Not sure if the info is related or useful - I am sure there are other folks with this list who know much more and can supply useful Shartle family details and precise locations. I spent my elementary years of childhood living in Shartlesville and while I haven't researched the Shartle family I do have some recollections of the local history/myths and "facts". We lived just outside the village and near our house along the road [Old 22} was a historical marker type sign. It said something to the effect that Col. Peter Shartle had settled there in 1765 and had founded the village [Shartlesville] in 1775. I know his family had an Inn there in the area at some point and that his Inn was the place folks in the area came for safety during the colonial Indian confrontations [like the Revolution when the Blue Mountain was the edge of the frontier]. I was always led to believe that the first original Inn was somehow connected to Lesher's Hotel [later called the Shartlesville Hotel] but I do not know for sure if this is accurate. Based on recalled conversations/comments I heard as a child with lifelong residents for neighbors who were friends of my mom's family. I also recall that Shartlesville celebrated its bicentennial in 1965, so perhaps the village did start earlier. When updating the electrical wiring in our house my dad found that the interior structure of the walls for half the house was made of big thick logs with mud/clay chink filler and that apparently the house was an expanded/updated/modernized log house. As far as I know no one [adult parents] ever looked into it, but since the sign was right there we imagined that ours was one of the "original" historic houses in the village, perhaps even Shartle's. At any rate I suspect that your George Shartle is connected to this Peter Shartle family. My guess would be a son given the 1771 birth you mentioned. At any rate perhaps this info will help direct your search. Gail **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001)