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By: George Dallas Alberts, Pub. 1882, reprinted 2022, 1010 pages, NEW INDEX, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-080-0. 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 sections. The first is a history of the state by looking at its colony status followed by the county with such topics as: first settlers / pioneers, Indians, formation of county and townships, French o...
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