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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.
 

CHAPTER  XIII.
 

SOUTHAMPTON
 

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Second group of townships.—Pickets of civilization.—Southampton first named.—
Separated from Warminster.—Original settlers.—John Swift.—Meeting granted.
—Additional settlers.—Thomas Callowhill, a land-owner.—Town plat.—Holland
settlers.—Krewson, Yanartsdalen, Hogeland, et al.—Still later settlers.—,Iohn
Purdy.—Curious dreams.—The Watts family.—The Duffields,—Ralph Dracot.—
The Davises.—Moravian church.—.John Perkins.—Taxables and population.—
Southampton Baptist church.—Quaint inscription.—Davisville church.—Dutch
Reformed.—Its early name.—Paulus Van Vleck officiates.—Dortius the pastor.—
Schlatter comes to settle troubles.—Mr. Larzelere.—Location of Southampton.—
Roads.—Villages.—Turnpikes.
 

Our second group of townships is composed of Southampton,
Warminster, Newtown, Wrightstown, Buckingham, and Solebury.
They w^ere settled about the same time, or immediately after, the
townships of the first group, and w^e purpose to tell the story of
their settlement in detail. The territorial limits of this group reach
to the central section of the county, throughout which considerable
land was taken up prior to 1700. Among the pickets of civilization,
wdio early pushed their way up through the woods from the Dela-
w^are, in advance of the tidal w^ave, may be mentioned John Chap¬
man, John and Thomas Bye, William Cooper, George Pownall,
and Boger Hartly.    For several years the supplies for a part of this