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Historical collections: annals of the early settlements of Somerset County : as printed in the Somerset Standard 1893-1894 ; originally published in the same publication 24 years earlier (1869-70) FamilySearch Library

Taking up the Turkeyfoot settlement to begin with, and having for authority the report of the commission of which the Rev. John Steele was the head, we have the names of nine settlers who were living in this region as early as March, 1768.

The names of the very early hunters are officially unrecorded in the ledgers of Somerset County, but legends, based upon authentic records of surrounding counties, lead into the Glades, the Turkey Foot, and along the Quemahoning long before a log of …

The first sheriff of Somerset County after it separated from Bedford Coun-ty was Thomas Kennedy; David King was the new county's first coroner, and the first county commissioners were John Fletcher of Berlin, John Leech of Quemahoning and John Leech of Milford.

We are incredibly fortunate that, while Pennsylvania did not plat the tracts of the earliest landowners of Somerset County, it was taken on as a project by the Works Progress Administration (WPA). We are posting those maps below (scroll toward bottom).

Filed under: Somerset County (Pa.) -- Biography History of Bedford, Somerset, and Fulton counties, Pennsylvania : with illustrations and biographical sketches of some of its pioneers and prominent men.

Somerset, the county seat, is a neatly-built town, situated on the summit of a hill, near the centre of the co. It was laid out in the year 1795, by Mr. Bruner, and for some time was called Brunerstown. It was incorporated as a borough by the act of …

Somerset, the county seat, was laid out in 1795, incorporated as a borough on March 5, 1804 and was located on the turnpike road leading from Bedford to Pittsburgh, now known at Route 31.

Mar 31, 2008 · Somerset's first permanent settler was a German, Philip WAGERLINE, who lived near present day Berlin, in Brothers Valley Township. Wagerline arrived in Somerset (then Bedford County) sometime before 1771 when Herman HUSBAND visited his cabin during the summer of 1771.