David Houston, an emigrant from what is now called Northern Ireland, was among the first to settle in the newly opened areas of western Pennsylvania.
When Samuel Blunston was given the right by Thomas Penn to 12,000 acres in the Cumberland valley, David Houston was among the deedholders. It was an unsettled time in that area, primarily jurisdictional conflicts among feuding authorities from neighboring communities.
David Houston left his home in the Blunston valley and headed for North Carolina.