Smithfield Township

More than 25 years before the United States Declaration of Independence, Smithfield Township was created – not born – as a political decision of the Bucks County Commissioners and Court. Many times since then, some authority’s political decision has shaped the scope, boundaries, and social forces operating on this Township. In 1746, the inhabitants of this large area drew up a petition to the Bucks County Commissioners at Newtown to draw lines for a new Smithfield Township, proposing “to begin at the gap in the mountains where the River Delaware runs through and from thence five or six miles northwest and then by a straight line to the