The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1895-07-03
SOMERSET PA, WEDNESDAY JULY 3, 1895.

eyes but when it was to end / was at
"A loss TO know, as the little cups We're
filled Immediately after being emptied.
This.circumstance distressed me very
much, as durst not say had enough.
Looking attentively at the grown per-
sons, | saw one man turn his little cup
bottom upwards, and put his little
spoon across it. | observed that after
this his cup was not filled again | fol-
low his example, and to my great sat
isfaction, the result as 10 my cup WAS
the same"
The introduction Of delft ware was
considered by many of the backwoods
people as a eulpable innovation. 1t
was too easily broken, and the plates of
that ware dulled their scaIping and
clasp knives. Tea ware was too small
for men;-it might DO for women and
children. Tea and coffee were only
slops which i'll the adage Of the day
"did not stick by the ribs" The idea
was, they were designed only for peo-
pie of quality, who do not labor, or the
sick. The genuine backwOodsman
would have thought himself disgraced
| by showing Il fondness for these slOps.
The town of Bedford was laid out by
order of the governor in June, 1766.
For considerable time after the town
was laid out, the inhabitants had to go
upward of forty miles to mill. IL was
then an undertaking that occupied
sometimes two weeks, those taking
grain having to wait until Others be
fore them were accommodated. The
first mill was built near the town 10y "a
merchant named Frederick Naugle,
doing what at that day was called
large business.
For many years Bedford was the
principal stopping place for all persons,
and particularly the packers going
from the east to 1T. Pitt All govern
ment stores, as well as groceries and
goods of every description, were for a
long time carried west on pack horses.
One man would sometimes have under
control as many a. hundred horses.
For the protection Of these, guards had
always to be supplied, who accom-
panied them from one fort 10 another.
Bedford always furnished its guards out
OF that class of the malitia in service al
the time they were required. These
guards Travelled with the packers,
guarded their encampments at night,
and conducted them safely across the
Alieghenies TO Ft. Ligonier, west Of
I Laurel Hill.
At the commencement of the revoiu-
ton the county of Bedford furnished
two companies who marched TO Bos-
ton; and although but frontier coun-
ty, at distance from the principal
scenes of excitement and points of in
formation, contained "a much of the
patriotic spirit of the day rs could be
found anywhere. y meeting was held,
composed of farmers and the most sub
stantial citizens, who entering fully
into the spirit of the revolution, passed
resolutions prohibiting the introduc-
ton and Use of every article of foreign
manufacture.
Among the prominent citizens Of
that day who lived at and about Bed
ford, were Thomas Smith, who held
several appointments under the Gov
ernment, and was afterwards a judge
of the supreme court, Gen. Arthur It.
Clair, who was the first prothonotary
of the county, George Woods, county
surveyor, under whose instructions the
city of Pittsburg was laid ont, Thomas
Coulter, Colonel Davidson, and Thom-
n Vickroy, who afterwards iG 1873
laid out the city of Pittsburg.
Although the inhabitants were from
the time of the first settlement con-
stantly on their guard against tine In-
dians, yet the principal troubles COM
menced at the breaking out of the rev
oIutionary war \ frontier life at that
time was one constant scene of strife
and danger. Bedford county was at
that time the Allegheny frontier, and
her inhabitants Were, consequently,
exposed to the full force of savage fury,
and severely did it often fall upon
them. The following incidents OF
those times are well authenticated:
About December, III, number of
families came into the forest at Bed
| ford from the neighborhOOd of Johns
town. Amongst them were samuel
| Adams. a man named Thornton, aud
one Bridges. After their alarm had
somewhat subsidized, they agreed TO re-
/ turn for their property. \ party start
| ed with pack horses, reached the place,
and not seeing any Indians, collected
: their property and commenced their
! return. After proceeding some dis
: lance, dog belonging to one Of the
: party showed signs OF uneasiness, and
) ran back. Bridges and Thornton desired
the others TO wait whilst they would 60
back for him. They went back, and
, had proceeded but 30 or 300 yards,
. when a body of Indians, who had been
living in wait on each side of the way,
but who had been afraid to fire on ac-
count of the number of the whites, sud
denly rose up and surrounded them
\ and took them prisoners. The Others
. not knowing what detained their COM
. panions went back after them; when
\ they arrived near the spot, the Indians
. fired on them, but without doing
:, any injury. The whites instantly
i turned and fled, excepting Samue
; Adams, who took tree and begaT
:, TO fight in Indian style. In few
. minutes however, he was killed, bu
| not without doing the same fearfu
- service for his adversary. He and on'
/, of the Indians shot at and killed eaci
= other at the same moment. When tin
= news reached the fort, party volun
. teered to visit the ground. When the.
4 reached it, although the snow had fal
,f len ankle deep, they readily found tn
bodies of Adams and the Indian; tn
4 face of the latter having been covered
# by his companions with Adams hunt
10 ing shirt.
C. A singular circumstance also occure
II about that time in the neighbour DO
as of what is now New Baltimore.
D. man named Wells had made a Yer,