History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . he Treaty of Fort Stanwix,November 5, 1768. Settlers until then west of Bedford andFrankstown were few, none perhaps except those who cameinto the glades for a season to trap and fish, and those whosettled along the Forbes Road and the Braddock Road, encour-aged to do so by the Province, that they might be of assistanceto the soldiers going and returning from Fort Pitt and FortVenango, and being in turn protected by the
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History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . he Treaty of Fort Stanwix, November 5, 1768. Settlers until then west of Bedford andFrankstown were few, none perhaps except those who cameinto the glades for a season to trap and fish, and those whosettled along the Forbes Road and the Braddock Road, encour-aged to do so by the Province, that they might be of assistanceto the soldiers going and returning from Fort Pitt and FortVenango, and being in turn protected by them from the Frenchand Indians. The Penn heirs threw open the territory west of these moun-tains to settlers on April 3, 1769. Already, on April 12, a deedwas granted to a settler in Elk Lick Township, Somerset County, and on April 19, one in Addison Township, the pioneers havingcome in all probability by the Braddock Road. Those who pre-ferred to settle a bit farther north could leave the CumberlandValley Road near Shippensburg and come by the Forbes Roadby way of Fort Louden, Fort Littleton (near Burnt Cabins), Fort Bedford, and thence on towards Fort Ligonier and Fort14S. ALLEGHAXY SYXOD Pitt. It is clear that these settlers would prefer not to be toofar from these State roads, as it was necessary to go to Cumber-land and even to Chambersburg and Hagerstown to do the shop-ping; it was also comforting not to be too far away from thesefrontier Forts. Hence we find Berlin, Meyersdale and Salisbury, points between these Roads, and just over the Mountains, earlycenters of settlers: Lutheran and Reformed at Berlin and Salis-bury, Mennonites at Meyersdale. With them, or following them, came the first ministers, the earliest record of the arrival of aLutheran pastor west of the Alleghanies being found in theBerlin Church Book, and the first man, Pastor Lizel, or Litzel. All the early preachers gave more or less of their time to thesettlements on or near the Forbes Road all the way from Be