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 III > Part 3
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
"I have engaged some of the militia to do duty, and give them rations until the pleasure of the Board is known. I shall be glad of directions respecting their rations and pay while I continue at this Post, and any other orders.
"I am Your Honour's most Obdt. Humble Serv't,
[Signed] "ZEBN. BUTLER, Col."
The militia mentioned by Colonel Butler as being in service at Fort Wyoming were the company of Westmorelanders commanded by Capt. Wm. Hooker Smith, and the recently organized company of Captain Franklin, mentioned on page 1228, Vol. II.
The members of these companies were not required either to spend all their time in doing military duty, or even to remain continuously at the fort in Wilkes- Barré. The enlisted men of the companies were divided into three classes, or details. While one of these details would be performing a tour of duty in and about the garrison, a second detail would be engaged in scouting, or in guarding certain important places in the valley-for example, a grist-mill-at some dis- tance from Wilkes-Barré. The other members of the companies, not on duty with either of these details, had permission and were expected to go to their respective homes to engage in their usual vocations; and matters were so arranged that each man would be off duty three or four days every fortnight. Of course, in cases of emergency, all the men were required to be on duty simultaneously at the garrison, or wherever needed.
In reply to his communication to the Board of War Colonel Butler received the following :*
: "WAR OFFICE, April 6th, 1780.
"Sir-The Board have received your favor of the 2d instant-the one referred to by Capt. Spalding is not yet received. With respect to your having engaged some of the Militia to do duty. the Board approve of your conduct. While in actual service they should receive Continental pay and rations. But the Board rely on your discretion, that you will keep them no longer in service than the safety of your Garrison absolutely requires; and indeed, it has been found so very expensive to maintain the Garrison at Wyoming, and the Public Finances are now so
*From a copy of the original preserved in the Connecticut State Library.
1246
much exhausted that, unless it is maintained on the most economic principles, it must be given up from necessity.
"From circumstances it is presumed that you will not have occasion to Employ more than 30 militia, and these must not be kept a moment longer than requisite. The Board confide in your exertions for the defence of the Garrison, and protection of the Inhabitants.
"Be pleased to furnish the Board with a return of your strength, and let them know how many militia you have employed.
"I am, Sir, Yr. very Ohedt. Serv.,
"By order of the Board, [Signed] BEN STODDART, Secy." "Col. ZEBULON BUTLER, Comdg. at Wyoming."
In reply to the communication received by General Washington from Colonel Butler the former wrote as follows :*
"HEAD QUARTERS MORRIS Town April 7th, 1780.
"Sir
"I received Yesterday your letter of the 2d instant; and I am extremely sorry to find that parties of the Enemy have appeared and committed hostilities in the neighborhood of Wyoming. It is not in my power to afford any Troops from the army and I should hope those already there and the Inhabitants will be able to repel at least incursions by light parties. It was my intention as I informed you that you should join your regiment immediately after your return; however I am induced from the face of things, to let you continue where you are for the present and you will remain till further orders. Should further depredations and mischiefs be committed by the enemy-you will take occasion to inform me of them.
"To
"Col. ZEBULON BUTLER."
"I am Sir "Yr Most Obe't Servant [Signed] "G. WASHINGTON"
Some of the Continental soldiers at the Wyoming Garrison were clamoring in the Spring of 1780 for their arrears of pay, long overdue, and early in April Capt. John Paul Schott went down to Philadelphia to look into the matter. At Philadelphia, under the date of April 12, 1780, Assistant Paymaster General Burrall wrote to the "Hon. Board of Treasury", in part as follows:
* * "Captain Schott, who commands an Independent Corps, stationed at Wyoming, is waiting in town for their pay, which is due from September last, and amounts to more than I have on hand * *
* I should be glad of 20,000 dollars, which will be sufficient to pay him. I hope this last sum at least may be obtained, as Captain Schott's returning without the money would occasion much uneasiness in the Corps, who have six months' pay due; and the expense of another journey from Wyoming would be considerable." * * *
At Wilkes-Barré, April 10, 1780, a town-meeting of the inhabitants of Westmoreland was held, Capt. John Franklin being chosen Moderator "for the work of the day". "John Hurlbut, ; Esq., was chosen to negotiate the affairs of
*The original letter is now in the possession of the Wyoming Valley Historical Society.
+According to the "Hurlbut Geneology", by Henry H. Hurlbut, published at Albany, New York, in 1888, JOHN HURLBUT, mentioned above, was the great-grandson of Samuel Hurlbut (son of Lieut. Thomas Hurlbut, of Saybrook) , who was born in or near 1644, probably at Wethersfield, Connecticut. Samuel's wife's namne was Mary- , and they were the parents of eleven children, the eldest of whom was Stephen Hurlbut, born at Wethersfield, December 26, 1668. The last-named settled in New London, Connecticut, soon after 1690. About 1696 he was married to Hannah Douglas of New London, and they became the parents of seven children. Stephen Hurlbut died October 7, 1712.
The fourth child of Stephen and Hannah (Douglas) Hurlbut was John Hurlbut, who was born at New London. He settled in North Groton (afterwards Ledyau), New London County, and married Mary, daughter of Ralph Stoddard. He died May 5, 1761, but bis widow Mary was still living in 1782. They were the parents of eight children, the third of whom was JOHN HURLBUT, the subject of this sketch. He was boru at Groton, March 12, 1730, and made tbat place his residence until he removed to Wyoming Valley. "He was a man of considerable prominence in his neighbor- hood, having the confidence of his fellow-townsmen. He was a Selectmau, a school teacher, and a Deacon of the Congregational Church, and as a citizen was active, useful and patriotic."
In the early days of the Revolutionary War he was a member of the Committee of Correspondence of Groton. Prior to 1773, "Deacon" Hurlbut acquired a sbare, or "right", in The Delaware Company's Purchase (mentioned on page 293 Vol. I), and in February, 1773, he bought, for £5, a half-right in the Susquehanna Purchase. Early in May, 1773, he journeyed from Groton, Connecticut, to what is now Pike County, Pennsylvania, where, on May 20, and subsequent days, he assisted in laying out and allotting the lands in the township of Parkbury, as described oo page 771, Vol. II. In a journal which he kept at that time (see Johnson's "Historical Record" I: 213) he mentious. in addition to the names of the original drawers of lots in Parkbury set forth ou page 771 of this work, the following named: Elisba Gifford, Kendrel Edwards, Elijah Park, Samuel Hallett, John Westbrook, Matthias Button, Reuben Jones, Deliverance Adams, James Adams, James Dye, Abner Newton, Lebbeus Lathrop, Ezra Tracy, Jeremiah Park and Deacou Griswold.
On May 24 "Deacon" Hurlbut, in company with Capt. Zebulon Parrish and Benajah Park, set out from Parkbury for Wyoming Valley. They travelled thirty-two miles that day, arriving at the junction of the Lackawanna River with the Susquehanna. On page 745, Vol. II of this work will be found an extract from the journal of "Deacon" Hurlbut, relating to his doings while in the Valley. He returned to Parkbury ou May 27, and two days later set off homeward. (At that time Stephen Hurlbut, eldest brotber of the "Deacon", was in the Valley engaged in surveying lands. He was one of the original settlers here under The Susquehanna Company. See pages 498 and 509, Vol. I )
According to the "Hurlbut Genealogy" "Deacon" Hurlhut visited Wyoming again in the Autumn of 1775 and again in November 1777-at which time he purchased from Johu Hollenback 800 acres of land in Hanover Township.
Hoad Quartich Moriis Jovan Amely 1/80
received Bestandany your letter of . the : Indust ; and dom extremely form to find that parties of the Enemy have a marca I committed hostiles in the ming hlou hood di It's not in my hower, to afford any Troops from the antony and If thouid hope those already there & the Ink bitant will be able to repel at least in norons light parties . It was my intention as I am formed you that you should your your Regiment immediately after your wetim, however Sam induced from the face of
for the present and you will remain till further orders. Should feather depredations I mischiefo be committed by the Enemy - You will take occasion to inform me of them .
1 " most Obst. Jewan L Najhington
To bol Zebulon. Butler
COPY OF ORIGINAL LETTER GENERAL WASHINGTON TO COLONEL ZEBULON BUTLER, AT WILKES-BARRE
1247
Selling his Groton farm in the Summer of 1777 he, about the beginning of June, 1778, with his wife and children (ex- cepting Christopher and John, Jr., who had gone from Groton to Wyoming in February, !778) , set out for Wyoming After crossing the Delaware River "Deacon" Hurlbut was taken sick, and, with his wife, stopped at a small settlement in the Minisinks (see page 189, Vol I) at which they had arrived, while the rest of the party (including John, Jr., who had just come on from Wyoming) traveled onward to Parkbury. At or near this place, on June 30, Abigail, the seventh child of "Deacon" Hurlhut, aged five years and nine months, died after a few days' illness.
About this time Christopher Hurlbut, the eldest son of the "Deacon", arrived at Parkbury from Wyoming Valley. having made the journey for the purpose of meeting his relatives and escorting them to their destination in Hanover Township. According to his "Journal" (more fully referred to hereinafter), Christopher and the other members of his father's family remained at or near Parkhury "until the result of the battle [of Wyoming] was known " As stated on page 1020, Vol. II. the first news of the battle was received in Lackaway District-which included Parkbury-in the afternoon of July 4, 1778. (Relative to Lackaway District, of Westmoreland, see pages 771, 790 and 795, Vol II.)
The Hurlbuts fled from Lackaway with the inhabitants of the district, and proceeded to Shawangunk, near the Wallkill River in Ulster County, New York. There they (with the exception of Christopher) remained for some time. and there Stephen Hurlbut, sixth child of "Deacon" Hurlbut, aged nine years, died February 28, 1779.
Early in the Spring of 1779 "Deacon" Hurlbut proceeded to Wyoming Valley, where, on April 12, he was chosen one of the Representatives from Westmoreland to the General Assembly of Connecticut-as noted on page 1166, Vol 1I. With his fellow Representative, Colonel Denison, "Deacon" Hurlbut attended the May session of the Assembly, by which hody he was appointed, and by Governor Trumbull duly commissioned, a Justice of the Peace in and for the county of Westmoreland. In the following November, having erected a dwelling-house on the land in Hanover Township which he had acquired, he brought his family thither from Shawangunk. (See sketch of John Hurlbut Jr . hereinafter.)
As noted on page 1229, Vol. II, "Deacon" Hurlbut was a private in Capt. John Franklin's company of Westmore- land militia, in the service of the United States at the Wyoming post in the Spring of 1780. In April, 1780, he was re-elected a Representative from Westmoreland to the General Assembly of Connecticut He attended the meeting held in May, and was at that time appointed and duly commissioned a Justice of the Peace and Quorum in and for Westmoreland He was again re-elected a Representative in April, 1781, and, at the session of the Assembly held in the following month, was re-appointed and re-commissioned a Justice of the Peace and Quorum. He was one of the Selectmen of Westmoreland in 1780 and 1781.
Miner (in his "History of Wyoming") states that "Deacon" Hurlbut, during the absence from the Valley of the Rev. Jacob Johnson, frequently preached funeral and other sermons. Speaking of the death of Mr. Hurlbut on Sunday March 10, 1782, Miner says: "The good 'Deacon' John Hurlbut departed this life-a life full of respect and usefulness. The confidence reposed in bim is attested by his having been-when, from the distressed state of the country, the cage t men for wisdom and the brightest in virtue were required for public trusts-three times chosen Member of Assembly, besides fulfilling other offices of lesser note."
"Deacon" Hurlbut died in Hanover Township, and, according to H. B. Plumb (in his "History of Hanover Town- sh p") "was buried on his farm, near an orchard he had set out with his own hands." His widow died at the home of her son Naphtali in Pittston, Pennsylvania, November 29, 1805. 1
"Deacon" John Hurlbut was married in 1756 to Abigail (born April 1, 1735), second child of John and Anna (Stan- fon) Avery of Preston Connecticut. John Avery (born October 26, 1705) was the eldest son of Christopher Avery and his first wife, Abigail Park (married December 19, 1704; died February 12, 1713).
The children of "Deacon" John and Abigail (Avery) Hurlbut were as follows (all born at Groton, Connecticut) : (i) Christopher, born May 30, 1757. (See hereinafter.) (ii) John, born February 21, 1760. (See hereinafter.) (iii) .Inne, born January 5, 1763 ; married January 10, 1788, to Elisha Blackman, Jr. (See page 1067, Vol. II.) (iv) Catherine, horn March 18, 1765; married at Hanover in 1787 to William Hyde (born in Canterbury, Connecticut, July 26, 1764. son of John Hyde); they removed in 1802 to Arkport, New York, where she died September 24, 1804, and he died October 9, 1822. (v) Naphtali, born August 12, 1767. (See hereinafter.) (vi) Stephen, born February 9, 1770; died at Shawangunk, New York, February 28, 1779. (vii) Abigail, born in September, 1772; died at Lackaway June 30, 1778. (viii) Lydia, born July 10, 1775; married at Hanover, Pennsylvania, in 1798 to Jobn Tiffany of North Adams, Massachusetts; died at Arkport, New York, in 1852.
(i) Christopher Hurlbut, born May 30, 1757, was living at his father's home near Gales' Ferry (on the Thames River some fifteen miles west of the Connecticut-Rhode Island boundary-line), in the town of Groton, New London County, Connecticut, when the Revolutionary War broke out. In April, 1776, be and bis younger brother, John, Jr., enlisted as privates under Lieut. Reuben Hewitt in a Rhode Island regiment commanded by Col. Christopher Lippitt In the following May they were at Brenton's Point (a few miles south-west of Newport) engaged in building a fort. June 25 they were transferred to Portsmouth (ten or twelve miles north-east of Newport), where, and at Howland's Ferry, forts were also erected.
On September 15, 1776, Lippitt's regiment set out from Rhode Island for New York, marching by way of Fairfield. Connecticut, and arriving at Fort Washington, on Manhattan Island, after a march of eighteen days. Two weeks later the regiment was marched to White Plains, where it took part in the battle of October 28. 1776. On December 4th the regiment crossed the North River, and a week later was at Morristown, New Jersey On Christmas-day the regiment was at Bristol on the Delaware, and later took part in the battles of Trenton and Princeton. (For further information relative to the New York and New Jersey campaign-September, 1776, to January, 1777-see page 485. Vol. I.) and page 909, Vol. II.
The term of service of Lippitt's regiment having expired early in January, 1777, the men were discharged on the 19th of the month at Chatham, New Jersey. Christopber and John Hurlbut immediately set out for their home in Groton arriving there on January 28th. In the following May Christopher proceeded to Wyoming Valley, and, as shown by the Westmoreland tax-lists for 1777 and 1778 (see pages 946 and 952, Vol. II), became a resident of Kingston District As required by the Connecticut law then in force with respect to the militia of the State, Mr. Hurlbut was enrolled as a private in the 2d (or Kingston) Company of the 24th (or Westmoreland) Regiment, commanded by Capt Dethick Hewitt. When, in November, 1777, his father returned from Wyoming to Groton, Christopher accompanied him, and remained there until February 10, 1778, when, accompanied by his brother John, he came back to Wyoming.
Dr George Peck, in Chapter XXI of his "Wyoming" (referred to on page 20, Vol. I), print ; several pages of extract . from the "Journal of Christopher Hurlbut." He prefaces this "brief record of the event; of the wars in Wyoming" with the following words: "It is the testimony of a witness and an actor in the scene. Mr. Hurlbut was a man for the times, of more than usual education-a good mathematician and a practical surveyor. His plots of large tracts of lands surveyed by him in the County of Luzerne are acknowledged data. His field-books, plots, bearings and distance; are all executed with great skill and accuracy."
Quoting from the above inentioned journal we have the following: "Early in the Spring [of 1778] Colonel Denison [sic], with about 150 men, went up to Wyalusing to assist a number of families in removing from the place. [See page 956, Vol II | 1 was in the company. We made rafts of old houses, and took on the people with their effects, and went down the river * * * The last of June I went out to Lackawaxen to meet my father's family."
Having accompanied his father's family to Shawangunk-where they arrived on July 16-Christopher Hurlbut proceeded thence to what is now Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania where, about July 27, he joined the detachment of militia under the command of Col. Zebulon Butler, and marched with the same to Wilkes-Barre where they arrived on August 4. (see pages 1080 and 1096, Vol. 11.)
At a town-meeting of the inhabitants of Westmoreland held at Wilkes-Barre April 12, 1779, Christopher Hurlbut. being then in the twenty-second year of his life, was admitted a freeman, and took the oath of fidelity to the State of Connecticut. In the Spring of 1780, and later, he was a Sergeant in Capt. John Franklin's company of Westmoreland militia in the service of the United States at the Wyoming post. (See page 1229, Vol. II.) In May, 1780, he was a ppointed Surveyor of Lands in and for Westmoreland. In January, 1782, he was appointed to collect the taxes levied against the inhabitants of Westmoreland living on the east side of the Susquehanna River. In April, 1786, he became one of the original proprietors of the township of Athens-referred to more at length in a subsequent chapter.
In 1788 and '89 Christopher Hurlbut was one of the Commissioners of the newly-erected county of Luzerne. August 5, 1789, he was appointed by the Governor of the Commonwealth one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County; and on the 10th of the following December the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania granted him a license to keep a tavern in Hanover Township during the ensuing year. In 1793 he owned and operated a grist-mill and a saw-mill on Nanticoke Creek, which flowed through his property in Hanover Township. At that
1248
period he was largely engaged in surveying lands in many localities in Luzerne County. (See Johnson's "Historical Record" IV: 34.) In 1796 he was Clerk to the Board of Commissioners of Luzerne County.
Having determined to emigrate to the State of New York Christopher Hurlbut, at some time in 1796, made a journey to Ontario County, and in that part of it which in March 1796, became Steuben County, he purchased 63; acres of land lying along the Canisteo River. Later, in the same locality, he purchased 627 acres more. In the Spriog of 1797, accompanied by his eldest son, John (then in the thirteenth year of his life), Mr. Hurlbut went from Hanover to his new purchase, where he made a clearing and erected a log cabin. He then returned to Hanover, and conducted his family thence to their new home in the Autumn of 1797. (A detailed as well as an interesting, account of this journey, given in 1866 by Mrs. Elizabeth (Hurlbut) Shepard, will be found in Johnson's "Historical Record", IV: 34
By 1805 Christopher Hurlbut bad built on his Canisteo lands a large frame house, a saw-mill and a store-house. He called the new settlement "Arkport". For awhile he carried on there a tavern and a store, and was largely engaged in rafting lumher down the Canisteo, Chemung and Susquehanna Rivers. He constructed the first arks seen on the Canisteo, and in them conveyed every kind of salahle produce, common to that region, to markets along the Chemung and Susquehanna. For awhile he held the office of Associate Judge. of Justice, of the County Court of Steuben County Meanwhile-prior to 1803-he had sold, from his large tracts of land in Steuben County, farms to some of his old Hanover neighbors, to wit: Nathan Cary his brother-in-law (see page 1025, Vol. II), William and Wyllis Hyde, John Harvey, Joel Atherton and Joseph Corey, all of whom settled at or near Arkport prior to 1803. (John Harvey, mentioned ahove, was a nephew of Benjamin Harvey, mentioned on page 1260).
Christopher Hurlbut was married at either Wilkes-Barre or Hanover May 2, 1782, to Elizabeth Mann, born in Delaware, a daughter of Adam and Sarah (Johnson) Mann, said to have been natives of Londonberry, Ireland. Adam Mann was living in Wilkes-Barre in March, 1781, when he purchased land from Jonathan Fitch. August 13, 1791, as noted on page 51, Vol. I. he acquired title to the island then known as Wilkes-Barre, or Johnson's, Island. Under date of December 12, 1791 (as shown by original records in the Land Office, Department of Internal Affairs, Harrisburg. Pennsylvania), Adam Mann of Wilkes-Barré executed a deed to his daughter Nancy Mann, of Wilkes-Barré, for "a certain island in the Susquehanna River called Johnson's Island, containing about eight acres"; and also for lots 40 and 41 in the town-plot of Wilkes-Barre. Apparently Mr. Mann must have subsequently re-acquired the title to the island above mentioned for we find that on March 17, 1796, he sold it to Putnam Catlin for £45. In 1795 Nancy Mann sold and conveyed lots 40 and 41 to Capt Samuel Bowman of Wilkes-Barre. In 1796 or '97 Adam Mann and his family removed to Wysox, in what is now Bradford County, Pennsylvania, where he died in 1797 or '98 aged eighty-two or eighty-three years. He had at least four daughters, as follows: Nancy, Elizabeth (Mrs. Christopher Hurlbut), Sarah (Mrs .- Gibson) and Janie (Mrs. Nathan Cary).
.
Christopher Hurlbut died at Arkport April 21, 1831, and his wife died there April 3. 1841. About a year before her death she was granted a pension by the United States Government in consideration of the military service. performed by her husband during the Revolutionary War
The children of Christopher and Elizabeth ( Mann) Hurlbut were as follows: (1) Abigail, born in Hanover Town- ship April 29, 1783; died at Arkport, unmarried, April 18, 1850. (2) John, born at Hanover October 21, 1784. (3) James, born at Hanover April 12, 1787. (4) Sarah, born at Hanover March 4, 1789. (5) Elizabeth, born at Hanover April 29, 1791. (6) Nancy, born at Hanover April 8, 1793. (7) Christopher, born at Hanover December 17, 1794. (8) Edward, born at Arkport July 1, 1799; died August 22. 1800
(ii) John Hurlbut, Jr., born at Groton, Connecticut, February 21, 1760, was living at his father's home when the Revolutionary War broke out. April 3, 1776, in company with his brother Christopher, he enlisted as a private in Lippitt's Rhode Island regiment His military services were similar to those of his brother, and continued for the same length of time-he being discharged from the service at Chatham, New Jersey, January 19, 1777. and reaching home nine days later, ahout three weeks before his seventeenth birth-day. Concerning his subsequent movements we get the following information from a diary, or journal, which he wrote-extracts from which are printed in Johnson's "Historical Record", II: 71.
' The Summer following [i.e., the Summer of 1777] I lived at home, except being called to serve in the militia about * two months. *
* February 10, 1778, Christopher and I set out for Susquehanna; with two sleds left Groton and with a long and tedious journey .got through February ye 23d, A. D. 1778, arrived at Thomas Stoddard's in Kingston in Westmoreland, at which place we staid till April, and then moved to Hanover, about nine miles down the river to the farm that father had bought. We boarded at Mr. Corey's until the 28th of May; then I set out to meet father's family, that was moving to Wyoming, who I accordingly met at Harwinton [in eastern-central Litchfield County], Connecticut, and then I drove his wagon on till we came to the Minisinks. There father was taken sick about the middle of June, 1778." Mr. Hurlbut then gives an account of some of the events hereinhefore referred to in the sketch of Christopher Hurlbut. Continuing, he states:
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.