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The earliest inhabitants of the neighborhood were Scotch-Irish. In 1732 a log church was founded at Deep Run, eight miles north-west of Doylestown, of which Rev. Francis McHenry was installed pastor in 1738. Doylestown was incorporated as a borough in 1838.
History. William Doyle's 18th Century Inn, founded at the intersection of the Philadelphia to Easton, and Swedsford to Coryell's Ferry roads, was the seed that bloomed into the town now known as Doylestown.
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The start of a family that impacted and helped establish many important citizens of Doylestown began with Henry S. Murfit (1854 – 1900) and Caroline Hill Gilkyson Murfit (1855 – 1918). Henry S. Murfit was born in Upper Makefield Township into a family that was among the first settlers in Bucks County.
Mar 25, 2012 · Purchasing land in the 1730s Edward Doyle and his sons William and Clement moved here from along the Delaware River and by 1775 William Doyle obtained his first tavern license for a site on West Court Street, then New Britain Township. Within a decade he relocated his tavern “one block” closer to the crossroads in what was then Warwick Township.
Doylestown is a borough in and the county seat of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the borough population was 8,300. Doylestown is located 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Trenton, 25 miles (40 km) north of Center City Philadelphia, 27 miles (43 km) southeast of Allentown.
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Once again, the county seat was relocated, this time from Newtown to Doylestown, where it remains today. Doylestown was also home to Henry Chapman Mercer, an architect, collector and ceramist, who built two sprawling castles in the county seat. One structure, the Mercer Museum, houses his extensive collection of American artifacts, displayed on ...
Feb 29, 2008 · History of Doylestown, old and new. From its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900 : Davis, W. W. H. (William Watts Hart), 1820-1910 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. History of Doylestown, old and new. From its settlement to the close of the nineteenth century, 1745-1900.