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- SOURCE - SPARKS QUARTERLY: Titled - LIFE AND FAMILY OF DANIEL SPARKS(1763-ca.1820), continued: #163, Sep. 1993, p. 4152 - Excerpts:Para. 2, "In fact, when a Samuel Ketchum died in 1778 in southwesternPennsylvania, an area then claimed by Virginia and organized asYohogania County in 1776, Daniel Spark's father, Richard Sparks, Sr.,had been one of four men ordered to take an inventory of Ketchum'sestate. The Yohogania County Court's minute book for 1776 to 1780survives, and at a meeting of this court on August 24, 1778, it was"Ordered that Andrew Pearce, Rich'd Johnston, James Wall, and Rich'dSparks, or any three of them being first Sworn, do appraise the Estateof Samuel Ketchum, dec'd. and make return to next Court." Theadministration of Samuel Ketchum's estate was granted to his widow,Elizabeth Ketchum, and to his brother, William Ketchum. See pp.248-49 of Records of the District of West Augusta, Ohio County, andYohogania County, Virginia, published by Ohio State University, 1970.William Ketchum was still living near Richard Sparks in AlleghanyCounty, Pennsylvania, when the 1790 census was taken."
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