“At dawn on September 19, 1737, three colonists and three Indians set off on the most peculiar ‘walk’ in Pennsylvania’s history. Their purpose was to measure out a land purchase that Thomas Penn, the son and heir of William Penn, claimed his father had made from the Delaware fifty years earlier.” [Source: ExplorePAhistory.com] Although they fought against this phony treaty, the Delaware finally agreed to sale the land described. The amount of land was documented as being a day and a half’s walk from a certain location. A previous treaty which had used the words “two days walk” had ended...
Randy Seaver posted his weekly Saturday Night Genealogy Challenge and I’m a few days late, but decided to give it a try! His challenge? Do some random genealogy research and basically report what you started with and what you learned. I like how Diane at Michigan Family Trails changed it up a bit and went with the first person in her tree and limited it to one hour. So, I’ve decided to go that route. My person? Her name is Agnes and she married Cline Quigley. What I know? She was born in about 1820 in Pennsylvania and had 3 (known)...
Randy has posted another Saturday Night Genealogy Fun challenge. This week we are looking at Sarah’s in our database with ‘last names unknown’ or LNU. I’m going to summarize the rules this time: Basically, search your database and see how many females you have with the first name of “Sarah” where you don’t know the last name. Then, do a little research and see if you can discover her maiden name. If you don’t have any Sarah’s, feel free to use a different first name. Then, post your findings! So, here goes! I have two Sarah’s, but they are such...
