. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . , to William Maclay and Jasper Scull,closed the apportionments for nearly a year, or until itbecame necessary to remove Richard Tea for irregularitiesin his big tract to the east of those of Smith and the Mc-Leans,^ This was done in April, 1770, after Thomas Smith hadbeen at work with his transit and chain for but a little overa year. On the 5th, Mr. Lukens assigned the most of itto Lieutenant Arthur St. Clair, of the Ligonier Valley,who was becoming a warm friend of Deputy SurveyorSmith, while
. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . , to William Maclay and Jasper Scull,closed the apportionments for nearly a year, or until itbecame necessary to remove Richard Tea for irregularitiesin his big tract to the east of those of Smith and the Mc-Leans,^ This was done in April, 1770, after Thomas Smith hadbeen at work with his transit and chain for but a little overa year. On the 5th, Mr. Lukens assigned the most of itto Lieutenant Arthur St. Clair, of the Ligonier Valley,who was becoming a warm friend of Deputy SurveyorSmith, while two days later the latter received that partadjoining his own territory and west of Shavers Creek andthe Franks Town branch of the Juniata river. This lattercovered a large part of what is now Blair county and a partof Huntingdon, making his assignment include, with these,about a third of Center county, a half of Clearfield, all ofCambria, a third of Somerset and a part of Indiana. This ^ Richard Tea seems to have been incompetent or careless, orboth. His surveys caused considerable Arthur St. Clair Half-tone of the Wellmore engraving from a drawing by J. B. Longacre, after the portrait by C. W. Peale A PENNSYLVANIA SURVEYOR 37 large assignment was all covered by his first commissionand bond of February 10, 1769, when he started for hisheadquarters out in Forbes road, at the beautiful settle-ment of Bedford, only a few miles from the southernmostpoint of his territory. Before taking a glance at this settlement, Bedford, whichwas to become Surveyor Smiths home for so many years,it will be of interest to note one of the results of the pastyears work that appeared at the same time this Frankstownterritory was assigned him. On April 4 of this year,1770, there was issued at Philadelphia a new map of theProvince, made by William Scull. The cheerful Assistanceafforded me in this Work, says Mr. Scull, on the upperright-hand margin of it, by the several Deputy Surveyorsof
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