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BRISTOL .- Contains only sca-port, 127, Boundaries, original name, settled by Friends, first settlers, Richard Noble, Thomas Holme owns land in township, Daniel Pegg, 128; Reverend Thomas Dungan, Welsh Baptists, Cold spring, Elias Keach, Samuel Joncs, 129; The Dungan family, Samuel Carpenter, Bristol mills built, 130; Mill pond, Carpenter removes to Bristol, his wealth, etc., Bristol island meadows, Burden island, Bela Badger, Captain John Clark, 131; Ferry to Burlington, navigation of Neshaminy, floating bridge, Charles Bessonett, stages to New York, 132; Bristol college, An- dreas Evarandus, Van Braam Honch-
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gust, Captain John Green, Captain Alden Partridge, military hospital, Bath springs, 133; Visitors to springs, Pigeon swamp, company to drain it, Biding's and Green's swamps, 134; Mystic well, Daniel B. Taylor, anal- ysis of water, Daniel Boone, 135; The Boone family, Willian Stewart, Sam- uel Taylor, Anthony Taylor, Caleb Newbold, 136; Caleb N. Taylor, Mi- chael Newbold, Anthony Morris, ag- ricultural school, Morris graveyard, Pemberton and Wigan farms, Lan- dredth & Son, 137; Seed establishment, Bela Badger as a sportsman, match against Eclipse, Newportville and situ- ation, 138; Good soil and well-watered, tobacco raising, area, taxables and assessments, 139; Population at periods, shad fisheries and value, 140.
BENSALEM .- Origin of name, 141-42; Tatham's house, the Forest tract, Joseph Growden, his residence, etc., 143; David Lloyd, Grace Growden, Nathaniel Allen, his land adjoins Growden, Samuel Allen, 144; Dispo- sition of estate, the Vandygrifts, Rod- mans, Willetts, etc., later settlers, four brothers Vandygrift settle in Bensalem, old graveyard, 145; Garret and Cor- nelius Vansant, the Vanhornes, John Tomlinson and his diary, Doctor John Rodman, 146; Flushing, William and Gilbert Rodman, 147; Joseph Gallo- way, was active patriot, joins British army, estate confiscated, restored to heirs and sold, Trevose, 148; Richard Gibbs, settles in Bensalem, elected sheriff, Eddington, James Benezett, 149, Augustin Willett, officer in Revo- lution, Philip Sickel, his son settles in Bensalem, Horatio G. Sickel, 150; Richard Bache settles in township, son Louis, Franklin's watch, Andalusia, the Biddle family, John Craig, 151; Nicholas Biddle and character, Dunk's ferry, old slave woman, 153; Road tax, Presbyterian church founded, Paulus Van Vleck first pastor, 154; Elders and members, Jan Banch and Johan Blacker, 155; Van Vleck dis- missed, Six-mile run, Maligus Sims, William Tennent, James Boyd, Doc- tor Burdett, 156; Methodist church, house built, etc., villages of Bensa- lem, Andalusia college, Doctor Wil- liam Chapman, 157; Mrs. Chapman and Mina, 158; Local roads, taverns, 159 ; Area and population, 160.
BUCKINGHAM .- The empire township, 267 ; Lahaska and the mountain, sur- face and soil, area, name, 268; Called New Buckingham, settlers and sur-
veys, grain and flour supply, Amor Preston, 269 ; About the Preston family, 270 ; James Streater, Richard Parsons, Richard Lunday, 271; The West and Reynolds tracts, Robert Smith, 272; William Smith early limeburner, the Cider apple, Samuel Smith, 273; Thomas Canby, William Cooper and descendants, 274 ; James Cooper and family; The Byes, 275 ; Edward Hart- ley, Isaac Duow, the Paxsons, 276 ; The Watson family, 277 ; John Wat- son, the Fells, 278; Jesse Fell burns hard coal in a grate, the Carvers, 279; Meeting, and meeting-house built, 280 ; Revolutionary hospital, meeting de- clares against whiskey and war, births, deaths, etc., 281; Ann Moore, yellow fever, early boundary, 282; Old map, the Idens, 283; Doctor John Wilson and character, 284; Schools and school fund, Tyro hall, 285; Amos Austin Hughes, Hughesian free school, Jus- tice Cox, Doctor Cernea, 286; Library, nail factory, Samuel Hanin, 287 ; Big Ben, General John Lacey, 288; Burn- ing lime with coal, Centreville, Green- ville and "Grintown," 289 ; Lahaska, taxes, and population, 290; Caves and sink holes, Large's pond, Grintown pond, 291; Mount Gilead church, William Simpson, James Simpson, the preacher, 292; James Simpson and de- scendants, 293; Edmund Kinsey, wild pigeon catching, 293.
BRISTOL BOROUGH .- Oldest town in the county, 339; The site, incorporated, .340; The charter, annual fairs, in 1708, Graydon's account, first county-seat, old court-house, 342; Friends' meeting, Episcopalians, the Burtons, 343; The DeNormandies, 344; Charles Bessonett, stage line, early inn, Ennion Williams, Willis house, 345; Troops pass through, attack of British, James Thornton, 346; Industrial establishments, churches, Captain Webb, early Methodists, 347 ; Catholic, Presbyterian and Baptist con- gregations, beneficial societies, 348; Schools, library, Farmers' bank, canal began and opened, 349; Artesian well, old tombstone, home for aged gentle- women, 351; An early watering-place, Bela Badger, races, taxation and popu- lation, 352; Post-office, 353 ; The Black bear, 841; The Buck, 841.
BETHLEHEM .- Moravians purchase land, 594 ; Allen tract, Trout hall, David Nitschmann and immigrants, first house, 595 ; More commodious building erec- ted, Count Zinzendorf, his arrival, set- tlement named, Martin Mack, 596; Church organized, population of com-
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munity in 1742, congregation house and other buildings erected, David Bruce, Mill built, water-works, 597; Henry Antes, brick and tile factory, silk- worms, Gnadenhutten, Nain, Indian converts, a frontier settlement in 1756, population in 1751, 598 ; Shad-fishery, the community system, Moravian dis- cipline, Bishop Watteville, cultivation of music, 599; First harvest gathered, ferry established, the Moravians and education, petition for township, 600 ; Granted and laid out, Thomas Græme, John Jones, Doctor Matthew Otto, the Sun inn, 601; Its guests, Spangenberg, William Edwards, Jasper Payne, 602; John Christopher Pyrlaeus, Timothy Horsfield, 603.
BEDMINSTER .- Its location, William Al- len large land-owner, 548; Deep run tract, lands open for settlement, John Hough, et al., Scotch-Irish first settlers, Presbyterian congregation formed, in- habitants of graveyard, 549; Reverend Francis McHenry, the Griers, John Fer- guson Grier, 550 ; Humphrey and John Orr, the South Carolina Orrs, 551; James L. Orr and his public career, 552; Thomas Darrah and descendants, the Armstrong family, 554; Jacob Wismer, his great age, death and de- scendants, Adam Resher, Samuel Ayres settles on Deep run, his descendants, F. A. Comly, township organized, petiti- oners, area, German settlers, Mennonite congregation organized, 556 ; Churches built, ministers and deacons, a schism, 557; Old stone meeting-house, the Eckels, 558; Tohickon church, first pastor, 559; graveyard and occupants, Keller's church, John Peter Keichline, 560 ; George Piper, Piper's tavern, 561; Roads, the Scheetz family, 562 ; Early mills in Bedminster, peaches and pig- eons, Pipersville, Dublin, 563; Post- offices, area, population, Mrs. Agnes Darrah, map of upper end, 564. C.
Company, Dutch East-India, 18; Com- pany, West-India, 19; Charles I., 19; Claybourn, 20; Christiana creck, 21; Campanius, 21; Charles II., 25; Clae- sen, Andries, 25; Carrc, Sir Robert, 25; Circulating medium, 29; Cooper, Paerde, 30 ; Cock, Lawrence, 30; Cant- well, Sheriff, 31; Cock, Otto Earnest, 31; Crozier, Robert, 31; Catholic, the first, 38; Clift, Samuel, 38, 130; Cold spring, 40; Carteret, Sir George, 41; Companies, London and Yorkshire, 41 ; Cobb's creek, 49 ; Commissioners to buy land, 55; Crispin, William, 55; Crispin, Silas, 56; Clows, John, 57, 81 ; Catho-
lic, Irish, 61; Croasdale, Thomas, 67 ; Condition of country when Penn arriv- ed, 68; Counties, Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, 74; Cattle, earmarks of, 75; Do., owners of, 77; Charlesworth, Sarah, 82; Cutler, Edward, 83 ; Choptank, 85 ; Creek, Welcome, 92 ; Charity, 96; Cro- ziers, the, 109; Carpenter, Samuel, 130; Colton, Reverend Chauncey, 133; Cheeseman, Joshua, 182; Charity of William Penn, 184; Cornbury, Lord, 189; Callowhill, Thomas, 199; Church, Southampton Baptist, 206, 329, 331 ; Do., Davisville, 206; Do., Low Dutch Reformed, 207; Crittenden, John J., 235; Count Louis, 241; Chapman, John, 252; Cooper, the novelist, 275; Coal first burnt in grate, 279 ; Church, Saint James' Episcopal, history of, 320 ; Do., Neshaminy, 326-29 ; Do., Deep Run, 331-33; Do., Newtown Presbyterian, 333-36; Carlisle, Hugh, 333; Camp- bell, James, 334; Church, New Britain Baptist, 336-38; Names of pastors, do., 338 ; Cooper, Jeremiah, 482; Coun- cil, report of, concerning complaints of Indians, 496 ; Chapman family, tes- timony of, 494-95 ; Creek, Towsisnick, 495; Church, Tinicum Presbyterian, 508; Church, the Brick, 509 ; Church, Nockamixon, 543; Comly, F. A., 555; Church, Mennonite, Bedmins- ter ; 556; Do., Deep Run, 549 ; Carbon county, 607; Continental army, 621 ; Crosses the Delaware, 624; Condition, in suffering, 625; Where encamped, 626 ; Crosses the river for Trenton, 630 ; Marches through Bucks county, 633; Do., 635; Camp, flying, 623; Cam- paign of 1776 disastrous, 624; Cadwal- ader, General, 625; Chapman mansion, 627; Crooked-Billet, battle of, 635; County-treasury, robbery of, 636; Con- fiscations, 638; Church, Durham Pres- byterian, 655; Clymer, George, 659 ;- Coryell, Lewis S., 684-85; Stanhope, 701; Courts, early, 721; Cattle, ear- marks of, 722; Common pleas courts, 723; County seal, 726; Chapman, Henry, 727; Chapman, Abraham, 728; Court- house built, 729; Location of, 730; County-seat at Bristol, 730; Do., re- moved to Newtown, 730; Do., removed to Doylestown, 732-33; County build- ings, 731-33 ; Carey, Asa, 731 ; County, division of, 733-34-35; County line road, 745; Cameron, Robert, 802; Coale, William B., 813; Cameron, Simon, 816; Church, E. F., 827 ; Crown inn, 833; Cross keys, 834; Civil war, Bucks - county, in 852-53; Chapman, Doctor William, 858; Coal arks, 865; Con- gressional district, carly, 871; Coal, 874-75; Cowell, Benjamin, 875.
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D.
Dongan, Governor, 19; Delaware, cap- tured by Dutch, 23; Duke of York, 25; Draufton, Edmund, 31, 722 ; Danker and Sluyter, 33, 786; Darke, Samuel, 38; Dungan, William, 40; Duffield, Ben- jamin, 44; Deeds, the oldest, at Doyles- town, 57; Delawares, remnant of, go west, 63; Davis, David, 83 ; Dillworth, James, 83; Delightful memories, 89; Dress, 98; Do. of William Penn, 184; Domestic life at Pennsbury, 185; Duf- field, Edward, 204; Davis, John, 204, 848 ; DuBois, Jonathan, 208 ; Dawson, John, 227; Drum, Doctor John H., 320 ; Dean, William, 326; Deep Run church, 331; DuBois, Uriah, 333; Davis, Wil- liam, 337 ; Dolington, 481; Deed, In- dian, of 1718, 491 ; Its terms, do .; Dar- rah, Thomas, 553 ; Dickinson, General, 625; Debatable ground, 634; Doanes, the, capture, death, etc., 637-38; Dur- ham, 640; Durham, Robert, 646; Doylestown, 664; Doylestown borough, 689; Durham road, 741; Darlington, H. T., 812; Democrat, Doylestown, 815 ; Democrat, Independent, 824; Delaware, floods in the, 864; Do., navigation of, 864-65; Durham boats, 865.
DURHAM .- Extreme north point of coun- ty, attracted early attention, 640; De- posit of iron, Shawonoe village, tracts surveyed, settlers in 1723, original tract, 641 ; First called Durham, early efforts for township, Robert Ellis, 642 ; Township organized, and names of pe- titioners, area, early roads, 643 ; Indian treaties, furnace tract, the purchasers, company formed, furnace built, first blast, 644; Date-stone, location of fur- nace, etc., mansion-house, James Back- house, laborers, 645; William Satterth- waite, Durham boats, Charles Reed, change of owners, dissolution of com- pany, 646; Richard Backhouse buys the furnace, Joseph Whittaker and suc- cessors, 647; George Taylor, cannon balls cast, great chain across the Hud- son, 648; Iron shipped to England, buildings in 1773, names of owners, the Fackenthalls, 649 ; John Pringle Jones, 650; General Daniel Morgan, 651; Durham cave, attempt to annex Dur- ham to Northampton, 652; Durham creek, Monroe, Rieglesville, 653-54; Churches, distilleries, Vigilant Horse company, 655; Population, 656.
DOYLESTOWN .- Early history merged in other townships, Walter Shewell, Pains- wick, 664 ; The Shewell family, the Merediths, 665; Thomas Meredith builds a castle, Doctor Hugh, Benjamin
Snodgrass, the Snodgrass family, David Johnson, Gabriel Swartzlander, 667 ; The Society lands, Jeremiah Lang- horne, the Kirkbride and Fell tracts, the Doyles, 668; Their descendants, removal of county-seat, township or- ganized, area, 669 ; The Mann family, Henry Brower and descendants, 670 ; Old school-house, Bridge Point, Doctor Samuel Moore, 671; Robert Patterson, 672 ; John Fitzinger, the Berings, the Turk, 673; Plat for county-seat, Castle valley bridge, Mennonite church, Cook's run, two oldest roads, 674; William Doyle, roads, house burned, population, 675.
DOYLESTOWN BOROUGH .- An important point, 689 ; Edward Doyle, early settler, negro Joe's land, began village-life, William Doyle asks for license, 690; License renewed, site of first tavern, known as Doyle's tavern, 691; Old Barndt tavern, funeral, Samuel Flack, earliest mention of Doylestown, 692; Dwellings in 1790, Charles Stewart's tavern, site well-wooded, 693 ; Septimus Evans, Ross mansion a hotel, Mansion house, dwellings in 1821, oldest build- ing, 694; Doylestown academy, lottery scheme, first principal of academy, first Sabbath-school, 695; DuBois family, Presbyterian church, 696; John L. Dick, typhus fever, Female Bible socie- ty, Doctor Andrews, et al., 697 ; Streets opened, land-owners, George Murray, Ingham Female seminary, 698; First newspaper, Pennsylvania Correspondent, town-lots sold, Fourth of July celebra- tion, war of 1812, 699; Borough incor- porated, the Harveys, 700 ; The Stew- arts, McIntoshes, Chapmans, church at Stanhope, 701; The Rosses, 702; The Foxes, Pughs, 703; Matthias Morris, Stephen Brock, William T. Rogers, 704.
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Evlin, Robert, 25; English capture the Delaware, 25; Edmundson, William, · 28; Evans, Governor, 36; Houses of the English, 37; Elsinborg, fort, 41; Eng- lish, 59; Election, the first, in Bucks, 65; East bank of the Delaware, set- tlements on, 41; Earmarks, registry of, 75, 76, 77; Ellot, Andrew, 80; Emlin institute, 226; Eaton, Joseph, 336; Easton, treaty of, 491; Erwin, Arthur, 504; Erwinna, 511; Easton, 591; Ewing, General, 624; English officer, death of, 631; Evans, Henry S., 694; Execution, the first, 724; Elections and election districts, 868-69; Educa- tion, 874.
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EASTON .- Land owned by Thomas Penn, David Martin, grant of ferry, town laid out in 1750, surveyed by Nicholas Scul and William Parsons, 591; Some ac- count of William Parsons, why named Easton, names of streets, first house erected, population in 1752, jail built, 592; Louis Gordon, court-house built, the Arndts, 593; First court, 608; Easton road, 743.
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Flour-mill, the first, 21 ; Fox, George, vis- its the Delaware, 27; Do., 44; Fairman, Thomas, 35; Forest, Walter, 36 ; Frank- ford mill, 49; Fitzwater Thomas, 66; First purchase, bounds of, 71; Friends, discipline of, 95; Do., on liquor, 835 ; Patriotic action of, 847; Politics of, 870-71; Funerals, liquors at, 95; Farming, etc., 98; Falls, 102; Foxes sent to England, 186 ; Fitch, John, 220; Finley, Samuel, 325; Free Society of Traders, 367, 788; Fries, John, 450; Furness, Thomas, 492; His account of Great Walk, 493; Ford, John Orr's, 503; Fisher, Peter S., 533; Forest, Captain, 630; Fox John, 703, 727.
FALLS .- Most interesting part of a county history, province subdivided, 100; Penn's reservations, first legal subdi- visions, overseers appointed, names of early townships, the council authorized townships, 101; Jury appointed to sub- divide Bucks, five townships formed, report of jury with bounds of townships, 102; Falls an interesting township, original settlers, 103; Settlers before Penn's arrival, William Biles, John Acreman, Richard Ridgway,et al., Har- rison and Pemberton, Friends worship at Burlington, 104; First meeting in Falls, meeting-house built, discipline strict, Ann Miller dealt with, 105; Charity, the manor, Mary Becket, 106; Ancient love-letter, the common, 107 ; Public burying-ground, earliest ferry, Kirkbride's do., first ferry act, 108; A fire, the Croziers, the Kirkbrides, 109; The Browns, General Brown, his birth- place, first commission, et al., 110 ; Gen- eral Brown's monument, Anna Lee, Manor Baptist church, 111; Falls li- brary, old graveyards, 112; Cooper homestead, trade in boards, Charles Ellet, jr., 113; Joseph White, an old swamp, Indianfield, 114; Township roads, Fallsington, Tullytown, Tyburn, 115; Surface of township and creeks, crows, Federal district, population, Biles's island, 117.
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Gloucester, 18; Gorsuch, Richard, 27; Garland, Captain John, 27; Grants of land, 30; Gooken, Governor, 34; Gloucester Point, 41 ; Grist-mills built, 45-6; Grist-mill, 49; Governor, Depu- ty, 54; Germans, 59; Immigration of, 59, 60; Greenway, Captain Robert, 64; Gilbert John, 67; Glossenberry, 83; Grove Place, 86; Growden Joseph, 88, 143; Galloway, Joseph, 88, 148, 638, 647; Great flood, 98; Gibbs, Richard, 149; Green, Captain, 320 ; Great Awak- ening, 323; Gales, Joseph, 331 ; Grier, James, 333; Graydon, Alexander, 342 ; Great Walk, 487-88, Head-line of, run, 489, The nature of, 490, Starting point of, 492; Gintner, George, 541; Grant, General, death of, 561; Gordon, Louis, 593; Greene, General, 624-26-27 ; Fords guarded, 625; Growden, Law- rence, 646; Griffith, A. M., 729 ; Gilky- son, James, 729.
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Hudson, Henry, 18; Hendrickson, Cap- tain, 18; Huguenots, 19; Hudde, An- dreas, 21; Herman, Ephraim, 30; Has- tings, Henry, 30; Hunter, Robert, 33; Hataorockon, 38; Harrison, James, 55, 85, 255; Holme, Thomas, appointed surveyor-general, 56; Harts, the, of War- minster, 56; Hollanders, 61 ; Harrison, Captain, 63; Hayhurst, Cuthbert, 66; Holme's map, 79; Haycock, Jolın, 80 ; Hough, Richard, 81, 472; Hough, John, 82; Hall, Jacob, 82 ; Hiscock, William, 83; Heathcote, George, 83-4; Hoops, Joshua, 87 ; Hay dust, 92 ; Hart, John, 96, 214; Honchgust, Andreas Evaran- dus Van Braam, 133; Hulme, John, 173; Hospitality of Penn, 184; House, Pennsbury, 192; Hatborough, 227 ; Harris, John, 234, 631 ; Hicks, Edward, 245; Historical churches, 319; Hes- sians, 335; Harding, Rachel, 362; Hilltown, 366; Horne, A. R., 467 ; High- lands, manor of, 472, 790 ; Heidelburg township, 527; Haycock, 610; Hart, Joseph, 622-23; Humpton, Colonel; 624; Hamilton, Alexander, 626-27; Hessians at Trenton, 629; Captured, 630, Prisoners at Newtown, 631; Abraham Hunt, 629; Hiester and Hart- ranft, Governors, 700; Harvey, Mary, drowned, 726; Hyde, Captain Thomas, 786; Heart, John, 821; Harrow tav- ern, 836; Hart, William H., 849; Humphrey, Thomas, 851; Hamilton, Andrew, 869 ; Horse companies, 875.
HILLTOWN .- Limit of Friends' settle- ment, 366 ; Free Society of Traders, the
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manors of Richlands and Perkasie, Israel Pemberton, 367 ; Reverend Wil- liam Thomas, Lower meeting-house, Evan Thomas, 368; John Vastine, or Van de Woestyne, 369; The Owen family, land taken up in 1720, 370; Henry Lewis, Jefferson Lewis, 371; The Morrises, Benjamin Morris, 372; William Lunn, 372; Hilltown organ- ized, origin of name, 373; German set- tlers, Nicholas Beringer, 374 ; Hilltown Baptist church, 375; Saint Peters' church, 376; German Lutheran and Reformed, 377 ; Line Lexington, Dub- lin, Leidytown, Mount Pleasant, roads, 378 ; Population, 379.
HAYCOCK .- Formed of "odds and ends," why organized, 610; John Anderson, Thomas and Patrick McCarty, Baptist congregation, old graveyard, Stokes family, 611; Joseph Dennis, Valentine Rohr, settlers on Bethlehem road, Wil- liam Strawn, Jacob Allem, 612 ; Petiti- oners for township in 1745, overseer of highways appointed, township organ- ized, petitioners, 613; Boundaries, origin of name, 614; Old gravestones, Methodist church removed, why erec- ted, the Applebachs, 615; Paul Apple- bach, Catholic settlers, Saint John's congregation, church built, Catholics in 1757, Reverend Theodore Schneider, 616; Early marriage and burial, Rev- erends Henry Stommel and Martin Walsh, missionary work, Piusfield and Marienstein, boarding school, 617; Reverend Samuel Stahr, Stony garden, 618; Roads, Applebachsville, 619; Population, 620.
I.
Island, Vurhulsten, 19, Stacies', 19, Bur- lington and Newbold's, 20, Moon's, 20-21, Tinicum, 21, Alricks', 24, Kipp's, 25, Burlington, 32, 33, 34, Chygoe, 43; Immigrants of 1681, 32, 40, 57 ; Indians, liquor sold to, 40, Ga- briel Thomas's account of, 62, Do., Proud, 62, Uneasy about intruders, 485, Dissatisfied with Walk, 489, Pro- voked at Thomas Penn, 492, First purchase from, 70, At Pennsbury, 185, 186; Ingals, Thomas, 66; Ingham, Sam- uel D., 301, 682 ; Irwin, Nathaniel, 329, 424-39; Intelligencer, Bucks County, 806, 812; Insurrection, whiskey, 844; Insti- tute, Doylestown Agricultural and Me- chanics', 857; Iron, 874.
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Jonksping, 21 ; Janzen, Claes, 25; Jegou, Peter, 27, 43; Jasper, Margaret,. 56 ; Janney, Thomas, 81; Jones, Ellis, 82;
Jones, Reverend Samuel, 129; John- son, Colonel William R., 138; Jenks, Thomas, 166 ; Jenks, Lady, 167; Jan- ney and Penn, 184; Johnston, Gov- ernor William F., 276; Jones, William E., 329; Jones, Samuel, 330; Jen- nings, Solomon, 486-96; Jones, Ed- ward, 638; Jones, John Pringle, 650 ; Jonson, Derrick, the case of, 724 ; Judg- ment by lot, 725; Jack, 799; James, Isaiah, 851.
K.
Kildorpy, 20; Kryger, Captain, 26 ; Kin- sey, John, 43; Kalm, Professor, 48; Kirkbride, Joseph, 67 ; Kirkbride, Col- onel Joseph, 68, 634 ; Knight, Ann, 81 ; Knight, Giles, 87; Knight, Doctor A. W., 87; Keith, George, schism of, 96; Keithian meeting, 97; Killingsworth, Thomas, 97; Keach, Reverend Elias, 129; Keith, Sir William, 435-36-37 ; Knowles', Joseph, account of Great Walk, 493 ; Kean, Eliza, 498 ; Kintner- ville, 546; Keichline, Peter, 561; Kidd, John, 622; Knox, General, 626- 27; Keith house, 627; Keith, Mrs., dream of, 631; Krause, David, 727 ; King's highway, 740 ; Kramer, Sam- uel R., 810 ; Kelley, James, 811; Keich- line's tavern, 838-39.
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Lawrensen, Peter, 19 ; Lenni Lenape, 21, 61; Lindstrom, Peter, 22; Lovelace, Governor, 27; Leasy point, 27, 43; Land tax, the first, 29; Labadists, the, 30; Land granted in Bucks county, 35: Lovett, Edmund, 40; Loe, Thomas, 52; Lucas, Robert, 55 ; Law that settles new countries, 58; Logan, James, 59, 180 : Lappawinsoe, 72; Land, conditions of purchase of, 73; Laws, sumptuary, 75; Lundy, Richard, 82; Langhorne, Thomas, 84; Letter-post established, 94; Langhorne, Jeremiah, 169; Liquors at Pennsbury, 180, On the Delaware, 832, General use of, 833; Lofty, Mary, 187; Longstreth, Bar- tholomew, 215; Longshore, Jolly, 241; Lacey, William, 256; Log college, 323-24 ; Lawrence, Daniel, 325 ; Lottery, Deep run, 332; Lottery, Newtown, 334; Lincoln, Heman, 338 ; London company, 472, 500, 791 ; Lon- don ferry, 511 ; Lacey, John, recruits a company, 621, At Doylestown, 634, At Crooked Billet, 635; Lafayette, General, 633-35, 857-58; Lewis, Thomas, 638 ; Law-suit, the first, 722; Lear, George, 729; Land reserved, 785; Large, William M., 811; Loeb, Moritz, 822.
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May, Cornelius Jacobson, 18; Minquas, 18; Morrisville, 19, 20, 657, Parade at, 851; Minuit, Peter, 21; Mattiniconk house, 33; Moenses, Hans, 49; Mills, the earliest, 49 ; Marriott, Isaac, 50 ; Mark- ham, William, 54, In New York, 54, Organizes the government, 55; Land of, conditions of purchase, 56; Mildway, Colonel, 80 ; Millcomb, Ann, 80; Mar- jorum, Henry, 80 ; Marriages at Penns- bury, 97, 186 ; Makefield, 102; Middle- town, 102, 161, Do. meeting, 168; Myers, Arnold, 177; Moravians, 205 ; Muhlenberg, Henry M., 209; Moore, Samuel Preston, 215; Martindale, Doc- tor John C., 231; Morris, Enos, 248, 372; Miller, Doctor, 325; McCrea, James, 325 ; McHenry Francis, 327, 332; Morris, John, 329; Montanye, Thomas B., 331 ; Magill, Hugh, 332; Martin Henry, 334 ; Morris, R. D., 335; Math- ews, Doctor Charles H., 383 ; Menno- nites, 391; McMicken, Charles, 420 ; Milford, 441, Do. "Rebellion," 451; Mc- Nair, James M.,475 ; Marshall, Edward, 487, 495; Do., Moses, 497; Milford, Upper, 514; Macungie, 524 ; Miller, Joel M., 553; Minisink, the, 581; Mount Bethel, 589 ; Moore, 591 ; Mag- raw, Colonel Robert, 623; Maxwell, General, 624 ; Monroe, James, 625 ; Moore, Captain James, 625 ; Merrick house, 627 ; McKean, Thomas, 648 ; Morgan, General Daniel, 650 ; Morris, Robert, 658 ; Meredith, Doctor Hugh, 666 ; Moore, Doctor Samuel, 672; Mur- ray, Joseph D., 686 ; Morris, Matthias, 704 ; Murder trial, the first, "24; Mc- Dowell, E. T., 729 ; Meeting-house, Neshaminy, 730; McMaster, John, 736; Moland, William, 737 ; Middle road, 747 ; Miner, Asher, 806 ; Morris, Ed- mund, 810; Mifflin, Benjamin, 816 ; Mills, Franklin S., 821 ; Martial spirit, 843; Militia organized, 844-45, Drafted, 846, Regiments, do., march to camp, 847 ; Macpherson, General, 845 ; Ma- gill, Captain William, 849 ; McClean, Alexander, 849 ; Mathews, Major C. H., 851; Mina, 859; Merino sheep mania, 863 ; Morus Multicaulis, 863-64. MAKEFIELD .- The first township named, Lower Makefield and bounds, 118; Origin of name, names of carly settlers and extents of tracts, William Yardley, 119 ; Richard Hough and children, old marriage certificate, the Briggses, and Kniglits, 120 ; The Stocktons, the Meads, Friends' meeting, meeting-house built, old graveyard, 121; Adam Hoops, the Livezey family, 122; The three brothers Slack, their descendants and
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