Old Bedford County Townships
For more information on early Bedford county, please visit the Bedford
County, PAGenWeb site.
| Date |
Township |
| 1761 |
Ayr now in present Fulton County |
| 1767 |
Dublin Township formed - bounded by Ayr and Fannet Townships on one side, Colraine
and Barre on the other. Dublin is now in Fulton County (1850). |
| 1767 |
Colerain formed. |
| 1767 |
Cumberland Township formed, now Cumberland Valley, Bedford County. |
| 1767 |
Bedford Township, Bedford County |
| 1767 |
Barree Township, now Huntingdon Co. |
| 1771 |
Brothersvalley Township - first township west of the Alleghenies, now Somerset County |
| 1771 |
Fairfield Township - now Westmoreland Co. |
| 1771 |
Hempfiled Township, now Westmoreland Co. |
| 1771 |
Pitt Township, now large portions of Allegheny, Beaver and Washington Cos. |
| 1771 |
Tyrone Township, now portions of Westmoreland and Fayette Cos. |
| 1771 |
Spring Hill, now all of Greene County, part of Washington, and almost all of Fayette
Co. |
| 1771 |
Ross Straver, now parts of Allegheny and Westmoreland, called Rostraver Township |
| 1771 |
Armstrong Township, now parts of Cambria, Westmoreland, Armstrong, Indiana and Clearfield
Counties. |
| 1771 |
Tullileague Township, parts of Blair, Centre, Clearfield and Cambria Counties. |
| 1773 |
Bethel Township, now Fulton Co. |
| 1773 |
Turkeyfoot Township, from Brothersvalley, Somerset Co. |
| 1773 |
Hopewell Township, from Barree in Huntingdon Co. |
| 1775 |
Quemahoning Township, from Brothersvalley, Somerset Co. |
| 1775 |
Frankstown Township, parts of Bedford and Barree Townships, in Blair County |
| 1780 |
Huntingdon and Shirley, now Huntingdon Co. |
| 1780 |
Milford Township, now in Somerset Co. |
| 1785 |
Elk Lick Township, part of Somerset Co. |
| 1785 |
Londonderry Township, still in Bedford, later becomes Southampton Township, Somerset
Co. |
| 1785 |
Belfast Township, now in Fulton Co. |
| 1785 |
Woodberry Township, part of Bedford and part of Blair Co. |
| 1786 |
Tyrone Township, Blair Co |
| 1792 |
Stoneycreek Township, Somerset Co. |
| 1794 |
St. Clair Township, East and West St. Clair in Bedford Co. |
See Pennsylvania Archives, Vol. 22 3rd series, pages 2-323; for tax lists of Bedford
County 1773-1776, 1779, 1783-84 see PA Archives Vol 25, 3rd Series. Land Warrentees, 1771-1893,
Vol 25. 3rd series, pages 449-673.
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