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1777, and are yet represented by many descendants in the township; Thomas Williams, in 1778; Solon Trescott, who was taken prisoner by the Indians and Tories, in 1778, but escaped and with Solomon Gas and Thomas and Samuel Williams returned to their Huntington homes a few days later. The Trescott family still live in Harveyville, Colonel Edward L. Trescott, of the second Huntington generation of that family, rising to much prominence in public and military affairs, and being a famous hunter.
Other early settlers were: John Dodson, who came in 1796, the first Penn- sylvanian to settle; Jabez Matthias and Reuben Williams; John Johnson, Earl Tubbs, Stephen Davenport; Jonathan Wygant, Nathan Monroe; Ama- ziah Watson, William Brandon, William, Jared, and John Edwards. The Pattersons, who located in Huntington, in the northeast part of the township, in 1799, came from Ireland, but were of Scottish ancestry, of noble lineage. They still live in Huntington. The Koons family is still represented, E. B. Koons owning a planing mill. A decade or so ago, the firm of J. R. Koons and Son owned a wholesale paper business in Huntington Mills. John Koons, who settled in New Columbus, in 1819, was a leading citizen for sixty years, having part in many public undertakings. At one time he was a Common Pleas judge of Luzerne County.
Epenetus Wadsworth, who settled near Town Hall, in 1794, was the first blacksmith in the township. Thomas Harvey, after whom Harveyville is named, was also a blacksmith. Benjamin Fuller had a tannery near the Larned place on Huntington Creek. The first gristmill was built in 1788, by a Mr. Hopkins, at the mouth of Marsh Creek. Nathaniel Goss was also a miller, owning a plant that could grind three bushels a day. His son, and namesake, built a larger one, known as the Workheiser Mill. There were several other mills.
The old turnpike road, from Berwick to Towanda, passed through Hunt- ington, and was used for stages daily from 1812 to 1840. The Nanticoke and Hughesville Turnpike passed through New Columbus; it was chartered in 1836. The Union Turnpike Road Company was formed in 1875.
New Columbus became a borough in 1859, marking the establishment of an excellent academy, the Columbus Male and Female Academy. Judge John Koons and D. L. Chapin were the leading promoters of this institution, which made creditable educational history for Huntington. Eventually, it led to the township being made an independent school district. New Columbus, as a borough, has not gone far. Its population in 1920 was only one hundred and thirty-six, and apart from the academy and a few mills, it has not much claim to borough status.
Huntington Mills was at one time known as Hublerville. The paper mill there was erected in 1872, wrapping paper being its specialty. Following the example of New Columbus, an educational institution of good foundation was opened at Huntington Mills in 1878. The Huntington Mills Educational Society opened its first term as an academy in 1878 with one hundred pupils, under Prof. J. W. Swingle.
The other villages of Huntington Township are: Town Hill, about two miles east of New Columbus; Cambra ; Harveyville, and Register.
In 1926, the supervisors of Huntington Township were: Marion Wilkin- son, Myron Chapin, and W. B. Pennington. Number of taxables: 862. Assessed valuation : $589,035. President of school board: F. E. Bitten- bender. Principal: Robert Hosler. Thirteen teachers, including four for high school.
Jackson Township is part of the original township of Plymouth. It was organized in 1844, but, of course, its settlement history goes much farther back. The first settler in this part of Plymouth Township was Palmer Ran-
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som, in 1795. Soon afterwards John Lamoreaux, Jesse Brown, Major B. Fuller and some others settled. In 1850, Jackson Township's first census- taking showed a population of five hundred and ninety-two. Seventy years later, in 1920, its population was six hundred and forty-two; so it seems likely that the township had reached its full growth while still part of Plymouth.
The first settler in the western part of the township was Henry Cease, in 1831. The first sawmill was built by Asahel and Rufus Drake, in 1795. Later inillers in the township have been the Baldwins, the Fullers, Ziegler and Wil- cox, George F. Ransom, Chester Ransom, John Lamoreaux, and Daniel Dav- enport ; Henry Cease, Sandford Parsons; Fuller and Atherton; Egbert Bogartus.
One great improvement in Jackson Township is the Conyngham farm, a stock farm such as only a man of considerable means could establish. Thirty years ago it was widely known for its blooded stock-cattle and horses.
The villages of Jackson Township are Huntsville and Cease's Mills.
In 1926, the township supervisors were: C. S. Behee, W. D. Cease, and Stanley B. Gardecki. Number of taxables: 472. Assessed valuation : $358,- 016. President of school board: William Gabel. Five teachers, common schools.
Jenkins Township, named in honor of Colonel John Jenkins, who surveyed the Wyoming Valley for the Susquehanna Company in 1762, and was the first to note the presence of coal in the region, was originally part of Pittston Township, from which it was detached on June 24, 1852.
Settlement began in this part of Pittston Township in 1794, Joseph Gard- ner building his gristmill, on the creek that bears his name, in that year. Isaac Gould settled about the same time, his home being near where the Laflin powder mills were later placed. Other early settlers were: Daniel Seeley, who built the first sawmill; Jesse Thomas; the Thompson family, who lived just below Sebastopol; John Stout, the first blacksmith. The last named settled in 1824, and his shop was on the hill near Yatesville. The first brick house in the township was erected by George Price, in 1846, on the Wilkes- Barre to Pittston Road. Among other early settlers were the Swallow, LeBar, Miller, Lacoe, Thomas, Hess, and Goode families.
In 1810, or 1812, on the Wilkes-Barre and Pittston Road, in Sebastopol, the first schoolhouse was erected. At Inkerman, there was a log schoolhouse, on the hill above Port Blanchard. Joel Hale was the first teacher at Sebastopol and Roswell Hale the first at Inkerman.
Jenkins Township, like Pittston, owes its development to coal. Mining is the business of its residents, in general. Its communities are composed mainly of mining men. Port Griffith was an important place in the days of the old gravity road of the Pennsylvania Coal Company. Its terminus was at Port Griffith, but it lost some of its possibility of growth when the gravity road lost its identity ; but because of the mining, the community has continued to hold its own. Port Blanchard, near Port Griffith, was named in honor of Captain Jeremiah Blanchard, the pioneer settler, whose log cabin was the first struc- ture to be raised in that neighborhood. Port Blanchard owes the first part of its name to the fact that it was a ferry point; and because of that, it also had a tavern that was of some importance to travelers. Samuel Hodgson was the tavern-keeper in 1845, when it was opened. He was also the first postmaster. Inkerman's first settler was Peter Winter, a blacksmith. It is a mining town as large in population as some townships. Winter was operating his black- smith shop on the back road from Pittston to Wilkes-Barre, at this point, as early as 1810. More than half a century later, mining shafts were sunk in the town, to take the place of the drifts of earlier days. Sebastopol is a mining suburb of Pittston.
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In 1926, the supervisors of Jenkins Township were: M. J. Dougher, Wil- liam F. Burke, John J. O'Donnell. Number of taxables: 3.150. Assessed valuation, $6,688,084. President of school board: Edward Hinchcliff, super- vising principal : F. J. Regan. Fifty-five teachers, including eleven for high school.
Kingston Township-One of the most historic townships of Luzerne County is Kingston, which has had name and importance since the beginning of set- tlement of the Wyoming Valley. It was one of the original divisions of the Connecticut régime, and was confirmed as Kingston Township when Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, was formed. From it have been taken the territory that is now Dallas Township, and parts of Franklin and Lake townships were once parts of Kingston. Again, it has carried several boroughs of interest- ing history through their first halting days as communities. Kingston, Dor- ranceton, Forty Fort, Luzerne, and Wyoming have all gone out to independ- ence with generous territorial gifts from its parent, Kingston Township. Reviews of the boroughs are given on other pages, and the early history of the township is part of the great events covered by Mr. Harvey in his volumes of pioneer history. Therefore, little more need be written here of the "forty" Connecticut settlers who christened the township "Kingstown," in 1769, and built the old Forty Fort just below the church and about eighty rods from the river.
The list of taxables of Kingston Township in 1796 (and, therefore, includ- ing those of Dallas and parts of Lake and Franklin townships) is as follows :
James Atherton, Elisha Atherton, John Allen, Joseph Brown, Oliver Big- low, Alexander Brown, William Brown, Daniel Burney, Andrew Bennett, Josephus Barber, Caleb Brundage, Samuel Breese, Laban Blanchard, Almon Church, Gilbert Carpenter, Jonathan Carver, Samuel Carver, James Carpen- ter, Tunis Decker, Jesse Dickerson, Benjamin Dorrance, John Dorrance, Nathan Denison, Christian Cornigh, Joshua Fuller, Benajah Fuller, Hallet Gallop, William Gallop, Peter Grubb, John Gore, James Gardiner, Lewis Hartsoff, John Horton, Peter Hartsoff, Daniel Hoyt, William Hurlbert, Elijah Harris, Joseph Hillman, John Hinds, Stephen Hollister, Philip Jackson, John Joseph, John Keely, Samuel Landon, Nathaniel Landon, David Landon, James Landon, James Love, William Little, Isaiah Lucas, Lawrence Myers, Philip Myers, Nathan Mulford, Lewis Mullison, John Montoney, Isaac Mon- toney, Joseph Montoney, Andrew Miller, Elisha Matterson, Anning Owen, Abel Pierce, John Pierce, Joseph Pierce, Elias Pierce, Oliver Pettibone, David Perkins, Aaron Perkins, John Rosenkrans, Aaron Roberts, Benjamin Roberts, Nathan Roberts, James Rice, Sherman Smith, Daniel Spencer, Martin Smith, Luke Sweetland, Joseph Sweetland, James Scofield, Comfort Shaw, Alexander Swartwout, Elijah Shoemaker, Abraham Shoemaker, Adam Shafer, Peter Shafer, Frederick Shafer, Peter Shale, Henry Tuttle, John Tuttle, Joseph Tut- tle, William Trucks, Isaac Trip, Israel Underwood, Gideon Underwood, Abra- ham Van Gordon, Lemuel Wakely, John Wart, Ashel Fish, Benjamin Smith.
Kingston, so near Wilkes-Barre, has grown with the greater place, and effort was made to bring much of the township into the Greater Wilkes-Barre ushered in in 1927. It is said that no part of the Wyoming Valley has shown such rapid growth during the last few years as the western environs of Wilkes-Barre-those towns of which Kingston is the hub. Mining is, of course, the mainstay of the district, but other industries have been develop- ing. The silk industry of the West Side employs about 2,500 workers, and at Forty Fort is a cigar factory which is said to be "the largest in the world." Other industries which are of National reputation and scope are the Wales adding machine plant and the Wallace-Wilson hosiery plant.
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In 1926, the supervisors of the Kingston Township were: Charles Shaley, Adam Stock, and Wesley Sutton. Number of taxables: 1,700. Assessed valuation : $1.436,015. President of school board: G. B. Pollock. Principal : Clarence Phillips. Twenty-four teachers, including seven for high school.
Lake Township was organized in 1841, territory to form it being taken from Lehman, Monroe, and Kingston townships. It derives its name from Harvey's Lake-the largest lake in Pennsylvania-which is within its bounds.
Most of its land is upland, invigorating, majestic, beautiful, but not very productive. The beautiful sheet of water that is known as Harvey's Lake covers 1,285 acres, and draws a large summer population. It is reached by the Lehigh Valley Railroad, from Pittston and Wilkes-Barre, and in addition by an interurban electric road from Wilkes-Barre. It has been a summer resort for very many years. The Lake House, on the eastern shore, was built in 1857 by Henry Hancock.
The first settler in Lake Township was Matthew Scouten, who came as land agent in 1792. Jacob Sorber afterwards settled where Scouten had lived. Daniel Lee settled at the head of Pike's Creek in 1806. Lee's Pond perpetu- ates his name. Others who settled between 1838 and 1845 were: Josiah, Nathan, and Stephen Kocher, John Jackson, Andrew Freeman, Thomas Lewis, Ephraim King, in 1838; Jonah Roberts, Elon Davenport, Daniel Case- bear, David Moss and John Fosnot, in 1839; Moses C. Perrigo, Jacob Sorber, Jonah Bronson and Jonathan Williams, in 1840: Clarke Wolfe, Jesse Kitchen, George P. Shupp, James Hawley and Edward Ide, before 1845.
Hollenback and Urquhart, lumber manufacturers, owned the greater part of Lake Township, and for many years lumbering, in their employ, was the main work of most of the settlers of the vicinity. Hollenback and Urquhart had a mill on the outlet of Harvey's Lake as early as 1839, and several other mills were built, some for the landowners, some for private enterprise. Hol- lenback and Urquhart built a gristmill in 1840, also a planing mill. All the mills of these people eventually passed to the Hoffman Lumber Company, by purchase. The operations of Hollenback and Urquhart were on a large scale for many years, as much as a million board-feet of lumber coming from their main mill in a year. Lumbering was an important industry in Lake Township up to almost the end of last century.
The proprietors applied themselves to their lumbering operations almost exclusively for many years, but in 1875, much land having been cleared of timber and settlement now being more inviting, they cut a road through the township, leading from Wilkes-Barre to Bradford County. This was the first road. The first frame house was that built by Josiah Kocher, in 1841. The first blacksmith was Stephen Kocher. The first store was that conducted by the lumber company, Hollenback and Urquhart, for a decade from 1850. Another firm, Ruggles and Shonk, operated a tannery in the 'seventies; they also had a store. Otis Allen was the first person buried in Lake Township. He died in January, 1842, and his burial place is known as the Allen Cemetery. The first burial in the West Corner Cemetery was of the body of Sarah, wife of Moses C. Perrigo, in 1852; the first buried in the White Cemetery was Eva A., daughter of Theodore Wolfe, in 1872. The first school in Lake Township was opened in the blockhouse of Otis Allen, near Lee's Pond. Jonathan Wil- liams was the first teacher, holding school during the winters of 1842-43 and 1843-44. In the west corner, a school was conducted by Mr. Williams, in 1847-48 and 1848-49, in the house of Nathan Kocher, who had a mill below the site of the Beaver Run Tannery. Jonathan Williams built a small mill on Harvey's Creek for Kocher and Urquhart in 1849. Apparently, school teach- ing was an avocation.
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At the south end of Harvey's Lake a village grew. As a post office it was known as "Lake"; later it took the name "Outlet." Ruggles was the name of another hamlet, the center of the lumbering operations of Ruggles and Shonk. Loyalville and Fade's Creek were not much else than post office addresses.
In 1926 the supervisors of Lake Township were: Corey Moss, James Hoover, and C. M. Anderson. Number of taxables: 1,643. Assessed valua- tion : $1,304,767. President of school board: E. S. Honeywell. Supervising principal : A. W. Marvin. Twelve teachers, including three high.
Lehman Township-The territory taken from Dallas Township, in 1829, to form a new township took the name Lehman Township, in honor of Dr. Wil- liam Lehman. Its history begins tragically before settlement proper began. Pike's Creek, one of the hamlets of Lehman Township, was so named to mark the spot where Abram Pike was making sugar, in March, 1780. when pounced upon by marauding Indians. The savages had previously raided the sugar camp of Asa Upman and John Rogers, killing Upman and carrying Rogers off. Pike and his wife were carried off, and Moses Van Campen was captured next day in the vicinity of where the hamlet of Orange later developed. The story is elsewhere told, and is referred to here merely to carry its connection into Lehman Township records.
Nehemiah Ide and Jeremiah Brown came into the township in 1801, and are looked upon as the first settlers. A man named Avery next came, but soon moved away. William Fuller settled in 1802, and his brother Isaac two years later. Joseph Worthington settled at Harvey's Lake in 1806. Other early settlers were: William Newman, in 1806: John Whiteman, in 1813; J. I. Bogardus and Ogden Mosely, in 1814; Minor Fuller and Fayette Allen, in 1819; Thomas Major, in 1821, and Oliver Mekeel, in 1823.
The first frame house was built by William Fuller, in 1801 or 1802. The first carpenter was Fayette Allen ; the first blacksinith was Jonathan Heusted ; the first coopers were David Gordon and Ira Lain ; the first shoemaker was William Gordon ; the first physician was Dr. J. J. Rogers; the first teachers were J. I. Bogardus and Obed Baldwin, the schoolhouse being a log building built in 1810, near the site of the Ide homestead. The first mill was erected in 1837 for Lewis Hoyt on Harvey's Creek, by Frederick Hartman. George Sorber built one in the same year, and in 1840 sold to Jameson Harvey. The mill was burned in 1876, but was rebuilt by Mr. Harvey. The first store was that of Daniel Urquhart and Edward Shott, opened in 1848. The first burial was of Nehemiah Ide, who died in 1823, aged seventy-seven years.
Lehman Center is the principal village of the township. It was here that Urquhart and Shott erected the first store. in 1848, its site being near where the Lehman Center Schoolhouse stands. The first schoolhouse at Lehman Center was built in 1836, by Daniel and Oliver Ide: the first teachers in this schoolhouse were Ellen Pugh and Maria Fuller. The West Lehman School- house was erected in 1842 by Nathan and Oliver Ide. The Urquhart store at Lehman Center passed to Bogardus & Fisher, and from them to Flick and Flannigan, later to Flannigan, who ran it for many years before selling to R. A. Whiteman. John Whiteman kept a store in 1820, and at that time was postmaster, weekly mail coming from Kingston.
Lehman is now a place of a few hundred inhabitants. The general store is conducted by T. N. Major and Son, who have also had a lumber mill there for many years. W. R. Neeley has also had a general store business at Leh- man for a couple of decades or more.
In 1926 the supervisors of Lehman Township were: Joseph Rogers, C. S. Neeley, and Walter Brown. Number of taxables: 1,024. Assessed valua- tion : $682,108. President of school board: Floyd Ide. Principal: O. H. Aurand. Eleven teachers, including two for high school.
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Marcy Township, which was organized in 1880, from Pittston, Ransom and Old Forge townships, is no more, having been absorbed by the borough of Duryea in the first decade of the twentieth century. Its history will be found as part of that of Duryea.
Nescopeck Township-Nescopeck is one of the old townships of Luzerne County. In Stewart Pierce's Annals of 1866 is the following :
"Nescopeck Township was separated from Newport in 1792. Jacob Smith- ers, Jacob Shaver, Martin Arner and Jacob Seyberling settled in the territory of this township in 1791, on the banks of the Nescopeck Creek, near its mouth. In 1796, including Hollenback, Sugarloaf, Butler, Black Creek and Hazle townships, it contained 31 taxables, 36 horses, 58 head of horned cattle, 3 gristmills and 3 sawmills. In 1797 Harvey D. Walker built a grist and saw- mill about one mile from Nescopeck village. The first church was erected in 18II, on the turnpike, by the Lutherans and German Reformed members, about four miles from the village."
Nescopeck has somewhat romantic history, from the fact that the village was the site of an ancient Indian town. It was the rendezvous of hostile Indians during the French and Indian War.
The list of taxables in 1796 included the following names :
Walter Kaar, Henry Hepler, William Sims, Jacob Hepler, Abraham Arn- old, Henry Mattis, Joseph Bush, Martin Herner, Henry Nulf, Lawrence Kur- rens, Cornelius Bellas, Jacob Severlin, Michael Horriger, Christian Smeeders, Casper Nulf. John Nulf, Adam Nulf, John Freese, Benjamin Van Horn, George Tilp, Robert Patton, John Kennedy, James McVail, Adam Lurner, John Decker, Isaac Taylor, Daniel Lee, Zebulon Lee, John Pattman, William Rittenhouse and Joseph Kaar.
The first settler in the township is believed to have been George Walker, who came in 1786, and began to erect a mill near where Benjamin Evans' gristmill later stood. Walker's structure, however, was carried away by the "Pumpkin Flood" of that year. Another family settled on the Michael Raber farm, but the whole family was massacred; whereupon Walker moved away.
Along the Nescopeck Creek, the following settlers were to be found in 1791 : Jacob Smithers, Jacob Shover, Martin Aton, and Jacob Seyberling. In 1807, the following had settled, nearly all coming from Northampton County : Henry Dewespecht, Michael Harrier, Conrad Bloos, Jacob Bittenbender, Jr., William Moore, Thomas Cole, Conrad Reiderich, John Henry, Casper Henry, Michael Whitenecht, Michael Nauss, Conrad Bingheimer, Peter Clingeman, Bernard Snyder, John Rooth, George Bittenbender. George Chesney. The Fortners, Sloyers and Smiths came about 1828, the Evanses and Williamses soon after. Jonas Buss settled in 1807. William Rittenhouse, a large land- owner in this part of Luzerne County, sought to encourage settlement by building a gristmill on Nescopeck Creek in 1795. The mill was sold to Jacob Rittenhouse in 1808. Nathan Beech erected a mill on Wapwallopen Creek, near a place called "Powder Hole." in 1795. In the same year Samuel Mifflin built his sawmill near the mouth of Nescopeck Creek. Later millers in the township have been, says Pierce: Henry Bowman, Daniel Evans, John McMurtrie, J. Johnson, John T. Davis, J. Stephenson, H. Haschner, Theodore and George Naugle. The Naugles built a tannery on Nescopeck Creek in 1858, and conducted it until 1870. A forge, with three fires and two ham- mers, to make bloom and bar iron, was built in 1830 on Nescopeck Creek by E. & J. Leidy. They imported ore from Columbia County, and at one time Hon. Simon Cameron had an interest in it.
Nescopeck Village dates from 1786, when Samuel Mifflin opened his little store on the bank of the river. William Baird managed the store for him. It was the first frame structure in the township. George Rough soon opened a
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smithy nearby, and a ferry and log cabin hotel, opened by George Steiner, made the place a hamlet of some activity. In 1807 the log hotel was replaced by a frame hotel built by John Myers. Another was built in 1815 by John Rothermel, whose son, born here, became an artist of some renown, his paint- ing, "The Battle of Gettysburg," bringing him fame. Christian Kunkle built a stone house in 1817. Michael Raber built the first brick house, and burned the brick used for most of the other brick houses of the neighborhood.
The southern line of Luzerne County crosses the Susquehanna River at Nescopeck Village, cutting the Nescopeck bridge diagonally, about midway. The first bridge to span the river at this point was erected in 1816. It was car- ried away by flood in 1836, and in the next year was rebuilt, an important undertaking, for it was 1,250 feet long. In the days of canals, it seems that the "total business of the people" of Nescopeck was canaling, the adults being owners and masters of canal boats and the boys driving the mules that towed them. Later, Nescopeck became an important railroad junction, a branch road from Hazleton joining the Pennsylvania at Nescopeck.
In 1890, Nescopeck was a village of six hundred and fifty inhabitants, had two hotels, a gristmill, three general stores, a railroad roundhouse and rail- road machine shops employing about sixty men, two drug stores, one furniture store, one grocery, one hardware store, one butcher's shop, a smithy and car- penter's shop, and some other smaller places of trading. Twenty years later, 1910, Nescopeck had a population of eleven hundred; it had three hotels, the landlords being W. E. Hackenbrack, William W. Shobert, and Albert Tiets; four general stores, Freeman Harter & Son, Harter & White, Freas A. Hip- pensteel, and Williams Bros .; one cigar factory ; three lumber plants and mills ; three contractors and builders, indicating building activity ; and numer- ous other stores and services that one would find in a growing community.
Nescopeck is now a borough, with a population of 1,638, in 1920.
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