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CHAPTER XXVIII.
RICHLAND.
1734.
The Great swamp .- "Rich lands." -- English Friends first settlers .- Griffith Jones .- Manor of Richland .- Peter Le-ter -Edward Foulke .- Morris Morris .--- Edward Roberts .- Thomas Lancaster .- Growden's tract .- Settlers of 1733 .-- Benjamin . Gil- Gilbert .-- Randall Iden .- Earhest mention of Richland .- Sucking creek .--- Petitioners for road .- Movement to organize township .- Friends' meeting .- Land-owners .- The Matts family .- Jacob Strawn or Strawhen .- Pursell .-- Andrew Snyder .- Population .- Poor-tax .-- Quakertown .- Its situation -- Nucleus of town. - MeCook's tavern .- Public library .- Industrial establishments .- State Normal schon 1 .- Richland Centre .- It - pop- ulation -Richlandtown .-- Saint John's church .- Oldest house .- Bunker Hill .- Lottery land .- Opening of roads .- The Fluck log house .- \ German township.
In the carly day a large scope of country in the north-west corner of the county, including Richland and Milford, with Quakertown as a centre, was known as the "Great Swamp."" The origin of the name is not known but prob- ably because the surface is flat, and. before it was cleared and cultivated, water stood upon it at certain seasons of the year. It bore this name for three- quarters of a century, and those who were not familiar with the country be- licved it to be a veritable swamp. But the true character of this section was soon ascertained by those in search of new homes. for. shortly after 1720. it began to be called "Rich lands." no doubt from the fertility of the soil, and. in the course of time. this designation gave the name to the township. Tradition says this section was heavily timbered, with a luxurious growth of grass under the great trees instead of bushes, with occasional small clearings, or "oak-open- ings," called by the carly settlers "Indian fields." It abounded in wild animals, bears, wolves, panthers, etc., and rattlesnakes were so plenty the early mowers had to wrap their legs to the knees, as a protection from their poisonous fangs. Indian wigwams were built along the Swamp. Tohickon and other creeks which then swarmed with shad. The Indians lived on good terms with the carly settlers, and lingered about their favorite hunting grounds after white men had become quite numerous. There were deer licks on some of the streams,
1 Probably the earliest mention of this locality is in a letter of James Logan to William Penn, March 17. 1705, wherehe he writes of the "Great Swamp environed by Rocks." Penna, Archives, Series H. Vol. VHI. p. 20.
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whither this beautiful animal resorted and where they were watched and shot by the hunter. An Indian path, the line of communication between distant tribes, ran nearly north and south through the Great Swamp.
It is a feature of interest in the settlement of Richland, that it was first peopled by English Friends, who located far away from their kindred in the lower section of the county, and who reached their new homes over the route afterward traversed by the Germans who settled Milford. The English pre- ceded the Germans into Richland several years, and, while descendants of the former are quite numerous, those of the latter predominate and Richland is a German township.
Griffith Jones was probably the first man to own land in Richland. for on the 12th of October. 1681. and before either of them came to Pennsylvania. William Penn granted six thousand acres to Jones, to be taken up in his new Province on the Delaware. At what time he arrived is not known, but in 1689. he purchased several hundred acres near the North Wales settlement, which was adjudged to belong to others, by virtue of previous surveys he was not aware of when he purchased. He now determined to locate his grant in the Great Swamp, and, in iyor, the whole six thousand acres were surveyed to him in what is now Richland township, and, in 1703, twenty-six hundred acres were patented. This was the first land surveyed in this section of the county. and embraced neark ons half the area of the township. So highly was the land of the Great Swamp esteemed, by those who managed Penn's interest in the Province, it was selected for the location of one of the Proprietary's man- ors. In March, 1703. James Logan directed Thomas Fairman and David Powell, surveyors, who were about to make a journey to this section, "to lay ont either in one or two tracts, as it shall best suit the place, ten thousand acres of good land under certain bounds and certain marked lines and courses, for the Proprietary." The tract laid off under these instructions was called the "Manor of Richland." In 1738 Thomas Penn estimated these lands to be worth £15 per hundred acres. By virtue of a warrant of September 1. 1700. five hundred acres were directed to be laid off, in this and every other town- shiv of five thousand acres, or more, that should be surveyed to the Pro- prietary, and in 1733 Thomas Penn directed his Surveyor-General, Benjamin Eastburn, to inquire about this reservation in Richland. Of the result of the inquiry we are not informed. It is not certain that Griffith Jones ever became a resident of the township, but probably he did not.
Peter Lester, or Leicester, of Leicestershire, England, is thought to have been the first actual settler in Richland. He came to Chester in 1682, was mar- ried here to Mary Duncof, in 1685, and in 1716, with wife and children became a member of Gwynedd monthly meeting. "having already settled in the Great Swamp." He settled below Quakertown and six or seven generations of the family have lived and died in the township. His first location was on land now, or lately, owned by Sammel Getman, but in a few years he remove !! to the upper part of Quakertown where his descendants now live. If Peter Lester were the first actual settler. Abraham Griffith, of Byberry, could not have lien lag behind him. He married a daughter of Lester in 1708, and. shortly after removed to the southern part of the township where. the same vear, be parchased that part of Griffith Jones's tract known as the "bog." an ! on it erected a shelter beneath a leaning rock. In this rude dwelling was born the first white child in the settlement, a son, named after the father.
Elward Fonlke, the first of the name in Pennsylvania, and among the earliest setttlers in Richland, was born in North Wales, Great Britain, the 13th
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of July, 165t. He was the son of Thomas Foulke, who descended through twelve generations from Lord Penllyn, married Eleanor, daughter of Hugh Cadwallader, and had nine children. Thomas, Hugh, Cadwallader, Evan, Gwently, Grace, Jane. Catharine and Margaret. He came to America with his family, in 1698, landing at Philadelphia the 17th of July. He bought seven hundred acres in Gwynedd township, Montgomery county, where he settled the following November, with a number of other immigrants who came about the same time. His second son, Hugh, born 1685. on his marriage in 1713 re- moved to Richland and settled in the neighborhood of Quakertown. Numerous descendants of Edward Foulke are living in this and adjoining counties and states, among which, in the past, was the late Benjamin Gi. Foulke, of Quaker- town. The family has always been one of consideration and influence, and several of its members have occupied responsible positions of public trust. Thomas Foulke, son of Edward, son of Hugh, died 1786 at the age of sixty-three, and his daughter Jane, the widow of Thomas, died June, 1822, at the age of ninety- three. The Foulkes are members of the Society of Friends. ( See Foulke family, vol. iii. )
Between 1710 and 1716 a number of settlers came into the township and took up land, of which we can name the following : In 1714 one hundred acres were granted to James MeVeagh, or Melaugh, convenient for building a mill, at one shilling quit-rent, and one thousand
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· to Morris Morris, "at or near the tract called Great Swamp in Bucks county," in 1715 two hundred acres to John Moore, and the same quantity to John Morris, of Shackamaxon, March, 1706, and twm hundred and fifty acres to Michael Atkinson, adjoining Moore, and three hundred and fifty acres to Michael Lightcap in two tracts, one of one hundred and fifty acres, between Edward Roberts' and Thomas Nixon's land, and the other of two hundred acres on the west side of Arthur Jones's land. These tracts were not confirmed to Lightcap until 1732-33.
In the spring of 1716 Edward Roberts, with his wife, Mary and daughter. and all their worklly goods, came up through the woods from Byberry on horseback, and located the property lately owned In Stephen Foulke. He was married, in 1711, to a daughter of Everard and Elizabeth Bolton, who im- migrated from England, and settled at Cheltenham, in 1682, where she was born November 4. 168 ;. They had seven children two of the daughters mar- rying Foulkes. The ancestry of the Boltons is traced back to the Lord of Bolton, the lineal representative of the Saxon Earls of Murcia. The late Ex-Judge Roberts of Doylestown, was a descendant of Edward Roberts. The wife of Edward Roberts was taken sick with small-pox soon after their arrival Ди игд ковечу in Richland, and he was obliged to re- turn with her to Gwynedd, the nearest settlement where she could be properly nursed. On her recovery and their return to Richland, he created a temporary shelter of back against some of the large trees that covered the ground, until he was able to build a more comfort- able dwelling place. In this they lived until 1728, when he built the south-east end of the dwelling lately taken down by Stephen Foulke. At that time there were several Indian wigwams on the creek, and shad were caught close to his door. Among the earliest settlers im Richland, were William Nixon, born in toNo and died in 17.5. Thomas Lancaster, who owned four hundred acres in the township, which were divided among his children at his death, in 1751. when
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returning from a missionary visit to the island of Barbadoes, and Samuel Thomas, born in 1095, and died in 1755, an elder in the Richland meeting. Hugh Foulke, born in 1085. and died in 1760, purchased three hundred and thirteen and a half acres, surveyed to him on a verbal order of the Proprie- tary. He was in the ministry forty years. John Edwards came with his wife, Mary, and their children from Abington. Their son William became a promi- nent minister among Friends, dying in 1764, at the age of sixty-two. His wife was Martha Foulke, likewise an accepted minister, who was appointed an elder in the Richland meeting 1745, the first woman who held that position. After the death of her husband she married John Roberts in 1771, and died in 1781, in her sixty-fifth year. Among the large tracts taken up in the township were, one thousand acres by James Logan, three thousand in two tracts by Joseph Growden, one thousand by a man named Pike, a large tract by Joseph Gilbert, and five hundred acres by George MeCall, adjoining lands of James Logan. These large tracts were sold to actual settlers, and, in a few years, the bulk of them had passed from the possession of the original owners. Al- though the manor was called "Richland." it was only partly in this township.
About 1,30 there was an additional influx of settlers to the neighborhood of Quakertown, a few of them Germans, John Adamson, Arnold Heacock, John Phillips, William Morris, Joshua Richardson. William Jamison, Edmund Phillips, John Paul. John Edwards, Arthur Jones and others. John Klemmer was in the township as early as 1730, and in 1738-39. he was the owner of land. George Bachman bought two hundred and thirty-four acres in 1737, and Ber- nard Steinback tock up fifty acres, in 1742. In 1737 John Bond located two hundred and fifty acres, and, about the same time. Casper Wister. of Phila- delphia, purchased one tract in Richland, and another on the south bank of the Lehigh. Grace Growden was the owner of five hundred and twenty-five acres, which she received from her father's estate, and sold. 1785, but its lo- cation we do not know.
Benjamin Gilbert, son of Joseph and Rachel Gilbert. of Byberry, Phila- delrhin. removed to Richland about 1735. where he remained until 1;40. when he went to Makefield, and back again to Byberry, in 1755. The life of Mr. Gilbert had an unfortunate termination. In 1775. at the age of sixty- four. he removed with his family to Mahoning creek, a frontier settlement then in Northampton county, where he erected saw and grist-mills and carried on an extensive and prosperous business. In ITSo a party of hostile Indians burned his buildings and carried himself and family prisoners to Canada. He died while going down the St. Lawrence, but his wife and children. after suffering many hardships, returned to Byberry in 1782 where his widow died in ISIO. Mr. Gilbert was an author of some merit, and wrote and published several works on religious subjects.
The ancestor of Tames C. Iden. Inte of Buckingham, was an early settler in the "Dog" of Richland. Randall Iden. the great-grandfather of Fame. C. was born in Bristol harbor. England, on shipheard about 1684 or 1686, on the eve of the family sailing for America. The father died on the voyage, leaving a widow with nine children. On their arrival in the Delaware, or soon after. the mother and two youngest children went to live at Joseph Kirkbride's. The youngest son. Randall, married Margaret Greenfield who was brought up at Kirkbride's. but removed to Richland where he spent his life. raised a finih of children, and died at a good old age. In 1816 his grandson Samuel, the father of Tomes C., removed to Buckingham where he died. Samuel was a son of Randal (3) who married Eleanor Foulke.
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Although the township was not laid out and organized by the court until the fall of 1734, it had a quasi existence for municipal purposes several years libre. The earliest mention of it, even for this purpose, was in 1729, when the inhabitants of "Rich lands" township petitioned the court to have a road "laid cat from the upper part of said township, near a creek called Sacking, or Sucking. ( Saucon) to the place where the Quaker meeting-house is building, and from thence to the end of Abraham Griffith's lane." In 1730. thirty-two of the inhabitants of "Rich lands," one-half of whom were Germans, namely : Flugh fouthe Hugh Foulke. John Lester, John Adamson, Arnall Hancocks. John Phillips, George Phillips, jr., Will- iam Morris, Edward Roberts, Ar- thur Jones, William Nixon. John Ball, John Edwards, Thomas Roberts, Joshua Richards, William Jamison. Edmund Phillips, Johannes Bleiler, Michael Everhart, Joseph Everhart, Abraham Hill, Johannes Landis, Jacob Klein, John Jacob Klemmer. Jacob Musselman, Jacob Sutar, Peter Cutz, Jacob Drissel, Henry Walp. Samuel Yoder. George Hix, John Jacob Zeits, and Heinrich Dit- terly. petitioned for a road "from the new meeting-house to the county line near William Thomas's, in order to go to Philadelphia by the Montgomery nad." Before this road was opened the nearest way for the inhabitants of Richland to go to Philadelphia was round by the York road, which they say "is marshy, the ground not fitting for carts or loaded horses." As the "Great Swamp" was an objective point in Richland, the following reference to addi- tonal locations of lands thereabouts, and kindred matters will be of interest.
April 9, 1720. John Leatherbe, who had begun to build a mill on a branch of the Tohicken, near the Great Swamp, by permission of some of the inhabi- taris, now desired a grant of land ; December 22, same year, Christian Alle- laugh desired to purchase one hundred and fifty acres, the inhabitants being desirous he shoukl settle there, being a good weaver by trade. January 13. 1;24-5. Duke Jackson, a whip maker, requests the grant of one hundred acres. having pitched on a spot called "Chestnut Hill." He must have settled there .. as he was a petitioner for township organization, in 1734; February 6, 1718. a warrant for three hundred acres was granted to Peter Wischart : Edward Rob- etts' warrant for survey was issued Jaimary 12. 1715-16, and the patent granted November 21, 1716. February 14. 1737, a patent was issued to John George Pachman for three hundred and thirty-four acres : Benjamin Seigle, carpenter. Lower Milford, purchased a tract May 26. 1760, and settled on it. He was 2 member of the "Committee of Safety," during the Revolution, and was liv- ing. 1793. One of his sons was the founder of the village of Seigletown. New Jersey, in the Musconeteong Valley near Finesville, where members of the family still live. It is recorded in Col. Records, Vol. Xl. page 403. that on April to. 1778. an order was drawn on the treasurer in favor of Joseph Carson. for the sum of 19.043. Jos, the balance due him for a quantity of woolens seized by the council in the "Great Swamp." in the county of Bucks, and to be applied to the clothing of the Continental troops.
The first movement toward a township organization was in September. 1,34. when Peter Lester. Duke Jackson, Lawrence Growden, not a resident. John Ball, George Hvat. John Phillips. Edward Roberts, John Lester and Thomas Head, petitioned the court "to lay out a township by the name of "Richland." " 'the metes and hounds given make it five and a half miles from north to south, and four and a half from east to west. The court, which con- firmed the first survey of Lower Milford, about this time, ordered the lines if
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Richland to be run according to that survey where the two townships touch. On the draft returned into court were marked the following real estate own- ers : Joseph Gilbert, James Logan, Joseph Pike, Lawrence Growden, Griffith Jones. Michael Lightfoot, Samuel Pierson, and Henry Taylor, but there were others. The land of Griffith Jones, at this time, comprised more than one-fifth of the township.
A meeting for worship was held at the house of Peter Lester, several years before the Gwynedd monthly granted the Richland preparative meeting. about 1721 or 1723. when a small meeting-house was erected a mile below Quakertown, on the property lately belonging to William Shaw. The increase of Friends made a larger house necessary, and, in 1729. a lot was purchased in the middle of the settlement, on which a new meeting-house was built. The Swamp Friends wanted a stone one, but the monthly meeting advised that it
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be built of wood. as more consistent with their means. A monthly meeting was .established in 1742.2 In 1744 Saucon Friends were granted permission to hold! meetings for worship, and, Springfield 1745, Richland being the mother meet- ing: and in 1746, or 1747. Abraham Griffth, Samuel Thomas and Lewis Lewis, were appointed to assist the Friends of Springfield to select a plats for building a meeting-house. An addition was built to the Richland meet- ing-house, in 1749. the sun required being raised by thirty-eight subscriber -. among which we find the names of William Logan, and Israel Pemberte P. Jr., both land owners but non-residents. In 1762 an addition, twenty by twen- ty-six feet, was added to the north end, money being borrowed to complete it. and there was a further addition in 1705, leaving the house substantially as we now see it. Among those most active in religious matters, from the first (-
2 At Richland meeting was organized the first society for maintaining friendly re'. tions with the Red men, called "Ye Friendly Association for Regaining and Preserva: : Peace with Ye Indhans." It was maintained unt !! the peace of 1750, and during this !.. period of frontier wars peaceful relations were maintained by the two faces.
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tablishment of the meeting, we find the names of Foulke, Roberts, Moore, Ball,. Shaw, Iden. Ritter and Dennis. The Foulke family has furnished six ellers, six clerks, and two accepted ministers. In 1781 a meeting was held at the Mil- ford school-house, once in three weeks. In 1786 the monthly meeting was transferred to Abington quarterly. In 1781, eleven of the leading members of the Richland meeting, viz : Samuel Foulke, James Chapman, Thomas Edwards, Enoch Roberts, Everard Foulke, Thomas Thomas, John Thomas, John Foulke, Thomas Foulke, John Lester and William Edwards, were disowned for sub- scribing the oath of allegiance to the colonies, but the yearly meeting failing to omeur, most of them retained their membership. The same year, Elizabeth Potts was disowned for holling slaves. The first marriage in the monthly meeting took place September 24, 1743, between Samuel Foulke and Annie Greasly, The earliest certificate of marriage in this section, is that of Will- iam Edwards, of Milford, and Martha, daughter of Hugh Foulke. October 4. 1738, and among the witnesses are the names of Edwards. Foulke. Roberts, Griffith, Lester, Ball and others well known in this section." We are told. that during the Revolution the men about Quakertown organized themselves into a company to enter the patriot service, and used to meet to drill under the large oak tree that stands near the Friends' meeting-house.
The Matts family, Richland-the original name being Metz, then changed to Matz, and afterwards to the present spelling-is descended from John Michael Metz, who was born in the city of Metz, Germany, 1750, and came to Philadelphia before 1700. He learned the trade of tanner and currier with one Mlibone, and married Barbara Fayman. During the Revolution he was im- pressed into the American army, and was at the battle of Germantown. After the battle he was engaged in finishing leather for knapsacks, at Allentown. Of his seven children, two sons and three daughters die young. Sarah and John living to between eighty and ninety. In 1798 John Michael Metz settled in Springfield township. and in 1800 removed to Richland, four miles northeast of Quakertown, where he followed tanning to his death, in 1813. at the age of sixty-three. His sister Sarah married and removed to Northampton county. On the death of the father the son. John Matts, came into possession of the property, where he followed the same trade to his death, January 14. 1875, at the age of eighty-nine. He was a man of considerable prominence, and in 1524 was elected to the Legislature, serving four sessions. He was likewise colonel of militia. He left ten children, seven sons and three daughters. right of whom were married and had families. Four of the sons were lately bring in Wisconsin, une daughter in lowa, and another in Kansas. Elias 11. Matts, the fourth son, lived at the ohl homestead. The children married into the families of Flick. Dickson, Hartzell, Uttley, Erdman, Dunkel. Anthony and Servates, of this county and elsewhere.
Jacob Strawn, or Strawhen, ancestor of the family of this name in Rich- land, was born in Middletown, 1710, where his father, Launcelot Strawhen.
3 Gilbert Cope, of West Chester, wrote ne: "I have note of the marriage of Thomas Heed. of Solebury, widower, and Diana Hulings, of Richland, widow. 1. 20, 1730-31, at Richland meeting, and among the witnesses are the names of Abraham Griffith, Hannah Griffith, Patience Phillips, John Heed. George Phillips, John Griffith. Abraham Griffith, Jr .. Duke Jackson, Peter Ball. Jr. Deborah Phillips, Katherine Ball et al. Edward Plullips, of Richland. and Elizabeth Davis, of Montgomery, were married. 2. 25. 1720, at Gwynedd meeting, and, among the witnesses were George and Patience Phillips, John and Mary Davis, John and George Phillips, David Davies, Abraham Griffith. Arnold Hancock, et al.
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died 1720. His mother was Mary, second daughter of William Buckman, Sus- sex, England, who arrived in the Welcome, 1682. Mary Buckman's first hus- band was Henry Cooper, Newtown, and married Launcelot Strawhen prior to 1716, for which she was disowned by the Society of Friends. Jacob Strawn married Christina Pureellt (mentioned in the Richland meeting records as ."Staunchy") 1741 and removed to Richland where he became useful and prominent and a large land holder. They had nine sons and seven daughters : Thomas born 1742, John 1744, Jacob 1747. William 1749. Daniel 1752, Han- nah 1756. married John White; Isaiah 1758. Job 1760, Jerusha 1762, married Jeremiah Reed; Abel 1705. Enoch 1768, who intermarried with families of Heacock, Dennis, VanBuskirk, Van Horn, Roudenbush, Purcell. Moore and others. John married Keziah Dennis, and removed to Westmoreland county, and later to Kentucky. He was the father of nineteen children .? When William Buckman was candidate for sheriff. 1766, about sixty young new members of the Strawn family and their friends came down to the election at Newtown to vote for him and stayed with him all night. Some of the children of Jacob and Christina settled in Haycock.
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