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".We find nothing different in the case of Nash than there was found by the for- mer committee, viz. Doc. Wolcott, &c., but that Nash be considered and admitted upon the right of James Ray, and dealt with as sufferers heretofore have been dealt with. We further find that Thomas Heath was accepted as a settler in the township of Plymouth on the 6th day of March, 1772, and on the 16th of the same month Heath had a furlough to go after his family, who were then at Loyal Sock on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, and to return as soon as he could ; which Heath with the greatest distress and difficulty-on account of his poverty and the circumstances of his family and the season-was prevented from getting to Wyoming until the 23d of May following, which was as soon as was possible for him to get there ; and in the absence of Heath tlie committee, on the 22d of May, 1772, declared Heath's right vacant (by mistake, as the
* The Hon. JONATHAN TRUMBULL, then Governor of Connecticut. See page 470, Vol. I.
+ Wilkes-Barré, Kingstown, Plymouth, Hanover, Pittstown and New Providence.
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committee now agree), which right was given to one Frasler, who was then absent ; which right was by the committee declared vacant after eight months' absence, immedi- ately upon which the committee put one [William] Reynolds upon Heath's original right by mere mistake, when they supposed they had put Heath on his original right ; but it appears Reynolds' name is put thereto, and it is our opinion that said Heath be quieted in his original right.
" 'We also further report that Mr. William Stewart has lost that right given to him in Kingstown. It is our opinion that Mr. Stewart be considered by the Company on that account elsewliere. We also find that Caleb Bates ouglit to have his right in Pitts- town ; and upon his paying the forty dollars agreed with the Committee for, he be entitled to his right in Muncy Creek township, and not otherwise. We also further find that Comfort Shaw forfeited his right by absence, and he has been provided for by the Committee in one of the suffering towns, which is all he deserves, in our opinion. We also further find that Mathw Hollinbach was one of Capt. Stewart's associates, but had so neglected his Duty that Capt. Stewart and his associates judged him unworthy, and have refused to allow him a settling right in Hanover, and we find no reason to dissent from Capt. Stewart's doings. We also further find that the matters of Jeremiah Ross and Enoch Judd are so particularly circumstanced that Ross ouglit to be restored to his former right and Judd be established in the right he purchased of Stevens, and that all disputes relating thereto cease, and their titles be amply secured to them respectively. We further find Ezra Buell, Gershom Breed, Gershom Hewitt, Benjamin Hewitt, John Wooster, Gideon Lawrence, Ephraim Fellows and Joshua Whitney have been sufferers and are recommended to the favor of the Company, and [to be] provided for as they shall think fit ; and that the matter of John Stevens, Eleazar Carey and Austin Hunt be continued to some future meeting.'
"This report accepted.
"Voted, That James Forsythe shall be and he is hereby restored to his settling right in the township of Kingstown that belonged to Joseph Funk.
"Whereas, William Stewart is by this meeting voted out of his right in Kingstown, it is now voted that the Committee for Regulating the Settlement shall see that the said Stewart has equivalent thereto.
"Voted, That the Committee of Settlers at Wyoming, viz. : Capt. Zebulon Butler, Maj. John Durkee and Obadiah Gore, Jr., or either two of them, be directed to lay out to Capt. Judah Woodruff and his associates a township of land on the south side of the West Branch of the Susquehanna River opposite the mouth of Pine Creek, to extend up and down said West Branch, and to extend as far south upon the side of the mountain as land can be found fit for improvement-to contain the quantity of five miles square, including the Long Island, so called-under the same regulations as the other townships heretofore have been laid out."
Early in June, 1773, the Pennsylvania authorities of Northumber- land County were informed that a large party of Yankees from Wyo- ming intended to again attempt to establish a settlement on the West Branch of the Susquehanna, and William Plunket-Judge, Doctor, Colonel, etc .- wrote from Sunbury to Messrs. James Tilghman and Joseph Shippen concerning the matter. On June 7th Dr. Plunket wrote to Governor Penn, saying: "This morning we are hurrying up to the place where the enclosed mentions they [the Yankees] intend to fortify, if possible to check them a little." June 11, 1773, Governor Penn wrote from Philadelphia to Dr. Plunket at Sunbury as follows :*
"I have considered the intelligence you communicated in your Letter to Messrs. Shippen and Tilghman, concerning the motions of the New England People, and am both concerned and offended at their daring attempts to disturb the Peace of the Pro- vince, and Possess themselves of the Property of our People. Should they proceed to your parts (as it seems Probable they will) I doubt not but you and the rest of the magistracy, with the Sheriff and other Peace officers, will exert yourselves in the execu- tion of the Laws, in which you may be assured of all the Countenance, Protection and Support in my Power. So great a number of People appearing in arms is undoubtedly of itself a high and aggravated Breach of the Peace, and such as any Magistrate may take notice of, and cause the Partys to be arrested and bound to answer, and the Sheriff hath, upon occasions of this kind, a Power to raise the Posse of his County, to assist in the Execution of the King's Process. Should the suppression of these dangerous and riotous proceedings prove beyond the ordinary power of your County (which, however, I am in hopes they will not ), I shall certainly apply to the Assembly for their assistance. I rely upon the spirited Magistracy and the People of the County upon this occasion, who will not fail to recommend themselves to the Government by shewing a disposition to support it against the Lawless intrusions of these Insurgents.
* See "Pennsylvania Archives," Fourth Series, III : 540.
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"You will not fail to inform me of their further motions, and of your proceedings against their Hostile designs. Should a number of them be arrested-more than can be conveniently confin'd in your Gaol-I would have you send them under a proper Guard to Philadelphia."
On page 1,118 of "The Town Book of Wilkes Barre" we find the minutes of a town-meeting held at "Wilks Barre, June 21, 1773," and reading as follows :
"Captain Butler chosen Moderator.
"Voted, That Maj! Peirce, Capt. Fuller and Mr. Seth Marvin are apptd as Comtee men to assist in regulating the settlement of said towns consistent with ye former votes of this Compy , and to assist in redressing those grievances of those persons that are not provided for.
"Voted, That those persons that lives in Wilks Barre that holds settling rights in any town shall do their duty in Wilks Barre. Also in Kingstown in like manner, and in Plymouth in like manner, and also in Hanover in like manner. That those persons that lives in Exeter and lives in Pittstown that holds settling rights shall do their duty in Pittstown. That ye Comtee in each town shall see that ye guard and scouting shall be kept up for ye future in each town steadily every night, with four men and one sergeant, and make their return to ye Comtee in each town every day, and for ye Comtee to make their return of all ye delinquents at ye next meeting of settlers."
At a meeting of the settlers held June 28, 1773, Joseph Slumnan, John Jenkins, Timothy Smith, Christopher Avery, Zebulon Butler, Nathan Denison and Stephen Fuller were appointed a committee "to draw up a plan in order to come into some better regulations for ye future, agreeable to ye plan already laid before this meeting." At a general meeting of the settlers held at "Wilks Barre July 8, 1773," Captain Butler was chosen Moderator, and the following business was transacted : *
"Voted, That this meeting do now accept of ye Report of ye Comtee, with ye altera- tions made therein, for ye well ordering and governing ye Proprietors and settlers on said Purchase.
"Voted, That the act for ye well ordering and governing ye Indians in this Colony, . particularly that paragraph relating to ye selling, giving, bartering or trucking of spirit- uous liquors, as mentioned in page 96 of ye Colony law-book, be fully and to all intents & purposes put in force, as is mentioned in said Act.t
"Voted, That Timothy Smith is chosen by this Company to be their Sheriff.
"Voted, That Mr. Joseph Sluman is chosen by this Compy to be one of ye Direc- tors to joyn with ye other Directors for ye business mentioned in ye Report of ye Comtee."
At a general meeting of proprietors and settlers held at Wilkes- Barré July 22, 1773, Capt. Zebulon Butler was "chosen to be ye Judge of the Probates for this company of settlers"; Capt. Obadiah Gore was chosen a Director in the stead of Joseph Slumant, "who refused to serve", and it was "Voted, That each town shall chuse one or more Listers, to take in a list of ye poles & rateable estate in each town, &c."
The circulation throughout Connecticut of petitions addressed to the General Assembly of the Colony in behalf of The Susquehanna Company, and the presentation to the Assembly of the Company's memorial, in the Spring of 1773, as previously related, attracted con-
* See page 1,123 of "The Town Book of Wilkes Barre."
+ The Connecticut statute here referred to was worded as follows : "No person or persons whatsoever shall directly or indirectly sell, truck, barter, give, or deliver to any Indian any strong beer, ale, cyder, perry, wine, rum, brandy, or other strong or spirituous liquors, on pain of forfeiting the sum of 10 shill- ings for every pint so sold, trucked, bartered, given or delivered." *
* Provided, nevertheless, that nothing in this Act shall be construed to hinder or restrain any act of Charity for relieving any Indian in any case of sickness or necessity."
JOSEPH SLUMAN, (JR.), was born at Lebanon, New London County, Connecticut, November 2, 1736, the only child of Joseph Sluman, Sr. (who died at Lebanon June 18, 1744), and his first wife Hannah (born September 18. 1717 ; married February 27, 1735 ; died November 7, 1736), fifth child of Capt. Joseph and Hannah (Higley) Trumbull of Lebanon, and younger sister of Gov. Jonathan Trumbull. (See page 470, Vol I.) Joseph Sluman, Jr., was graduated a Bachelor of Arts at Harvard College in 1756, in the same class with his cousin Joseph Trumbull (previously mentioned ), and in 1759 the degree of A. M. was conl . ferred upon him by his Alma Mater. He was married about 1759 or '60, and settled at East Haddam. New London County, Connecticut. In the Summer of 1761 he was at Crown Point as clerk and agent for Jonathan Trumbull (his uncle), Hezekiah Huntington and others who were contractors of supplies for the Connecticut forces then in the field. (See first paragraph, page 281, Vol. I.) In 1763-as shown by
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siderable attention from the general public not only in Connecticut, but elsewhere. Various comments on the Company and its claims were printed in the newspapers of Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania, and in addition certain circulars and pamphlets were printed and dis- tributed. One pamphlet, which seems to have been widely disseminated and read, and to have produced a good deal of comment, was entitled : "The Right of the Governor & Company, of the Colony of Connecticut, to Claim and Hold the Lands within the limits of their Charter, lying West of the Province of New York. Stated and considered, in a letter to J. H., Esquire. To which is added an account of the purchase from the Indians of part of those Lands by the Susquehannah and Delaware Companies, and their proceedings thereon. Hartford ; Printed by Eben. Watson, near the Great Bridge, [April], 1773."
Naturally, as a result of this publicity in respect to the affairs of The Susquehanna Company, a new interest was aroused in those share- holders of the Company who, theretofore, either had neglected to have lands laid out to them in the Susquehanna Purchase in satisfaction of their "rights", or, having had lands allotted to them, had failed to "man" or improve the same. Many individuals of both these classes, as well as men outside the Company who desired to purchase "rights", now made their way to Wilkes-Barré, the hub, or center, of the Wyo- ming settlements. (In the various deeds, bonds, contracts and other legal documents executed here at that time, Wilkes-Barré was referred to as "on ye Susquehanna Purchase, in ye Colony of Connecticut, in New England.")
During the Spring and Summer of 1773 a large number of "rights" changed hands, and several new townships were laid out in conformity with the regulations of The Susquehanna Company. In March, 1773, the township of New Providence (see pages 467 and 726), which, some time before, had been ordered to be laid out at Capouse Meadows, was formally organized and allotted, in part, to its proprietors-somne of whom were Christopher Avery, Timothy Keyes, John Murfee, Capt. Silas Park, Isaac Tripp, Esq., Henry Dow Tripp, Ezra Dean (by Asa Upson), Philip Wintermute, Solomon Johnson, John Staples, Jacob Anguish, Allen Whitman, Solomon Avery, John McDowel, Zebulon Butler (by Moses Roberts), Timothy Gaylord (by Ambrose Gaylord), Phineas Nash, Ichabod Hopkins (by James Hopkins), Stephen Jenkins (by Robert Comstock), Jabez Sill (on Wm. Leonard's right), Ebenezer Heberd (by Wm. Hawkins), Samuel Pelton and Paul Pelton. (See "Pennsylvania Archives", Second Series, XVIII : 772.)
Early in May, 1773, Capt. Prince Alden, John Comstock and Cyprian Lothrop, representing a number of proprietors, or shareholders,
the unpublished papers of Joseph Trumbull-Mr. Sluman was connected with some of the business enter- prises of the Trumbulls, and made voyages to the West Indies and elsewhere. In June, 1768, Mr. Sluman wrote from Horton, Nova Scotia, to Joseph Trumbull, and April 17, 1769, wrote to him from Boston, stat- ing that at the beginning of the month he had arrived there, "after spending almost a year in that disa- greeable country, Nova Scotia." Continuing, he wrote : "I am now about making a voyage to Virginia."
Joseph Sluman came to Wyoming first in the Spring of 1773, apparently, and returned to his home in East Haddam in the latter part of August. He declined to serve in the office of Director to which he had been elected, because of his intention to return to Connecticut. During the ensuing three years he seems to have divided his time between East Haddam and Wilkes-Barre-coming and going as inclination or business led him-and his name is several times mentioned in the following pages. Miner, in his "His- tory of Wyoming," says (page 159): "The name of Joseph Sluman occurs frequently in the old records. From his being often named on committees, and several times chosen Member of Assembly, it would appear that he was trusted and honoured ; but we cannot learn whence he came, what was his fate, or whether he left any family in Wyoming. It is most probable that his generous spirit led him into the thickest of the terrible conflict that afterwards overwhelmed the valley, and that fortune, life and all remembrance of him were extinguished together."
Joseph Sluman died peacefully and quietly in 1776 at East Haddam, about eighteen miles south-west of Norwich, where Charles Miner was born four years later.
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in the Susquehanna Purchase, located and laid out for thiem the town- ship of "Newport," west of and adjoining Hanover, and about eight iniles south-west of Wilkes-Barre. January 17, 1774, this township was formally granted by the Company to those proprietors who had applied for it.
May 12, 1773, Nathanial Wales and Ebenezer Gray, Jr., a com- mittee duly appointed, inade report to "the Committee of Settlers on the Susquehanna River in Connecticut" that, "in consequence of the liberty granted" to thein April 30th, they had laid out two townships-the first, "Salem" (on the west bank of the North Branch of the Susque- hanna River, below the mouth of Shickshinny Creek, and about eight miles below the valley of Wyoming), and the second, "Westminster" (on the West Branch of the River, at the mouth of Buffalo Creek-men- tioned on page 737, ante). On the same day, at Wilkes-Barré, Zebulon Butler, Ezekiel Peirce, Stephen Fuller and Obadiah Gore, Jr., of the Committee of Settlers, manifested and signified their "acceptance of the doings of N. Wales and E. Gray, Jr." Among the original proprietors of Salem were Robert Jameson, Nathan Beach and Jeremiah Ross. (For the location of Salem with relation to Wilkes-Barré, see the map facing page 468, Vol. I.)
Early in May the township of "Parkbury" was laid out within the bounds of The Delaware Company's Purchase (see page 293), and about the 20th of May the lands of the township were allotted to the propri- etors thereof. Reference is here made to this matter for the reason that when, in 1774, the town of Westmoreland was erected, the settlement at Parkbury was included within its limits. Parkbury was located in what is now Palmyra Township, Pike County, Pennsylvania, and by May 21, 1773, a small stockaded fort and five houses had been built "on ye side of an hill facing toward ye north-west," about half a mile from Wallenpaupack Creek. There were at that time "about thirty men and lads and five women" in the settlement. Among the original drawers of lots in Parkbury were the following-named : Capt. Silas Park*, Abel N. Kimball, Benjamin Lothrop, Gilbert Denton, Daniel Denton, Ephraim Killam, Jephthah Killam, Jonathan Haskell, John Ainsley, Capt. Zebulon Parrish, Isaac Parrish, Stephen Parrish, Elijah Witter, Nathaniel Gates, David Gates, Ezekiel Yarington, Hezekiah Bingham, John Hurlbut, John Pellet, William Pellet, Walter Kimball, Eliab Farnam, Uriah Chapman, Jacob Kimball, Zadock Killam and Obadiah Gore, Jr.
Contiguous to, or within a short distance from, Parkbury the town of "Huntington" was laid out (in the Delaware Purchase) early in May, 1773, and in the following August a drawing of lots by the proprietors took place. (See F. C. Johnson's Historical Record, I: 213, 214, and II : 78.)
At Windham, Connecticut, July 7, 1773, the Standing Committee of The Susquehanna Company, "in consideration of sundry beneficial Services done by Samuel Huntington of Norwich for said Company",
* Capt. SILAS PARK was, undoubtedly, the man for whom Parkbury was named. He was in Wyo- ming as early as June, 1769 (see pages 667 and 677), and was one of the original proprietors of New Provi- dence. During and after May, 1773, he was located at Parkbury-at least until July, 1778, when, after the battle of Wyoming, all the settlers at Parkbury fled to New York and New Jersey. Miner says ("History of Wyoming," page 467) that Silas Park never returned to the settlement after the Revolution. He had two sons : Silas, a fifer in Capt. Dethick Hewitt's company, who was killed in the battle of Wyo- ming, and Moses, who at a later period was a clergyman in New Jersey.
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granted and conveyed to him "one whole Share in the Lands in said Susquehanna Purchase, in equal proportion with the other Proprietors." Samuel Huntington, who was the elder brother of the Rev. Enoch Huntington-the first of that name mentioned in the note on page 293-was, at the time the aforementioned grant was inade, a member of the General Assembly of Connecticut. In 1774 he was appointed an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut, and in 1775 was sent as a Delegate from Connecticut to the Continental Congress. From 1779 till 1781 he was President of Congress ; in 1784 he was appointed Chief Justice of Connecticut ; in the same year he was elected Lieuten- ant Governor of the State, and in 1786 was elected Governor-holding this office, by successive re-elections, until his death in January, 1796. February 13, 1796, Samuel and Fanny Huntington of Norwich, "de- visees and residuary legatees of His Excellency Samuel Huntington, Esq., late of Norwich," sold and transferred to Elisha Hyde and Elisha Tracy of Norwich the original right in the Susquehanna Purchase which had been donated as hereinbefore described.
Upon page 767 mention is made of the fact that at the meeting of The Susquehanna Company held June 2, 1773, directions were given "for locating and laying out" a tract of land for Gov. Jonathan Trum- bull. In the latter part of July, 1773, Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., and David Trumbull, sons of Governor Trumbull (see page 471, Vol. I), arrived at Wilkes-Barré from Lebanon, Connecticut, bearing from the Governor a letter reading as follows :*
"LEBANON 19TH JULY, 1773.
"Sir-My two sons bring with them, The Vote of the Susquahannah Company, and the Order of the Committee to locate, Survey and lay out to me five hundred acres of Land within said Susquahannah purchase. They likewise bring with them a Certificate of my payment of all Taxes due on my Right to the present time. These are to ask your, and the rest of the Committee for directing the Settlement of the Lands, favour to assist in looking out and finding some good and convenient place to lay the five hundred acres ; -I amı also told that this grant doth not prevent my having my first proportion of a Settler's Right-that the same may be laid adjoyning to this Grant, or otherwise as is judged best. This Favour and assistance will be very acceptable, and all Trouble and Expences satisfied. The copies of my two last letters from Mr. Agent Lifet are enclosed, whereby it appears that the Opinion of Counsel of the first consequence is futly in Favour of the Titte of the Cotony to the Lands tying Westward of the Province of New York. Wishing you good order and Prosperity, I am with great Respect, Gentlemen, "Your obedient "humble servant,
"Capt. Zebulon Butler, and the Rest
of the Comtee at Susquahannah.
"JONTH TRUMBULL."
Relative to the business which brought Jonathan and David Trum- bull to Wilkes-Barre we find the following recorded on pages 32 and 92 of Book "F" of the original records of The Susquehanna Company- referred to on page 28, Vol. I.
"Whereas the Committee of The Susquehanna Company, pursuant to a vote of the said Company, did authorize and empower Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., and David Trumbull, Esquires, to locate, survey and lay out to the Hon. Jon. Trumbull 500 acres of land within the Susquehanna Purchase ; and whereas the said Jonathan Trumbull, Esq., is a propri- etor of one whole share in said Purchase, and has not had any share laid out to him in any township already laid out ; and whereas the said Company by their vote the 2d June, 1773, ordered and directed that Maj. John Durkee, Messrs. Vine Elderkin, Ebenezer Gray, Jr., Andrew French and Capt. Ebenezer Backus should, for the losses sustained, be provided for and each made equal to a right in the township of Kingston, according to the present value thereof ; and that Capt. Zebulon Butler, Isaac Tripp, Esq., and Nathan Denison should be a committee to determine the quantity of land each of the
* The original letter is now in the possession of the present writer.
+ THOMAS LIFE, Esq., a London solicitor of high character, established at Basinghall Street, who was the agent or attorney for Connecticut in England. In 1767, and earlier, he was solicitor for John Wilkes, during the latter's troublous times at home and abroad.
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abovenamed should have, &c .; and whereas said five persons, by their agents, Capt. Z. Butler and Ebenezer Gray, Jr., have agreed with said Jonathan and David Trumbull, in behalf of the Hon. Jonathan Trumbull, that said 500 acres and said right as a proprietor, of 600 acres, and the rights to be laid to said five other persons, should be laid on the West Branch of the Susquehanna River, and should be held in common and undivided, according to the quantities of them granted and located. * * * We have, therefore, laid out 3,200 acres of land to the said Hon. Jonathan Trumbull and said five persons, sufferers, as aforesaid-viz. : 1,100 acres for Trumbull, and 425 acres for each of the others-at Warriour's Run .*.
"Dated-August 14, 1773.
[Signed] "JON. TRUMBULL, JR., Agents for the Hon. Jon. Trumbull. "DAVID TRUMBULL, "ZEBN BUTLER, Agents for Major Durkee and others."
"EBENR GRAY, JR.,
"We the subscribers do hereby approve the above survey as described, &c. Wilks- barre, August 14, 1773. [Signed] "ZEBN BUTLER, Comtee for laying out lands." "OBADIAH GORE, JR., "ISAAC TRIPP,
In February, 1796, David Trumbull, Executor of the will of former Governor Trumbull, deceased, gave to Ezekiel Hyde (then of Norwich, Connecticut, but later of Wilkes-Barré) a Power of Attorney authorizing him to examine as to the rights in the Susquehanna Purchase belong- ing to the estates of Jonathan and Joseph Trumbull, and to David Trumbull himself, and to locate said rights if the same had not already been done. March 1, 1796, Simon Spalding, John Jenkins and John Franklin, Commissioners of The Susquehanna Company, granted unto David Trumbull, the estates of Jonathan and Joseph Trumbull, Ezekiel Hyde and others a township five miles square (containing 16,000 acres of land), to be located on the East Branch of the Susquehanna, and to be named "Trumbull".
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