On this day, 25 July 1848, Josiah Good passed away in Sharpsburg, Maryland. He was my 5th great-grandfather.
Circa 1740, Josiah Good’s uncle, Joseph Chapline, was the first to settle in the area,. In 1763, at the end of the French and Indian War, Joseph Chapline laid out the first town in Washington County, naming it Sharps Burgh, in honor of his friend Horatio Sharpe, the proprietary governor of the Province of Maryland. The early residents of Sharps Burgh in the 1760s were primarily of English, German, or Swiss ethnicity. Many local farmers grew wheat.