In a message dated 6/18/2005 9:52:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, dtis4me@zoominternet.net writes: http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:nHRhV8e0ER4J:www.coryfamsoc.com/resourc es/articles/david/david_001.html+earliest+land+grants+pennsylvania+westmorel and&hl=en Interesting article, Dawne. Thanks. I've bookmarked it. Here is one quote that I thought was worth mentioning: In 1782, the first county seat of Westmoreland County, Hannastown, was burned by a band of Seneca Indians accompanied by Canadian rangers [9]. Unquote In George Dallas Albert's history of the county published in 1882, he made more of the Hannastown massacre and put Simon Girty (a "Dances With Woves"?????) as a white man turned native who not only helped orchestrate the massacre but took part in it. He also mentioned the burning alive of the natives who came to a conference and then the 3 day slow roasting of a white man in retaliation...although they had the wrong man...and Simon's participation in that, as well. History is stranger than fiction and some things we learn in history we can scarcely credit. Shirley Maynard