


Robert Callender for his tract of 459 acres and 60 perches, patented March 20, 1773, on a warrant he had taken out March 8, 1768, located at the confluence of the Letort Spring with the Conodoguinet Creek. 2 “Middlesex” was the name selected by Col. Middlesex Township was created from eastern North Middleton by court order on November 25, 1859. 1 It lies within the section of West Pennsborough set up as Middleton Township in 1750 and divided into North and South Middleton in 1810. The township of Middlesex lies along the northerly half of the west side of the Stony (“Stoney”) Ridge, a geological trap dike (older than the North or South mountains) which formed the original boundary between the west and east divisions of Pennsborough Township (established in 1735) as early as 1740.
