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From: Ned Donoghue <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] BRETHREN Digest, Vol 6, Issue 201
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 11:09:33 -0400
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Dear Brethren Historians

So, Clover Creek Brethren Congregation formed in 1790. Brumbaughs, Metzgers and Hoovers there. Who were the earliest ministers? Any memorable events before 1820? Any images of it?

I have seen a list of all 120men of Bedford summoned before the county court one day in Dec 1794 to pay their Whiskey tax fines after President Washington had showed up with 12,000 federal troops in Aug 1794 to put down the Whiskey rebellion. That list I saw is at home maybe many of you have seen it, but I could copy it next week to the list if there was interest. My Brumbaugh was not on it although there is a secondary source that claims his still was burned down by federal troops. There is a great print of GW all tricked out in his military dress uniform striding into Bedford on a white horse to address the troops on the threat to the new republic if the federal government cannot enforce it's tax to finance the needs of the government that binds us all together. The unfortunate thing was that Hamilton's tax was unfairly placed on a commodity that was the main sideline income of rural farmers on the frontier.

Please excuse the curiosity of a newcomer to your ListServ. And have a great weekend!

Ned Donoghue
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> 1. Clover Creek Church of the Brethren, Blair Co., Pa. (Dee Howard)
> 2. Re: Morrison's Cove 1775 & '76 road petition (Wayne Webb)
> 3. Robert Elliott, Snake Spring & Colerain Townships (Doris Dibert)
> 4. Re: Morrison's Cove 1775 & '76 road petition (Doris Dibert)
> 5. Re: Robert Elliott, Snake Spring & Colerain Townships (Wayne Webb)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 15:53:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Dee Howard <>
> Subject: [BRE] Clover Creek Church of the Brethren, Blair Co., Pa.
> To:
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> I visited the Clover Creek Church of the Brethren several years ago. My
> Brumbaugh, Metzger and probably Hoover ancestors were involved with this church.
> I was given two pamphlets produced for the celebration of the 200th anniversary
> of the church (1790-1990). In the literature are: list of ministers, a history,
> memorable moments, lots of pictures, activities and events, and Sunday School
> class pictures. One pamphlet was the program for the observance of the
> anniversary on September 9, 14, 15 and 16, 1990. "The Memorable Moments From Our
> Church Council Meeting Records" includes such items as:
>
> "March 29, 1874: For one widowed sister who requested a home, several brethren
> will approach her son of the same faith to support her and church will pay half
> of expenses to support her.
>
> June 5, 1875: One sister was accused of too much conformity to world in wearing
> gay apparel, specifically a hat. Council decided almost unanimously not to
> allow sisters to wear hats.
>
> May 11, 1878: Committee reported location for new church on Samuel Albright
> farm; open frame 40 foot x 32 foot. Motion passed to secure $700.00 for
> building by taxes, maximum of 50 cents on each male member and 25 cents each
> female."
>
> Dee Bechtel Howard
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 18:55:41 -0400
> From: "Wayne Webb" <>
> Subject: Re: [BRE] Morrison's Cove 1775 & '76 road petition
> To: <>
> Message-ID: <>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Ray,
>
> Yes, it is the same man. Though I am not totally aware of Robert Elliott I
> am aware enough to know that the man from the Cumberland county records is
> one and the same. I don't have the entirety of my Bedford, Somerset &
> Fulton scanned and OCRed as of yet (I sold the one the Pioneer did) but the
> portion of the book I do have scanned definitely states it is one and the
> same person. Also, if you look thru the Cumberland warrants you will see
> him with land both there and in present day Bedford county.
>
> The first image on Tom's site is the one I would really, really like to see
> a far better reproduction of. Even better would be a high quality scan of
> the original. I can tell that it is a PHMC document. They have, and they
> are not online, a whole collection of the plat maps that were created back,
> or at least as it was told me by an old timer, in the depression and shortly
> after as a way to employ folks. The reason I would like to see a better
> image is that I believe this answers my question but I would like to make
> sure. Yes, the petitions I have alluded to do begin there at the Upper
> Snake spring Road by Paul & Sons Farm Equip., just as I originally had it.
>
> A. Wayne Webb
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 22:21:47 +0000 (UTC)
>> From:
>> Subject: Re: [BRE] Morrison's Cove 1775 & '76 road petition
>> To:
>>
>> Interested in this but have not been following the discussion. Is this the
>> same Robert Elliott of Peters Twp in what is now Franklin County? He was
>> the Roads Commissioner of Peters. Don't understand, though, why he would
>> be over in Bedford. There are records that his son, Benjamin Elliott
>> became Sheriff of Huntington, PA and had property in Bedford Co. I had
>> assumed he'd come out of the Path Valley, across through Burnt Cabins and
>> then west.
>>
>> Perhaps he got involved with Roads warrants as part of his position?
>>
>> You may also find something to tag this road by this website which tries
>> to overlay an old map with the current map around where Croyle's Valley
>> was (and this was the location on the warrant Wayne sent).
>>
>> http://my.richnet.net/~clabaugh/Historical%20Names%20and%20Locations3.html
>>
>> Ray Hoff
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 21:47:08 -0400
> From: "Doris Dibert" <>
> Subject: [BRE] Robert Elliott, Snake Spring & Colerain Townships
> To: <>, <>
> Message-ID: <>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>
> Wayne, I have some information on early land holdings in Snake Spring Township for Robert Elliott. There are apparently 2 tracts. Maybe you already have this information. Note that Bedford County was formed in 1771 from Cumberland County.
>
> 1) Tract # 635 (Snake's Mouth) Tract SST Cumberland County Warrant C 98 dated 10 Jun 1762 to Thomas Croyle. Patent to Robert Ellicott.
>
> Survey C-23-293 dated Mar 1768 for Thomas Croyle. Adjoining William Henry and George Croghan Esq.
>
> Survery C-23-294 dated 14 Mar 1768 for Thomas Croyle. Adjoining William Henry and George Croghan Esq. (Copies are identical except for the small variance in survey date, suggesting that perhaps the original was copied into the survey books twice.)
>
> 2) Tract # 638 (Snake's Tail) Tract SST West Side Application # 4257 dated 03 Aug 1767 to Thomas Croyle Bedford County warrant E 13 dated 28 Jul 1774 to Robert Elliott. Survey I-437 dated 12 Mar 1768 for Thomas Croyle. Adjoining Richard Hockley, George Croghan Esq. Patent to Robert Elliott.
>
> Note: I believe that the William Henry mentioned in the first transaction was a wealthy land speculator from Philadelphia who never set foot in Bedford County. He purchased many acres of land in Bedford County, and was the first owner of my husband's property in Snake Spring Valley (Lower Road), dated 1762.
>
> I am curious about the description of the planned road from Morrisons Cove through Snake Spring Valley. Is there any way you could send that to me? The early road from the Cove to Bedford was from Pattonville (now Loysburg) across the Snake Spring Mountain, then along the Upper Snake Spring Valley Road to the Lincoln Highway (now Route 30), where it comes out below the hospital.
>
> I have a copy of a Petition of Division of Providence Twp. to Colerain, 1823, signed by Township residents. It gives the exact description of township lines:
>
> "Beginning at Tussey's Narrows at the line of Colerain and Providence Township thence across the Raystown Branch of Juniata at said Narrows and to the top of Tusseys Mountain a northerly course to the line of Hopewell (or of Woodberry Township of the said Woodberry and Providence Township line extending farther north thence with the Providence and Woodberry line on the dividing ridge between Croyles Cove and Morris's Cove crossing the road leading from Croyles Cove to Morris's Cove to the top of Dunnings mountain at the line of Bedford Township thence along the line of Bedford township a southerly course to Dunnings Narrows, cross the said Raystown branch and to intersect the line of Bedford and Colerain Towship through Snake Spring Valley into Colerain Township.
>
> Subscribers Names: Philip Richey, Abraham Richey, Peter Karns, henry Snider, (unreadable), George Mortimore, Joseph Armstrong, Eve Botenfield, Joseph (unreadable), Adam Shuss, Jacob Shuss, John Snyder, Adam Steer (?), Jacob Snider, Jacob (unreadable), John S. Ritchey, George Harshbarger, Henry Sellers, George Sellers (?), Joseph Sellers, unreadable Roller, John Moore, James Moore, George Moore, Frederick Shofe, Isaac Ritchey, unreadable, Simon Stukey, John Mixel, John Stein, Jacob Snider Jr., unreadable, Simon Stukey junior, William Ritchey, unreadable, (unreadable) Cunce (Kuntz/Koontz), Charles Smouse, Charles Cessna, unreadable, Solomon Deal, Jacob Stoudenour, unreadable, Peter Arnold, Jacob Defenbaugh.
>
> Many of these names, especially Jacob Snider, Henry Harshbarger (Hershberger), Isaac Richey (Ritchey), Shuss's, etc. were the early leaders of the Snake Spring Valley German Baptist Brethren/CoB. Many of the above names are on early maps of the valley as landowners showing the location of their property.
>
> I also have a petition for the placement of the Lower Snake Spring road with the survey markings, but cannot locate it at present. The proposed road began at the Hartley property at the lower end of the Lower Snake Spring Road (C. Paul Ford and Son Implement dealers) and goes to the foot of the mountain where it intersects with the upper road. I'll try to locate that paper and send you if interested.
>
> Doris Dibert
> Snake Spring Valley, Bedford County, PA
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 23:02:50 -0400
> From: "Doris Dibert" <>
> Subject: Re: [BRE] Morrison's Cove 1775 & '76 road petition
> To: <>
> Message-ID: <>
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> reply-type=original
>
> The map included in the web site below shows only a tiny portion of Croyles
> Valley or present-day Snake Spring Valley, along the Lincoln Highway or
> Route 30, today.
>
> To correct some errors in the article about the map, it does not show Jacob
> Snyder, Jr.'s brick house. This was built in 1811 near the present day
> Snake Spring Valley church of the Brethren on Perrin/Ritchey Cemetery Road.
> The top was not blown off by a tornado in the 1970s, but was torn down
> around the 1930s by its owner at the time, Marshall Van Horn.
>
> Early members of the German Baptist Church in the valley met in Jacob
> Snyder's house that had moveable partitions on the second floor so the area
> could be opened into one large room for worship. They organized as a
> congregation in 1820. Church members also met in the home of Henry and
> Eliza (Steele) Hershberger. The first church house was built in 1860,
> several miles north of the present building, which was built in 1891.
>
> The stone house mentioned in the article was called the Hartley place,
> across from the spring that gave Snake Spring its name. The brick house on
> up the road was built in 1839, according to a plaque near the door, and was
> for years called the Homer Vanderblue place. It is across the highway from
> the Bedford Square Shopping Plaza--WalMart.
>
> There is probably no way to get this information corrected in the article!
>
> Doris Dibert,
> Snake Spring Valley,
> Bedford County, PA
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 6:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [BRE] Morrison's Cove 1775 & '76 road petition
>
>
>>
>
>> You may also find something to tag this road by this website which tries
>> to overlay an old map with the current map around where Croyle's Valley
>> was (and this was the location on the warrant Wayne sent).
>>
>> http://my.richnet.net/~clabaugh/Historical%20Names%20and%20Locations3.html
>>
>> Ray Hoff
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Valerie A. Metzler" <>
>> To: ,
>> Sent: Friday, August 5, 2011 2:09:57 PM
>> Subject: Re: [BRE] Morrison's Cove 1775 & '76 road petition
>>
>> It is definitely not the place closest to the river. That is way too far
>> west from the bottom of Snake Spring Valley.
>> ................................
>> Valerie A. Metzler, M. A., C. A.
>> Valerie Metzler Archivist/Historian
>> 114 Ruskin Drive
>> Altoona, Pennsylvania 16602
>> 814 932 1740
>> fax 940 0493
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 05.08.2011, at 13:18, Wayne Webb wrote:
>>
>>> Afternoon,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This little factoid may or may not be of interest to others but here goes
>>> anyway. I must also apologize for the abundance of the URLs but that is
>>> the
>>> only way to show you what I am talking about.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Years ago I scanned two road petition documents centric to the history of
>>> the Brethren as well as to Bedford county, Pennsylvania. The reason for
>>> the
>>> interest to Brethren historians is that many of that faith were early
>>> settlers in the Cove and their names, and at times original signatures,
>>> are
>>> on these two road petitions. For Bedford county historians it relates one
>>> of the earliest roads, if not the earliest, into Morrison's Cove. I have
>>> the images set up as presentation pieces.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> These documents are the petitions and I was never able to locate the
>>> surveyor's return for the road showing the metes of the road as it was
>>> laid
>>> out. Oh, how I wish I could have found that document! As part of my
>>> project I tried to, as best as I could, use a road that today could be
>>> found
>>> on a map. I believed the southern terminus was the juncture of PA Ste.
>>> Rte
>>> 1005 (Lower Snake Spring Road) and U.S. Rte. 30. <
>>> http://maps.google.com/?ll=40.017722,-78.400519
>>> <http://maps.google.com/?ll=40.017722,-78.400519&spn=0.012966,0.026157&t=h&z
>>> =16> &spn=0.012966,0.026157&t=h&z=16> For local residents this would be
>>> where Paul & Son Farm Equip is. I may have been wrong in this assumption
>>> tho' it all depends where in 1775 and '76 Robert Elliott lived. And yes,
>>> he
>>> was one of the petitioners.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Today while working with the petitions something dawned on me that may be
>>> of
>>> import. Unfortunately only those who live in Bedford county will be able
>>> to
>>> follow this from local land marks. For others I have included Google map
>>> links. If you are heading west on U.S. Rte. 30 you will notice a little
>>> spring building off to the right just before you hit the light where all
>>> the
>>> construction was going on a few years ago. The old ice box is I believe
>>> what it could be termed. It's the little stone building on the right just
>>> before you hit the new bridge about half way between Sheets and the red
>>> light at Egolf Rd. http://maps.google.com/?ll=40.01462,-78.470342
>>> <http://maps.google.com/?ll=40.01462,-78.470342&spn=0.003242,0.006539&t=h&z=
>>> 18> &spn=0.003242,0.006539&t=h&z=18.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I wonder if perhaps my earlier thoughts on the southern terminus of the
>>> road
>>> may not have been wrong. What if the spring house where the Christian
>>> Academy is was the southern terminus? If this is the case then the road
>>> as
>>> mentioned in the petition could have been at the gap there and it
>>> followed
>>> present day Rte. 30 down and then turned up PA Ste. Rte 1003 (Upper Snake
>>> Spring road).
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Another candidate for this southern terminus, and perhaps the better one
>>> at
>>> that, might not be right there where the Upper Snake Spring Road meets
>>> Lincoln Highway. The stone cellar next to the pond in the lower right
>>> corner of the linked map is an old one. I think you can even see the
>>> building in the linked image. I'm talking about the little stone building
>>> just to the east of the fuel depot.
>>> http://maps.google.com/?ll=40.026727,-78.436589
>>> <http://maps.google.com/?ll=40.026727,-78.436589&spn=0.006482,0.013078&t=h&z
>>> =17> &spn=0.006482,0.013078&t=h&z=17
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Going further it might be helpful to utilize the Pennsylvania Historical
>>> &
>>> Museum Commission's records. And if you have not availed yourself of
>>> their
>>> online offerings you are really missing something. Of more interest to
>>> researchers are their warrant and patent records pages. A true hidden
>>> treasure for researchers! The site can be found at
>>> http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/land_records/3184.
>>> Warrants for Robert Elliott can be found all over Cumberland and Bedford
>>> counties but the one that may have import is the one for land in Croyle's
>>> Valley as described at
>>> http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-88WarrantRegisters/BedfordPage
>>> s/Bedford67.pdf The associated patent page can be viewed at
>>> http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17PatentIndexes/A-AAPatentIndex82
>>> .pdf. Please make note that the patent index gives the land as being
>>> called
>>> "Snake Tail" with an earlier patent being called "Snake Mouth." Could
>>> this
>>> be how Snake Spring Valley got its name? I suspect it is and that though
>>> the land, loosely, was in Croyle's Valley I believe it actually lay in
>>> what
>>> at the time was Providence or Colerain township. Unfortunately I cannot
>>> take it any further than this. The I series / survey book(s), I need
>>> Survey
>>> Book I page 434, is not online. I do not know if the "I" references a
>>> series or not and if it is a series then which book it is.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> But an assumption can logically be made. The land "Snake Tail" and "Snake
>>> Mouth" appears to be referring to that region we now all call Snake
>>> Spring
>>> Valley with the tracts lying on the north side of Rte. 30. I would
>>> further
>>> stipulate that on Elliott's land was a spring. Duh! Whether it is land
>>> located just before where Rte. 30 crosses the new bridge or where the
>>> fuel
>>> depot is I cannot say. I would say that odds are that it was where the
>>> Upper Snake Spring Road meets Rte. 30. It would be advantageous if
>>> someone
>>> local could try to determine where Robert Elliott's land was. I do not
>>> own
>>> the 19th Century atlas so I cannot see what information it may present.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Now I have to go back and redraw my map for the 1776 road petition.
>>> Drats!!!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Wayne
>>>
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> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 23:12:13 -0400
> From: "Wayne Webb" <>
> Subject: Re: [BRE] Robert Elliott, Snake Spring & Colerain Townships
> To: "'Doris Dibert'" <>,
> <>
> Cc: 'Bedford' <>
> Message-ID: <>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
> Thanks Doris,
>
>
>
> In my original e-mail I posted the links to the same documents you described
> below. The only one not online was the survey for Snake's Tail which in
> this case I do not believe to be relevant, or at least as pertaining to the
> aforementioned road petitions. Snake's Mouth, as shown in the survey I
> provided the link to, is located there by Paul Ford & Sons Farm Equip. and
> the Snake Spring creek on the survey terminates into the river there by
> present day Rte. 30. Therefore if that tract, being the Mouth, is the start
> of the road mentioned then Snake's Tail would, logically, lie somewhere up
> Lower Snake Spring Road towards the gap before you head into the Cove. Or
> wherever the creek starts anyways.
>
>
>
> I concur with your William Henry, though I often read it as Henny, and those
> guys drive me nuts when I'm tracing land. Up in the Cove you have so many
> land speculators, and they "sold" land to the Brethren and then reneged on
> it, that it is extremely difficult to track 'em down. There are one or two
> deeds wherein it describes the "Dunker Legation" wherein it appears that
> Charles Cox took advantage of the Brethren as the result of the
> Revolutionary War migration of the Brethren out of it. From what little I
> have pieced together it appears that Cox had never recorded some deeds and
> when the Brethren, and others, came back after the War he, or his assignees,
> legatees, or heirs, acted like the land sales never took place. Whatever
> became of the lawsuit I do not know and other than in one or two deeds I've
> never caught wind of it again. It only occurred in the Cove that I can
> find. I did look thru the Pennsylvania Archives Series online but
> apparently I did not key in the correct search terms. I looked for it for
> two or three hours several years ago to no avail.
>
>
>
> The description of the road is from Robert Elliott's house to the Gap to
> Oullery's mill to Frankstown Gap and that is about it though there are some
> other minor points. I sent out a PDF link of the map as I have drawn it.
> It appears to be correct now that I have established that the Snake's Mouth
> tract was most likely the southern terminus. Your comments in the other
> e-mail to me may prove to be beneficial though and prove me wrong.
> Logically you would want the road to start / end as near to Bedford as
> possible. That would equate to where the Upper Road comes out to Rte. 30
> near the hospital. But the petition states "the house of Robert Elliot at
> the Snake Spring." I'll send you a private e-mail with the full
> description. Being a local historian it will interest you. That means it
> is the Snake's Mouth tract by Paul Ford & Son. One of these days I'm going
> to climb the hill behind his shop to see just what all is in that little
> clump of trees. The USGS map says it is a cemetery but it sure looks like a
> house foundation from the road.
>
>
>
> If I had a decent enough facsimile of the township division petition I could
> likely make out the other names. I suspect the Joseph which you could not
> read could have been Joseph Morrison who appears to have been Anabaptist but
> not German Baptist Brethren. Neither was, or at least as far as I can
> determine, Seventh Day German Baptist Brethren. I believe him to have been
> Universalist in religion. His son-in-law and daughter were early settlers
> in western Ohio. His son-in-law is, and was, a real thorn in some Brethren
> historian's sides but the records do not lie. Oops, I see that the petition
> is for 1823 and thus that cannot be Joseph Morrison. It could be his son
> though who was a Sheriff of the county. That being said though I do not
> find the son, Joseph Jr., listed in a record in my collection for 1822 in
> Colerain or Providence townships.
>
>
>
> The possibilities in 1822 for Colerain township are: Joseph Campbell,
> Joseph Miles, Joseph Maltemore (Mortimore?), Joseph Reddinger (Rettinger),
> Joseph Wande(Vaughn?) Joseph Peck, Joseph Redin, Joseph Coulter, Joseph
> Jackson, Joseph Starr, Joseph Sparks (two of 'em), Joseph Snider (two of
> 'em), Joseph Cooper, Joseph Deal, Joseph Mitchell, Joseph Sellers (Sellars),
> Joseph Davis, Joseph Disbrow, Joseph Morris, Joseph Mills and Joseph Wimmer
> (Weimer).
>
>
>
> The possibilities in 1822 for Providence township are: Joseph Armstrong,
> Joseph Peck, Joseph Redin, Joseph Coulter, Joseph Jackson, Joseph Starr,
> Joseph Sparks (two of 'em), Joseph Snider (two of 'em), Joseph Cooper,
> Joseph Deal, Joseph Mitchell, Joseph Sellers (Sellars), Joseph Davis, Joseph
> Disbrow, Joseph Morris, Joseph Mills, Joseph Wimmer (Weimer).
>
>
>
> If I had my druthers I would suspect that it would have been Joseph Sellers
> as I know he was prominent. There was a lot of overlap between the two
> townships as you probably noticed. The last item in your e-mail intrigues
> me. It is not unheard of, and it happened quite often actually, for a road
> to be resurveyed for a variety of reasons. Believe it or not I take a
> perverse pleasure in platting old records and overlaying them on an atlas
> image of the 1800s or a map of today. Everything keeps pointing back to my
> original conclusion years ago that the southern terminus was there by Paul
> Ford & Son. And yes Ma'am, I am interested from a purely inquisitive nature
> that haunts me.
>
>
>
> Wayne Webb
>
>
>
> _____
>
> From: Doris Dibert [mailto:]
> Sent: Friday, August 05, 2011 9:47 PM
> To: ;
> Subject: Robert Elliott, Snake Spring & Colerain Townships
>
>
>
> Wayne, I have some information on early land holdings in Snake Spring
> Township for Robert Elliott. There are apparently 2 tracts. Maybe you
> already have this information. Note that Bedford County was formed in 1771
> from Cumberland County.
>
>
>
> 1) Tract # 635 (Snake's Mouth) Tract SST Cumberland County Warrant C 98
> dated 10 Jun 1762 to Thomas Croyle. Patent to Robert Ellicott.
>
>
>
> Survey C-23-293 dated Mar 1768 for Thomas Croyle. Adjoining William Henry
> and George Croghan Esq.
>
>
>
> Survery C-23-294 dated 14 Mar 1768 for Thomas Croyle. Adjoining William
> Henry and George Croghan Esq. (Copies are identical except for the small
> variance in survey date, suggesting that perhaps the original was copied
> into the survey books twice.)
>
>
>
> 2) Tract # 638 (Snake's Tail) Tract SST West Side Application # 4257
> dated 03 Aug 1767 to Thomas Croyle Bedford County warrant E 13 dated 28 Jul
> 1774 to Robert Elliott. Survey I-437 dated 12 Mar 1768 for Thomas Croyle.
> Adjoining Richard Hockley, George Croghan Esq. Patent to Robert Elliott.
>
>
>
> Note: I believe that the William Henry mentioned in the first transaction
> was a wealthy land speculator from Philadelphia who never set foot in
> Bedford County. He purchased many acres of land in Bedford County, and was
> the first owner of my husband's property in Snake Spring Valley (Lower
> Road), dated 1762.
>
>
>
> I am curious about the description of the planned road from Morrisons Cove
> through Snake Spring Valley. Is there any way you could send that to me?
> The early road from the Cove to Bedford was from Pattonville (now Loysburg)
> across the Snake Spring Mountain, then along the Upper Snake Spring Valley
> Road to the Lincoln Highway (now Route 30), where it comes out below the
> hospital.
>
>
>
> I have a copy of a Petition of Division of Providence Twp. to Colerain,
> 1823, signed by Township residents. It gives the exact description of
> township lines:
>
>
>
> "Beginning at Tussey's Narrows at the line of Colerain and Providence
> Township thence across the Raystown Branch of Juniata at said Narrows and to
> the top of Tusseys Mountain a northerly course to the line of Hopewell (or
> of Woodberry Township of the said Woodberry and Providence Township line
> extending farther north thence with the Providence and Woodberry line on the
> dividing ridge between Croyles Cove and Morris's Cove crossing the road
> leading from Croyles Cove to Morris's Cove to the top of Dunnings mountain
> at the line of Bedford Township thence along the line of Bedford township a
> southerly course to Dunnings Narrows, cross the said Raystown branch and to
> intersect the line of Bedford and Colerain Towship through Snake Spring
> Valley into Colerain Township.
>
>
>
> Subscribers Names: Philip Richey, Abraham Richey, Peter Karns, henry
> Snider, (unreadable), George Mortimore, Joseph Armstrong, Eve Botenfield,
> Joseph (unreadable), Adam Shuss, Jacob Shuss, John Snyder, Adam Steer (?),
> Jacob Snider, Jacob (unreadable), John S. Ritchey, George Harshbarger, Henry
> Sellers, George Sellers (?), Joseph Sellers, unreadable Roller, John
> Moore, James Moore, George Moore, Frederick Shofe, Isaac Ritchey,
> unreadable, Simon Stukey, John Mixel, John Stein, Jacob Snider Jr.,
> unreadable, Simon Stukey junior, William Ritchey, unreadable, (unreadable)
> Cunce (Kuntz/Koontz), Charles Smouse, Charles Cessna, unreadable, Solomon
> Deal, Jacob Stoudenour, unreadable, Peter Arnold, Jacob Defenbaugh.
>
>
>
> Many of these names, especially Jacob Snider, Henry Harshbarger
> (Hershberger), Isaac Richey (Ritchey), Shuss's, etc. were the early leaders
> of the Snake Spring Valley German Baptist Brethren/CoB. Many of the above
> names are on early maps of the valley as landowners showing the location of
> their property.
>
>
>
> I also have a petition for the placement of the Lower Snake Spring road with
> the survey markings, but cannot locate it at present. The proposed road
> began at the Hartley property at the lower end of the Lower Snake Spring
> Road (C. Paul Ford and Son Implement dealers) and goes to the foot of the
> mountain where it intersects with the upper road. I'll try to locate that
> paper and send you if interested.
>
>
>
> Doris Dibert
>
> Snake Spring Valley, Bedford County, PA
>
>
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