of families, who were living there, 1743, German and English: James Green, Stephen Twining, William Crooks, Brien Connilin, Hugh Orton, Joseph Blair, Richard Johnston, Jacob Mason, Jacob Abel, Samuel Hillborn, John Leister, Christian Levy, Conrad Fahr, Peter Lester, John McCoy, Thomas Folly, Thomas Adam- son, Joseph Bond, Joseph Unthank, Conrad Flores, James Williams, Peter Ash- ton, Christian Shock, Michael Dort, Peter Ademose, Thomas Blair, Michael Gold, Thomas Lloyd, Michael Dillard, Christian Spug, Peter Leatherman, Simon Carey, John Greasley, George Hazeley, Daniel Stout, Stephen Acorman, Henry Hornel, Philip Roup, Jacob Maure, Jacob Huber and Michael Gould.
HORNE HOMESTEAD, OLDEST HOUSE IN SPRINGFIELD.
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Before 1738, Thomas Parwin, Milford, received a warrant for one hundred acres he located on "Squooks," now Cook's, creek, in the western part of the township, and in October, same year, he sold the improvements and all the rights acquired under the warrant, to Joseph Unthank. This tract was owned by Rev. A. R. Horne, in whose family it had been for over a century. The engraving represents the house as it now appears, and is probably the oldest dwelling in the township. The one-story part was built by Parwin, or Unthank, after he bought it, probably about 1743, and is an interesting relic of the past. It is of stone, the walls thick and strong. The Ashtons owned several hundred acres to the north-west of the Quakertown and Springtown road, but the family passed away more than a generation ago and their extensive possessions have fallen into other hands. The Bryan homestead, where the progenitor, William, settled and the late General John S. Bryan was born, is on the opposite side of the road half a mile east of Cook's creek crossing, but has long been out of the family. Simon Garis bought twenty-five acres in Springfield in 1751.
How early the Hornes came into Springfield we know not, but Valentine Horne bought sixty acres in 1765, and his descendant, Rev. A. R. Horne, son of David L. and Mary N., was born in 1834. He early exhibited great taste for reading and fondness for preaching, frequently gathering his young play- mates to listen to his harangues. He attended school in the township, and John Price's boarding-school at Line Lexington. He taught public-schools from 1850 to 1854, including one year in charge of the Bethlehem school, when he entered Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg, graduating in 1858. The same year he estab- lished the Bucks County Normal school, at Quakertown, and remained in charge five years. From 1865 to 1872 he was pastor of the Lutheran church at Wil- liamsport, Pennsylvania, and four years of the time was superintendent of the city schools. He was principal of the Keystone Normal school, 1872-77. In 1860 he established the National Educator, and was the proprietor and editor to his death, in 1902. Mr. Horne was a fine scholar and a close student, and among his published works are two editions of the Pennsylvania German Man- ual, a volume of "Health Notes," and a work on "Early Experiments." When a boy young Horne rode post to deliver the Doylestown Democrat.
George Ruth, ancestor of the Springfield family of this name, came from the Palatinate at the age of twenty-six, landing from the ship Marlborough at Philadelphia, September 23, 1741. He was granted a warrant for one hundred and thirteen acres in the township October 4, 1744, and Edward Scull surveyed it June 30, 1747. On April 13, 1752, he transferred this tract to Nicholas Hess, the same now owned by Mrs. Kaufman. He subsequently took up an adjoining tract, and probably spent his life there. He was living on it, 1775. He had three sons, George, Peter and Michael, the two former enrolling in the Springfield Associators, 1775, and Michael was ensign in Captain Bryan's company, 1777. George Ruth, eldest son of George Ruth, Sr., was a farmer and lived in the val- ley between Bursonville and Springtown, and died there, 1796, the owner of three hundred and twenty-eight acres. He was a member and trustee of the Reformed congregation of Springfield. George Ruth, Jr., was the father of seven children: John, who married Elizabeth and, tradition says,.
. built the Black Horse tavern near Easton, and died there; Elizabeth married John Beidleman, and, after his death, married Jacob Frankenfield; Catharine- married Christian Kessler and lived in Alexander township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey ; George, who settled in Tinic um. Ruth's church was built on a lot he gave for the purpose and he died, 1864; Andrew, born about 1790, served in Captain Wilson's @ wpany at Marcus Hook, 1814, and died November 26,.
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1875, aged about eighty-five; Jacob, born November 1, 1787, died March 2, 1832; Christine, born August 26, 1795, married Jacob Adams, and died May 4, 1883.
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Peter Ruth, second son of George Ruth, Sr., purchased one hundred and nine acres a mile west of Bursonville, of John Barclay, August 4, 1741, married Mary Fluck, was the father of nine sons and two daughters, and died 1830. Their children were Abraham, Peter, Michael, Henry, John, Jacob, Samuel, Joseph George, Mary Ann and Elizabeth. Of the sons, Abraham lived at Bur- sonville and died there, 1835 ; Peter married Mary Shafer and located half a mile west of Bursonville. He was a soldier of the war with England, 1812-15, serv- ing in Captain Samuel Flack's company, of which Andrus Apple was a lieu- tenant, at Marcus Hook, 1814. When the company was ordered to march he was building a new house, but this did not prevent him going. He shortly obtained a substitute, returned home and finished the dwelling. He died, 1842, leaving the following children : Sarah, born Oct. 30, 1811, died November 3, 1886; George, born September 20, 1837, living Jersey City ; William, born ", died 1837; John, born November 14, 1817, died January 31, 1893 ; Peter, born, 1819, living at Locust Valley, Pennsylvania; Hannah, born January 19, 1823, married Reuben Smetzer, died December 8, 1837; Catharine, born November 20, 1823, married John Track, died May 29, 1875 ; Elizabeth, born Dec. 15, 1825, married Amos Bougher, died March 8, 1866; Lucy Ann, born September 30, 1827, married David Stem, died March 12, 1890; Charles, boin October 11, 1830, married Matilda Fackenthal, died at Bethlehem, March 10, 1899; Aaron, born September 1, 1837, and died in childhood.
On the 16th of June, 1743, the inhabitants of Springfield, whose names we have given in a previous page, petitioned the court to permit their settlements to be "comprehended in a new township." While the records do not show any action taken by the court, except the filing of the petition, we know the prayer of the petitioners was granted and the township surveyed and laid out imme- diately after. At this time there were fifty-six "dwellers," probably heads of families, but we have only been able to obtain the names already mentioned. The name "Springfield" was given to it because of the great number of springs that gushed out of its hillsides, forming brooks and creeks that meandered through its pleasant valleys. When Schlatter visited the township, 1745, he called it "Schuggenhaus,"1 probably the corruption of some Indian local name, or a name given by some of the early German settlers.
By the original survey, the northwest boundary of Springfield did not extend quite up to the line of the two Saucons, and an intervening strip was left between them and the new township. At the September term, same year, the lines were ordered to be changed so as to run with the Saucons, which made the boundary on that side as at present. At the same term the court ordered an alteration to be made in the southern boundary, on the petition of seventeen inhabitants who had fallen without the township at the first survey, and now asked to be taken in. The original southern boundary, which ran north sixty- six degrees east from the northeast corner of Richland to the southwest corner of Durham, was now changed to south twenty-four west, till it met the Haycock creek, and thence by northeast and northwest courses to the corner of Durham,
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I This name is said to be Pennsylvania German, and applied to Springfield Church - and not the township. The church was built on land purchased of Christian Schuck, or Schug, and came to be called "Schug's house," or "Schuggenhaus." Schug came from the Palatinate, landing at Philadelphia from the ship Samuel, August 27, 1739.
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making the lines the same as now. This change was made to save the petitioners from having so far to go to mend roads and attend to other township business. But for it they would have been left in the unorganized territory that afterward became Haycock. At this time the territory of Haycock was probably included in Bedminster for certain municipal purposes. The petition for this latter change was drawn by Joseph Dennis,2 whose place of birth is vouched by the expression "he makes bould to acquaint the bench." Afterward Dennis got back into Haycock, as we find his name to the petition for laying off that township, and he is claimed as an original settler there.
About four thousand acres in Springfield, a tract over three miles long and two wide, were included in the one thousand acres John and Thomas Penn in- tended to dispose of by lottery tickets, in 1735. The scheme embraced seven thousand seven hundred and fifty tickets, of which one thousand two hundred and ninety-three were to be prizes, the balance blanks-the prizes numbering from twenty-five to three thousand acres. As the drawing never took place, the tickets, which were sold at forty shillings each, secured title to land and the holders were allowed to locate on them. The tract in question lay bordering on the manor of Richland. Probably all the settlers here were Germans, but among the land owners, were George McCall, Anthony Butler and Casper Wis- ter, speculators, who soon sold out to actual settlers. The lottery tract was almost exclusively settled upon by Germans, and the land has passed down from father to son and it is doubtful if there be an English settler upon it at this time. It is probable many of the patentees were not the original holders of the lottery tickets, but bought of the owners. This land is among the very best in the township. Among the settlers was a widow, Barbara Rohr, whose son married a daughter of Leonard Buck. A map of these lands was found among the Penn Papers lately purchased by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, and we are indebted to William J. Buck for a copy. The accompanying engraving shows each tract, with the name of the owner.
Of the early settlers in Springfield we have knowledge of several and whence they came. The ancestor of the Hess family was Nicholas Hess, born in Zweibrucken, Germany, in 1723, came to America a young man, landing at Philadelphia from the ship Rainu, married Catharine Funk, born here, and settled in Slifer's valley, Springfield, on the farm lately owned by Mrs. Kaugh- man, two miles south of Springtown, and died, 1795. They had three sons, Conrad, Philip and John George, and two daughters, Elizabeth and Catharine. Their five children married and had issue. Conrad settled at Springtown, Philip lived near, and John George on Saucon creek, Northampton county, a mile from its mouth. From them have descended the Hess family, numerous in the upper end of Bucks and Northampton. Twenty-five years ago there were living children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchil- dren of the three sons of Nicholas Hess.
Nicholas Buck, ancestor of the Buck family of Springfield and Nockamixon,
2 The same Joseph Dennis had a good deal to do with township making in the early day. On June 13, 1754, he presented a petition to the Court of Quarter Sessions setting forth the following: "The petition of Joseph Dennis in behalf of himself and his neigh- bors, humbly sheweth that there is a pretty large tract of land lying between the town- ships of Richland, Springfield, Nockamixon, Bedminster and Rockhill not yet laid out for a township. Therefore your petitioner prays you will please to order that afore- mentioned land be laid into a township by the name of 'Mansfield,' and your petitioner will ever pray." Signed, Joseph Dennis.
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IS2 .A. L1 P! Poter Heft. 1789.
Abraham Reeser. 1760
PO 2.35P: Jaros Struer. 1788.
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a native of Lorraine, near Thionville, Germany, landed at Philadelphia Sept. 3, 1752, and settled in Springfield prior to 1761. He married Mary Abigail, daughter of George and Barbara Kohl, Nockamixon, April 21, 1761. Upon her death, 1765, he married Elizabeth Hartman, Haycock, May 12, 1766, and by the two wives had a family of ten children, five sons and five daughters. March 18, 1762, he purchased forty-six, and then one hundred and seventy- one acres joining from the Proprietaries, December 2, 1773. This was in Springfield on the edge of Haycock. The location was a fine one, the dwelling occupying the highest point with a view of the Blue Mountains in the distance. Time and labor converted the wilderness tract into a productive farm with good buildings. At the outbreak of the Revolution, Buck enrolled himself in the Springfield Associators, Colonel John Keller's battalion. His oath of allegiance, taken before William McHenry, Esq., Bedminster, bears date June 10, 1778. Nicholas Buck died November, 1786. His will is dated February 12, 1785, and admitted to probate shortly after he died. He was possessed of two hundred and eighteen acres. He was a well educated man, and with a knowledge of German, French and English, was often called upon to act as translator and interpreter for his neighbors, largely Germans. The homestead was called "Buckhill." Of Nicholas Buck's children, Leonard, born September, 1763, married Elizabeth, daughter of Mathias Kramer, and died 1809; Joseph, born November 6, 1764, married and removed to Lehigh county, 1800; Nicholas, born, 1767, settled in Nockamixon ; Jacob, born May 1, 1771, married Susanna Haring, Haycock; John, born February 17, 1775, married Salome, daughter of Nicholas McCarty, Nockamixon, 1795; Catharine, born, 1772, married Chris- tian Clemmer, Springfield; Barbara, born 1777, married John Kemp, Berks county ; Elizabeth, born, 1781, married Jacob Kohl; Magdalena, born, 1783, married Thomas McCarty ; and Mary Ann, born, 1785, married Nicholas Kohl. They left many descendants. The Buck family is an old one in Germany, France, Belgium and Holland, and is traced back to 1100. The coat of arms is a white springing buck on a vermillion shield, surmounted with a crest of the same animal.
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