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Northampton Township
Historical Commission 55 Township Road Richboro, PA 18954 
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"It may come as a surprise that the Dutch and Quaker farmers of Colonial times in Bucks County were considerable slave owners. Where many of the farms were holdings of several hundred acres, slaves provided the labor force for those who could afford to buy them. Many of the Negroes were part of the inventories of the deceased, who passed on the slaves to their heirs. In a 1784 inventory, the price of human merchandise was "Negro Woman £45, Negro girl 7 years old, £20, Negro boy 5 years old, £15, and Negro child 6 mos. old, £5" " "The old Bennet-Search house on Second Street Pike at Twining Ford Road, Richboro, perhaps was a stopping place for runaways. An old time resident in 1970 remembered his grandmother telling him of seeing groups of escaped slaves sitting in the summer kitchen of that house. Later owners found what appeared to be an archway and a beginning of a tunnel at one end wall of the cellar. For many years there was a cemetery for slaves and their later generations just north of this house along Second Street Pike." For
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