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Source:
History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania
ILLUSTRATED
Publ.
Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co.,
1887
CHAPTER XXIII
PETERS, 1751.
page 567
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This township was named in honor of
Richard Peters, the distinguished
colonial secretary of the province under
Govs. Thomas, Palmer, Hamilton, Morris
and Denny, from 1743 to 1762.
Mention of the township in the
Cumberland County records is made in
1751, raising the presumption that it
was organized by the court soon after
that county was erected. At first
it embraced its present territory and
that the Montgomery, and a part of St.
Thomas west of Campbell's Run.
Here, too, the names of early settlers
indicated Scotch-Irish people.
FIRST
SETTLERS.
EARLY
LAND TITLES.
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LIST OF TAXABLES - 1786.
The
list of taxables in 1786, in
the territory of the
township, as it is now, was
as follows:
LOUDON.
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LEMASTERS.
UPTON.
BRIDGEPORT.
COVE GAP.
Cove Gap is a small hamlet
in Peters Township, situated
on the public road from
Warren Township; population,
about fifty.
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