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| | History of Bethlehem |
 | | Whitfield, the same year, purchased 5,000 acres, almost identical with the present Upper Nazareth Township, on which he proposed founding a school for negro children. |
 | | Northampton County, the seventh in point of time as to its erection, was formed from a part of Bucks, and comprised at first all the territory within its present limits, all of what is now embraced in Lehigh, Carbon, Monroe, Pike, Wayne, and Susquehanna, and parts of Wyoming, Luzerne, Schuylkill, Bradford, and Columbia County. |
 | | The population at the time of incorporation is not known, but that the increase in numbers was remarkably rapid may be inferred from the fact that the census returns of 1870 shows a population here of 3,556. |
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