Area history: Early Settlers: Nockamixon Twp, Bucks County, PA

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                 excerpts from "HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PA.
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                             NOCKAMIXON TOWNSHIP

                     Further information can be found in

                        "The History of Bucks County"

In 1737, Bartholomew LONGSTRETH purchased two hundred and fifty acres.
In 1742, the following names of settlers or land-owners in Nockamixon were:
        THATCHER, Richard
        WARFORD, Joseph
        WEAVER, Christian
        HITE, John Henry
        MORRIS, William
        HARWICK , jOHN
        KREMBLE, Uriah
        BUCKHERD, David
        LONGSTRETH, Bartholomew
        CRUCHLER, Samuel
        RICHARDS, Jacob
        BLAIR, Thomas
        WARE, William
        ANDERSON, John
        BLENEY, Edmund
        DORAN, John
        WILSON, John
        LEDLEY, George
        DICKSON, William
        JOHNSON, James
        LOUDON, Richard
        COLVAN, John
        WILSON, Ralph
        TRIMBO, Jacob
        RAMSEY, Thomas

Among the settlers, who came into the township soon after it was organized,
were Thomas and Patrick McCARTY, brothers from Ireland, who settled on
Haycock run about 1748 where they purchased two tracts.

William DIXON purchased on June 4th, 1753 seventy-nine and three-quarter
acres.

Abraham GOODWIN by warrent dated December 8th, 1749 purchased one hundred
and four acres and nine perches.

Peter YOUNG purchased one hundred and seven acres and forty-one perches,
June 1 and 2nd, 1753.

Herman YOUNGHON purchased, Dec. 3, 1754 eighty-nine acres.

Adam MEISSER was an early settler at the Narrows. In the spring of 1746
thirty acres were surveyed to him, adjoining land os Matthew HUGHES, by
Robert Smith by virtue of a warrant of Surveyor-general LUKENS

The same year John PRAUL, already a land-owner, obtained a warrant for
forty acres adjoining John MEISSER at the narrow but the land was not
surveyed to him until Dec. 17, 1753.

David MAYES, in May, 1748, ninety and one-half acres were surveyed to him.

June, 1754, one hundred and forty-two acres were patented to Michael
MEISSER and other lands were surveyed to him in 1766.

In 1749, Peter MICHAEL, perhaps MICKLEY, now took up twenty-fieve acres in
Nockamixon and Peter YOUNG thirty acres.

In 1738 we find the following in this township
        1738, Christian FRY, at Tohickon
        1738, Casper KOLB
        1738, Frederick KRAFT