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Elisha Blackman, one of the nine children of Joseph and Elizabeth (Church) Blackman, was born in Little Compton, Rhode Island, September - 23, 1699. He married Susanna Higley. in Leb- anon, Connecticut, to which place his father had":
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removed in 1717, where he purchased one hun- dred and twenty acres of land for six hundred pounds. Susanna Higley was a sister of Hannah Higley, who married Captain Joseph Trumbull, the famous governor of Connecticut during the Revolution, the friend and adviser of General Washington, whom the latter called "Brother Jonathan," and for whom Elisha Blackman, men- tioned below, was a messenger till twelve years of age. Among other children born to Elisha and Susanna ( Higley) Blackman was a son Elisha, mentioned at length in the following paragraph.
Elisha Blackman, son of Elisha and Susanna (Higley) Blackman, was born September 19, 1727. He married, March 22, 1753, Lucy Polly. widow of Ebenezer Smith, who was the mother of two sons, Ebenezer and David, the first of these being the Colonel Ebenezer Smith of the Revolution, and known as "the wise man," or "the long head." Elisha and Lucy Polly Black- man were the parents of the following children : Lucy, born September 7, 1755, married Titus Darrow; Lovina, born September 7, 1757, mar- ried Darius Spafford, the ceremony being per- formed in Wilkes-Barre: Elisha, born April 4, 1760, see forward; Ichabod, born March 24, 1762, married Elizabeth Franklin, 1786; and Eleazer, born May 31, 1765, see forward. Elisha Blackman, the father of these children, emigrated to the Wyoming Valley in 1772. He was a lieu- tenant in the company commanded by Captain William Hooker Smith, of the Twenty-fourth Connecticut line, known as the old "Reforma- does." stationed in the fort at Wilkes-Barre at the time of the Wyoming massacre. At the time of battle and massacre, Lieutenant Blackman . would not leave the fort, believing with Captain Smith that by remaining they might afford pro- tection to the survivors. Darius Spafford, son- in-law of Lieutenant Blackman, was killed in the massacre. Lieutenant Blackman and his son Elisha were the last to leave the fort ; they went down the river, crossed Nescopeck mountain, and thus reached Stroudsburg. Lieutenant Black- man subsequently returned (1787) and died in Wilkes-Barre in 1804.
Elisha Blackman, son of Elisha and Lucy Polly (Smith) Blackman, was born April 4. 1760. He removed with his parents to Wyoming Valley in 1772, when he was twelve years old, and when eighteen years old was mustered into Captain Bid- lack's company, and was a noted scout in the Sus- quehanna valley until the battle and massacre. He was in the hottest of the fight, slew his In- dian, and was one of the eight men who escaped
alive out of the thirty-two comprising his com- pany, that went into the battle, and were either killed in battle, or in the massacre afterward. He swam the river to an island to escape the sav- ages, who fired at him in the water when they could not coax him back with fine promises, as they did many whom they killed as soon as they got out of the water, but their shots at him were without effect. Arriving at the island about dusk he crawled under some willow bushes bent down to the water at the edge of the island not more than a foot 'or so above the sand, and lay there until all was quiet. Late in the evening the sav- ages came toward the island: he heard them walking on the willows over him, but they did not discover him. The Indians having got through torturing their prisoners and yelling, after mid- night he crawled out and swam back to the west shore of the river and down the river bank to Forty Fort. About daylight McMullen, an Irish- man, came in naked. Elisha borrowed a shirt and breeches for him, and they, having learned the fort was to be surrendered, determined not to be surrendered with it. They went to the lower gate and waited for it to be opened, and about ten o'clock the gate was opened to drive in some cattle, and he and McMullen ran. The guard shouted, "Halt, or I'll shoot," and they answered, "Shoot and be damned"; but he didn't shoot. They went down the river two miles to opposite Wilkes-Barre, and there they found a canoe and crossed over to the east side to the Wilkes-Barre fort, and there he found his father the only man in the fort. the rest having gone with the women and children to show them the path to Stroudsburg, but they did not come back. They waited till the middle of the afternoon. Elisha went out into the woods and brought in their cattle, and not knowing the way to Stroudsburg, they started down the river road and at Nanticoke. eight miles down, they made a fire and heated a rock and baked a cake from some flour Elisha had in a pil- low case he got in their own house as they passed it on their way down, and water. At Nanticoke their cattle, in the dark, ran into a laurel swamp and they lost them. They went on down the river to a creek where they saw a light and found a cabin and a man living there alone. They staid all night there and in the morning he showed them a path that led to Stroudsburg, where they ar- rived in two days, Elisha badly crippled with rheumatism.
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ages, in a land where as vet the foot of white man had hardly trod, threading their way through trackless forests, over rugged mountains, through swamps and morasses, whose only inhabitants were wild beasts, hundreds of miles from civiliza- tion. Truly no monument can be erected that can adequately describe their struggles. Elisha Blackman returned to Wyoming in August with Captain Spaulding's company, and in October helped to bury the dead at Wyoming and save whatever property had escaped destruction. Later he served two years with the army in Cherry Val- ley and on the headwaters of the Susquehanna, in New York State, and in 1781 enlisted in Colonel Sherman's regiment on the Hudson, being dis- charged in 1782. The ceremony of laying the cornerstone of Wyoming Monument, July 3, 1833, was performed by Elisha Blackman. He married, January 10, 1788, Anna Hurlburt. He died December 5, 1845.
Major Eleazer Blackman, son of Elisha and Lucy Polly (Smith) Blackman, was born in Leb- anon. Connecticut, May 31, 1765, and accom- panied his parents to Wilkes-Barre in 1772. He was thirteen years old at the time of the invasion of the valley in 1778 by the British and Indians under John Butler, and assisted in building the fort at Wilkes-Barre by hauling logs. He fled with his mother and family, July 4, 1778, across the mountains and through the "Shades of Death" to Strousburg, where they were joined by their father, and then made their way to Lebanon, Con- necticut, where he was reared. He returned to Wilkes-Barre with his brothers in 1786, and the remainder of his life was spent in that place. His father, his brothers and he were all of the stuff that good men honor. Their lives were true and tried in the faith of patriots. In the search for freedom's holy light on the then western frontier their souls were seared with the trials that befell. Nobly they lived their lives and played their parts with the mighty host of pioneers who shared the perils with them. In 1787 Major Eleazer Black- man married Clarinda Hyde, daughter of John Hyde. He died September 10, 1843, aged seven- ty-eight years, and his wife died January 25, 1830, aged sixty years. Their daughter, Melinda, born May 4, 1793, married Daniel Collings, in 1812, and they had eleven children, Julia Collings, mother of C. Bow Dougherty, being the tenth child. Daniel Collings died in 1861, aged sixty- eight years. The engraving of Elisha Black- man which has so generously been placed in this work by his grandson, Henry B. Plumb, will ever prove a source of gratification to all.
Henry Blackman Plumb, only child of Charles and Julia Anna ( Blackman) Plumb, was born in Hanover township, Pennsylvania, November 13, 1829, in a house on the ground where he still re- sides. He was educated in the Wilkes-Barre common schools and also in the old academy. He read law with Volney L. Maxwell, and was ad- mitted to practice in Luzerne county, November 21, 1859. He served as corporal in Company K, Thirtieth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, in the War of 1861-65, and afterwards returned to professional pursuits, but not for long, as he re- tired early from the law and devoted his attention to other personal concerns. His home is at Peely postoffice, Warrior Run borough, in his na- tive town, where he lives in quiet, surrounded with friends and books. His history of Hanover township has been standard authority since its publication ; he has given considerable attention to genealogy, generally of the old Hanover fam- ilies, and particularly of his own family.
Mr. Plumb married, September 28, 1851, Emma L. Ruggles, born 1835, died July 19, 1859, daughter of Ashibel and Angelina (Bennett) Ruggles, and they were the parents of one son, George Henry Ruggles Plumb, mentioned here- inafter. Ashbel Ruggles was born in Hanover township, Pennsylvania, son of Alfred and Re- becca Ruggles. Alfred Ruggles was a son of the Massachusetts Ruggles, whose first name is un- known, one of two brothers (Ruggles or Rugles) who came from England and settled in Massa- chusetts. One of the brothers afterward went south, and the Ruggles of Hanover, Pennsyl- vania, are descended from the Ruggles who set- tled permanently in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1630. . Mr. Plumb married for his second wife, April 24, 1900, in St. Louis, Missouri, Mrs. Edith M. (Green) Wilson, widow of Harvey Wilson, whom she married May 29, 1890, and who died December 18, 1892, leaving one child, William T. S. Wilson, born August 28, 1891. Edith M. Plumb was born July 29, 1872, in St. Louis, Mis- souri, only child of William G. and Elizabeth (Selby) Green, who were married September 21, I87I. Elizabeth (Selby) Green, was married (second) to Henry Schaeffer, August 30, 1875. and they had five children, one of whom is de- ceased. Mrs. Schaeffer was the daughter of Joseph M. and Julia Anna ( Boos) Selby, of Vir- ginia, the latter named having been born July 2, 1824, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth ( Black- man) Boos, who were the parents of five children. Henry Boos was born near Basle, Switzerland, and his wife was born August 26, 1799, in Han-
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over, Pennsylvania, died in Iowa, February 20, 1858, daughter of Elisha Blackman, aforemen- tioned, who was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, April 4, 1760, and died in Hanover, Pennsylvania. Two children were born to Henry B. and Edith M. (Green) (Wilson) Plumb: Rollo Green, March 31, 1901 ; and Edith Agnes, January 24, 1905.
George Henry Ruggles Plumb, only son and child of Henry Blackman and Emma L. ( Ruggles) Plumb, was born in Honesdale, Wayne county, Pennsylvania, June 12, 1854. He prepared for college at Prompton Normal School and Wyom- ing Seminary ; he entered Lafayette College, 1873, and graduated in 1877 with the degree of Bache- lor of Science, and in 1880 with that of Master of Science. He taught school three years, 1877-79, and read law with E. P. and J. V. Darling, in Wilkes-Barre, and was admitted to practice in Lu- zerne county, January 18, 1881. He is a Repub- lican in politics. H. E. H.
GORE FAMILY. John Gore (1), the pio- neer ancestor of the family, and the first of the name to emigrate to New England, was born in England, and died in Roxbury, Massachusetts, June 2, 1657. He arrived in Roxbury with his wife Rhoda on April 18, 1637, and was one of the few men in the colony honored with the title of "Mister." He is mentioned in a list of land- owners of the year 1643 as owning one hundred and eighty-eight acres. When he landed at Bos- ton and passed on Boston Neck to Roxbury "Mrs. Gore was carried by two men, as the ground was wet and swampy. Arriving at Rox- bury, the men stopped with their fair burden on a small hill, when Mrs. Gore, who was . much fatigued, exclaimed 'This is Paradise,' and the spot was thenceforth named 'Paradise Hill.'" John Gore was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company in 1638, clerk of the company. 1655, and for many years served as town clerk. The records of Roxbury, now in the city hall, Boston, are in his handwriting and in that of his son who succeeded him. Children of John and Rhoda Gore: Mary, born in Eng- land ; John, born in England, May 23, 1634, mar- ried, May 31. 1683. Sarah Gardner, who bore him nine children, and he died in Roxbury, Mass- achusetts, June 26, 1705 : Obadiah, born June 27, 1636, in Roxbury, died September 3, 1646; Abi- gail, born August 5, 1641, died August 13 or 30, 1642 ; Abigail, born May 5, 1643. baptized May 7, died October 21. 1671, unmarried ; Hannah, born May 15, 1645. married June 13, 1677, Ralph
Bradhurst, of Roxbury, issue, four children, and died July 10, 1686; Obadiah, baptized March 25, 1648, died September 3, 1653 ; twins, who died June 1I, 1651 ; Samuel, no record of birth or bap- tism : Benjamin, born November 2, 1654, died in early life. Governor Christopher Gore, of Massa- chusetts, was of this family.
(II) Samuel Gore, son of John and Rhoda Gore, married, August 28, 1672, Elizabeth Weld, of Roxbury. He was a carpenter by trade. He served for several years as selectman of Roxbury. He died July 4. 1692. He had one son, Samuel.
(III) Samuel Gore, son of Samuel and Eliz- abeth (Weld) Gore, was born in Roxbury, Octo- ber 20, 1681, died in Norwich, Connecticut, May 27, 1756. He married ( first ) Hannah Draper, who died in Norwich, July 11, 1741. He married (second), May 13, 1742, Mrs. Dorcas Blunt. Samuel and Elizabeth Gore had five sons of whom
(IV) Obadiah Gore, senior, fifth son of Sam- uel and Hannah ( Draper) Gore, born at Rox- bury, Massachusetts, July 26, 1714, died Wyom- ing. Pennsylvania, January 10, 1779. He married November 4, 1742. Hannah Parks, born Preston, Connecticut, July 3, 1721, died August 14, 1804. He resided in the vicinity of Boston, removed to Plainfield, Connecticut, and in 1768 to the Wyoming valley, Pennsylvania. He was one of the first white men in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsyl- vania, and was the pioneer of the family in Wyoming valley. Captain Gore was commis- sioned by the Connecticut Assembly ensign of the Eighth Company, Third Regiment Militia, May, 1761, lieutenant of same, May, 1762, and captain. May, 1766. He was an aged man at the time of the massacre, and was left in Forty Fort while the army went out to meet the enemy. In the little band that marched forth July 3, 1778, were his five sons : Samuel. Daniel. Silas, George and Asa : also his sons-in-law, John Murfee and Tim- othy Pearce. At sun setting five of the seven were on the field, mangled corpses. Asa and Silas -were ensigns, and were slain ; George was slain ; John Murfee was slain. Timothy Pearce held a commission in the regular army, but had hurried in. He also was killed. Lieutenant Daniel Gore was near the right wing, and stood a few rods below Wintermoots' fort, close to the old road that led through the valley. Stepping into the road, a ball struck him in the arm, tearing it from his shirt. He applied a hasty bandage. Just at that moment Captain Durkee stepped into the road at the same place. "Look out!" said Daniel : "there are some of the savages concealed
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under yonder heap of logs." At that instant a bullet struck Captain Durkee in the thigh. When retreat became inevitable Daniel endeavored to assist Captain Durkee from the field, but found it impossible; and Durkee said: "Save yourself, Mr. Gore-my fate is sealed." Lieutenant Dan- iel Gore then escaped down the road, and, leaping the fence about a mile below, lay crouched close under a bunch of bushes. While there an Indian got over the fence and stood near him. Mr. Gore said he could see the white of his eye, and was almost sure he was discovered. A moment after a yell was raised on the flats below ; the Indian drew up his rifle and fired, and instantly ran off in that direction. Though the wave of death seemed to have passed over and spent itself, yet Lieutenant Gore remained under cover till dusk, when he heard voices in the road near him. One said to the other "It has been a hard day for the Yankees. " Yes," replied the other, "there has been blood enough shed." He thought one was Colonel John Butler, but could not say for certain. After dark Mr. Gore found his way to the fort and met his brother Samuel, the only survivors of the seven. The distress of Mrs. Murfee was very great. She feared her husband had been tortured, but when she learned he fell on the field, she was less distressed : and begging her way among the rest of the fugitives, traversed the wilderness and sought a home in the state from which she had emigrated, having an infant born a few days after her arrival among her former friends.
Obadiah Gore was one of the famous charac- ters of the Wyoming valley preceding and during the years of the Revolutionary war. He was a justice of the peace 1777-78-79, under the laws of Connecticut, his commission signed in April, 1778, bearing the name of Jonathan Trumbull, then governor of Connecticut. He was a blacksmith by trade, and he and his brother Daniel Gore, also a blacksmith by trade, were the first persons to use anthracite coal in this country, they beginning to use it in their forges as early as 1772. They were among the prisoners taken by the Penna- mites in 1768. Lieutenant Obadiah and Hannah (Parks) Gore had :
I. Judge Obadiah Gore, born April 7, 1744, died at Sheshequin. Pennsylvania, March 22, 1821 ; married March 22. 1764, Anna Avery, and they had five children. He was one of the most prominent men of his day in Wyoming valley. He served six years as a member of the Continental army, was commis- sioned first lieutenant by John Hancock and later by John Jay: was commissioned first lieutenant, 27
Connecticut militia, October 11, 1776, and Jan- uary I, 1777, was on duty in Westmoreland, Pennsylvama. He served in the Sullivan expedi- tion, June-August, 1779, and was retired by con- solidation January 1, 1781. He was one of the judges commissioned at the organization of Luzerne county, participated in the first and sec- ond Pennamite wars, was appointed a justice of the peace of Westmoreland county, April, 1782, and of Luzerne county in April, 1782, May II, 1787, August 17, 1791, and August 17, 1790, a judge of the court of common pleas. He was one of the members from Westmoreland to the Con- necticut Assembly, 1781-82, and was a member of the Pennsylvania Legislature during the years 1788-90. His portrait hanging in the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society shows him to have been a very handsome man.
2. Daniel, born March 13, 1746, mentioned hereafter.
.3 Silas, born December 23, 1747, was killed at the Wyoming massacre, July 3, 1778.
4. Asa, born February 28, 1750, killed at the Wyoming massacre, July 3, 1778.
5. Hannah, born May 28, 1752, became the wife of Timothy Pearce, who was killed in the Wyoming massacre, July 3, 1778.
6. Lucy, born May 6, 1754, died September 30, 1820. She was the wife of John Murfee, who was killed in the massacre of Wyoming, July 3. 1778.
7. Sarah, born November 23, 1756, died May 20. 1841. Married (first) Lawrence Myers; (second) Rev. Benjamin Bidlack.
8. George, born September 1, 1758, killed in the massacre of Wyoming, July 3, 1778, on Queen's Esther's Rock.
9. Samuel, born May 24, 1761, died May 2, 1834; he married Sarah Broean, who bore him six children.
IO. John, born February 25, 1764, married Elizabeth Ross, sister of General William Ross.
Lieutenant Daniel Gore, son of Obadiah and Hannah (Parks) Gore, was born at Norwich, Connecticut. March 13, 1746, died September 3, 1809, aged sixty-three years. (See his experi- ence at Wyoming under his father's record). He married (first) Mary Parks, who died April II, 1806. He married ( second) Hannah Finn, whose will was proved September 23, 1809.
George Gore, son of Lieutenant Daniel and Mary (Parks) Gore, born 1781, died May. 1856, married (first) Mary Larned, who died October 25, 1813. He married (second) Susanna Cary. He. was a farmer at Plains, Pennsylvania, and
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later at Peoria, Illinois, where he died. He had by his first marriage seven children, among whom was Daniel, of whom later. By his second mar- riage he had six children.
Daniel Gore, second child of George and Mary (Larned) Gore, born at Plains, Pennsylvania, March 19, 1803, died Wyoming. Pennsylvania, October 21, 1883. He was reared and educated on the farm of his father, then came to Wyoming and followed farming until his retirement, being known as one of the best farmers in that section of the country. In 1879 he purchased the home now occupied by his daughter, Miss Jane Gore, in Wyoming, and lived here until his death. He was a man highly respected by all who knew him. and left behind hosts of friends who remembered him for his many noble deeds of kindness and his uprightness in all his dealings. The engraving accompanying this sketch has been placed there by his daughter in loving remembrance, and will, it is felt, be a source of pleasure to his many friends. He married, July 4, 1830, Joanna John- son, daughter of Abraham and Jane (Labar) Johnson, who was born in New Jersey, but came to the Wyoming valley with her parents when three years of age, and died there October 28, 1884. Here her father Abraham was among the early pioneers, followed the occupation of farm- ing, and died October 11, 1834, aged sixty-eigth years. Her mother, Jane Labar Johnson, was born May 16, 1771, died July 7, 1833. and bore her husband a number of children. Daniel and Joanna (Johnson) Gore had two children : Jane, the only one living at the present time. born June 16, 1831. Johnson, born in Kingston, Pennsyl- vania. August 25, 1832, died at Wyoming, June 5, 1895.
Miss Jane Gore, only daughter of Daniel and Joanna (Johnson) Gore, represents one of the oldest and most prominent families connected with the early history of Wyoming valley, and one that has done much toward its development. She takes a great interest in young people, and has done much to encourage and advance their interests. She has educated one young lady who is now filling the position of teacher in the public schools of Wyoming, and has also educated a young man who is now occupying the respon- sible position of stenographer in one of the lead- ing banks of Wilkes-Barre. H. E. H.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL PAUL AM- BROSE OLIVER, a veteran of the civil war, and a resident of Laurel Run, post-office Oliver's Mills, Luzerne county, Pennsylvania, was born
July 18. 1831, on board the ship "Louisiana", in the English channel, latitude 49 degrees 19 min- utes, N. longitude, under the United States flag. He descends from Reuben Oliver, of Delaware and New York, who lived between the years 1730-74, who married Hester Gallaudet. daughter of Dr. Pierre Elisee and Jane Gallaudet, of Mauze, France, both distinguished families in Huguenot history. Among their children was a son named Thomas.
Captain Thomas Oliver, son of Reuben and Hester (Gallatidet) Oliver, was born in Dela- ware, May 23. 1770. He married, 1791, Sarah Ambrose, of Virginia, born 1771. died 1845. Cap- tain Oliver was a marine captain of an Atlantic ocean ship sailing between Philadelphia. Europe and South America in the days when all travel between these lands was in sailing vessels. He was lost at sea in the great storm off the coast of Spain, December 15, 1812. Captain Thomas and Sarah Oliver had seven children: I. Eliza, married (first) Captain Baily. (second) Samp- son Hadley, of Newark, New Jersey. 2. Hes- ter, married John Algeo. 3. Paul Ambrose, born April 18, 1796, of whom later. 4. James Gallaudet. 5. Sarah Ann, married William Stockley. 6. Maria Louise, married John Croft. 7. Thomas, married Sarah Howard. He lived at Mauch Chunk in the early days of that town, and had four children-Elizabeth Olivia,
married D. Samuel Bryce Flower, a surgeon in the Confederate States army. 1861-65: Col- Onel William S. Oliver, United States army, 1861- 65, especially mentioned by General Ulysses S. Grant in his "Memoirs :" Lieutenant Howard Oliver, United States army, 1861-65: Rich- ard Paul Oliver, United States army. 1861-65.
Captain Paul Ambrose Oliver, U. S. N .. eld- est son of Captain Thomas and Sarah ( Ambrose) Oliver, was born, Philadelphia, April 18. 1796, and died at Fort Hamilton. Long Island. June. 1848. He was trained on shipboard by his father. captain of the "Nancy and Kate," which he was sailing at the time he was washed over- board in 1812. Paul Ambrose was first mate of the ship. and. although then but a boy of sixteen, brought his vessel safely into port. He was for many years in command of his own ships, the "Tiber." "Superior." "Trenton." "Louisiana." all of them as notable as the Cunard steamships of to- day. He participated in the war of 1812. serving in the battle of Lake Erie, taking several officers prisoners in an expedition in which he com- manded a boat. April 15. 1814. he was com-
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