Dublin: where the name comes from

From the county histories, on Dublin 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.

John Palmer's house in Shirleysburg was named as the voting-place. Dublin township and the remaining part of Springfield was thereafter to form the second district, and the right of suffrage was to be exercised at the house of George Hudson. The ninth district, erected in 1800, consisted of that part of the township of Allegheny lying west of the summit of the Allegheny Mountain. Cornelius McGuire's house was named as the voting-place. At the same time that portion of the sixth district lying northeastward of the following lines, to wit: Beginning in Forshey's Gap in Terrace Mountain, thence by a straight line to the mouth of Little Trough Creek; thence up Big Trough Creek to Philip Curfman's saw-mill; thence by a straight line to the line of the eighth district include the house of Joshua Chilcoat, Jr., was added to the first district, and the elections ordered to be held in the court-house in the borough of Huntingdon. A part of West township was also added to the first district, being the part lying south and west of the following bounds, to wit: beginning at Tussey's Mountain opposite the head of Nelson's Run, thence down said run to Shaver's Creek; thence up said creek to the road leading from McCormick's mill to the borough of Huntingdon; thence along said road to the line of Huntingdon township.J. Simpson Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1883) · character 339,646 of the scanned text

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