Muncy Township is the mother of all those lying north of the river. It was created as a part of Northumberland before Lycoming was organized, April 9, 1772. It became a part of Lycoming County when it became a separate county on April 17, 1795. It derives its name from the Monsey tribe of Indians who once inhabited the West Branch Valley. Since 1795 large slices of the original territory have been cut off to form other townships until now little of the area it once had is left. It is the twenty-seventh in size in the county and contains 9,440 acres.

Nearly every foot of Muncy Township is historic ground. Within its borders many of the most stirring scenes of the Revolutionary and colonial periods were enacted. Fort Muncy was located here; here Captain John Brady was killed and is buried; it was the home of Samuel Wallis, the great land king of Lycoming County; near the river stood the great Indian mound which puzzled scientists and archaeologists for more than a century, and at the mouth of Wolf Run stood an important fortification of Andastes Indians. The history of the township has been recited in song and story and the deeds enacted within its present limits will live as long as the everlasting hills that encircle it.

The township embraces a region of unsurpassed beauty and fertility. Some of the finest farms in the county are to be found within its borders. The character of the country is rolling and flat with but a small portion of it being of a hilly nature.

The first deed recorded in Lycoming County is for a property in Muncy Township. It is from Reuben Haines to Catherine Greenleafe for a large tract of land. Early in its history members of the Society of Friends settled in the township and gave the name of Pennsdale to the little community they established. At first it was known as Pennsville and then Hicksville. In 1829 Job Packer established a pottery there which he called "The Elizabethtown Pottery." But the name did not stick and eventually the little hamlet became known as Pennsdale, and that name has clung to it down to the present day.

Many of the descendants of the original settlers are still living in the village. In 1779 a meeting house was built which is still standing, and is one of the oldest places of worship in this section of the state. The original congregation of this meeting house was made up of such families as Ecroyd, Parker, Warner, Wallis, Ellis, Haines, Atkinson, Whitacre, McCarty and others whose names have become a part of the history of the section in which they lived.>/p>

Many distinguished Quakers from abroad have visited the old Friends meeting house at Pennsdale, among them James Wilson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Among the characters who resided in the town was James Kitely or Father Kitely as he was better known. He taught school in the village for many years and was a man of high intellectual attainments.

There is one other hamlet in the township, Halls, at the junction of the Reading and the Williamsport and North Branch railroads. It is composed of only a few houses, but near it is the old Hall Cemetery in which are buried many of the original settlers of the county. The cemetery was established by the Hall family, who became owners of the Wallis property after the latter’s death. In it are also laid the remains of the gallant Captain John Brady and at his side those of the equally gallant Robert Lebo, who requested that he be buried alongside his lifelong friend. They served side by side in the Revolutionary War and they lay side by side in death. They were close friends and companions in life and the grave could not part them. It is not too much to hope that they are still - side by side in another world.

According to the census of 1920 Muncy Township has a population of 687, most of whom are devoted to farming, but there are a number of beautiful country homes located within its limits.