. History of Northampton County [Pennsylvania] and the grand valley of the Lehigh under supervision and revision of William J. Heller, assisted by an advisory board of COLONIAL WAREHOUSE ON DELAWARE. COLONL^L WAREHOUSES ON DELAWARE RIVER CHAPTER XXXVIIBOROUGHS. South Easton—The location on the south bank of the Lehigh river oppositeEaston was plotted for a village as early as 1833, by the Lehigh Coal andNavigation Company. It was originally a portion of the township of Wil-liams, and a part of the site of the village was in years long past a farmowned by Melchoir Hay, who bought the
. History of Northampton County [Pennsylvania] and the grand valley of the Lehigh under supervision and revision of William J. Heller, assisted by an advisory board of COLONIAL WAREHOUSE ON DELAWARE. COLONL^L WAREHOUSES ON DELAWARE RIVER CHAPTER XXXVIIBOROUGHS. South Easton—The location on the south bank of the Lehigh river oppositeEaston was plotted for a village as early as 1833, by the Lehigh Coal andNavigation Company. It was originally a portion of the township of Wil-liams, and a part of the site of the village was in years long past a farmowned by Melchoir Hay, who bought the rights to seven hundred acres fromJohn Rush, the original purchaser from the Proprietaries. Hay was one ofthe axemen who helped to clear away the thickets at the Forks of the Dela-ware, when Parsons and Scull laid out the town of Easton. It was incorporated as a borough under the name of South Easton byan act of the Assembly passed May 27, 1840, and at the first election, heldJuly 4 of that year, Christian Martin was elected burgess; William Nyce, Bar-tholomew Murtha, Amos Rogers, Gilbert Valentine, George Savage, andDavid Moyer, councilmen; Jacob Deiley, high constable. South Easton was a canal outl
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