SOMERSET Joseph Cummins, John Neff 1840 Chauncey F. Mitchell, Gillian Lint, 1845 Gillian Lint, 1850 Enos O\’Neal, 1851 R. P. Cummins, 1855 Gillian Lint, 1856 John C. Kurtz, 1860…

The following is a list of justices of the peace of Somerset county from 1795 to 1839, with the date of commissions. Until 1840, when the office was made elective,…

Comp\’s Reformed and Lutheran Church is an old organization. In the first church book, nothing but baptisms are recorded. The date of the first baptism is 1810. The Comp, Troutman…

Wellersburg Reformed and Lutheran Church was organized by Rev. Henry Giesy about the year 1803. There is no account of the building of the first church. The principal early members…

The May and Craig families will hold a reunion on the farm of John H. May, near Acme, seven miles east of Mount Pleasant on the Somerset pike, Sunday, August…

<center><strong>HISTORY OF THE TOWNSHIP</strong></center>This township was first known as Rockland Township, but for reasons unknown the name was changed to Southampton which is of English origin. It was formed in…

<center><strong>HISTORY OF THE TOWNSHIP</strong></center>Northampton township was formed by the Somerset County Court out of part of Southampton township in 1852. It was a rugged mountainous region, small in territory, and…

The following is the assessor\’s list of owners of real property in Northampton township in the year 1852: Henry Albright……………………………Geo. Geiger, Sr.Sam. Burkhard…………………………..Geo. Geiger, Jr.Jona. Bitner……………………………….Dan. G. GeigerSam. Boyer………………………………..Jac. M.…

All people listed in the abstract were born in Pa., unless otherwise noted. “School” indicates the person had attended school within the past year. “R.E.” stands for real estate. JACOB…

The following is a list of the taxable inhabitants of Southampton township in 1805, copied from the tax duplicate for that year in the county comissioner\’s office at Somerset: Samuel…