Donegal
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Washington County was founded in 1781 from Westmoreland. Counties formed from Washington include Allegheny, Beaver, Greene.
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Information from Donegal Twp; History of Washington County, Pennsylvania. DONEGAL was one of the thirteen original townships of Washington County laid out in 1781. Its territory then embraced what is now included in the townships of Donegal, Buffalo, East and West Finley, and the western portion of Greene County. The first reduction of the large area of this township was made by the erection of Finley township from it, in 1788, as mentioned in the history of East Finley. Five years later (1793) the petition of John Hill, Martin Horn, Nathaniel McDole, David McMillan, John Buchanan, and fifty-five others, inhabitants of the township of Donegal, was presented to the Court of Quarter Sessions at the June term of the year named, representing that the inhabitants of the eastern part of the township were laboring under great difficulties in transacting business before the justices "at unreasonable distances from home, as also in being obliged to repair roads at extreme distances, with divers other inconveniences occasioned by the great extent of the township," and praying that the court divide the township and erect from a part of it a new township, to be called New German township, with boundaries as follows: "Beginning at the forks of the run near Richard Waller's, thence by a straight line to Buffelow Creek at Capt. Glover's, thence up the creek to Canton or Hopewell Line, thence by Canton township line to the Widdow Dickerson's, inclusive, thence strait by the Ridge Dividing the waters of Wheelen and Buffalow untill south of Thomas Byers', thence by a straight Line to the place of Beginning." |
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Wheeling Register Wheeling, WV; GenealogyBank |
7/1/1874 - 12/31/1897 ~12 miles |
Steubenville Herald Steubenville, OH; GenealogyBank |
11/5/1812 - 6/23/1827 ~19 miles |
Belmont Chronicle Saint Clairsville, OH; Chronicling America (US Library of Congress) |
2/1/1855 - 12/12/1895 ~21 miles |
Belmont Chronicle, And Farmers, Mechanics And Manufacturers Advocate, The Saint Clairsville, OH; Chronicling America (US Library of Congress) |
1/7/1853 - 1/19/1855 ~21 miles |
Impartial Expositor Saint Clairsville, OH; GenealogyBank |
3/25/1809 - 3/25/1809 ~21 miles |
Ohio Federalist Saint Clairsville, OH; GenealogyBank |
8/15/1816 - 12/11/1817 ~21 miles |
Greene County Republican, The Waynesburg, PA; Chronicling America (US Library of Congress) |
8/11/1863 - 7/3/1867 ~23 miles |
Waynesburg Republican, The Waynesburg, PA; Chronicling America (US Library of Congress) |
7/24/1867 - 4/14/1869 ~23 miles |