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JUNCTION OFFRANKSTOWN AND LUCKAHOE BRANCHES OF THE JUNIATA BELOW ALEXANDRIA.
HISTORY
OF THE
EARLY SETTLEMENT
OF THE
JUNIATA VALLEY:
EMBRACING AN
ACCOUNT OF THE EARLY PIONEERS,
AND THE TRIALS AND PRIVATIONS INCIDENT TO THE
SETTLEMENT OF THE VALLEY,
PREDATORY INCURSIONS, MASSACRES, AND ABDUCTIONS BY THE
INDIANS DURING THE FRENCH AND INDIAN WARS, AND THE
WAR OF THE REVOLUTION, &c.
By U. J. JONES.
PHILADELPHIA:
PUBLISHED BY HENRY B. ASHMEAD,
GEORGE ST., ABOVE ELEVENTH.
1856.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1856, byU. J. JONES, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court ofthe United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
STEREOTYPED BY L. JOHNSON AND CO.
PHILADELPHIA.
Dedication.
TO
MAJOR B. F. BELL,
BELL'S MILLS, BLAIR COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
Dear Sir:—I hope your well-known modesty will not be shockedwhen your eyes encounter this notice. In dedicating to you the fruitsof my first historical labors in the field of literature, allow me tosay that I am governed by reasons that will justify me. In the firstplace, I may cite your well-known and often-expressed veneration andesteem for the memory of the brave old Pioneers of our Valley, theirheroic deeds, and their indomitable energy and perseverance, under themost discouraging circumstances, in turning the unbroken wildernessinto "a land flowing with milk and honey." Secondly, you are the son ofone of those self-same old pioneers, (now in his grave,) who, if not adirect actor in some of the scenes portrayed in the pages following,lived while they were enacted, and trod upon the ground where many ofthem occurred, while the actors in them were his friends and hisneighbors. Manifold, indeed, were the changes he witnessed during along and useful career; but the common lot of humanity was his, and henow "sleeps the sleep that knows no waki