History of the early settlement of the Juniata Valley : embracing an account of the early pioneers, and the trials and privations incident to the settlement of the valley ; predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian wars, and the War of the Revolution, &c. . early as1750. The Indian town was located at the mouth of asmall run, near where McCunes Mill now stands, and atone time contained a considerable number of Indian name of the place was AssunejmcMa, whichsignifies a meeting of many waters, or the place where thewaters join. Th
History of the early settlement of the Juniata Valley : embracing an account of the early pioneers, and the trials and privations incident to the settlement of the valley ; predatory incursions, massacres, and abductions by the Indians during the French and Indian wars, and the War of the Revolution, &c. . early as1750. The Indian town was located at the mouth of asmall run, near where McCunes Mill now stands, and atone time contained a considerable number of Indian name of the place was AssunejmcMa, whichsignifies a meeting of many waters, or the place where thewaters join. This would seem to be an appropriate name,since, within a short distance of the place, the river isformed by what was then known as the FrankstownBranch, the Beaver Dam Branch, the Brush Run, andthe small run near McCunes Mill. The name of Frankstown was given it by the , in his report of the distances between the Susque-hanna and the Alleghany, called it Frank (Stephens)Town. The general impression is that the town wasnamed by the traders in honor of an old chief namedFrank. This, however, is an error. It was named afteran old German Indian trader named Stephen Franks, wholived cotemporaneously ^\dth old Hart, and whose post m>to H m z :a enm CO X H>< n 3). N \ \ / .p-- mSTOHV OF THK JUNIATA 325 Avas at lliis oM ludiiiii town. The truth of this Ixcoinosapparent whiii we rciiicinhcr th;il the Imliaiis colli! notpronounce tin- /• in their hlnl,^l;l^?e; lionce no chief waslikely to bear the name of lr;ink ;»t tliat early (hiy. OldFranks, being a great friend of the Indians, lived anddied among them, and it was after his deatli that one ofthe chiefs took his name; hence arose the erroneous im-prcssicm that the name was given to the town in honorof the chief. How long Assunepaclila was an Indian settlement can-not be conjectured, but, unquestionably, long before theIndians of the vallev liad an\- intercourse Avith thewhites. This is evidenced by the
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