![]() In the 18th century the number of indentured servants was so great that there was a township set aside for them. In an early attempt of social conscience, it was recognized that not only the wealthy should own land. The University of Pennsylvania’s tract initially had a number of restrictions, which were eventually lifted by Thomas Penn’s son John, and it too, was subdivided and sold to settlers. ![]() Thomas Penn gave his land to the University of Pennsylvania in 1759 while the other lands were quickly sold out of the Penn family to settlers and land investors. Initially conveyed in trust to William’s son John Penn, it was divided into four 2,500 sections between William Penn’s four children. The manor was set aside for the personal use of the Penn family. The name is traditionally ascribed to a Lenni Lenape word meaning “where hickory nuts were cracked”. When surveyed, it was found to total 11,462 acres of land. The Manor of Perkasie was originally designed to contain 10,000 acres. Penn’s manors in what is today Bucks County were his own Manor of Pennsbury in Falls Township, the Manor of Highlands in Upper Makefield and Solebury, the Manor of Perkasie and the Manor of Richland. He reserved, within the present limits of Bucks County, several large tracts which were laid out as “Proprietary Manors” that were not for sale to the general public. Both were part of Rockhill Township (which originally included what is now East and West Rockhill in addition to the two boroughs).Īt the time of the settlement of Pennsylvania, William Penn and his agents began to sell the vast amount of real estate to land companies, speculators and settlers. ![]() The adjoining boroughs of Perkasie and Sellersville share a common history and development pattern. One branch of the railroad connected Lansdale to Doylestown and during the 1860s another extension was built to Sellersville, running parallel to Bethlehem Pike and eventually completed to Bethlehem. In northwestern Bucks County, the main impetus for the growth that prompted the creation of Perkasie and Sellersville was the opening of the North Pennsylvania Railroad into rural Bucks County. In Pennsylvania, when an area become populated to a degree that its interests became distinct from the surrounding township, it could become incorporated as a self-governing municipal entity called a borough. ![]()
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