>Hulbert Footner's "Rivers of the Eastern Shore" 1944 -17 Md Rivers >I have hunted this book to review the Sassafras and Bohemia Rivers,and to >retrieve Footner's quote,page 358. "I have determined to omit the Elk [River] >because >people of that neighborhood have little connection with the Eastern Shore." >Footner's says Head of the Elk was on the main route between north and South, >and devoloped a difdferent culrute than the Eastern shore,which is remote,on >a side way. >Henry Bennington m a Harris lived just west of the Susquehanna in Harford Co. >Indeed, my wife's Alexander Hill and Jacob Giles posted his 1740 estate bond. >Jacob Giles owned,among others,"Brotherly Love". Dick Mattson will tell you >how his Wm Loftin,and a Wm Logsdon, owned a tract named "Brotherly Love'. >1751,O'DELL,ON 212,says a Wm Loftan adjoined Abraham Pennington,near >Berryville,Md. Pg 124 O'dell, Wm Loftan gave Moses Teague power of attorney >to sell land on the Chesapeake in OLD Baltimore Co,Md . 1750's? >Wm Teague,of Baltimore Co,MD SOLD ,171`4,ABRAHAM, PENNINGTON ,OF CECIL CO,160 >A AT HEAD OF A BRANCH OF cONEWINGO EAST OF THE SUSQUHANNA. P 125 O'dell. Hi Herman, and cousins! I'm attempting to keep up with Herman, and get the rest of the pages up! Not sure I'll make it. Herman, the idea I'm going to harp on for awhile, is to keep an open mind when we look at secondary sources, and remember even if they are excellent which ODELL IS! (I think it's the best genealogy and history I've come across in many years, and of the same caliber and reliability as the Kegley books of SW Virginia. My highest praise!) The point is when someone injects a qualifier into a record such as Odell did in calling Catherine Pennington Abraham's "second wife," he inflicts an identity there which may start, or keep us thinking about those people in a straight-jacket way. We won't find answers for these travellers if we look at them in traditional ways. I find it best not to inject these kinds of qualifiers into the records without including the reasons why I think it is correct. For instance, calling the generations in a lineage JR, SR, etc. inflicts a parental and generational bias which simply may not be there. AND there is another problem. Abraham JR, for example might not be junior to Abraham SR! In Cecil County, among the Sassafras River Penningtons, a Henry Jr. (he was always called Henry Junior in the records, it was not injected by a researcher) was thereupon put into defective lineages as being son of Henry who d. 1702. When Henry Jr. had the Buntington Resurvey done, his survey clearly states that he was the son of Robert who d. 1709. Robert (will prob. 1709) and Henry (will prob. 1702) were brothers, and sons of the first Henry. To get back to ODELL, the point is this: We need to be imaginative when we examine these people and not think of them in stereotypical ways, especially not in stereotypical ways injected by others. This is what the mindless cloning of each others' gedcoms does, and it wipes out any ability to straighten out the kinks in the chain. I think Abraham Pennington was born about 1675, married a Mary, who was dead before he left Cecil County, because he states he is "solely seized" of his properties when he sold them. I don't think he remarried. I think that Mary was likely Swede/Finn and/or Quaker connected. I think his son Abraham was the person principally mentioned in the Frederick County records. I believe this son Abraham with wife Catherine went on to SC and died there in 1756, and brothers Isaac and Jacob went there with him, and they died in about the same time frame. Although Thomas Cresap, that fiesty old frontiersman, lived a long long life, most of the people in this era did not. I don't think Abraham the Trader did. His brother John died in 1739, (will prob. Sept) and we know Abraham was likely still alive then because he was to receive 5 pounds from John's estate. I hope to get some of this up today! I am quite interested in your locale, Herman. (Also Cousins Dick and Iz lived there quite awhile, and still have a son there.) My great-grandfather William Marion Pennington, b. 1852 (son of Marion Loveless/Lovelace Pennington; grand-son of John Penington of the War of 1812 from Reisterstown, Balto county) was born "near" Cincinnati from the family Bible, mis-read in many things, and now missing in action. I have yet to determine the county. His mother was Emily Williams. I have yet to determine WHICH Williams family. When those garbage trucks rumble by, try finding some info on them for me! Those Harford County Benningtons?? I think they were Penningtons! The E. Pennington, surveyor? Maybe Ephraim, of York county, d. ca. 1813, had son Timothy. (Possibly son of another Henry Pennington, and possibly the Ephraim who is mentioned in the George Washington papers during the Revolutionary War. There was an Elias floating around later in Harford county. Love, Your Cousin, Carolyn Carolyn McDaniel cmacdee@centurytel.net ========================================= --- Visit American Crossroads --- http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~amxroads --- Visit Backcountry Crossroads --- http://www.backcountrycrossroads.com