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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY,
 

CHAPTER  XVIII.
 

SOLEBURY
 

ITOS.
 

Origin of name unknown.—Buckingham and Solebury one township.—Land taken up
before 1703.—Early settlers.—Henry Paxson.—The Pellars.—James Pellar Mal¬
colm.—Josej^h Pike.—Gilt-edge butter.—Great Spring tract.—The Blackfans.
—Eastburns.—Inghams.—Jonathan Ingham.—Samuel D. secretary of the treas¬
ury.—Andrew Ellicott and his sons.—Richard Townsend.—John Schofield.
—The Elys, Rices, Riches, Hutchinsons and Neeleys.—General Pike.—The
Kenderdines.—Ruckmans.—Roads.—Lumberville.—Lumberton, formerly Hard
Times.—Centre Bridge, originally Reading's ferry.—Carversville.—Milton in
1800.—Post-office established.—Home of EUicotts.—Coppernose.—Fine view
from top.—The Cuttalossa.—Spring and fountain.—Kenderdine's verse.—Ruck-
man's tavern.—^Old mine at Neeley's.—Doctor John Wall.—Doctor Forst.—
Friends' meeting school fund.—'Ingham's spring.—Charles Smith.—Population.
 

Solebury is washed on its eastern border by the Delaware, and
joins the toAAmships of Blumstead, Buckingham and Upper Make¬
field. The area is fourteen thousand and seventy-three acres. The
origin of the name is unknown, and we have not been able to find
it in any other part of the world. In 1703 it was written "Soul-
bury." The surface is moderately hilly, Avith a variety of soil, has
good building stone and an abundance of limestone, and is Avell sup¬
plied with small creeks and numerous springs of good water, the
most celebrated of Avhich is the Aquetong, three miles from New
Hope.    It abounds in well-cultivated and productive farms, and its