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From: "Lawrence A. Dean" <>
Subject: [OLD-RAYSTOWN] Re: Most Wanted - HOSHEL, DEAN, WALKER
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 10:55:23 -0700


Barb Foley wrote:

> --Let's put our most wanted ancestor that we are looking for on the list.

OKI am seeking information on the following two heads of household. They were enumerated next to each other in Shirley Twp, Huntingdon Co. in the 1810 census:
males females other free
HOSHEL, H. 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0
DEAN, J. 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0
I am sure H. Hoshel is Henry Hoshel. I have collected quite a bit of information on him - Africa's History of Huntingdon Co., other censuses, the 1798 window tax,
other tax lists, land records, the appointment of the executor of his estate in Mar 1828, etc.
I think, but am not sure, that J. Dean is, despite what the enumerator put down, George Dean, my ancestor. I have a not-too-reliable source that says George Dean
married Elizabeth Hoshal on January 25, 1810. George's will indicates his eldest child was a girl, Martha Dean. Census records and her gravestone indicate she was
born in 1810 in Pennsylvania
The reason I am on the Old Raystown mail list is that there are records of persons surnamed Dean in the Little Trough Creek Valley and on the Raystown Branch as
early as the 1790's. I have a copy of part of the map titled "Original Warrantees and Surveys" for part of Huntingdon Co. which shows a William Dean owning one of the
prominent oxbows on the west side of the Raystown Branch where the reservoir is now. This land was warranted in 1787, surveyed in 1789 and again (possibly to his son,
William) in 1838.
Another name which shows on those maps and is of interest to me is Jonathan WALKER, Esq. He and Henry Hoshel were jointly granted a piece of land in Shirley
Township by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in 1814.
I have been in contact with the Corps of Engineers, and have their records for the graves of persons surnamed Dean which they relocated when they built the dam.
These include graves in the "Dean Cemetery" located on the land owned by William Dean mentioned above, and the "Acker Cemetery" farther downstream. These records
include names and addresses of the next of kin as of the time the graves were moved. I have tried to contact these people without success.
I know the Raystown Branch was "a fur piece and over the hill" from Shirley Township in those days, but Henry Hoshel owned land fronting on the Juniata River from
1814 until 1816. This was in Shirley Twp., just downstream from Mount Union and not that far by river from the Raystown Branch.
I will appreciate ANY clues about these people.
Larry Dean
Vancouver, WA, USA

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