Holly, I was reared and live about 12 miles from Shirleysburg in Southern Huntingdon County. I sure would enjoy reading your papers on George Croghan. Gay L. Fleck http://www.innernet.net/f2044 http://www.innernet.net/f2044/springfield http://www.dreamwater.net/n2353 -----Original Message----- From: the Holleys [mailto:Holley@pa.net] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 9:03 AM To: PAHUNTIN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PAHUNTIN] placename: Shirley Alan: My interest goes back to my college days when I did a paper on George Croghan. Somewhere in the piles of papers I kept is the info I gathered on Croghan. As best as I remember: He was probably born in Ireland, arrived in Lancaster circa 1750?; worked for Shippen; went out on his own as an Indian trader (plantation in East Pennsboro Twp, Cumberland Co) through Path Valley, Aughwick, the Ohio and onto Ft Detroit. All information I encountered listed a white daughter and a daughter by a Native American woman (that daughter was somehow connected to Cornplanter). Croghan died penniless in Lancaster, so he isn't the 21 year old Croghan who fought in 1812! If someone is interested in the data I have on the George Croghan (including info from his diaries) who was commissioned by the PA Colonial governor to establish forts along the Tuscarror during the French & Indian War, I'll be glad to dig out my old files. Thanks, Holley ============================== 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