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ENSALEM TOWNSHIP is where we begin. You never heard of it? That is not to be wondered at, for there was nothing to star it on the map until a few years ago. Even now, though it lies along the Delaware River between Philadelphia and Trenton, it is thought of as an out-of-the-way farming region, in old Bucks County, Pennsylvania, celebrated for old-fashioned, straightforward, well-living farmers, chiefly of Quaker ancestors, who, according to tradition, remain county-contained and still vote for Andrew Jackson at the quadrennial Presidential elections.

Bensalem is not a railroad center. The trains simply hurry by on their way to and from New York. Neshaminy Creek, which forms its northern boundary, is not deep 1