Listers, Please bear with me as my Anderson research from Chester takes on a tangent to the Pennsylvania frontier. In some way, I know this will come around and one day make a connection to more of the Anderson family in Chester Co. Hoping to find more children accounted for and documented who belong to James Anderson and Elizabeth Jerman. I can see some connections here with Christopher Gist. He was on Wills Creek, Fort Cumberland, Maryland when Edward Anderson (and supposedly his brother George Anderson) was there. I wonder if Edward was married in Cumberland Co., PA or perhaps Frederick Co., MD about 1756-1757. His first child that we know of was born July 1758 at Wills Creek, Fort Cumberland. I know Gist was there, starting preparations for habitation (a store house, residence, mill) by about 1753. "The History of Western Maryland", p. 1371, says that Maj. George Washington writes "We pursued the new road to Will's Creek, where we arrived the 14th of November, 1753. Here I engaged Mr. Gist to pilot us out..." Continuing on the same page, "When the site of Fort Cumberland was selected by the Ohio Company, at the junction of Will's Creek with the Potomac (or Cohougaroutan) River, it was believed to be in Virginia..." Edward Anderson had left Chester County, by my estimate, as early as maybe 1753 when he was abt 18. If he really did go with his brother George, then maybe he was a little younger, as George was by all estimates older than Edward. Gary Glen Price mentioned in his last email that in 1755 Gist headed up an "unconventional group to be called a 'Company of Scouts'..." Makes me wonder if Edward was a part of this, since his son Peter Anderson was quite the noted scout, hunter and fighter. Could just be that they lived on the frontier and that's the way they were. Did anyone else's people in Chester County go to Cumberland County or Fort Cumberland, MD in the 1750s? I wonder if a small group left together and I might find them that way. Thanks, Laura