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11*06 VM6V UVUUIUU1 Adi 111 1C111U.* m *her FROM MRS. Alice E. Smith, of unce- _ Xevv Hope RD 2, additional interred'esting information about Hend-n A- ricks Island arrived several daya Ac- ago. She writes: his JOHN LIVEZEY Johnson who and settled in Solebury about 1814, indy was a great grandson of Dirk e, is 'Richard in English', the Swed-TV’s ish emigrant and a son of John jand Rachel Johnson, of German-nmy town. He was born September 15, 'hilly 1782 and came to Bucks county . . a few years after his marriage acho to Sarah Ridgeway.o f | “HE HAD learned the milling •due- business with his uncle on the Mrs. Wissahickon, Philadelphia. After tosa- his apprenticeship he worked urch with his uncle a few years. Mov-lion) ing to Bucks county he bought ! the island about a mile north of 800 Center Bridge, at the lower end jobs of which, at Hewells Falls, was to a grain and saw mill, both of Al- which were operated by him for a number of years, or until they were destroyed by fire. Having ine become unprofitable they were rk- never rebuilt and not a vistag® we of them remain today.“JOHN L. Johnson raised alarge family of nine children, liv-lT: ing on the farm just below th® per. island, whicn is still occupied by buy the third and fourth generation $3 of that branch of the Johnson j Family. At least two of the John Jar- L. Johnson's sons are known to Sa- have started their married ca-of reers on the island, Edwin, who ler- married Ann Eastburn, and Richard, who married Elizabeth sne Hamptonini 'NEITHER FAMILY appearsr e to have resided there very long eir as it was considered too danger-aid ous for young mothers. There being no bridge to the main land, the only way across in thus® days, was the ford, which at times of high water left the people stranded on the island for days at a tirr .“IT IS supposed to have been a very fertile farm with only th® high water at times flooding th® lower parts. I wish 1 could go out and tell when the island wai sold by the Johnson Family, but I do not have that information now. Perhaps when 1 have th® time 1 11 Iook it up in the Recorder ol Deeds olli'e in Doylestowm.’*ad
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Doylestown Daily Intelligencer
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, US
Wed, Mar 14, 1956
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Evelyn B.
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