Marguerite Crist Calvin <cristcalvin@ohiohills.com> asked on the Perry County List : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I thought the Horn papers were those that are disputed and considered not reliable? Or do I have them mixed up with another group. That book on the Brethren church really sounds good. but its hard for some of us to get to Mansfield or Perry co too often. Just wondered about the Horn papers. Margaret C ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I have taken the liberty of forwarding this excellent description of this misunderstood and very valuable source from a posting by Robert on the Brethren list. Hal ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ----- Original Message ----- From: <Rlriffle54@aol.com> To: <BRETHREN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 3:41 AM Subject: [BRE] Re: Migration paths > List members, > William Horn didn't construct the maps in Volume III of the Horn Papers. > They were made by members of the Greene County Historical Society and they > published them along with William Horn's Volumes I and II, under the title > of Vol III. The Society gave Horn the honor of oversight of the project. In > volume three pasted in the front bookend is a map of the western migration > much of which funneled though the area listed in the book. However, there > were other migration paths to the western lands. The dates on the early > warrants for Greene, Fayette and Washington Counties which are covered in > volume III, start around 1769 and list later unseated land as it was > warranted as late at the middle Nineteenth Century. So these maps are very > deceiving when dealing with time. Volume three is indexed. > > The LDS does have volume III filmed and it is an excellent way to copy > this oversized book as suggested by Barbara. Volumes I and II have been > discredited, although, there is good genealogy information in them but needs > to be documented since much was published from the golden age of genealogy > and wasn't proved and is fraudulent in places. It is a shame that Vol. III > has suffered from the embarrassing fate of the first two volumes. the books > were published circa 1945 and it is too bad that Volume III wasn't > republished. If you don't see it on a shelf it may be housed with the > oversized books or kept locked away for safety purposes if the library > doesn't have an index. > > The surveys used for the Fayette Co., Pa maps were from the Lewis and > Gilmore surveys. This is Lewis that went west to survey with Clark. > > Caldwell's later "Illustrated Historical Centennial Atlas of Greene County > Pennsylvania from actual Surveys by & under the directions of Henry Cring, > C.E. Published by J.A. Caldwell, Condit, Ohio; 1876" has a very good > historical sketch of Greene County, Penn'a. when it was part of the District > of West Augusta, VA. It also gives a good discription of the land grants to > Penn. All of these description are on pages 7- 11. > Robert > > << These are most unusual maps and invaluable - William Horn constructed them > by reading the original surveys and warrants when the Proprietors patened > land to an individual. You may have a copy of these maps - Horn published > them township by township for Greene, Washington and Fayette County. If > the metes and bounds of individual parcels of property sold by Penn to the > settler are shown then you undoubtedly have a copy of Horn's work. > >> > > ______________________________