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Gc 974. 801 W36m Mathews, Alfred History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe Counties, Pa.
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HISTORY
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OF
WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE
COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA.
BY ALFRED MATHEWS.
ILLUSTRATED.
PHILADELPHIA: R. T. PECK & CO. 1886.
Allen County Public Library 900 Webster Street PO Box 2270 Fort Wayne, IN 46801-2270
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CONTENTS.
GENERAL HISTORY.
CHAPTER I.
The Aboriginal Inhabitants-The Delawares or Minsis-Their Chiefs-Indian Nomenclature
CHAPTER II.
Settlement of the Lower Minisink by the Dutch . 8-23
CHAPTER III.
Release of Title by the Indians-The "Walking Purchase " of 1737-Later Treaties. . 23-33
CHAPTER IV.
The Indian War, 1755-1763-Benjamin Franklin Plans the Frontier Defense-Forts Norris, Hamilton, Hyndshaw and Depui
PAGE 1-8
33-53
1243333
CHAPTER V.
PAGE
Connecticut Meu Settle on the Upper Delaware-Cushutunk, Wyoming and Wallenpaupack, or "Lackawack " Settle- ments-The "Pennamite War". 53-71
CHAPTER VI.
Period of the Revolution and Second Indian War-Soldiers from Upper Northampton- Fort Penn, at Stroudsburg- Massacre at Wyoming-"Shades of Death "-Sullivan's March-Battles of the Lackawaxen and Raymondskill- Indian Incursions and Murders from Cushutunk to Smith- field . 71-98
CHAPTER VII.
End of the Pennamite War -- Northampton County at the Close of the Century-Land System-First Effort for Erection of a New County 98-109
WAYNE COUNTY.
CHAPTER I.
Civil History-Erection from Northampton-County-Seat Re- movals-The Celebrated Court-House War-County Offi- cials, 1798-1885 . 110-139
CHAPTER [I. 1
The Bench and Bar of Wayne County-A General Sketch, with Biographies 139-192
CHAPTER III.
Medical History-Sketches of Prominent Physicians-Early Practice-Dentistry 192-221
CHAPTER IV.
Internal Improvements-The First Roads in the County- Turnpikes-Post-Offices and Mail Routes-The Delaware and Hudson Canal Company-The "Gravity " Railroad- First Locomotive in America-The Pennsylvania Coal Company-Outline History of the Erie Railroad and "Jefferson " Branch
221-257
CHAPTER V.
Agricultural Societies-The Farmers' Institute
257-274
CHAPTER VI.
Educational Matters in General -- The Law of 1834-Teachers' Institutes-Couuty Superintendents. 274-280
CHAPTER VII.
War of the Rebellion-Wayue County Troops-Incidents of a
Local Nature .
280-325
CHAPTER VIII.
Leading and Characteristic Industries-The Tanning Iuterest -Lumbering-The First Raft sent down the Delaware -Bee-Keeping. 325-330
CHAPTER IX.
Description-Topography- Geological Notes-Soils-Streams, Lakes and Fish .
1
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CONTENTS.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XXIV.
PAGE
The Borough of Honesdale.
336-443
Oregon Township .
667-680
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XXV.
Damascus Township
443-489
Palmyra Township
680-684
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XXVI.
The Borough of Bethany.
489-511
The Borough of Hawley.
684-701
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XXVII.
Borlin Township.
511-517
Paupack Township
701-707
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Buckingham
517-531
Preston Township .
707-718
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XXIX.
Equinunk.
531-541
Starrucca
718-736
CHAPTER XXX.
Canaan and the Boroughs of Waymart and Prontpton .
541-558
Scott Township
736-746
CHAPTER XXXI.
South Canaan Township
558-566
Salem. .
746-778
CHAPTER XXXII.
Cherry Ridge Township .
566-576
Lake Township
778-790
CHAPTER XIX.
Clinton
576-594
CHAPTER XXXIII.
CHAPTER XX.
Dyberry Township.
594-615
CHAPTER XXI.
Lehigh Township
802-804
Lebanon Township .
615-629
CHAPTER XXXV.
CHAPTER XXII.
Dreher 804-810
Manchester
629-637
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Mount Pleasant
637-667
Texas Township
810-829
PIKE COUNTY.
CHAPTER I.
Civil History-Taxables in 1814-Erection of the County- Public Buildings-Effort to Remove Seat of Justice to Blooming Grove-Lists of County Officials . . 830-840
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER IV.
›nd Bar-Biographical Sketches
840-846
CHAPTER III.
Military-Soldiers in the War of 1812 and War of the Rebel- lion. . 846-851
Railroads-Efforts to Construct them-Advantages offered . .
851-854
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
Sterling Township
790-802
CHAPTER XXXIV.
CHAPTER XXIII.
PAGE
vii
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER XI.
Borough of Milford
Lackawaxen Township .
954-967
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER XII.
Westfall Township.
898-904
Shohola Township.
967-974
. Dingman Township
905-907
Blooming Grove
974-976
Delaware Township
907-926
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER IX.
Porter Township
976-977
Lehman Township.
926~944
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XV.
Palmyra Township
944-954
Greene Township
977-981
MONROE COUNTY.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER XIII.
Erection of the County-County-seat Contest-Civil List. . .
982-989
Hamilton Township
1203-1218
CHAPTER XIV.
The Bench and Bar-The Old and New Bar-Biographical
Sketches
989-1001
Chestnuthill Township.
1218-1224
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER III.
Medicine and Physicians-Personal Sketches-Dental Surgery 1001-1015
CHAPTER IV.
Eldred Township ..
1229-1233
Education in Monroe County.
1015-1017
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER V.
Polk Township .
1233-1238
History of the Rebellion
1017-1031
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER VI.
Jackson Township.
1238-1243
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER VII.
Topography and Geology.
1034-1047
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER XX.
Smithfield Township
1047-1105
Price Township
1249-1253
CHAPTER XXI.
Middle Smithfield Township .
1105-1121
Paradise Township.
1253-1263
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XXII.
Stroud Township.
1121-1141
Barrett Township
1263-1269
CHAPTER XI.
The Borough of Stroudsburg.
1141-1188
CHAPTER XXIII.
Coolbaugh, Tobyhanna and Tunkhannock
1269-1278
CHAPTER XII.
East Stroudsburg Borough .
1188-1203
Index. 1279-1283
CHAPTER II.
Ross Township
1224-1229
CHAPTER XVI.
Railroads
1081-1034
Pocono Township
1243-1249
CHAPTER IX.
PAGE
854-898
PAGE
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER VIII.
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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Abraham, George, Portrait of. 485
Dimmick, W. H., Portrait of 170
Adams, Geo. L., Portrait of 1191
Dinginan, A. C., Portrait of. 213
Alberty, W. N., Portrait of. 604
Doherty, J. J., Portrait of. 412
Allen, David, Portrait of. 741
Dorflinger, Christian, Portrait of. 823
Ames, H. C., Portrait of.
554
Douglass, G. H., Portrait of 624
Ames, Jacob S., Portrait of.
698
Douglass, Robbins, Portrait of. 623
Appley Monument. 431
Dunning, J. H., Portrait of. 441
Armstrong, Thomas, Portrait of. 897
Dusinberre, C. A., Portrait of. 209
Avery, Dr. Otis, Portrait of
219
Early, Hallock, Portrait of. 743
Baker, George E., Portrait of 614
Eldred, N. B., Portrait of 157
Barker, Levi, Portrait of.
69G
Faatz, Charles, Portrait of. 611
829
Beach, J. Howard, Portrait of 478 Fitch, J. B., Portrait of.
251
Bell, T. A., Portrait of. 1165
Foulke, Chas. M., Portrait of
1124
Boyd, Thomas Y., Portrait of 480
Fulmer, Philip F., Portrait of
924
Brady, R. W., M.D., Portrait of. 214
Goodrich, P. G., Portrait of. 755
Brodhead, L. W., Portrait of. 1056
Grambs, Lorenzo, Portrait of. 369
Brodhead, Chas. D., Portrait of 1161
Greene, Giles, Portrait of. 788
Brodhead, Thomas, Portrait of. 1104
Greenwald, A. O., Portrait of. 1172
Greiner, Henry, Portrait of. 593
Bross, William, Portrait of. 887
Bunnell, Henry, Portrait of.
826
llackett, C. S., Portrait of. 745
Bunnell, J. K., Portrait of.
827
Haines, Benj. F., Portrait of 39
Bunnell, Z. M. P., Portrait of. 605
Ham, Thos. J., Portrait of. 382
Burcher, John, Portrait of.
486
Burns, Reed, Portrait of.
216
Hamlin, E. W., Portrait of.
509
Butler, Albert, Portrait of.
613
Hamulin, William E., Portrait of
797
Buslı, P. M., Portrait of.
1004
Bush, Lewis, Portrait of. 1005
Harmes, Rudolph, Portrait of.
207
Hartwell, William, Portrait of.
479
Hoadley, John R., Portrait of
574
Holbert, J. G., Portrait of. 636
Hulbert, William, Portrait of. 962
Hollinshead, S. S., Autograph of.
1157
Hollinshead, Mrs. Jeannette, Portrait of. 1158
Church, The First Presbyterian, of Honesdale 401 Holmes, S., Portrait of. 998
Church, The Old Stone. 1094
Clark, Perry A., Portrait of 575
Cliff, George E., Portrait of. 802
Cobb, C. S., Portrait of. 775
Cole, P. J., Portrait of. 367
Collins, Lucius, Portrait of. 572
Conklin, John, Portrait of. 516
Coolbaugh, A .V., Portrait of. 1108
Coons, Sidney, Portrait of. 329
Conrt-House, Pike County. 836
Court-llouse, Wayne County 126
Davis, William, Portrait of. 995
Kenner, David, Portrait of. 442
Kimble, George W., Portrait of 677
De Puy, Robt. R., Portrait of. 1159
Kilgour Blue Stone Co., Works of 970
Dillon, G. R., Portrait of. 529
Kilgour, John F., Portrait of 969
Dimmick, Samuel E., Portrait of. 175 | King, R. K., Portrait of 735
Indian Costumes
25
Indian Relics 42
Irvine, Charles, Portrait of. 477
Jackson, Jno., Portrait of 482
Jadwin, C. C., Portrait of. 437
Justin, Jehiel, Portrait of. 627
Keen, J. L., Portrait of. 556
Kelly, S. A., Portrait of. 217
Day, Lewis, Portrait of. 610
Houck, Nathan, Portrait of. 981
Hurd, F. Wilson, Portrait of. 1102
Hutchinson, M. L., Portrait of 1202
Case, Orson, Portrait of. 591 Church, Grace Episcopal, of Honesdale, 405 Church, Methodist Episcopal, of Honesdale 406
Church, Methodist Episcopal, of Stroudsburg. 1-177
Church, Presbyterian, of Stroudsburg 1178
Church, St. John's Roman Catholic, of Honesdale 408
Hamlin, Butler, Portrait of. 772
Harines, Rodney, Portrait of.
204
Barry, Simon, Portrait of
1130
Ferguson, W. L., Portrait of.
Brooks, Ezra, Portrait of. 608
Gunn, J. C., Portrait of .. 365
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Kistler, Chas. E., Portrait of. 1209 Kistler, M. M., Portrait of. 1029
Rowland, G. H., Portrait of. 957
Knight, W. P., Portrait of. 530
Schwarz, R. F., Portrait of. 1132
La Bar, H. M., Portrait of. 942
Scudder, Isaiah, Portrait of 537
Seeley, Richard L., Portrait of. 359
Le Bar, A., Portrait of. 1007
Shafer, John D., Portrait of.
1126
Le Bar, J. Depue, Portrait of. 1083
Sheard, George, Portrait of.
484
Lester, Orrin, Portrait of.
666
Shohola Glen Hotel,
967
Locomotive, The First.
238
Shohola Glen Silk Mills
972
Loder, A. W., Portrait of. 1200
Shull, Jos. H., Portrait of.
1009
Loomis, E. W., Portrait of.
589
Singmaster, Henry, Portrait of.
1185
Manning, James, Portrait of.
507
Skinner, Calvin, Portrait of.
476
Map, Historical, of Pennsylvania. 2
Smith, B. B., Portrait of. 426
Map of Indian Orchard Tract.
338
Smith, J. R., Portrait of. 1198
Map, Outline, of Monroe County 982
Staples, R. S., Portrait of. 1167
Map, Outline, of Pike County. 830
Starbird, Irvin, Portrait of .. 717
Map of the Schoonover Tract.
338
Stevens, Nicholas, Portrait of.
799
Map of United Tracts. 338
Strong, E. P., Portrait of. 733
Map, Outline, of Wayne County 110
Stroud, Daniel, Portrait of. 1148
Maps, Topographical. 1037
Swingle, Simon, Portrait of 564
McAvoy, Paul, Portrait of. 665
Tegeler, C. T., Portrait of. 488
McIlhaney, Thomas M., Portrait of. 1164
Torrey, Jno., Portrait of. 360
Miller, William, Portrait of.
606
Tyler, Israel, Portrait of. 174
Millham, James, Portrait of. 700
Van Dusen, Henry, Autograph of. 614
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Mott, H. S., Portrait of. 893
Wallace, Jno., Portrait of.
801
Mumford, James, Portrait of. 729
Mumford, W. W., Portrait of. 731
Nelson, W. M., Portrait of. '539
Osborn, Geo. B., Portrait of.
295
Penniman, F. B., Portrait of.
386
Penwarden, William, Portrait of. 673
Wesley Water Cure. 1100
Westbrook, John C., Portrait of. 895
Peters, Charles R., Portrait of.
943
Westbrook, J., Portrait of ... 917
Petersen, Charles, Portrait of. 440
Westbrook, R. B., Portrait of 20
Preston, Paul S., Portrait of.
526
Weston, W. W., Portrait of. 363
Wheeler, Earl, Portrait of. 167
Puterbaugh, I. T., Portrait of.
1033
Ransberry, Michael, Portrait of.
1196
Reed, Dwight, Portrait of.
208
Wilson, Henry, Portrait of. 179
Woodbridge, Howel, Portrait of. 774
Reifler, John, Portrait of. 679
Yale, Norman, Portrait of
626
Rhodes, T. W., Portrait of. 1128
Young, Coe F., Portrait of.
249
Ridgeway, Thomas J., Portrait of.
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Morss, L. W., Portrait of
Wagner, George, Portrait of.
Ward, Elias O., Portrait of. 504
Watts, William, Portrait of. 676
Wayne County Glass Works, Blowing Department, Dorflinger & Sons 822 Wayne County Glass Works, Cutting Department, Dorflinger & Sons 820 Wayne County Glass Works, Dorflinger & Sons. 818
Perham, S. G., Portrait of. 663
Rollinson, A. J., Portrait of. 777
Lantz, Jackson, Portrait of. 1012
HISTORY
OF THE
COUNTIES OF WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE,
IN THE
COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA.
CHAPTER I.
The Aboriginal Inhabitants-The Delawares or Minsis- Their Chiefs-Indian Nomenelature.
ACTUAL knowledge of the Aboriginal people who inhabited the region from the lower waters of the North River to the Chesapeake, and the vast wilderness now comprised in the thickly populated, wealthy states of New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, may be said to date from 1609, when, upon September 15th, Henry Hudson sailed, in his little ship the Half Moon, up the royal river which bears his name, and rode at anchor in the majestic tide. just above the Highlands. The Indians whom he there met were the Lenni Lenape, who afterwards came to be commonly called the Delawares. Full of simple sublimity and lofty poetry was the conception these savages first formed of the strange white-faced men in dress, bearing and speech different from their own, who came in the winged canoe to their shores. In their as- tonishment they called out to one another, " Be- hold ! the Gods are come to visit us!" They at first considercd these hitherto unknown beings as messengers of peace sent to them from the abode of the Great Spirit, and wel- comed and honored them with sacrificial feasts and with gifts. Hudson recorded that above the Highlands "they found a very loving people and very old men, and were well uscd." The Lenni Lenape handed down the tradition
of their reception of the Dutch upon the Hud- son and the island where it came about that New York was built, and always maintained that none of the enemy-the Iroquois, or Five Nations-were present, though they sent for their friends, the Mohicans, to participate in the joy of the occasion.
Hudson touched the extreme northern and castern portion of the country occupied by the Lenape. The Iroquois, the other great branch of the Algonquin race, occupied the region of the upper Hudson, upon its west shore, and their villages sparsely dotted the wilderness northward to the St. Lawrence, and westward to the great lakes, but from the lower waters of the Hudson, southward and westward through- ont the territory included in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, the forest-covered hills and plains constituted the land of the Lenape, and their nation was centralized upon the river Delaware and its affluents.
The Lenni Lenape, as they called themselves or the Delawares1 as they have been very
1 The name ' Delaware,' which we give to these people is unknown in their own language * * they thought the whites had given it to them in derision but they were reeoneiled to it, on being told that it was the name of a great white chief, Lord de la Warre, which had been given to them and their river. As they are fond of being named after distinguished men, they were rather pleased, eon- sidering it as a compliment. - Heckewelder.
The Dutch ealled them Mahikundcos; tho French, Abenakis.
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commonly and erroneously denominated by many writers, claimed great antiquity and superiority over other aboriginal nations. Indeed the name Lenni Lenape signifies " the original people "-a race of human beings who are the same that they were in the beginning, unchanged and unmixed. They asserted that they had existed from the beginning of time, and many Indiau nations, the Miamis, Wyan- dots, Shawanese and more than twenty other tribes or nations admitted their antiquity and called them "Grandfathers." Their own tradi- tion of the advent of the nation upon the Delaware and the eastern sea-coast is poetical and interesting and not entirely unsupported by evidence, (which however it is beyond the scope of this work to adduce). The legend runs that a great many hundred years ago, their ancestors had dwelt in a far away country beyond the Father of Waters-the Mamasi Sipu, or Mis- sissippi-and near the wide sea, iu which the suu sank every night. They had, very long before the white men came to their country, traveled eastward, seeking a fairer land, of which their prophets had told them, and as they neared the western shore of the great. Missis- sippi they had met another mighty nation of men, of whose very existence they had been in ignorance. These people they say were the Mengwe or Iroquois, aud this was the first meeting of these two nations, destined to remaiu in the east for centuries as neighbors and ene- inies. They journeyed on together, neither in warfare nor friendship, but presently they found that they must unite their forces against a common enemy. East of the Father of Waters they discovered a race called the Al- legwi, occupying a vast domain, and not only stronger in number than themselves, but equally brave and more skilled in war. They had, indeed, fortified towns and numerous strong- holds. The Allegwi permitted a part of the emigrating nations to pass the border of their country, and having thus caused a division of their antagonists, fell upon them with great fury to annihilate them. But the main body of the allied Mengwe and Lenape rallying from the first shock, made resistance with such des- perate energy that they defeated the Allegwi,
and sweeping them forward as the wind does the dry leaves of the forest, they invaded the country, and during a long and bloody war won victory after victory, until they had not only eutirely vanquished, but well-nigh exterminated them. Their country, in which their earth fortifications remained the only reminder of the dispersed nation, was occupied by the victors. After this both the Mengwe and the Lenape ranged eastward, the former keeping to the northward, and the latter to the southward, until they reached respectively the Hudson and the Delaware, the latter of which they called the Lenape Wihittuck. Upon its banks, and in the wild region watered by its tributaries, they found the land they had journeyed in quest of from the setting sun. Whether ornot we believe as a whole this legend,1 it is a fact that the two nations were located as described when the first accurate knowledge of them was obtained by the whites.
The Iroquois usually called the Five Nations, because consisting of the confederated tribes of the Mohawks, Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas and Oneidas, becoming about 1712, by the in- corporation of the refugec Southern tribe of Tuscaroras, the Six Nations-were almost con- stantly at war with their neighbors the Lenape or Delawares.
The Delawares were divided into nations in much the same manucr as their northern ene- mies. Of these the most notable were the branches of the Turtle or Unamis, the Turkey or Unalachtgo, and the Wolf or Minsi (cor- rupted into Monsey). While the domain of the Delawares extended from the sea-coast between the Chesapeake and Long Island Sound back beyond the Susquehanna to the Alleghenies and northward to the hunting-grounds of the Iroquois, it scems not to have been regarded as the common country of the tribes, but to have been sct apart for them in more or less dis- tinctly-defined districts. The Unamis and Unalachtgo nations, subdivided into the tribes
1 By many this tradition of the emigration of the Lenni Lenape is believed to have a solid foundation in fact, and the Allegwi are regarded as being the Mound-Builders, whose vast works are numerous along the Mississippi, the Ohio, and their tributaries.
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THE ABORIGINAL INHABITANTS.
of Assunpinks, Matas, Chichequaas, Shacka- maxons, Tuteloes, Nanticokes and many others, occupied the lower country toward the coast, while the more warlike tribe of the Minsi or Wolf, as Heckewelder informs us, " had ehosen to live baek of the other tribes, and formed a kind of a bulwark for their protection, wateh- ing the motions of the Mengwe, and being at hand to offer aid in ease of a rupture with them."
"The Minsi," continues the authority from whom we have quoted, " extended their settle- ments from the Minisink, a place (on the Delaware, in Monroe County) named after them, where they had their council-seat and fire, quite up to the Hudson on the east, and to the west and south far beyond the Susquehanna ; their northern boundaries were supposed originally to be the heads of the great rivers Susquehanna and Delaware, and their southern that ridge of hills known in New Jersey by the name of Muskaneeum, and in Pennsylvania by those of Lehigh, Coghnewago, ete. Within this bound- ary were their principal settlements, and even as late as 1742 they had a town with a peaeh- orehard on the tract of land where Nazaretlı was afterwards built, another on the Lehigh, and others north of the Blue Ridge, besides many family settlements 1 here and there scattered."
Thus the Minsi tribe were the chief aborigi- nal oceupants of the Delaware Country 2 and of the territory now ineluded within the bounds of the three counties which are the especial
provinee of this work, as well as of the country further south and on the east side of the river.
The Minsis were subdivided into elans, of which not all the names are known. There were the Manassings, the Wampings (who it is supposed were identical with the people who eame in time to be called the " Esopus Indians " and who had their chief residenee on the Hud- son in the vicinity of the town of Esopus), the Cashiegtonks and others. These elans were sometimes known by other names and some- times still further subdivided. A few families whose wigwams and cultivated grounds were in the vicinity of a stream or mountain took the name of such stream or mountain. Thus the titles of Lackawacksings, Navisings and Wau- wausings are occasionally found in old official documents.
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