> Hal...where can I get Horn papers, vol.111???? and do you know what year > map was made? 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 thse 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. He published the maps in a portfolio size book. Someone may have spliced all the townships together and copied them as one map. If they did they must have reduced them considerably. Each township in the original is about 16 x 20 inches. Ohio Historical at Columbus Ohio has them. UNC Davis at Chapel Hill, NC has them and will loan them out but they are now in temporary storage - I saw volume 1 and 2 today - I happened to get back into the storage stacks looking for the Pennsylvania Archives. Volume 3 is a Portfolio and is stored elsewhere. I bet LSD as filmed volume 3. I have a researcher out there who does work for me for a fee. She would get you a copy - but you would want to decide which township and just copy those you are interested in. And there is an index which helps. I must add that scholarly professional geneaologists are furious with William Horn. They accuse him of fraud and other major crimes in connection with the history told in the first two volumes. But every one agrees the maps are accurate. > To your knowledge, was there a Dunkard congregation in Dunkard, Greene > Co, PA?? > > I was told that a number of religious sects lived close together in a > communal lifestyle??? > > Is Dunkards Fort, to your knowledge...part of area that might have been > PA and later part of WV?? I believe it is in Monongalia Co, WV now. Barbara - I think you know about the Dunkards of Greene County than I do. My wife and I wrote a book in memory of her maternal grandmother, Myma, Anna Maude Bowser Orr(1877-1951). She was a Brethren. In telling her story we told the tale of the Jonathan Creek Brethren. Jonathan Creek flows out of the Big Swamp(today Buckeye Lake) across the northeast corner of Perry County and a bit of Muskingum County, Ohio, to enter the Muskingum River a mile or so below Zanesville. Like so many Brethren this group of farmers from Pennsylvania found rich soil along a medium size creek, which supplied them with water without the danger of the horrendous floods of the larger river valleys. I have come to love these ancestors of my wife. It is the industry, instinct for survival and the staunch moral fiber of people like this which built this grand and glorious country. Like many other descendants we have drifted from the faith of our father's. Look in the archives of the Brethren list or better yet ask Merle Rummel for the address to his web page - if you want more details of their early life. And also our book goes into considerable detail describing how the Brethren came to that part of Ohio. It can be seen at Perry County Library and the OGS library at Mansfield, Ohio. I thought our book was going to be on a Perry County web page but I haven't heard that it is. Good luck Barbara -- Hal