To add to Fred's message, The western marker of Lord Fairfax's Va land holdings in the VA colony is just to the west of the West Virginia border. Alice Gayley Fred H Held wrote: > Joyce, > > In the ealy days, prior to the French and Indian War, that strip of > Pennsylvania that is on the shore of Lake Erie and south and all points > west (Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois) was claimed by the Virginia Colony. > The western edge of Pennsylvania at that time was the eastern edge of > that section. > > To get details use your search engine. > > Message to Lee Anne Center: please use a vaid email address when > communicating to mail lists. Your <lacenter@comcast.net> does not work. > > > At 09:00 AM 8/27/03 -0600, you wrote: > >> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 23:27:32 -0400 >> From: "Joyce Anthony" <rainbow@velocity.net> >> To: PAARMSTR-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [PAARMSTR-L] was Armstrong Co. ever part of VA? >> >> Can someone please elaborate on this one??? It is something new to me (I >> know I should have paid closer attention in geography!!!). When was >> this?? -- Pennsylvania in the Civil War http://www.pa-roots.com/~pacw/