Lot Essay
This instructional relates to an anonymous drawing (FLP 539) and an 1831 Bucks County bookplate signed by David Kulp and inscribed "17 March 1831. Deep Run." and also as well as by Jacob Heaton and Jonathan Collom who later wrote on the bookplate, "March 15th 1834. Hilltown[sic.] Township, Bucks County." (FLP 770).
Samuel Weisel, the author of the drawing illustrated here, was a member of a well-established Bedminster Township family. The Weisel property, deeded to Michael Weisel in 1743, was located in northern Bedminster Township near Tohickon Church along Swamp Road. After 1767, this property was also the site of a school supported by the Weisels and their neighbors. This school functioned as such until the effects of commonwealth education compelled Samuel to sell it and its attendant property on behalf of his family on 2 April 1861 (Davis, pp.729-731). The proximity of the Weisel school in Bedminster Township to the Deep Run Mennonite School, and the similarity in design and purpose of the drawing illustrated here to the Kulp bookplate, suggests that the Kulp drawing may in some form be a prototype for the image illustrated here.
Samuel Weisel, the author of the drawing illustrated here, was a member of a well-established Bedminster Township family. The Weisel property, deeded to Michael Weisel in 1743, was located in northern Bedminster Township near Tohickon Church along Swamp Road. After 1767, this property was also the site of a school supported by the Weisels and their neighbors. This school functioned as such until the effects of commonwealth education compelled Samuel to sell it and its attendant property on behalf of his family on 2 April 1861 (Davis, pp.729-731). The proximity of the Weisel school in Bedminster Township to the Deep Run Mennonite School, and the similarity in design and purpose of the drawing illustrated here to the Kulp bookplate, suggests that the Kulp drawing may in some form be a prototype for the image illustrated here.