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2004 - Sturm: Kinship Migration to Northwestern Virginia

Kinship Migration to Northwestern Virginia, 1785-1815: The Myth of the Southern Frontiersman

Philip W. Sturm

Dissertation submitted to the Eberly College of Arts and Science at West Virginia

University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History

Ronald L. Lewis, Ph.D., Chair
Ken Fones-Wolf, Ph.D.
Mary Lou Lustig, Ph.D.
A. Michal McMahon, Ph.D.
Irvin D. Talbott, Ph.D., Glenville State College

Department of History, Morgantown, West Virginia, 2004.

ABSTRACT

Kinship Migration to Northwestern Virginia, 1785-1815: The Myth of the Southern Frontiersman
Philip W. Sturm

For nearly 100 years American historians, with few exceptions, have maintained that migration of colonists to the trans-Appalachian frontier was a communal experience for those from New England and Northern regions but that the Southern frontiersman represented a non-communal, individualistic spirit of colonization. This dissertation traces the migration and settlement patterns of the earliest colonists along the northwestern Virginia frontier, the area organized as Wood County in 1799, from three Eastern regions, New England, the Middle Atlantic, and the Northern Neck of Virginia. It determines that emigrants from all regions migrated cohesively and sequentially in large kinship/neighbor groups and that their settlement behaviors were remarkably similar. It challenges the myth of the individualistic Southern frontiersman.

Footnotes:

1) Permission to share this dissertation in the collections at the Greathouse Archives was obtained from Dr. Philip W. Sturm in an E-mail dated 22 October 2012.

Sources:

Philip W. Sturm, Kinship Migration to Northwestern Virginia, 1785-1815: The Myth of the Southern Frontiersman, Dissertation submitted to the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences at West Virginia University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History, Department of History, Morgantown, West Virginia 2004. Joel Rees settled along the Cheat River near it's mouth, or Point Marion, Bedford County, PA from 1771 through 1773. View PDF

Email: Dr. Philip W. Sturm to Rick Greathouse, Subject: Re: Kinship Migration Dissertation, 22 Oct 2012.

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