HISTOR Y OF B UCKS CO UNTY.                           163

fetch his family, but failed to come back.4 Thomas Stackhouse and
his son Thomas were the proprietors of a large tract in the lower
part of the township. Bichard Thatcher took up one thousand
acres, and Balph Ward and Philip Alford one hundred and twenty-five
acres each. Bobert Hall, whose name is not on Holme's map, bnt
was one of the earliest settlers, owned a tract that joined Bristol
township. Bobert Heaton, one of the earliest settlers, and a land¬
owner on Holme's map, built the first mill in the township. Its
exact situation is not know^n, but it probably stood on the Neshaminy
about where Comfort's mill is. He died in 1716.5 William Pax-
son's tract extended from near Attleborough back of Oxford. He
was a member of assembly in 1701. Among others who were
original settlers and land-owners were George and John White,
Francis Andrews, and Alexander Giles. Thomas Constable owned
a considerable tract in the upper part of the township, bordering on
Newtown. John Atkinson arrived in 1699, with a certificate from
Lancaster monthly meeting. Thomas Atkinson was an early settler,
but probably not until after Holme's map was made.

John Cutler, who made a re-survey of the county in 1702-3, was
an early settler in Middletown. He and his brother Edmund came
with William Wardle and James Mulineaux^ servants, from Wood-
house, in Yorkshire, in 1685, landing at Philadelphia the 31st of
October. In 1703 John married Margery, daughter of Cuthbert
Hayhurst, of Northampton, and had children, Elizabeth, Mary and
Benjamin. He was county-surveyor in 1702 ; laid out Bristol bor¬
ough in 1715 ; was coroner in 1719, and died in 1720. Jane,6 the
wife of his brother Edmund, died 4tli month, 9th, 1715. Amono*
the earliest settlers who came with children were : Nicholas and
Jane Walne, three, Thomas and Agnes Croasdale, six, Bobert and
Elizabeth Hall, two, James and Amw Dilworth, one, William and
Mary Paxson, one, James and Jane Paxson, two, Edmund and
Isabel Cutler, three, James and Mary Badcliff, four, .Jonathan
and Anne Scaife, two, Bobert and Alice Heaton, five, Martin and
Ann Wildman, with six children. John Eastburn came from the
parish of Bingley, county of York, with a certificate from Bradley
meeting, dated July 31st, 1684. Johannes Searl was there before
1725, from whose honse a road was laid out that year to the road

4 A further account of John Scarborough will be found in a previous chapter.

5 He had one thousand and eighty-eight acres surveyed to him in Middletown.

6 Her name is griven both as Jane and Isabel.