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History of Franklin County, Pennsylvania
First Settlers
Antrim Township evidently named for Antrim Ireland and the name is significant of where the early settlers were from; the brave and hardy Scotch-Irish who pushed their way to the extreme frontier settlements and in the face of appalling obstructions "hewed the dark old woods away: and gave us the smiling green fields of today.... "Mr. Snively, dec'd made his improvement upon land that was the homestead of Mr. Andrew Snively..Mr. Rody settled on Conococheague Creek and made his improvement on the land now owned by Andrew G. McLanahan. Thus was consituted the first white settlement in Antrim Township....
EARLY LAND TITLES
Archibald McClellan 64 acres, 16 Oct1744
James McLanahan, 4 tracts 900 acres, 5 Jul 1742
GEORGE REYNOLDS 343 acres, 6 Oct 1738
OLD GRAVEYARD TRANSCRIPTIONS
Brown's Millls Cemetery
William Reynolds died 2 Apr 1819 aged seventy nine years. Ruth Reynolds died 23 Jun 1824, aged eighty-two years.
Page 561 FREEMAN 1786
James McLanahan
James McLanahan
George Reynolds land record of 1738; he would have to be 21 so would be born prior to 1717.
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...They organized a society which is the original of the present Conococheague congregation. In 1751, Mr. Cuthbertson [having just arrived in the new world] visited a few families living in the vicinity of GREEN CASTLE, among whom were those of George Reynolds, George Clark and Samuel McColloch...
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