Individual Details

Granted Gov't Land in now Garrett Co, MD
May have lived to be 108 years
Military Lots for Revolutionary War Soldiers, Allegany County Maryland
Sources:
Cumberland Times, 9/8/1908, p 9.
Cumberland Times, 9/15/1910, p 3.
Federal Census 1800 of Allegany County MD.
Paugh, Johannes45 - Glades
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In the Book Western Maryland History • History of Western Maryland Including Biographical Sketches 1968 Vol. 2 • Early Settlements and Education. Johnannes is listed as "Settlers located in 1788 upon the lands in Maryland west of Fort Cumberland.
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From Deakins' Survey 1788
List of families who settled on lots included in the survey
before the lands were set aside as military lots

Record of the Settlers entitled to preemption’s on the reserved land westward of Fort Cumberland in Washington County containing the numbers and valuation of their lot as determined by the Commissioners arguably to an act of the General Assembly passed November, 1788. Act also directs that a preference should be Given to those settlers to purchase 636 lots by them respectively settled , to be discharged in three equal annual payments in the years 1789, 1890 and 1791: in default of any payment the land should be liable to proclamation by any citizen of Maryland.

Commissioners.

David Lynn
Dan Cresap
Benjamin Brookes


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From "History of Western Maryland" p 1344:

The General Assembly in 1777, as is shown elsewhere, enacted that a bounty of fifty acres should be granted to every able-bodied recruit who should serve three years in the American army, and one hundred acres to each recruiting officer who enlisted twenty men. By the act of 1781 these lands were to be located in the State west of Fort Cumberland. By the act of 1787, Francis Deakins was appointed to survey these lands, and his report showed that forty-one hundred and sixty-five lots of fifty acres each had been laid off, and that three hundred and twenty-three families were settled on six hundred and thirty-six of said lots already improved and cultivated. By the act of 1788 these settlers were allowed to purchase their lots at prices varying from five to twenty shillings per acre, in three equal payments of one, two, and three years. By subsequent acts the Maryland officers and soldiers were secured in the lots to which they were entitled for military services.
The following is from the Maryland Journal of Friday, July 3, 1789

" Notice is hereby given to the officers and soldiers of the Maryland Line, that a distribution of land will be made to them at Upper Marlborough, in Prince George's County, on the let and 2d of August next, agreeably to an act of Assembly, and at the same time and place will be offered at public sale about one thousand lots of land, of fifty acres each, for ready money, or specie certificates of the State of Maryland. This land lies to the westward of Fort Cumberland. For a particular description thereof, apply to Capt. Daniel Cresap or Mr. John Tomlinson, who lives near the same.

" David Linn,

" Daniel Cresap,

" Benjamin Brookes,

"Commissioners."
Name Valuation /Each Lot #s
Michael Paugh 5 / " 268-270-71
Johannes Paugh 5 / " 261-62
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Our Ancestors Paugh & Hardesty
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Birth	1755	Olster Co., NY
Death	1860	Deer Park Cem., Deer Park, Md.

Father	Jacob Paugh (1730 - )
Mother	Living
Sibling	Nicholas Paugh (1747 - )
Sibling	Michael Paugh (1750 - )