the Laurel Hill, extending from the Maryland line northward to the Conemaugh river. It will be observed that it did not extend north of the Conemaugh or of the Little Conemaugh rivers. Elsewhere will be found an accurate list of the residents of Brothers Valley in 1772, with such property as was assessable.
During the April sessions of the Bedford court, 1775, it made the new township of Quemahoning from the township of Brothers Valley. The boundaries of Quemahoning were: "Beginning where the Great Road, which is laid out through the Glades crosses the Allegheny Mountain near Burd's Gap, and along the said road to where it crosses the Laurel Hill at Matthias Ditches Gap; then along the Laurel Hill by the line of Westmoreland county to the head of the Little Conemaugh, and from thence along the dividing ridge between the waters of the Susquehanna and Little Conemaugh to the Allegheny Mountain, and by the same mountain to the place of beginning."
Huntingdon county was formed, in part, from Bedford county, September 20, 1787. The relevant boundary lines of Huntingdon were; * * * "to the Gap at Jacob Stevens' Mill, a little below where Woolery's Mill formerly stood, in Morrison's Cove; thence in a straight line by the southerly side of Blair's Mill at the foot of the Allegheny Mountain; thence across the said mountain in a straight line, to and along the ridges dividing the waters of Conemaugh from the waters of Clearfield and Chest Creek's to the line of Westmoreland county; thence by the same to the old Purchase Line, which was run from Kittanning to the west branch of the Susquehanna river; and down. the same to the mouth of Moshannon Creek, and along the remaining lines or boundaries which now divide the county of Bedford from the counties of Northumberland, Cumberland and Franklin, to the place of beginning." (2 Smith's Laws, 418.)
The Assembly, by the act of April 17, 1795 (3 Smith, 229), authorized the organization of Somerset County, and described its limits, so far as being material, thus: "That all that part of Bedford County, lying and being to the westward of a line to be drawn along the top of the Allegheny mountain, from where the Maryland line crosseth the same to where the line of Huntingdon County crosseth the same mountain, shall be * * * called Somerset." This included the land up to the Huntingdon line, which is substantially all the territory south and southwest of the ridge dividing the waters of the Little
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