The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families: A Genealogical History of the Upper Monongahela Valle
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The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families: A Genealogical History of the Upper Monongahela Valley. Howard L. Leckey. Hardbound, red cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine, originally published in 1950, reprinted here in 2001, as new, Index, Illus., 775 pp. Tenmile Country refers to an area of land in Greene and Washington counties in southwestern Pennsylvania, traversed by Tenmile Creek. In early colonial times, this region of the Upper Monongahela, like that of Fort Duquesne (Pittsburgh) slightly to the north and what would become Morgantown, West Virginia to the south, was inhabited by French missionaries, trappers, and traders, and later by British trans-Allegheny pioneers. After 1750, the Tenmile Country became a desired place for the large migration of Scotch-Irish, German and British colonists, who extended American settlement beyond the Alleghenies. Migration to the Monongahela was via three main routes: along the National Pike through Winchester, Virginia; through the Shenandoah Valley to the head of the Cheat River and from there to the Monongahela; and along the Lincoln Highway to Ligonier, Pennsylvania and by Jacob's Creek to the Monongahela. From the time of the French and Indian War to the end of the 18th century, tributaries of the Tenmile Creek were thick with pioneers of German or Scotch-Irish descent, among others, many of them spillovers from the great migration into Kentucky, and other travellers and immigrants passing through Baltimore en route to one of the great migration trails. This book was originally published as a series of newspaper articles by Mr. Leckey before being consolidated as a book in 1950, and then reprinted with an index by the Greene County Historical Society in 1977. The work begins with an historical overview of settlement in the Tenmile Country and ends with an index of some 30,000 entries. A genealogist will also find 500 or so family histories of the southwestern Pennsylvania areas, which detail the lineages of many of the families who migrated there. The genealogies, arranged according to place of settlement, are sometimes enhanced with various rosters, maps, illustrations and facsimiles. These genealogical sketches refer to more than 2,000 main families who settled in the Upper Monongahela during the final third of the eighteenth and first quarter of the nineteenth century. This book is invaluable for genealogical researchers of the southwestern Pennsylvania area. [016-CP]