Peaked Mountain Presbyterian Church, now called the Massanutten, of Cross Keys, the oldest of all the churches in Rocking- ham County. Mr. Hindman was a native of Londonderry, Chester County, Pa., and died in October, 1748. He is buried in the cemetery at Cross Keys. In the year 1747, he changed his

this spirit I have thought that you natives of old Lancaster county, with a full portion of this same modesty, may not be familiar with the influ- ence exerted by many of your heroic early citizens on the frontiers of our Province; how these brave men and women pushed out from old Lancaster, following

in the Shenandoah Valley, and this note is written to preserve their names and something of their history. John Hinton, a resident of Berks County, Pa., bought 400 acres of land from Jeremiah Harrison on Linville's Creek, now in Rockingham County, Va., on October 14, 1765. Deed Book 12, pp. 391-394