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CHAPTER II. THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR PERIOD -- MEETINGS IN CARPENTER'S HALL IN PHILADELPHIA -- COMPANIES OF CAPTAIN ROBERT CLUGGAGE, CAPTAIN RICHARD BROWN, CAPTAIN ANDREW MANN AND CAP- TAIN JACOB HENDERSHOT -- THE COMPANIES OF RANGERS; CAP- TAIN JOHN BOYD AND CAPTAIN SOLOMON ADAMS -- MASON AND DIXON'S LINE -- THE WHISKEY REBELLION OF 1794 -- THE FORBES ROAD.      When the shot was fired at Lexington, on April 19, 1775, it has been stated that its moral effect for religious liberty and political freedom encircled the globe.      When that took place the territory now within the limits of Cambria county was parts of Quemahoning and Frankstown townships of Bedford county. Fort Bedford was the county capital; there the courts administered justice to the people of the county; there the pioneers sought safety from the attacks of Indians on their homes and families throughout the county. The next fort west was Fort Ligonier, in Westmoreland county. Bedford was the common meeting place for the patriot and the pioneer of this locality.      The inhabitants of the county were principally Scotch-Irish Presbyterians, but Germans of the Brethren denomination, Swiss and Irish, had also settled here. It was very natural that both patriots and tories should be represented, although there were few of the latter. Numbered with the patriots were Colonel George Woods, Judge Barnard Dougherty, Colonel David Espy, Samuel Davidson, Esq., Hon. John Cessna, Colonel Charles Cessna, Major Edward Coombs, Colonel Hugh Barclay, Captain Andrew Mann, Colonel Robert Galbreath, Captain Robert Cluggage, James Martin, William Proctor, Colonel Thomas Smith, James Wells, John Malott, Robert Scott, and Captain James Francis Moore.      When Samuel Adams and his party of "Indians" threw the cargo of tea into the Boston harbor, it aroused the colonists, and a meeting was held in Philadelphia on July 15, 1774, for the purpose of expressing their discontent with the law of George III. George Woods, Esq., Barnard Dougherty and Samuel Davidson of Bedford county were present as delegates. The

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