OF

WASHINGTON COUNTY

FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT

TO THE

PRESENT TIME,

FIRST UNDER VIRGINIA AS YOHOGANIA, OHIO, OR AUGUSTA COUNTY
UNTIL 1781, AND SUBSEQUENTLY UNDER PENNSYLVANIA;

WITH

SKETCHES OF ALL THE TOWNSHIPS, BOROUGHS, AND VILLAGES, ETC.;

AND TO WHICH IS ADDED

A FULL ACCOUNT OF THE CELEBRATED MASON AND DIXON'S LINE, THE
WHISKEY INSURRECTION, INDIAN WARFARE, TRADITIONAL
AND LOCAL HISTORICAL EVENTS.

Whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future preponderate over the present,
advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.-DR. JOHNSON.

SECOND EDITION, REVISED AND CORRECTED

BY ALFRED CREIGH, LL. D.

HARRISBURG, PA.,

B. SINGERLY, PRINTER.

1871.

NEW YOR
PUBLIC

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by

ALFRED CREIGH, LL. D.

in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States in and for the Western District of Pennsylvania.