A few comments and additional info on George Adam Martin: George Martin had a 9/6/1762 land warrant in Antrim Township that was patented on 3/20/1765. Two of his neighbors were Henry Thomas (later of Bedford County, with Brethren connections) and Henry Rhodes, later of Brothersvalley/Stonycreek Township Somerset County. The property is shown on survey map A-24-25 (see PA Archive website). I did some investigation a few years ago locating the area of this property (my interest was in Henry Thomas). It is on the west slope of South Mountain, near the Maryland border, and about 15 miles 'as the crow flies' from Hagerstown. This is near the route General Lee used to invade Pennsylvania in June, 1863. The Stonycreek Congregation led by Martin would not have formed until after 1768, when this area was opened up to settlement. The only people there prior to that were trappers and a few squatters, who lived near Turkeyfoot (Confluence, PA). None of the Brethren are on the 1768 list of squatters. There was an old route called the Turkeyfoot Road that went from Maryland to Confluence, that passed through Salisbury, PA. If there were pre-1768 Brethren, Salisbury would be the most likely area they would have lived. Abraham Cable, an early member on Edward's 1770 Stonycreek Congregation list, lived near Salisbury. Problem is that area was primarily settled by Amish after 1771, who later converted to Brethren while in Somerset County. A number of other names associated with the the Edward's 1770 list lived in what is now Stonycreek Township (Rhodes, Kimmel, Newmoyer). We have 1770 accounts of Rhodes and Newmoyer, who were identified as 'hunters'. The access to Stonycreek Township was via Forbes Road, the modern Route 30. Route 30 goes through Gettysburg. The early Brethren in Somerset County are found from Salisbury heading north through the Berlin area, and up to the Stonycreek Township area I doubt he would have died in Somerset County and then be buried in Ephrata. It would have taken weeks to get there, and with no embalming. Bill Thomas