The Tenmile Country And It's Pioneer Families Pennsylvania Genealogy

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The Tenmile  Country and Its Pioneer Families
A Genealogical History of the Upper Monogahela  Valley
Howard L. Leckey
Volume  totaling
775
pages. Book  is in unused  condition. Per the publisher;
Owing to the graciousness of the Greene County  Historical Society of Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, Clearfield Company is delighted  to announce a reprint edition of a massive collection of genealogies pertaining  to the 18th-century settlers of Pennsylvania's Monongahela Valley: Howard L.  Leckey's The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families.
The term Tenmile Country refers to an area of land in  Greene and Washington counties in southwestern Pennsylvania that is traversed by  Tenmile Creek. During the early colonial period, this region of the Upper  Monongahela, like that of Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) slightly to the north and  what would become Morgantown, West Virginia to the south, was inhabited by the  indigenous peoples; by French missionaries, trappers, and traders; and  eventually by a number of intrepid British "trans-Allegheny pioneers." After  1750, however, the Tenmile Country--like the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia--  became a desired place of settlement or stopover point for the huge migration of  Scotch-Irish, German, and to a lesser extent, British, colonists who extended  American settlement beyond the Alleghenies. Migration to the Monongahela took  place over three main routes: along the National Pike via Winchester, Virginia;  through the Shenandoah Valley to the head of the Cheat River and from there to  the Monongahela; and along the Lincoln Highway to Ligonier, Pennsylvania and  thence along Jacob's Creek to the Monongahela. From the time of the French and  Indian War to the end of the 18th century, the tributaries of the Tenmile Creek  would be inundated by pioneers--many of them German or Scotch Irish, some of  them the spillovers from the great migration into Kentucky, and still other  travellers and immigrants who passed through Baltimore en route to one of the  great migration trails.
The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families
was originally published as a series of newspaper articles by Mr. Leckey before  being consolidated as a book in 1950 and then reprinted with an every-name index  under the auspices of the Greene County Historical Society in 1977. The work  commences with an historical overview of settlement in the Tenmile Country, and  it concludes with the aforementioned index of some 30,000 entries. In between,  the genealogist of southwestern Pennsylvania can savor 500 or more family  histories, of varying lengths, which delineate the lineages of the many families  who migrated into this area. The genealogies, which are arranged according to  place of settlement, are periodically embellished with rosters of one sort or  another, maps, facsimiles, and illustrations. Overall, the genealogical sketches  cover or touch on more than 2,000 main families who settled in the Upper  Monongahela during the final third of the eighteenth or first quarter of the  nineteenth century. Without a doubt this is the starting point for genealogical  research in southwestern Pennsylvania, and Clearfield Company is delighted to  make it available again.
Just what you need  for genealogy research.
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