Wow, Boyd, thank you for sharing the information re this conference.  Merry
Christmas to me!!   That is also my birthday weekend.  It looks like an
excellent conference, and is certainly a very reasonable price, esp as it
includes some meals, which in themselves are an arm and a leg in Ireland
(the price, that is, not the menu!!)
Ballymoney is in the heart of my research area, and I had tentatively
planned on going 'home' during that time anyway.  Wahoo!
Thank you for sharing this, and Merry Christmas All!
Wendy

Wishing everyone on our list a most wonderful Christmas!

Linda

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all on this list

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Spam is one thing. It’s annoying to get email messages that are nothing but blatant attempts to sell you something. But other than using up your bandwidth, they don’t really cause you any harm. Email scams are quite another thing. They aren’t trying to sell you something; they’re trying to steal something from you, con you out of or into something, or just scare you.

Email scams have been with us since the Internet went commercial back in the early 1990s. I remember getting those Nigerian scam messages back then. And believe it or not, they’re still around. But scammers have gotten more sophisticated, and some of the more recent email scams are harder to detect — unless you know what you’re looking for.

The holiday season seems to bring even more scammers out of the woodwork, perhaps because the average computer user is more vulnerable this time of the year. We’re busy and in a hurry and may be less likely to notice the signs that a message isn’t legit, and/or we’re in a generous and giving mood and may be more likely to fall prey to a well crafted story that plays on our sympathy.

Let’s look at some of the email scams that are currently going around the Internet and how you (and your users) can recognize them and keep from being victimized by them.

Note: This article is also available as a PDF download.

1: Fake Facebook “friend” messages

The popularity of social networking has surged, and scammers have jumped on that bandwagon to take advantage of the way the social sites work. For example, depending on your account settings, you may get email messages whenever someone posts to your Facebook wall or sends you a private message. Recently, I received a message with the subject line “Caroline sent you a message on Facebook.” As with real Facebook messages, there was a link to click on to reply. But I get a lot of those messages, and this one didn’t look quite right. Figure A shows the fake message.

Figure A

Fake Facebook message is close, but not close enough.

I clicked back to a Facebook notification that I knew was real to compare the two. Figure B shows real message (with the content blacked out to protect the privacy of the sender).

Figure B

The real Facebook message has subtle differences.

The first thing that caught my attention was the Reply To address. I expected the URL domain to be www.facebook.com, but the one in the fake message was facebook.montadalitihad.com. If you know how domain naming works, you know that means “facebook” is just the name of a Web server in the montadalitihad domain. As if that weren’t enough, I also noticed that the To field in the message didn’t show my name; instead it said “Undisclosed recipients,” indicating this message was sent to multiple people. All this was enough to cause me to check out the message headers (in Outlook 2007, you do this by clicking the Options icon. Figure C shows the headers.

Figure C

The Internet headers show that this message did not come from Facebook.

In a real Facebook message, the Received: field in the header would be from mx-out.facebook.com. In this one, it’s mail.illimail.com. Now I knew for sure that it didn’t come from Facebook.

I had opened the message in a virtual machine, so if there was malicious code attached, it wouldn’t affect my real OS. Now I clicked the Reply To link and found that it opened a page that looks very much like the Facebook login page. The red flag here was that I was already logged into Facebook with that Web browser. You should not get the login page if you’re already logged into the service. I did not, of course, enter my credentials. That’s the scam. If you do, the scammer will now have your Facebook user account and password and can hijack your Facebook site.

Of course, variations on this scam may use other popular social networks, such as MySpace or LinkedIn. If you’re in doubt about the legitimacy of any “friend” message, just log in to your social network account via your browser (not by clicking the link in the email) and check your Inbox. If the message is real, there will be a copy of it there.

2: Fake admin messages

You might just ignore a “friend” message (especially from a friend you’ve never heard of). But scammers know that a message from the site administrator is more likely to get your attention. This message pretends to be from “The Facebook Team” and purports to notify you of a policy change that requires you to submit a new account agreement. They try to scare you by warning that your account might be closed down or restricted if you don’t do it. Figure D shows this message.

Figure D

Scammers up the ante by sending fake administrative messages.

This time, the scammer did a better job with the From name, which shows to be from facebookmail.com, just like a real Facebook message. But the first clue that it’s a scam is the To address. That’s not my name, and that’s not the name of anybody in my domain. I have our Exchange server set up to forward messages to me when they’re sent to nonexistent addresses (assuming they don’t meet other spam criteria, which would block them at the server’s spam filters). Spammers and scammers often get hold of an email domain name and send messages to random names at that domain in hopes they’ll hit on a real one.

The second warning signal is the attachment. Facebook agreements don’t come as attachments; if this were real, it would direct me to a web page where I could read the new terms and click Agree. Attachments from strangers should always put you on alert.

I copied the attachment into a virtual machine and ran a virus scan on it. Sure enough, it was infected with a virus called VirTool:Win32/VBInject.gen!CN. Luckily, most antivirus programs that are up to date will be able to detect it. A check of the Internet headers on this message indicated that the Reply To address is somewhere in Germany.

3: Fear-mongering messages

While we think of scam messages as those by which the scammer profits, some don’t benefit the scammer at all — except for whatever gratification a person gets from causing others to be upset or afraid. Unfortunately, this makes some individuals feel powerful.

There are many examples of these types of messages, and they usually seem to play on the current headlines. A few years ago, there was a flood of such messages warning that if you saw another car on the road at night with headlights off and blinked yours to signal to the driver, you were in dire danger of being shot as part of a gang initiation. This article details the history of this email hoax.

Similar fear-mongering scams have warned about a serial killer who lured women out of their homes by playing a recording of a crying baby and a rapist who would approach women in parking lots claiming to have picked up a five dollar bill the woman dropped.

The latest in fear-mongering messages like to play on health fears caused by all the recent media attention to swine flu (H1N1). An email message has been going around the Internet for several months warning that “The CDC says H1N1 is wiping out entire villages in Asia and expect it to hit the U.S. in January, where it will kill 6 out of 10 people.” The message goes on to predict that martial law will be declared and you’ll be shot if you leave your house to buy food, and urges recipients to stock up now and to buy face masks, use Purell, and take Enzacta products to “keep your immune system strong.” If you weren’t already a little suspicious, you probably will be by the time you get to the end, where the sender says the pandemic was predicted years ago by a Russian mathematician and that it was caused by a tsunami. Here’s the full text of the message.

They always say that if something seems too good to be true, it probably is. The same goes for over-the-top bad news — especially if you’re hearing it for the first time in an email message. You can bet that if the CDC had really put out such an announcement, it would be all over the mainstream news outlets.

4: Account cancellation scams

It seems that around the holidays, more of these than usual start popping up. I’ve received a number of messages telling me that my account has been or is about to be cancelled — purportedly from Amazon, PayPal, even from the bank. Close examination of the messages show them all to be bogus. Of course, in many cases, I already knew that, because I don’t even have an account with the organization.

Here’s another clue: The message contains a link that looks legit, such as www.mybank.com, but when you hover your mouse pointer over it to show the actual URL, it’s something different, often with a foreign country code such as .ru (Russian) or .cn (China).

Still another clue is that these scam messages often contain typos or grammatical errors you wouldn’t expect from a legitimate company.

5: Bogus holiday cards

There are numerous Web sites through which you can send virtual holiday cards to your friends, and many people take advantage of this quick and easy — and inexpensive (no postage stamps required!) — way to send season’s greetings at this time of the year.

Scammers have co-opted the idea, though. They know that many computer users won’t think twice about clicking a link to view a card from a friend, so they send out messages notifying you that you’ve received a card, with a link to a Web site that will download malicious software to your computer if you aren’t properly protected.

So how do you tell the real card services from the scams? For one thing, when a friend sends you a card from a real service, it will almost always tell you the name of the sender. Scam messages are more likely to use the generic “A friend sent you a greeting.” The safest way to check is to do a Web search for the card service and read about it to find out if it’s a legitimate one. Or to really be safe, just ignore the card notification and send holiday greetings to your friends the old fashioned way (through the postal service) or by personal email, instead of using a Web service.

6: Phantom packages

Any other time of the year, you might be suspicious if you were notified that you had an unexpected delivery from DHL, FedEx, or UPS. During the holidays, it’s a common occurrence. Scammers know this, so they’re seizing the opportunity and sending email messages telling you that you have a package that couldn’t be delivered because of some problem with the shipping address.

This particular scam contains an attachment that’s supposed to be a form you need to print and fill out so you can pick up the package. However, there is no package and when you open the attachment, it infects your computer with a virus.

Also beware of variations on this theme. Many people know not to download email attachments, but they’ll readily click a link to go to a Web site. So more sophisticated scammers will send you to a site that looks like that of the delivery service, but that delivers only malware — straight to your system.

7: Threats from the government

A sharply divided partisan political system has resulted in a growing distrust of government in many circles. Some scammers are now playing on those sentiments. A recent scam email has been going around that purports to warn you that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI have been informed that you’re allegedly involved in money laundering and/or terrorist activities. The email goes on to say that you can avoid prosecution by obtaining a certificate from the Economic Financial Crimes Commission Chairman — for only $370. Who wouldn’t jump at that deal?

Many similar scams use the names of government agencies. Of course, they’re all hoaxes. If you were really the target of a DHS or FBI investigation, you wouldn’t be able to buy your way out of it for a few hundred bucks. And those agencies would be contacting you in person, not sending threatening email messages.

8: Census survey says…

Another recent email scam also involves the federal government, but instead of accusing you of a crime, it uses your knowledge of real, routine government activities against you. Everyone knows that the U.S. government conducts a census every 10 years, and 2010 is the year. Citizens are required by law to answer the census-takers’ questions. Most people also know that many government-related tasks can now be done online.

Scammers are taking advantage of this to send phishing emails that claim to be from the Census Bureau, making it “convenient and easy” for you to fulfill your census obligation, either by filling out an attached form and emailing it back or by visiting a Web site to fill in a form. The form asks for all sorts of personal information, including the social security number and date of birth of everyone in your household, which can be used for identity theft.

In addition to asking you these personal questions, the emails may include attachments containing malicious code that can infect your computer. The same goes for the Web links contained in the email message. The Census Bureau does, in fact, send email regarding your participation in a survey — but it does not ask for detailed personal information.

9: In Microsoft (or Apple or Dell or HP) we trust

There are dozens of email scams out there that attempt to exploit users’ trust in the vendors that make their computer software or hardware. These messages say they’re from the vendor and range from fake security warnings with attachments that claim to be vulnerability fixes (but are really malware) to bogus “special offers” to “payment requests” that require you to download and install a “transaction inspector module” (which is really a Trojan) if you want to decline to have the payment charged to your credit card.

10: You’re a winner!

There are many new twists on an old theme: You’re a winner in the lottery, contest, or drawing. All you have to do to claim your prize is fill out a form and email it back. Of course, the entity awarding the prize needs your social security number because the value of the prize must be reported to the IRS.

The bad thing about this scam is that you will indeed have to provide such information to claim a prize in a legitimate contest. As a Microsoft Windows 7 Launch Party host, I was automatically entered in a contest to win a Dell laptop — and I won. When I got the email notification, you can bet I was suspicious. Before doing anything, I checked it out with my contacts at Microsoft. Even after confirming that the notice was real, I declined to send my personal information back via email; I printed out the form and sent it via snail mail (registered and certified) instead.

Even if you really did enter the contest that you’re being told you won, don’t get careless. Check into the legitimacy of an email notification of the good news. And I recommend never sending your social security number or other sensitive information in unencrypted email. A legitimate contest will almost always have alternatives methods by which you can submit your information.

I have ancestors from the Connor, Cullybacky, and Galgorm area and would like to
learn more.  I understand, at least in the 1700s, some Strains had children that
went by the surname "Strayhorn."  I am looking for earliest origins and to fill
in some of the blanks.  Would also like to prove/disprove any family
participation in the 1798 Rising.

Thanks!

----- Original Message -----

From: Linda Holley

To: Mid-AntrimGenealogy@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 7:33 PM

Subject: Re: [Mid-AntrimGenealogy] Collection of dialect words and phrases of Northern Ulster

 

The list was fun to read, wasn't it?  I may have already asked you this - what area of PA and what surname are you researching?  My Burnsides moved from the Ballymena area to Beaver Co.

Linda

On Dec 3, 2009, at 8:44 AM, susanshira@aol.com wrote:

I am from western Pennsylvania where the clergy like to say that "Presbyterians are denser than in any other part of the country."

This is where many of the Ulster Scots moved when they arrived.

I was surprised at how many of these words are still in common usage. Even tho my mother's  family had been here for generations, my father's grandparents were new arrivals and Ihave been familiar with these words on both sides.

 

(Rev. Susan Shira Nilsen  

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: L.G. McF <larneman@gmail.com>
To: Linda's List <Mid-AntrimGenealogy@yahoogroups.com>; antrim <antrim@irishgenealogy.net>
Sent: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 10:45 am
Subject: [Mid-AntrimGenealogy] Collection of dialect words and phrases of Northern Ulster

 

The following collection of dialect words and phrases are still in fairly common use in many parts of Northern Ulster. They are very expressive, and are well worth preserving:-      
  
Gunk        Disconcert
Dayligone    Twilight
Waghill        Walk laboriously
Spraghel    Struggle as on soft ground
Whamling    Overturning
Cope-carley    Heels over head
Kep        Stop
Kye        Cows
Kileery        Light-headed
Tovy        Boastful
Handling    Troublesome
Garevitch    Disorderly gathering
Cannot see a stime       Cannot see any
Hain        Economise
Footy        Mean, narrow
Beddy        Impudent
Birl        Turn round
Sleekit        Crafty
Spitting    Commencing to rain
Deaf as a door nail    Very deaf
Blind as a cleg        Very blind
Thole        Suffer
Stoor        Dust
Oxtercog    Holding up by armpits
Deil a hate    Nothing at all
Clodding    Throwing stones or missiles
Coom        Peat dust
Thrawn        Cross-grained
Gulpin        Ill-bred pretentious person
Get the lees    Get into order
Ar        Scar
Fornenst    Opposite
Gomey        Stupied person
Baughill and Glunter    Awkward person
Gype        Impudent person
Mouth        Impudent, ignorant person
Greeshough    Remains of peat fire
Clabber and Glar    Mud
Gar        Compel
Slap        Gap in fence
Be to be done    Must be done
Gowling        Shouting
Greeting and Roaring    Crying or weeping
Donsey        Sickly
Sca'd a Papish    Very hot
Gopen        Full of both hands
Just waiting on        A person dying
Gye and bad        Very ill
Lift your feet and they'll fall themselves    Hurry up
Canny        Slow, deliberate
Imperent    Impertinent
Cracked        Slightly demented
Crack        Chat
Brash        An illness or a turn at the churn
Kailying    Gossiping in neighbour's house
Sail        Lift in a car
Slithered away    Went slowly
Never let on    Never tell
Gappie        Stupid person
Hap yourself    Roll yourself in the clothes
Bravely        Well
Hunker        Bend the knees
Sonsy        Big, hearty
Wee knowing and wee little        A little
Dander        Walk
Chew, dog    Don't bite
Queer and well    Very suitable
Skite        Slap with the hand
Dwam        Fit of illness
Well at himself    Rich: in good health
Letting on    Pretending
On for it    In favour of it
Sconsing    Pretending
Laired        Stuck in mud
Crowdy        Mixed food of many ingredients
Roytery        Rubbish
Gral of a fellow    Youth
Fadge        Potato cake
Ram stam    In a forcible irregular manner
Moily        Cow with no horns
Shugly-shoo    See-saw
Jostling    Pushing with the elbow
Hashtyer    Careless untidy person
Cogly        Unsteady
Japs        Sparks of mud
Blate        Bashful, quiet
Girning        Complaining
Gazeby        Big unsuitable house
Bunker        Grass at side of road
Colfing        Filling up
Tirling        Blowing off the thatch
Dooless        No energy
Blubbering    Crying
Strar        Part of cart harness
Turry        Pig
Tukey        Hen
Droich or dhory    Smallest in the litter
Scraighing    Shouting in hoarse voice
Floostering    Making much of: fondling
Clipe        Tell-tale
Rodden or loanin    Bye road or path
Spulpin        Scoundrel
Throughother    Disorderly
Getting into a pucker    Getting into a temper
Thaveless    Without confidence: unsettled
Jirging        Boots making a noise
Kell        Dirt
Kist        Chest or big box
Yammering    Constant talk
Guttery        Muddy
Shilpit        Thin
Cogged        Propped up
At the leep    Half-boiled potatoes
Dunt        To knock
Striddling    Walking wide
Camslush    Flattery
Soft sodder    Too much praise
Wee tory rogue    A little rascal
Hurroosh    Outcry over very little
Gawk        Awkward
Slouster    A mess to eat
Snigger        A smothered laugh
White laugh    A derisive laugh
Farnteckled    Freckled
Sinnery        In two
Duds        Clothes
Lilt        A song
Lauchter    A brood
Skilted and skedaddled        Ran away
Chay, lady    To quieten a restless cow
Hardly fash    Not likely to do it
Blethers    Nonsense
Harned        Bakes (bread)
Wee dight    A little clearing
Arles        Money given to confirm a hiring contract
Groak        Looking meanly for anything
Sliddering    In a slow, gliding manner
Kitchen        Meat diet
Footer        Incapable of doing anything right
Eileens        Two people of same age
Smur        Fine rain
Levat        A tirade
Pisel        A slow worker
Heart o' corn    A genial, entertaining person
Colour or taste    A little
Margymore    A disorderly show
Crabbit        Cross
Forbye        Besides
Cant        Auction
Kemp        Complete
Nirr        Ill-grained person
Dreigh        Slow
Snedding turnips Trimming turnips
Stoon        A dull aching pain
Deave        Bore with talk
Grist        Proper temperature
Gave him all sorts    Gave him a severe scolding
Never fash    Never trouble
Dinnel        A painful feeling caused by cold
Take it all its time    Doubtful
Not up to much    Of inferior degree
Hunker-sliding    Evading
Sowans        Porridge made from shirings and oatmeal
Beastings    The first milk of a cow, boiled
Champ        Mashed potatoes and milk
Crowdie and styaghie    Mess of food
Meal a Crushy    Oatmeal fried with gravy
Clart        Untidy woman
Targe        Nagging, bad tempered woman
Feardie        Coward
Grulch        Short, squat person
Dunch        Nudge with the elbow
Ganch        Stammer
Scrab        Scratch with the nail
Scunner        Disgust
Brust        Burst
Skelly        Squint
Hirple        Walk lamely
Jorum        Good quality of fluid
Bruchle        Roughness: a good handful
Bruckle        Easily broken
Blatter        A loud noise
Tully-eyed    Squinting
Dwam        A slight attack of illness
To the bat of a stick    Exactly suitable
Lashings and lavings    Plenty and to spare
Stack of ribs    Emaciated person
Brockies    Mountain sheep
Creash        Grease
Big        On friendly terms
Balderdash    Nonsense
Gullion        A quagmire
Gowl        A shout
Gidderell    A senseless person
Skeigwig and skible    Two words of reproach
Scoudered    Bread underbaked
Skimpit        Pinched: not enough material
Gallises    Braces for men's trousers
Snash        Impudence
Whups        Lots of
Trig        Smart-looking: neat
Dreigh        Tedious
Cagey        A horse that is fresh
Cat-wit        A troublesome critic
Bully        Fine or excelling
Drunted        Disappointed
Silly        Shaky, unsubstantial
Middling    Fairly
Quie        A heifer calf
Tidy        A cow or heifer with calf
Curcuddiagh     Self-complacent or self-satisfied

PS;  Does anybody have a Dog tracker/finder that they nolonger use? Maybe I could buy it from you.  My Boston Terrier keeps chasing rabbits, squirrels, birds, leaves, if it moves she chases it. She then gets lost and cannot find her way back out of the woods and just follows the first person she meets. I was looking on Ebay and Amazon but they do not ship to Europe.

This link will give a general idea of the size of woodland. Bos and Bossen mean forest or woods in dutch.The Apartments have been refurbish since 2008 so this is an old photograph taken during the stage.

Link: <http://maps.google.nl/maps?q=Pieter+Nuytsstraat+50,+5665+Geldrop-Mierlo&sll=49.853263,10.578792&sspn=5.328664,5.636233&hl=nl&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Pieter+Nuytsstraat+50,+5665+Geldrop,+Mierlo,+Noord-Brabant&ll=51.425464,5.583115&spn=0.006101,0.017982&z=15&iwloc=A>

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Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:19 AM
Subject: Fw: Col. Thomas Crooks


> Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 10:16 AM
> Subject: Fw: Col. Thomas Crooks
>
>
>> This was sent to me by another member of the Crooks family and is Col.
>> thomas Crooks who formed and lead the first American Ranger Regiment
>> during the French & Indian wars. He was awarded land under a Virginia
>> Certificate issued by the Royal Governor of  Virginia, this land was name
>> Crookston Plantation was was actually in todays Franklin County. I am not
>> sure if Col. Crooks ever lived on it or not as it was sold to someone
>> else. I am not directly related to Col. Crooks, however one opf mine did
>> serve in his regiment.
>>
>> The use of the name Crookston is that of Crookston Castle, Paisley,
>> Scotland where it is believed  the Crooks family originated.
>
>                                                Gordon Crooks
>>
>
>>
>> The following is from the HIstory of Washington County:
>>
>> West Brownsville Borough (pp. 635)
>>
>>
>>
>> History of Washington County, Pennsylvania *
>>
>> On the left bank of the Monongahela River, sixty-three miles above
>> the city of Pittsburgh, and fifty-four miles by the Pittsburgh,
>> Virginia and Charleston Railroad (or, as now known, the Monongahela
>> Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad),1 is situated the rather
>> unpretentious borough of West Brownsville, the present terminus of
>> the railroad mentioned. It contains the large and well-known boat-
>> yard of Axton & Pringle, the extensive planing-mills of Thomas Aubrey
>> & Sons, a handsome public school building, an Episcopal Church
>> edifice, two hotels, several mercantile houses, about six hundred
>> inhabitants, and is connected with the ancient town of Brownsville,
>> Fayette Co., Pa., by a substantial covered bridge, six hundred and
>> thirty feet in length, which, commenced in 1832, was completed in
>> 1833, after an expenditure of about fifty thousand dollars.
>> [1Trains first began making regular trips between West Brownsville
>> and Pittsburgh May 15, 1881.]
>>
>> Although West Brownsville is but a modest, unassuming little borough,
>> and occupies, comparatively speaking, but an insignificant portion of
>> the surface of Washington County, its history is not uninteresting.
>>
>> It seems that during the middle of the last century, and prior to the
>> year 1769, a friendly Indian named William Peters, yet more generally
>> known as "Indian Peter," lived on lands in the Youghiogheny Valley,
>> adjoining a German named Philip Shute,1 with whom he could not agree.
>> Thereupon Indian Peter wrote the proprietaries' agent, saying that he
>> could not "get along with the d—d Dutchman," and wished to give up
>> his land for another tract. His request was promptly complied with it
>> appears, for on the 5th day of April, 1769, but two days after the
>> land-office (for the sale of land in this newly-purchased territory)
>> was opened, warrant No. 2844 was granted him for a tract containing
>> three hundred and thirty-nine acres situated on the west side of the
>> Monongahela River. This land was surveyed Oct. 7, 1769, by James
>> Hendricks, deputy surveyor-general, who gave it the name of "Indian
>> Hill."
>>
>> [1Shute was a member of the Gist settlement, and was there when Capt.
>> John Steele was at Redstone in 1768.]
>>
>> It is very probable that Indian Peter took up his abode on Indian
>> Hill soon after obtaining a title to the tract, for we find that on
>> the 22nd day of February, 1775, the Virginia court, then in session
>> at Fort Dunmore, licensed Michael Cresap "to keep a ferry over the
>> Monongahela from his house at Redstone Old Fort to the land of Indian
>> Peter." The latter died probably before the organization of this
>> county, as the records show that the first civil suit entered in the
>> Washington County Court of Common Pleas was brought on the 17th day
>> of September, 1781, and that the defendant was a widow woman of the
>> name of Mary Peters. This woman, doubtless, was the widow of Indian
>> Peter.
>>
>> Meanwhile, much travel centered at the Redstone Ferry. Here many
>> emigrants to the Western and Southwestern regions, after long and
>> wearied journeys over mountain roads and trails, could embark in
>> Kentucky or Orleans boats and float to their destinations, while
>> others who did not propose going so far crossed to the left bank of
>> the river, and with wagons wended their way to points in the
>> territory now known as Washington and Greene Counties and West
>> Virginia. The needs of a passable road, therefore, from the ferry to
>> the county-seat were urgent, and on the 1st day of January, 1782,
>> viewers were appointed by the Court of Quarter Sessions to lay out a
>> road from Bassett Town (now Washington) to Redstone Ferry.
>>
>> While these improvements were being made or contemplated, the county
>> of Washington was rapidly filling up with an energetic people, and
>> Redstone Old Fort, or Brownsville, becoming an active business
>> centre, it was not possible for the beautiful tract in the possession
>> of Indian Peter's widow to long remain unimproved, a bar to the
>> progressive spirit prevailing. Hence, during the spring of 1784, Neal
>> Gillespie (a native of Ireland, and great-grandfather of Hon. James
>> G. Blaine) purchased the Indian Hill property, as the following
>> curious instrument (recorded in Book B, vol. i. p. 406, county
>> recorder's office) indicates:
>>
>> "March ye 3, 1784.
>>
>> "Memorandum of a Bargain mead Between Marey Petters and William
>> oldest son and Neal Gillespey, the agrement is thos, that we the
>> above do bargain and seal to send Neal Geallespie the Tract of land
>> which we now poses and all the tenements and boundries of said Land
>> at forty five Shillings pr. Acker the tearm of Peaments the 15th of
>> next October fower hundred Pounds to be Paid in money or moneys worth
>> for this Peament two ton of Iron at teen pence Pr pound and one Negro
>> at Preasment of two men, one hundred pound more to be pead at the
>> same time of this Preasment or Else to Draw In trust for one Year,
>> the Remainder of the Purches money to be Pead in two Peaments—First
>> in the [year] 1786, the Next the year 1788, Each of these Peaments to
>> be mead in October 15th the above Bound marey Petters and william
>> Petters asserts to meak the said Neal Gillespee a proper Right for
>> said land for which he have seat our hands and Seals.
>>
>> (Signed)
>> her
>> "JOHN MA CORTNEY. "MAREY XII PETTERS.
>> mark."
>> "JOHN NIXON. his
>> "WILLIAM XIX PETTERS.
>> mark.
>>
>> "Acknowledged before THOMAS CROOKS Feb. 25, 1786."
>>
>> Continue to browse for more info on Thomas
>>
>>
>>
>>  Reference point of story below
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>>
>> Col. Thomas Crooks came into the Territory of West Bethlehem
>> Township, and on a Virginia certificate took up a tract of land on
>> Pigeon Creek, which was called "Richard's Valley." This property was
>> surveyed to Mr. Crooks Feb. 25, 1785. Col. Crooks was a man prominent
>> in all local and public affairs, and held many offices of importance
>> and trust. He died Feb. 25, 1815, aged eighty years, and his widow,
>> Mrs. Judith Parr Crooks, died April 30, 1823, at the age of eighty-
>> three years. The homestead upon which they lived and died is now
>> owned by Jacob Swagler. At the death of Col. Crooks the Reporter, of
>> Washington, published the following:
>>
>>                               "Richard's Valley, Feb. 25, 1815.
>>       "Died. -- This morning, at his place, in his old mansion, at
>> half-past five o'clock, that worthy old patriot, Thomas Crooks, of
>> West Bethlehem township, where he was among the first emigrants in
>> the western country, and was early on the stages of public business.
>> In the militia he was an officer of high rank at the beginning of the
>> Revolution, was alert in routing the savages to the westward, was a
>> zealous patriot throughout the Revolutionary war, and presided many
>> years as a justice of the peace. He was a very warm friend and an
>> implacable enemy. He bore a severe and lingering illness with
>> resigned patience."
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My great grandfather Andrew Allen was born in Tullynamullen  20 March 1830 and
married a Jane Allen b. 28 Feb 1834 also in Tullynamullen.  She must have died
before 1865 as Andrew married again, I think to a Martha Allen. Andrew was a
linen weaver and later also a draper.  His father, my gt.great grandfather was
James Allen born c.1802, who was an engineman.  Jane's father was John Allen,
another weaver.  I have been unable to find any death record for Jane Allen, or
either birth or death information for Martha Allen.  Any help in this direction
would be appreciated.
I am also interested to know more about the social conditions of cottage weavers
in the early to mid-19th century, and indeed anything about The Tullynamullen
district at that time. I believe that Andrew was the tennant of Robert Allen,
also of Tullynamullen.
Geoffrey Allen.

From: John Waugh

To: Mid-AntrimGenealogy@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 12:40 PM

Subject: Re: [Mid-AntrimGenealogy] Will/deeds etc [2 Attachments]

 

Hi Gordon

 

Perhaps these leaflets attached will help your friend.  They are from PRONI.

 

John

 

From: Gordon Crooks@verizon.net

Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 1:07 PM

To: Mid-AntrimGenealogy@yahoogroups.com

Subject: [Mid-AntrimGenealogy] Will/deeds etc

 

Liam: Maybe you can help me on this one. A friend is trying to trace wills and/or deeds in Antrim Co. back in the late 1600's and early 1700's. I say that any such records would be found in the Antrim County Court House or archives and would not have been effected by the Four Courts Fires. What do you think ?

 

                                       Gordon

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