Re: Val McDaniel-McDonald land in Survey #641 (next section north of Decatur's #999), where Val donated land to the M.E. Church: Survey numbers ran as high as #16000 or thereabouts, as I recall, so some of the numbers in this area were indeed relatively low (early surveys.) During "the great revival of 1800," Rev. Barton STONE introduced the southern style of evangelism to his Kentucky congregations. During 1801 he preached at several locations in northern Ky -- but also at *Eagle Creek in Adams County, OH.* So, the Eagle Creek area must have been settled early (Brown Co. not formed as yet.) The PITTINGER family apparently had quite a bit of land in this section by 1876 (3 residences), Val's land was purchased by Wm. PITTENGER in 1849 -- are any descendants on line or does anyone have a PITTINGER snail mail address? (who might have an old deed or interest in family history, send to me, not to list) -- also RUTHERFORD, GRIMES, SMITH, PICKERELL, CARSON and KIRKPATRICK families were living in this section #641 in 1876. Or, does anyone know of a United Methodist Church historian in the area? I'd sure like to learn specifically where Val's land was located or more about this early M.E. Church group. Thanks for any help. Neil McDonald (Thanks, Hermon, for your several postings of info -- your point is well taken regarding Survey #641 being 90% in present Brown Co. with the eastern 10% being within present Adams County; I can't tell for sure from my Byrd Twp. map but this seems likely, from looking at #999 beneath it.) Did Adams County produce any kind of land-plat map similar to the Brown County 1876 Atlas? I remember well, eating from church plates identified as "M. E.!" -- that's prior to the "United" coming into play. -----Original Message----- From: hermfagley@juno.com <hermfagley@juno.com> To: OHADAMS-L@rootsweb.com <OHADAMS-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, July 01, 1999 3:46 AM Subject: [OHADAMS-L] Blair-Williams-Archer-Pittenger-Mahaffey-Woods-Quarry-Bicker-Rutherford-Pick erell-Carlson-Grimes-Smith-Kirkpatrick-Tacker-White-McDaniel >Pleasant Hill Church of Christ a couple survey's north is the POLLITT'S. >I'm struck by the low numbers,and by the names on the survey's n of >DECATUR,INCLUDING JOHN CRAWFORD,and MACHAIR [STATION ]. Arthur Fox,of >Washington,Ky seems the surveyor. As you know,1876 atlas shows no church >in that survey,unless it's in the 10% in ADAMS CO. >___________________________________________________________________ >Get the Internet just the way you want it. >Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! >Try Juno Web: 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 >Your gracious donations to RootsWeb makes this all possible!! >Rootsweb: http://www.rootsweb.com/