A good book on the subject, to borrow from the library is, " The Storm Gathering, the Penn Penn Family and the American Revolution" by Lorett Treese. Marcia Fronk ----- Original Message ----- From: <LTCMAX117@aol.com> To: <PAPERRY-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:26 PM Subject: [PA-Perry] Scot-Irish & German settlers > In the late 1600s and up to about 1750, the American Indians were "good > neighbors" and got along excedingly well with the Penn family and the Quakers. > >From some accounts, they practically worshipped Wm Penn. The Indian tribes left > the Cumberland Valley area about 1728 to move westward. But it was not until > the treaty of October, 1736, when the Cumberland Valley was "officially" > traded to the Penn proprietaries. > > Even before this date, the Penn family had established the Pexton Manor , > 7551 acres where current-day Camp Hill, Lemoyne, New Cumberland, etc.now exist. > This Manor had one purpose only: it would be held open for the Indians in > case they wanted to return from western PA and Ohio. > > A major reason, at least one often overlooked, for being eager to "plant" the > Scots and the Germans west of the Susquehanna was to prevent the state of > Maryland from claiming this land. Some research into the "Cresap Border War" > (can be found in Google) will give some details of this activity. >