Linda Tyson Meyers Davenport- In your research, have you ever come across Rev. Otto Haase/Haas from Germany via Philadelphia or Christian Haas/Hass born in Pennsylvania circa 1752? M. Paul Hawes North Carolina Researching surnames: Hawes/Haws/Hawse/Hause/Haus/Haas, Conner, Halterman/Haldermann, Ammon/Ammons/Ammonds, Suber, Marvin, Burk/Burke, Gibson, et cetera At 09:55 AM 3/13/2008, you wrote: >From: arel@epix.net >Subject: [PABUCKS] A LITTLE HISTORY OF PENNA'S "WESTERN FRONTIER" >To: pabucks@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <20080313073123.lkqqu8gmzwogso00@webmail.frontiernet.net> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; DelSp="Yes"; > format="flowed" > >I have been researching Penna's History, and saving many website links >to the past. When our early settlers first arrived in Phila., they >settled in either Bucks Co. and north; (i.e., Bethlehem was a major >communal settlement by the Moravians with their missionaries who moved >about quite freely or by appointment to certain areas such as North >Carolina and even Georgia and surrounds); Philadelphia and Chester >Counties (many Quakers and Welsh), and the Lancaster and Berks >counties, where many of the Mennonite and Amish farmers found land >suitable for farming. Note that in those days, all the counties were >of tremendous sizes Berks, and what would later become Schuylkill, >Lebanon, Dauphin and Northumberland counties would be pieces broken >from Berks and Lancaster, and then some. > >The Wild, Wild West was then to the Susquehanna River; the Indians >constantly were pushed farther north and west. Settlers who lived in >what then was Berks County, extreme northwest, ended up living in >Schuylkill, Northumberland and yes, even part of Dauphin Counties. > >As part of this email, I'm including an excerpt of a website >describing the settlement of some of these counties, and the account >of the indian attack of Andrew Lycans and his family, in the area >which is now Lykens, Lykens Valley, and Gratz (now my hometown). It >is a very interesting read, and with the fact that land was there to >settle, much timber was there to be cut, and eventually coal was >discovered on our Blue Mountain hills from Gratz all the way east to >Allentown and Bethleham. Another source of future industry were the >bogs which were needed to develop iron. I can imagine full well how >our settlers moved west, attempting to make a life and living for >themselves in this very rich land. > >Sit back and read and dream for a while. Many of the names you are >looking for on the east side of Pennsylvania can be found right here >in what was the Western Frontier of Pennsylvania. > > > http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/pa/dauphin/history/local/runk-5.txt > >When you are ready for more, just ask, and I shall share some of my >researches for you... such as disasters, the diseases that became >scourges wiping out much of the population. You will begin to >understand why so many people cannot be found AT ALL. > > >Linda Tyson Meyers Davenport >Bucks, Montgomery, back to Bucks, and now Dauphin County >arel@epix.net