Township · Huntingdon County

Clay

1 story on file, each with its sources. 28.5 square miles of land in the ridge and valley country of central Pennsylvania.

872

Population

28.46 sq mi

Land area

Township

Type

The founding record

Clay township was erected on April 15, 1845, irotn Springfield, and was named for Henry Clay, of Kentucky, who was the Whig candidate for president in 1844. It is bounded on the northeast by Cass and Cromwell; on the southeast by Springfield ; on the south and southwest by Fulton county, and on the northwest by Wood and Tod townships. Benjamin Long, Henry Hubbell, George, John and William Hudson, Thomas Green, George Ashman, John Kyler, William and Miles Bunn, Thomas Hooper, Richard Bradley and some others had located in what is now Clay township before the close of the eighteenth century. The boroughs of Saltillo and Three Springs are located in this township and there are a few villages of minor importance. The East Broad Top railroad crosses the northern portion, passing through Saltillo and Three Springs. John W. Jordan, ed., History of the Juniata Valley and Its People (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913) · character 180,915 of the scanned text

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Stories from Clay

From the county histories, on Clay township. The passage below is printed exactly as it appears in 1883, including the spelling of the day and the errors the scanner made. It has not been rewritten, summarised or added to.

Besides the pioneers named, others are recalled by very old present inhabitants, of Matthias Saylor, John Chilcote, George Stever, Cornelius Poston, Zachariah Lovett, and Daniel Gosnal. In Smith's Valley, beginning near the line of Clay township and going north, there were Jacob Barnett, Andrew Park, John Chaney, John Park, Jr., Philemon Reynolds, Michael Bauman, Hugh Johnson, and John Park, Sr. Reynolds was a colored man and a slave, who purchased his freedom, and afterwards bought from his former master six hundred acres of land opposite Cassville for one hundred dollars. Mr. James L. Glasgow now owns and resides on a part of this land. In Hare's Valley John Shields, James Campbell, Jacob Crotsley, Henry Freed, William Wright are remembered as very early residents. Probably not many of those named were original settlers in the township, but many were the children of pioneers, and nearly all left children, who have in their turn multiplied till their families are numerously represented here. Some of these pioneers came here from Maryland, over Indian trails that were not passable except on foot or with single animals, They brought their scanty effects on their backs, or on the backs of horses and cows, and drove the few sheep and swine that, if spared by the wolves and bears, were to be the beginnings of their future flocks.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 1,559,092 of the scanned text

Sources

J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883)

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