A history of the Juniata Valley and its people; . e present township of Brady, in Huntingdoncounty. In October, 1767, the court erected five new townships—Barree. Bed-ford, Coleraine, Cumberland and Dublin—which, with the townshipof Derry, included all the territory within the present counties of Bed-ford, Blair and Huntingdon, a large part of Fulton and Alifflin anda portion of Center. As population increased additional townshipswere erected and at the time Huntingdon county was organized in1787 there were eight townships within its limits, viz.: Barree, Dublin,Frankstown, Hopewell, Huntingdo
A history of the Juniata Valley and its people; . e present township of Brady, in Huntingdoncounty. In October, 1767, the court erected five new townships—Barree. Bed-ford, Coleraine, Cumberland and Dublin—which, with the townshipof Derry, included all the territory within the present counties of Bed-ford, Blair and Huntingdon, a large part of Fulton and Alifflin anda portion of Center. As population increased additional townshipswere erected and at the time Huntingdon county was organized in1787 there were eight townships within its limits, viz.: Barree, Dublin,Frankstown, Hopewell, Huntingdon, Shirley, Tyrone and and Woodbury were cut off in 1846 as part of Blair county,and the six original townships lying within the present limits of thecounty have been divided and subdivided until the number is now making these divisions and subdivisions the townships of Huntingdonand Tyrone have entirely disappeared. The present townships are:Barree, Brady, Carbon, Cass, Clay, Cromwell, Dublin, Franklin, Hen- 68. COURTHOUSE. HISTORY OF THE JUNIATA VALLEY 69 derson, Hopewell, Jackson, Juniata, Lincoln, Logan, Miller, Morris,Oneida, Penn. Porter, Shirley, Smithfield, Springfield, Spruce Creek,Tell, Tod, Lnion, Walker, Warriors Mark, West and Wood. Barree township, as created in 1767, was Bounded by Dublin,Coleraine and Bedford townships, as already mentioned, and along theAllegheny until a line struck from thence to Jacks Mountain so asto include the waters of Little Juniata and Shavers and StandingStone creeks. In 1771, when Bedford county was erected, Barreetownship included all that part of the present county of Huntingdonlying northwest of Jacks mountain. Since then the townships of Jack-son and West and parts of Logan, Oneida and Miller have been takenfrom Barree. Before the erection of Logan and Miller townships,Barree had an average width of four miles, extending from Jacksonand W^est to Oneida, and in length from ten to twel
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