Tacony), in 1677. In November, 1678, he served on the jury at Upland Court. This is supposed to be the first jury empaneled in what later became Pennsylvania.
The records show that on November 12, 1678, Dunck Williames petitioned to take up one hundred acres "on the lower syde of Nieshambenies Creek, 50 acres thereof att ye river syde and ye other 50 acres up in the woods." The next year, on March 12, 1679, he petitioned to take up four acres of marsh back of his "plantaceion."
Duncan Williamson died in 1699, and was buried in the Williamson family burying-ground in Bensalem Township, about three miles from Bristol. But the name of "Dunk's Ferry" has persisted to this day.[1] Something like a century later it occurs, for instance, in one of General Washington's letters during the Revolution.
10th December, 1776.
Sir:
"Yours of last evening reached me at 4 o'clock this morning. I immediately sent orders to Commodore Seymour to despatch one of his gallies down to Dunk's- ↑ The c in Dunck has been dropped.
