BRISTOL BOROUGH

~ BRISTOL BOROUGH

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 1705-1

725; incorporated in 1720; rechartered in 1785 and again in 1851.³

	Bristol Borough by location
	Bristol Borough
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Bristol Borough
Located in Bucks County, Bristol was incorporated as a borough on November 14, 1720.
Borough Council Minutes, 1730-1825, 1843-1948. 5 rolls. (LR 1)

MARRIAGES

Bucks County Intelligencer Marriages

	McDevitt, John and Elizabeth Smith 10/5/1842
	Michener, Susanna M., Horsham and Eli Engle 2/26/1846
	Michener, Margaret and Charles H. Pratt, both of Bristol 11/22/1855
	Milnor, James and Ann w. Stackhouse 9/12/1839
	Limehouse, John and Martha Johnson 4/24/1847
	Livingston, Louisa Matilda and Anthony K. Joice 5/8/1842
	Longstreth, John M. and Elizabeth White 8/7/1845
	Lukens, Mary J. and H. Clay Beatty, Esq 11/28/1860
	McMasters, Caroline and Henry Herbert 1/11/1837

CEMETERY

Bristol Cemetery

Bristol Cemetery Find a Grave

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ABRAHAM LINCOLN (1864) 2nd Inaugural

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

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