INTRODUCTION

This blog has been created for the sole purpose of finding out my ancestor Sarah Walton's family. It's a place to sort through my info and have access to it as I am researching away from home. If you have stumbled across this blog because you are looking for information, or better yet, if you have information, :) please contact me at denianek@gmail.com to share.

MY CONNECTION: William Decatur Kartchner>Prudence Wilcox Kartchner>John Wilcox (m. Sarah Walton)

For more on the Willcox Family see www.thomaswillcox.blogspot.com


Monday, September 19, 2011

Germantown and Scotland, PA

From "Historical Sketch of Franklin County" p. 209
(Prepared for the centennial celebration, held at Chambersburg, PA, July 4, 1876

"Germantown is a small village in Greene Township, situate on the public road leading from Scotland to Fayetteville, about midway between the two places. It contains a population of about fifty persons."

http://books.google.com/ebooks/reader?id=1YpBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PA209

p. 217
Scotland (P.O.) is situated on the Conococheague creek, in Greene township, about five miles north-east of Chambersburg, and a short distance south of Scotland station, on the Cumberland Valley railroad. It contains two churches, (one Covenanter and one United Brethren), three stores, a grist and saw mill, a planing mill, and a population of about two hundred and twenty-five persons.

http://books.google.com/ebooks/reader?id=1YpBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PA217

Strasburg is also mentioned as being in Franklin County (Letterkenny township), and there was a Strasburg Walton that I found a while back. ....
http://books.google.com/ebooks/reader?id=1YpBAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PA219

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