This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: waroper Surnames: Roper, Bennett, Beals, Shull, Hull, Holl, Hall, Kimmel Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.roper/1901/mb.ashx Message Board Post: One inconvenient ROPER ancestor who continues to be completely IGNORED is Jesse ROPER (b bef 1745), of Washington Township, York County, PA. Those who have constructed various fraudulent lineages back to New Kent County, VA, seem NOT to want anyone to know about Jesse ROPER, since his existence further discredits the various specious ascriptions and invented ancestors used to connect so many ROPER families to a branch of the family to which they are NOT directly related. We first learn of Jesse ROPER in respect of his land in Washington Township, York County, Pennsylvania. The 100 acre York County parcel was granted to Jesse ROPER on 27 Aug 1766. The survey for this parcel appears within PA Survey Book D57 at Page 129: http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-114CopiedSurveyBooks/Books D1-D90/Book D57/Book D-57 pg 257.pdf This property is in the upper reaches of the Conewago Valley and is crossed by both Plum Run and Dead Run, tributaries of Bermudian Creek, which flows into Conewago Creek, a tributary of the Susquehanna River. Jesse ROPER's immediate neighbors are shown to have been William BENNET (BENNETT), Abraham BEALS, Frederick SHULL, Isaac HULL, HOLL or HALL, and Nicholas KIMMEL. The rough location of the property can be seen on this ancient Melish-Whiteside Map from about 1816-9: http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-534WhitesideMaps/r017_0534_0000_3386_YorkCounty.pdf The property would have been just to the South of the Church building shown near the Northernmost portion of Washington Township. The ancient Jesse ROPER parcel on Plum Run is near where Cashman Road now crosses Plum Rum. Plum Run Road junctions with Turkey Pit Road (a continuation of Cashman Road) just to the South of the property. This is East of U.S. 15 (connecting Harrisburg to Gettysburg), South of E. Berlin Road (PA 234) and West of the Carlisle Pike (PA 94). The Latitude and Longitude of the property are at about 39.9280011, -77.0938244. The location can be seen on Google Maps here: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9274868,-77.0935662,2587m/data=!3m1!1e3 This puts the property about twenty one miles almost due South of Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. The property is only about eleven miles from the Cumberland - York County line along the main road to the South from Carlisle. This is the road leading to Baltimore through Hanover, Pennsylvania. The Conewago Valley in Pennsylvania was one of the places Maryland Catholics fled to escape Catholic persecution in Maryland when Protestants in control of the government there began exceptionally harsh religious persecution about 1704. * This would have been a convenient place for a Catholic family to settle to escape persecution. The Penns had made Pennsylvania a place of free religious worship, as Maryland had been intended to be. About eleven miles to the South of Jesse ROPER's property was Conewago Chapel, in Hanover, the FIRST Catholic church in Pennsylvania, founded in 1741. The historic church building there, built in 1787, is the oldest Catholic church constructed of stone in the United States. This church is now called the Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Conewago. * >From Jesse ROPER's West Side Land Grant Application, No. 1003, and the 1766 date of this grant, we can probably surmise that this Jesse ROPER was born before 1745. http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/rg/di/r17-40WestSideApps/r17-40WestSideApps 130.pdf * As far as I can tell, ALL of Jesse ROPER's descendants have RENOUNCED and IGNORED HIM in favor of INVENTED FICTITIOUS ancestors fraudulently created to create a false connection to New Kent County, Virginia. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. <br>