History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township . the earlywhite settlers, satisfaction was atlast guaranteed about July, 1754,when the Indian Title was purchased?and the lands of Huntingdon and ad-joining counties were thrown open tosettlers. PIONEERS IN HUNTINGDONCOUNTYThe earliest White settlers in whatis now known specifically as Hunting-don county, must have come frombeyond the Tuscarora Mountains, per-haps many of them from the regionof Cumberland county, and these peo-ple first settled in and near to BurntCabins. This quaint old town, inwhat is now Fulton county, is histori-ca
History of Mount Union, Shirleysburg and Shirley Township . the earlywhite settlers, satisfaction was atlast guaranteed about July, 1754,when the Indian Title was purchased?and the lands of Huntingdon and ad-joining counties were thrown open tosettlers. PIONEERS IN HUNTINGDONCOUNTYThe earliest White settlers in whatis now known specifically as Hunting-don county, must have come frombeyond the Tuscarora Mountains, per-haps many of them from the regionof Cumberland county, and these peo-ple first settled in and near to BurntCabins. This quaint old town, inwhat is now Fulton county, is histori-cally famous because it was therethat the old cabins were burned aboutthe year, 1750. The region of whatis now the Dublin Townships, wasprobably the first to be inhabited bythis influx of settlers. Gradually thepioneers pressed their way westwardand from that region they began toBettle in the southern or lower partof the county, extending finally tothe Valley of the Aughwick, in thelatter part cf the eighteenth century. S3 n 09 osr <! 3 o S3 s. 3*3 3*. Fort Shirley, where Shirleysburg isnow located, named after GeneralWilliam Shirley, was a very import- ,ant point. This Fort was probablyerected about 1755, during the timeof the French and Indian Croghan made this his abodefor some time, and the little band ofsoldiers who defended this strongholdwere among the first to take up theirabodes and become settlers in theAiighwick Valley. GEORGE CROGHANGeorge Croghan, an Irishman bybirth and an Indian trader, was avery conspicuous character in theearly days of the settlement of theAughwick Valley. He had previous-ly been a resident of Cumberlandcounty, where he had extensive landinterests, (about 1748). A little laterhe came to this side of the Tusca-rora Mountain, into the territorydrained by the Aughwick Creek, andsettled near what is now known asShirleysburg, where he owned named this section, Auc-quick, or Old Town. His lands,owned in and around what is now
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