History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 28

Author: Craft, David, 1832-1908; L.H. Everts & Co
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia : L. H. Everts
Number of Pages: 812

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In 1781, while Connecticut still claimed jurisdiction over the New England settlements on the Susquehanna, and rep- resentatives from "Westmoreland" were sent to the general assembly at Hartford, Col. Franklin represented the town for one session. In the years 1795 and 1796 he represented Luzerne county in the assembly of Pennsylvania. In 1799 to 1803, inclusive, he was in the assembly every term. Mr. Miner says of him : " A few months before an election, with great tact Franklin would commence his essays, awaken old and new prejudices and hopes, kindling the spirit of the people to that degree of warmth that 'Col. Franklin must go to the assembly,' and he went." As an evidence of his popularity in this county, in 1801 he received in the Tioga district every vote, and in the Wyalusing district all but sixteen ; in 1802, every vote but three in the three election districts of which the county was composed, and in 1803 all but ten.

In the legislature, on all those questions which related to the title of lands, he was earnest in his defense of the half- share men and unsparing in his reproaches and withering sarcasm of the " land-jobbers." An attempt was made in the session of 1802-3 to cxpel him from the assembly on account of his indictment under the intrusion law, but on account of political reasons many in the land-holders' interest were induced to vote against his expulsion. Determined, however, to get rid of him, the legislature, in 1804, passed an act dividing the county of Luzerne, and setting off that part which contained the residence of Col. Franklin to Ly- coming. It is said that the first draft of the bill included that part of Luzerne west of the Susquehanna and north of the Towanda. When the bill was read, Col. Franklin arose in his seat and remarked "he wished to inform the gentlemen that he lived east of the river." The boundaries were accordingly changed so as to include him in the dis- membered portion. In 1805, however, much to the chagrin of his enemies, he was elected by the people of Lycoming, and appeared in triumph at Lancaster and took his seat. As it was his crowning, so it was his closing victory. Old age had dampened his ardor and chilled his ambition, and the remainder of his days were spent in the quiet of his own home. Here, surrounded by friends who loved and revered him, it was his delight to recount the scenes of his early days, and tell the story of the suffering and toils of his companions and associates.

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Many of the older people at Athens still remember him. His tall, stalwart frame was bent with age, the gleam of fire in his eye had faded, the sandy, bushy hair had become bleached, the scars left by the smallpox were mingled with the wrinkles and seams of age, but all his neighbors rose up before the hoary head, and listened with reverence to his words of counsel. It was his custom, later in life, whenever he attended the burial of one of the old citizens, at the grave to make some remarks about the deceased. Tliese words and the impression which they made are still remem- bered by many.

An anecdote has been related which illustrates Col. Franklin's retentive memory. This he retained to the last. He could tell the events, in their order and with great mi- nuteness, which had occurred in the valley from the period of its first occupation by the white people. He knew every man and his history on the Susquehanna company's purchase, and the history of every tract of land which had been occupied. In all questions relating to settlement or occupancy, his testimony was invaluable and conclusive. Many of those depositions, where they could be obtained, have thrown great light on our early history.

He was a ready writer. His pen was constantly employed. In writing the history of the purchase, in taking copies of legal papers and documents, in writing letters, in keeping a journal, the amount of writing done by him was enormous. Many of those papers have been preserved, but the great mass have been scattered and destroyed.

He was earnest in his convictions, and ardent in main- taining them. He believed the claim of the Susquehanna company was a valid one. No person can read his argument in its defense without amazement at the amount of labor expended in procuring and arranging the facts, and the skill with which they are made to answer his purpose. It has been said that as respects the great principles on which real estate is held in this country, his knowledge has never been surpassed.

In his earlier years Franklin and his wife were commu- nicants in the Congregational church. After the death of his first wife, and in the excitement and conflicts of his middle life, his religious feelings seem to have been kept in the background; but in his latter life they returned with re- newed vigor. To his friends he confessed his departures from his professions, and his determination to live a better life. This he did, spending much of his time in reading the Bible and in devotion. There are old people now living who remember with great distinctness his long, earnest prayers.

In politics Col. Franklin was a zealous Federalist, and, wielding so large an influence in Luzerne, in the then nearly balanced state of parties in Pennsylvania, he was courted or countenanced by eminent men, and even the heart of his old enemy, Timothy Pickering, so far relented that they exchanged civilities, and, it is understood, dined together at the secretary's table. Although usually grave and dig- nified in his demeanor, there was a vein of sly humor often mingled in his conversation. At one time, in giving his evidence before court, referring to some transaction which took place about the time of his abduction, he observed that about that time he was called "on im-

portant business to Philadelphia ; he had just gone in com- pany with several gentlemen to that city." At another time he referred to his moving to Athens as immediately after his return from a protracted visit to Philadelphia.

Col. Franklin died at Athens, at his home, March 1, 1831, aged eighty-one years three months and five days. He was buried on a little gravel bluff overlooking the highway, and in plain view of Tioga Point, only a few rods north of his mansion. A view of his burial-place is here given. Abigail, the colonel's last wife, died in Athens, Jan.

COL. FRANKLIN'S GRAVE.

30, 1834, in her eighty-third year. She was buried beside him, and a plain marble slab marks their graves.

Of his children, Billa settled first at Palmyra, N. Y., afterwards at St. Alban's, N. Y., where he died, leaving a family of nine children ; Amos, by profession a physician, settled at Cayuga village, and died there, Oct. 11, 1804, leaving one son, Henry, who died without children. The daughter, Kezia, married Dr. Solomon Beebe, settled at Geneva, N. Y., and died without children. The widow Bidlack had, previous to her marriage with Col. Franklin, Stephen, who was seven years old at the time of the mas- sacre, settled at Spencer, N. Y., and died there; Sally, married a Mr. Chitsie, and settled in New York State; Hettie, married William Patrick, settled first in Wysox, and then moved to Michigan,-she was the mother of the late Gen. Welles' first wife; and James, who settled in Sheshequin.

CHAPTER IX.

ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY AND THE ERECTION OF TOWNSHIPS.

THE northeastern part of the Indian purchase of 1768, which included the greater part of the territory of Bradford, was attached to Northampton county ; but as there were not more than three or four families, except the Moravian missionaries, residing within the present bounds of this county previous to the erection of Northumberland, the State made no attempt to exercise jurisdiction over this part of her domain.

On the 27th of March, 1772, the county of North-

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umberland was established, including the northern part of Northampton and comprising the Wyoming settlements on the Susquehanna. At this time there does not seem to have been anything like townships or eleetion districts in this part of the State, the several portions of the territory being designated by distriets whose boundaries were not very clearly defined. In 1783 the legislature of Penn- sylvania appointed Joseph Montgomery, William Mont- gomery, and Moses McClean commissioners to proceed to Wyoming, endeavor to allay the disturbances, and establish eivil government there. In the discharge of their duties, in the month of April of that year, they divided the Wy- oming settlements into three townships, called respectively Wyoming, Shawanese, and Stoke; the latter township covered this county. Among the returns of surveys at Harrisburg is the following :

" A Draught of a tract of land called -- , situate joining Land surv'd for Job Chillaway and others at Wyaloosing, in Stoke township, North'd County, containing four hundred & nineteen & } [acres], with the usual allowance of six per cent. for Roads, &c. Surveyed for John Lawson, the 10th day of October, 1783, in pursuance of a warrant dated the 18th day of Feh'y, 1775.

" by WM. GRAY, D. S.

"To John Lukens, Esqr., Surveyor General."

It will be observed that this survey was made in October of the same year the township was set off; but the country was so far distant, it being sixty miles to the nearest justice, that practically it was beyond the jurisdiction of the com- monwealth.

On the 25th of September, 1786, an act was passed ereeting the county of Luzerne out of the northern part of North- umberland. The limits of the new county embraced not only present Luzerne, but Wyoming, Susquehanna, and Bradford. On an old map in my possession its east line is run from the fourth mile-stone south to the Lehigh river ; the north line is the line of the State from the fourth to the eightieth mile-stone, and a part of its west line eoineides with the present line between Bradford and Tioga counties. Dee. 27, 1787, an aet was passed providing for an eleetion on the first of the following February, at which Col. Nathan Denison was chosen to the supreme executive council ; John Franklin, member of assembly; and Lord Butler, Esq., high sheriff. Col. Timothy Pickering was appointed pro- thonotary, and William Hooker Smith, Benjamin Carpenter, James Nesbit, Timothy Pickering, Matthias Hollenback, Nathan Kingsley, and Obadiah Gore justices of the peaee and of the court of common pleas for the county. Thus, for the first time, the people on the North Branch of the Susquehanna were represented in the legislature of the commonwealth, and had courts to which they eould resort which were not prejudiced against them because they were New England people.

At the June sessions, 1788, the court agreed to the ex- pediency and propriety of dividing the county into districts, for the election of justices of the peace, in the following manner, to wit :

I. From the upper line of the county to the place at which the road crosses Roswell Franklin's mill-creek [near where Mr. Lanning lives in Wysox], by an east and west line comprehending both sides of the river, to be called the First district,-one justice.

II. From the last-mentioned line to the mouth of Wya- lusing creek, by an east and west line comprehending both sides of the river, to be called the Second district,-one justice.

III. From the last-mentioned line to the mouth of Teague's creek, by an east and west line comprehending both sides of the river, to be called the Third district,-one justice.

The remaining districts lay outside of the present lines of Bradford. Noah Murray was commissioned justice in the first district by the supreme executive council, his com- mission bearing date Nov. 23, 1788. Obadiah Gore also lived in this district, and Nathan Kingsley in the third dis- trict. I can find no record of any justice for the second district.

At the March sessions, 1790, of the court, held at Wilkes-Barre, " It is ordered by the justices of this court that the county of Luzerne be divided into eleven town- ships, by the following names and descriptions, to wit :

"1. Tioga, bounded on the north by the north line of the State, on the east by the east line of the county, on the south by an east and west line which shall strike the Standing Stone, on the west by the west line of the county.

"2. Wyalusing, bounded north by the south line of Tioga, on the east by the east line of the county, on the south by an east and west line passing through the mouth of Meshoppen ereek, and on the west by the west line of the county."

The township of Tioga as thus described was seventy-six miles in length from east to west, and a trifle more than eighteen miles in width from north to south. The town- ship of Wyalusing was the same length, and a little more than ten miles in breadth. The next township below, Tunk- hannock, cut off a small triangle of the south part of the county, but it was then and for several years after an un- broken, uninhabited wilderness.

At the April sessions, 1795, a petition was presented to the court asking for a division of Tioga township by an east and west line passing through a small stream on the east side of the Susquehanna, southwesterly of Breakneck, the north part to be called Tioga and the south part " Wisocks." The prayer of the petitioners was granted.

The earliest assessment we have been able to find is for 1796. The following is the list of taxables in each of the three townships. Those marked with a * in Wyalusing belong to Wyoming county, and those marked the same way in Tioga were in present Susquehanna county. In the spelling the assessment roll has been followed .*

Wyalusing .- Justus Gaylord, assessor; Oliver Dodge and Stephen Beckwith, assistants ; * Stephen Arnold, Silas F. Andrews, Benjamin Ackley, *Solomon Agard, - Abbott, John Ameup, Sherman Buck, Judah Benjamin, Gideon Baldwin, Sr., Gideon Baldwin, Jr., Daniel Brown, Hum- phrey Brown, Laertes Blacken, Richard Benjamin, John Bradshaw, *Silas Barsley, Isaac Brownson, Dimon Bost- wick, Ezekiel Brown, Samuel Baker, Aaron Beman, Peter Brunert, Laurence Buzard, John Brovost, John Bigdelier, Stephen Beckwith, Robert Carr, Benjamin Crawford, Jede- diah Coon, Mansy Colony, Job Camp, Rufus (?) Carter,

# (1) Non-resident; (2) Susquehanna county.

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Jonah Carter, Samuel Crooks, (1) John Durrance, Oliver Dodge, William Dorton, Francis Demene, Henry Dandilott, Widow Dutremont, William Dimmead, Lazarus Ellis, Joseph Elliott, Henry Ellsworth, Joseph Ellsworth, Ephraim Fair- child, Elijah Fromenta, *Josiah Fawsett, Samuel Gordon, James Gordon, *Justus Gaylord, Sr., *Ambrose Gaylord, *Eleazar Gaylord, William Goodrich, Justus Gaylord, Jr., Chauncy Gaylord, Samuel Gilbert, John Horton, James Hinds, (1) Matthias Hollenback, Isaac Hancock, Joseph Ingham, John Keeton, *Joseph Keeney, Elisha Keeler, Richard Keeney, Mark Keeney, Nathan Kingsley, *Isaac Lacey, Bartholomew Lafaber, Bartholomew Laporte, Caz'a La Roue, *Henry Lott, David Lake, Lewis Lefeber, Sam- nel Luckey, Thomas Lewis, James Lake, Robert Latti- more, Joseph Maurice, James Montale, John Mancy, Guy Noailles, Thomas Oviatt, John Ogden, *Peter Osterhout, *Benjamin Overfield, *- Overfield, George Obray, Isaac Pratt, Philip Place, Reuben Place, Uriah Persons, *Noah Phelps, Joseph Preston, Zachariah Price, John Pegar, James Quick, Francis Reo, Lewis Rhoads, Samuel Rockwell, John Rosher, Josiah Rogers, James . Rockwell, Eleazer Russell, (2) Daniel Ross, (2) Jesse Ross, Joseph Ross, Samuel Seeley, Fred. Sheer, Jacob Swar, *Philip Shoemaker, Nathan Stevens, Aden Stevens, John Shoemaker, Oliver Sesson, *William Sutton, Christopher Scoonover, Sophia Sebart, *Ebenezer Skinner, *William Smith, *Gerritt Smith, *Jonathan Stevens, *Samuel Sturdevant, *Samuel Sturde- vant, Sr., *Abijah Sturdevant, *Noah Sturdevant, * Azor Sturdevant, *James Sturdevant, Thomas Smiley, Joseph Stalford, David Shoemaker, Abraham Taylor, Job Turrell, Parshall Terry, Nathan Terry, Uriah Terry, Jonathan Terry, Joshua Terry, Joseph Todd, Thomas Tillotson, Daniel Turrell, Omer Talon, John Taylor, Joseph C. Town, Thomas Wigton, Thomas Wright, Amasa Wells, Reuben Wells, Guy Wells, *Joseph Wheeler, *James Wheeler, Nathan Winton, Joab Whitcomb, John Whitcomb, J ---- Whitcomb, Hiram Whitcomb, Miner York, David Young, Robert Young, Anthony Vanderpool. The whole valua- tion is $51,600; outside the county, $10,262. In Brad- ford the number of acres improved, 1357; unimproved, 22,377 ; the whole tax, $257.99; in the county, $206.69; number of resident taxables, 108.

Wysocks .- Name of assessor not given. John Bennett, Chas. Beloughne, Joshua Bowman, Stephen Ballard, Amos Bennett, Jr., Joseph Bennett, Joseph Bullard, Nathan Bull, Henry Bunnell, Ferris Bodwell, Chas. Bartley, Joshua Baily, Thos. Bennett, Amos Bennett, Jno. Blandon, David Barin- ton, Henry Birney, Gideon Bennett, Saml. Cranmer, Usual Carter, Saml. Clark, Jr., Saml. Covel, Michael Crons, Noa- diah Cranmer, Ebenezer Cindle, Wm. Coolbaugh, Moses Coolbaugh, Barnabas Clark, Moses Calkens, John Clark, Amy Cranmer, John Cranmer, Abisha Cole, Samuel Cole, James Cornet, Samuel Clark; William Dorharty, William Dewitt, Saul Dewitt, William Dobin, John Dorman, Fred- erick Eiklor, Benjamin Eiklor, Jehiel Franklin, Solomon Franklin, Isaac Foster, Rudolph Fox, Philip Fox, Jehiel Faris, Abraham Foster, Rufus Foster, Francis Gullow, Jacob Gibson, Richard Griffin, Richard Gough, Thomas Gibson, - Holley, Elisha Hurlbut, Zachariah Price, Nathaniel Edsall, Peter Huyck, Jonas Geer, Jacob Gran-

teer, Elijah Head, George Head, George Head, Sr., James Huff, John Hinman, Thomas Hollis, William Huyck, Na- thaniel Heacock, Luther Hinman, Job Irish, Thomas Judd, John Lewis, Jesse Lamphere, Ebenezer Lee, James Lewis, James McCanna, Widow McDole, William Means, Adam Mann, Ralph Martin, Theopholus Moger, Joshua Nun, Samuel Nun, John Parks, John Peppers, Felix Powell, Jonathan Proser, Abraham Parmerton, John Roberts, Ezra Rutty, Samuel Rutty, Gilbert Roberts, Stephen Strickland, Isaac Swaine, Martin Stratton, Timothy Straton, Joseph Seeley, Oliver Seeley, Abner Seeley, Isaac Strope, Sebastian Strope, Rodwicks Sentor, Henry Strope, Samuel Saverhill, Samuel Shores, Nathan Smith, Jesse R. Stepham, John Streator, Orr Scoville, Silas Scoville, Resolve Session, Cas- par Singer, Henry Talliday, John Talliday, Henry Tuttle, Solomon Vergason, Ezekiel Vergason, Rufus Vergason, Wil- liam Webber, Stephen Wilcocks, Joshua Wythe, David Wil- cocks, Jr., David Wilcoeks, Sr., Joseph Wallace. Whole number of taxables, 128; valuation, $35,515.70 ; number of acres, improved, 1007 ; unimproved, 13,032; amount of tax, $179.123.

Tioga .- Joseph Kinney, assessor. David Alexander, James Bostwick, (1) William Y. Burrough, Joseph Biles, Andreas Budd, Stephen Bidlack, Solomon Beebe, David Bosworth, Obadiah Brown, George Brown, James Brink, Benjamin Brink, Chester Bingham, James Braffitt, Joseph Bennet, Peraz Boardwell, Samuel Baker, (1) Elijah Buck, Isaac Collins, Ezra Caswell, Ambrose Collins, Benj. Cole, Jr., Daniel Curtis, Isaac Cash, Seeley Crawford, Benj. Clark, Timothy Culver, William Curry, William Curry, Jr., Jas. Curry, Annanias Conklin, Siba Canfield, Stephen Cole, Espy Crane, Israel Cranmer, Jeremiah Cranmer, Benjamin Cole, Sr., Jane Curtricht, Arnold Colt, Esq., Henry Decker, Peter Dingman, Christopher Dutcher, John Dakin, Thos. Ellis, Zephon Flowers, Reuben Fuller, Stephen Fuller, John Fuller, Arnold Franklin, William Furguson, John Frank- lin, Esq., Josiah Green, Eliphalet Gustin, Samuel Gore, Obadiah Gore, Esq., Avery Gore, Lemuel Gaylord, Joseph Garris, Peter Gardner, James Goble, James Gordon, (1) Matthias Hollenback, John Hutchinson, Elijah Horton, . Elijah Horton, Jr., Isaac Horton, Eli Holcomb, Truman Holcomb, Eli Holcomb, Jr., Jonathan Harris, Alpheus Harris, Stephen Hopkins, Samuel Hepburn, James Irwin, William Johnson, (1) John Jenkins, Joseph Kinney, Esq., Eldad Kellogg, Josiah Kellogg, Benjamin Luce, William Laughry, Michael Laughry, Wright Lomas, Augustus Lo- mas, Samuel Lane, Josiah Marshall, Joseph Mansfield, Na- thaniel P. Moody, Francis Mesusan, David Markam, Danl. Minier, Henry Mckinney, Noah Murray, Elisha Mathew- son, Daniel McDuffee, Samuel McAlhose, Guy Maxwell, Robert MeAlhose, John Miller, Daniel Moore, Johnston Miller, Cornelius McDaniel, John Newell, John Newell, Jr., Josiah Newell, Abel Newell, Nehemiah Northrop, Lud- low Owens, Widow Ovenshire, Moses Park, Jeremiah Par- ker, James Parker, Jesse Phelps, Samuel Parker, Asahel Powell, David Paine, Thomas Parks, Daniel Roberts, Mat- thew Rodgers, John Reddington, David Riggs, David Ross, Jonathan Rawson, Samuel Swift, William Spalding, John Spalding, General Simon Spalding, Joseph Spalding, John Spalding, Jr., Michacl Stofflebeam, Peter Snyder, Jeremiah

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Shaw, Jonas Smith, Gideon Salisbury, Joseph Salisbury, Adrial Simons, Jedediah Shaw, Blina Snow, Lockwood Smith, Joseph Smith, Ira Stephens, John Shepard, Elisha Satterlee, Benedict Satterlee, Elias Satterlee, George Snell, Peter Stevens, John Swaine, William Tuttle, Josiah Travis, Schureman Travis, Levi Thayer, Solomon Tracy, Julius Tozer, Jos. Tyler, Absalom Travis, Sylvenus Travis, Joshua Van Fleet, Leonard Westbrook, James Ward, Cherrick Westbrook, Morris Wilcox, Ephraim Wright, (1) Wm. Wynkoop, William Wilson, John Wilson, Abel Yarring- ton, Ichabod Blaekman, Negro Chintz. The whole valua- tion, $71,789 ; tax, $358.94 ; number of resident taxables, 164; non-resident, 5 ; number of acres of improved land, 2138 ; of unimproved, 22,290.

Comparing these figures, there were resident in the county just 400 taxables, whose total valuation was $148,642, who occupied 4502 acres of improved land, 57,699 acres unim- proved. This assessment also furnishes the following inter- esting statisties : there were six distilleries, four inns, six blacksmiths, twelve carpenters, four physicians, eleven mills, and nine stores in the county.

At the November sessions, 1796, a petition from Simon Spalding and others was presented to court praying for the division of Tioga township. The court appointed Moses Coolbaugh, Simon Spalding, and Elisha Satterlee commis- sioners to examine and report at the next sessions whether it is necessary to have said township divided, and if so, in what manner. January 17, 1797, the commissioners report in favor of dividing the township " on the dividing line between Athens and Ulster [Connectieut surveys], then ex- tending on an east and west line as the line of Ulster and Athens doth extend." The report was approved, and it was so ordered. The north township received the name of Athens, and the south, Ulster, and thus the name Tioga, which for eenturies had been given to the confluenee of the two rivers, was lost to our county. There were now four townships in the county,-Athens, Ulster, Wysox, and Wyalusing ; each of the first three about six miles from north to south and seventy-five from east to west ..

In 1801 three townships were ereeted, which included a part of the territory of the county : RUSH, whose bounda- ries are thus described : " Beginning at the forty-first mile- stone, thence east thirteen miles to the twenty-eighth mile- stone, thence south eighteen and one-half miles, thence west eighteen miles on the north line of Wyalusing, and due east from the Standing Stone, thence north five miles and sixty- eight chains, thence east five miles, thence north twelve miles to the place of beginning."

MT. ZION, whose lines began at the fifty-second mile- stone, thence south twelve miles and fifty-one and one-half chains to the south line of Tioga, thence east eleven miles, thence north twelve miles and fifty-one and one-half chains to the forty-first milestone, thence west eleven miles to the place of beginning. The name Orwell was subsequently substituted for that of Mt. Zion.

BURLINGTON, whose bounds began on the north line of Wysox and south line of Tioga, at the intersection of the Claverack line, thence south twelve degrees east, one hun- dred and twenty-seven ehains, thence south until it inter- sects the line between Wysox and Wyalusing, thence west

to the county line, thence on the county line north to the south line of Tioga township, thence east to the place of beginning.

Col. John Franklin, the earnest and persistent advocate of the Connecticut claim, was, of course, very popular among the New England men of Luzerne county, by whom he was elected every fall to represent them in the legislature, where every opportunity was seized by him to vindicate the justness of the Connecticut title, and protest, in most bitter language, against the greed of the Pennsylvania land-holders, and the unusual severity of the measures taken to secure their titles. He was a continual thorn iu the side of the " Pennsylvania land-jobbers," who at this time possessed controlling influence in the legislature, and they determined to get rid of him. To do this, at first charges were preferred against him ; but finding these insufficient, it was deter- mined to legislate him out of the House, to which his nu- merous friends determined to send him. To effect this, the northwestern part of Luzerne, including the residence of Col. Franklin, was attached to Lycoming county. An act, approved April 3, 1804, provided that that part of Lu- zerne county beginning where the northeast branch of the Susquehanna erosses the State line, thence southerly to the northeast corner of Claverack, thenee by the northerly side of Claverack to its westerly corner, thence in a direct westerly direction to the line of the county, be attached to the county of Lycoming.

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History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania, with Illustrations and biographical sketches, Part 28

Author: Craft, David, 1832-1908; L.H. Everts & Co Publication date: 1878 Publisher: Philadelphia : L. H. Everts Number of Pages: 812

Author: Craft, David, 1832-1908; L.H. Everts & Co
Publication date: 1878
Publisher: Philadelphia : L. H. Everts
Number of Pages: 812