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Margaret Erskine
b.Abt 1700
Facts and Events
| Name |
Margaret Erskine |
| Gender |
Female |
| Birth? |
Abt 1700 |
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| Marriage |
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to _____ Allen |
Records of Margaret Erskine
From "The Breviate in the boundary dispute between Pennsylvania and Maryland" by John Penn, Thomas Penn, Richard Penn, Baron Charles:
Margaret Allen aged 39, [Lib. C. fol. 759. Int. 181. fol. 760.] .She knows Susquehannah River, and very well distinguishes between an Indian Fort and Town; And says that,near 30 Years ago, she lived with her Father Jonas Erskine now deceased,at a Place near the Mouth of Octorara Creek which runs into Susquehannah River, where the Remains of an ancient Indian Fort, a Kank, and some part of the Loggs with which it had been surrounded appeared. That she often heard her said Father, and several Indians, who resided very near the same Place, say that, at the same Place, there had formerly been an Indian Fort. And says that she saw there, great Numbers of human Bones, which her Father informed her, had been slnin in many Battles fought there. And that she often, pickt up great Numbers of Stone Arrow Points, and Stone Hatchets there. (Note: taken abt. 1739)
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