>From booklet "A Sketch of the Broadwater Family and Its Connections" written by Amos Broadwater 1891. Pages 7,8) Amos writes, "My sons all married farmers' daughrters and my daughters all married farmers' sons. My sons and daughters are all living in Garrett County at present. William lives on the old homestead on Savage river and is doing very well. John and Amos live on what is called Pea Ridge and own good farms for mountain farms, and are doing very well for farmers. Jefferson, Peter, Stephen and Eli all live about one mile from me. All own farms and are living in the settlement near New Germany. Jefferson Green and Peter Bittinger live on what is called the Glades, at Meadow Mountain. Peter Bittinger is recommended for being the best worker in that region of the country. Simeon Green lives about three miles from Lonaconing on a farm owned by the company, and he is doing very well. Jacob Blocher lives in the backwoods settlement. He commenced a new farm and is doing well. David lives on the home place and is well to do." Page 8) Amos writes, "I will now give you a small sketch of my grandmother Broadwater, who moved from Loudoun County to Allegany County about the year 1809, and settled on a piece of land called Beatice Plains, and joining lands of Peter Colmer, about three miles from George's creek. There she lived till the day of her death. There was no record of her age, but it is supposed by other people that she was about one hundred years old. She was buried at the Corbis burial ground where her daughter and son lie." Page 16) Amos writes, "My father died at his own residence at Savage river in the year 1859, aged eighty-one years. Mother survived him eighteen years. She died in the 19th day of December 1877, at the age of ninety-one years, three months, and nine days. They are both buried at the farm home, now owned and occupied by his grandson William B. Broadwater." "I will close by saying what a change it has been since I first settled here sixty-five years ago, when there were no roads except a path to the National road, and no houses. The first house built in Wolf Swamp lived Adam Spiker who married Annie Reckner. The first settler in New Germany was William Weitzell. This county was mostly all in woods when I first came here, but the most of it is improved, the early settlers who lived around here are all gone." Page 14-16 "I will give the reader a few names of people who moved from Loudoun County to Allegany County: John Michael and wife, William, his brother, George Smarr, Jim Parris and George Layman." *note: Amos does not give the death of his grandfather Cornelius Broadwater anywhere in the booklet. - ---------------------------------------------