>from Steve Kemp: Shurlock must be the phonetic way the people applying for the >warrant thought they had heard the name "Shirley." The date of the warrant >predates the formation of Springfield Township, which was erected in December, >1790, from parts of Shirley and Dublin..

For what it's worth - I think this also must be Shirley. A lot of these people had German or Irish accents - words don't sound the same with an accent . . . I've seen worse spellings than this - ----- Original Message ----- From: "kemp" <ayeh@pennswoods.net> To: <PAHUNTIN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [PAHUNTIN] Help on Warrant? > >from Steve Kemp: Shurlock must be the phonetic way the people applying for the > >warrant thought they had heard the name "Shirley." The date of the warrant > >predates the formation of Springfield Township, which was erected in December, > >1790, from parts of Shirley and Dublin.. > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237