Excerpt from A Brief History of the Lybarger Family In the year 1770, Nicholas, George and Ludwick, sons of Johann Adam, with their families set out from the neigh borhood of Philadelphia and sailed down the Delaware to the Potomac River. They went part of the way up same by boat, and then set out by land for Cumberland, Md. Finally, they pushed up the Wills Creek Valley, and settled in Cumberland Valley Township, Bedford County, Penna. Here they purchased land, and each owned over a hundred acres. They are listed on the taxpayers' lists for the years 1773, 76, 79, 83, and 84. At various times the govern ment surveyed land for them. (see Pennsylvania Colonial Records, Series V, Vol. 5, P. 115, etc.) They are listed in the first census taken by the U. S. Government. (see Heads of Families in Pennsylvania in P. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.