USA > Pennsylvania > Luzerne County > Wilkes-Barre > A history of Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania : from its first beginnings to the present time, including chapters of newly-discovered early Wyoming Valley history, together with many biographical sketches and much genealogical material. Volume II > Part 103
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96 | Part 97 | Part 98 | Part 99 | Part 100 | Part 101 | Part 102 | Part 103 | Part 104 | Part 105 | Part 106 | Part 107 | Part 108 | Part 109 | Part 110 | Part 111 | Part 112 | Part 113 | Part 114 | Part 115 | Part 116 | Part 117 | Part 118
" If from these representations your Honour should think a Winter expedition not practicabel I would propose whether (after your knowing the quantity of provision &c. )
* EDWARD HAND was born in Kings County, Ireland, December 31, 1744. In 1774 he accompan- ied the 18th Royal Irish Regiment to this country as Surgeon's Mate, but shortly after his arrival he resigned and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in the practise of medicine. His home was on the banks of the Conestoga, near the town of Lancaster. He was commissioned June 25, 1775, Lieutenant Colonel of Thompson's Battalion of Pennsylvania Riflemen. This battalion became the 2d Regiment "of the army of the United Colonies, conimanded by His Excellency, Gen. George Washing- ton, Commander-in-Chief," and before the middle of August, 1775, had joined the American forces assembled near Boston. Edward Burd and Jesse Lukens, mentioned hereinbefore, were "independent volunteers" in Thompson's battalion, and took part with it in the siege of Boston. Early in Novem- ber, 1775, Lieut. Colonel Hand was with his regiment in camp on Prospect Hill, near Boston (see "Pennsylvania in the Revolution," I : 11 and 12, for letters written by him at that time), and shortly afterwards he went home on leave of absence. The new army organization commenced January 1, 1776, and Thompson's Battalion became the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment of the Continental Line. In February and March, 1776, Lieut. Colonel Hand was in command of the regiment, Colonel Thompson being at his home in Pennsylvania. Colonel Thompson having been promoted Brigadier General, Lieut. Colonel Hand was commissioned Colonel March 7, 1776. One week later the 1st Regiment and five other regiments were placed under the command of Maj. Gen. John Sullivan by order of Washington and detached to New York, where they arrived March 28th. About two weeks later Colonel Hand and his regiment were stationed at New Utrecht, Long Island.
The 1st Pennsylvania Regiment began its new term of service July 1, 1776, in camp on Long Island-the term of enlistment being two years. The battle of Long Island took place August 27, 1776, and the retreat of the Continental army from the Island followed. For the services of Colonel Hand and his regiment on that occasion, see "Pennsylvania in the Revolution," I : 305, et seq .; also Sparks' "American Biography," VIII : 325. Colonel Hand and his regiment participated in the battle of Trenton, fought December 26, 1776, as mentioned on page 485, Vol. I. March 25, 1777, the fol- lowing advertisement appeared in the Pennsylvania Packet (Philadelphia) over the name of Colonel Hand. "Many of the soldiers of my regiment having strayed from the hospitals into the country, on
1148
your Honour would not think it best to send 100 or 150 more men here for Winter quarters. Barracks can be had for thein. The last letter I had from Col. Hartley he informed me that a regt. was comeing to this Post, and the Bord of War had directed him to make the following Arangement-that is if a reinforcement of Troops came to this Post that the detachment from his regt. at this post and at Fort Jinkings joyn the regt. at Sunsbury. (Fort Jinkins is a Post kept with about 50 men on this River about 38 miles down from this Post ) and that the troops that came here should garrison this Post and Fort Jinkins. But your Honnour can order these affairs as you think propper.
"The Express I send you I have ordered to return to me as soon as Possibel after you dismiss hin.
"I am with Esteem Your Honnors Most Obdt Humibel Servt, [Signed] "ZEBN BUTLER Lt Colonel."
"N. B. If you should think best I will be prepairing for boats, desireing your directions. And I think it my duty to let you know that letters of consequence should not be intrusted to the care of Colonel Stroud. Wheather through Inattention to Publick Business, or Design, or multiplicity of privet business I cannot say, but the letters from your Honor to Col. Hartley and myself lay at his House till the Ist Janr 1779-and that is not the first time he has done the like.
" Your H. Sevt, [Signed] "Z. BUTLER."
In reply to this letter General Hand wrote to Colonel Butler under the date of January 13, 1779, at Minisink, as followst :
"Your favour of the 10th inst. now lies before me. I am much obliged to you for the diligence you liave used, and the candour with which you give your information and advice on so important a subject. Your sentiments and those of Captain Stoddert justify His Excellency, General Washington's, apprehensions of the impracticability, or at best the doubtful success, of au expedition at this season, insomuch that I am persuaded the intelligence I now receive from the Susquehanna-which he has desired me to transmit to him-will determine him to give over all thought of it."
Early in 1779 the British authorities at Fort Niagara became con- vinced that preparations were being made by the Americans for a mili- tary expedition into the Indian country of western New York, and thereupon reliable scouts were sent out from Niagara to various points to watch and report upon the movements of the Americans. Under the date of February 2, 1779, Maj. John Butler wrote from Niagara to General Haldiinand : "Mr. Secord is sent to Chemung for the purpose of keeping a constant watch upon the rebels towards Wyoming, from whence I daily expect intelligence, as parties have been out that way for some time." The " parties" thus referred to by Major Butler were the bands of Indians and Tories which had been harassing the inhabitants of Wyoming during the Winter of 1778-'79, as previously narrated. According to an official return§ inade at Fort Niagara Janu- ary 26, 1779, by Lieut. Col. Mason Bolton, relative to the arrivals and departures (since December 30, 1778) of the several parties of Indians
various pretenses, and have not yet returned; they are thus publicly called on to join the regiment or send proper certificates that they are not yet able, within one month from the date hereof; otherwise they will be treated as deserters." One week later Colonel Hand was promoted Brigadier General, and soon thereafter he was ordered on command to Fort Pitt (now Pittsburg), Pennsylvania. In 1778 he succeeded General Stark in command at Albany, New York. In November, 1778 (at the time of the Cherry Valley massacre), and for some time previously, he had his headquarters at Schenectady. General Hand was appointed Adjutant General of the army January 8, 1781, and was promoted Major General September 30, 1783.
"Although he was of daring disposition, General Hand won the affection of his troops by his amiability and gentleness." General Hand was a inember of Congress in 1784 and '85; in October, 1788, he was chosen a Presidential Elector for Pennsylvania, and in 1700 he was a member of the convention which framed a new constitution for Pennsylvania. Charles Miner states ("History of Wyoming," page 275) that General Hand stood "high in the confidence of Washington; so much so, that when, in 1798-'9, he consented to take command of the army being raised to resist the aggressions of France, that great and good man desired the appointment of General Hand as Adjutant General. He [Hand] was extremely beloved by his men, and served with great usefulness and honor. The old Wyoming soldiers speak of his noble horsemanship." General Hand was a Free Mason, and in 1781 was Master of Military Lodge No. 19, mentioned hereinafter. He died of cholera morbus at Rock- land, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1802, after a few hours' illness, and was buried in the Episcopal church-yard in the city of Lancaster.
" The original draft of this letter, in the handwriting of Colonel Butler, is now in the collections of The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. See, also, F. C. Johnson's. "Historical Record," IV : 50.
# See Miner's "History of Wyoming," page 260, note.
§ See the "Haldimand Papers" -- B. M. 21,765, B. CV : 90.
VIEW OF THE KINGSTON SHORE OF THE SUSQUEHANNA. South of the Market Street bridge, Wilkes-Barre.
1149
belonging to the different nations gathered at Fort Niagara, there were then present there 1,581 warriors, and absent on the war-path, 1,042; making a total of 2,623 Indian warriors of various nations who made their headquarters at and near Fort Niagara .*
For a number of years about 1779 the principal road in the lower part of Kingston Township ran lengthways of the Flatst (through the present borough of Dorranceton), bisecting, at the Kingston-Plymouth boundary-line, the road running from the margin of the river (opposite Northampton Street, Wilkes-Barré) to a point west of the main branch of Toby's Creek-as described on page 1090. Crossing the Kingston- Plymouth boundary-line, the first-mentioned road ran straight across the Upper Plymouth Flats to the river, where, at the upper end of Wilkes- Barré, or Fish's, Island, there was a ford which led over to the Wilkes- Barré Flats. (See page 50, Vol. I.) Thenceforward the road continued in a south-westerly direction to Hanover-and this portion of the road is still in existence ; one section being called "Old River Road," and the other section, "Carey Avenue." (See the map of Wilkes-Barre in Chapter XXVIII.)
In Kingston Township, near the crossing of the two roads just described, the inhabitants of Westmoreland erected in the Winter of 1778-'79 a small log block-house, which, upon its completion, was occu- pied by a detail of soldiers from Fort Wyoming, chief- ly for the purpose of guard- ing the approaches, on the west side of the river, to the Wilkes-Barré ferry.
On February 18, 1779,1 Lieut. Asahel Buck (see pages 977 and 1145), Fred- erick Follett (see page 467), Elihu Williams, Sr., § and Stephen Pettebone, || who had gone from Fort Wyo- ming to the upper end of Kingston on a scouting ex- pedition, were returning to THE "TWIN SISTERS." Wilkes-Barré, in broad daylight, by way of the Kingston Flats road. When opposite Center (now Market) Street, Wilkes-Barré, near two
* At Niagara, under the date of April 2, 1779, Maj. John Butler wrote to General Haldimand: "The Senecas, Delawares, and others have heen very active during the Winter, and have had various successful skirmishes along the frontiers. There are now hetween 400 and 500 out in different places." t It followed almost exactly the course of the old Indian "path to Wyalusing," noted on the "Plot of the Manor of Sunhury," on page 454, Vol. I.
# Not February 23, 1779, as printed on page 468.
§ ELIHU WILLIAMS, SR., accompanied by his wife, Desire, and two sons and four daughters, removed in 1773 from Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut, to the valley of Wyoming, and settled on a tract of land in Plymouth Township, lying hetween Toby's Eddy and the Kingston-Ply- mouth houndary-line. Upon the organization of the town of Westmoreland in March, 1774, Elihu Williams, Sr., was chosen one of the seven Tything-men for the town. In the Westmoreland tax- list for 1776 the names of Elihu Williams, Sr., and his eldest son Rufus appear, and in the lists for 1777 and 1778 their names and the name of Elihu Williams, Jr., appear, as inhabitants of Plymouth. All three men were members of the 3d Company (Asaph Whittlesey, Captain), 24th Regiment, Con- necticut Militia, and they took part in the hattle of July 3, 1778. The two sons were slain, but the father escaped to Forty Fort, whither his wife and younger children had previously repaired. After the capitulation of Forty Fort Mr. Williams fled from the Valley with his family (his youngest child was then only two years of age), going over the mountains and through the swamps to Fort Penn. From there the mother and children made their way to their old home in Canterbury, hut Mr. Wil- liams returned to Wilkes-Barre in August in the detachment of militia commanded hy Col. Zebulon Butler. (See page 1096.) Mrs. Desire Williams, accompanied by her children, returned to Plymouth
1150
Township from Connecticut in the Summer of 1782, and in the following November letters of admin- istration upon the estate of her deceased husband were granted to her by the Prohate Court of West- moreland-John Dorrance hecoming her surety on a hond for £300. The children of Elihu and Desire Williams-other than the sons named above-were: Esther, Desire, Martha, Lucy (born in 1768; became the wife of - Ives), and Darius.
The last-named was horn in Plymouth Township in 1776. Col. H. B. Wright, referring to him in his "Historical Sketches of Plymouth" (1873), says: "Darius Williams was for many years a local Methodist Episcopal preacher, and a man of strong mind and peculiar powers of eloquence. The writer has often heard him preach. He had great earnestness of manner, and his language was strong and well chosen. He earned, and very justly, too, the reputation of not only heing a good and exemplary man, but also of possessing a high order of talents. He died at the old homestead, probably ahout thirty years ago." Cynthia Williams, a daughter of Darius Williams, was married at Kingston, June 18, 1829, to Reuben Jones, for many years thereafter a well-known resident of Kingston.
|| STEPHEN PETTEBONE, or PETTIBONE, was born at Simsbury, Connecticut, in September, 1755, fifth "child of Noah and Huldah (Williams) Pettibone, and great-grandson of John Pettibone, the founder of the family in this country. (Originally the surname of this family was spelled "Petti- hone," and it was so spelled for many years hy the Wyoming Valley branch of the family.) John, the founder, was a French Huguenot, who came to America from England ahout 1650, and was a proprietor and freeman at Windsor, Connecticut, as early as 1658. In the latter part of 1669 he hecame one of the first settlers at Simsbury. He was married at Windsor February 16, 1664, to Sarah, daughter of Begat Eggleston. John Pettibone died at Simsbury July 15, 1713, his wife having died one week previously. They were the parents of nine children-three horn in Windsor and six in Simsbury-the third of whom was Stephen Pettibone, born October 3, 1669. He was married (1st) to Deborah, daughter of Samuel Bissell, and their third child was Noah Pettihone, born at Simsbury April 16, 1714.
Noah Pettibone was married (1st) to Huldah Williams, about 1745, and they settled in Simsbury, where the following-named children were born to them: (i) Esther, born in June, 1747; married to William Allsworth of Dutchess County, New York, and later of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania; died May 1, 1833. (ii) Huldah, horn in August, 1749; hecame the wife of Benjamin Atwater. (iii) Noah, born in November, 1751; killed at the battle of Wyoming, July 3, 1778. (iv) Hannah, born October 18, 1753; hecame the wife of Joseph Shaw. (v) Stephen, born in September, 1755; killed by Indians (as related above) Fehruary 18, 1779. (vi) Dolly, horn June 9, 1757; married in 1777 to Timothy Stevens. (vii) Lydia, born in December, 1759; became the wife of John Vaughn. (viii) Oliver, born May 13, 1762; died March 17, 1832. (See below.)
Late in 1762, or early in 1763, Noah Pettibone, Sr., removed with his wife and children from Simsbury to Amenia Precinct, Dutchess County, New York, and there, a year or two later, Mrs. Huldah (Williams) Pettibone died. The present writer, following in the footsteps of other writers, has stated in his "History of Lodge No. 61, F. and A. M." (published in 1897), that "Noah Petti- bone, Sr., was one of the settlers who came to Wyoming from Connecticut in the Spring of 1769, hut who were driven from the Valley by the Pennamites in November of the same year." This state- ment is erroneous, inasmuch as Mr. Pettihone came to Wyoming for the first time in July, 1771, he and several of his friends and neighbors in Amenia being members of the company of adventurers (commanded hy Zehulon Butler) which had been organized under the auspices of The Susquehanna Company to retake possession of the Wyoming lands from the Pennamites. (See pages 691-694, ante.) At Wilkes-Barre, August 16, 1773, Noah Pettibone, Sr., received payment from Captain Butler of his "bounty of five dollars" for "assisting" in that successful work. (See page 710, ante.)
At that time Mr. Pettibone was, undoubtedly, a proprietor in The Susquehanna Company, and, as such, entitled to a share, or right, of land in the Company's Purchase; but early in 1772 he bought of Asahel Buck (see page 1149)-then of Amenia Precinct, but later of Kingston, Wyoming Valley- Meadow Lot No. 22 in Kingston. Upon this lot (which lies wholly, or in part, in the upper end of the present borough of Dorranceton) Mr. Pettibone immediately erected a log house and established his home-being joined in the Spring of 1772 by his sons Noah and Stephen. Shortly afterwards he was married (2d) to Phebe Tubbs, and later he brought from Amenia to his home in Kingston three of his daughters (who were still unmarried) and his youngest son. The name of Noah Pettihone appears in the Kingston tax-lists for 1776, 1777 and 1778.
Although Noah Pettibone, Sr., was sixty-four years of age in 1778, yet he was an enrolled mem- ber of the 1st Alarm List Company of the 24th Regiment (see page 922), and when the battle of July 3d took place he was on duty at Forty Fort. After the capitulation of the fort he made his way to Fort Penn with his wife, his son Oliver, and one or two of his daughters. There he joined the detachment of militia commanded by Colonel Butler, and marched with it to Wilkes-Barre in August (see page 1080), while his wife and children made their way to Amenia Precinct. As shown by the muster-roll printed on page 1096, Mr. Pettihone was in continuous service as a militia-man from June 28 till, at least, October 1, 1778. After the murder of his son Stephen he joined his wife and children in Amenia Precinct, where he resided until the Summer or early Autumn of 1781, when, with his wife, he returned to his former home in Kingston. There he resided until his death, March 28, 1791. His wife, Phebe, died at some time between the years 1784 and 1791.
(iii) Noah Pettibone, (Jr.), came to Wyoming first in the Spring of 1772, being then in the twen- ty-first year of his life. In 1775 or '76 he was married to Lucy, daughter of Obadiah Scott of West- moreland, and they settled in Plymouth. A year or more later Noah Pettibone acquired certain lands in the new township of Huntington, which lay in the district of Plymouth-as established by vote of the inhabitants of Westmoreland. (See page 794.) The name of Noah Pettibone, Jr., appears in the tax-lists of "Plymouth District" for the years 1776, '77 and '78. He was a private in the 3d Company, 24th Regiment, Connecticut Militia, and, taking part with his company in the battle of Wyoming, fell early in the engagement. Under the date of November 27, 1778, letters of admin- istration upon his estate were granted by Nathan Denison, "Judge of the Court of Probate for the District of Westmoreland, in the State of Connecticut, in New England," to "Noah Pettiboon." The original "Letters," in the handwriting of, and signed by, "John Jenkins, Clark [of the Court]," are now in the collections of The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. In 1800 or 1801 Ohadiah Scott deposed before the Commissioners under the Compromise Law of 1799 (see page 25, Vol. I, and Chapter XXVI) that Noah Pettihone, Jr., came to Huntington early in the Spring of 1778 and built a house and planted a garden on Lot No. 16, 1st Division; that he was killed in the "Indian battle;" that he had two children hy his wife, both of whom died in childhood; that his widow mar- ried Amariah Watson of Huntington.
(v) Stephen Pettibone was just twenty-one years of age when, in September, 1776, he was mus- tered into the Continental service as a private in the "First Westmoreland Independent Company," commanded by Capt. Robert Durkee. (See page 892.) With this company he served until it was con- solidated with the "Second Company" (Ransom's) under Captain Spalding. With the latter he marched to Wilkes-Barre in August, 1778, and was in service at the Wyoming Garrison at the time of his death. His name was unintentionally omitted by the writer from the list of Spalding's com- pany printed on page 981. Stephen Pettihone was unmarried.
(viii) Oliver Pettibone, or Pettebone, born in Simsbury, Connecticut, May 13, 1762, removed with his parents to Amenia Precinct, and in 1772 or '73 joined his father and brothers in Kingston, Wyoming Valley. He was nearly sixteen years old when the hattle of Wyoming occurred, and was
1151
in Forty Fort when it was surrendered to the British. As previously related, he made his way back to his old home in Amenia, where he continued to reside until December 21, 1783, when he was mar- ried to Martha (born July 25, 1763), daughter of Dr. Barnabas and Mary (Burrows) Payne, and then settled at Livingston Manor, New York. In the Spring of 1788, having purchased a tract of land in Kingston Township, Wyoming Valley, near that of his father, Oliver Pettibone removed thither with his wife and three children, and there he continued to live until his death. In 1799 and 1800 he was a member of the Kingston Town Committee for the sale of the public lands of the town- ship. In 1802-'05 he was one of the Commissioners of Luzerne County, and for several years about 1813 he was a Captain in the Pennsylvania Militia. Charles Miner (in his "Wyoming," Appendix, page 13) wrote of him in 1838: "The writer remembers him well as he appeared thirty years ago. He was tall, slender, but well made, of frank and agreeable manners. We knew him in public life as Commissioner of the County, a vigilant and faithful officer; and as a private gentleman, liberal and kind, ever assiduous to please. He was a man of perfect integrity and honor." Capt. Oliver Petti- bone died March 17, 1832, at his home in Kingston Township, and his wife died there on Christmas day 1833.
The children of Oliver and Martha (Payne) Pettibone were as follows: (1) Oliver, born at Liv- ingston Manor September 9, 1784; died in Kingston Township December 6, 1813. (2) Esther, born at Livingston Manor September 15, 1785; married at Wilkes-Barre February 25, 1804, to George Trucks; died September 25, 1835. (3) Payne, born at Livingston Manor January 24, 1787; died August 13, 1814. (See below.) (4) Joshua, born in Kingston Township August 31, 1788; died March 29, 1877. (See below.) (5) Marcia, born November 3, 1790; became the wife of Samuel Thomas; died July 24, 1865. (See below.) (6) Lucy, born September 12, 1792; became the wife of Col. Eras- tus Hill; died at Kingston January 12, 1842. (7) Mary, born October 21, 1794; died January 19, 1869. (8) Nancy, born November 13, 1796; died May 14, 1888. (9) Noah, born July 27, 1798; died December 11, 1866. (See below.) (10) Huldah, born February 14, 1801; died November 25, 1801. (11) Henry, born October 5, 1802; died May 5, 1861. (See next page.) (12) Martha, born December 30, 1804; died February 26, 1838. (13) Stephen, born February 2, 1807; died August 5, 1810.
(3) Payne Pettebone was married in Kingston Township November 27, 1810, by the Rev. Ard Hoyt, to Sarah (born April 4, 1793), eldest daughter of Joseph and Mary (Lee) Tuttle. Joseph Tuttle, son of Henry Tuttle, was born in Rockaway, Morris County, New Jersey, January 19, 1772, and removed with his father to Kingston Township, Wyoming Valley, in 1785-settling on the banks of Abraham's Creek. Prior to 1798 Henry Tuttle built a small two-story frame grist-mill on this creek, just south-east of the road running from Kingston to Pittston. It stood very near what is now known as tbe "stone-arched bridge," almost on the dividing line between the present borougbs of Forty Fort and Wyoming. Henry Tuttle ran this mill until 1812, when his son Joseph came into possession of it and ran it for twenty-six years. Forty years ago this little brown mill, perched on the bank of the creek, high above the clear and quiet waters, and overhung and almost surrounded by noble trees, formed a very picturesque view. Joseph Tuttle, mentioned above, was married Sep- tember 26, 1792, to Mary Lee, daughter of Jesse Lee (originally of Connecticut, but, as early, at least, as 1774 or '75, a resident of Kingston in Wyoming Valley) and his wife Sarah, a daughter of John McDowel, mentioned on page 730, ante. Joseph Tuttle died February 11, 1849. Payne Pette- bone died in Kingston August 13, 1814, and some years later his widow became the wife of David Perkins, Jr., of Kingston. (See page 1108.) She died April 27, 1869. The children of Payne and Sarah (Tuttle) Pettebone were: (a) Stoughton, born April 9, 1812; married (1st) in 1835 to An- toinette Dunning, who died March 9, 1845; married (2d) in 1846 to Cornelia Bellamy. For many years Stoughton Pettebone was a manufacturer of paper at Niagara Falls, New York, where he died September 1, 1888. (b) Payne, born December 23, 1813; married October 3, 1837, to Caroline M. Swetland. (See note on page 1085.) Payne Pettebone was for many years a prominent and influ- ential citizen of Wyoming Valley and a man of large wealth. For some time he was Treasurer of tbe Lackawanna and Bloomsburg Railroad Company and a member of its Board of Directors. At the time of his death he was a Director of the Miners' Savings Bank and the Wyoming National Bank of Wilkes-Barre; President of the Board of Trustees of Wyoming Seminary; a Trustee of Wesleyan University, and also of Drew Theological Seminary. He was also identified with otber important institutions and business enterprises, and was an earnest member and a liberal supporter of the Metbodist Episcopal Church. He died at bis home in the borougb of Wyoming March 20, 1888, being survived by his wife and two children-Mrs. Kate Swetland (Pettebone) Dickson and Robert Treat Pettebone.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.