JOSEPH BREED, from Stonington, Connecticut, settled in Cherry Tree township in 1818. His family gave the name to the locality known as Breedtown. He died January 23, 1839, aged eighty-two years, ans is buried in the family graveyard.

WILLIAM BROWN, from the state of New York, came to this county in 1813 and settled in French Creek township, whence he moved to Sugar Creek, and in 1820 to Canal, where he kept a well known hostelry at Hannaville and died in 1846.

FRANCIS CARTER, a native of Ireland, was in the military service at Pittsburgh, Franklin, and Erie. He settled on Sugar creek below Cooperstown in 1797, and removed to the site of Dempseytown in 1803. There he built one of the first houses of the village and died at an advanced age.

WILLIAM COOPER, the founder of Cooperstown, came to that locality from eastern Pennsylvania in 1797 and built the first mill on Sugar creek. He died February 1, 1813, innhis sixty-sixth year, and is buried in the graveyard of the old Methodist church in that borough.

ASPEN CORNWELL, came to Allegheny township from New York city, arriving at his destination in August, 1819, and and was a resident of that part of the county the remainder of his life.

DAVID DUNHAM, from Fabius, Onondaga county, New York, purchased a tract of land in Allegheny township near Pleasantville in 1819, and removed thereon in 1821.

PHILIP GHOST, located in Clinton township in 1796. He bore the title of major and had filled that rank in the Continental army. His residence immediately coming here was Westmoreland county. He was a native of Germany.

MICHAEL HARE, who taught a school in Oakland township in 1807 and lived in that locality for a time, subsequently removed to Erie county and died at Waterford, May 3, 1843, at the remarkable age of one hundred and fifteen years, eight months, and twenty-three days. He was born in Ireland , June 10, 1727.

HUGH HASSON, removed from New London, Chester county to Canal township in 1799, where he resided until his death in 1815.

JAMES G. HERON, came to Franklin prior to 1800 and was one of the opulent citizens of that village in it's early years. He was a member of the first board of county commissioners and one of the first associate judges. He was originally from New Jersey, and upon the formation of Colonel Moses Hazen's regiment, known as Congress's Own, because not attached to the quota of any particular state, he became a lieutenant and was subsequently promoted to a captaincy. He was taked prisoner August 23, 1777, and exchanged, after which it is probable that he served to the end of the war. His death occured December 30, 1809.

JOHN PHILIP HOUSER, the first settler at the mouth of Sandy creek, was a German by birth, nd came here from Lancaster county. Afterward he was a ferryman at Franklin.

SETH JEWEL, first improved the site of the borough of Polk. He settled ther about the begining of the present century.

PHILIP KEES, a native German, came to Oakland township in 1805. Subsequently he removed to a point on the Monongahela river, twenty miles above Pittsburgh, where he died.

SAMUEL LINDSAY, was the first settler at the mouth of East Sandy creek in Cranberry township. He afterwards crossed the river into Victory, and at a later date removed to Meigs county, Ohio. he was a man of immense physical strength.

SAMUEL LOVETT, resided for a time in Cherry Tree at an early date, but removed to Crawford county before his death.

PATRICK MANSON, a native of Ireland, settled in Sandy Creek township in 1797. He lived to a ripe old age, and was buried with the honors of war by the local militia in the old Franklin cemetery.

JOHN McCALMONT, born in County Armagh, Ireland, January 11, 1750, came to America in 1766 and served through the war. In 1803 he settled in Sugar Creek township. He died August 3, 1832, and is buried in the United Presbyterian graveyard at Plumer.

JAMES McMURDY, was an early settler in the vicinity of Sugar Creek Memorial church, Jackson township.

HENRY MYERS, was a pioneer of Richland, and built several of the first mills in that part of the county.

GEORGE POWER, was a commissary in the United States army, if not during the perion of hostilities in the east, certainly throughout the military movements in the west by which the British posts were occupied by American forces. He served in this capacity at Fort Franklin, Fort Washington (Cincinnati), Vincennes, and other points. He is best remembered, however as the first permanent settler at Franklin. Mr. Power was born in Maryland April 10, 1762 and died April 2, 1845.

SAMUEL PROPER, probably the second settler in Plum township, removed to that locality from ASchoharie county, New York, in 1801. He was the progenitor of a numerous family, and a German by birth.

MATHEW RIDDLE, a native of Ireland, came to Venango county from Westmoreland as a chain bearer to Thoma McKee, surveyor in 1796, and settled in Clinton township.

DAVID RUSSELL, removed from Westmoreland county in 1799 to Scrubgrass township , this county.

CHARLES STEVENSON, a native Scotsman, settled in Oakland township in 1800; he had lived in Mifflin county immediatley prior to that date. Subsequently he moved into Cherry Tree township. He died in Adams county, Ohio.

JOHN SULLINGER, purchased land in Rockland in 1805 and settled thereon in 1813. He died about the year 1845 at Warren, Ohio, at the advanced ge of ninety-one.