George wrote that his link was to an article that explained >>how the original parts of Maryland which later became part of Va, Pa, De were organized at the beginning of The Revolutionary War. One example is Berkeley County which was in Frederick, Maryland at the beginning of the revolution . . . << The repetitive article really does no such thing. It doesn't mention Berkeley Co., which was always in VA/WV and never in MD. It *does* mention Morgan's Rifles traveling through MD on the way North, and the locales from which the German Battallion was recruited--which did not have anything to do with conflicting geopolitical boundaries, but were specified by the authorizing legislation. While the MD-PA boundary in small spots was unclear, most of it had been pretty clear since the 1750s, the last time that MD seriously claimed any present PA territory. It also may be that MD had designs in the 1770s on the present part of WV now immediately west of Allegany and Garret Co.'s, MD, but this was never pursued. The boundary on the SW of DE with MD became pretty clear in the 1770-1773 period, although in the great swamp and along the Northwest Fork there were spots both difficult to survey and susceptible to drainage/watercourse changes. Cheers, Judy

I stand corrected, and, enlightened --I think. But, between the two of us I hope we gave a few folks a new place to start looking for those elusive ancestors? Thanks. George ----- Original Message ----- From: <Frostfreedet@aol.com> To: <AMERICAN-REVOLUTION@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 12:25 PM Subject: Re: [AMERICAN-REVOLUTION] The Flying Camp Battalion > George wrote that his link was to an article that explained > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > >>>how the original parts of Maryland which later became part of Va, Pa, De > were organized at the beginning of The Revolutionary War. One example is > Berkeley County which was in Frederick, Maryland at the beginning of the > revolution . > . . << > > The repetitive article really does no such thing. It doesn't mention > Berkeley Co., which was always in VA/WV and never in MD. It *does* > mention Morgan's > Rifles traveling through MD on the way North, and the locales from which > the > German Battallion was recruited--which did not have anything to do with > conflicting geopolitical boundaries, but were specified by the authorizing > legislation. > > While the MD-PA boundary in small spots was unclear, most of it had been > pretty clear since the 1750s, the last time that MD seriously claimed any > present > PA territory. It also may be that MD had designs in the 1770s on the > present > part of WV now immediately west of Allegany and Garret Co.'s, MD, but this > was > never pursued. > > The boundary on the SW of DE with MD became pretty clear in the 1770-1773 > period, although in the great swamp and along the Northwest Fork there > were > spots both difficult to survey and susceptible to drainage/watercourse > changes. > > Cheers, > Judy > List Mom for the AMERICAN-REVOLUTION mailing list: > Diana Boothe philsbarbie1@arkansasfamilies.net > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > We have archives! Search for your AMERICAN-REVOLUTION information > here..... > http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=AMERICAN-REVOLUTION > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out other genealogy resources on the net at John Fuller's most > helpful site http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AMERICAN-REVOLUTION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.14/658 - Release Date: 1/29/2007 > 2:49 PM > >