The History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; From the Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876 Excerpt: ...purchased one tract in Richland, and another on the south bank of the Lehigh. Grace Growden was the owner of five hundred and twenty-five acres, which she received from her father's estate, which were sold in 1785, but its location we do not know. Benjamin Gilbert, son of Joseph and Rachel Gilbert, of Byberry, Philadelphia, removed to Richland about 1735, where he remained until 1749, when he went to Makefield, and back again to Byberry, in 1755. The life of Mr. Gilbert had an unfortunate termination. In 1775, at the age of sixty-four, he removed with his family to Mahoning creek, a frontier settlement then in Northampton county, where he erected saw and grist-mills, and carried on an extensive and prosperous business. In 1780 a party of hostile Indians burned his buildings, and carried himself and family prisoners to Canada. He died while going down the St. Lawrence, but his wife and children, after suffering many hardships, returned to Byberry in 1782, where his widow died in 1810. Mr. Gilbert was an author of some merit, and wrote and published several works on religious subjects. The ancestor of James C. Iden, of Buckingham, was an early settler in the " bog" of Richland. Randall Iden, the great-grandfather of James C, was born in Bristol harbor, England, on shipboard, about 1684 or 1686, on the eve of the family sailing for America. The father died on the voyage, leaving a widow with nine children. On their arrival in the Delaware, or soon afterward, the mother and two youngest children went to live at Joseph Kirkbride's. The youngest son, Randall, married Margaret Greenfield, who was brought up at Kirkbride's, and removed to Richland, where he spent his life, raised a family of children, and died at a good old age. In 1816 his son Samuel, th...