Some Account of the Settlements at the Falls and the Establishing of Falls Monthly Meeting

To those familiar with this section, the name at once arouses thoughts of interesting pioneer life, of colonial days, and much cherished history of a thriving and successful rural life. The area is five miles wide, and extends ten miles along the Delaware above and below the " Falls," or rapids in the river at the head of tide water, where the outcropping of the Edge Hill rock projects through the river surface. This is principally located between the three bridges spanning the river at Morrisville. The township bordering the Delaware on the Pennsylvania side for several miles was early designated as " The Falls " township and from these connections arise our monthly meeting titles. It is the settlement of this whole district known as " The Falls " and including with it some of the district early indicated as the " Highlands " or " Makefield Township " that should first be considered, as from that settlement came the foundation of the first meetings here over 235 years ago. Among the earliest available records of settlements on the upper Delaware, was the establishment of a Dutch trading post by the West India Company about 1624, the location being described as " on an island in the river just below the Falls." The Dutch knew