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Greathouse of Bedford County, PA Do you have any Greathouse kith and kin who resided in Bedford County, PA? If so, please join us in our efforts to better document the Greathouse kith and kin who lived in this county, by sending your additions and corrections to Greathouse Point. 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 Department of History, Morgantown, West Virginia, 2004. ABSTRACT Kinship Migration to Northwestern Virginia, 1785-1815: The Myth of the Southern Frontiersman 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:
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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