HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.
 

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CHAPTER  Xr.
 

M I D D LETOWN
 

leas.
 

Original name.—Nicholas Walne.—Richard Amer.—John Cutler.—John Eastburn.
—Thomas Janney.—Simon Gillam.—Great mixing of blood.—William Huddles-
ton.—Abraham and Christopher Vanhorne.—Joseph Richardson.—The Jenks
family.—MiddletoAvn meeting.—Story of Lady Jenks.—Jeremiah Langhorne.—
Attleborough.—Four Lanes Ends.—Joshua Richardson.—High-school built.—
Hulmeville.—John Hulme.—Josiah Quincy.—Original name of village.—Mill
built.—Industrial establishments.—Oxford Valley.—Origin of name.—Early
mills.—Early roads.—Peter Peterson Vanhorne.—Taxables.—Population.—
Death of Robert Skirm and wife.—Farley.—Tne inhabitants farmers.
 

Middletown is the last of the original townships. In the report
of the jury that erected it, it is designated, ''the middle township"
of the group, but was frequently called "Middle Lots," down to
1703, and "jMiddle township" as late as 1724. Gradually it came
to be called by the name it bears.

A few of the original settlers i came in the Welcome, with Wil-

1 Land-owners in Middletown in 1684: Walter Bridgeman, Thomas Constable,
widow Crosdale, Robert Holdgate, Alexander Biles, widow Bond, Robert Heaton,
Thomas Stackhouse, jr., Thomas Stackhouse, James Dilworth, widow Huest, Richard
Thatcher, John Scarborow (Scarborough), Nicholas Walne, Jonathan Towne, Joshua
Boar, Thomas Marie, William Paxson, James Paxson, Jonathan Fleckne, AVilliam
Brian, Robert Carter, Francis Dove, Henry Paxson, William Wiggin and Edward
Samway.

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