AREA HISTORY:  Boundary Line Fixed, Warrington Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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BOUNDARY LINE FIXED – Page 664

Previous to 1770 a small section of Warrington extended south of the Conewago, and gave rise to 
disputes and inconvenience.  The Conewago and the Bermudian formed the dividing line between 
the early settlements of the Quakers and the Germans, consequently a petition, dated the fourth 
month, twenty-fourth day, 1770, asked the court to establish a definite boundary, conceding the 
“little corner” to Dover Township.  The names of the petitioners were Peter Cook, William 
Griffith, William Garrettson, William Penrose, William Thomas, Robert Nelson, Jacob Williams, 
Samuel Cook, Thomas Atherton, William McClellan, Thomas Edmundson, Robert McMullin, Thomas 
Leech, Henry Atherton, Robert Thomson, Richard Ross, Nathan Philips, John Clarke, Robert 
Madson, Joseph Bentz, William Underwood, William Gardner and Samuel Nelson.  The petition was 
granted.  The small tract mentioned is located a short distance below the “stone bridge.”  It 
included only a few farms at the bend of the stream.