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Subject: [PA-Perry] Re: LOOK-UPS in the History of the Susquehanna & Juniata Valleys of 1886
Date: 15 Jul 2003 18:51:19 -0600
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Hi Marcia;
page 1134 (in Greenwood Twp), a mention of John Foughts (Pfoutz) in the 1763 Fermanagh Twp assessment and again in the 1768 assessment, owning 700 acres.
page 1138: "The first grant with the limits of Perry County was dated July 28, 1739, for 500 acres, to Thomas Kirton, of Speen, in the county of Bates, in Great Britain, by order of James Thighman, Esq., secretary of the Land-Office. a tract of 50 acres of this land, called "The Rose in Garden", was surveyed November 13, 1774, for John Pfoutz, assignee of Thomas Kirton, by William McClay, D.S.
This tract was in Pfoutz's Valley, adjoining the other lands of siad Pfoutz. John Pfoutz located the first land, consisting of 329 acres, in the present county, under warrant dated February 3, 1775. These lands continued in the possession of John Pfoutz's descendants until 1860, when they were sold as the property of the heirs of Isaac Pfoutz.
John Pfoutz, at the same date, took warrant for 142 acres of land in Liverpool township, below the borough, along the river."
I'm sorry to say that there is no mention of either Diggins or Franck/Fronk.
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