Editing Perkasie, Pennsylvania (section)

===Perkasie etymology and town formation===
Both the town of Perkasie and Pocasie Creek derive their name from the Lenape Unami phrase Pèhpahkàsink/''Poekskossing'', which translates to "One who goes to the place to crack nuts". The Dutch/Swedish (before the British settlements) pronounced the word with an r and it stuck. There was doubtless a village on the site of the present town before William Penn’s [[Pennsbury Manor|Perkasie Manor]] was settled."<ref>{{Cite web
 |title       = Indian Place Names in Bucks County
 |work        = Lenape Nation - A Tribal Community
 |access-date  = 2012-09-27
 |url         = http://lenapenation.org/content/Research%20of%20Don%20Repsher%20-%20Indian%20Place%20Names%20in%20Bucks%20County.pdf
 |url-status     = dead
 |archive-url  = https://web.archive.org/web/20140810151428/http://lenapenation.org/content/Research%20of%20Don%20Repsher%20-%20Indian%20Place%20Names%20in%20Bucks%20County.pdf
 |archive-date = 2014-08-10
}}</ref> "The "[[Proprietary colony|Manor]]" of Perkasie was one of several in Bucks County and contained {{convert|11462|acre}}.  Laid out and surveyed in 1708, it embraced most of [[Hilltown Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Hilltown]] and [[East Rockhill Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania|Rockhill Township]]."<ref>{{Cite web
| title = History of Perkasie
| work = Perkasie Borough
| access-date = 2012-09-27
| url = http://www.perkasieborough.org/history_of_perkasie.html#James_I_Moyer
}}</ref>