From Caldwell's Illustrated Historical Atlas of Adams County, Ohio
While this blog is focused on PA Pence lines, this is helpful to illustrate early migrations westward as early as 1796.
Re: Sprigg Township (prior to Sprigg being organized):
"Not far from the same time, but perhaps the next year -- 1796, a settlement was made on what is known as "Dutch Run," by a company of Germans who came in a colony and settled some three miles southwest of the present village of Bentonville, on the run that now bears the above name. The names of these colonists were John Bryan, Peter Pence, John Pence, and two lads named William and George Pence, Michael Roush, Philip Roush and George Cook."
A few pages later:
"...Michael Roush, together with Philip Bowman, Peter Pence and John Pence, removed from Pennsylvania at a very early day and settled about three miles west of Bentonville, in what has from that circumstance been since called "The Dutch Settlement."
The Atlas goes on to describe Michael Pence's life, death (drowning while crossing a river) and his children. What is useful is to note that while the previous note says he's from PA, he moved to Ohio from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where he'd married and raised his family by 1796. This migration path is pretty well trod and proven in Richard Pence's earlier research.
While this blog is focused on PA Pence lines, this is helpful to illustrate early migrations westward as early as 1796.
Re: Sprigg Township (prior to Sprigg being organized):
"Not far from the same time, but perhaps the next year -- 1796, a settlement was made on what is known as "Dutch Run," by a company of Germans who came in a colony and settled some three miles southwest of the present village of Bentonville, on the run that now bears the above name. The names of these colonists were John Bryan, Peter Pence, John Pence, and two lads named William and George Pence, Michael Roush, Philip Roush and George Cook."
A few pages later:
"...Michael Roush, together with Philip Bowman, Peter Pence and John Pence, removed from Pennsylvania at a very early day and settled about three miles west of Bentonville, in what has from that circumstance been since called "The Dutch Settlement."
The Atlas goes on to describe Michael Pence's life, death (drowning while crossing a river) and his children. What is useful is to note that while the previous note says he's from PA, he moved to Ohio from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, where he'd married and raised his family by 1796. This migration path is pretty well trod and proven in Richard Pence's earlier research.
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