. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . appears that when the Dunkards,or German Baptists, and the German Lutherans movedout gradually to the westward and occupied thechoicest portions of this part of the Penus domains,a Dunkard miller named Jacob Neff was one of theforemost. Impressed with the natural beauties of thespring and its surroundings as well as its great ad-vantages for a mill site, he pre-empted or squattedupon the grounds now occupied by the village, andsoon after built a small grist-mill, whose wheels weredriven by the surplus waters of the spring. This wasthe
. History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania . appears that when the Dunkards,or German Baptists, and the German Lutherans movedout gradually to the westward and occupied thechoicest portions of this part of the Penus domains,a Dunkard miller named Jacob Neff was one of theforemost. Impressed with the natural beauties of thespring and its surroundings as well as its great ad-vantages for a mill site, he pre-empted or squattedupon the grounds now occupied by the village, andsoon after built a small grist-mill, whose wheels weredriven by the surplus waters of the spring. This wasthe second grist-mill, it is claimed, erected in theUpper Juniata Valley, and it stood just below theI)rincipal thoroughfare in the village of RoaringSpring, or between that point and the present grist-mill. When Neff first located here it is now impossible todetermine, but probably not until after the close ofthe old French and Indian war of 1756-68, or sometime between the latter year and 1770. That he hadneighbors near by, the Housers, Brumbaughs (orBrom-. (J^,L, jit^ TAYLOR TOWNSHIP. 225 bachs, as the name was formerly spelled), Hoovers,Ullerys, Markles, Plummers, and Stoners, is quitecertain, else of what utility would be his grist-mill?A few years of quietness and thrift followed, only tobe succeeded by the terrible scenes enacted duringthe war for American independence,—a period whenthe frontier settlements of New York, Pennsylvania,Maryland, and Virginia were ravaged by Tories andIndians, when British gold and trinkets were paidfor the scalps of American men, women, and chil-dren. In November, 1777, a large party of Indians, armedwith British muskets, ammunition, tomahawks, andscalping-knives, came into the cove with the intentionof gathering scalps for the officers of His BritannicMajesty, and that they were successful is shown inthe history of North Woodberry township. Upontheir return, two of this party of Indians, in a waycharacteristic of their kind, essayed to visit
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