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On the 2d of April there was again a heavy fall of snow. At Phila- delphia six inches fell, which, however, had melted by the 5th of the * See page 478. t Pittston, Wilkes-Barre, Hanover, Plymouth and Kingston.
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month. On Saturday, April 25th, about eight o'clock in the morning, a slight shock of earthquake occurred in eastern Pennsylvania, which was perceptible at Wilkes-Barré as well as at Philadelphia. At the former place, just about the time of the quaking, the men of the settle- ment had assembled at Fort Wyoming to hold a town-meeting, in pur- suance of an adjournment. Capt. Obadiah Gore was chosen Moderator "in ye room of Esquire Smith, he being not well enough to attend."* The most important items of business transacted were the following :
"Voted, That ye Proprietors belonging to ye several townships have the liberty to move into their own town and there fortifie and guard by themselves by ye 4th day of May next.
"Voted, That those thirty-five men that is now in ye township of Lackawornat shall be entitled to all ye Company's right to said township." * *
With the coming of Spring in 1772 many of the settlers at Wyoming departed for their old homes in New England and elsewhere and soon returned with their wives and children, their live stock and their per- sonal and household effects. Many new settlers, also, came to the valley to cast in their lots with the hardy pioneers, and were welcomed and admitted, under the regulations of The Susquehanna Company, as in- habitants in some one of the several townships. The surveys of the five settling townships were perfected, and in April, or May, 1772, there was a redistribution, or a new allotment, of the lands in those townships to their respective proprietors. As near as can be learned from the meager original records now accessible, the lands in Wilkes-Barré were distributed on or about April 30, 1772 .; The following-entitled "A Copy of the List of Names of the Inhabitants of Wilkesbarre, and the Number of the Lots they are entitled to in the year 1772; Copied from 'Wilkesbarre Town Votes, No. 1'"§-is a transcript from page 26, Book I, of the manuscript "Minutes of Evidence" of the Compromise Commissioners, referred to on page 25, Volume I. This list has never been printed heretofore.
"DRAWERS' NAMES.
IST DIVISION, OR MEADOW, LOTS. HOUSE, LOTS. ||
2D DIVISION, OR
3D DIVISION, 4TH DIVISION,
OR BACK, LOTS.
OR 5-ACRE, LOTS.
Avery, Solomon
12
36
49
50
Abbott, John
48
35
10
2
Abbott, Philip
44
34
37
11
Atherton, Asahel
39
40
29
29
Butler, Zebulon
4
3
50
49
Bennet, Isaac
6
19
3
10
Colt, Harris
1
8
4
25
Comstock, William
42
14
16
39
Dixson, Robert
14
18
11
44
Durkee, John
5
4
6
14
Downing, Jonathan
25
22
46
46
Farnham, Ebenezer
23
32
2
38
Farnum, Levy
24
28
48
9
Fish, Jabez
27
13
26
35
Frazier, Robert
31
10
45
12
Fuller, Stephen
11
16
20
40
*His illness increasing in severity, Mr. Smith, accompanied by his sons Timothy and Abel, set out a few weeks later for his home in Voluntown, Connecticut, where his wife and the majority of his children were still residing. There he died in August or September, 1772.
t Later, Pittston.
[ It appears, however, according to the MS. records of the "Confirming Commissioners"-see para- graph "(4)." page 29, Vol. I. of this history-that some, or possibly all, of the lots in the 4th Division of Wilkes-Barre were not drawn until the Spring of 1778. For example : At "a proprietors' meeting held May 31, 1773," John Abbott drew Lot No. 2, Levi Farnum drew Lot No. 9, and Roasel Franklin drew Lot No. 13-all of the 4th Division. Subsequently (prior to 1787) these three lots became the property of Obadiah Gore, Jr.
¿ Concerning this book of town records see "(iii)," on pages 26 and.27, Volume I.
| The Town-plot (see page 655) comprised these lots.
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"DRAWERS' NAMES.
IST DIVISION, OR MEADOW, LOTS. HOUSE, LOTS.
2D DIVISION, OR
3D DIVISION, OR BACK, LOTS.
4TH DIVISION, OR
Fish, Thomas
26
21
43
18
Gore, Obadiah-Jr.
8
6
24
21
Gardner, Peregrine
13
9
34
33
Gore, Daniel
38
20
22
15
Gore, Silas*
50
38
44
28
Gardner, Peregrine
32
50
13
32
Gardner, Peregrine
33
49
18
5
Hibbard, Cypriant
20
27
8
8
Hopson, Jordan
9
41
40
1
Jones, Crocker
10
31
5
47
Kentner, George
29
24
23
48
Peirce, Abel
40
42
27
26
Ross, Jeremiah
43
23
32
37
Rude, Michael
28
33
17
3
Reynolds, Christopher
18
47
33
17
Stark, Aaron
35
29
25
4
Smith, John-Esquire
45
48
21
19
Sill, Jabez
22
1
35
27
Stark, James
34
30
41
36
Stark, James
2
12
15
6
Spencer, Caleb
41
46 7
47
20
Sprague, Joseph
46
- 45
30
31
Stephens, John
47
25
38
23
Stephens, Thomast
36
2
28
13
Staples, John
17
39
42
22
Staples, John
16
26
31
45
Utter, Moses
35
5
12
41
Wilder, Aaron
19
44
39
30
Warner, William
7
43
14
24
Walker, George
21
37
36
42
Weeks, Jonathan
15
15
19
7
Weeks, Philip
3
11
1
43
Weeks, Thomas
30
17
9
16 "
At the time of the allotment of the Wilkes-Barre lands what was called the town-plot was still "a sterile plain, covered with pitch pine and scrub oak." However, within a very short time the first house within the bounds of the town-plot was erected, a well was dug, and other improvements were made by Capt. Stephen Fuller (previously mentioned) on his lot (No. 16) at the south-west corner of Main and Northampton Streets. The carpentry was done by John Abbott (previ- ously mentioned), Captain Fuller's brother-in-law, and the stone-work- foundation walls, fireplace, chimney, and well lining-was, presumably, done by Captain Fuller himself, he being a mason by trade. The re- mains of the old fireplace of this house were to be seen as late as 1812 -the building itself having been burned down either in 1778 or 1784 -while the well on the premises was in evidence, and perhaps in use, as late as 1830.
Miner ("History of Wyoming," Appendix, 47) says: "Mr. John
Abbott * * put up the first house, on the south-west corner of Main and Northampton Streets." Pearce ("Annals of Luzerne County," 229) says : "The first dwelling, within the limits of the town-plot [of Wilkes-Barre], was a log cabin built by John Abbott on the south-west corner of Main and Northampton Streets, in 1769." Both these state-
* July 6, 1772, Silas Gore sold the lots drawn by him in Wilkes-Barre, "together with all the after divisions which may be made," to Jonathan Stowell of Ashford, Connecticut, for £20.
t Cyprian Hibbard subsequently disposed of the lots which he had drawn to Asa Stevens (see page 729), who, August 21, 1772, sold the same to Enoch Judd for £48.
Thomas Stephens subsequently disposed of the lots drawn by him to Elijah Loomis of Harrington, Litchfield County, Connecticut, who, February 22, 1778, sold the same to Elisha Swift-then or later of Kingston-for £100.
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ments give the impression that this first house was the property of John Abbott, which, of a certainty, was not the case. Nor was the house in question erected in 1769, for, as we have heretofore shown, John Abbott was not in Wyoming in that year, there was then no town-plot, and in the year mentioned there was no house erected either in the locality mentioned or elsewhere in what is now Wilkes-Barré, save the houses at Fort Durkee. As previously stated, John Abbott's house-lot was No. 35 (at the south-east corner of Main and Union Streets) in the town-plot.
Judge Jonathan Stevens of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, some years before his death in June, 1850, wrote* that his father, Asa Stevens, t "in the month of April, 1773, moved his family into a house erected on the Wilkes-Barre town-plot. Previous thereto only two houses had been erected thereon. In one of them resided Stephen Fuller, and in the other Benjamin Clark.# Near the lower, or south-west, corner of the plot were two more houses. In one lived Jabez Sill§ with his family, and in the other two brothers, Jabez and Elisha Fish, || single men." Judge Stevens was, evidently, under the impression when he wrote the fore- going that the two house-lots occupied in 1772 and '73 by Jabez Sill and the Messrs. Fish were not within the bounds of the town-plot. They were, however-the former occupying Lot No. 1 and the latter Lot No. 13. According to Miner Jabez Sill "built the second house erected in Wilkes-Barre," at the north-east corner of River and South Streets. Benjamin Clark was not a Wilkes-Barre proprietor in 1772, and there- fore could not have been occupying then in that township a house and lot of his own. He was, undoubtedly, "manning" and improving a "right" in Wilkes-Barre owned by some one of the proprietors of the township.
At a town-meeting held at Fort Wyoming May 1, 1772, the follow- ing business was transacted. T
*See Craft's "History of Bradford County," page 865.
tASA STEVENS was born in Plainfield, Windham County, Connecticut, in May. 1784, the son of Jonathan, who was the son of Simon and Mary ( Wilder) Stevens of Lancaster, Massachusetts. Asa Stevens was married October 1, 1761, to Sarah Adams (born January 17, 1738. in Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut), and settled in Canterbury. He came to Wyoming in December, 1771-living for a time in the block-house at Mill Creek-and was admitted a proprietor in Wilkes-Barre January 81, 1772, as noted on page 721. He drew Lot No. 7 in the town-plot, and the house which he subsequently erected thereon stood about where the Hotel Sterling now stands. In 1778 Asa Stevens was Lieutenant of the First, or Upper Wilkes-Barre, Company in the 24th Regiment, Connecticut Militia, and July 3, 1778, he took part in the battle of Wyoming and fell on that bloody field. His widow and children-the youngest child only two months old-made their way on foot to Canterbury, Connecticut, where they remained until peace was established, when they returned to Wilkes Barre. Sarah (born in 1767 ; died August 14, 1823). daughter of Asa and Sarah ( Adams) Stevens, was married at Wilkes-Barre in 1786 to Anderson Dana, Jr. (born in Ashford, Connecticut, August 11, 1765), fourth child of Anderson and Susanna (Huntington) Dana. (See a sketch of the Dana family in a subsequent chapter.) Mary ( born in May, 1778, died Novem- ber 16, 1860), daughter of Asa and Sarah ( Adams) Stevens, was married at Braintrim, Pennsylvania, in October, 1801, to Eleazar Dana (born August 12, 1772), brother of Anderson Dana, Jr., mentioned above. Ara Stevens, Jr., was the eldest son of Lieut. Asa Stevens. He was residing at Wilkes-Barre in 1787 and '88. Jonathan Stevens, second son of Lieut. Asa Stevens, was born at Canterbury, Connecticut, in July, 1764. At the age of sixteen he enlisted in the army of the Revolution, and served therein for nearly three years. In 1786 or '87 he returned from Connecticut to Wilkes-Barre and resided here until 1795, when he removed to Braintrim, in what is now Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. There he resided until 1805, when he removed to Wyalusing. From 1812 until his death in June, 1850, his home was at Standing Stone in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. In 1800 and for a number of years subsequently he was a Justice of the Peace ; in 1811 he was elected a Representative to the Pennsylvania Legislature ; in 1814 and for many years thereafter he was Deputy and County Surveyor in and for Bradford County, and from May, 1818, till 1840, he was one of the Associate Judges of that county.
BENJAMIN CLARK was from Tolland County, Connecticut. He came to Wyoming Valley early in May. 1772, and on the 7th of the following July Thomas McClure of Kingston conveyed to said Clark-described as "now on said Susquehanna Purchase"-a half-right in the Purchase, in consideration of "thirty Spanish milled dollars." August 23, 1778, Samuel Pratt of Kingston conveyed a quarter-right in the Susquehanna Purchase to Benjamin Clark, then of Wilkes-Barre. Benjamin Clark was a soldier in one of the Wyoming Independent Companies (see Chapter XIII), and served till the end of the war. About 1784 he settled at what is now Frenchtown, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, but later removed to Ulster Township in the same county. At a subsequent period he was a Captain in the Pennsylvania Militia.
¿ For a sketch of Jabez Sill and his family see a subsequent chapter.
| For a sketch of the Fish family see a subsequent chapter.
{See "The Town Book of Wilkes Barre," page 1,065.
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"Voted, That ye present Comtee proceed & fill up to ye number of 240 settlers, & admit none but such as are good wholesome inhabitants, &c.
"Voted, That those people that was at ye siege in July and August, 1771, & re- gained and took possession of our Lands at wyoming, shall be Intitled to ye New fishing seine, to be their own property to use & fish with, provided they will fitt it up, &c."
At a meeting "of proprietors and settlers legally warned and held in Wilksbury May 13, 1772," Captain Butler was chosen Moderator for the day and it was "Voted, That if any man shall turn his horse or oxen or any other of his creatures loose in any of ye inclosed fields, and it shall be proved against him, he shall pay a fine according to ye discre- tion of ye Comtee ."
Miner, in speaking of the condition of affairs and the happenings at Wyoming in the Spring and Summer of 1772, says that "it [1772] may be regarded as a transition year, full of undefined pleasure flowing from the newness and freshness of the scene-a comparative sense of security-the exultation from having come off victorious-the influx of old neighbors from Connecticut." The following two or three items, extracted from the original records of the settlement, will give the reader some idea of the transactions in the sale and locating of lands which took place here in the Spring and Summer of 1772. March 13th Asahel Buck of Dutchess County, New York, sold to John Depew of Cumber- land County, Pennsylvania, a half-right in the Susquehanna Purchase. Some weeks later John Depew sold, for "one-half barrel of flour worth £3," a piece of land "at a place called Wilkesbarre Fort, in ye Susque- hanna settlement." At "Wilksbury Fort, May 14, 1772," Benjamin Follett, "a committee-man," received from John Thompson of Branford, New Haven County, Connecticut, "a note of hand for £12, 12sh.," which entitled said Thompson "to one right of land in ye Susquehanna Purchase." Between April and November, 1772, the "Committee of Settlers at Wilksberry" granted liberty to John Smith, Peregrine Gardner, John Depew, Augustin Hunt, and various other proprietors in The Sus- quehanna Company, "to locate and lay out tracts of land for themselves at various points outside the five settling towns-as part of their pro- prietary right." The bodies of land thus located were termed "pitches".
At an adjourned meeting of the settlers held at Wilkes-Barre May 20, 1772, it was "Voted, That ye proprietors belonging to ye town of Pittstown* have ye liberty to go into their own town & to fortify and keep in a body near together and guard by themselves until further orders." At a meeting of the Committee of Settlers held at Wilkes- Barré May 22, 1772, it was voted :
"That Roasel Franklin have that right in Wilksbarre drawn by Thomas Stephens. That James Bidlack have that right in Plymouth drawn by Nathaniel Drake. That Mr. McDowellt be voted into the Forty Town [Kingstown]. That, for the special services
*This is, apparently, the first time in the original records that this name is applied to the township referred to.
t JOHN MCDOWELL, or McDOWEL, of Cherry Valley, Smithfield Township, Northampton County, Penn- sylvania, mentioned in the note on page 468, Vol. I. He was one of the few Pennsylvanians living near the Delaware River, north of the Blue Mountains, who in 1754 became share-holders in The Susquehanna Company. John McDowel-according to the inscription on his grave-stone, still standing-was born in Ireland May 20, 1714, the son of Robert and Jane McDowel, who were of Scottish ancestry. John Mc- Dowel immigrated to Pennsylvania. and, having settled in the northern part of Bucks, which later be- came Northampton, County, he was married about 1745 to Hannah, daughter of Nicholas aud Hannah De Pui. John and Hannah ( De Pui) McDowel were the parents of the following-named children, and probably others : Robert McDowel ; Jane McDowel (third child), baptized May 20, 1750, and married about 1777 to Elijah Shoemaker, mentioned on page 468; Hannah McDowel, born April 15, 1752, in 1770 became the wife of John Shaw (born at New London, Connecticut, October 27, 1745, son of John and Eunice Shaw, and died in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, May 27, 1823) and died July 8, 1812, leaving a son-Peter Shaw-born August 2, 1788, and died May 21, 1866; Elizabeth McDowel, who became the wife of Col. Jacob Stroud, the founder of Stroudsburg, Monroe County. Pennsylvania, and whose name is frequently mentioned hereinafter. John McDowel was one of the original proprietors of the township of Capouse, later called Providence. He died at his home in Northampton County September 7, 1779.
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done this Company by Colonel Dyer, agreed that his son, Thomas Dyer,* shall have a right in the Forty, if he has a man on it by the first day of August next. That the rights that are sold in the Six-mile Townshipt or Capouset shall be sold at sixty dollars each, and bonds taken."
On the same day that the aforementioned meeting was held at Wilkes-Barre the Moravian diarist at the Indian town of Friedenshütten (see page 443) made the following entry in the journal of the mission§ :
"Three white men from Wyoming are about, buying up horses and cattle and pay- ing the Indians for them in lead coin. We despatched a runner to Schechschiquanink|| with words of caution."
In the private account-book, or journal, of Zebulon Butler for the month of May, 1772, we find the following charges entered against "The Susquehannah Proprietors" : "To { cwt. of flour, 2 lbs. of loaf sugar and 8} lbs. of meat for Mr. Johnson ; { cwt. of bread and flour for the Nanti- coke King, and shoeing his horse, 8sh. 6d." The "Nanticoke King" referred to in the foregoing extract was the chief of the Nanticoke Indians who had formerly dwelt in Hanover Township (see pages 238 and 239, Vol. I), but were then living at Otsiningo, or Chenango, near the present city of Binghamton, New York. The chief, with a small retinue, was on his way to Philadelphia when his wants were supplied by Captain Butler at Wilkes-Barre in May, 1772. The "Mr. Johnson" mentioned above was the Rev. Jacob Johnson, A. M., referred to on pages 82 and 449, Vol. I. When Captain Butler was in New London County in April, 1772, as previously related, he saw the Rev. Mr. Johnson and prevailed upon him to make a journey from Groton to Wilkes-Barre for the pur- pose of looking over the ground here with a view of locating as the people's pastor-the settlement being then without a minister of the gospel. Mr. Johnson arrived here about the middle of May, T and after a sojourn of several weeks during which he preached a number of times to the people at Fort Wyoming and the Mill Creek block-house-he re- turned to Groton.
About the time of Mr. Johnson's departure from Wilkes-Barre there arrived here from Stockbridge, Massachusetts, a "Stockbridge Indian named Jehoiakim Moh-how-wo-weet, accompanied by his wife and family" and bearing from the Hon. Timothy Woodbridge (see page 256) a letter of recommendation, which set forth that these Indians were "desirous of settling on the Susquehanna." "I hope," wrote Judge Woodbridge, "they will behave well and be kind to the English and seek to serve their interest."
Early in May, 1772, Capt. Obadiah Gore, Sr., was sent to Connecti- cut by the settlers at Wyoming bearing a power of attorney from them- selves to Col. Elizur Talcott, authorizing and empowering him to appear before the General Assembly of Connecticut at its approaching session and urge that the Wyoming region be erected into a county of Connecti- cut and provided with officers for its management and government .** Under date of Wednesday, May 27, 1772, Captain Gore wrote from Bol- ton, Connecticut, to Zebulon Butler at Wilkes-Barré as follows :
"I came to Hartford last Monday, and on Tuesday * * delivered the power of attorney to Colonel Talcott. * * Have conversed with a number of members of the House, who are of the opinion that nothing will be done this Court. The Assembly has
* Maj. THOMAS DYER, mentioned on page 394, Vol. I.
t Later called Huntington Township. ¿ Later called Providence Township.
¿ See "Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society," I : 208.
| Sheshequin. See note on page 443, Vol. I.
[See the first paragraph of the note on page 663. ** See page 725.
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sent to Great Britain and has had no answer yet. They say it would be a very extra- ordinary step to make a county before they have had an answer from England. Captain Trumbull* brings favorable news from Philadelphia, which I understand is sent to you by Colonel Dyer. There has been a motion made to have one Justice of the Peace, or more, whose power is to extend throughout the Government [of Connecticut]. If so, Major Parsonst is willing, if commissioned, to go to Susquehanna to administer law."
Among the collections of the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society is an original "List of Settlers at Susquehanna in May, 1772." It was prepared by Capt. Zebulon Butler, Maj. Ezekiel Peirce, Capt. Stephen Fuller and Obadiah Gore, Jr., of the Committee of Settlers, and is in the handwriting of Captain Butler. There are 215 names in the list, which reads as followst :
"Atherton, James
Denison, Nathan
Atherton, Asel
Dean, Jonathan
Abbot, John
Durel, Stephen
Abbot, Philip
Depew, John
- Harding, Stephen Harvey, Benj .- Jr.
Adams, Isaac-April 25.
Drake, Shubael-2d.
Harris, Elijah
Adams, Noah
Downing, Jonathan-3d.
Harris, Peter-Jr.
Allen, Daniel
Dana, Anderson-3d.
Hopkins, Francis
Allen, Isaac-April 27.
Dixon, Robert
Hopkins, William
Atherton, James-Jr.
Dorrance, John
Holmes, Sam'1
Blanchard, Jeremiah
Brokaw, Abraham
Davidson, Douglass-14th -Home 31st for 3 weeks .< Harding, Lemuel-5th.
Brown, James
Davidson, Wm .- 14th.
Hickman, Andrew
Bates, Capt. Caleb-14th.
Eveland, Fred'k
Hopkins, Capt. Robert-6th.
Bennet, Joshua-9th.
Ewing, John-3d.
. Harvey, Benja -7th Harris, Peter-4th
Brockway, Richard
Fish, Elisha
Bennet, Isaac
Farnam, Levi -Sold out, Sept. '72.
Jones, Crocker-Came from gaol July 26 .¿
Bennet, Solomon
Fuller, Capt. Stephen
Jordan, Stephen
Buck, Lieut. Wm.
Fuller, Stephen-Jr.
Jearum, Zerubabel
Butler, Capt. Zebulon
Farnam, Ebenezer -26th out for 3 wks.
Jenkins, Stephen
`Buck, Philip Baldwin, Gideon
Follet, Benj .- Jr. Fish, Joseph
Johnson, Hendrick-12th.
-To be absent 3 wks.
Baker, John
Follet, Capt. Benj.
Johnson, Edward-24th.
Baker, Gideon
Franklin, John-20th.
Kentner, George
Brokaw, John-Home 14th.
Franklin, Roasel-20th.
Lester, Edward Lyon, Asa-6th
Beech, Amos
Gardner, Peregreen
Barney, Henry
Gore, Silas .
Manvel, Nicholas
Belding, Ezra-2d.
Gore, Asa
Munger, Daniel
Bingham, Gideon-3d.
McClure, Thos
Backus, Stephen
Goss, David
Matthews, Peter-6th.
Gaylord, Giles-4th.
Marvin, Matthew-20th.
Carey, Eleazar
Goss, Philip
Marvin, Capt. David-20th.
Cary, Barnabas -Out 30th for 22 days. Cary. John
Gaylord, Justice
Marvin, David-Jr .- 20th.
Green, James
McCoy, Ephraim
Crooker, Jos.
Gore, Capt. Obadiah
Nisbitt, James
. Clark, Benj .- 4th.
Gore, Obadiah-Jr.
Grimes, William-22d.
North, John
Cole, Benj .- Home 31st.
Gardner, Stephen -- Jr .- 24th.
Curtis, Fred'k
Crandel, Eben! -Out 30th for 3 weeks.
Hopkins, Deacon Timothy Hopkins, James Hedsall, James
Osburn, John
Corey, Jenks
* Harding, Stephen-Jr. Hotchkiss, Sam'l
Peirce, Abel
Carr, Daniel
Peirce, Maj. Ezekiel
Cady, Simeon-12th.
Peirce, Timothy
David, John
Hibbard, Cyprian Hopson, Jordan
Peirce, Phinehas
* Capt. JOSEPH TRUMBULL, who had been appointed by The Susquehanna Company to wait on Gov- ernor Penn of Pennsylvania. See page 725.
t SAMUEL H. PARSONS, mentioned on page 657.
¿ The dates affixed to a number of the names indicate-except where otherwise stated-when the per- sons in question arrived at Wyoming. ¿ See page 738.
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Bidlack, James
Gardner, Simeon-3d.
Brown, David
Gardner, Stephen-3d.
Munson, Obadiah-On Enos Yale's Right May 25.
Gallup, Joseph Gaylord, Joseph
Marvin, Seth
Clark, Martin-25th. Out June 2 for 10 days.
Goss, Nathaniel
McDonnor, John-22d.
Nisbitt, Samuel
Out June 2 for 10 days.
Churchill, Jonathan
Gore, Daniel-24th.
Nash, Phineas-25th, on Messenger's Right
Osburn, Sam'l
Perkins, John-25th,
Jenkins, John-Jr.
Buck, Aholiab
Jameson, John-8th.
· Frazier, John
Johnson, Turner-12th.
Bennet, Thomas
-Out 25th for 3 weeks.
Hibbard, Ebenezer Hibbard, Wm.
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Porter, Tho: Pearce, Timothy-Jr. Phillips, Francis Post, Stephen-6th. Parke, William-8th.
Spencer, Robert Spaulding, Oliver* Spaulding, Andrew Smith, Abel Stevens, Asa
Vincent, Cornelius-20th. Verner, Titman
-D. D. July 4th.
Wilder, Aaron
White, William
Weeks, Jonathan
Whittelsey, Asaph
West, Richard
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