![]() This township of Dickinson was formed from the north part of the territory of the original township of Peters. Dickinson continued a township of Washington County till it became a part of Allegheny County upon the erection of the latter. In the meantime the new township had assumed separate jurisdiction and elected township officers1, without waiting for the confirmation by the Council. 21, 1786, when the Council confirmed the order of the court dividing Peters and erecting upon the part taken off the township of Dickinson. The court decreed the division and certified the same to the Executive Council. The first effort to divide the township was made in September, 1784, when a petition to that effect was presented to the court of Washington County. The territory originally embraced in the township comprehended the present township of Peters, the north part of Union township and all that portion of Allegheny County lying east of Chartiers Creek and south and west of the Monongahela River. PETERS was the tenth on the list of the thirteen original townships formed under the act erecting Washington County, passed March 28, 1781, the eighteenth section of which act authorized and directed the trustees to divide the county into townships before July 1, 1781. ![]() History of Washington County, Pennsylvania *
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