In a message dated 3/7/2006 11:06:26 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, DSINCLAIR@indy.rr.com writes: As for feeling threatened, I think it must have been something else. Westmoreland County at the 1767 era would have been just 10 years or so removed from the French and Indian War. This was an outpost type area and the Penn family was looking for a "buffer" between the Indians and the established areas from Lancaster and on Eastern You also hit on a reason I've read about The new settlers, Germans and Scots, resented being told what to do by the Quakers who held a tight grip on the government in colonial PA. Not only that, the colonial Virginians were trying to establish their original claim of land granted by the king that included everything not already owned by the other colonies. Colonial Virginians sold or granted land to encourage its own citizens to migrate to the disputed area. Shirley Maynard Hampton, VA