Biography:  Daniel Stoy of Shade Township

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Daniel Stoy was one of the first settlers west of the mountains.
From the records of Harmon Husband, we find that Stoy lived
along the Forbes Road about 1762 near the Casper Stotler place in
Shade Township, that he made his living by hunting, and that he
was driven from his cabin home several times by the Indians, tak-
refuge at Fort Bedford. The records of Husband state that on
one occassion Stoy shot an Indian intruder from his cabin door.

With the construction of the Pennsylvania Road, Stoy decided
to move to a place about ten miles farther west along the road
where he received a warrant for more than three hundred acres of
land. Here on this tract of land along the Pennsylvania Road, he
founded the town of Stoystown in 1774.

Stoy served as a volunteer in the Revolutionary War with the
rank of corporal. It is thought that he also served in the French
and Indian War, although the records are rather vague.