THE HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CHAPTER XXXIX, HAYCOCK 1763. from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by W. W. H. Davis, A.M., 1876 and 1905* editions. Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Donna Bluemink. dbluemink@cox.net USGENWEB NOTICE: Printing this file by non-commercial individuals and libraries is encouraged, as long as all notices and submitter information is included. Any other use, including copying files to other sites requires permission from the submitters PRIOR to uploading to any other sites. We encourage links to the state and county table of contents. _____________________________________________________________________________ Transcriber's note: Liberty has been taken with numbering footnotes so as to include all footnotes from both the 1876 and 1905 editions, plus any additional text and pictures in the 1905 edition. All 1905 material will be noted with an asterisk. Note: Where names differ, the 1905 edition spelling is applied. _____________________________________________________________________________ CHAPTER XXXIX or CHAPTER IX (Vol. II), 1905 ed. HAYCOCK 1763 Formed of "odd and ends." -Why organized. -John Anderson. -The McCartys. -William Bryan. -The Lautenschlagers.* -Henry Keller.* -The Lampens. * -Baptist congregation. -Stokes family. -Joseph Dennis. -George Emig. -Jacob Allem. -First movement for township. -Names of petitioners. -Petition from Lower Saucon and Springfield. -Township organized. -Petitioners. -Boundaries. -First constable. -Bryan graveyard. -Methodist church. -The Applebachs. -German and Irish Catholics in 1757. -Saint John's Church.* -Thomas Garden.* - Catholics in 1757.* -John Dean.* -Early baptisms and deaths. -Father Stommel and new church. -Convent. -Reverend Samuel Stahr. -Stony garden. -Michael Hartman.* -Haycock mountain. -Bridge over Tohickon. -Roads. -Applebachsville. -General Paul Applebach. -Population. Haycock was formed of territory that may be called the "odds and ends," left after all the surrounding township had been organized. The organization of Richland, Rockhill, Bedminster, Tinicum, Nockamixon and Springfield left a large tract of country lying between them, and containing considerable population without local government. The difficulty in keeping the roads in repair and collecting taxes appears to have been the leading motive to the organization of both Springfield and Haycock. The Old Bethlehem road ran four miles through the former township and five through the latter, and in the absence of township organization, there was no local authority to keep them in repair. We know but little about the early settlers in Haycock. In 1737 Surveyor-General Parsons laid out a tract of 300 acres on Haycock Run to John Anderson, but the location is not known. The 500-acre tract which Thomas and Patrick McCarty purchased of the Penns when they settled in Nockamixon in 1748, lay partly on the Haycock side of the creek and partly in Tinicum. March 3, 1738, John, Thomas and Richard Penn conveyed and confirmed to Silas McCarty 215 acres, half a mile west of Applebachsville, and the latter gave one acre to William Bryan and others on which to build a Baptist church and for a burying-ground. After his death his son, Carrel McCarty, (1) to whom the whole tract descended, confirmed this one acre, August 20, 1759, to William Bryan and Isaac Evans, in trust, for the use of the Baptist congregation at New Britain, upon which they erected a log meeting-house, which was allowed to fall down many years ago. The late Rev. Joseph Mathias occasionally preached in it. At the death of William Bryan, his son William was left a trustee, in conjunction with Isaac Evans. The substantial stone wall around the burying-ground was built by the Bryan family a few years ago. (1) Another account of the McCartys says that Thomas and Patrick, two brothers from Ireland, settled early in the township, the former purchasing 206 acres from the Proprietaries and the latter 203, adjoining tracts on both sides of Haycock Run. Four or five of the McCarty boys served in the Continental army. Haycock Run was named after the mountain wherein are its head waters, and the name was first applied to the stream in a deed of 1737. The McCarty family still hold considerable of the land.* The Stokes family, early settlers in Haycock, can be traced back to Thomas Stokes, the son of John, of London, who was born in 1640, married Mary Barnard, came to America about 1680, and settled near Burlington, New Jersey, and had several children. The Bucks county Stokeses are descended from John, the eldest son, whose son John and wife, Hannah, born in Storkdale or Stogdell, came from New Jersey to Haycock about 1743, and remained until 1750, when they returned. Their son John, the immediate ancestor of our Stokeses, was born in this township, and married Susan Newton. They were the parents of the late Mrs. Susan Bryan, of Doylestown, and the maternal grandparents of the late General John S. Bryan. The Stokes tract, which was laid out for 300 acres and allowances, was found to contain 347 acres and 42 perches by the survey of Asher Woolman and Samuel Foulke, April 12, 1769. It lay at Applebachsville, and comprised the fine farms of the late General Paul Applebach. The old family mansion, more than a century old, is still standing. Mrs. Bryan had two sisters, one married Timothy Smith, of Doylestown, and the other David Roberts, of Newtown, and her brother, William Stokes, died in Doylestown. James Bryan, the husband of Susan Stokes, was a plain Friend. (2) (2) The Bryans are of ancient lineage, being descendants of the County of Brienne, who trace their ancestry back to the kings of France, and their house, the old Chateau de Brienne, of France, which after some revolution, passed out of the family forever. The family name was Loreinne or Laronnie, a name in history, embracing prime ministers, cardinals, et al. After political dissensions, one after another, the sons drifted away, going to England and settling there, dropping the family name of Brienne and calling themselves "Bryan" or Brian." The coat of arms of the family is said to be woven in the ceiling of some of the rooms at Versailles. Only one ancestor is left, who calls himself Count Laronnie.* Joseph, the great-grandfather of Wilson Dennis, immigrated to America and settled near Egg Harbor, New Jersey, when he came to "the adjacents of Springfield," afterward Haycock, about 1746, and took up several tracts of land in this and Springfield township. He was a great hunter, and is said to have selected stony land because such soil yielded the most grass in the woods, and was sure to bring plenty of game. Wilson Dennis, the fourth generation, through Joseph, Charles, and Josiah, owns and lives on the tract that his ancestor received from the Proprietaries. March 1, 1756, 136 acres were surveyed to Valentine Rohr "in the lands adjacent to Springfield, upon a branch of Tohickon called Jo Toonum's runn," (3) by virtue of a warrant. (3) This is an Indian name: Jo Toonum alias Neepaheilman, was one of the signers to the famous "Walking Purchase" deed, 1737, and probably a resident of Haycock. At one time Martins creek, Northampton county, was also called Tununis, or Toonums creek, no doubt after the same Indian.* The original purchasers of land on the west side of the Bethlehem road, up to the Springfield line, were, in order, Allem, William Strawn, a Quaker, Valentine Rohr, Andrew Booz, Dutt, and Ludwig Nusbeckel [Nusbecker*], whose land was on the east side of the road, opposite. Dutt Nusbickel (4) was born April 14, 1730, died January 10, 1818, and was buried in the Springfield graveyard. His wife died in 1795. They were both members of Springfield church, where his daughter, Elizabeth, was baptised August 10, 1760. Besides John Stokes, the original purchasers immediately around Applebachsville were William Strawn, George Emig, the original for Amey, who took up a tract of 231 acres, 89 perches, which was confirmed by Thomas and Richard Penn, July 13, 1768, who left the same to his son George, by will, in 1773. Emig, who was born July 13, 1715, died March 7, 1773, and was buried in the Springfield yard. In 1767 Stephen Acraman bought 138 acres of Lydia McCall, widow of George McCall, an early settler northwest of Applebachsville. (4) Ludwig Henry Nusbickel was born in Germany, April 14, 1730, and came here in the "Phoenix," landing at Philadelphia, November 22, 1752. He settled on the line of Springfield and Haycock. The original spelling of the family name was Nussburckel.* Jacob Allem, the first of the name in the township, immigrated from Germany about 1750, and settled on a tract of land about three-fourths of a mile west of Behring's saw-mill, where he followed the business of a wheelwright. One of his sons, at the age of eighteen, enlisted in the [Continental*] Army. A number of his descendants are living in Haycock, Bedminster, Richland, Rockhill and Tinicum, and a few have gone west. [Adam Lautenschlager was among the German settlers in Haycock prior to 1750. He and Philip Lautenschlager, probably a brother, were natives of Erbach, Wurtemberg, Germany, and landed at Philadelphia from the ship Albany, September 2, 1749. Adam represented Haycock on the "Committee of Safety" for Bucks county during the Revolution.*] The inhabitants of this unorganized district petitioned for a township several times before they were successful, the first attempt being made soon after 1740, but the year is not known. They petitioned a second time in December 1745, when they state that the district contained "twenty dwellers." The signers to this petition were: Silas McCarty Joseph Dennis Griffith Davis William Bryan John Stokes Abraham Gooding Dennis Honan Edward Bleaney John Deane John Nicholas James Sloan Hendrich Hencke C. H. Steinbach Jacob Rohr Martin Scheiff George Schuman Balthass Steuber Stephen Acraman (5) John George Desch. The petitions was laid over until the next term of court, but nothing came of it then. Joseph Dennis was appointed overseer of highways for this district of country until the inhabitants should apply to have a township regularly laid out. In September 1745 the inhabitants of Lower Saucon and Springfield petitioned the court, setting forth that they had expected to carry their grain to Philadelphia with greater ease than formerly down the old Bethlehem road, but that a stretch of about five miles long through a district of country between Springfield and Richland was almost impassable for wagons. They did not ask for a township, but wanted the court to "consider their case." (5) The Acraman family is a good deal scattered. John Acraman was in Falls as early as 1678; George Ackerman in Haycock, who came from the Palatinate in the ship St. Andrew, landing at Philadelphia October 27, 1738. John Acreman, Falls, was probably an Englishman as he settled there with a colony of Friends. We follow the spelling.* After the effort to have a new township organized, 1745, had failed, it was almost 20 years before another movement was made in that direction. The number of taxables in the district now numbered 70. There appears to have been three parties trying to have a township established in 1763. In the spring, an outline draft was presented to the court, no doubt preceded by a petition, according to a survey by James Melvin, made "May ye 14th, 1763," on the back of which is the endorsement: "The name of the township shall be Rock Bearry." At the June sessions, probably the same year, Joseph Dennis, on behalf of himself and others, presented a petition asking that the tract of country in question be laid out into a township, to be called by the name of "Mansfield," but nothing came of this. The petition that led to the formation of the township was presented to the court, March 17, 1763, which stated that it is the petition of the "inhabitants of Haycock or adjacents," that the Haycock is as large, and contains as many inhabitants as any township in the county, and that there are 70 taxables in the district, and they ask to be organized into a township. Of the 28 names attached to the petition, we have been able to decipher the following: George Wills Aaron Clinker Peter Diehl Edmund Bleaney Matthias Whilenight David Malsbery John Doane Edward Guth Benjamin McCarty Fillix Birson Conrad Guth Johannes Mill Willis Borger Lowder Black Peter Meyer William Meyer George Van Buskirk Philip Fackenthall Ludwick Nusbunckel [Nusbieckel*] George Luman Chrystal Gayman Isaac Weyerbacker Chrystal Miller Andrew Raub. We have preserved the original spelling as far as practicable. They asked that the township be called "Haycock." The petitioners were requested to produce a draft of the proposed township at the next court, with the courses and distances. It was presented at the June term, but was not received because it was not accurate, and the petitioners were told to employ a surveyor "who understands his business." It was re-surveyed August 17th by Thomas Chapman, and returned and confirmed at the September court ensuing, with the following boundaries: "Beginning at a large rock on the north side of Tohickon creek, in the line between William Bryan's land and Pike's land; thence along the same north four and one-half degrees, west 261 perches to a post; thence by Logan's land north four and one-half degrees, east 29 perches and north four and one-half degrees, west 341 perches to a hickory; thence ease four and one-half degrees, north 99 perches to a gum, and north four and one-half degrees, west 395 perches to a stone; thence five courses by Richland township; thence north 64 degrees, east 1,338 perches by Springfield township to a white oak, standing by the side of the Haycock Run; thence down the same run by the various courses thereof, 1,720 perches to where it enters Tohickon; thence up Tohickon by the various courses thereof, 3,288 perches to the place of beginning." The township was to be called Haycock. The boundaries have not been disturbed, and the are then, as now, was 10,387 acres. The first constable returned was Henry Keller, (6) at the September sessions, 1763. Haycock was, doubtless, named after the little mountain in it, which was so called because of its resemblance to a cock of hay, which name was given to it many years before the township was organized. Haycock is mentioned in a deed as early as 1737, and the creek which winds along the base of the mountain is called Haycock Run, in the boundary of Nockamixon, 1742. The mountain and run received their names from the earliest settlers in the township. (6) Heinrich Keller, son of William and Gertraut Keller, was born in Weierbach, Baden, January 9, 1708, and married there, October 20, 1728, Julianna Kleindinst, born 1711, and with her and four of their children came to America in the ship "Glasgow," arriving in Philadelphia September 9, 1738. He was the ancestor of the family that gave the name to "Kellers" church. His son, John Keller, was a member of the state convention that formed the first constitution of Pennsylvania, 1776, and served in the assembly, 1776-1779, and was also a colonel of militia during the Revolution and saw active service.* [Simon Lampen, the first of the family in America, fought with the New Hampshire militia in the Revolution, and the latter part of 1778 removed to Bucks county, settling in Haycock, where the son, Michael, was born, 1779. He mastered Greek and Latin so as to be able to converse as fluently in these languages as in German or English. He had equal love for scientific pursuits, but, despite his learning, selected the trade of a weaver to make a living at. In 1827 Michael Lampen married Marie Byers, a widow who came from Switzerland with her two brothers, and they had three children: Rebecca, born July 18, 1828, married Henry Clemers, and died May 21, 1882, leaving one son and two daughters, Michael, born April 10, 1831, John, born March 14, 1834. The lives of Michael and Maria Lampen, notwithstanding their disparity in age, blended beautifully, and their home, surrounded by books, they lived a model life of happiness. The wife died, 1861, - the husband, 1863, and both were buried at the Brick church.*] [Of the children of Michael and Maria Lampen, Michael studied medicine and graduated at the old Philadelphia Medical College, paying his way by manual labor, married Rachel Ann Vandergrift, Newp0rtville, Bensalem township, 1858, served through the Civil Was as assistant surgeon in the Union Army, and at its close settled in practice at Philadelphia. He soon acquired an enviable reputation as a specialist in heart and lung troubles, and continued in practice to his death, June 18, 1890, survived by his wife, three sons and two daughters. John, the younger son of Michael Lampen, Sr., married Elizabeth Thomas, had four daughters and one son, all living and married. He died at Frenchtown, New Jersey, June 14, 1895. He was a miller. Of the five children who survived Dr. Michael Lampen, Louis Peale followed his father's profession; Howard entered business; Minnie Roe married Rev. William Allen, Jr., Pennington, New Jersey, and has two children: Garret Harlow, an educator, a specialist and lecturer on American History; and a daughter unmarried.*] On the road leading from Applebachsville to Quakertown, half a mile west of the former place, on the farm of Isaac Weirback, is the old Bryan graveyard, which belongs to the Baptist congregation organized there at the settlement of the township. In it are six graves of the Bryan family, including the final resting place of its Bucks county founder, William, born 1708, died May 17, 1784, his wife, Rebekah, born 1718, died July 22, 1796, and son William, born February 6, 1739, died February 10, 1819, whose wife, Alivia, died in 1822, in her 80th year. The oldest marked grave is that of Eleanor Morgan, wife of James Morgan, who died December 12, 1764. The earliest burial was in 1747, but the name cut on the rough stone cannot be deciphered. The last person buried there was named Crassly, about 30 [50*]years ago. In the yard are a number of rude stones, with inscriptions, that mark the graves of the earliest dead of the neighborhood. On the same road, a mile east of thee Richland line, there stood an Evangelical Methodist church, which was erected about 1856 by Abel Strawn and Henry Diehl, the former of Haycock and the latter of Richland, to commemorate their remarkable deliverance from death on the occasion of a tree blowing down and falling across their wagon between them, without injuring any one, as they, with others, were driving along the road. The building was taken down in the summer of 1872 and re-erected at Quakertown. But two bodies had been buried in the graveyard, which were removed to the new place of burial. The Applebachs of this county are descended from a family of that name, but originally Afflerbach, of Weissenstein, in Wurtemberg, Germany, [Afflerbach, of Shermadu, in the burg Wittgenstein, Germany*] where they were celebrated as manufacturers of iron. About the close of the Revolution Daniel and Ludwig, brothers, and Henry, probably a cousin, came to America and settled in the upper end of the county. (7) Daniel bought a farm in Haycock, where he spent his life as a cultivator of the soil, and died about 1825, Ludwig settled in Durham, and engaged in teaming between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, and, by frugality, became the owner of four farms in Durham and Nockamixon, and died in [January 28,*] 1832. Jacob Sumstone is a grandchild. Henry Applebach, the cousin of Daniel and Ludwig, settled in Springfield, followed black smithing, and his son Daniel, for many years a justice of peace in that township, was the father for the late General Paul Applebach, of Haycock. In 1789 Joseph, a nephew of Daniel and Ludwig, settled near Bursonville, in Springfield, and in 1800 married a daughter of George Stoneback, of Haycock, and died in 1845, aged upward of 75 years, leaving numerous descendants. The late Paul Applebach, of Haycock, was an active, enterprising citizen, and wielded large influence through the upper districts of the county. He was active in politics and among the volunteers, and was a candidate for the [State Senate,*] but defeated [in 1846.*] He was major-general in the militia. (7) Ludwig Afflerbach is said to have been born April 11, 1758, arrived at Philadelphia, Sept 30, 1773, and settled in Nockamixon. If the two brothers and cousin came together, they doubtless landed at the same time and place.* [John Dean was an early resident of Haycock, but we know neither his place of birth nor his time of coming, but is thought to have settled there about 1740. Samuel Dean, probably his son, who was residing on the Bethlehem road as early as 1758, reached considerable prominence. He was a patriot during the Revolutionary period, and served the colonies in the field. On the first call for troops, 1775, he enlisted in Captain Miller's company, Northampton county, one of the earliest to enter the Continental service. It belonged to Colonel William Thompson's regiment of Riflemen, and took part in the siege of Boston. After the evacuation by the British he returned to Bucks county. He re-entered the service the summer of 1776, as lieutenant in Captain Valentine Opp's company, Colonel Joseph Hart's battalion, which formed part of the "Flying Camp" in the Amboy expedition. April 9, 1777, he was commissioned captain in the Eleventh Regiment, Pennsylvania line, and took part in the battle of Brandywine; but the Eleventh regiment being consolidated with the Tenth, July 1778, Captain Dean became a supernumerary, was honorably discharged and retired to private life. After the close of the war he was elected sheriff and subsequently represented the county in the Assembly. Captain Dean died in 1818.*] [Michael Hartman arrived at Philadelphia September 8, 1748, in the ship Edinburg, James Rupell, master, and Francis and Matthias Hartman arrived the following year. Michael took up 25 acres in Haycock and settled there. His son Michael was a soldier in Captain Henry Newell's company, Philadelphia County Militia, in the Revolution. He sold his farm of 80 acres in Montgomery township, 1808, and was living in Armstrong county, 1835. Matthias Hartman, also a patriot in the Revolution, was appointed, June 10, 1776, by the Bucks county Committee of Safety, collector of arms from those who refused to subscribe the oath of allegiance. Francis Hartman settled in Upper Salford and died there, 1768. Francis Hartman, of Richland, who was elected country treasurer, 1866, was a member of this family.*] Haycock was originally settled in part, by German and Irish Catholics, and the denomination made its first lodgment in the county, in this township. It will be remembered that the first Catholic in the county, Lyonel Brittain, settled in the bend of the river in Falls, and half a century later we find a little colony of the same communion settled in the woods of Haycock. The Saint John's Catholic church is probably one of the very oldest of this faith in the state, outside of Philadelphia. Among the early Catholic settlers hereabout we find the names of Thomas Garden, John Dorm, Patrick McCarty, Charles Pulton, and Sanders. The date of the organization of the congregation is not known, but it probably extends back to the earliest records, 1743. Nor do we know when the first church was erected, but suppose an humble log building sheltered the first worshipers, as was the case with other denominations in our Bucks county wilderness. About 1798 a more pretentious church, of stone, was built, and soon afterward an organ was put into it, probably the first in the county excepting that in Tohickon church. The old church was torn down about 20 [50*] years ago, and a handsome new one, with stained glass windows, erected upon the site. In 1757 there were but 2,000 Catholics in the province, of which 949 were Germans. In this county at that time there were only 14 males and 12 females [of this faith,*], and no doubt the greater part of them were in Haycock. These figures are based on such as received the communion from the age of 12 years and upward. Before 1850, there was no priest stationed at this church, but it was served by supplies from Easton, Trenton, and elsewhere. The Rev. Theodore Schneider was probably the first priest who officiated in the Haycock parish, at least he is the first we have any account of. He occasionally visited the settlers, to administer the rites of the church. May 29, 1743, he baptised Anna, daughter of John and Catharine L. Dorm, at the house of Thomas Garden, in Haycock, and the day before he had baptised Charles Pulton, son of Charles and Ruth Pulton, near Durham road. The oldest marriage recorded is that of Patrick McCarty and Catharine Ann Sanders, February 14, 1743, and the oldest recorded burial is that of Catharine, wife of Edward McCarty, over 70 years of age, who died "of a contagious fever." Haycock was an outlying picket of the church, and priest visited it periodically. After Mr. Schneider came Rev. J. B. De Ritter, who visited the church down to 1787, who was followed by Revs. Paul Ernsten and Boniface Corvin, to 1830, the Rev. Henry Stommel, now at Doylestown, being pastor there for several years. The present priest is Rev. Martin Walsh, [1876.*] After a priest was regularly stationed at Haycock, it became the centre of missionary work in all the surrounding country. Twenty years [50*] ago a mission was established at Durham, which led to the erection of a church (Saint Lawrence), in 1872, which was the work of Father Stommel, the pastor at Haycock. The same year he established a mission, known as Marienstein, in the swamp of Nockamixon, between the Durham and River roads, and in 1873 one at Piusfield [in honor of Pope Pius,*] in Tinicum, nearly opposite Frenchtown. The cornerstone of Marienstein was laid the 11th of August, the first services held in it the 8th of the following December, and it and the church at Durham were dedicated by Bishop Toebbe, bishop of Covington, Kentucky, September 21, 1873. The church is a handsome stone edifice with a cupola and a bell. The cornerstone at Piusfield was laid the 5th of October, and the first service held the 28th of December. These churches were all erected by the energy of Father Stommel, the pastor at Haycock, a hard working, zealous minister. During his pastorate he likewise built an addition to the parish residence, and organized a parochial school under the direction of three Sisters of Saint Francis. A number of years ago a convent was built in the parish, in which a female boarding school has been kept [for several years.*] The cornerstone was laid in 1861 and it was finished in 1862; it built of stone, 42x32, and three stories high, with basement. It contains 24 rooms and three halls. It began with about 30 or 40 boarders, and in charge of the Blue Sisters of the Immaculate Heart. It has now about 70 scholars, in charge of the Sisters of Saint Francis. [During Father Stommel's charge of the Haycock parish he organized a mission at Quakertown, mass being celebrated at the house of James Cox. The Mission of St. Agnes, Sellersville, 14 miles from Haycock, and had been in existence several years, was erected into a parish in 1872, receiving as its first pastor the Rev. Hugh McLaughlin. Father Stommel was transferred to Doylestown in 1875.*] [Of the Haycock parish it may be well to say that the priest's home, built in 1847-8, was projected by Father Thomas Reardon, a supply at that time. Father Leitel was to have been the priest, but did not remain long enough to see the house finished. He was succeeded by Father Hesperlein. Father George, who followed him, remained until 1855, when he was changed to Doylestown, having completed the Haycock church meanwhile. Father Wachtan, who built the convent in 1861, and from that time the parish has not been without a regular priest. Koppernagal, who built the church at Sellersville, Loughran, 1869; Martersteck, 1870-71; Stommel, who was transferred to Doylestown, 1875; Istoran Walsh, 1876, and from that time Fathers Girard and Henry Krake. The latter died in January 1900, and was buried in the adjoining cemetery. There was a large attendance at the funeral, including 26 priests, and the services were impressive. Father Krake was born in Borken, Diocese of Muenster, Germany, March 21, 1849, and took charge at Haycock in 1876. He was succeeded by Father Assman.*] [A few men of the past generation are remembered more affectionately in the upper end of the county than the late Rev. Samuel Stahr, who was born in Haycock, 1785, and died September 29, 1843, at the age of 58. He read theology with the late Rev. Dr. Baker, Baltimore, and, at the close of his studies, was called to preside over the Reformed congregations of Tinicum, Nockamixon, Durham and Springfield, where he continued to labor to the end of his days, and was an efficient and successful pastor and an able German preacher. He left a family of five sons (8) and four daughters, three of whom have followed him to the grave. One of his sons is living in Philadelphia, another in Canada and a third in this county, while his three daughters were living in Allentown, Pennsylvania.*] (8) One of the sons of the Rev. Samuel Stahr has been many years president of Franklin Marshal College, Lancaster, Pa., and has done much to build up that institution. Haycock contains two natural features of interest, the curiously-shaped mountain which bears its name, and Stony garden. Haycock mountain, situated in the eastern part of the township, was named by the early settlers from its resemblance to a cock of hay. Its height has never been ascertained, but the elevations is considerable, with a gradual slope to the top from which there is a prospect of unsurpassed beauty over a wide scope of country. About a mile to the northeast of the mountain there was a deer lick when the country was settled. Thomas McCarty found rattlesnakes on the mountain as late as 1819, and Jacob E. Buck says that he shot a large red-headed woodpecker on it in 1818, which bird disappeared from that section may years ago. Stony garden, on the road from Applebachsville to Stony point, two and a half miles from the former place, is a locality of curious interest. Leaving the road at a rude hamlet called Danielsville, and going through a wood a few hundred yards, over a surface covered with the boulder drift, you come to a spot about an acre in extent covered with trap rock. The stones are of many and curious shapes and sizes, and must have been emptied down in the forest in the wildest confusion. Earth has never been found beneath the rocks, and they are entirely void of vegetation except a little moss and a few parasitic plants that have attached themselves to the hard stones. The rocks are of igneous origin, the same as at Fingal's cave, Ireland, and at the Pallisades, on the Hudson. This place is on the line of the rock drift that extends from Chester county through Montgomery and Bucks to the Delaware, and trap rock is found nowhere else in this section of country. Some of the rocks have grooves in them, as though worn during their transportation hither. The "garden" is a wild spot in the lonely woods. A bridge was built across the Tohickon in 1768, probably where the Bethlehem road crosses that stream, and the first in th township. We know next to nothing about the early township roads. The Bethlehem road runs across its western part, and early gave the inhabitants an outlet toward Philadelphia, and this main artery of travel was intersected by lateral roads as they were required to accommodate the wants of the inhabitants. In June 1765, Aaron Fretz, who owned a "water grist-mill" on the Tohickon, in Haycock, petitioned the court to open a road for him to get out from it. It was to run down through Bedminster, past Jacob Niece's smith shop, to meet a road from the Durham road to Perkasie. (9) In 1774 Jacob Strawhen, Martin Sheive, William Bryan, John Keller, George Amey, and 18 others, remonstrated against a road that was to be opened in Haycock, and asked that it be reviewed, on the ground that it would be impossible for wagons to travel it, on account of its being so rough and rocky. This road must have passed across the region known as the "Rocks," the drift belt crossing the township from east to west, where, for the distance of a mile or more, the earth is covered thick with well-worn boulders from the size of a bushel basket to that of a small house. Considerable of this region cannot be cultivated. (9) John Fretz owned a mill in the township before 1764, and Henry Nicholas in 1790. Haycock has but one village that deserves the name, Applebachsville, on the Old Bethlehem road, in the northwest part of the township. It contains about 30 dwellings, several of them brick, built on both sides of the road, with shade trees in front. Among the buildings other than dwellings, are a pubic schoolhouse, with a graded school, a union church, Lutheran, Reformed, and Mennonite, founded in 1855, built of brick, a brick hotel, and a store. [The Rev. J. F. Ohl was the Lutheran pastor from 1874 to 1889, G. C. Gardner, 1890-97, and Warren Nickel from 1897 to the present time. Keller's church belongs to the same parish.*] Adjoining the village lived many years, and died, in 1872, General Paul Applebach, after whom it was named. He was its founder and did much to advance its prosperity. Down to within 28 [50*] years there was but one dwelling there, a centenarian, still standing by the roadside, the first new house being built in 1848, by General Applebach. It is the seat of a physician, who practices in the neighborhood. The country around the village is fertile and picturesque, but lying on the borders of the rock drift may loose boulders, that fell out of ranks, lie upon the surface and make cultivation somewhat difficult. There is a good deal of broken and rocky land in Haycock, but the soil is naturally fertile, and where there is nothing to prevent cultivation good crops are sure to follow. It is well watered by numerous branches of the Tohickon and Haycock creeks - these two streams forming about two-thirds of its boundary. The summit of Haycock mountain is probably the highest point of land in the county. At the enumeration of population in 1784 Haycock was found to contain 614 inhabitants and 113 dwellings; in 1810, 836 1820, 926 1830, 1,047, and 221 taxables 1840, 1,021 1850, 1,135 1860, 1,357 1870, 1,250, of whom 45 were colored. [1880, 1,332 1890, 1,218 1900, 967.*] End of Chapter XXXIX, or IX of 1905 edition.