History and Topography of Northumberland, Huntingdon, Mifflin, Centre, Union, Columbia, Juniata and Clinton Counties, Pa - Embracing Local and General Events, Leading Incidents, Description of the Principal Boroughs, Towns, Villages, E... #269797

In the spring of 1845, Mr. G. Hills, the Publisher, em ployed the compiler to collect and arrange the materials of the present compilation. In the selection and arrangement of matter, the compiler aimed at what the Publisher had proposed should be em braced ih the work, viz: A brief sketch of the manners and customs of the aborigines who once inhabited the region of country within the several counties named — Notices of the earliest settlements by the whites — of the Germans and I r ish — Indian massacres — accounts of the several forts; and such other facts as are deemed necessary to understand the early history of this portion of Pennsylvania. The topographical description of these counties, it was proposed to arrange under the following heads, viz.