authorizing the commissioners of these counties to run new lines, James Harris, James Wells and James Hunter did so on October 30,1798, which is recorded in Somerset county thus: "A plot of a line extending from a white oak on the summit of the Allegheny Mountains along the ridge dividing the waters of the Susquehanna and Allegheny Rivers until it meets a line drawn from the summit of Laurel Hill west of the Blacklick, along the ridge of said Hill, north eastward, separating that part of Somerset County from the Counties of Westmoreland and Huntingdon."
A drawing accompanying this report shows that the line along the ridge is about sixteen miles from the Bedford to the Westmoreland line, and less than ten miles along Westmoreland county to the Somerset line. It appears to be substantially the same as was made when Huntingdon county was formed. This division line is particularly noticeable along the Cambria and Clearfield railroad from Cresson to Kaylor's Station, touching it at many points on the ridge, beginning at the west leg of the "Y" at Cresson. The station at Kaylor's is almost on the dividing line. A drop of water falling on the northeasterly side of the track will flow into the Atlantic, and falling on the other side it will find its way to the Gulf of Mexico.
The court of quarter sessions for Bedford county, at the April sessions, 1775, created Frankstown township. This was twelve years before Huntingdon county was organized. It included all the territory in Cambria county north and northeast of the headwaters of the Little Conemaugh river and the Blacklick creek. The line was thus described in the order of the court: "Along the line dividing Bedford and Northumberland Counties from the West Branch of the Susquehanna to where the Little Juniata runs through Tusseys Mountains; thence along the said mountain to the ridge dividing Morrison's Cove from Coyle's Cove; thence along Dunning's Mountain to the dividing ridge between the waters of Dunnings Creek and the southwest branch of Frankstown Branch; thence along the ridge to the Allegheny Mountain; thence cross the same and by the line of Quemahoning Township to the line dividing Bedford and Westmoreland Counties, and by the said line and along the limits of this county to the place of beginning." These are the relevant courses for Frankstown township, and very clearly fix the division line along the Quemahoning township line.
Thus we have shown that Cambria was organized by taking
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