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A Brief History of Bedminster, PA

Bedminister, which was included in Plumstead from its first settlement down to the date of its organization as a township, lies wedged between Plumstead, Hilltown, Rockhill, Haycock, and Nockamixon, having the tortuous Tohickon for its north and north east boundary. All the surrounding townships, except Haycock, were organized prior to Bedminister, and afterward this township was formed of part of Plumstead. William Allen, of Philadelphia was one of the largest landowners in this section of the county, and his possessions lay in several townships. When settlers began to enter Bedminster he and the Proprietaries owned all the land in it. His was called the Deep run tract, and as late as 1800 twenty-two hundred acres, divided into convenient-sized farms, were put up at public sale at the tavern-house of John Shaw. In 1734 John Hough purchased two hundred acres on Deep run, and John Brittain one hundred and fifty on the same stream. August 6, 1741, one thousand acres and one acres were patented by Ralph Ashton for the use of Richard Hockley, and the survey was made by virtue of a warrant dated Mar. 20, 1734. This tract lay "near Tohickon above Deep run" Settlers came in quite rapidly, and in a few years there was considerable population along the Deep run, which name the settlement bore until the township was organized. These first-comers were from the north of Ireland and belonged to that sturdy race known as Scotch-Irish, which played such an important part in the settlement of both the county and state. Although the township is now German, this race settled there at a subsequent period, and their descendants have gradually pushed out the English-speaking people and become dominant. The Scotch-Irish Presbyterians had not been long seated on Deep run before they organized a church, which took the name of that stream, and bears it to this day. A log meeting-house was built near the creek, in the south-west corner of the township as early as 1732 and the first settled minister was there six years later. It was the original place of worship of all the Scotch-Irish Presbyterians of the region of country, and although it has lost its importance since the organization of the Doylestown church, it nevertheless remains the cradle of Presbyterianism north of Neshaminy.There must have been a small frontier congregation here as early as 1726 for when Mr. Tennent was called to Neshaminy in that year, he preached for them. At this time there is hardly a Presbyterian family in the bounds of the old congregation, and serve is only held there at long intervals. In the old graveyard lie the remains of former generations, the inscriptions on the tombstones carrying us back nearly a century and a half. We read on these mute memorials of the past, that Alexander Williams died January 22, 1747, Samuel Hart, jr. 1750, Samuel Cochran in 1767, Thomas Thompson in 1765, JamesGrier in 1763, John Grier in 1768, and William Hart, who was killed at the capture of MosesDoane, at the age of forty, in 1783. At a later day were buried there, Robert Barnhill, Robert McNeeley, Thomas Darrah, Robert Robinson, and others of the fathers of the township. The Reverend Francis McHenry settled in the township in 1738, four years before it was organized, when he was called as pastor at Deep Run. His son Charles, who was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary army, made a narrow escape at the massacre of Paoli, in 1777. Nathan and Agnes Grier were early immigrants from Ireland and members of DeepRun church. One account tells us they lived in Plumstead and another in Bedminster. This family gave three members to the ministry, James and Nathan, their sons, and John Ferguson, the son of James. James became pastor of Deep Run and spent his life there. Nathan, born 1760, graduated at the University of Pennsylvania in 1783, was licensed to preach in 1786 and installed at Forks of Brandywine in 1787. His wife was a grand aunt of General Percifer F. Smith, distinguished in the Mexican war. Nathan Grier died in 1814. John Ferguson Grier was born in 1784 and graduated at Dickinson college with the first honors, in 1803. He studied divinity with his uncle Nathan, and was installed pastor of Reading Presbyterian church in 1814 and died there in 1829. The late Judge Grier of the supreme court of the United States is said to have been a descent of Nathan and Agnes Grier.