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- From "The Andrew Zumwalt Family Outline of the First Four Generations," Vol. One, by Paul L. Reed, Colusa (CA) Library:
"The Andrew Zumwalt family settled in Pennsylvania in 1737 only one year after the William Penn family and the Indians signed a treaty in 1736. The properietors took title to land west of the Sussquehanna River, where the town of York was laid out in 1741, and York County was separated from
Lancaster County in 1749."
"All seven sons of Andrew Zumwalt lived in Virginia during the Revolutionary War - service records of four of the five sons of Ann Regina have been documented. All seven sons went west to Kentucky at the close of the Revolution. George was the only son to remain in Kentucky. Henry, the eldest son and all five of the sons of Ann Regina went across the Mississippi River into Spanish Upper Louisiana - later Missouri Territory - in the decade from 1796 to 1806."
"A last relic of the family still remains in St. Charles County to remind the present generation of its heritage. Near O'Fallon south of US highway 40 a few miles west of St. Louis, stands what is left of Fort Zumwalt, the last of the many forts used by our forefathers to protect their families from attack during the Wat of 1812. Before the fort was built, the Zumwalts discussed its site with their good friend, Daniel Boone. During the War of 1812 as many as ten families were known to have been sheltered at Ft. Zumwalt. The first Methodist sacrament in Missouri was administered in this house, by Rev. Jesse Walker, in 1807. The wine was made by Mrs. Zumwalt from the juice of polk berries, sweetened with maple sugar. The great Black Hawk made his home at the Zumwalt's for sometime, and was a regular and frequent visitor until after the commencement of hostilities between whites and the Indians (during the war of 1812). On another ocassion, another Indian Chief died at the Fort and was buired with a loaf of bread in one hand and a butcher's knife in the other. Andrew died late 1764. His will was dated 20 October 1764; the estate was probated on 6 March 1765 in Frederick Co., Va.
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