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Stephen Murry and Job, sons of Capt. Abel Thayer, migrated from
Williamsburg, MA. In Dec. 1818 they wer bound for the Kanawha Valley in
western Virginia. The family traveled with ow-carts, laden with women
and children, farm implements and household furniture. Passing thru
Litchfield, Conn. the emigrants crossed the Hudson at Newburg, across New
Jersey and the Delvareriver at Easton. In PA theypassed thru Reading,
Carlise, Harrisburg, and Hippensburg; thence into Maryland Cresaptown,
Wasternport.
The Yough Glades were reached over the old State Road on Washington's
birthday, 1819, and that night was spent at the home of Capt. George
Calmes two miles east of the present town of Oakland. Next day the party
pushed on toward Virginia, stopping over night at George Rinehart's at
Sunnyside. At that time this part of Alleghany Co. was very sparsely
inhabited and Rinehart, and old settler, was anxiousto have more good
neighbors, so he induced Stephen Thayer to settle in MD, assisting him to
rent the Calmes farm for a year.
Thayer then patented two military lots under the name of "Dairy Farm"
This farm is now known as the Abraham Spiker place, on the Gortner road
about two and a half miles south of Oakland. Lewis Thompson, an expert
smith, and member of the Thayer party, alsosettled nearby at the foot of
Thompson's Hill.
Goetz
Krueger
