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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY,
 

CHAPTER  VIII.
 

MAKEFIELD
 

169S.
 

First named in report.—Origin of name.—Macclesfield.—Falls of Delaware objective
point.—Order of settlers on river.—William Yardley's tract.—Richard Hough.—
Old marriage certificate.—Briggs family ; Stockton; Mead.—Friends meeting.
—Old graveyard.—Two Makefields one.—Daniel Clark.—Livezey family.—
Three brothers Slack.—Reverend Elijah and General James Slack.—Edgewood.—
Dolington.—Yardleyville.—First store-house.—Wheat Sheaf—First lock-tender.
—Negro killed.—Yardleyville of to-day.—Stone quarries.—Oak Grove scnool-
house.—Area of township.—Taxes and population.

Makefield is the first township named in the report of the jury
that subdivided the county in 1692. We give it the second place
in our work because Falls is justly entitled to the first. It was the
uppermost of the four river townships, and not only embraced what
is now Lower Makefield, bnt extended to the uttermost bounds of
civilization. All beyond w^as then an "undiscovered country,"
whose exploration and settlement were left to adventurous pioneers.
Lower Makefield is bounded, on the land side, by Falls, Newtown
and Upper Makefield, and has a frontage of five miles on the Dela¬
ware.