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| | History of Potsgrove, Upper Lower and West Providence, Plymouth and Whitemarsh, Pa. |
 | | Only two miles of this stream, however, are within this township, but in this distance it had many years ago three gristmilis on its banks. |
 | | October 25, 1701, William Penn conveyed to his son, John Penn, a tract of twelve thousand acres of land, which the latter, in June, 1735, sold to George McCall, a merchant of Philadelphia, for the sum of two thousand guineas, or in our present-day money would be worth $9,339. |
 | | Grosstown, a small village two miles west of Pottstown, on the old Philadelphia, Reading and Perkiomen turnpike, was started by a family named Gross, who lived there about one hundred and twenty-five years ago. |
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