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From: mills <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Re: Union Co., IN Request
Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 22:20:52 -0400
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Merle,

I'm sure the Millers were in Raccoon Twp well before any of the
Harshman/Pence/Overpeck/Catlin families. Apparently they arrived just a
few years before the Vincennes Land Office opened for business. Since
Parke Co residents registered at either the Vincennes or Crawfordsville
land offices, a complete record of who entered land near/with the Millers
could probably best be understood by looking at land records in the Parke
Co Recorder's office. The BLM site will not have these records unless they
were cash purchases.

The settlement of Indiana was mostly south to north. While I don't have
dates, I would think the Brookville and Jeffersonville land offices opened
before Vincennes did. There was also a very early territorial
settlement/sale of land around and including Vincennes that predated
statehood. Since the territorial governor resided there, he could and did
sell land in the area. These records are found at the Indiana State
Archives.

Land along the Ohio and parts of the Wabash tended to be settled earlier
than statehood, also.

Sharon Mills


At 11:03 AM 4/14/01 -0400, you wrote:
>> I was amazed to discover that some of the Huffmans went to Parke Co IN
>>with/before the Harshman/Pence/Overpeck group.
>
>The Potter John Miller children started moving from the Four Mile to Parke
>Co about 1818 -- others soon followed -including a couple Moss broters.
>This was before the rest of the state opened to settlement.
>
>Merle C Rummel
>Church Historian
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