I thought you might find this interesting. John Charles Tippet JohnDoeTippet@csi.com ---------- > From: Merle Rummel <cliffr@infocom.com> > To: John Tippet <johndoetippet@csi.com> > Subject: Re: Frederick County, MD > Date: Friday, January 22, 1999 6:52 PM > > >I have noticed that a lot of folks have relatives who migrated from PA to > >Frederick County, MD and then usually on into VA, followed by OH, IN and > >IL. I was just wondering if Frederick County, MD was a major stopping > >point on the migration westward. > > Frederick Co MD includes the Monocacy River east of the Blue Ridge, and the > Middletown Valley just west of it. > > Michael Danner plotted the Monocacy Road -from Lancaster County SW to the > Monocacy River, then through the mountain at Frederick MD to Middletown > Valley and across South Mountain to the Antietam and Shepherdstown, or > later, Harper's Ferry -where they crossed the Potomac and followed the > Great Wagon Road down the Valley of Virginia. (going to Carolina, > Tennessee, or even Kaintuck) > > From Frederick MD started the road through Hagarstown, to Cumberland MD > -where General Braddock opened the Braddocks Road -toward Pittsburg. Most > Brethren went on it to Fort Redstone (Brownsville PA) where Elder George > Wolfe I, and his sons, among others, built flatboats for travel down the > Monocacy to Pittsburg, and down the Ohio. > > From Frederick to Hagerstown, they crossed the Antietam and Conococheague > -large growing settlements of the early Brethren, and from there many > headed north into Morrison's Cove, and the Juniata Valleys. From > Cumberland MD they went north into Brother's Valley (Somerset Co PA). > > The Beaver Dam church in Frederick Co MD considers that twice in early > history it reached attendence of about 600, and twice lost most of these to > migration. From it went Elder Jacob Miller, to Franklin Co VA, on the > Carolina Road south from the Roanoke River gap, and Elder John Garber, to > the Flat Rock, on the Shenandoah River, in the Valley. And I could > continue -- > > Yes, Frederick Co MD was a terminal point in much of the Brethren Migration > out of the early eastern settlement spreading from Germantown and Lancaster > Co PA. > > (and I noticed that you didn't mention Kentucky -where I'm still finding > MANY of the early families that later went into Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and > on west. --just found a whole colony of Rohrers -that went to Jessamine Co > -just south of Wilmore KY -about 1795 -then on west!) > > Merle Rummel > Church Historian