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Horseshoe Bottom Presbyterian Church later became the First Presbyterian Church of Monongahela City.
From Mon Valley Town & Township History:
HORSESHOEBOTTOM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.  Rev. Dr. Samuel Ralston, D. D., received a call from this and Mingo Creek congregations in November, 1796, which he accepted and was therefore ordained. In the latter church be labored forty years, [...]

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All  maps from Wikipedia
These might help explain how John Hinman/Hineman could have been living in Ohio or Pennsylvania and still considered a Connecticut man.

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Notes for research:
QUESTION: How did DAR etc. connect the John HINMAN from the war with OUR John HINEMAN? There are lots of HINMANs in VT during the early years, but they seem to be, for the most part, consistently HINMAN, not HINEMAN.
From Aaron:
On ancestry.com “The Official roster of the soldiers of the American Revolution [...]

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George Madison Hineman, son of James K. Hineman and Mary Adaline Davison:
Mr. and Mrs. George Hineman, a bride and groom of recent date, will, we are informed, leave Tryonville this week and take up housekeeping near Black Ash. We had been in hopes that Mr. Hineman could have seen his way clear to have remained [...]

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Company F, 74th P.V. Infantry.
Editor Indiana County Gazette.
MY DEAR SIR — Having recently enjoyed reading the account of the recent reunion of the soldiers of Indiana county, as published in your wide-awake and ably-conducted journal, but not seeing any mention of Company F, Seventy-fourth P.V. Infantry, a company that was recruited in your town in [...]

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I saw this new deal posted on another blog:
NewspaperARCHIVE.com has just added a FREE membership program that allows users to access up to three newspaper pages per day without spending any money at all! If you were to search every day, that’s about 90 pages per month! Of course, the hope is that users will [...]

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