' range from 200 to 13,000. Only six of thirty residents
showed property in excess of 325 acres and four of these had 550 acres
or less. The two large landowners were peripheral Fair Play residents.
Subsequent tax lists indicate that non-residents eventually sold their
property in sections.

[5] Leyburn, _The Scotch-Irish_, p. 262.

[6] _Fithian: Journal_ (1775) and _Journal of William Colbert_
(1792-1794). These journals of the first regularly assigned itinerant
pastors, Presbyterian and Methodist, to the West Branch Valley, contain
numerous references concerning the personal character and morality of
the settlers. In the Hamilton Papers of the Wagner Collection of
Revolutionary War pension claimants, p. 11, Mrs. Hamilton writes to the
Honorable George C. Whiting, Commissioner of Pensions, on Dec. 16, 1858:
"I believe they were people of clear sound mind, just, upright, morrall,
religious, and friendly to all. I should say they came nearest to
keeping the commandment, love your nabour as yourself, then any people I
ever lived among."

[7] Leyburn, _The Scotch-Irish_, p. 269.

[8] Helen Herritt Russell, "The Documented Story of the Fair Play Men
and Their Government," _The Northumberland County Historical Society
Proceedings and Addresses_, XXII (1958), 16-43. Mrs. Russell, whose
genealogical studies were the basis of Chart 1 in Chapter Two, notes 24
marriages among the 80 names, 9 of which were intermarriages of
different national stocks. Of the 24 marriages, 9 were between
Scotch-Irish couples. Intermarriages produced 5 English-Scotch-Irish
couples, 2 German-Scotch-Irish, 1 Welsh-Scotch-Irish, and 1
German-English. The intermarriages appear to follow the national stock
percentages in the population. This would suggest that the
intermarriages were a matter of choice rather than of necessity.

[9] Dunaway, _The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania_, p. 198.

[10] _Journal of William Colbert_ (1792-1794). This entry for Thursday,
Sept. 5, 1793, is from a typescript belonging to Dr. Charles F.
Berkheimer, of Williamsport. The original is in Chicago at the Garrett
Biblical Seminary.

[11] Here again, Fithian, Colbert, and Mr. Davy all mention the friendly
reception which was theirs on this frontier. Davy, in an entry for Oct.
10, 1794, p. 265, says, "In the Winter Sleighs are in general use on the
Rivers & on Land & it is time of Visiting & Jollity throughout the
Country."

[12] _Journal of William Colbert_, Tue