HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.
 

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CHAPTER   IX.
 

BRISTOL.
 

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Interesting township.—Was only sea-port in county,—Original name.—Present name
appears.—Richard Noble.—Reverend Thomas Dungan.—Cold Spring.—Elias
Keach.—His history.—Thomas Dungan's descendants.—Samuel Carpenter.—
Bristol mill.—Bristol island meadows.—Fairview and Belle meadow farms.—
Captain John Clark.—Ferry to Burlington.—Act to improve navigation of Ne¬
shaminy.—Bessonett's rope ferry.—Line of stages.—The Taylor family.—Anthony
Taylor.—Anthony Newbold.—Bristol college.—Captain John Green.—Bath
springs.—Pigeon swamp.—The ''Mystic well."—Daniel Boone.—William Stew¬
art his schoolmate.—Bolton farm.—Landredth's seed-farm.—Hellings's fruit
establishment.—Newport ville.—Beta Bodger.—Surface, area, population.
 

Bristol, next to Falls, is the most interesting township in the
county, and it played a leading part at the settlement of the i)rovince,
In it was located our first county-seat, where justice was administered
for forty years. Then, as now, it contained the only sea-port in the
countv, where many of the earlv immigrants landed, either comino-
up the river in boats or crossing over from Burlington, where some
of the ships discharged their living cargoes. As there was sufficient
depth of water, very likely some of the smaller vessels landed their
passengers on the bank at Bristol.

In the report of the jury fixing the boundaries of the five town¬
ships laid out in  1692, Bristol is located ''below  Pennsburv," and