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From: "S.Howard Dreelan" <>
Subject: Re: [SACKETT-L] David Filer Sackett [1780-1864]
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 22:21:43 -0500
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Hi Thurmon,
Old maps showing Yohogania Co. Click: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vaaugust/maps.html

Regards,

Howard

wrote:

> << "... and in 1780, in company with his brother Aaron, he came
> to Western Pennsylvania. In a letter still preserved, dated Shistee
> Settlement, Youghiogheny county, October 27, 1780, he writes to friends in
> Connecticut: ..." >>
>
> Hi:
>
> After I wrote my last note asking about Youghiogheny Co. I did a search on
> that county name and came up with four sites which have reference to it. The
> most definitive one has the following statement:
>
> "While residing in what was later Washington County, Pennsylvania, but was
> then
> called Youghiogheny County and was considered a part of the state of Virginia,
> Ephraim Wilson enlisted early in the Revolution ..."
>
> This would explain the reference in the letter quoted above to there being no
> doctors between Pittsburg and Wheeling:
>
> "I do not think I can cross the mountains back home until spring. There are
> no doctors here between Pittsburg and Wheeling, and all the way is thickly
> settled..."
>
> >From this, it would appear that Dr. Samuel Sackett settled first in what is
> now Washington Co., PA. and then move east into what is now Fayette Co., PA.
>
> Thurmon
>
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