{"id":833,"date":"2016-07-23T16:20:30","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T22:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/?p=833"},"modified":"2016-07-25T07:42:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T13:42:32","slug":"call-of-the-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/2016\/07\/23\/call-of-the-wild\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of the Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-842\" src=\"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/newspaper.gif\" alt=\"newspaper\" width=\"60\" height=\"40\" \/>What motivated my fourth great-grandparents <a href=\"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/tree\/groups\/public\/grp00048.html\" target=\"_blank\">John and Margaret (McFarland) Stewart<\/a> to settle in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania near the end of the Revolutionary War?\u00a0 There may be a very simple explanation:\u00a0 They saw a newspaper ad.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_834\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-834\" style=\"width: 503px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/001598.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-834\" src=\"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/001598.jpg\" alt=\"The Freeman's Journal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania February 13, 1788\" width=\"503\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/001598.jpg 503w, https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/001598-84x150.jpg 84w, https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-content\/uploads\/001598-168x300.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 85vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Freeman&#8217;s Journal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania<br \/>February 13, 1788, Page 3, Column 3<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Stewarts settled in what was then Wheatfield township, Westmoreland County.\u00a0 Today it is Buffington Township in Indiana County, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 Their land was located at the headwaters of Bracken&#8217;s Run, about 4 miles north of Bracken&#8217;s Mill.\u00a0 (I give the details of its location in an <a href=\"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm\/2013\/04\/02\/pinpointing-the-stewart-homestead\/\" target=\"_blank\">earlier post<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The advertisement above appeared in Philadelphia and describes land very near the Stewart homestead in western Pennsylvania.\u00a0 John Stewart acquired his land via a patent from the Commonwealth.\u00a0 It is unclear how this relates to land sold by public auction in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>The lure of large tracts of land in the wilderness was enticing to early settlers.\u00a0 Perhaps it was a similar advertisement that brought my ancestors westward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What motivated my fourth great-grandparents John and Margaret (McFarland) Stewart to settle in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania near the end of the Revolutionary War?\u00a0 There may be a very simple explanation:\u00a0 They saw a newspaper ad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,50,77],"tags":[103,34,113],"class_list":["post-833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-life-and-times","category-pennsylvania","category-surname-stewart","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-stewart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}