in the Neighbourhood."

[33] J. E. Wright and Doris S. Corbett, _Pioneer Life in Western
Pennsylvania_ (Pittsburgh, 1940), p. 74.

[34] Arthur W. Calhoun, _A Social History of the American Family_ (New
York, 1960), I, 202.

[35] Wright and Corbett, _Pioneer Life in Western Pennsylvania_, pp.
86-92.

[36] _Pennsylvania Archives_, Third Series, XIX, 405-805.

[37] "Mr. Davy's Diary," p. 265.

[38] _Ibid._

[39] _Ibid._, pp. 263-264.

[40] _Ibid._, p. 264.

[41] _Ibid._, p. 263.

[42] One student of the commerce of the Susquehanna Valley made sweeping
generalizations about its significance which can hardly be
substantiated. _See_ Morris K. Turner, _The Commercial Relations of the
Susquehanna Valley During the Colonial Period_ (Ph.D. Thesis, University
of Pennsylvania, 1916). This dissertation, although claiming to deal
with the Susquehanna Valley, never gets much beyond Harrisburg and
seldom reaches as far north as Fort Augusta. Its accounts of roads,
navigation improvements, and trade fail to reach the Fair Play settlers.
This lends further support to their independent and self-sufficient
existence. Turner's concluding paragraph is, however, a gem of economic
determinism and bears repeating in full. Found on page 100, it reads as
follows:

"If then, the commercial relations of the Susquehanna Valley were so far
reaching affecting as they did in the pre-Revolutionary period the
attitude of the people on all the questions, practically, of the day it
is only fair to say that it was these relations which promoted the
Revolution in the Province and drove the old government out of
existence. The political issues were aided and abetted, yes, were
created, were born from the womb of the neglected commercial relations
of the Province and no other section at the time had such extensive
relations as the Susquehanna Valley. No other conclusion can be reached
after a serious study of the history of the period."

[43] Leyburn, _The Scotch-Irish_, p. 150.

CHAPTER FIVE

_Fair Play Society_

The society of the Fair Play territory, between the year 1769 and 1784,
was indeed simple. There were no towns or population clusters, either in
the territory or within a range of some thirty-five or forty miles.
Furthermore, as we have already noted, transportation and communication
facilities were so limited as to make contact with the "outside world"
an exception rather than the rule. As we have also seen, economic
f