AREA HISTORY:  Boundary Difficulties, Fairview Township, York County, PA

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History of York County, Pennsylvania.  John Gibson, Historical Editor.
Chicago: F. A. Battey Publishing Co., 1886.
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BOUNDARY DIFFICULTIES – Page 641

Much of the land now embraced in Fairview was part of Pennsborough Township 
which was laid out pursuant to an act of the Provincial Assembly in 1739, and 
then included nearly the whole of the present limits of Cumberland County.  When 
first formed it was a portion of Lancaster County.  York County, when separated 
from Lancaster County in 1749, had no definitely established northern boundary.  
Many disputes arose, and these were attempted to be settled by commissioners 
from York and Cumberland Counties.  They met along Yellow Breeches Creek.  This 
occurred in 1751, one year after the formation of Cumberland from Lancaster 
County.  The Cumberland County commissioners claimed the original boundary line 
which was from a point opposite the Swatara Creek through the Fishing Creek 
Valley, nearly in the same direction of the present dividing line between 
Fairview and Newberry.  The dispute was finally decided by a special act of the 
Provincial Assembly in 1751, which made the Yellow Breeches Creek the boundary 
between the counties, and placed the whole of the present territory of Fairview 
in York County and annexed it to Newberry Township, of which it remained a part 
until 1803.