. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . PENNSYLVANIA IN ?^ /fc*-*«vJA^^^ivod^tivw. .AVW>.KW*^^«^/. ^ WILLIAM SCULL A PENNSYLVANIA SURVEYOR 39 ward to boast that this affair in 1769 was the first captureof a British fort by the Americans. Colonel James Smith,while afterward frequently associated with Thomas, wasin no way related to him. This escapade, however, wasnothing more than an ebullition of youthful spirits in arapidly growing frontier settlement of which Bedford wasthe head. Claims were rapidly taken up, and the D
. The life and times of Thomas Smith, 1745-1809, a Pennsylvania member of the Continental congress . PENNSYLVANIA IN ?^ /fc*-*«vJA^^^ivod^tivw. .AVW>.KW*^^«^/. ^ WILLIAM SCULL A PENNSYLVANIA SURVEYOR 39 ward to boast that this affair in 1769 was the first captureof a British fort by the Americans. Colonel James Smith,while afterward frequently associated with Thomas, wasin no way related to him. This escapade, however, wasnothing more than an ebullition of youthful spirits in arapidly growing frontier settlement of which Bedford wasthe head. Claims were rapidly taken up, and the DeputySurveyors all through this region were well occupied. Bythe time Mr. Smith had been surveying two years therewas such a demand for a county seat nearer than Carlislethat the Government responded to it, and on March 9,1771, a new county was carved out of Cumberland, bearingthe name of its new county seat, Bedford. A glance at the bounds of the new county will showthat Cumberland, while, of course, far larger than at present,was a very medium county in size, and Bedford had be-come the vast one, covering about half of the where the province lin
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