HISTORY  OF BUCKS COUNTY.
 

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CHAPTER  XXXIV.
 

NOCK AM IXON.
 

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First settlers.—Population in 1742.—Names of settlers and land-owners.—Settled
by English.—Township formed.—Old eouplet.—McCarty brothers.—Abraham
Goodwin, John Praul, Casper Kolb.—The Stovers.—John Pareel.—Kintners.—
Nieholas Buck.—Noekamixon church and ministers.—Charles Fortman and
music.—Campbell graveyard.— The Narrows.—Rich Flora.—Ringing rocks.—
Roads.—Streams.—Villages.—Population.
 

On the organization of Tinicum, in 1738, a large tract of country
immediately north of it was left wn'thout local government. The
Durham iron-w^orks had been established since 1727, and althouirh
there was no organized township north of Tinicum, settlers had
taken up land and built cabins here and there in the woods as high
up as the Forks of Delaware. They were generally found on the
river side of the county. The Durham road became a traveled
highw^ay several years before this date, and its opening, no doubt,
invited immigrants to push their w^ay up into the w^oods of Nocka¬
mixon, settling near or on the road. The names, and dates, of the
orig-inal settlers can not now" be told ; nevertheless it would be
interesting to know wdio had the courage to first penetrate that
wdlderness of countrv.