Martin Bougher ¹

   Another name for Martin was Martin Bucher.

  General Notes:

Birth is an estimate, not based on findings.

  Noted events in his life were:

1. Property on 19 Apr 1737. ¹ The Blunston License Book

Settlers commenced taking up lands west of the Susquehanna in about 1721. The first squatters were removed from these lands in 1721, by order of the proprietary government. The lands could not be patented by survey and warrant, as they had not been purchased from the Indians, who complained because of the settlers occupying them. Owing to the owing to the occupation of the lands along the southern boundary by the settlers from Maryland, who were constantly coming into contact with the Pennsylvania settlers on both sides of the Susquehanna, and to prevent the Maryland settlers from filling up all of the lands along the southern boundary of the Cumberland Valley, the Penns authorized Samuel Blunston as their agent to grant temporary licenses to take up lands west of the Susquehanna until the should be purchased from the Indians, when warrants would be issued. This was done after the purchase of 1736 had been completed.

The Blunston License book is of much historical value, as it contains the names of the earliest settlers in the Cumberland Valley, and also in York and Adams Counties, who received legal warrants for the lands which they occupied. It also contains the earliest recorded place names related to the territory west of the Susquehanna.

On page 23 of the Blunston license book:

1737
April 19th, Martin Bougher & Oswald Hoesteter, 500 acres. At a place called The Three Springs a Branch of Conegochege to Joyn on the South Side of Thomas Browns tract.

Jonathan's notes:
The Conegochege is defined in in the Columbia Gazeteer of North America as follows:

Conococheague Creek (KAH-no-KAH-cheek), c.80 mi/129 km long; rises at Franklin-Adams co. border, S Pa., flows W past Fayetteville and Chambersburg and S, through Cumberland Valley to W of Greencastle, Pa., and Hagerstown, Md., to the Potomac R. at Williamsport, Md; 39°58'N 77°24'W. West Branch rises in N Franklin co., Pa., flows c.45 mi/72 km generally S past Mercersburg, enters main stream 3 mi/4.8 km N of the Md. state line.