Hi folks, Is it possible that our experts on this topic could give me permission to create a fast article for our website on the topic? Also can they tell me how to get to the maps, etc, etc?? (IE does one have to go to Shippensburg? Are they filmed by LDS? Are they in Harrisburg?) Then we'll make this a permanent part of our website. Thanks in advance and thanks for the thread, too! Also in regards to the "Indian Cabins" comment. I suspect if one spent a fair am ount of time reviewing the early deeds (in Harrisburg, filmed too), and early history, you'd find this place. I spent some time lurking there due to a project. Places like "Burnt Cabins" can be placed in a township. Indian Cabins was apparently not near our search (Chambersburg area) unless I just missed it. These cabins were burnt by the Indians in the French and Indian Wars. I promise you there were no Indian cabins nearby with Indians after the mid 1700s. Even the 'Praying Indians' were 'run out' by settlers except for the slow ones who were killed. Maybe look for settlements of Christian Indians???? There was a school for Indians in Carlisle, but I'm not sure of the dates. This was one of those unfortunate projects involving 'civilizing' Indian children by removing them from their families. At any rate due to it there is lots of info on Indians in Carlisle, PA. (I speak from recall here as all my books -- that keep me somewhat honest <grin>) are in a warehouse somewhere in Pittsburgh, so feel free to correct me!). Linda Merle ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: "Rob Hilliard" <rth@mackinengineering.com> Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 08:05:45 -0400 > >And alumni Rob: >Karen Daniel, head of Special Collections and Archives at Shippensburg >now-University! has been wonderful. She wrote that she was hired to get >a handle on what they have and what has been lost. She also followed up >with suggestions as to papers I might want to view and offered to track >down footnoted sources via the alumni who wrote them! I was impressed. > > >Glad to hear it. I won't feel so bad about signing my next donation >check now. > >Now if only the football team could win a few more games . . . > >-----Original Message----- >From: Sally Brandon [mailto:sbrandondc@verizon.net] >Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 11:18 PM >To: Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [Sc-Ir] Shippensburg Blunston map project > >John, > >You're right of course, that "There just isn't enough information in >them to pin the sites down for sure." I'm anxious to see just how many >are identified when I get to see all 45 panels. > >The notations alongside the parcels merely read "4-3," "22-6" and such. >Those are to translate into Donehoo's page 4, third grantee, page 22, >sixth grantee and such. (As careful as he seems to be, it appears that >Donehoo has the page breaks slightly off from the originals, though. >Doesn't matter, really, he's the publication used by the Shippensburg >Project.) > >I don't know if they noted the "Pre Licensees" mentioned as already >settled adjacent the new tracts, either. > >I'll report back what I find! > >And alumni Rob: >Karen Daniel, head of Special Collections and Archives at Shippensburg >now-University! has been wonderful. She wrote that she was hired to get >a handle on what they have and what has been lost. She also followed up >with suggestions as to papers I might want to view and offered to track >down footnoted sources via the alumni who wrote them! I was impressed. > > >Sally Brandon > >===================== >From: John Polk <jfpolk@earthlink.net> >Date: Mon Oct 10 21:48:29 CDT 2005 >To: Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [Sc-Ir] Blunston Licenses > >The Blunston Licenses are an important resource for finding those first >Scotch-Irish squatters who jumped the gun and populated the Cumberland >Valley before the Penns concluded their treaty with the Indians for the >area. There were 249 licenses issued altogether, dating from 1734 to >1736. >A word of caution - the exact location of many of the licensed >properties will never be known with certainty. There just isn't enough >information in them to pin the sites down for sure, and a lot of the >reference points have vanished or have very different names now than >they did in 1737. <snip> > > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net