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Source:
History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania
ILLUSTRATED
Publ.
Chicago:
Warner, Beers & Co.,
1887
CHAPTER XXIII
WASHINGTON, 1779.*
page 588
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At the January term, 1779, a petition of
citizens of Antrim was presented, asking
for a division of that township, and the
court appointed James Jonston,
Abraham Smith, Humphrey Fullerton, James
McLanahan, Elias Davison and
William Finley, commissioners to
examine and report upon the propriety of
granting the request of the petitioners.
Their report was to be returned at the
April term of the court of that year.
It was then Washington Township was
erected out of the territory of Antrim,
and named in honor of him who stood
first in the hearts of his countrymen -
Gen. Washington. Some of
hte first settlers to come to the county
located in what is now Washington
Township. Some of the early land
purchasers were as follows:
EARLY
LAND TITLES.
LIST OF TAXABLES - 1786.
Washington Township,
which then included what is
now Quincy Township in 1786
had the following taxables:
VILLAGES.
.
END OF WASHINGTON
TOWNSHIP.
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