Thank you very much for this information. This may help me make some breakthroughs. I had been looking for the ancestors of my Adams Co. in PA only, and maybe I should pay some attention to the shifting state and colony lines. Jane ----- Original Message ----- From: HERMON B FAGLEY <hermfagley@juno.com> To: <OHADAMS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 1999 8:58 AM Subject: [OHADAMS] Where were they from-the pioneers > "If' you are hunting an ancestor in s Clermont,Adams,and Brown Co Oh > 1810,or > earlier,I just mentioned many spent a few [10 or less] years in northern > Ky. > "If ' there is one single place to look where they lived 10-30 years, it > was the "RED STONE" country of sw Pa-WV. I'LL make my own defination of > 'RED STONE" ,though the town was Brownsville,Pa. Modern Washington Co,Pa, > and those modern counties which adjoin it. > Washington,Allegany,Westmoreland,Fayette,and Greene Co,Pa. > Ohio,Brooke,and Hancock Co,WV. > This area was mostly Bedford Co,Pa,but DEC ,1774-1781, it was not Pa ,buT > Va. > 3 Va counties cornered in modern Washington Co Pa- [1] Ohio Co,Va [now > WV] > [2] mONOGHALIA sp Cp Va [some remains in modern WV co-courthouse fire > 1796, > and [3] YOGOHANY Co,Va [now n Washington Co-Pittsburg,etc. > 'Virginia Court records in Southwestern Pa" and "History of Washington > Co,Pa by Crumrine, > and HOWARD LECKEY'S 'The 10 mile [creek] country and it's pioneers, and > ELLIS' FAYETTE CO PA 'cover some of the area. > 2nd choice was the Upper Potomac River's drainage. Washington DC north > and west. > 1812 brought people escaping the War of 1812. Nantucket and down east > Maine,for example > ___________________________________________________________________ > Why pay more to get Web access? > Try Juno for FREE -- then it's just $9.95/month if you act NOW! > Get your free software today: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. > > > ==== OHADAMS Mailing List ==== > Help Instructions at: http://www.zoomnet.net/~chipmunk/SurnamesMail.html > or contact Betty at: chipmunk@zoomnet.net > Archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?surname=OHAdams > Adams Co., OH at USGenWeb: http://www.zoomnet.net/~chipmunk/OHAdams/ > Your gracious donations to RootsWeb makes this all possible!! > Rootsweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/ > >