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 ~ BUCKS COUNTY HISTORY & GENEALOGY
William Penn's Council ordered "that the seal of the County of Bucks Pennsylvania be a tree and a vine." The Shield came from the family crest.
Pennsylvania, starting as a feudal proprietary province, under the treble control of deputy-governors, proprietor, and king, gradually worked out for herself a body of constitutional liberty, which, at the time of the Revolution, gave her such a satisfactory form of government that it was a great obstacle in the way of the movement for independence.
The Bucks County Historical Society is celebrating 125 years.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~buckscounty   (300 words)

  
 Ramsey
Margaret Ramsey married to a Robert Bready, Bucks County, PA? Robert d/1799 and is buried in the Neshaminy Presbyterian Churchyard of Warwick.
Was a colonial soldier of Bucks County in the French and Indian War 1755-56, his brother-in-law, John Johnston being a Lieutenant of the same company.
Given at my Office in the County of Fairfax within my said Proprietary under my hand and Seal.
www.southern-style.com /RAMSEY.htm   (12587 words)

  
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Watercolor painting of a stylized version of the seal of Pennsylvania, painted by early Philadelphia engraver John G. Warnicke in 1812, possibly while imprisoned for debt in the Philadelphia Prison.
Journal of the Pennsylvania Quaker minister (1748-1830) who was responsible for the great division among Friends in 1828.
From the library of John Mehelm (1735-1809), a member of New Jersey's Provincial Congress, Revolutionary War patriot, and justice and surrogate of Hunterdon County.
www.felcone.com /amer1860.htm   (15674 words)

  
 HeraldicAmerica: The Seal of the State of Pennsylvania    
A sheaf of wheat was probably depicted on the seal of Bucks county, although no precise description has been preserved.
The ancient ship can be seen on the seal of Philadelphia in 1683, and the plough on that of Chester county.
Photo C105914), we find this superb impression of the seal of Pennsylvania affixed to a legal document issued in Philadelphia on 15 October 1785.
pages.infinit.net /cerame/heraldicamerica/etudes/pennsylvania.htm   (15674 words)

  
 ~ BUCKS COUNTY HISTORY & GENEALOGY
In March, 1683, William Penn's Council ordered "that the seal of the County of Bucks Pennsylvania be a tree and a vine." The Shield came from the family crest.
This website was created as a guide to the history and genealogy of Bucks County Pennsylvania.
That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternately red and white, that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~buckscounty   (15674 words)

  
 ~ BUCKS COUNTY HISTORY & GENEALOGY
William Penn's Council ordered "that the seal of the County of Bucks Pennsylvania be a tree and a vine." The Shield came from the family crest.
The Bucks County Historical Society is celebrating 125 years.
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freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~buckscounty   (290 words)

  
 PAPower: GOVERNOR RENDELL PROCLAIMS JUNE 5 SMARTY JONES DAY IN PENNSYLVANIA
Pennsylvania is home to four operating racetracks: Penn National Racecourse, Grantville, Dauphin County; Philadelphia Park, Bensalem, Bucks County; Pocono Downs, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County; and The Meadows, Meadow Lands, Washington County.
GIVEN under my hand and the Seal of the Governor, at the City of Harrisburg, this second day of June in the year of our Lord two thousand and four, and of the Commonwealth the two hundred and twenty-eighth.
Pennsylvania is anxious to bring home a Triple Crown winner in Smarty Jones,” Governor Rendell said.
www.state.pa.us /papower/cwp/view.asp?Q=437062&A=11   (579 words)

  
 Pennsylvania Roots & Spreading Branches
The first purchase of land from the Indians by the Penn family, by cash and by treaty in the Province of Pennsylvania, was made the fifteenth of July, 1682 by William Penn. It consisted of about one-fourth of the most easterly area of what is now Bucks County in southeastern Pennsylvania.
The Mifflin County Justice of the Peace, William McAllister, witnessed his hand and seal that day and referred to those asking to have the deed recorded as "John Grabel, John Lyder, Joseph Barge, and Abraham Barge".
--Made 12 April 1848 and filed on the same day - Abraham Barge of Perry County, Pennsylvania, released all his claims as Samuel had paid him for them.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~foulkrod/pierson.htm   (10435 words)

  
 PDA: Governor Rendell Proclaims June 5 Smarty Jones Day in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania is home to four operating racetracks: Penn National Racecourse, Grantville, Dauphin County; Philadelphia Park, Bensalem, Bucks County; Pocono Downs, Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County; and The Meadows, Meadow Lands, Washington County.
WHEREAS, Smarty Jones will carry the hopes of millions of Pennsylvanians on his back as he races this Saturday at the Belmont Stakes in Elmont, New York in the final leg of the Triple Crown.
Governor Edward G. Rendell today issued a proclamation marking Saturday, June 5 as Smarty Jones Day in Pennsylvania for the third time in honor of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness winner who will compete for the Triple Crown in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday.
www.agriculture.state.pa.us /agriculture/cwp/view.asp?a=390&q=130924   (589 words)

  
 Shaw
A friend to cool reason and public good has favored us with some remarks on the present posture of affairs in the honorable Congress --- Certainly, he observes, the sessions of several state Bucks County, State of Pennsylvania, August 25, 1788.
In witness whereof I the said Testator have hereunto set my hand and seal at Philadelphia aforesaid this sixth day of of January in the year of our Lord 1792.
The partnership of SHAW and SYKES being dissolved some time past, those indebted are requested to pay their respective balances to the subscriber, who is impowered to settle the same.
www.cowaro.com /Genealogy/Surname_file/Shaw.html   (13910 words)

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