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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY,
 

CHAPTER  XXII.
 

H ILLTO WN.
 

ITSS.
 

Line of English settlers.—Welsh and Germans appear.—Large land grants.—First
organized north of Buekingham.—Israel Pemberton.—Eeverend William Tho¬
mas.—He builds a church.—His will.—John Vastine.—Changes of name.—The
Owens,—Laud taken up.—Henry Lewis.—The Morrises.—William Lunn.—
Township organized.—Meeting of inhabitants.—Origin of township name.— Jacob
Appenzeller.—Hilltown Baptist church,—Saint Peter's church.—German Luther¬
ans,—Villages.—Line Lexington.—Roads.—Bethlehem roads.—Population.—
Surface of township.
 

A LINE, draAvii across the county at the point aa^c have now reached
in the organization of toAvnships, will about make the limit of country
settled by English Fi-iends. On the DelaAvare side they reached a
little higher up, and peopled the lower parts of Plumstead, Avhile
toward Montgomery they fell short of it in Warwick and Warring¬
ton. Thus far the tidal wave of colonization had rolled up steadily
from the DelaAvare, and toAvnship after township was formed as re¬
quired by the AA'ants of the population. But now" Ave observe a dif¬
ferent mode, as it Avere, in peopling the AAdlderness of central Bucks
county. The immigrants came in through Philadelphia, now Mont¬
gomery, county, and Avere generally Welsh Baptists and German
Lutherans and Beformed.    A foAv English settlers planted them-