HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.
 

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CHAPTER  XXIX.
 

UPPER   MAKEFIELD.
 

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Last township below Bedminster to be organized.—Manor of Highlands surveyed.—•
Original purchasers.—Henry Baker and Richard Hough.—The London com¬
pany.—AVindy bush.—Thomas Eoss.—Township petitioned for.—Effort to attach
part to "Wrightstown.—Township enlarged.—The Tregos.—Charles Reeder.—
Samuel McNair.—AVilliam Keith.—The Magills.—McConkeys.—Doctor David
Fell.—First-day meeting.—Meeting-house built.—Oliver H. Smith.—Thomas
Langley.—Bowman's hill.—Doctor John Bowman.—Lurgan and its scholars.—
Old shafts.—Indian burying-ground.—"William H. Ellis.— Dolington.—Taylors¬
ville.—Brownsburg.—Jericho.—Aged persons.—Taxables and pojjulation.—Lo¬
cation and surface of Upper Makefield.—Continental army.
 

Low^ER IMakefield had been an organized township forty-five
years before Upper Makefield was separated from it, and it was the
last of the original townships below Bedminster to be organized.
The cause of this may be found in the fact that the greater part of
the land w^as retained by the Penns as a manor, and the influx of
settlers was not encouraged. The same was the case when a portion
of the manor fed into the possession of the London company. When
Lower Makefield w^as organized, in 1692, w^hat is now Upper Make¬
field was a wdlderness. Probably a few adventurous pioneers had
pushed their way thither, but there was hardly a permanent settler
there.