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From: "Linda Merle" <>
Subject: Re: [Sc-Ir] Augusta Co., VA
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 11:58:25 -0700


Augusta Co, VA should interest most of us as huge
crowds of SI went through there. Esp since at one
time it was a massive area including a few
states.

For one of my clients we were tracing his
McCamish/McCamus/McComis/McAmis (etc etc)
ancestors through VA. I think there is a rule that
the county name has to change at least 3 times.
ARRRRGGG. His were in Frederick/Bedford/Campbell
Co before the Rev. War. Other pods moved into
areas in Augusta Co after the War. Hard to tell
if they are collateral lines of the original
group (from PA) or what. At least one pod in the
New River valley apparently were North Carolina
refugees -- who descended from a family in
Maryland.

There's a fair amount on these various people in
our archives. I put whatever I do learn into them
by posting to the list. I encourage others to
do so too so we can find it.

The other sense I got on doing this work is of
how precarious life was in the 1700's. Due to the
complexity I was reading a lot of county histories
trying to sort out what got settled after the
Revolution (eliminating anyone there as direct
ancestors of my client) and what before. Some
areas were settled twice but the first wave,
in the 1740s were wiped out by the Indians in
the French and Indian War. Many retreated north
up to PA as that was easier going then over the
mountains to the lowlands of Virginia.

Farmer sounds as terrible to research as my
Mason ancestors. ARRRRG.

Linda Merle


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