Try clicking on this hyperlink, or copy/paste the entire URL into your browser window. http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n=4247558&e=642690&s=50&size=l After the first map appears, click on the 1:25,000 'button' for a closer look at the Shaws Fork and Ridge area. 850 acres would have covered well over a square mile (640 acres) so you can see that much of the Isaac Johns land must 'not' have been cleared (see the scale at bottom of map), or it has since grown back, or possibly the Johns acreage was an elongated area along the creek...or possibly you should move the map to view further southwest toward the Cowpasture River to find cleared land along Shaw's Fork. Another thought: People of early times didn't need a great deal of cleared land to grow a little wheat, flax, maybe some tobacco, a few fruit trees and a large vegetable garden, leaving the timber for hunting and for the pigs to forage -- and others who rented, squatted or were allowed to live on Johns' land didn't need much cleared land either. Some only needed enough for a garden since they primarily worked for the land-owner or others, or maybe worked an artisan trade of some kind for a living. A clearing of 5-10 acres, or even 20 acres, probably wouldn't be shown on this map. I know it would surely be fun to drive our 4WD along that 'road' that follows Shaws Fork and some of the other creeks and runs -- although a person just might get 'called down' back in there...dontcha suppose? Hope this helps a little. Still looking for 'any' info for Joseph McDaniel-McDonald along the South Branch, pre-1768. Neil McDonald ----- Original Message ----- From: "Susan Baldwin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 9:03 PM Subject: Re: [WVPENDLE] Map > I guess that I have been lucky because all of my husbands ancestors were > where they said they were. True, that some people died and the lands > changed hands between the making of the map and the 1850 census. His > ancestors have held the land since the beginning and still have some of it > in the family. > > What I am looking for in the Pendleton map is the area they called Shaws > Fork. I am interested in finding the approximate location of the land owned > by Isaac Johns. Suppose to have been about 850 acres. It was told to us > that my husband's gggrandfather lived on the Johns land and that part of it > later was taken to make Highland Co. > > Have you got any idea where this is? Any help would be appreciated. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bill Rexroad" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 6:59 PM > Subject: [WVPENDLE] Map > > > > Susan - > > > > Be careful with that old map of Highland County. I tried finding names > > from that map (made in 1847) on the census of 1850. It didn't check > > out. > > > > Bill Rexroad > > Hutchinson, Kansas > > > > > > ==== WVPENDLE Mailing List ==== > > Genealogy without documentation is mythology! > > > > > > > ==== WVPENDLE Mailing List ==== > Genealogy without documentation is mythology! >

Much of Pendleton/Highland County is too steep to clear, and if you tried you would not be able to get up the slope to grow anything anyway. <G> Nedra At 11:25 AM 8/12/2003 -0500, you wrote: >Try clicking on this hyperlink, or copy/paste the entire URL into your >browser window. >http://www.topozone.com/map.asp?z=17&n=4247558&e=642690&s=50&size=l >After the first map appears, click on the 1:25,000 'button' for a closer >look at the Shaws Fork and Ridge area. > >850 acres would have covered well over a square mile (640 acres) so you can >see that much of the Isaac Johns land must 'not' have been cleared (see the >scale at bottom of map), or it has since grown back, or possibly the Johns >acreage was an elongated area along the creek...or possibly you should move >the map to view further southwest toward the Cowpasture River to find >cleared land along Shaw's Fork. Another thought: People of early times >didn't need a great deal of cleared land to grow a little wheat, flax, maybe >some tobacco, a few fruit trees and a large vegetable garden, leaving the >timber for hunting and for the pigs to forage -- and others who rented, >squatted or were allowed to live on Johns' land didn't need much cleared >land either. Some only needed enough for a garden since they primarily >worked for the land-owner or others, or maybe worked an artisan trade of >some kind for a living. A clearing of 5-10 acres, or even 20 acres, >probably wouldn't be shown on this map. > >I know it would surely be fun to drive our 4WD along that 'road' that >follows Shaws Fork and some of the other creeks and runs -- although a >person just might get 'called down' back in there...dontcha suppose? > >Hope this helps a little. >Still looking for 'any' info for Joseph McDaniel-McDonald along the South >Branch, pre-1768. >Neil McDonald > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Susan Baldwin" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 9:03 PM >Subject: Re: [WVPENDLE] Map > > > > I guess that I have been lucky because all of my husbands ancestors were > > where they said they were. True, that some people died and the lands > > changed hands between the making of the map and the 1850 census. His > > ancestors have held the land since the beginning and still have some of it > > in the family. > > > > What I am looking for in the Pendleton map is the area they called Shaws > > Fork. I am interested in finding the approximate location of the land >owned > > by Isaac Johns. Suppose to have been about 850 acres. It was told to us > > that my husband's gggrandfather lived on the Johns land and that part of >it > > later was taken to make Highland Co. > > > > Have you got any idea where this is? Any help would be appreciated. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Bill Rexroad" <[email protected]> > > To: <[email protected]> > > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 6:59 PM > > Subject: [WVPENDLE] Map > > > > > > > Susan - > > > > > > Be careful with that old map of Highland County. I tried finding names > > > from that map (made in 1847) on the census of 1850. It didn't check > > > out. > > > > > > Bill Rexroad > > > Hutchinson, Kansas > > > > > > > > > ==== WVPENDLE Mailing List ==== > > > Genealogy without documentation is mythology! > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== WVPENDLE Mailing List ==== > > Genealogy without documentation is mythology! > > > > >==== WVPENDLE Mailing List ==== >Genealogy without documentation is mythology! Nedra Dickman Brill, Certified Genealogist [email protected] Registrar, Oregon State Society DAR Historian, Henckel Family National Association Coordinator Pendleton County, WV, [email protected] CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license after periodic evaluations by the Board. http://www.bcgcertification.org/