Early History of Vigo County
I am hopeful of finding someone with a love of Indiana history who might be able to help me in my search for my Shaw great-grandparents, both born in Indiana, he at least at Terre Haute, and according to census records their parents were also born in Indiana.That is what I find amazing.Upon reading of the early days in Indiana, Vigo County was the wilderness until shortly before 1820, and my great-grandfather was born about 1824 there, and both he and my great-grandmother stated on census records thattheir parents were also born in Indiana.Could that be, and if so, would someone please make an educated guess about from where such early settlers might have migrated,
and where in Indiana my gr-grandparents' parents might have been born?Was anything much settled before 1800?Or could it be that the Shaws were at one of the early military forts?After years of searching for something about my great-grandparents, William Franklin Shaw and Phoebe, either Burns or Taylor, who eloped and were married in Terre Haute in 1845, went West with a Quaker traveling by wagon and oxen as far as Burlington, Des Moines County, Iowa, and after a few years settled in Clark County, Missouri.I am thinking I might find some clues if I knew from where the early Vigo Countians likely migrated, and if he was a Scot Shaw, from where did most of the Scots disembark from ships and were there communities of them in Indiana as there was in Carolina?
Thank you.
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Re: Early History of Vigo County
Deb Wils 12/13/08
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Re: Early History of Vigo County
Tamie Dehler 10/18/08