Old RICHLAND Families (Bucks County, Pennsylvania) (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781639140237)

By: Ellwood Roberts, 1898, 2021, 300 pages, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-023-7.

Richland township is located in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It is located less than 40 miles from Philadelphia. This area was settled by English & Welsh Quakers and also Germans seeking refuge for religious reasons. Information that will be gleamed from this book: Naming and creation of the township, the Friends' Meeting, Records of Richland Meeting, Original Documents, a section entitled Notes which has various data of these settlers and then the remaining half of the book is devoted to biographical sketches of the following surnames: Roberts Family;Lancaster Family;Lester Family;Johnson Family;Foulke Family;Strawn Family;Moore family;Jamison Family;Penrose Family;Ball Family;Morris Family;Greens Family;Shaw Family;Edwardes Family;Heacocks Family;Thomsons Family;Hallowell Family;Spencer Family