BIO: David P. Brindle, Cumberland County, PA Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Judy Bookwalter Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/ ______________________________________________________________________ History of Cumberland and Adams Counties, Pennsylvania. Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc.; Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men; Biographies; History of Pennsylvania; Statistical and Miscellaneous Matter, Etc., Etc. Illustrated. Chicago: Warner, Beers & Co., 1886. http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/cumberland/beers/beers.htm ______________________________________________________________________ PART II. HISTORY OF CUMBERLAND COUNTY. PENNSYLVANIA. CHAPTER L. MIDDLESEX TOWNSHIP. 499 MIDDLESEX TOWNSHIP. DAVID P. BRINDLE, farmer, P. O. Carlisle Springs, was born on his father's farm September 30, 1832. George, his father, settled upon this farm at an early date, and married Elizabeth Dewey, daughter of Peter Dewey, a Revolutionary soldier, who died in the old house which is still standing on the farm. George was the father of six children, three of whom are living, viz.: Capt. Peter Brindle, of Carlisle, Margaret and David P. The last named married Sarah Barr, of Middlesex Township, Cumberland County, December 13, 1856, and by her has three children, viz.: Amelia, Samuel and George W. William Drennan originally took a large tract of land in this northern portion of what is now Middlesex Township, but was then North Middleton, which included a part of the whole of the farm now owned by Mr. Brindle. But that family, with the other early Scotch-Irish settlers of this northern part of Middlesex, are extinct, and it has been the later German settlers who, by their toll, have made the border of our valley "blossom like the rose."