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¡ TIMOTHY KEYES was originally of New Marlborough, Berkshire County, Massachussetts, from which place, presumably, he came to Wyoming Valley in April, or early in May, 1772. (See page 741.) He sold a half-right in the Susquehanna Purchase to Douglass and William Davidson at Wilkes-Barre, May 18, 1772 (not 1774, as erroneously printed in the note on page 908, ante), and shortly afterwards he became a proprietor in the township of New Providence (later named Providence) which had been ordered to be laid out at Capouse Meadows. (See page 770.) He was chosen Constable for this town- ship in December, 1772. At a meeting of the Wyoming settlers held in the fort at Wilkes-Barre in October, 1773, he was chosen Collector of Road Taxes in the room of Solomon Johnson. In October, 1775, he was established and commissioned Ensign of the 4th (or Pittston) Company in the 24th Reg- iment, and in May, 1777, was promoted Lieutenant of the same conipany. At that time he owned 113 acres of land in Providence which he had purchased June 9, 1777, from Col. John Durkee, to whom, "as a sufferer for a right in Kingston", the land had been granted. Lieutenant Keyes was with his company in Pittston Fort during the battle of Wyoming, and after the surrender of the fort he left the Valley. He returned some weeks later, however, and was at Wilkes-Barre in service in the detach- ment of militia under the command of Lieut. Col. Zebulon Butler, as described in Chapter XVI. In the Autumn of 1778 he was captured and put to death by Indians-as hereinafter more fully narrated.
* JEREMIAH BICKFORD came to Wyoming Valley in 1774 or 1775. His name appears in the tax- lists of Hanover District, or Township, for the years 1776, 1777 and 1778; but early in the last-men- tioned year he removed to Pittston, and shortly afterwards was established and commissioned Ensign of the 4th Company. He had been a Sergeant in the Hanover company. He took part in the battle of Wyoming, and in attempting to escape from the field was killed. Miner (in his "History of Wyoming", page 225) gives the following account of his death: "At the river, near the [Monacanock] Island, the scene was exceedingly distressing. A few swam over and escaped. Closely pressed, many were killed in the river. Sergeant [sic] Jeremiah Bickford, a very active man, was pursued by an Indian into the stream with a spear. Bickford faced him, struck the spear from his hand and dashed him under his feet, where he would have been drowned, but another savage rushed forward to his aid and ran his spear through Bickford's hreast, who fell dead and floated away. A month afterward his body was found seven or eight miles helow, much decayed, but was recognized by a silver brooch he wore, which, with a piece of the shirt with the spear hole, was preserved by his family for many years." Letters of administration upon the estate of Lieutenant Bickford were granted to his widow Mehetabel April 1, 1782, by the Probate Court of Westmoreland, Edward Spencer being surety.
¡ WILLIAM McKERACHAN was a native of Ireland, and in religious belief a Presbyterian. Not classically, but well, educated, he left Belfast in the Summer of 1764, a young man, to seek his fortune in America. Landing at Philadelphia he passed into Chester County, where, for a season, he taught school in Nantmeal. Thence he went into Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and later he removed to New Jersey, still engaged in school-teaching. The story of Wyoming Valley early attracted his attention, and in 1774 he removed to the Valley and settled in Hanover, at what is now the borough of Nanticoke. There he taught school for awhile, and then established a store-the first one in Hanover. He also purchased lands. He was not only esteemed by his neighbors, but was highly regarded by the commu- nity at large. Early in March, 1777, he was sent to the Continental Congress at Philadelphia on a bus- iness mission for the inhabitants of Westmoreland. He spent four days in going, four days in the city, and the same number of days in returning, and his original bill for his expenses, amounting to £11, 14s. 6d., is now preserved in the collections of The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. He was the original and only Captain of the 5th (or Hanover) Company of the 24th Regiment, having been established and commissioned in October, 1775. In May, 1777, and again in May, 1778, he was appointed by the General Assembly of Connecticut and subsequently commissioned a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Westmoreland. He fell on the battle-field of Wyoming, leaving neither wife nor descendants.
# See a subsequent chapter for a sketch of his life.
§ REZIN GEER Was born in 1738 at Norwich, New London County, Connecticut, a member of one of the oldest families of that town. He came to Wyoming with his wife and one child in 1774, and settled in that part of Wilkes-Barre which is now the township of Plains. Having been elected in the Summer of 1775 Captain of the militia company which had then been organized in upper Wilkes-Barre, he was established in that office by the General Assembly, and duly commissioned, when (in October, 1775) the company mentioned was designated as the 6th Company of the 24th Regiment. He fell in the battle of Wyoming, and was survived by his wife and three sons, the eldest son being only five years of age. The family returned to Connecticut, but a number of years later the sons settled in what is now Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. One of these sons-Capt. Jeremiah Geer-died about 1840; and in June, 1845, Stephen Geer of Brooklyn, Susquehanna County, was the only survivor of the family. || See page 835.
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John Franklin,* Captain ; Stoddard Bowen, t Lieutenant; Nathaniel Goss, Ensign. The extract from the writings of Captain Franklin, on page 994, explains the whereabouts of the members of this company on July 2d. The officers of the "1st Alarm List Company" were: James Bidlack, Sr.,§ Captain; Lebbeus Tubbs, | Lieutenant; John Comstock, T
* For a portrait of Captain FRANKLIN, and a sketch of his life, see a subsequent chapter.
+ STODDARD BOWEN was living in Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut, when, January 31, 1776, he entered into an agreement with Joshua Reed of Windhamn "to go on and settle" certain lands belong- ing to Reed in the township of Salem, in Westmoreland. Salem had been laid out, and accepted by the "Committee of Settlers", in May, 1773. It was located on the right bank of the Susquehanna, some eight miles below the Valley of Wyoming. (See map facing page 468.) Stoddard Bowen, together with Aaron Bowen-presumably his brother-came to Wyoming some time in 1776, and they settled first in Hanover (see their names in the Hanover tax-lists for 1777 and 1778); but early in the Spring of 1778 Stoddard Bowen removed to Salem. A few weeks later he was established and commissioned Lieutenant of the 10th Company of the 24th Regiment. As previously mentioned he and three or four of the men of his company reached Forty Fort just in time to march out with the militia to the battle- field, upon which he and at least one of his men (Silas Harvey) fell a few hours later. Their names appear in the list of the slain on the Wyoming Monument.
# NATHANIEL Goss was the son of Philip Goss, Sr., of Becket, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and as early as the Summer of 1769 Nathaniel Goss and either his father or his brother Philip (it was, undoubtedly, the father) were in Wyoming Valley. (See lists on pages 497 and 509.) Philip Goss, Sr., was the father of the following-named children: Solomon, Comfort, David, Nathaniel, Sarah (who became the wife of Enos Seward, Jr., of Granville, Massachusetts) and Philip (who was born in 1746; was married to Hannah - -, who died March 15, 1834, aged eighty years; he died in Hunting- ton Township, Luzerne County, October 25, 1833). April 17, 1770, William Walsworth of Beekman's Precinct, Dutchess County, New York, conveyed "to Philip Goss, [ Sr. ], of Becket, Massachusetts, and Francis Gillow of Goshen, Orange County, New York", one right in the Susquehanna Purchase to which he was entitled as "one of the first forty settlers there." Nathaniel Goss was at Fort Durkee, Wilkes-Barre, in May, 1770 (see page 649), and in the list of Susquehanna proprietors made up in June, 1770 (see page 658), the names of Philip and Nathaniel appear. Philip Goss was a inember of the party commanded by Capt. Zebulon Butler which came to Wilkes-Barre in July, 1771, to besiege the Penna- inites in Fort Wyoming. Nathaniel Goss joined the party a few weeks later. (See pages 694 and 702.) Prior to March, 1772, Philip Goss had become a proprietor in the township of Plymouth, and was & member of the "Settlers' Committee" for that township. In March or April, 1772, be was sent express to Connecticut on business for the settlers-as is shown by an original paper now in the possession of The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. From 1772 till 1776 Philip Goss, Sr., and his family resided in the township of Plymouth.
In 1775 the township of Huntington was laid out under the auspices of The Susquehanna Company (see map facing page 468), and its location was within the bounds of what, by vote of the inhabitants of Westmoreland, was entitled "Plymouth District." (See page 794.) During 1775 and 1776 there were very few inhabitants in Huntington, but some time during the latter year the number was increased by the removal thither of Philip Goss, Sr., and his family, who settled near what is now known as Huntington Mills. The names of Philip Goss, Sr., Philip Goss, Jr., Nathaniel Goss and Sol- omon Goss appear in the tax-lists of Plymouth District (which included Huntington and Salem), for the years 1776, 1777 and 1778. Nathaniel Goss, some time after settling in Huntington, built a grist-mill on a small stream which flowed into Huntington Creek. He was established and commissioned Ensign of the 10th Company of the 24th Regiment in May, 1778, and he was one of those who marched with Captain Franklin to Forty Fort in the following July, under the circumstances herein described. Philip Goss, Sr., died in Huntington in the latter part of 1779, and letters of administration upon his estate were granted to Nathaniel Goss by the Probate Court of Westmoreland January 18, 1780-Capt. John Franklin being surety on a bond of £1,000. An inventory of the estate-made up by Obadiah Gore and John Jenkins, Jr., appraisers-was filed the same day. It amounted to ££575, 1sh. 8d., "counting 25 Continental dollars for one silver dollar." The original inventory is now in the collections of The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. According to the assessment-list of Huntington Township for the year 1796 Nathaniel Goss and Philip Goss (Jr.) were the only tax-payers of that surname who were then living in the township.
§ JAMES BIDLACK, SR., was a native of Connecticut, and presumably of Windham County, in which county he was living in 1750 when, on February 14th, he was married in the parish of Canada, in the town of Windham, to Mehetabel Durkee (born February 14, 1731), a younger sister of John Durkee, subsequently the founder and namer of Wilkes-Barre. (See page 481, Vol. I.) James and Mehetabel (Durkee) Bidlack settled in Canterbury, Windham County, where all their children were born. In the campaign of 1758, during the French and Indian War, James Bidlack served as a private in the 7th Company (Benjamin Lee of Plainfield, Captain, and Benedict Satterlee, Second Lieutenant) of the 3d Connecticut Regiment, commanded by Col. Eleazar Fitch. When the 3d Company was mustered at Fort Edward (see next to the last paragraph on page 635, ante), October 19, 1758, James Bidlack was noted as "Sick in Hospital." (See "Connecticut Historical Society's Collections," X : 64.)
James Bidlack, Sr., first came to Wyoming Valley in the Spring of 1770, and, as shown by the affi- davit of Nathan Ogden printed on page 649, was one of the New England party occupying Fort Durkee in April and May of that year. As one of the first body of settlers to dispossess the Pennamites and occupy the Valley under the auspices of The Susquehanna Company, James Bidlack, Sr., was admitted a proprietor in Wilkes-Barre; and at the first drawing of lots in the town-plot in June, 1770, he drew Lot No. 33. (See pages 655 and 662.) Subsequently, owing to his absence from the Valley in 1771, and his failure to assist in regaining possession of it from the Pennamites, he lost his "right" in Wilkes- Barré. Ile returned to Wyoming in April or May, 1772 (see page 732), and at Wilkes-Barré, October 3, 1772, signed the memorial printed on page 751. Between the last-mentioned date and May 24, 1774, he drew certain lots in Plymouth on his "right", and erecting a house there brought his family on from Connecticut.
James Bidlack, Sr., was established and commissioned Lieutenant of the 1st Alarm List Company in May, 1777, and was promoted Captain in the following October. (See pages 921 and 948.) During the battle of Wyoming he commanded the slender garrison (consisting chiefly of old inen and boys) of Shawnee Fort. He fled from the Valley after the battle and massacre, hut returned in the following August and was in service at Wilkes-Barre in the detachment commanded by Lieut. Col. Zebulon But- ler, as more fully related in Chapter XVI. A band of Indians sneaked into the sparsely inhabited set- tlement in Plymouth, March 21, 1779, captured Captain Bidlack, and carried him off to Canada, where he was detained a prisoner until August, 1782, when he was liberated. He reached his home in Ply- mouth the 10th of the following September. His wife Mehetahel having died about this time, or a few years later, he was married (2d) to Mrs. Esther (Laurence) Ransom, the widow of Capt. Samuel Ran- SOM.
(See page 895.) She died in Norfolk, Connecticut, in August, 1794, and Captain Bidlack died in
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Plymouth about 1810. Capt. James and Mehetabel (Durkee) Bidlack were the parents of the following- named children: (i) James, (ii) Stephen, (iii) Sarah (married, 1st, to Stephen Abbott, and 2d, to Asa Abbott, as mentioned on page 718), (iv) Benjamin, (v) Shubal, (vi) Philemon.
(i) James Bidlack (or James Bidlack, Jr., as he was called) was born in Canterbury, Connecticut, in 1751, and was married in the parish of Canada, in the town of Windham, Connecticut, April 30, 1772, to Abigail Fuller, mentioned on page 718, ante. In the latter part of 1773 they removed to Wilkes-Barré, where, in February, 1774 (as noted on page 718), Mrs. Bidlack's father conveyed to ber Lot No. 17 in the town-plot. There James and Abigail Bidlack took up their residence. In January, 1778, James Bidlack, Jr., was established and commissioned Captain of the Ist (or Lower Wilkes. Barre) Company of the 24th Regiment. At the battle of Wyoming he commanded his company, which was in the right wing of the American line. He fell mortally wounded at the head of his men, was seized by the savages, thrown among the burning logs of Wintermute's Fort, held there by pitch-forks, and tortured till he died. Only eight men of his company escaped from the field of slaughter.
Letters of administration upon the estate of Capt. James Bidlack, Jr., were granted by the Probate Court of Westmoreland to Mrs. Abigail Bidlack, November 25, 1778, Daniel Downing becoming surety on a bond for £500. Capt. John Franklin and Lemuel Whiteman appraised the estate, and the original inventory (in the handwriting of Captain Franklin), dated October 29, 1780, and duly recorded by Oba- diah Gore, Clerk of the Probate Court, is now in the collections of The Wyoming Historical and Geo- logical Society. The items in the inventory are as follows: "One feather bed and one Pillow & Boul- ster, £3 13s .; one woollen coverlit, 16s .; one woollen coverlit, 10s .; one Tow Coverlit, 10s .; one Bed- tick-old, 6s .; one old Woollen sheet, 2s .; one Pr. of old Linnen sheets, 8s .; Three Pillow Cases-old, 3s. 6d .; Three Table Cloths, 14s .; One Linnen Coat-old, 3s. 6d .; 1 Pr. of Leather Breeches, 18s .; One old Linnen Shirt, 5s .; One old Beaver hat, 6s .; One small Trunk, 4s .; One old Sword, 4s .; One large Iron Pot, one small dto., 15s .; 2 Pewter Platters, 7 Plates and one sinall Bason, 18s .; 1 Block-tin Tea Pot, 2s. 3d .; 1 Looking Glass, 4s. 6d .; 1 Spinning Wheel, 10s .; one small Pale, Is .; 1 Cooper Axe and 2 Crooked Shaves-have been burnt-8s .; one Glass Bottle and one Candlestick, 2s. [Total] £12, 3s. 9d." About 1786 the widow Ahigail (Fuller) Bidlack was married to Col. (formerly Capt.) John Frank- lin, as his second wife. She died at Athens, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, January 31, 1834.
The children of Capt. James and Abigail (Fuller) Bidlack were as follows: (1) Stephen, born in Connecticut January 5, 1773; married March 28, 1793, to Lois, ninth child of Capt. Samuel and Estlier (Laurence) Ransom. (See page 895.) (2) Sally, became the wife of Franklin Chitsey, and settled in New York. (3) Hetty, became the wife of William Patrick; settled first at Wysox, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, and then removed to Michigan. (4) James (a posthumous child), born September 22, 1778; married in 1803 to Esther (born May 16, 1787), daughter of Daniel Moore, a native of Ireland; settled in Sheshequin, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, where he was accidentally killed April 30, 1828, while loading a raft; survived by his wife (who died August 28, 1863) and nine children.
(ii) Stephen Bidlack was a soldier in a Connecticut regiment in the Revolutionary War; was cap- tured by the British at the battle of Long Island in August, 1776, and while a prisoner in their hands died of starvation in New York City. He was unmarried.
(iv) Benjamin Bidlack, third son of Capt. James and Mehetabel (Durkee) Bidlack, was born in Windham County, Connecticut, February 25, 1759. The inscription on bis gravestone in Forty Fort Cemetery states that he was born in 1762, but this is, without doubt, an error. According to Miner's "Wyoming" he "entered into the [military] service of his country at the very commencement of the Revolutionary War. He was at Boston when Washington assembled the first American army. * * He was afterwards at the lines before New York." His term of enlistment having expired, he joined his father's family at Plymouth, Wyoming Valley, in 1777. According to a written statement made by Benjamin Bidlack in 1839 (see "The Massaere of Wyoming," by the Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden), he went out with some of the scouting parties of the militia which were sent up the Susquehanna from Wyoming in 1777. On one occasion he accompanied a party of thirty, under command of Capt. Asaph Whittlesey, which marched up the river some fifty miles. In the latter part of 1777 or early in 1778 Benjamin Bidlack, Caleb Forsythe, Benjamin Tillman, Ebenezer Goss, St. John, and five or six other young men of Westmoreland, enlisted in Capt. Thomas Worley's Mechanics' Artillery Com- pany, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where they worked and trained for some time, making arms and prae- tising their use. In the Summer of 1778 they marched into New Jersey under Colonel DeHart. In October, 1781, Benjamin Bidlack was present at the surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown, Virginia. Later he was with the army on the Hudson, and was there until the close of the war, when, having been honorably discharged from the service, he returned (June 12, 1783, according to Miner's "Wyoming") to the home of his parents in Plymouth-his father having been released from his captivity among the Indians only a short time previously. In August, 1793, Benjamin Bidlack was elected and commis- sioned Ensign of the 3d (or Plymouth) Company in the 3d Regiment, Luzerne Brigade, Pennsylvania Militia.
About the beginning of the last century Benjamin Bidlack became a minister of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, and for upwards of thirty years labored zealously and effectually in the many Churches throughout north-eastern Pennsylvania and southern New York to which his appointments took lim. The last years of his life were spent in what is now the borough of Kingston. In 1783 he was married to Lydia (born October 31, 1758), fifth child of Capt. Prince and Mary (Fitch) Alden, mentioned on page 500, Vol. I. Mrs. Bidlack died in 1808 or '09, and the Rev. Benjamin Bidlack was married (2d) at Kingston to Mrs. Sarah (Gore) Myers. (See page 837.) There were no children by this marriage. The deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Bidlack occurred at the dates mentioned on page 837. Obituaries of Mr. Bidlack were printed in The Wilkes-Barre Advocate of December 3, 1845, and in the Republican Farmer and Democratic Journal of December 10, 1845. The Rev. Benjamin and Lydia (Alden) Bidlack were the parents of four children, the eldest of whom was Mehetabel (born in 1784), who became the wife of Jesse Prior, and died at White Springs, New York, in June, 1826. Benjamin Alden Bidlack (born September 8, 1804; died February 6, 1849) was the youngest child of the Rev. Benjamin and Lydia (Alden) Bidlack. A sketch of his life will be found in a subsequent chapter.
(v) Shubal Bidlack, fourth son of Capt. James and Mehetabel (Durkee) Bidlack, settled in Han- over Township, Wyoming Valley, after the Revolutionary War, and November 19, 1787, was commis- sioned Lieutenant of the 1st (or Hanover) Company (Mason F. Alden, Captain) in the "Ist Regiment of Militia in Luzerne County." May 10, 1791, he was re-elected to this office, and duly commissioned. In 1787 Shubal Bidlack was married to Mrs. Abigail (Alden) Jameson (born August 11, 1753), who was the third child of Captain Prince and Mary (Fitch) Alden, previously mentioned, an elder sister of the wife of Shubal's brother Benjamin, and the widow of Lieut. John Jameson (of whom fuller men- tion is made in a subsequent chapter). Mrs Abigail (Alden) Bidlack died in Hanover Township June 8, 1795, and was buried in the grave-yard adjoining the old Hanover church. A year or two later Shubal Bidlack removed with his children to Salem Township, Luzerne County, where he died prior to May, 1803. The children of Shubal and Abigail (Alden) Bidlack were: (1) John Jameson Bidlack (born in 1788; died December 25, 1843); (2) Lydia Bidlack (born in 1790; died in youth); (3) Shubal Bidlack (born in 1792: died in youth). (1) John Jameson Bidlack was married about 1816 to Martha, daughter of Samuel Hicks of Salem Township, and they became the parents of three daughters and two sons. Lydia Bidlack (born April 13, 1817; died May 7, 1840), the eldest of these children, became the wife of Thomas D. Cortright, son of Isaac and Mary Cortright of Salem.
(vi) Philemon Bidlack, youngest child of Capt. James and Mehetabel (Durkee) Bidlack, married and had five sons-James, Samuel, William, John, and another whose name is not now recalled. In 1822 they all emigrated to Ohio, but in 1824 William returned to Pennsylvania, married Amy, daughter
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of Thomas Tubbs of Huntington Township, Luzerne County, and settled in that township. William and Amy (Tubbs) Bidlack were the parents of three daughters and one son.
I LEBBEUS TUBBS was born in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, about 1730, the son of Samuel and Mercy Tubbs. Samuel Tubbs was born September 15, 1699, in Lyme, and continued to live there until 1759, when he removed with his family to the adjoining town of East Haddam. There they lived about a year and then emigrated to Nova Scotia, where Samuel and Lebbeus each took up land-at Horton, in the seats of the expatriated Acadians. (In 1760 a large number of Connecticut peo- ple settled in the townships of Horton and Cornwallis, Kings County, Nova Scotia, and in 1771 they applied to the people of Lyme, New London and other Connecticut towns for charitable contributions for the support of their Church.) In September, 1762, Samuel and Lebbeus Tubbs sold their Horton lands, and returning to Connecticut purchased a farm on the boundaries of the towns of New London and Norwich-the land lying partly in each town. They established their home on the New London portion. In January, 1773, this property was sold, and the next month Lebbeus Tubbs bought from Abel Peirce, of Kingston Township, Wyoming Valley, House Lots Nos. 23 and 24, Meadow Lot No. 2 and Great Lot No. 29 "on ye upper end of Abraham's Plains" in Kingston. Soon thereafter Samuel Tubbs and his wife and Lebbeus Tubbs and his family located in Kingston. About that time the death of Samuel Tubbs occurred. In 1787 his widow Mercy removed to Newtown (now Elmira), New York, where she died of small-pox about the year 1800, aged nearly 100 years. Samuel and Mercy Tubbs were the parents of six children, as follows: (i) Samuel (who was married to Ann Chapman), (ii) Lebbens (mentioned previously, as well as hereinafter), (iii) John (married to Sarah Sims), (iv) Han- nah (born in 1749; married, Ist, to John Hammond, and 2d, to Daniel Anger; died August 27, 1816), (v) Olive (married to Stephen Gardner), (vi) Phebe (married to Hathaway ).
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