Northampton County, Pennsylvania Genealogy

United States Pennsylvania  Northampton County

Parent County
14 October 1751: Northampton County was created from Bucks County.

Neighboring Counties
Bucks | Carbon | Lehigh | Monroe | Warren County, New Jersey

Boundary Changes

 * Several counties set off:
 * 21 March 1798: Wayne
 * 1 March 1811: Schuylkill
 * 6 March 1812: Lehigh
 * 1 April 1836: Monroe
 * 13 February 1843: Carbon

Cemeteries
Transcribed Cemetery records for Northampton and adjacent Counties

Migration
Early migration routes to and from for settlers included:


 * Delaware River a pre-historic patthway serving as the border between New Jersey and Pennsylvania rises in Schoharie County, New York and flows by the Lehigh Canal in Pennsylvania, Frenchtown, Trenton where river meets tidewater, and past Bordentown in New Jersey, Philadelphia in Pennsylvania to empty into the North Atlantic Ocean.
 * Delaware and Raritan Canal 1834 connected New Brunswick, New Jersey on the Raritan River (and NY City) to Bordontown, New Jersey on the Delaware River and parts of Pennsylvania including the Lehigh Canal and Northampton County with the D&amp;R Canal at Frenchtown.

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.