From Mead Genealogy, 1939
In the spring of 1788, a company was formed (in Sunbury) consisting of
David Mead, John Mead,
Joseph Mead, Thomas Martin,
John Watson, James Fitz, Randolph and
Thomas Grant, who also
joined by Cornelius Van Horne and Christopher Snyder who lived at
Sunbury from New Jersey about the
time party was ready to start for French Creek. These nine persons
were the first settlers in what is new the County of Crawford. The
party, commanded by David Mead,
followed up the Susquehanna River, to the mouth of
Anderson's Creek near Curwensville, Clearfield County. They then struck
overland blazing a new trail thru the wilderness-now known as
Mead's trail. This extends thru Jefferson, Clarion, Venango and
Crawford Counties. On the evening of May 12, 1788 this
pioneer band built their camp fire beneath a wild cherry tree
on the banks of French Creek, near the present site or the Mercer
Street Bridge, Meadville, Penn. The next day, they built a cabin
between the Cussewago and French Creeks, and commenced their first
planting. Their first planting was destroyed by a late summer flood.
Only four of the original, David
Mead, John Mead, James Fitz Randoph, and Cornelius Van Horne, became
permanent settlers of the County.
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