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Subject: [MDALLEGA] WOLFORD, FLETCHER, PIPER Alleganian 3/6/1846
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2003 08:56:22 EDT


For anyone following these 3 surnames in Allegany, I found this article using
Ancestry's "Historic U.S. Newspapers" option. It's an additional
subscription option, but does give another resource. I don't know what timeframe the
Alleganian scans cover--it's not specified. Also, they offer 3 data files to run
for Cumberland: Cumberland Alleganian, Alleganian--Cumberland, and the
Democratic Alleganian. As in their other newspaper options, what you get is the
total page of the paper, with a colored hi-lite on the name you've entered.
Just from this one try, it looks like the sample runs from the 1840s to the
1860s. I'll let you know if I get any different results. If you're an Ancestry
subscriber, it may be something to look into adding.

The Alleganian. Cumberland, MD. Friday, March 6, 1846.

"STRAY COW. Allegany County, to wit: I hereby certify that Daniel Wolford,
of said county brought before me the subscriber, one of the Justices of the
Peace of the State of Maryland, in and for said county, a Stray COW, trespassing
on his enclosures. She is mostly white, with some red spots on her sides,
red on both sides of neck, her left ear off. She came in the early part of
January last--was appraised by Philip Fletcher and John Fletcher at Eight Dollars.
Given under my hand this third day of March 1846." John Piper Jr., J.P.

"The owner of the above described Cow is requested to prove property, pay
charges, and take her away." DANIEL WOLFORD. Living on the Turnpike, 8 miles
east of Cumberland. March 6-21st.

*census note. Daniel Wolford appears on page 188 of the 1850 Allegany Co.
census, age 24, with wife, child and sister; two other Daniel Wolfords appear on
page 162. Philip and John Fletcher appear on pages 187B/188, and John Piper
on page 185B. The Wolford and Fletcher farms lay on the east slope of Polish
Mt, just east of Gilpintown. John Piper resided in Flintstone.

Both the Wolford and Fletcher families had close kin across the line in
neighboring Bedford Co., PA. I don't know if John Piper was tied to the Piper
group in the Bedford/Piper's Run area.

David Fletcher

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