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By: Oren F. Morton, Pub. 1910, reprinted 2025, 494 pages, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-665-9. Pendleton County was created in 1788 from Augusta, Hardy and Rockingham Counties, Virginia. The county lies in the northern section of the state across from Augusta, Highland and Rockingham counties Virginia. Early immigrants were Germans and Scotch-Irish in search of new lands heading south from Pennsylvania and west from Virginia. This book is similar to of county history books of the era, with topics on: formation of county, general history of the county, Indians, slavery, religion, assorted land records, list of 1790 tithable, military records of Militia-Revolutionary War-French and Indian War-Civil War and other items of genealogical use. But the family historian will delight in the considerable amount of family histories that the author has included. Morton traces approximately 184 Pendleton County pioneer and sub-pioneer ancestor for several generations in a perfectly fluid progression.

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