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Bristol: Friends Meeting House Friends Meeting House, Bristol, Pennsylvania.

Bristol

Pennsylvania, United States
Also known as: Buckingham
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Bristol, borough (town), Bucks county, southeastern Pennsylvania, U.S., on the Delaware River, just northeast of Philadelphia. The settlement was laid out in 1697 as Buckingham near the site of William Pennā€™s home and was renamed in about 1700 for Bristol, England. It served as the Bucks county seat until 1726, when the seat moved to Newton. Bristol developed with the establishment (1714) of ferry service to Burlington, New Jersey, and the construction of the Kingā€™s...

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