I have been going through a bunch of old email messages and came across this one. It is a record of James Hill of Buckington, Somerset County. Apparently this is actually Beckington, England, though I am not entirely certain.1
James paid William Penn £10 for some land. The document is dated July 27, 1681.
The message was posted on the Bucks County, Pennsylvania mailing list at RootsWeb.
I need to get a little oriented here. Where today are the locations/Names of the places mentioned below?
When it refers to east of the Delaware River are we talking of New
Jersey/West JerseyA tract of land containing of 500 acres lying east of the Delaware River twelve miles north of New Castle Town.
Remarks: Release. William Penn of Worminghurst, Sussex Co.,
to James Hill of Buckington, Sommerset Co., for £10, Ackn. 27th da, July, 1681
ajh
1. I can’t find a Buckington in either England or the United States. There is a Somerset County in Pennsylania, but it was not formed until 1795.
