A Collection of Papers Read before the Bucks County Historical Society were published for the Society by the Fackenthal Publication Fund, 1917-1932, these 8 volumes represent a variety of historical writings concerning Bucks County, Pennsylvania, the state of Pennsylvania, and then in later volumes, articles from other states. All 8 volumes are freely downloadable for your usage.
Read and/or download: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, Volume 6, Volume 7, Volume 8
Table of Contents
Volume 1
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- Early settlement of Newtown Township
- Solebury Copper Mine
- Early history of Bucks County
- Bucks County Bi-centennial
- About Attleborough
- Mennonite or German Friends
- Our Stone Age
- German population in Bucks County
- Marquis de LaFayette
- Neshaminy Church
- Indian town of Playwickey
- Doylestown Presbyterian Church
- Reminiscences of Wrightstown
- Early history of Wrightstown
- Some account of Warminster Meeting
- Newspapers of Bucks County
- Poets and poetry of Bucks County
- Schools of Buckingham
- Reminiscences of Buckingham
- Bucks County in the Revolution
- Doanes before the the Revolution
- Sketch of the life of Gen. John Davis
- Southampton Baptist Church
- Paper mills of Bucks Co.
- Edward Hicks
- Fells and slocums of Wyoming
- Durham Iron Works
- Three dramatic scenes in the closing hours of the Revolutionary struggle
- Four lawyers of Doylestown bar
- Doans and their times
- Thomas Ross, a minister of the Society of Friends
- Durham Cave
- Plumstead Township
- Durham Cave, reminiscences
- Education in Durham Township
- George Taylor, the Signer
- General Ulysses S. Grant
- Colonial estates
- Early clock makers
- Edward Hicks
- Local names
- Early Welsh settlers
- Schwenkfelders
- Aboriginal remains in Durham and vicinity
- New Britain Baptist Church
- Hon. Samuel D. Ingham
- Red Lion Inn, Bensalem Township
- Early Catholics of Bucks Co.
- Bucks Co. Medical Society
- Town we live in
- Bits of history
- Scraps of Bucks before 1750
- Early history of Bristol
- Loganian lands in Bucks Co.
- Popular Errors Respecting North American Indians
Volume 2
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- Counties of Pennsylvania
- Two Makefields
- John Fitch, the inventor of steam navigation
- Schwenkfelders
- Prehistoric man in northern Bucks Co.
- Grave of Tamanend
- Hon. Richard Watson
- Bedminster Township
- Hon. Bird Wilson
- Blackfans in England and America
- Bristol Pike
- Jails of Bucks Co.
- Early and trying days of the Reformed Church in America
- Beatty family
- Historical sketch of Hatboro and vicinity
- Robert Morris, the financier of the Revolution
- Battle of Crooked Billet
- First settlers’ descendants
- Early settlers in Bucks County
- Representatives of Bucks Co. in Congress
- Hermit of the Wolf Rocks
- Reading the Rocks
- Early county superintendency of Bucks Co.
- The Red Man’s Bucks County
- Buckingham, the Empire Township
- Washington’s Crossing: monument and facts
- Daniel Boone, a native of Bucks Co.
- Battle of Fair Oaks
- Old burying-groung, grave of Edward Marshall
- John Ross and the Ross family
- Newtown prior to 1800
- half an hour with the old taverns of Doylestown
- General Jacob Brown, a Bucks Co. hero of the War of 1812
- Growden Mansion
- Thomas Janes, provincial councilor
- Little Neshaminy
- Colonial Bucks Co.
- When men were sold, reminiscences of the Underground Railroad in Bucks Co. and its managers
- Scotch-Irish families
- Society of Friends
- Jeremiah Langhorne and his times
- Amos Austin Hughes
- Turnpike roads
- Temanend chief of the Lenni Lenapes
- Early courts of Bucks Co.
- Settlement of Tinicum Township
- Old Sullivan Road
- Indian “busts” found in Hilltown Township
- Sketch of the life of Rev. Thomas B. Montanye
Volume 3
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- Sketch of Log College
- Two old horse companies
- Town of Bethlehem
- General John Lacey, our Quaker general
- Reminiscences of Quakertown and its people
- Old richland settlers
- Parry family of New Hope
- William Penn’s children
- Bogart’s Inn, an old hostelry
- Wrightstown settlers
- German element in Bucks Co.
- Eastburn family
- Warminster Harts
- Biographical notice of Rev. Douglas K. Turner
- Wynkoop family
- Kenderdines of Bucks Co.
- Hilltown Thomas family
- Revolutionary events about Newtown
- Judge Henry Wynkoop
- Rodmans and Foxes
- Folwells of Bucks Co.
- Historic “Summerseat”
- Morrisville and its vicinity
- Five Bucks Co. generals
- “Virginia Riflemen”, a misnomer
- Old Pennypack Baptist Church
- Newtown, old and new
- Tohickon settlers
- Keller family history
- Newtown Library
- Historical reminiscences of Pineville and vicinity
- Law governing the settlement of new counties
- Robert Morris, founder of Morrisville
- Morrisville the capital
- Founding of Morrisville
- Sharon and the Indian legend connected therewith
- Colonial origin of some Bucks Co. families
- Old Presbyterian Church at Newtown
- Jacob Jennings Brown, the “Fighting Quaker” of Bucks Co.
- Dungan ancestry
- Chapman-Mina tragedy
- Cave explorations
- Lenape Stone
- Anti slavery days, experiences of fugitives
- Bucks Co. in our nation’s history
- Firearms of colonial imes
- Henry Quinn, author of “Temple of reason”
- Old shad fisheries on the Delaware River
- Spirit Colony at Parkland
- Old New Hope, Coryell’s Ferry, Pa.
- Longstreth family of Warminster
- Ringing Rocks
- Rev. Nathaniel Irwin
- Admiral John A. Dahlgren
- Relations of the Pennsylvania proprietaries to the colonists
- General Jean Victor Maria Moreau
- Claim of Connecticut to Wyoming
- General Andrew Pickens
- Old Doylestown
Volume 4
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- Hulme family of Bucks Co.
- Union Academy of Doylestown
- Samuel D. Ingham, secretary of the U.S. Treasury
- Bucks Co. Historical Society, its aims and purposes
- Bucks Co. north of the Lehigh River
- Pennsylvania German stoveplates in Berks Co.
- Excelsior Normal Institute, Carversville, Pa.
- Interesting New Hope relics
- Swamp of Tinicum and Nockamixon
- Thomas Hicks, artist, a native of Newtown
- Friends Old Meeting House in Bristol, Pa.
- Historic sketch of Ottsville and vicinity
- Presbyterian Church of Tinicum at Red Hill
- Saint John the Baptist Church of Haycock
- Indian walk from Red Hill to the Blue Mountains
- Memorial tributes to Gen. W.W.H. Davis
- Home of the Paxsons, Bycot House, England
- Captain William Wynkoop and his Company “A”
- Selecting the site of the county seat
- Robert Winder Johnson
- Grier family
- Bucks County potters
- Log houses of Bucks County
- Penn in the County of Bucks, England
- Alfred Paschall, memorial
- Grave of Tammany
- Lenni Lenape departure from Delaware River
- Navigation on the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers
- Historic Associations of Upper Neshaniny Valley
- Old spring houses of Bucks Co.
- Historic account of Bowman’s Hill
- Early settlement of Wrightstown Township
- John Chapman, first settler of Wrightstown
- Bucks Co. pioneers in the Valley of Virginia
- Chief Tammany and the Lenape Stone
- Moravian tile stoves of Salem, North Carolina
- Tile stoves of Moravians at Bethlehem, Pa.
- Langhorne and vicinity in olden times
- Notes on the life of Charles Albert Fechter
- Grave of Rafinesque, the great naturalists
- Bedminister Township Meeting
- Mennonite School and Meeting House
- Bucks Co. heraldry
- Discussion on bakeovens
- Lehigh and Delaware Division canal notes
- Springdale, the Huffnagle Home
- Thomas Wright of Dyerstown, Pa.
- Last Delaware Indian in Bucks Co.
- Ingham Female Seminary in Doylestown Borough
- Rev. Paulus Van Vlecq
- Washington at Whitemarsh
- Flax seed mills
Volume 5
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- Dutch settlement in Bucks Co.
- An Investigation of the “Giant’s Grave”
- Branding Cattle in Idaho
- Branding Cattle in Kansas in 1858
- Turnpike roads in Bucks Co.
- The “Draisiana” or Pedestrian Hobbyhorse of 1819
- Life and work of the Rev. Peter Henry Dorsius
- Gristmills of an Ancient Type, Known as Norse Mills
- Notes on the Norse Mill
- Roulet Volant or Norse Mill
- Biographical notice of Joseph B. Walter, M.D.
- Making a Dugout Boat in Mississippi
- Manners and Customs of Eighty Years Ago
- Cupping and Bleeding
- George Taylor, Signer of the Declaration of Independence
- Homes of George Taylor
- Bucks Co. women in wartime
- Historical reminiscences of Cuttalossa Creek
- Maple Sugar Making in Southwestern Pennsylvania and Northwestern Virginia
- Norse Mills of Colonial Times
- Horse Hopples
- Basket Making
- Notes on Basket Making
- Basket Making in Durham Township
- Early Pennsylvania Pottery
- Well Caves of Bucks County
- Notes on Forgotten Trades
- The Ringing Rocks of Bridgeton Township
- Biographical notice of Clarence D. Hotchkiss
- An Ancient Indian pipe from Bucks COunty
- The Divining Rod in Bucks County
- Water Irons
- Octagonal or so-called “Eight-Square” Schoolhouses by Alden M. Collins
- Early history of Bedminster Township
- Biographical notice of John A. Ruth
- Shad Fishing in the Delaware River
- Growing, Treating, and Drying Flax
- Wool Combing by Hand
- Octagonal or so-called “Eight-Square” Schoolhouses by Warren S. Ely
- Sketch of Dr. Jonathan Ingham
- Broom Making by Hand
- Ancient Methods of Threshing in Bucks County
- Passing Events (Paper No. 1)
- Figurehead of Chief Tammany from the Old Ship-of-the-Line, Delaware
- Buck County Samplers
- History of Church’s school in Buckingham Township
- Old Methods of Taking Fish
- Early history of Washington Crossing and its environs
- A Lost Stoveplate Inscription
- The Making of Felt Hats
- Passing Events (Paper No. 2)
- OLd House Indisutries
- The Wire Fabric Industry in America
- Old Fences in Bucks County
- Wells and Pumps in Bucks County
- Early courthouses of Bucks County
- Lowther family of Buckingham
- Notes on Adobe Bricks
- Discussion of Mr. Mann’s Paper on Adobe Bricks
- The Zithers of the Pennsylvania Germans
- The Path that Led to the Indian Village of Playwicky
- An Attempt to Find the Site of the Indian Town of Playwicky
- Old heath mill and its early owners
- Dating of old houses
- Laux family of Bucks County, Pa.
- The Origin of Log Houses in the United States
- The Ferry Tract at New Hope, Pa., and Coryell’s Ferry in New Jersey
- Tobacco and Its Culture in Bucks County
- Remarks on Mr. Scheetz’s Paper on Tobacco Culture
- Early history of Neshaminy Presbyterian Church
- Recollections of Tennent School
- Schoolboy Memories
- The Old York Road
- Samuel Hart collection of manuscripts, 1777-1877
- The End of the Open Fire Cooking in Bucks County
- Life Near Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1850
- Hunting, Trapping and Fishing in Bucks County
- Random Notes on Forgotten Trades
- Andrew Elliott, the great surveyor
- The Last of the File-Makers
- The Colonial Carpenter
- History of the Lucy M. Burd Industrial School
- Herbs and Plants Used for Medicinal Purposes by Colonial Settlers
- Proctor family of Upper Bucks Co.
Volume 6
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- Edward Hicks and His Paintings
- Turpentine Gathering in North Carolina
- Indian Walking Purchase of September 19 and 20, 1737
- Three Tuns Inn at Gallows Hill and the Old Durham Road
- Quarrying
- Pioneer Life in Maine in 1808
- A Lutheran mission in Northampton Township in 1748
- Preserving “Summerseat”
- Biographical notice of M.J. Allan Emory
- House Mottoes in Eastern Pennsylvania
- The Last Days of Harness Making in Bucks County
- Notes at Random from My Life’s Experience, by Matthias H. Hall
- Early history of Point Pleasant
- Improving Navigation on the Delaware River with Some Account of Its Ferries, Bridges, Canals and Floods.
- Letters from Native Bucks Countians Living in Canada, 1815
- Hilltown Baptist churches and schools
- Dolington, past and present
- Reminiscing Around an Ancestral Fireplace and Bake Oven
- Making Solar Salt
- Sesquicentennial Anniversary of the Battle of Crooked Billet
- Visit in Durham Township of a Political Refugee from Brazil
- Peddlers and Other Itinerants
- Child Life During the American Revolution
- Dr. Henry Chapman Mercer, memorial services, etc.
- The Building of “Fonthill” Described
- Address of Welcome to “Glacialdrift,” Riegelsville
- South Mountain Indian Quarries
- Cattle ear marks of the seventeenth century
- Manufacture of Hydraulic Cement in Bucks County
- New Light on the History of Tin Plating
- Early history of Keller’s Lutheran Church
- Ancestry of John Stover Fretz
- North Doylestown Borough and adjacent townships
- Tamenend vs. Allummapees
- Thompson-Neely House in Solebury Township
- Family bibles in the library of the Bucks County Historical Society
- A Rafting Story of the Delaware River
- Story of my branch of the Longshore family by Mrs. Lucretia L. Blankenburg
- Restoring Old Pictures
- Moland House, Washington’s Headquarters on the Neshaminy
Volume 7
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- Schools of Neshaminy
- The Bender System of Steam Propulsion
- John Fitch, pioneer in steam navigation
- John Fitch’s third steamboat
- Early botanists in Bucks Co.
- The Durham Ironworks in Durham Township
- Notes on Gristmills and Milling in Pennsylvania
- Genealogical notes and land titles
- An introduction to the Loyalists of Bucks Co. and some queries concerning them
- Life and expatriation of Judge Gilbert Hicks
- County Court at Newtown
- Presses and printers of Newtown before 1868
- Biographical notice of Matthias Heaton Hall
- Some Memories of George Brown Ellis, Edward M. Ellis and William H. Ellis, Nineteenth Century Engravers of Buckmanville Valley
- Early Hough families of Bucks Co.
- Covered Highway Bridges in Bucks County
- Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Tinicum, Pa.
- Buckwampun Historical and Literary Society
- Louis H. Spellier and his electric clocks
- History of the building of Doylestown Friends Meeting House
- Biographical notice of Warren Smedley Ely
- Early Time-Telling Devices
- General LaFayette’s Journey from Brandywine to Bethlehem, with Special Reference to Inscriptions in Taverns and Tavern Signboards
- Superintendents of common schools of Pennsylvania 1834-1937
- Inventions and Mechanical Progress in Bucks County
- Pennsylvania-German Potters of Bucks County, Pennsylvania
- Walnut Grove Farms, Address of Welcome
- The DuPonts Selecting a Site for Their Powder Works
- Charles Ellet, Jr., engineer and patriot
- The Great Chain at West Point and Other Obstructions Placed in the Hudson River During the War of the Revolution
- Historic Saint James Church, Bristol, Pa.
Volume 8
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- The Main Line of North Pennsylvania Railroad – 1852-1879
- John Barclay, biographical
- Early Public School education in Bucks County and the Passing of the One-room Schoolhouse
- Snapshots of Revolutionary Newtown, Pa.
- Symbolism of Trade Signs
- Early schoolhouses in four Bucks Co. Townships
- In the Footsteps of Joseph Hampton and the Pennsylvania Quakers
- Memoirs of Mary Israel Ellet
- Last purchase of land from the Indians in Bucks Co.
- Agricultural Societies of Bucks County