Jonathan (John) McNeely
“Active in the Deep Run Presbyterian Church in early time was ROBERT McNEELY.He settled on 153 acres of land north of church site.His brother JOHN McNEELY settled above him on 190 acres of land…both brothers are on Allen land. They probably settled here AFTER 1741. There may have been a purchase agreement sat up with William Allen, but it never came into fruition.Allen’s Estate sold…in 1801... And so, sixty years of hard work and heavy taxation went down the drain.(Early Families, page 37, History of Bedminster, Bucks County, PA, fourth printing, September 1999, by Bedminster Historical Society, Pauline Cassel, 1976).
The History of Bucks County by W.W.H. Davis has Jonathan (John) McNeely as settling farther North in Bucks County in Allen Township on Allen land. “Allen Township, Bucks County, PA, The Scotch-Irish settlers in Allen moved in the organization of a township in 1746. At the June term "the inhabitants living on the west branch of the Delaware" petitioned the court to fix the boundary of a township.The pioneers of the Lehigh who petitioned for the township were: Jonathan McNeely, James McAlexander(Alexander mm), Joseph Kerr, Jonathan Kerr, David Kerr, James Kerr,Thomas Thompson, Thomas Armstrong, William Craig, James Craig, Thomas Craig,William Craig and others.”.(THE HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, CHAPTER XXXVII, SMITHFIELD; ALLEN; MOUNT BETHEL; MOORE; EASTON; 1746 TO 1750 from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time by W. W. H. Davis, A.M., 1876 and 1905 editions.CHAPTER VII (Vol. II), 1905 ed…. 1746 TO 1750).
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