Penn Township in Kansas

Editorial Note. This list of Kansas emigrants from Penn Township, Cumberland County, was made by Dr. S.M. Whistler. It was printed in Carlisle Herald, April 4, 1878, and reprinted the next day in the Carlisle Mirror; from which it is reprinted here.

PENN TOWNSHIP COLONY

The following list of names embraces, with few exceptions, heads of families of the Penn Township Colony, which left Cumberland Valley for settlement in Kansas, on the 2nd inst. The colony embraces some 400 heads

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