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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY.
 

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CHAPTER  XXXII.
 

UPPER MILFORD; SAUCON; MACUNGIE; SALISBURY;   WHITEHALL.
 

ITSS    TO    ITSO.
 

A twin sister.—Upper Milford.—Township movement.—Names of petitioners.—Boun¬
daries.—Township laid out.—Settlers.—Swamp church.—Pastors.—Anecdote.—
Satjcox.—The Lehigh comes into notice.—First land taken up.—William Allen.
Reverend John Philip Boehnn, John David Behringer, George Hartman, Adam
Schans.—Township organized.—First tavern on the Lehigli.—The landlords.—
Settlers thereabouts.—Graveyard.—Boarding-school opened.—The river.—Sur¬
face of township.—'Macungie.—Now divided.—When settled.—Township laid off.
—Names of petitioners.—Road asked for.—Settlers' names.—Surface level.—■
Salisbury.—The Turner and Allen tract.—Other grants.—First settlers.—Emaus
settled.—The township laid out,—Whitehall—Earliest settlers.—Lynford Gard¬
ner.—Origin of name.—The Reformed church.—Township organized.—Heidel-
burg and Williams townships.

Upper Milford, the twin sister of l^Iilford in Bucks, and which
originally embraced the territory of what is now Upper and Lower
Mihbrd, in Leli'gh county, was the first township organized of all
those now lying outside of our present county limits. It was cut off
from Bucks with Northampton, in 1752, but fell within Lehigh
county upon its formation, in 1812. It lies immediately north-west
of our Milford township, and has Montgomery on the sonth-west.
We know but little concerning its early settlement, but it appears
that the same flood of German immigration that fiow^ed into Lower,
reached Upper, Milford, and at about the  same time.    In a few