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BRISTOL BOROUGH
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Bristol was organized in 1695.
Bristol is the second chartered borough in Pennsylvania and Bucks County's largest town. The borough was created November 14, 1720.
The site upon which it is erected is a part of a tract of land patented to Samuel Cliff by Sir Edmund Andros, Colonial Governor of New York. The first court house and prison (of logs) were erected here at the formation of the county, and subsequently rebuilt of brick in 1705. By an act of the Assembly, of the 20th March, 1724, the county seat was removed to Newtown. Original settlers: Anthony Burton, John Hall, William Wharton, Joseph Bond. The principal inhabitants of Bristol were Quakers. Among these, the names of Buckley, Williams, Large, Meritt, Hutchinson, and Church. In 1712 Saint James Church was erected by the Episcopalians, and in 1714 the Friends erected a meeting-house. These comprised, for a full century, the only houses of worship in the borough..1,2
Town laid out in 1697; county seat 1705-1725; incorporated in 1720; rechartered in 1785 and again in 1851.3
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MARRIAGES |
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Bucks County Intelligencer Marriages
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McDevitt, John and Elizabeth Smith 10/5/1842 |
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Michener, Susanna M., Horsham and Eli Engle
2/26/1846 |
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Michener, Margaret and Charles H. Pratt, both
of Bristol 11/22/1855 |
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Milnor, James and Ann w. Stackhouse 9/12/1839 |
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Limehouse, John and Martha Johnson 4/24/1847 |
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Livingston, Louisa Matilda and Anthony K.
Joice 5/8/1842 |
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Longstreth, John M. and Elizabeth White
8/7/1845 |
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Lukens, Mary J. and H. Clay Beatty, Esq
11/28/1860 |
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McMasters, Caroline and Henry Herbert
1/11/1837 |
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