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Notes for Henry Paul


Living Individual - Details withheldFrom Biographical, Genealogical and Descriptive History of the First Congressional DIstrict of New Jersey, The Lewis Publishing Company, New York and Chicago, 1900, p 86: The 100 acres Yeamans purchased in Osford township, now Frankford, from WIlliam Penn in 1696, and afterward sold that property to Thomas Bristol, who, on November 11, 1786, sold it to Henry Paul, and the last named sold it to Yeamans Gillingham, the grandson of Yeamans Gillingham, first. The latter transaction occurred Marych 9, 1793. His property included all the land enclosed by the road leading from the United States arsenal around to the Friend's meeting-house, thence northwest to the Black Run, thence by nearly a straight line from Sacony creek to the river and the arsenal road again.

Paul Street in Frankford is named in honor of the Paul family.
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