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There are some statements which are unreasonable and improbable, and others which are absolutely false, in the petition of John Pencel. The Commissioners of Claims evidently looked upon his claim as one that was extremely shaky, for, on the ground of "want of title," they disallowed him any compen- sation for the alleged loss of his 1,000 acres of land, and for his other losses they allowed him only £57. The story of "The Fratricide of Wyoming" has not only been written by numerous diarists and his- torians, but has furnished a theme for writers of fiction and poetry. Prior to 1840 John G. Whittier wrote "The Death of the Fratricide," a poem of ten or a dozen stanzas. It is printed, in part, in Stone's "Poetry and History of Wyoming." In Peck's "Wyoming" there is a poem of fourteen stanzas on the "Fratricide," by an unknown writer of lesser rank than Whittier.
* The journals of Lieut. Colonel Dearborn and Major Norris are printed in the book entitled "Journals of the Military Expedition of Maj. Gen. John Sullivan Against the Six Nations of Indians in 1779." This book was published in 1887 by authority of the State of New York.
¡ The Rev. Dr. Rogers' journal has been printed, wholly or in part, at different times in various publications. It may be found in full in the book mentioned in the preceding note.
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He had gone but a short distance when he heard the crash of a toma- hawk into poor Durkee's skull. The following account of Ensign Hollenback's escape across the Susquehanna was given by the Hon. William W. Potter of Pennsylvania in a speech which he delivered in the National House of Representatives, April 12, 1838 .*
"A more pleasing anecdote, evidencing the firmness, self-possession and consum- mate bravery of a well-known and distinguished citizen of Wyoming, lately deceased, who was an active participant in the battle [of Wyoming], has often been told me. I speak of the late Judge [Matthias] Hollenback, then an active and fearless youth. In the flight from the battle he divested himself of his clothes, preparatory to swimming the river. Hotly pursued by the Indians he held in his hand a guinea; when he plunged into the river he put the gold into his mouth. Before he had reached the middle of the stream the Indians arrived on the bank of the river, and immediately fired at him while swimming for the opposite shore. He cast his eyes backward, watching the flash of the rifle, and dived to avoid the fatal bullet aimed at him. He had to rise to the surface for air; again he was fired at, but was not quick enough in diving, and the bullet grazed his back. The pain caused him to open his mouth, and he lost his guinea. In after life, when he had become one of the inost wealthy men in the interior of our State, I have heard him close the story with the declaration: 'I felt more the loss of my solitary guinea, and was more vexed at the red rascals for the loss, than I have been since by much more serious disasters.' "
Having reached the eastern shore of the river Mr. Hollenback pro- ceeded as rapidly as possible to the fort at Wilkes-Barré, where he was one of the first, if not the first, to give a report of the battle.
Cyprian Hibbardt, a member of the Hanover company, and Samuel Carey1, a member of the Lower Wilkes-Barré company, fled from the
* See The Wyoming Republican and Farmer's Herald, May 23, 1838.
CYPRIAN HIBBARD was born in 1752, the third son of Ebenezer and Hannah (Downer) Hibbard of Windham County, Connecticut. January 31, 1772, Cyprian Hibbard was admitted as a settler in Wyoming, under The Susquehanna Company, on the right of his brother, William Hibbard, and about the same time was admitted a proprietor in the town of Wilkes-Barre. (See pages 713 and 721.) He settled in Hanover, where he was married in 1777 to Sarah (born in Huntington, Connecticut, Novem- ber 19, 1750; died in Wilkes-Barre July 24, 1833), second child of Capt. Peleg Burritt, Jr., and his wife Deborah Beardsley (born in Stratford, Connecticut, February 21, 1726; died in Hanover, Wyoming Valley, August 7, 1802). Peleg Burritt, Jr. (born in Stratford, Connecticut, January 8, 1721; died in Hanover April 10, 1789), was the son of Peleg Burritt, and grandson of Ensign Stephen Burritt, who, according to Hinman, was a famous Indian fighter, and Commissary General to the army in King Philip's War. Stephen's father, William, the first of the name in this country, was an original settler in Stratford, Connecticut, prior to 1650. About 1773 or '74 Capt. Peleg Burritt, Jr., removed with his family to Hanover, in Wyoming Valley.
Cyprian Hibbard was survived by his wife and one child, Hannah Downer Hibbard (born in Han- over June 18, 1778), who fled from the Valley on July 4, 1778, and made their way over the mountains to Fort Allen on the Lehigh. Thence they proceeded, more slowly, to Connecticut. The next year Mrs. Hibbard returned with her child to Wyoming, and some years later she was married (2d) to Mat- thias Hollenback, q. v. Hannah Downer Hibbard, mentioned above, was married at Wilkes-Barre July 3, 1798, to John Alexander, a native of Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
# SAMUEL CAREY was born in Dutchess County, New York, August 12, 1758, the fourth son of Eleazar Carey, who was a descendant, in the fourth generation, of John Cary (born about 1600 in Somersetshire, England), who came to Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1634. Ten years later John Cary was married to Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Godfrey, and they became the parents of six sons and five daughters. John Cary was a well-educated man and was successful in business affairs. According to tradition he was the first teacher of Latin in Plymouth Colony. He was elected Constable of Bridge- water, Massachusetts, upon the organization of the town in 1656, and a year or two later he was elected Town Clerk -- in which office he served continuously till his death in 1681 at what is now West Bridge- water. Francis Cary, the second child and son of John and Elizabeth (Godfrey) Cary, was born at Duxbury, Massachusetts, in 1647. He removed, with the other members of his father's family, to Bridgewater, where he was married in 1676 to Hannah, daughter of William Brett, an original propri- etor and prominent citizen of the town. Francis Cary died in 1718, and was survived by two sons and three daughters. The eldest of these children was Samuel (born at Bridgewater in 1677), who in 1704 was married to Mary Poole. They became the parents of the following-named children, all born in Bridgewater: (i) Joseph, born in 1705; (ii) Lydia, born in 1706; (iii) Alice, born in 1707; (iv) Eliza- beth, born in 1709; (v) Samuel, born in 1711; (vi) David, born in 1713; (vii) Nathan, born in 1716; (viii) Eleazar, born in 1718; (ix) Mary, born in 1720. About 1728 Samuel and Mary (Poole) Cary and their children removed from Bridgewater to Dutchess County, New York, and settled at Dover. (viii) Eleazar Cary, above named, was married about 1750 to Charity Sturdevant, and they settled at a place called Bond's Bridge in Dutchess County, where eight children were born to them. Seven of these grew to maturity, to wit: (1) Eleazar, born about 1751; (2) Nathan, born in October, 1755; (3) John, born May 7, 1756; (4) Samuel, born August 12, 1758; (5) Benjamin, born about 1763; (6) Comfort, horn about 1766; (7) Mehetabel (became the wife of James Wright, and lived and died in the lower end of Wilkes-Barre Township).
Eleazar Cary, Sr., came to Wyoming Valley first in the Spring of 1769, being one of the company of settlers under the leadership of Major Durkee. (See pages 487 and 497, Vol. I.) He was one of the Yankees driven out of the Valley by the Pennamites in the Autumn of 1769, but with other settlers he was here again in the Summer and Autumn of 1770, at which time he was accompanied by his son John, a lad of fourteen years. (See pages 658, 660 and 667.) In 1771 Eleazar Cary was one of the men who, under the command of Zebulon Butler, besieged Fort Wyoming in Wilkes-Barré (see page 696); and in consideration of his services at that time he was admitted a proprietor in the town of Wilkes-Barre September 24, 1771. (See page 713.) Shortly after the capitulation of Fort Wyoming by the Penn-
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amites Eleazar Cary went to his home in Dutchess County, but on the 24th of the following October he returned to Wilkes-Barre accompanied by his son Eleazar, Jr., and by Barnabas and John Cary, who, undoubtedly, were related to him. Barnabas Cary subsequently settled in Pittston.
At a town-meeting beld January 21, 1772, Eleazar Cary was admitted a settler in the "Forty," or Kingston, Township. (See page 721.) About 1773 he purchased "Meadow Lot No. 2," in Wilkes-Barre, from James Stark, to whom it had been allotted wben tbe town lands were distributed in the Spring of 1772. (See page 728.) This lot contained thirty-two acres, and it lay near the Wilkes-Barre-Hanover line, within the present limits of the Fifteenth Ward of the city of Wilkes-Barre. It extended from the present Carey Avenue north-westwardly to the river. Here Eleazar Cary built a house and estab- lished bis family. Prior to 1800 Jobn Cary, son of Eleazar, had become the owner of this lot, as well as part owner of Meadow Lots 1, 3 and 4 in the same locality. At that time, and, indeed, as early as 1789, the settlement at that place was locally known as "Careytown," and the road leading to it from a point a little below the town-plot of Wilkes-Barre was called "Careytown Road." After the erection of the city of Wilkes-Barre this road becaine one of the streets of the city, but continued to be called Careytown Road until March, 1887, when, by resolution of the City Council, its name was changed to "Carey Avenue."
Eleazar Cary died-presumably at Wilkes-Barré-in 1779, and November 20, 1779, Letters of Ad- ministration upon his estate were granted to his son Nathan by the Probate Court of Westmoreland- Jonathan Fitch being surety on a bond for £1,000. (The original bond is now in the collections of The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society.) The following is a verbatim copy of the inventory sub- sequently filed by Nathan Cary in the Probate Court. The original document is now in the collections of The Wyoming Historical and Geological Society.
"An Inventory of the real and Personal Estate of ELEAZER CARY late of Westmoreland Deceased &c. -
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"The above Inventory is made out and Computed Equal to Silver & Gold or as Lawfull inoney was in 1774. "Westmoreland 29th of Nov. 1779. [Signed ] Apprisers "JONATHAN FITCH !
"OBADIAH GORE under oath.
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[ Signed] "OBADIAH GORE
"Clerk of Probate." The wife and eldest son-Eleazar, Jr .- of Eleazar Cary had died some years prior to 1779.
(2) Nathan Cary was born at Bond's Bridge, Dutchess County, New York, in October, 1755. He removed to Wilkes-Barre with the other members of his father's family, and lived at "Careytown." He was a private in the 1st Company, 24th Regiment, Connecticut Militia, and took part in the battle of Wyoming. When the rout began he fled to the river in company with three or four other Americans. They leaped down the bank, crawled along the margin of the river and hid themselves under a sbelving part of the bank. Two of the party were found, killed and scalped by the Indians, but Cary escaped. He remained in hiding till nightfall, when he swam the river and made his way to the fort at Wilkes- Barré. Later he fled from the Valley, but a few weeks subsequently he returned and was at Wilkes- Barré in service for some time in the detachment of militia under the command of Lieut. Colonel Butler, as described in Chapter XVI. He was married July 11, 1782, to Jane, daughter of Adam Mann of Hanover, and they settled in that township. At that time Nathan Cary was one of the Constables of Westmoreland. In 1784, during the progress of the Second Pennamite-Yankee War (see Chapter XXI), Nathan Cary, Samuel Cary, John Inman, Richard Inman, Robert Hopkins, and a number of other Westmorelanders, were arrested by the Pennamites, conveyed to Sunbury, and detained there as prisoners in the jail of Northumberland County for some time. In September, 1785, Nathan Cary was admitted a "half-share proprietor" in the Susquehanna Purchase, under the resolution adopted by The Susquehanna Company in July, 1785. (See Chapter XXII.)
Upon the erection of Luzerne County, as described in a subsequent Chapter, Nathan Cary was elected and commissioned (April 7, 1787) Coroner of the County. He was re-elected and recommis- sioned to this office in October, 1787, and again in October, 1788. In 1790 Nathan, Jobn and Comfort Cary were privates in the 3d Company (William Ross, Captain) of the 1st Regiment of Pennsylvania Militia in Luzerne County, commanded by Lieut. Col. Matthias Hollenback. In the Spring of 1797 Christopher Hurlbut of Hanover (whose wife, Elizabeth, was a sister of Nathan Cary's wife), accom- panied by his eldest son, John, went to Steuben County-in what was generally called, at that time, the "Genesee country"-in New York, where, upon the banks of the Canisteo River, at what is now Arkport, he acquired a tract of land and made a clearing. Later in the same year, or in 1798, he brought there his wife and their four daughters and three sons. Nathan Cary assisted in moving the family to their new home, and the party made the journey from Hanover in boats, by way of the Sus- quehanna, Chemung and Canisteo Rivers. Pleased with the location of his brother-in-law's land Nathan Cary bought 100 acres of it, and in 1799 removed thither from Hanover with his family. At that time there were living in that locality a number of families that had formerly lived in Wyoming Valley. Nathan Cary lived there until his death, March 18, 1835. The children of Nathan and Jane (Mann) Cary were as follows: (a) Johnson, born March 5, 1783; (b) Eleazar, born July 8, 1786; (c) Adam, born January 1, 1789, and died on board a steamer on the Mississippi River in July, 1820; (d) William, born February 8, 1791; (e) Christopher, born June 20, 1794.
(a) Johnson Cary spent a long life at Arkport, occupying the original homestead of his father, where he died when nearly eighty years of age. Of his children, Mary Ann (Mrs. William H. Hurlbut)
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One half of a Proprietors Right in Susqh. Purchase.
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lives in Virginia; Elizabeth (wife of Dr. C. J. Reynolds) lives in Cuba, Allegany County, New York; Susan (Mrs. William S. Hurlbut) lives at Arkport; Jane and Caroline are dead.
(b) Elcasar Cary, or Carey (for it is said that he was the first of the family to use an "e" in the spelling of the surname), was born in Hanover, and removed with his parents to the Genesee country. There he lived until about 1805, when he removed to Pittston, in Wyoming Valley, and engaged in inn- keeping. In 1811 the first post-office was established in Pittston, and Eleazar Cary was appointed post- master. This office he held for nine or ten years, when he was succeeded by Zephaniah Knapp. During the greater part of the time that Mr. Carey conducted the post-office he was also engaged in mercantile business. About 1829 or '30 he settled in Wilkes-Barre, but about 1836 he removed hence to Summit Hill, Pennsylvania, where he was post-master in 1837. Shortly afterwards he returned to Wilkes-Barre, where he lived until his death. For a number of years he was a Justice of the Peace, and from May, 1843, to May, 1844, was Burgess of the borough of Wilkes-Barre. For a time he was editor of The Wyoming Republican and Farmer's Herald. He was married (1st) at Pittston, August 30, 1812, to Frances (born August 26, 1790), third child of William and Sarah (Sawyer) Slocum. (See Chapter XVII for a sketch of the Slocum family.) Mrs. Frances (Slocum) Carey died at Pittston April 7, 1822, leaving two daughters: Frances Slocum (born in 1817; married August 11, 1835, to Peter M. Osterhout of Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, as his first wife; died, childless, in 1839); Rhoda Sawyer (born in 1822; died, unmarried, at San Diego, California, in January, 1898). Eleazar Carey was married (2d) at Wilkes-Barre, August 26, 1831, to Mrs. Rebecca D. (Jennison) Chapman, the widow of Isaac Abel Chapman, a sketch of whose life will be found in a subsequent chapter. Eleazar Carey died at his home on North River Street, between Market and Union Streets, Wilkes-Barre, January 20, 1853, and his body was interred in the old grave-yard, on East Market Street, but now rests in the City Cemetery. He was survived by his wife (who died subsequently to 1855), bis daughter Rhoda, mentioned above, and his son Douglas (by his second wife), who was born at Wilkes-Barre in May, 1832. The last-named now resides at Wayne, Delaware County, Pennsylvania.
(d) William Cary died about 1825 in Indiana, leaving three children-Eleazar, Ruth and Marian. Eleazar was a physician at Perry, Pike County, Illinois, and died there about 1876. Ruth is the wife of Jesse Gibbs, and resides at Almond, Allegany County, New York. Marian is the wife of the Rev. R. R. Rook.
(e) Christopher Cary died in 1844 and was survived by six children, four of whom are now living, to wit: Charles S. (born about 1830), an attorney-at-law at Olean, New York; Johnson, residing in the city of New York; Mrs. Mary Jane Wiggins of Hornellsville, New York; Hubbard G. of Livonia, Liv- ingston County, New York.
(3) John Carey was born at Bond's Bridge, Dutchess County, New York, May 7, 1756, and came to Wyoming first in the Spring of 1770, with his father, as previously mentioned. As noted in the last paragraph on page 757 he was here in the Winter of 1772-'73. He is said to have been a man of her- culean frame, marvelous strength, and great personal courage. In September, 1776, he enlisted as a private in the "First Westmoreland Independent Company," commanded by Capt. Robert Durkee (see page 894), and served with that company in the Continental service until the companies of Durkee and Ransom were consolidated and placed under the command of Capt. Simon Spalding. (See page 981.) During the battle of Wyoming he was with Spalding's company en route to the Valley. John Carey served under Spalding till the close of the Revolutionary War, when he returned to Wilkes-Barre and took up his residence at "Careytown." In 1783 he was married at Hanover to Mrs. Susanna (Mann) Greene, a sister of Mrs. Nathan Carey, previously mentioned, and the widow of a Revolutionary soldier. John Carey died at "Careytown" September 15, 1844, and an obituary of him was published in tbe Wilkes-Barre Advocate of September 25, 1844. In the Wyoming Republican and Farmer's Herald of May 2, 1838, some hiographical notes concerning him, written by Charles Miner, were published.) Mrs. Susanna (Mann) Carey died at Careytown September 26, 1815, in the seventy-first year of her age, and her remains, as well as those of her husband and son, now rest in the Wilkes-Barre City Cemetery. The children of John and Susanna (Mann) Carey were: (a) John, born in 1783; married at Wilkes-Barré in February, 1802, to Catharine Vandermark; died December 28, 1808, and was survived by his wife and three children, to wit: Miner, Eleazar and Hannab. (b) Hannah, who became the wife of Nathan Barney. (c) Elizabeth, married to Henry Tillbury before 1817, in which year they were living in Pitts- ton. (d) Susanna, who became the second wife of George Gore, son of Capt. Daniel Gore. (See page 836.)
(4) Samuel Carcy was born at Bond's Bridge, Dutchess County, New York, August 12, 1758, as mentioned at the beginning of this note. He came to Wyoming in 1772 or '73 with other members of liis father's family, and made his bomne with them. In 1775, being over sixteen years of age, and therefore required by law to train with the militia, he became a member of the 1st (Lower Wilkes- Barré) Company in the 24th Regiment. As a private in this company he fought in the battle of Wyoming, and was subsequently captured by the enemy, as narrated on page 1027. On the retreat of the enemy from Wyoming Samuel Carey, carefully guarded, was taken with them, and wben they reached the Indian country he was banded over to the family into which he had been adopted. Though treated with kindness by the Indians he was too old to be broken into their habits of life, and he longed for his liberty and sighed for the associations of his own kindred and people. His new parents, by adoption, saw that he was not likely to become a contented member of their family, and that conse- quently the place of the son they had lost was not likely to be filled, and so they mourned almost constantly, for him who was dead. Just at day-break they would set up a pitiful cry-"Oh! Oh! Ho!"- and at evening, as the sun was going down-"Oh! Oh! Ho!" Samuel Carey resided with this family in the Indian country for more than two years, and at times suffered much from hunger and exposure. Then he was taken to Niagara, wbere he was detained, though with less suffering, until the formal announcement of peace and the issuing of orders for the return of all prisoners in the hands of tbe British and their Indian allies. Carey was in due time released, and after a long and wearisome journey arrived at the home of his brothers in "Careytown" June 29, 1784, right in the midst of the Second Pennamite-Yankee War. A few weeks later he was one of the Yankees taken into custody by the Penn- amites and sent to the jail at Sunbury, as previously mentioned.
In 1785 Samuel Carey went to Dutchess County, New York, where, in 1786 or early in 1787, be was married to a widowed cousin-Mrs. Rosanna (Cary) Slocum. They lived in Dutchess County until 1788 or '89, when they removed to Wyoming Valley and settled in that part of Pittston which is now Plains Township. In 1790 Samuel Carey was a private in the 4th Company (Daniel Gore, Captain) of the 1st Regiment of Pennsylvania Militia in Luzerne County, commanded by Lieut. Col. Matthias Hol- lenback. Mrs. Rosanna Carey (who was born November 22, 1755) died in Pittston Township September 17, 1822, and about a year later Mr. Carey was inarried to Mrs. Theresa (Gore) Clark, mentioned on page 836. Samuel Carey died in Pittston Township April 23, 1843, and was buried with military honors. The interment took place in the old grave-yard on East Market Street, Wilkes-Barre, and when the funeral procession entered the borough the people composing the procession commenced to sing the hymn beginning, "God is our refuge in distress." This was continued until tbe grave was reached. Some twenty-five years later the remains of Samuel and Rosanna Carey were removed from the old grave-yard to the present City Cemetery, where they now lie.
The children of Samuel and Rosanna (Cary) Carey were as follows: (i) Charity, born in Dutcbess
County, New York, in 1787; became the wife of - Purdy, and resided in Luzerne County, Penn- sylvania, where she died subsequently to 1868. (ii) John, married Octoher 21, 1810, by the Rev. John Miller of Abington Townsbip, to Lois Williams of Wilkes-Barre. John Carey died prior to 1868. (iii)
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battle-field together. They ran towards the river, and their course . took them through a field of rye of heavy growth. Hibbard, who was noted for his strength and activity, went in advance, breaking a path through the rye. This, perhaps, proved fatal to him, for by the time he got through the field he was nearly exhausted. On reaching the bank of the river he sprang to the beach, closely pursued by an Indian, who overtook him before he could gain the stream. As Hibbard turned to defend himself the Indian's spear was plunged into his breast, and he fell lifeless by the river's margin. Samuel Carey got to the river lower down, and succeeded in swimming across, but a number of Indians had crossed over before him, and he was instantly surrounded by some of them. One, who seemed to be in authority, took charge of him, but a sınall Indian, pitted by small-pox, and having lost one eye, drew a knife up and down several times close to his breast and abdomen, saying the while, with a malicious grin, "Te-te, te-te!" They then made Carey swim back to the Kingston shore, where they bound his hands and conducted him to the half-burnt ruins of Wintermute's Fort .* There he saw the mutilated and partially charred remains of one or two inen who had been thrown on the burning pile. That night Carey lay on the ground, bound, and without food. The next morning an officer of the "Rangers " (probably a former Westmorelander) struck him on the mouth with his open hand, saying, " You are the fellow, are you, that threatened yesterday morning you would comb my hair ?" Carey then learned that the Indian who had been chiefly instrumental in his capture was "Capt." Roland Montour. ; The latter came to him in the morning,
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