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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.
 

CHAPTER  XXVI.
 

WARRINGTON.
 

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Land-holders in 1684.—Richard Ingolo.—Devise to William Penn, jr.—William
Allen.—Division of his tract.—Joseph Kirkbride.—Old map.—Litnd-owners.—
Township organized.—The Longs.—The Weisels.—Nicholas Larzelere and de¬
scendants.—Roads.—Township enlarged.—Craig's tavern.—Sir William Keith,
and residence.—Easton road opened.—Pleasantville church.—Traces of glaciers.
—Boulders found.—Mundocks.—Pine trees.—Valley of Neshaminy.—Post-olfices.
—Population.—Nathaniel Irwin,
 

Warrington is the upper ^d' the three rectaangular townships
that border the Montgomery county line. When Holme's map was
published, there w^ere but four land-owners in the township, none of
which lived there, Hichard Ingolo, K. Sneed, Charles Jones, jr., and
R. Yickers.    At this time Warrington was an unbroken wilderness.

There must have been some authority for putting Richard Ingolo
on Holme's map as a land-owner in Warrington, in 1684, although
the records inform us that he did not become an owner of land in
the township until the following year. The 22d of January, 1685,
William Penn granted to Ingolo six hundred acres, which he located
on the county line below the lower state road. In 1719, Ingolo
conveyed it to Thomas By am, of London, and in 1726, Byam con