In a message dated 7/15/2001 7:08:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, LOflaherty@aol.com writes: > I have a listing for a birth of a third Great Grand Father and it is in > Middletown. Is this a township or a town? > Louise, Middletown is a township, which contains the town of Parkland, and has within it's confines the boroughs of Penndel, Hulmeville, Langhorne and Langhorne Manor. It's bordered on the townships of Bristol to the South, Newtown and Northampton to the North, Lower Makefield and Falls to the East, and Lower Southampton and Bensalem to the West. In your great Grandfather's time, it was a bucolic farming area with cottages along the Neshaminy Creek for Summering Philadelphians. In Parkland there was a Revival Meeting House, where people came from miles around including Philadelphia and New Jersey to attend the religious meetings. If you're interested in knowing more, contact me by email. Jim Lawrence, South Jersey Researching Philadelphia surnames: (paternal) Lawrence/Lorentz/Lorenz, Huess, Hotz, Gunzler, Kugler, Goodman/Gutmann, Sweitzer, Etley, Kubler/Cubbler, Moehrle (maternal) Marlin, Musselman, Frock, Harrop, Morgenroth & Bauer. Associated Philadelphia families: (paternal) Frick, Unbehend, Speel, Linninger, Dannecker, Carter, Curwin, Geyer, Chapman, Gravenstine, Heimer, Hays, Duff, Hoskins, Lake, Evans, Clark, Graham, Frenchmaker, White & Adair (maternal) Ball, Schafer, Spicer, Bythway, Cooney & dozens of others. SAR #153101 for Philadelphia Revolutionary War soldiers: Johannes Lorentz, Christian Lorentz, Johann Michael Hotz & Charles Kugler. Researching following German towns & names: Niederhausen, Pfalz: Lorentz, Lauer & Pistorius; Wertheim, Wurtemburg: Hotz, Conrad, Engelhard, Sauer & Klein; Grossgartach, Wurtemburg: Kugler, Hoffman, Flinspach, Heller & Schoeckinger; Grossbreitenbach, Thuringia: Morgenroth; Erdmannhausen, Wurtemburg: Bauer. See my genealogy webpages: http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/l/a/w/James-Harry-Lawrence/index.html http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=lorentz1 Also see my genealogy at Ancestry.com.