. the preceding, as well as of Benjamin, wholocated at Falling Spring, formed a prosperous settlement near Middle Spring,about two miles north of Shippensburg, at the same early date. The first set-tlers were such men as Hugh and David Herron, Robert McComb, Alexanderand James Young, Alexander McNutt, Archibald, John and Robert Machan,James Scott, Alexander Sterrett, Wm. and John Piper, Hugh and JosephBrady, John and Robert McCune and Charles Morrow. In asking that theState road, which was laid out in 1735-36, might be directed throu
. the preceding, as well as of Benjamin, wholocated at Falling Spring, formed a prosperous settlement near Middle Spring,about two miles north of Shippensburg, at the same early date. The first set-tlers were such men as Hugh and David Herron, Robert McComb, Alexanderand James Young, Alexander McNutt, Archibald, John and Robert Machan,James Scott, Alexander Sterrett, Wm. and John Piper, Hugh and JosephBrady, John and Robert McCune and Charles Morrow. In asking that theState road, which was laid out in 1735-36, might be directed through thatneighborhood rather than through Shippensburg, the petitioners claimed thattheirs was the more thickly settled part. By some* it is claimed that in theMiddle Spring settlement the first land in the Cumberland Valley taken under ?Historical discourse of Rev. S. S. Wyfie at the Centennial celebration of Middle Spring. This claim, how-ever, is incorrect. BlunstonS license to Benjamin Chambers at Falling Spring was dated March 30, 1734. *w?,; -&j *. y ^-SI -CI --^ ^^V HISTORY OF FRANKLIN COUNTY. 149 authority of the Blunston Licenses* and assigned to Benjamin Furley,located. According to the record in the county surveyors office at Chambers-burg, (his tract, embracing some 1,094 acres and allowances, warranted De-cember L3, L735, and surveyed April L5, L738,was situated on the ConodoguinetCreek in what was then Pennsborough Township, Lancaster County, but nowSouthampton Township, Franklin County. It was subsequently occupied byWilliam, David. James and Francis Herron. William Young and John Watt. Where Shippensburg now stands, a settlement was ma Le as early as June of that year, according to Hon. John McCurdy, the following personscame to that locality and built their habitations: Alexander Steen, JohnMcCall, Richard Morrow, Gavin Morrow, John Culbertson, Hugh Rippey,John Rippey, John Strain, Alexander Askey, John McAllister. David Magawand John Johnston. They were
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