Reprint of v. 3 of the 1905 ed. published by Lewis Pub. Co., New York under title: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania from the discovery of the Delaware to the present time.

Col. Arthur Erwin was probably born and Camlin Parish, Antrim County, Uster, Ireland, in 1726, probably the son of Joseph Erwin. He married Mary Scott in Ireland. They had seven children, 1756-1767. The family immigrated to America in 1768 and settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Mary Scott Erwin died at sea. He married 2) Mary Kennedy, daughter of William and Mary Ann Henderson Kennedy. They had six children, 1770-1786. He served as a colonel in the Pennsylvania militia during the Revolutionary War. He was murdered in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in 1791. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and elsewhere.

Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks is a collection of genealogical and historical information pertaining to the first settlers of the upper part of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Separate chapters are assigned to each family, and approximately 12,000 persons are named and identified. The genealogies commence with the first of the Bucks County line (usually during the period of the eighteenth century, but also earlier) and proceed, on average, through about eight generations.

Nathaniel Erwin (ca. 1711-1794) and five of his sons served in the Revolutionary War, and later moved from Bucks County, Pennsylvania to York County, South Carolina. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas and elsewhere. Includes some ancestral lines (including nobility) to 1066 A.D. in England. Descendants and relatives also include family members of U.S. President Benjamin F. Harrison, Francis Shuck, Governor of Pennsylvania, and other Pennsylvania state government officials.