HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY,
 

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CHAPTER   XV.
 

NEWTOWN
 

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Main stream of settlement.—Called Newtown in 1687.—Lands taken up in 1684.—
Christopher Taylor.—John Martindale.—William Buckman.—Map of 1702.—
Townstead.—The common.—Durham and other roads.—John Harris.—James
Hanna.—Charles Stewart.—First site of church.—Area of township.— Population.
—Tradition of horough's name.—What called in 1795.—Newtown in 1725.—Laid
out in 1733.—Tamer Carey.—Samuel Hinkle.—Newtown in 1805.—James
Raguet.—Newtown library.—Academy.—Brick hotel.—Joseph Archambault.—
Death of Mrs. Kennedy.—Edward Plummer.—Doctor Jenks.—The Hickses.—
General Francis Murray.—Presbyterian church.—Episcopal.—Methodist, and
Friends' meeting.—Newtown of to-day.—Incorporated.—Population.
 

It will be found, on investigation, that the main stream of English
settlement flowed up the peninsula formed by the Delaware and
Neshaminy. For the first forty years, after the county was settled,
the great majority of the immigrants settled between these streams.
West of the Neshaminy the territory is more circumscribed, and the
current of Eno^lish Friends did not reach above Warminster. The
pioneers, attracted by the fine rolling lands and fertile valleys of
Newtown, Wrightstown, and Buckingham, early pushed their way
thither, leaving wide stretches of unsettled wilderness behind.
Newtown lay in the track of this upward current east of the Ne-