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From: Priscilla Engeman <>
Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] The Alleganian Jul 13 1864
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 12:36:20 -0700
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Perhaps, if we put our heads together, we can come up with an accurate
list of districts for that period of time.

I found this (below) at: Allegany County GenWeb - County Election
Districts
All but district number 17 were formed before the 1864 date of this
newspaper, so I don't know which districts were split in order to make
#17.

Anyone want to jump on board here and try to figure out an accurate
list of districts for 1864???



Districts of Allegany County Before the Formation of Garrett County

No. 1
District Name: Glades (formed 1799)
also known as:
Armstrong's Glades
Altamont (1867)

No. 2
District Name: Selbysport (formed 1799)

No. 3
District Name: Grantsville (formed 1817)
also known as:
Little Crossings until 1850

No. 4
District Name: Westernport (formed 1799)

No. 5
District Name: Frostburg (formed 1799)
originally:
Musselanes

No. 6
District Name: Cumberland (formed 1799)
also known as:
Court-House

No. 7
District Name: Oldtown (formed 1799)

No. 8
District Name: Little Orleans (formed 1817)
also known as:
Fifteen-Mile Creek

No. 9
District Name: Flinstone (formed before 1828)

No. 10
District Name: Ryan's Glades (formed 1835)

No. 11
District Name: Accident (formed 1849)

No. 12
District Name: Mr. Savage (formed 1852)

No. 13
District Name: Cumberland (formed 1852)

No. 14
District Name: Sang Run (formed 1852)

No. 15
District Name: Oakland (formed 1860)

No. 16
District Name: Lanaconing (formed 1860)

No. 17
District Name: Barton (formed 1872)






On Nov 6, 2010, at 9:53 AM, Karen E. Cresap wrote:

> Hi Priscilla,
>
> I'm so glad this was the right page you were looking for, and at
> least that
> mystery is solved.
>
> I think you guessed right on the few words you couldn't make out;
>
> I think it is the "5th inst" (meaning the same month);
> "Actual Physical Disability";
> "Over age" (this one's tough to make out, but it makes sense, and it
> doesn't look like Old Age.
>
> Can you imagine that they only had 3 days to report to Baltimore,
> all the
> way from Allegany Co? That would seem hard even by today's
> standards. I
> checked the paper of July 6th (the day after the draft was made, and
> didn't
> see any names listed, so I imagine the 13th was their only
> notification.
>
> I agree, it would be wonderful to research all 170 men listed. I
> would
> assume there were many more than just these listed on this date, in
> other
> newspaper editions, etc. I could help in transcribing these 170
> names, but
> it wouldn't seem to be a complete list to me, and I wonder if there
> would
> already be another source out there with a list. I wish we knew
> where these
> 16 districts placed on a map. It would help to locate where these
> men lived
> within Allegany Co.
>
> Karen

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