HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.
 

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CHAPTER   II.
 

ENGLISH IMMIGKANTS CONTINUE TO AEEIVE ON THE DELAWARE.
 

lera  to  issi.
 

English settlers arrive.—Samuel Bliss.—Danker and Sluyter.—Lyonel Britton.—
Samuel Clift.—William Warner.—Arrival of English ships direct.—William
Dungan.—Liquor sold without license.—William Biles.—Settlement of east bank
of Delaware.—Fort Nassau.—Division of New Jersey.—Settlers arrive.—London
and Yorkshire companies.—Settlement of Burlington.—Chygoe's island.—Arri¬
val of the Shields.—Benjamin Duffield.—Thomas Budd.—Mahlon Stacy.—His
account of the country.—William Trent.—Professor Kalm's account of Trenton.
 

The west bank of the Delaware grew more and more into favor
and notice, and immigrants came to it. There were several grants
of land by Sir Edmund Andros in 1679, among which were two
hundred acres to Thomas Fairman in Bensalem, below Neshaminy,
and three hundred and nine to William Clark on the same stream.
In the summer and fall of 1679 and spring of 1680 several English
settlers took up land on the river bank, just below the falls; John
Ackerinan and son, three hundred and nine acres; Thomas Sebeley,«
one hundred and live ; Robert Scoley, two hundred and six ; Gil¬
bert Wheeler, a fruiterer of London, and arrived with wife, children
and servants in the Jacob and Mary, September 12th, two hundred
and five, including an island in the river ; William Biles, three
hundred and nine acres, from Dorchester, in county Dorcet, arrived

1 Probably a misspelling.