... Nicholas was married to Catherine Funk, a native of Montgomery County, Penna., born in the year 1726. She was the youngest child of Martin Funk, who resided in Hatfield Township, Montgomery County, Penna., and who was supposed to have been a brother of Bishop Heinrich Funck, an eminent Mennonite divine and author, born in Holland it is supposed, and was known in history as the "pious miller on the Indian Creek." According to the records of the deed that John, Thomas and Richard Penn granted to Heinrich Funck, there was "surveyed on October 20, A.D. 1748, unto Heinrich Funck, then of Germantown, 101 3/4 acres of land on the Indian Creek," in what is now Franconia Township, Montgomery County, Pa., where he erected a grist mill. Bishop Funck's fourth child, a son Abraham, born November 21, 1734, moved to Springfield Township, Bucks County, Pa., where in the year 1763 he purchased from Stephen Twining, a grist mill that was erected by Twining in 1738, together with 500 acres of land for the sum of (pound)1570. The village of Springtown occupies the very centre of this tract, which originally consisted of 651 acres, and a patent granted by the Penns to Casper Wistar, a manufacturer of brass buttons, of Philadelphia, who was a land speculator, dated May 10, 1738.
