Selected Bibliography:

For information on Benjamin Custard and his family:

1)  Jean M White, "The Descendants of Paulus and Gertrud Kusters," 1991.

2)  Castor Association Of America, Inc, "Benjamin Castor (1741 - 1826) And Descendants," 1984.

3)  Joseph Parry, "The Lost County," 1962.

4)  Noah Thompson, "Early History of the Peter's Creek Valley and the First Settlers," 1973.

5)  Attorney TM Gealey, Abstract of Property of J Alvin Greenwald, 1939.

6)  Information gathered by the Genealogical Committee of the West Jefferson Hills Historical Society.

For information on early western Pennsylvania and Virginia frontier history:

1)  Leland Baldwin, "Pittsburgh, Story of a City 1750 - 1865," 1939.

2)  Solon and Elizabeth Buck, "The Planting of Civilization in Western Pennsylvania," 1939.

3)  Boyd Crumrine, "History of Washington County, PA,"  1882.

4)  Boyd Crumrine, "Old VA - PA Court Records in Pennsylvania 1775 - 1780,"  1902.

5)  Boyd Crumrine, "The County Court for the District of West Augusta, Virginia,"  1905.

6)  Clifford Dowdey, "The Golden Age, A Climate for Greatness, Virginia 1732 - 1775," 1970.

7)  Stevenson Whitcomb Fletcher, "Pennsylvania Agriculture & Country Life 1640 - 1840," 1971.

8)  J Lewis Peyton, "History of Augusta County, Virginia" 1882.

9)  James Veech, "The Monongahela of Old," 1858.

10)  John W Wayland, "The German Element in the Shenandoah Valley," 1907.

11)  John W Wayland, "Virginia Valley Records," 1930.

 

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