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USTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.
 

CHAPTER  XXIV.
 

PLUMSTEAD.
 

ITSS.
 

Lacation of Plumstead.—First land-owner.—Henry Child.—'Christopher Day.—Tho¬
mas Brown.—John Dyer.—First mill.—Easton road oj)ened.—William Michener.
■=—Old draft.—Township organized.—The Child family.—The Doanes.—Friends'
meeting.—Bemains of ehnrch.—Its history.—Old graveyard.—Mennonite meet¬
ing-house.—Charles Huston.—Indians.—Last wolf killed.—Roads opened.—
Plumsteadville, Point Pleasant et al.—Oldest house.—''Poor Plumstead."—Im¬
migration to Canada.—John Ellicott Carver.-Horse company.—Population.—
Aged persons.—Morgan Hinchman.—Fretz's mill.—Post-offices.
 

IjSIMEdtately north of Buckingham and Solebury lies a tract of
country divided into valley and plain by Pine run and North branch,
that flow w^est into the Neshaminy, and by Hickory, Geddes, and
Cabin runs, that empty into the Delaware. In most parts the
ground falls gradually away to the streams, and the contiguous
slopes are joined by level stretches of farm land. This reo^ion of
valley and plain and winding creeks is Plumstead township, now
a little more than one hundred and fifty years old.

English Friends pushed their way up into the woods of Plum¬
stead, through Buckingham and Solebury at an early day, and were
on the extreme limit of the tidal-wave of civilization that swep
upward from the Delaware.    Here, after a time, w^ere encountered