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Subject: Re: [ORIGINAL-13] Roosevelt line in Germantown
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:23:26 EDT
In a message dated 10/19/2007 10:12:58 AM Central Daylight Time,
writes:
> Bristol Twp. is in Bucks County. Bristol Twp., Bucks county is about 40
> miles from Germantown. Bristol is on the Delaware River near New Jersey.
> Germantown is near the Schuylkill River in northwest Philadelphia. There was
> a
> Bristol Twp. in Philadelphia until 1854. It no longer exists. Germantown is
> in
> Philadelphia, South and West of the old Bristol Twp.
> [[[[[ If the book that you quote has a location Bristol Twp., Bucks Co.,
> Germantown, PA, then I would not trust anything else in the book since the
> geography
> is incorrect.]]]]
Exactly. That is the work of Thomas Maxwell Potts, as I mentioned in my
original communication. His genealogy is not accurate. Nor his geography,
apparently.
Barb
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