History of Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

By: George Dallas Alberts, Pub. 1882, reprinted 2022, 1010 pages, NEW INDEX, E-BOOK, ISBN #978-1-63914-536-2. Westmoreland County was created in 1773 from Lancaster, Northumberland and Bedford Counties. It lies in the southwestern corner of the state and was the parent county to: Allegheny, Armstrong, parts of Bedford, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, and Washington. These early settlers were of Scotch-Irish, German, Franch Huguenots and English American descent. This book is broken down into two secti