Perhaps I can shed some light. Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, where I
grew up, does border on the west bank of the Susquehanna River, across
from Harrisburg. It marked the beginning of the frontier in the
mid-eighteenth century, when one crossed into it via John Harris' ferry.
Terrified settlers fleeing the French and Iroquois, and later Pontiac's
warriors, sought haven in Carlisle, the county seat (where many years
later a lad named Jim Thorpe gained athletic glory at the famed Carlisle
Indian School). The county, and specifically my hometown of Camp Hill,
was the high-water mark of the Confederate Army's northern advance in
the summer of 1863. (The Susquehanna, by the way, empties into
Chesapeake Bay near Baltimore, far from the Cumberland Gap.)

Stephen Quickel

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Subject: Re: Cumberland County, NY

Any possibility that the wording is such that the person was being
decribed as
living in both places? Perhaps someone was hastily writing the places of
origin?

My understanding is that the NYS Archives has papers on Cumberland
County. I am
not sure if that is true, but if so might help you in your search.

Joe Cutshall-King

Tim Frank wrote:

> Thanks you all for your responses to my query re: Cumberland County
NY.
>  Is there any way that some one could have lived in Cumberland County,
and
> on the Susquehanna simultaneously?  i.e. This ancestor supposedly
lived in
> Cumberland County , Susquehanna, New York Province.
> Or is this just completely inconsistent?
>
> Tim Frank
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>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Walter Greenspan
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 5:53 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Cumberland County, NY
>
> On 5/28/02 (5:19:45 PM EDT), an eMail from Lester Hendrix
> ([log in to unmask]) was posted, as:
>
> "New York also had Tryon and Charlotte counties, from 1772 to 1784.
The last
> counties formed by the colonial government, they were named for
> then-governor
> Tryon and Charlotte, queen consort to George. After the revolution
they were
> renamed for patriot generals Mongtomery (Tryon) and Washington
(Charlotte)
> and were chopped up into smaller counties. Tryon, seated at Johnstown,
> encompassed all of western New York excepting the Indian lands and
Charlotte
> all of north eastern New York, some of which was transferred to
Vermont.  So
> the count is 68 for the time span given."
>
> Thank you.  However, I don't think a change in names truly represents
a new
> or different county.  Hence, my count was (and remains) that New York
State
> since November 1, 1683, has had 66 counties.  (I show the name changes
in
> the
> footnotes to the table I included in my previous eMail oif May 21 on
this
> subject.)
>
> Walter Greenspan

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