This blog will cover the undertaking of George Daniel Prigmore, 1943, to discover the routes of the Prigmore/Predmore/Pridmore/Pridemore families in American. See www. Pr-more Family Association.org for additional information.
Monday, May 11, 2009
Huntingdon Historical Society
In a letter dated 22 April 2009 Lorrie Noey reviews their file on the Prigmore's which has built up over the years with a lot of June Welch's work.
Enclosed with the letter were a number of notes on Joseph, Benjamin, and Basel (many spellings).
Reinforce the view of a Prigmore out on the frontier, trading properties, and not afriad of a little litigation.
Thanks for your letter of 22 April which I have found helpful in filling in some the gaps.
You might like to visit The Prigmore Family Tree and www.ancestry.com where I have been flushing out this interesting family. Also, I have a blog when I am posting the research issues and sources: http://prigmore.blogspot.com/
I visited Huntingdon in late April and am reasonally convinced that Prigmore's Mill was located at what is now the Lion's Club park in Mill Creek and that the stream there was Prigmore's creek.
Could I request that you do a little more research to confirm this. I would suggest that if we can tract the deed from Prigmore to Christian Stover, 11 Sep 1787, then Stover to John Wartz in about 1788 and then to E. A. Green who operated a mill on the site until 1914 when it was razed. This deed should then lead into the Lion's Club. Happy to pay for this work.
You might also be interest to note that we have tracked Joseph's grandfather to a site in New Brunswick where we are planning a memorial.
I am a retired businessman currently living in Coconut Grove, FL.
I was born, raised and spent most of my life in Massachusetts. Most of our family are still in New England.
My father, William H, had an interest in the family history and corresponded regularly with June Welch and others.
I have taken up the search only recently and am using the web site ancestry.com as the repository for what I am learning in the connections of the various family members. The tree is the Prigmore Family Tree, gdanielp is the author.
C. G. Clift, The Corn Stalk Malitia of Kentuky 1791-1811, Frankfort Historical Society, 1957 - end -
Court Records, Huntingdon County, PA, continuance dockets 1789-1793 for record of Joseph Prigmore, 1720, litigation - end -
Ellsberry, Excerpts from the 1877 Atlas of Lafayette Country - end -
Fathergill, Virginia Taxpayers, 1782-1787 - end -
First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodbridge Olde East New Jersey 1664-1714, Orra Monnette, Los Angeles: Leyroy Carman Press 1930 - end -
History of Saline County, St. Louis, Missouri Historical Societ, 1881 - end -
J. Simpton Africa, History of Huntingdon and Blair Counties, PA, Philadelphia, 1883 - end-
J. Thomas Scharf, Hisotry of Western Maryland, Baltimore, 1968 - end -
Lois Stanley, Missouri Taxpayers 1819-1826, St. Louis, 1980 - end -
Monmouth County Historical Association Library and Archives 70 Court Street Freehold, NJ 07728 732-462-1466 for Perth Amboy Maritime records - end-
PROCEEDINGS of the NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. THIRD SERIES. VOL. I. PATERSON, N. J. : THE PRESS PRINTING AND PUBLISHING COMPANY. 269 MAIN STREET. 1899. - end -
Randolph Smith, Green County Land Entries 1796-1834, Burkesville, KY 1975 - end -
The EVENING NEWS, Neward, NJ 29 April 1916 ran geneology colunm on John Pridmore - end -
The History of Johnson County, Missouri Illistrated, 1881
W. W. Clayton, Ed. History of Union and MIddlesex Counties, NJ Philadelphia: 1882 -end -
William Nelson, New Jersey Marriages, 1665-1800 - end-
in an e-mail:
ReplyDeleteLorrie:
Thanks for your letter of 22 April which I have found helpful in filling in some the gaps.
You might like to visit The Prigmore Family Tree and www.ancestry.com where I have been flushing out this interesting family. Also, I have a blog when I am posting the research issues and sources: http://prigmore.blogspot.com/
I visited Huntingdon in late April and am reasonally convinced that Prigmore's Mill was located at what is now the Lion's Club park in Mill Creek and that the stream there was Prigmore's creek.
Could I request that you do a little more research to confirm this. I would suggest that if we can tract the deed from Prigmore to Christian Stover, 11 Sep 1787, then Stover to John Wartz in about 1788 and then to E. A. Green who operated a mill on the site until 1914 when it was razed. This deed should then lead into the Lion's Club. Happy to pay for this work.
You might also be interest to note that we have tracked Joseph's grandfather to a site in New Brunswick where we are planning a memorial.
Thanks, Dan Prigmore