// Bucks County History Text
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evt[1]=[[1903,'Trolleys started to operate between Newtown and Trenton.'],
			[1939,'The Bucks County Playhouse opened.']];
evt[2]=[[1939,'Electricity was installed in the Bristol Friends Meetinghouse.']];
evt[3]=[[1734,'Wrightstown Friends Meeting of the Society of Friends held its first business meeting.']];
evt[5]=[[1697,'Indian Chief Tamanend deeded the land between the Pennypack and Neshaminy Creeks to William Penn\'s representative.']];
evt[7]=[[1804,'The first edition of the <i>Pennsylvania Correspondent</i>, the predecessor of the <i>Doylestown Intelligencer</i>, was published.']];
evt[9]=[[1774,'A committee was chosen at a public meeting in Newtown to represent Bucks County at a July 15 meeting in Philadelphia to respond to the British "Intolerable Acts".']];
evt[12]=[[1723,'Stephen Whilen was appointed constable in Northampton Township.']];
evt[15]=[[1774,'John Kidd, Joseph Kirkbride, Joseph Hart, James Wallace, Henry Wynkoop, Samuel Foulke and John Wilkinson represented Bucks County at a meeting in Philadelphia to discuss the "Intolerable Acts".']];
evt[18]=[[1880,'The Bensalem School Board advertised for three teachers for the 1880-1881 school term of ten months at an average monthly salary of $37.50.']];
evt[20]=[[1887,'Telephone communication between Newtown and Doylestown began.']];
evt[21]=[[1775,'The first meeting of the Bucks County Committee of Safety was held at Bogart\'s Tavern, Buckingham.']];
evt[24]=[[1758,'Joseph Erwin, son of Colonel Arthur Erwin who was the founder of Erwinna, was born in Ireland.']];
evt[25]=[[1917,'Washington Crossing Park Commission was created by the Pennsylvania legislature.']];
evt[27]=[[1692,'Falls, Bristol, Middletown, and Makefield Townships were established by an order of the Bucks County Court.']];
evt[30]=[[1718,'William Penn died in Ruscombe, Berkshire, England.']];
evt[31]=[[1777,'George Washington and his troops crossed the Delaware River from New Jersey to Coryell\'s Ferry on their way to defend Philadelphia.']];