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Excerpt from History of Perry County, Pennsylvania: Including Descriptions of Indian and Pioneer Life From the Time of Earliest Settlement; Sketches of Its Noted Men and Women and Many Professional MenThis is more than a history of Perry County, as it records much of Indian habitation and devastation and pioneer life long before its lands became a county, which has come down to us through the mists of another day, being principally based on official records and historical accounts of the period, with here and there a tinge of tradition, when well founded, which has de scended down the years through generations of responsible people.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of tho...
Excerpt from History of Perry County, in Pennsylvania: From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time In the summer of 1865, the first data for these pages was gathered. Since that time the work has been pursued with whatever of vigor time and circumstances would permit. Here a fact, and there an incident were jotted, until all the available sources of information were sought out, the old men and women wherever possible were visited, and their narratives heard and noted, all the old and most of the recent files of county newspapers were ransacked. Letters were written to many persons, not all of which were answered, and the facts of much of the descriptive part of the history first obtaine...