Old RICHLAND Families
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By: Ellwood Roberts, 1898, reprinted 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, Lancaster, Lester, Johnson, Foulke, Strawn, Moore, Jamison, Penrose, Ball, Morris, Greens, Shaws, Edwardes, Heacocks, Thomsons, Hallowells and Spencers.