Peter Pugh Biography Hancock County, WV ********************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ********************************************************************** Submitted by Dale Patterson Copied from " History of the Panhandle, being Historical Collections of the Counties of Ohio, Brooke, Marshall and Hancock, West Virginia". Compiled and Written by: J.H. Newton, G.G. Nichols, and A.G. Sprankle Published by: J.A. Caldwell, 1879, Wheeling, W. VA. Biographical Sketches of Hancock County: Peter Pugh: father of David Pugh, was born in New Jersey and migrated with his parents to Burgettstown, Pa., in 1785. About the year 1800 they came to what is now known as Fairview, and located on a tract of land containing four hundred acres. Peter remained with his father a short time and then removed to Ohio, and he sunk the first salt well on Yellow Creek, in which they obtained salt. Whilst there, he entered two or three quarters of land, which he soon afterwards disposed of. He was at that time engaged in sinking salt wells. He returned to Fairview about 1810 and settled on his father's farm, where he staid but a few years, then emigrated east and went to sinking salt wells. In 1818 came back to Fairview and located on the old Pugh farm, where he remained about two years and settled on the farm now owned by his son David, living there until his death, which sad event took place in 1850, at the advanced age of eighty years.