This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: JanSlater12 Surnames: PATTERSON, RUSH Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.greene/11094/mb.ashx Message Board Post: There was more than one John Patterson in Greene County during this time frame - can anyone identify which John Patterson this is and where Rush's Mill was located? Thanks June 27. 1859 The Republican Compiler Speculators and the Frost The late frost produced all the more consternation in Western Pennsylvania, from the general scarcity of grand, and speculators anticipated immense profits. The Waynesburg Messenger gives the following, as indicating the temper of the people of Greene County: John Patterson had purchased on speculation, a quantity of wheat and had on hand at Rush's Mill, in the edge of Washington County, about eighty barrels of flour. - When the blight came, there was but little old wheat or flour in that region, and Patterson asked $15 per barrel for his. On last Friday some fifty person and twenty teams went in procession, in open day to the mill, took Patterson's four, left pay for it at the rate of $8 per barrel, hauled if off, and divided it among those considered most needy.- Some of the most respectable citizens of that portion of the counter were concerned, and public sentiment there justifies the act, upon the ground that the flour was to be removed. They were willing, and did pay a fair price actually necessary to prevent famine, and that it was about for it, and took the only means left to prevent if being removed to Wheeling where Patterson had gone to sell it. A quantity of wheat, lying at another point, and belonging to the sam! e man, was similarly disposed of the same day." Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.