This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Sandusky Sadowski Sodowski Innskeep Silvers Wilson Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ABB.2ACE/3441 Message Board Post: Andrew was born about 1705 in Freehold, New Jersey, and died 1768 in Moorefield, Hardy County, Virginia. He married Catherine Innskeep about 1738. She was born about 1720, and died unknown date in Moorefield, Hardy County, Virginia. Andrew Sadowski was named in both the wills of his father and mother. He may have lived in Washington County, PA for a short time before moving to Augusta, Hampshire and Hardy counties (West) Virginia, eventually settling near the present city of Moorfield, West Virginia. Andrew and Catherine had six sons and a daughter: Samuel Emmanuel James Jacob Jonathan: died in a Revolutionary War POW camp Anthony Hannah Andrew Sadowski, who bought his own farm in 1739 in Pennsylvania, where Douglassville is now, hauled iron bars in a wagon to Hopewell, Valley Forge, Lancaster, and other places, signed a petition in 1744 to form Amity Township in Philadelphia County, now Berks, and was pretty well known in his time He joined the exodus from the area about the same time as Daniel Boone in 1750. He left traces of his activities in the string of counties from the Pennsylvania border to the South Branch of the Potomac River in Virginia. Issac and Jacob Sadowski (his grandsons via James) said that “it is understood” that “his family were stationed on the Potomac in Virginia”. Ephraim Sandusky (grandson via Jacob) placed the homestead of his grandfather “in the south branch of the Potomac.” Andrew, indeed, is quite often mention in court records in August County, VA. He was one of the purchasers of land from Daniel Love at the Gap of the North Mountain, in the present county of Berkeley, West Virginia, on December 5, 1754. Again, on March 30, 1758, he is mentioned as one of the purchasers of some other estate. And on August 19, 1761, as purchaser of a part of the estate of William Claypole of that county. He evidently also performed duties of a surveyor, as the court of Augusta County ordered him to lay out a road on March 21, 1759. Andrew is said to have also lived in the old Campbell and Hardy counties of Virginia. Andrew was killed by a white renegade who was running with some Indians that were stealing horses. His grandson, Ephraim gives the following details of his death: “He was watching a lick to catch, his horses were running at large in the mountains. Another man was with him. When the Indians came on them he saw a white man whom he knew and thought he would be safe with. That very man tomahawked and killed him probably fearing he would make disclosures on him.” His widow, Catherine, filed an inventory of his estate in the courthouse at Romney, now West Virginia. All the Sanduskys derived their name from him. Andrew and Catherine had six sons and a daughter, Samuel, Emmanuel, James. Jacob, Jonathan, Anthony and Hannah. Their son Jonathan died in a revolutionary war POW camp. All of the brothers were typical backwoodsmen, animated by that pioneer spirit which won the American West. Jacob and James became the most prominent, were involved in the official surveys of Kentucky Territory in the 1770‘s, and known as the first white settlers of Kentucky. All of them eventually settled in central Kentucky on lands from warrants. Emmanuel subsequently moved on to Tennessee, as a pioneer, he lived in the neighborhood of the region of the present Johnson City, Tenn, in 1775-6. He was a witness to the deed executed in 1775, by Jacob Brown who in that year by the treaty with the Cherokee Indians acquired a veritable principality in the Nolachucky Valley (Washington and Greene Counties, Tenn.) and began to make deeds conveying portions to newcoming pioneers of that region. “The men of chain and compass” said Theodore Roosevelt, “played a part in the exploration of the West scarcely inferior to that of the heroes of axe and rifle, often, indeed, that parts are combined.”