{"title":"Pennsylvania: Forest County","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"101-m1216","title":"A Pioneer History of Jefferson County, Pennsylvania","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnd My First Recollections of Brookville, Pennsylvania, 1840-1843, when my feet were bare and my cheeks were brown\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eJefferson County, Pennsylvania, was erected on March 26, 1804 from land in Lycoming County. At one time, Jefferson County encompassed some 1,203 square miles and included the present-day counties of Forest and Elk. This rugged wilderness, that was home to the Six Nations Iroquois, was explored and settled by an adventurous group of missionaries, Scotch-Irish and German pioneers, lured west by the possibility inherent in so much virgin territory. W. J. McKnight tells the story of these pioneers and of the legacy which grew from their rough-hewn frontier communities. Subjects of interest include: social habits of the pioneers; settlements and customs of the Six Nations; pioneer surveys and surveyors; the erection of the county; pioneer missionary work; white and African slavery; the origin of the \"Scotch-Irish;\" militia organization; townships and boroughs of the county; pioneer newspapers; early physicians and lawyers; anecdotes and incidents of the region and much more. Biographical chapters are devoted to Joseph Barnett, the patriarch of Jefferson County, and Cornplanter, chief of the Seneca and representative of the Six Nations in many of their first dealings with Europeans in western Pennsylvania. Additionally, McKnight has included a section of memoirs, \"My First Recollections of Brookville,\" in which he describes his childhood in Jefferson County during the 1830s. 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This rugged wilderness that was home to the Six Nations Iroquois was explored and settled by an adventurous group of missionaries, Scotch-Irish and German pioneers, lured west by the possibility inherent in so much virgin territory. W. J. McKnight tells the story of these pioneers and of the legacy which grew from their rough-hewn frontier communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSubjects of interest include: social habits of the pioneers; settlements and customs of the Six Nations; pioneer surveys and surveyors; the erection of the county; pioneer missionary work; white and African slavery; the origin of the \"Scotch-Irish\"; militia organization; townships and boroughs of the county; pioneer newspapers; early physicians and lawyers; anecdotes and incidents of the region and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBiographical chapters are devoted to Joseph Barnett, the patriarch of Jefferson County, and Cornplanter, chief of the Seneca and representative of the Six Nations in many of their first dealings with Europeans in western Pennsylvania. Additionally, McKnight has included a section of memoirs, \"My First Recollections of Brookville,\" in which he describes his childhood in Jefferson County during the 1830s. 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At the time, Virginia's claim, which was encompassed within the boundaries of Augusta County, embraced all of Pennsylvania west of Laurel Hill and included the present-day counties of Westmoreland, Fayette, Greene, Washington, and parts of Allegheny and Beaver. The dispute raged over the course of the French and Indian War and the Revolutionary War-during which time frontier forts were constructed, rights for land were ceded by Virginia, and settlement waxed and waned-until commissioners for the two states of Virginia and Pennsylvania were appointed in 1780 to draw proper boundaries. Eventually, in 1784, new meridian lines were run confirming the present-day boundaries of the two states.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe first of the two excerpts from the \u003cem\u003ePennsylvania Archives\u003c\/em\u003e reprinted here, \"Virginia Claims to Land in Western Pennsylvania\", is a complete list of Virginia land entries in the aforementioned Pennsylvania counties between 1779 and 1780. For each of the 1,300 entries, we are given the date of the entry, the name(s) of the parties to the transaction, and occasional references to subsequent transfers of grants, the amount of acreage, and a landmark indicating where the land was situated. Preceding the land records is a fascinating history of the thirty-year dispute between the two colonies\/states.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe second excerpt, \"An Account of the Donation Lands of Pennsylvania\", concerns the March 1780 statute enacted by the state legislature granting land in western Pennsylvania to the soldiers of the Pennsylvania Line who served in the Continental Army. The list of eligible soldiers is preceded by an introductory sketch informing us that the donation area comprised parts of the contemporary counties of Lawrence, Butler, Armstrong, Venango, Forest, Warren, Erie, and all of Mercer and Crawford. 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