----- Original Message ----- From: <Sjg3587@aol.com> To: <PENNSYLVANIA-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 10:50 AM Subject: [PA] SETTLERS FROM PENN > Here are several sites bearing on the question, something we all ask, "WHERE > DID THEY GO?". The other site has to do with migrants into TX, what appears > to be the start of a thorough tracking site for the settlement of TX, which > would include persons from PA, of course. > > Suz G. > > History of Western North Carolina - Chapter III - Colonial Days > By John Preston Arthur, 1914 > HTML by Jeffrey C. Weaver, October 1998 > http://www.ls.net/~newriver/nc/wnc3.htm > > CHAPTER III > Colonial Days > > SETTLERS FROM PENNSYLVANIA. "Many of the immigrants were sent to > Pennsylvania, and they had traveled as far west as Pittsburg early in the > 18th century. The Indians west of the Mleghanies were, however, fiercer than > any the Quakers had met; but to the southwest for several hundred miles the > Appalachians "run in parallel ranges . . through Virginia, West Virginia, the > Carolinas and East Tennessee and through these "long, deep troughs between > these ranges . . . Pennsylvanians freely wandered into the South and > Southwest . . . "and "between the years 1732 and 1750, numerous groups of > Pennsylvanians-Germans and Irish largely, with many Quakers among them-had > been . . . gradually pushing forward the line of settlement, until now it had > reached the upper waters of the Yadkin river, in the north-west corner of > North Carolina." S "Thus was the wilderness tamed by a steady stream of > immigration from the older lands of the northern colonies, while not a few > penetrated to this Arcadia through the passes of the Blue Ridge, from eastern > Virginia and the Carolinas."[9] > > From: LColey <coley@flash.net> > To: TXARCHER-L@rootsweb.com > Message-ID: <38BFE151.A4474355@flash.net> > Subject: Migrations > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Morning Archer County Researchers, > I have joined your list to be sure you know about a wonderful new > resource. It is a project called "Migrations" and I am the > coordinator of the Texas site at > http://homepages.go.com/~lc123/migrations/index.html > I have an Archer County link from the Texas site but as of this > date the only thing I have is a request for someone to host that > county. If you can do that, please let me know. > There is presently no Archer County data posted to the > Migrations project so I hope you all will post yours and make a strons > showing for your county. Visit the MIGRATIONS homepage at > http://www.migrations.org/ > for more details about just how this project works. > I hope to hear from each of you. Tell me what you think of this > project and if you have any suggestions, I'm listening! > Regards, > > -- > LColey > Tarrant Co Texas > A list of genealogy and history related sites I maintain can be found > here: > http://homepages.go.com/~lc123/lc123.html > > > ==== PENNSYLVANIA Mailing List ==== > Help your fellow researcher out when you can... You may be surprised > by how they may help you. > > ============================== > Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. > http://pml.rootsweb.com/ > Brought to you by RootsWeb.com. >