HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.
 

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CHAPTER  XIX.
 

HISTOKICAL CHURCHES.
 

ITIO    TO    IT-i-i.
 

Population previous to 1710.—Churches between 1710 and 1720.—St. James' Epis¬
copal.—The graveyard.—Whitefield and Zinzendorf.—Churches established.—
Whitefield at Neshaminy.—Second visit—The "Great Awakening."—^David
Brainard.—The " old " and " new side."—Division at Neshaminy.—The Log
college and William Tennent.—Samuel Blair.—Charles Beatty,—-Neshaminy
church founded.—Nathaniel Irwin.—Mr. Belville.—Southampton Baptist church.
—John Watts, Samuel Jones.—Mr. Vanhorne, Mr. Montanye.—Deep Run
church.—Francis McHenry.—James Grier.—Newtown church.—Hugh Carlisle.
James Boyd.—Revolutionary.—Robert D. Morris.—New Britain Baptist church.
—Child of a religious quarrel.—Growden gives ground,—Joseph Eaton.—Recon¬
ciliation with Montgomery.—Strength of church.—Ministers' names.
 

The population of Bucks county was composed almost exclusively
of English Friends previous to 1710, if we except the feeble settle¬
ment of Bhode Island Baptists, at Cold spring in Bristol township.
Other sects and denominations came in at a later period ; in their
order, the English Episcopalians, the Dutch Protestants, the Scotch-
Irish Presbyterians, the Welsh Baptists, and the German Lutherans
and Beformed. Each denomination marked a different people, and
introduced a new element into provincial civilization. Between
1710 and 1720 three denominational churches were established, St.
James' Episcopal, at Bristol, what is now the Bensalem Presbyterian
church, and the Low Dutch Reformed church of Northampton and
Southampton.