The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-07-17
FOR The BOYS And GIRLS.
Little Fulton Chats Familiarity
About Herself.

area OF about 40 Thousand square
miles, it was thought by those
who organized it in 1782-one-
hundred and twenty years ago
that three counties were quite
enough; and so, the territory we
now call Fulton county was then
covered by the wings of Chester
county. Well, we lived with the
Chester county people and got
along well enough until one morn
ing in May 1929, when we arose
from our beds, we found oursel-
YES in Lancaster county. Settle
ments had extended westward
from the Delaware until there
were large mum ber of people
living in Chester county who
thought they might cut loose from
the mother county. They petit
toned for new organization and
they got it, the new county was
called Lancaster, and we were in
it. Against the Lancaster county
people we had no cause for COM
plant, and we soon felt quite at
home with our Dutch neighbors ;
and we might have been in Ian
caster county yet had it not been
for few fellows who thought it
would be easier to make some
new offices, than to undertake to
get one of the old ones; so, in re.
sponse to a petition, a big slice of
territory was cut off of Lancaster
county, and called Cumberland
county, and when the change was
made we found if we were drawn
on the jury that we would have to
go to Carlisle to court. The
change that took us out of Ian.
caster and put us into Cumber-
land was made January q, 1850.
We lived in Cumberland county
twenty-one years, or until March
8, 1771, when a big slice was cut
off Cumberland to make Bedford
county, and we found ourselves
in Bedford county. We were
getting used to being knocked
around by this time;and we would
not have been greatly surprised,
some nice morning, had we found
ourselves in Canada, or in Mary
land.
Old Mother Bedford was good
to us and we staid with her for 80
years, wondering where we would
find ourselves next, until it oc-
Cured to some of our enterpris-
ing people to set up business for
ourselves; and, instead of being
a tail to somebody else's kite, we
would cut loose and sail on our
own account-have county of
our own. Somebody mentioned
it and somebody else said, "Why
didn't we think of that before ?"
A petition was drawn up,
number of signers obtained, it
was sent down to the legislature
at Harrisburg, and the legislature
said that they had no objection
and, that if it was the wish of
majority of the people in the ter
ritory of the proposed new county
to have an organization of their
own, they should have it.
The Legislature then passed an
act which was approved by the
governor April 10, 1850, and some
of its provisions are as follows
|. David Mann, Jr., Peter Dona,
hoe, and Andrew j. Fore were
named to run and mark the boun-
Diary lines of the new county and
to receive subscriptions of money
and material toward defraying
The expenses of purchasing lots
and erecting the public buildings,
and also to locate the seat of JUS
tice, provided that they should 10.
cate it at the place which will pay
or secure to be paid, the most
money toward the erection of the
public buildings.
2. June %, 1850 was named as a
day upon which a special election
should be held to give the people
chance to say whether or not a
majority wanted the new county
8. The act required that a sum
not less than $4,000 should be
raised by this voluntary subscrip.
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