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The Brick hotel at Newtown has something of a history, and was built at an early day. The date is not known, but there was a public house there before 1744. It stands on land that Shadrick [Shadrack*] Walley located before 1684, and which Joseph Walley leased to Amos Strickland in 1748, for 20 years, but in 1761 the Red Lion, as it was called, was sold by the sheriff, and Strickland bought it.
Amos Strickland, a farmer in Newtown township for several years, built a two-story brick house in 1763/1764 that is now known as the Brick Hotel as a residence. The land of Amos Strickland lay out along Washington avenue, then called Strickland’s lane, a well-known race course when the courts and elections were held at Newtown. The great-grandfather of William K. Carver, Newtown, did part of the carpenter work. From the surplus bricks was built the house owned by Mrs. Martha T. Heyde, once kept as the “Court inn.” The bricks were probably burnt in a field of Samuel Phillips. The ornate paneling used in its decoration was said to have rivaled the finest houses in Philadelphia.
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Newtown
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18940
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