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"The above survey of a township is accepted of, and the same is hereby confirmed to the said David Smith and his associates, to the number of fifty persons, who are proprietors, and the town to he di- vided into fifty-three equal shares, provided it does not interfere with any former grant regularly given."
(Signed by the committee.)
Along with this grant is another paper in the same hand- writing, headed, " Names of men who have applied to have land laid out," followed by forty-one names, and was prob- ably the list referred to by Mr. Smith in his application. The town was surveyed and allotted in June, 1786. The survey included land on both sides of the river. In Mace- donia were lots numbered 1, 2, 3, 4, and 11; in French- town, numbers 14 to 23, inelusive; the remaining thirty- four, which are all that are in the allotment, are on the east side of the river. Of these, Richard Fitzgerald had two rights, and held Nos. 7 and 8; James Forsythe, one right ; - - Shaw, one right; Widow Fiteh held No. 5; Richard Loomis, No. 12, which was laid on Rummerfield creek ; Walter Walters, No. 21, just in the bend of the river ; John Bigalow, Jr., No. 19; Nathaniel Walters, No. 2; Stephen Wilcox, No. 9; Elisha Satterlee, No. 20; David McCormick, No. 4; Walter Westover, No. 2; Capt. Peter Loop, No. 11; Abram Westbrook, No. 5; Leonard West- brook, No. 10; William Jackson, No. 18; Thomas Joslyn, Jr., No. 3; heirs of Perrin Ross, No. 13. In addition, the fol- lowing deeds are on record in the Susquehanna company's books : Amos Bennett, of Standing Stone, conveys one-half his lot in said town to Silas Beardsley, March 18, 1794; Peter Loop, of Newtown, N. Y., to Theophilus Moyer, No. 11, of Standing Stone, March 3, 1795, and the next day con- veys to Henry Birney the lots on which the grantee lives ; Josiah Grant, of Poultney, Vt., to John Hutchinson and Samuel Gordon rights covering twelve hundred acres, which were entered in Standing Stone.
Of the proprietary warrants beside the one mentioned in a former chapter, located on Rummerfield creek, James Wharton, of Philadelphia, owned warrants, which are de- seribed as " situate on the northeast branch of the Susque- hanna river, near a remarkable rock called the Standing
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Stone, and nearly opposite the rock ;" surveyed on warrants of Sept. 29, 1763. Beginning on the south, these warrants were in the name of Jacob Drell, containing three hundred and ten acres, and called Constitutional Right ; the next, Jacob Shuler, containing three hundred and seventeen acres, and called Rochambean; and the third in the name of Peter Ney, containing three hundred acres. The dates of surveys and patents have not been obtained, but, from the names given to the warrants, it is evident the title was not perfected until after the Revolutionary war. The present titles to farms are derived through these surveys.
On the opposite side of the river, in Macedonia, were lots in the names of Jeremiah Talbot, No. 1258; Joseph Strode, No. 117; and David Newswanner, No. 1519, which were surveyed on warrants, dated April 3, 1769, containing a little more than three hundred acres each, and sold at public sale by the United States marshal as John Nicholson's lands, June 30, 1813, to Elisha Cole for $291.68.
EARLY SETTLERS.
Before the battle of Wyoming a number of families were settled in Standing Stone; but two of these, so far as has been ascertained, ever returned, viz., Richard Fitzgerald's and Henry Birney's, who came back immediately after the close of the war, and resumed possession of their old farms in 1791. The sons of the widow Vaughan made a posses- sion at Rummerfield ; and the Westbrooks were early set- tlers on the place now occupied by Mr. Kingsley, who is a great-grandson of Nathan Kingsley, the pioneer of Wyalu- sing.
Henry Birney was for a number of years a prominent man in the neighborhood where he lived. His wife be- longed to a Wyoming family, and died in 1809. In a par- agraph announcing her death, a Wyoming paper says she encountered great hardships and the sufferings peculiar to the times and place in which she lived. She was buried in an old burying-ground near where Dr. Clagget lives, in Standing Stone. Mr. Birney sold his farm to Jonathan Stevens in 1812, and moved to the Scioto, in Ohio, with his daughter Hannah. He made the journey on horseback. Here he died past eighty years of age. He was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, as is attested by numerous documents. Among the New England people his name was usually pronounced and frequently written Barney. He had one son and five daughters. John, the son, lived for a time in Standing Stone, on the farm owned by the late John Taylor, deceased. This he sold to Mr. La Porte, and moved to Wyalusing. Henry Birney, of Wilmot, Mrs. John Hollenback, formerly of Wyalusing, and Mrs. Ralph Martin, also of Wyalusing, are children of his.
Of the daughters, Sarah married Capt. Peter Loop, one of the commissioners of the Susquehanna compary, and whose name is affixed to many of their grants. In order to avoid what seemed to be an endless dispute about title, he moved first to Elmira (Newtown), then up the Cohocton, above Painted Post, where he was an influential citizen.
Rebecca married Peter Matthews, and moved to Belvi- dere, Ill.
Eleanor married a Mr. Myer, and moved to the State of Ohio.
Hannah married Judge Miller, and went west, where she died; and Mr. Miller returned to Ithaca, N. Y., and died there.
Mary, born Aug. 20, 1789, married John Gordon, born Sept. 29, 1776, and was the mother of the large and well- known Gordon family, branches of which are settled in Standing Stone, Asylum, and other places in the county. Of the fourteen children, Hiram lives at the upper end of Standing Stone village; William Hart, recently deceased, lived near him ; George lives in Asylum.
James Gordon, the father of John, was a brother of Samuel Gordon, of Wyalusing, the well-known surveyor of the Susquehanna company. James lived, while unmarried, for a time, in Philadelphia, then moved to Asylum, where he lived until the French came. At the latter place he lived near the river and kept the ferry. He was also jus- tice of the peace. He died in Norristown.
Mr. Fitzgerald had no children, but had adopted a son of his wife's sister, William Huyck ( pronounced Houck). Mr. Fitzgerald died previous to June 1, 1789, as at that date Mrs. Nellie Fitzgerald received authority to administer the estate. She survived him a number of years. July 4, 1795, the records of the church of Wysox state that Nellie Fitzgerald, widow, was received into the communion of the church. Mr. Simon Stevens says Mrs. Fitzgerald died in 1814, about one hundred years of age. William Huyck married Margaret, a sister of Leonard Westbrook, raised a family, and died about 1857, at the age of eighty-five years. He lived on his uncle's old farm, whose upper line was about thirty rods below the Ferry road.
The Vaughans exchanged places with Stephen Charlott. An account of their settlement is given in the biographical sketches of Wyalusing. Mr. Charlott soon sold out and went west.
Anthony Le Fever was one of the French immigrants. He moved over into Standing Stone, where, for many years, he kept a far-famed house of entertainment, whose cleanly- kept chambers and well-furnished table are yet fresh in the recollections of the older people, who were accustomed to travel up and down the river. Mr. and Mrs. Le Fever are both buried in the old cemetery at Wyalusing. Only two of his children lived to maturity, both daughters, of whom one was married to John Provost, of Russell Hill, Wyoming county, and the other was married to J. Huff, and lived on the top of Frenchtown mountain. Mrs. Huff never had any children. She was the little girl who was disguised in her dead brother's clothing to meet the requirements of the passport, and now is living past fourseore-and-ten years of age, and whose face brightens and her recollection quickens when she finds an interested listener to the stories of the beautiful France, of which her memories have not been dimmed by the lapse of more than eighty years.
Peter Miller was also an early settler in the lower part of the township, in what is known as the Rummerfield portion. He was a Revolutionary soldier and a pensioner. He had no children. His house was a little log cabin in the brush, with hardly a garden spot cleared around in 1812, His wife was an Abbott, a sister to Mrs. Richard Vaughan, which ac- counts for the sons of the latter coming up into that neigh- borhood after the death of their father. Mr. Miller died
PHOTOS BY GEO H WOOD. TOWANDA FA.
J. J. STEVENS.
MRS. SARAH E. STEVENS.
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RES.OF JONATHAN J. STEVENS, STANDING STONE, BRADFORD CO., PA.
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ACHATIUS STEVENS.
MRS. SARAH STEVENS.
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RES. OF ACHATIUS STEVENS, STANDING STONE, BRADFORD CO., PA.
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in the winter of 1823, at the age of about sixty-five or seventy years ; his wife died a few years later at the house of Daniel Coolbaugh, in Wysox.
Mr. Miller formerly lived in the upper part of the town. On the Susquehanna company's records is a deed from Peter Miller, of Standing Stone township, Luzerne county, to Samuel Gordon, bearing date May 23, 1797, " all my right and interest to certain improvements made on the land I now live on, and including the dwelling-house, . . . reserving the privilege of said Miller's wife to live in said dwelling-house until October 1 next."
Jacob Primer was a colored man, and came to Standing Stone at an early day, and lived near the lower end of the village. He died about 1832. The family lived there until a few years since, but are now dead or have moved away. Primer was in the township at least as early as 1810. He was quite a favorite with the young people, by whom he was employed to play the fiddle at their dancing-parties.
Cherick Westbrook* came from Ulster to Sheshequin early. Sept. 10, 1785, Cherick Westbrook received a half- share certificate from the Susquehanna company, No. 17, saying that he was entitled to a half-share in the Susque- hanna purchase, provided he remain in said purchase three years, and do not depart hence except with the permission of the committee of said company, pursuant to the vote of July 13, 1785. On the back of this certificate is in- dorsed that he, the said Cherick Westbrook, had complied with the conditions, and entered his right in Standing Stone. The old stock were very large and very strong people. Two of his brothers lived in the State of New York. He had a large family. He was injured by the fall of a tree about 1822, and died soon after. Henry Hibbard married a daughter of Mr. Westbrook. A man by the name of Stringer had been on the place before West- brook came. Stringer was from New York, and went back there again.
Henry Van Curen, from the Mohawk, lived for a time where Henry Fisher now lives. He came to Standing Stone about 1808. His wife died here in 1814, and he went away soon after. He was grandfather of John Van Curen, of Terry township.
The widow Hawley, whose husband's name was probably Benjamin or Daniel,-whether he ever came to Standing Stone or not is not known by the old people of that place, -was a sister of Leonard Westbrook. She was at Wyo- ming at the time of the battle and massacre, and on Jacob's plains at the time of the ice-flood (1784); she lived just above where Hon. H. W. Tracy now lives. The creek, which was formerly Fitch's, is now frequently called Haw- ley's creek. She died in 1838, at quite an advanced age. The family went west in 1850.
David Eicklor was of German descent. His maternal grandfather was an Englishman, named Samuel Baker, a wealthy man of Catskill. He came here at an early day, and married a daughter of Mr. Huyck. His father's name
was Frederick, and he was at one time a man of great wealth ; lived first in Towanda, then in Rome, where his wife died. David left Standing Stone in 1815, having sold out to Mr. Ennis, and went to IIuron, Ohio, where he died.
Cornelius Ennis came from Sussex Co., N. J., in 1815, and bought the Eicklor farm. He had two sons, Levi and Isaac, and one daughter. Alexander Ennis is a son of Levi.
The Van Ess brothers, George, John, Daniel, and Whit- field, were also from Sussex county, and came about 1820. They bought the place where Henry Van Curen formerly lived. They have been prominent citizens in the township and active members of the Methodist church, in which Whitefield was an exhorter, whose daughter was the wife of Rev. I. Towner.
In 1812, Jonathan Stevens and his family came to She- shequin, bought the property which was owned by Henry Birney, and settled on the place on which the sons Asa and Simon Stevens now live. The family are of English descent. The ancestor of the American branch was beheaded by Crom- well for taking part in the troubles of the English revolution. His three sons, Simon, Cyprian, and Stephen, settled in Lan- caster, Mass. Cyprian had two sons, Simon and Joseph. Jonathan, the third son of this Simon, settled in Plainfield, Conn .; his third son was Asa, who was born May, 1734, and emigrated to Wyoming in 1772, living the first year at the mouth of Mill creek, and the next April (1773) moved upon the town-plot of what is now the city of Wilkes-Barre when there were but four houses upon it. In the Westmoreland records are the deeds by which Asa Stevens purchases a half-share right of Thomas Porter, June 22, 1774, and Sept. 3, 1774, bought one hundred and thirty acres in Wilkes-Barre. Mr. Stevens was lieutenant in the Wilkes-Barre company, and was active in the service until the battle of Wyoming. Dec. 10, 1777, he took command of eleven men, and marched up as far as Meshop- pen after Tories and disaffected people. Ten days after, he was one of the larger company that marched up as far as Sheshequin on the same business. At the battle of Wy- oming he was among the slain. His son Jonathan was then fourteen years of age, having been born July 16, 1764.
The family with other fugitives fled to Connecticut, where they remained until the close of the war, when they re- turned to Wyoming. At the age of sixteen Jonathan enlisted in the army of the Revolution, in which he served three years, and was honorably discharged. Married Miss Eleanor Adams in Brooklin, Oct. 20, 1785. He seems to have moved about considerable, the unsettled state of the country making all sorts of business very uncertain. His eldest child, Albigence, was born in Salisbury, Conn., June 16, 1786; the next, Lucy (died young), in Amenia, Dutchess Co., N. Y., Feb. 18, 1787; Asa and Seth were born in Wilkes-Barre, the former Sept. 24, 1790, the other Oct. 2, 1792. Jonathan, born in Braintrim, Dec. 7, 1794 ; Simon, April 22, 1797 ; Lucy (second), Aug. 20, 1799 ; Jonathan, (second), July 6, 1801 ; Sarah, March 26, 1803; Eleanor, in Wyalusing, Oct. 12, 1808. While in Braintrim ( Black- Walnut), to which place he moved in 1795, he was engaged for a part of the time in working a small farm, and the rest
* The father of the Westbrooks in this county was Abraham. In his will, executed Oct. 8, 1790, and admitted to probate Fcb. 7, 1791, he mentions his wife Blondens, his sons Derrick, James, Cherick, and Leonard, and his daughters Jenny, Sarah, Peggy, Keziah, and Phœbe.
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was employed in the business of his trade-a tailor. In 1805 he came to Wyalusing, where he lived in what was called the Peter Stevens house, which stood near the Welles mansion in that town, where he engaged in keeping a store and house of entertainment. On August 13, 1800, he was appointed justice of the peace, and held the office for several years. In 1811 he was elected to the legislature of the commonwealth for the county of Luzerne, and served one year. May 11, 1812, he was commissioned deputy surveyor for the counties of Luzerne, Bradford, and Sus- quehanna by Andrew Porter, surveyor-general, and re-ap- pointed by Richard T. Leech, Dee. 9, 1813, and re-com- missioned for Bradford and Susquehanna by Jacob Spangler, April 17, 1818. The office at this time, when the title to the greater part of the land in these counties was in the commonwealth, was a very important and responsible one. In his capacity as surveyor for the State and for private parties, he surveyed the greater part of Bradford, Wyo- ming, and parts of Susquehanna and Luzerne. May 22, 1818, he was appointed by Gov. Findley one of the associate judges for Bradford County, and went out of office with the change of the State constitution, in 1840. The various offices to which he was elected, and the responsible trusts which he held, are the best evidences of his integrity, good judgment, and ability which could be mentioned. He also was possessed of a very accurate and retentive memory, and to papers found since his death the author is
indebted for valuable material for this work. Three sons of Judge Stevens, viz., Asa, Simon, and Jonathan, and one grandson, Achatias, are represented on other pages of this work.
John Gordon had a distillery standing on Fiteh's creek, near where the road erosses it. The establishment passed through several hands, and was kept running until a few years since, when it was burned down. The family of Tuttle settled on Tuttle hill prior to 1812. Daniel Brewster lived near old Mr. Huff's. He was a tailor by trade.
Hon. Henry W. Tracy, son of Solomon Tracy, formerly of Sheshequin, came to Standing Stone and commenced business there, which he has carried on with good success until the present, and has accumulated a large property. He has been elected a member of the State legislature, and in 1862 was a member of congress.
The township has been increasing in cultivation and wealth with a steady growth. There is a post-office and railroad station at both Rummerfield and Standing Stone, a Methodist church at the former place, and a Universalist in the latter place. Standing Stone is a straggling village, mostly of farm-houses, beautifully situated on a gravel ridge overlooking the river. There are eight school dis- tricts.
According to the census reports in 1850, there were 1453 white and 2 colored ; in 1860, 1599 ; in 1870, 1521 native, 75 foreign, 1589 white, 7 colored; total population 1596.
TERRY.
THE township of Terry was organized in 1857. It is bounded by the Susquehanna river on the east and north, by Asylum on the north and west, and by Wilmot on the south. It contains about fifty square miles of territory, nearly one-half of it remaining yet unimproved. It is mountainous and hilly, but is mostly all susceptible of cul- tivation. It has some good grazing land and fine meadows, but more of it is natural for grain-growing and clover. Much of it was formerly covered by a dense forest of white pine, hemlock, yellow pine, oak, ash, chestnut, and maple, and other kinds of valuable timber. But the best pine and ash lumber has been cut and carried off and sold. No part of the county produced more valuable white-pine trees to the acre than this township, and if they were all now standing they would be worth much more than the land is now with its improvements. A million of pine shingles, and as many feet of white pine lumber, have been taken from this territory annually during many of the past years, and often sold at a low figure.
It has a population of about twenty to the square mile, and it has increased its agricultural wealth vastly within the last decade. Its assessed valuation at the present time is about $100,000, without including the intrinsic value of
the timber-lands, which are generally assessed at about one- fourth their real value.
Its two principal places are Terrytown and New Era, the two post-offices of the township.
Terrytown is a pleasant little village situated on the west side of the river about two miles above the mouth of Wya- lusing ereek. It is beautifully situated on a gravelly ridge, at an elevation of about seventy feet above the Susquehanna river. The buildings are scattering, and extend about two miles along the river in north and south directions, and in the centre about half a mile wide. Its scenery is quite romantie, being environed by mountains on the north, south, and west, and by the river on the east, and the mountain on the east side of the river, opposite Terrytown, rising up majestically some 400 feet, with mural escarpments or per- pendicular ledges varying from 50 to 100 feet in height.
Terrytown has a union meeting-house, called "The Tabernacle," 40 by 60, seating about 400 persons, in which Baptists, Presbyterians, and Methodists worship statedly, each denomination having its own preacher, and its set time for worship. It has been in use twenty-six years, and there is reason to believe that the interests of Christianity have been advanced quite as much as they would have
JOHN HORTON.
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been had each denomination had a church edifice of its own.
Mr. N. T. Miller's wagon-factory and steam-works, Mr. Vandersloot's smith-shop, Mr. Gay's shoe-shop, the Horton Brothers' and Messrs. Capwell's general country stores, the Horton flouring-mill, and last and not least, the resident preacher and the three physicians, are all very desirable institutions in the quiet little village of Terrytown.
It is one of the oldest places in the county, Benjamin Budd having built a house here as early as 1774. Capt. Jonathan Terry was the first permanent settler. He moved up the river from Wyoming valley in 1786, and settled in Wyalusing for one year at the mouth of the Wyalnsing creek, on the north side, very near the deep ent through which the railroad now passes. The next year (1787) he built a house at Terrytown and moved into it, and thus became the founder of the village. Stephen Durell had built a house of white-oak logs the year before, on the bank of the river, just at the mouth of Steam Mill creek, but did not live in it long, if at all. Three of his brothers, viz., Joshua, Nathaniel, and Nathan, and four of his sisters, viz., Deliverance, and her husband, Israel Parshall; Deborah, and her husband, Maj. John Horton ; Remittance, and her hus- band, Lebbeus Garner ; and Lydia, unmarried, came in a few years afterwards; also his father, Parshall Terry, and his wife's father, Uriah Terry. Parshall Terry and all his family, including Jonathan Terry and his wife, were inmates of the famed Forty fort the night after the Indian battle and massacre at Wyoming.
Jonathan Terry was commissioned a justice by Gov. Simon Snyder, in 1812, and held the office until January, 1821, when he resigned; and Uriah Terry, his son, was commissioned by Gov. Joseph Heister, and held the office until his death, which occurred in 1824. He was succeeded in this office by his brother, William Terry, commissioned by Gov. J. Andrew Shulze; and the latter by his son, Uriah Terry ; and the present incumbent of the office is Hiram L. Terry, a great-grandson of Jonathan Terry ; so that, with the exception of two short intervals, one filled by Maj. J. Horton, Jr., and the other by John F. Dodge, Jonathan Terry and his descendants have been the only magistrates of Terrytown for four generations.
Jonathan Terry was a good justice, possessing a sound judgment, a genial nature, and social qualities of a high order. He was gifted with a remarkably happy faculty of persnading litigants to settle their difficulties amicably, and thus save time, money, and an untold-of amount of unkind and angry feelings. He had a family of eight sons and three daughters, and, one son excepted, raised them all to maturity. His son Uriah was the first child born at Terry - town. "Uncle George," as he is now familiarly called, is the only one of the family left. He is now (1878) eighty years old, well preserved, and his large, manly form is often seen walking the streets and visiting from house to house among numerous friends. He and his son, Dr. N. W. Terry, occupy his mansion which he built about a quarter of a century ago, and his son Jonathan resides in the old home built by his grandfather in 1806. It is a large two- story hewed-log house, with a huge chimney in the centre of it, a small portico in front, and, in early times, had large
double doors about three inches thick. It is the oldest house in the village, and well merits the name of " the old Terry castle." Jonathan Terry died in 1833. His wife survived him about twenty years.
When Terrytown was first settled, and for several years afterwards, the nearest grist-mill was at Wilkes- Barre, and oftentimes, like the aborigines of the country, the people were obliged to have recourse to the pestle and samp-mortar. There were no wagons nor wagon-roads. The river was the only highway of travel, and, when frozen over, it formed a splendid road, and a sleigh-ride from Terrytown to Wilkes- Barre and back, on the ice, was a Inxnry of no very uncom- mon occurrence in those early days. And when not frozen it was navigated by canoes. Generally, the neighbors would club together and make up a grist of fifty or sixty bushels, and two men start to mill with it in a canoe, making the trip in from six to ten days. The canoes in those days were no pigmy affairs. They were made ont of huge pine trees and were from forty to fifty feet long, capable of carry- ing several tons burden. They were the precursors of the Durham boats which came into use afterwards, and did much of the carrying trade until superseded by canals. The last Durham boat seen on these waters was that of Capt. Means Watts.
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