At 08:02 PM 11/11/98 -0500, you wrote: >Hi, Cousins, It has been a while since I have writen to the list....only excuse is being ill..... I definitely am very interested in this information. It is thrilling to me......I have these lines, plus my HALL and THOMPSON families from Springfield Twp. Erie Co. Thanks very much....to everyone. Take care. I may be quiet, but I do read, and copy all of the info on the list. Mary Anne >Here's something else that was in the papers sent me by Dot DuMond. It >is a letter she received back in June 1983 from the Erie County >Historical Society ini Erie, PA. > >Our Society very much appreciates the book, "Some of the Ancestors and >Descendants of Joseph Rudd, Jr. 1740-1818 and his wife Sarah Story >1744-1842" which you have compiled and edited, and which Mrs. Marilyn R. >Peterson has given to our Library. I will acknowledge this gift to Mrs. >Peterson. > >I have always been interested in the Rudd family settlement in >Springfield Township of Erie County, Pa. This is our northwest Twp. >bordering on the State of Ohio. Mrs. Peterson wrote first asking about >Amasa Stewart and his wife Lois. None of us knew the maiden surname of >Lois Stewart until last year Mrs. Garth Rudd [address in Colorado] wrote >to ask us about Rudds in Erie Co. It was this Mrs. Rudd who told us >that Lois was a Rudd. The Stewarts were always loyal Methodists and >early meetings of the West Springfield congregation were held in their >home. [This should interest Mary Ann Sibley, a descendant!]