I'm not familiar with any recent studies.

While working on a bio of John Rhodes, I found some information in  
Moravian journals and Mennonite archives.
You might find the book Old Homes of Page County, Virginia, helpful.  
It has lots of photos of the old homes and some of the family  
artifacts from them  as well as information about the families. There  
is also a History of Mennonites in Virginia 1727-1900 by Anthony Brunk.

The old books  Massanutten and Forerunners by Harry M. Strickler  
might provide some interesting background.

Those books make me think once again of "The Miley Notes," about 100  
pages of notes taken by Martin F. Miley in interviews with the old  
settlers of the Valley and referenced in some of the early local  
histories. I have cause to believe that at least one copy is still in  
possession of his descendants but have never been able to locate a  
complete copy or identify a precise person or archive with a copy.  
anyone with a clue about these Notes?

Mary
Mary Moyars-Johnson  (MMJ)




On Feb 19, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Eric Johnson wrote:

> Hi, all--
>
> Question for you: has anybody done much analysis of the political  
> and social history of the settlements in and around the Massanutten  
> area of the Shenandoah Valley in the early to mid eighteenth  
> century?  I've seen a couple of articles that touch on related  
> material:
>
> are fairly broad and/or dated.  Has anybody recently teased out  
> more information about the history of the Massanutten settlement?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Eric
>
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