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Charles Sterling.
Sarah Sterling,
m. Levi. Learn.
Eliza Sterling,
172. Albert Richards.
Susan Sterling,
m. Lee W. Stewart.
John Sterling, went West.
Lydia Sterling,
m. Charles Dunn.
James Sterling.
THE STEWART FAMILY.
LAZARUS STEWART1 was born in Scotland; emigrated with his family first to Ireland, then to Holland, and finally to America, and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1729; died there. He had (among other children) two sons believed to have been named :-
Robert Stewart, 172.
Alexander Stewart, 111.
.
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HISTORY OF HANOVER.
ROBERT STEWART2 (Lasarus1) was born in Scotland or Ireland came with his father's family to America in 1729; settled in Lancaster County; married -; died there. They had :- Captain Lazarus Stewart, b. 1734, d. 1778, 12. Martha Espy.
James Stewart, d. 1783, m. Priscilla Espy.
ALEXANDER STEWART2 (Lasarus1) was born in Scotland or Ireland; came with his father's family to America in 1729; settled in Lancaster County; married -- -; died there. They had :-
Lieut. Lazarus Stewart, Jr., d. 1778, m. Dorcas Hopkins.
George Stewart,
1. Rebecca Fleming.
Mary Stewart, m. George Espy.
CAPTAIN LAZARUS STEWART3 (Robert,2 Lasarus1) was born in Lancaster County, Pa, (now Dauphin), in 1734; served in the old French and Indian War of 1755 to 1763; was in Braddock's defeat; married Martha Espy; was captain of the "Paxton Boys;" came to Hanover in Wyoming as a settler with forty Lancaster County men late in 1769, or in February, 1770; within the year 1770 his forty was reduced to thirty Lancaster County men, to whom were added ten New England men; by 1772 these were reduced to eighteen men, who hired another eighteen men, thus keeping up-according to an understanding with the Susquehanna Com- pany-their number to not less than thirty-six; he was the fiery and daring Yankee leader of those stirring times; resided in a block-house of his own on his land (long known afterwards as the Alexander Jameson lot), about midway between the River Road and the river bank, on the upper flats in Hanover about 90 rods below the Wilkes-Barre line; was killed at the head of his com- pany in the battle and massacre of Wyoming July 3, 1778. They had :-
James Stewart,
m. Hannah Jameson.
Josiah Stewart,
m. Mercy Chapman.
Elizabeth Stewart,
mn. Alexander Jameson.
Mary Stewart, 172. Rev. Andrew Gray.
Priscilla Stewart,
1. Avery Rathbone.
Margaret Stewart,
m. James Campbell.
JAMES STEWART3 (Robert,2 Lasarus1) was born in Lancaster County; came to Hanover with his brother, the captain, in 1769 or
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GENEALOGICAL TABLES.
1770; returned to Lancaster before the massacre of 1778 at Wyoming; married Priscilla Espy; lived in Lancaster County; died there in 1783. They had :-
Lazarus Stewart, b. 1783, d. 1839, m. Elizabeth Crisman.
LIEUT. LAZARUS STEWART, JR.3 (Alexander,2 Lazarus1) was born in Lancaster County ; married Dorcas Hopkins; came to Hanover with his cousin, Capt. Lazarus Stewart, in 1769 or 1770; lived on the River Road about two miles below Wilkes-Barre, the place afterwards known as the Sively place, now Mrs. Pfouts'; was Lieutenant of the Hanover militia company; was in the Wyoming Battle and Massacre July 3, 1778, and was killed there. They had :-
Fanny Stewart, b. 1777, d. 1855, 12. George Sively.
JAMES STEWART4 (Capt. Lazarus,3 Robert,2 Lazarus1) was born in Lancaster County; came to Hanover with his father's family about 1772; married Hannah Jameson; lived and died in Hanover. They had :-
Abigail Stewart,
m. Abram Thomas.
Martha Stewart,
m. Abram Tolles.
Lazarus Stewart.
Caroline Stewart,
m. Rev. John Sherman.
Fanny Stewart,
m. Benjamin A. Bidlack.
JOSIAH STEWART4 (Capt. Lazarus,3 Robert,2 Lazarus1) was born in Lancaster County; came to Hanover with his father's family; mar- ried Mercy Chapman; removed to New York State, where he died. They had :-
Sons and daughters, but the names are unknown.
LAZARUS STEWART4 (James,3 Robert,2 Lazarus1) was born in Lancaster County in 1783; came to Hanover with his step-father, Capt. Andrew Lee, in 1804; married Elizabeth Crisman; resided in Wilkes-Barre; died there in 1839; buried in Hanover Cemetery. They had :-
Webster Stewart, Lee W. Stewart,
Frank Stewart, Thomas Stewart.
m. Sarah Bird. 77. Susan Sterling. 111. Mary C. Wilson.
31
482
HISTORY OF HANOVER.
WEBSTER STEWART' (Lazarus," James,3 Robert,2 Lazarus1) was born in Wilkes-Barre; lived and died in Wilkes-Barre; married Sarah Bird. They had :-
Isabella Stewart,
m. George Leal.
THE STEELE FAMILY.
PETER STEELE,1 the first one known by name, was born in New Buffalo, Perry County, Pa., or reared there; removed to North- umberland (the family was originally from Scotland, then Ireland, thence removed to America) first, then to Hanover sometime previous to 1790; lived on the River Road below the Red Tavern; died in Hanover in 1823. They had :-
David Steele.
Joseph Steele, b. 1773, d. 1858,
171. Sarah Ransom.
Peter Steele.
Jacob Steele.
John Steele. Andrew Steele.
Hannah Steele,
1. - Lassly. m. Amos Franklin.
Margaret Steele,
Mary Steele,
Truman Trescot (or
Elizabeth Steele,
1. Cyrus Fellows. m. Trescut).
JOSEPH STEELE2 (Peter1) was born in Perry County; came to Hanover with his father's family previous to 1790; married Sarah Ransom, of Plymouth; owned the ferry and lived there, a short distance below the Red Tavern; this was one of the principal ferries crossing the river; the road to it was, previous to 1802, six rods wide; died here in 1858. They had :-
George P. Steele, b. 1801, d. 1870, 172.
Ist, Susan B. Cris- man. 2d, Lydia Eldridge (widow of Doak). Ist, Joseph M. Reel.
Chester Steele, b. 1805, d. 1858, Joseph Steele, b. 1809, Sarah Steele, b, 1811, d. 1883,
Jane Steele, b. 1802, d. 1863, 111. 2d, Levi Adams. 111. Elizabeth Edwards. 12. Margaret Fisher. m. John Power.
483
GENEALOGICAL TABLES.
Olive Steele, b. 1820, John Steele, b. 1822.
Charles Steele, b. 1824,
Margaret Steele, b. 1826,
1. James B. Ramsey.
1. Miranda Myers. m. Edwin F. Ferris.
THE SAUM FAMILY.
CHRISTIAN SAUM1 was probably born in Northampton County; came to Hanover «previous to 1796; married --; lived on the Back Road, the lot-No. 10-adjoins the Ashley borough line; died there. They had :-
Catharine Salome Saum, b. d. 1859, m. Valentine Keyser. în. - - Bennett. m. Elizabeth Garrison.
Susan Saum, John Saum, b. 1777, d. 1854,
JOHN SAUM2 (Christian1) was born in Northampton County in 1777; came to Hanover with his father's family previous to 1796; married Elizabeth Garrison; lived on the old homestead of his father on the Back Road near the Ashley line; died there in 1854. They had :- .
David Saum, b. 1802, d. 1854, Elizabeth Saum, b. 1805, d. 1860,
Christian Saum, b. 1809, Lovina Saum, b, 1813, Joseph Saum, b. 1817, Catharine Saum, b, 1821, d. 1847,
Mary Saum, b. 1824,
m. Mary Shireman. 11. Jacob Rimer. m. Caroline Askam. m. Joseph Frederick. m. Katy Bridinger. m. Conrad Rummage. Ist, Henry Shoe- maker. 2d, Abram Shoe- m. maker.
CHRISTIAN SAUM3 (John,2 Christian1) was born in Hanover in 1809; married Caroline Askam; lived on the Back Road leading to Blackman Mine, or near it; removed to Wisconsin about 1851-52, with his family. They had :-
Anna Saum, William Saum. John Saum.
m. Jacob Clows (Clous).
484
HISTORY OF HANOVER.
THE WEEKS FAMILY.
JONATHAN WEEKS1 came from Fairfield, Conn., to Wyoming with his wife Abigail and two sons, Jonathan and Philip, in 1762-63; escaped the massacre of 1763; Philip and Thomas, his sons, came to Wyoming in 1769 with the first two hundred in the second attempt to settle the land; the father, with Jonathan and Bartholomew and two daughters, came soon afterward; in the battle of July 3, 1778, seven persons went out from his house to the battle-Philip, Jonathan and Bartholomew, his sons, Silas Benedict, who married his grand-daughter, Jabez Beers (probably the father of Philip's wife), Josiah Carman, another relative, and Robert Bates, a boarder; the whole seven lay dead on the fatal field that night. His children were :-
Jonathan Weeks, b. d. 1778, slain - m2.
in the Massacre,
Philip Weeks, b. d. 1778, killed in
Massacre,
m. Abigail Beers.
Bartholomew Weeks, b. d. 1778, 1 m.
slain in the Massacre,
Thomas Weeks, b. d. lived in Wilkes-Barre in 1788.
Weeks, m2.
Two daughters
Weeks, 11.
JONATHAN WEEKS2 ( Jonathan1) was born in Connecticut; came to Wyoming first in 1762-63, and finally in 1769-70; resided in Wilkes-Barre; married - - -; was slain in the massacre July 3, 1778. They had (the family of Jonathan is uncertain) :-
John Weeks, Jerusha Weeks. Sarah Weeks. Joseph Weeks. Benjamin Weeks.
PHILIP WEEKS2 ( Jonathan1) was born in Connecticut; came to Wyoming first in 1762-63, and finally in 1769 with the first two hundred settlers; resided in the lower part of Wilkes-Barre on or near the present Sturdevant place; married Abigail Beers; was killed in the Wyoming Massacre July 3, 1778, being called back out of the river by the promises of the Indians to spare his life,
485
GENEALOGICAL TABLES.
but as soon as he got out of the water they fell upon him with spear and tomahawk and killed him at the water's edge; they knew him; his house was about a mile below their town of Maugh- wauwama on the elevated flats or terrace. They had :-
Lydia Weeks, Hulda Weeks,
Philip Weeks, b. 1774, d.
m.
17. Silas Benedict. 1. Comfort Carey. - Ist, Amelia Durkee. 2d, - Campbell.
Luther Weeks, b.
THOMAS WEEKS2 ( Jonathan1) was born in Connecticut; came to Wyoming with the first two hundred settlers in 1769; was not in the Wyoming Massacre; married --; lived in Wilkes-Barre near his brother Philip's place; was made guardian of Philip's children in 1788. The names of his children are uncertain, but they are supposed to be :-
Lydia· Weeks. Abigail Weeks. Elizabeth Weeks,
m. Nathan Waller.
PHILIP WEEKS3 (Philip,2 Jonathan1) was born in Wilkes-Barre about 1774; was four years old when his father was killed in the massacre; his mother married Ishmael Bennett, and about 1788 removed to Hanover, where Philip, Hulda and Luther grew up; Philip married Ist, Amelia Durkee, daughter of Captain Durkee, who was killed in the Wyoming Massacre; removed to Oquago about 1804; married, 2d, - Campbell. They had a number of children, but their names are not known.
THE WADE FAMILY.
Three brothers, named Nathan Wade, Joseph Wade and Abner Wade, came from Connecticut here in the early settlement of the township, before the battle and massacre of 1778; they lived at Buttonwood; Nathan was killed in the Wyoming Massacre July 3, 1778.
-
NATHAN WADE2 (Nathan1) lived in Scrabbletown (Ashley); had a saw-mill there; his wife's name was Nancy Dilley. They had :- Polly Wade, m. Milan Barney.
Ruth Wade, m. Amos Herrick.
Edward Wade,
m. - Larch.
486
HISTORY OF HANOVER.
EDWARD WADE3 (Nathan,2 Nathan1) was born in Hanover; lived and died in Hanover; married - Larch. They had :-
Nathan Wade, b. about 1828, went m. Katy Ann Woods. West in 1859,
THE WIGGINS FAMILY.
SILAS WIGGINS1 came to Hanover previous to 1799; lived on the six-rod road below Hoover Hill on the Middle Road; it is not known where he came from; married Hannah Hoover; was an iron maker at the forge in Nanticoke; went up the river to New York about 1833 or 1834. They had :-
Felix Wiggins,
John Wiggins,
1. - Newman. m.
Henry Wiggins,
m2.
Silas Wiggins,
m.
George Wiggins,
m.
Barbara Wiggins,
m.
Hannah Wiggins,
m. Cornelius Robins.
Mary Wiggins,
m. James Garrison.
INDEX.
Ancient Historians
9,10
Atlantides, Atlantic Island
10
Alligewi, Alligeni . 21
Arrow heads
52
Arrival of settlers in 1762 66
Arrested Yankees .
69
Articles of Government
80
Assessment of 1775
91
Arms, best taken
93
Assessment of Westmoreland, 1777 95
Allegiance, new oath to Connec- ticut . 97
Assessment of 1780
117, 118
Assembly, general.
123
Arrest of Col, Butler
125
Arrest of Capt. Franklin
125
Arrest of Harvey
126
Arrest of old men
126
Assembly Committee arrive
126
Assessment of 1850
302
Assessment of 1860
312
Arrest of husbands by soldiers 126
Assembly Committee find noth-
Ashley, Coalville
304
ing wrong
127
Ashley church
310
Armstrong arrives .
130
Armstrong's treachery .
130
Armstrong promises protection 130
A pledge of honor .
130, 131
A soldier's faith .
131
Armstrong sent up higher
132
Armstrong hurries back to Wyo- ming 132
Armstrong defeated
133
Assembly caves in .
133
Activity of Franklin
137
Allen, Ethan
135
Associates
146, 148, 153
Allotment of lands. 145, 147 Amount of land in a settling right 152
Arrangement with Stewart
147
Associates mostly Pennsylva- nians . 155 Allotment of second division of lands 158
Ancient transfers of land 160, 161, 162
Allotment, third division .
. 165
Askam Postoffice
169
Ancient fortification .
33
Age of trees in our woods
185
Ammunition scarce .
187
Anthracite coal 190, 274, 278, 279, 280 Apple seeds . 184
Artichokes
184
Ancestors of Wyoming Yankees 194
Anna Hurlbut
207
Accounts
215, 216, 286
Apples
231
Amusements
244, 250, 264
Ashes used for Salaratus 244
Andirons
257
Assessment of 1820
271, 272
Alexander Patterson
125
Ark, coal-
275, 276
Attic, loft, garret
267
Arks and rafts described
290
Assessment of 1830
282
Assessment of 1840
297
Ashley mines .
321
Assessment of 1870
329
Ashley Borough . .
333
Airways .
340, 341
Animals running at large
344
Assessment of 1880.
346, 347
Americans, but few
347
Amounts paid to employees
376
Bethlehem .
46, 47
Block-house at Mill Creek .
. 66, 68
Block-house, a. .
72
Block-houses, Township 72, 155, 170
Breastwork at Harvey's Creek
90
Battle and defcat of Plunkett . 90
Boy eye-witness .
90
Block-house, Hanover
94, 170
Battle described .
101
Battle and Massacre .
101
British leave the valley
109
Bones of the slain buried
112
488
HISTORY OF HANOVER.
Battle officers all killed but one 111 Buildings on both sides of river burned 119
Benevolence of Pa. and N. J. people . 129
Bad Government
132
Berks County erected 143
Bedford County erected 143
Butler, Captain
146
Begging permission to steer
down falls 154
Block-house in Hanover . . 155, 170
Backwater
159
Behee's Mill .
166, 173, 247
Building the first cabin 187, 188, 189
Blacksmith's trade
198
Bloomery forge
180
Butter .
215
Brickmaking
215
Butchering, pork and beef 224
Brooms
225
Bees .
228, 229
Back Road .
237, 238
Bees-wax .
229, 231
Basement houses
256
Bed time
258
Benches in school-houses
259
Beds described .
266, 267
Barter .
285
Books, account
286
Breaker, first
302
Buttonwood shaft
305
Bank bill or notes .
307
Back track, L. & S.
323, 324
Bridges
331
Breakers 302, 331, 335 to 338, 343, 344
Brattice .
340
Brewery
343
Back road houses .
368
Building lots, S. N. to W. B. line 375
Connassatego .
25, 43, 56
Christian Indians
45, 67
Christian Indians ordered to Wyoming . 45
Connecticut charter 62
Charter, Penn's .
62
Conrad Weiser's letter
55, 56
Congress at Albany
65
Coshutunk (Cocheeton) settle- ment 65
Christian Indians go to Ohio . 67
Congress raises two companies Companies ordered to join Wash- ington . 93
Companies to arm themselves . 98
Company, another organized . 98
Comparison of taxes 95 Comparison of wages 95
Companies, our men in battle . Currency note, value of dollar Connectieut, what has she done for them . 96
Congress detain our men 99
Crops, the remnant gathered . 112 Contraet, their improvements . 116 Chapman dies at Hurlbert's . . 120
Cornwallis' surrender . 121
Court to settle Connecticut's and Pennsylvania's claims . . 122
Court met 122
Commissioners sent to Wyo-
Bleeding
205
ming
123
Compensation in land .
123
Conneetieut withdraws jurisdic- tion . 124
Col. Butler arrested
125
Crops laid open to destruetion
127
Civil war again
129
Buckwheat cakes
239
Council of Censors
132
Committees regulate affairs
133
Confirming Aet
136
Compensation to Pennsylvania claimants 137
Confirming Act suspended 138
Compromise law 138
Connecticut claimant 139
Cooper, (Judge) .
139
Changing nien (exchanging) 139
Clearing land . 153
Congregationalists
155
Church lot
156
Committees appointed
157
Clerk
157
Col. Lee's house
159
Coffrin's mill seat, No. 1, second division 159, 160
Crisman's lease
166
Cabin, the first .
187, 188, 189
184
Certified lots
Chimneys
190, 224, 225
Clearing the first farnis
191, 218
Crops, first raised
191
Carding wool by hand
199
Carding described
199
Coverlets
202
Clothing, leather 207, 214 Carding machines 208, 220
Caps, fur
208
Constable and Collectors of rates
85
Coopers .
Currency
91
Carpenters
210
209
Congress informed of situation 93 Crime . 212
93
Coin in eirculation
212, 216
.
Currency . 212, 213, 215, 216, 307, 312
Coats deseribed
214
95
95
INDEX. 489
Chopping 215
Coins, names of
215, 216
Clearing land .
218
Cattle trespassing 218
Crops .
219, 220, 221
Cultivators not known
220
Cattle .
222
Carpets
225, 258
Cups and dishes
226
Cider-royal
226
Census, the first
234
Culverts
236
Corduroy roads
236
Customs, habits
238
Cooking
238
Candles .
231
Coopers .
Census of 1800
253
Compromising Act
254
Certificates
254
Commissioners
254
Dams of ice
127
Chimneys described
257
Dwellings burned
Clocks
258
128
Driven on foot to the Delaware 128
Church buildings
258, 259
Dying on the way to the Dela-
ware
128
Christmas, New Year
261
Coal fire-grates
263
Census of 1810
264
Carding machines
264
Coal fires
266, 267
Cupboards
267
Census of 1820
272
Coal, anthracite
274 to 280
Coal quarries
275
Canal opened to Pittston
279
Church of the Pennsylvania Dutch . 281
Census of 1830 .
284
Canal completed
285
Commerce up to 1830
285
Coal thickness
287
Chairs, hickory, splint
267
China-ware, dishes
267
Connecticut denounced
269
Coal shipped
. 298, 300, 301, 306
Choke-damp
·
299
Carey coal bed at Sugar Notch .
301
Coal breaker
302
Census of 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870
. 279, 302, 312, 329
Coal lands, price of in 1850
303
Coin, gold and silver
312
Cemetery in Nanticoke 331
Coal breaker described .
. 335 to 338
Coal, sizes of .
336, 338
Cost of breakers
338
Census of 1880 .
346
Coal per ton 1869 to 1885
350, 351
Coal mined in 1880
375
Coal mined in 1884 .
376
Chinese in Pennsylvania in 1880 378 Colored people in Pennsylvania in 1880 378 Census comparisons . . 379, 380, 381
Delawares, 18, 20, 38, 40, 44, 56, 57, 64 Delawares ordered to Wyoming 44 Dance and song, Indian . 53 Districts in Wyoming, seven . 84, 85 Directors of townships . . . . 81, 83 Disaster to Washington's army 93 Declaration of Independence, after 97
Decree of Trenton
122, 163
Decree of Trenton, after
123, 124
Dicd in the flight
103
Died on the way to the Dela- warc 110
Depositions taken
126
Doors and locks broken open . 126
Desolatcd homes 133 Date of crection of Luzerne Co. 143. Date of erection of Northumber- land County 143
Date of erection of Wayne Co. 143 Date of erection of Pike Co. 143 Date of erection of Monroe Co. 143 Divisions of land in Hanover . 148 150 Date of allotments .
Dwelling of Stewart's family . 154
Defense against hostilc attack . 155
Delano's Mill
166, 247
Doors in first houses .
189
Description of flax wheel
201
Distaff
202
Doctors, physicians
204, 205
Dispossessing the settlers
205
Dresses of women .
214
Deep snow
224
Deer in droves and herds 232
Dutch .
238, 240, 244, 245
Dutch defined
245
Durham boats .
248, 262, 263
Dutch, Penna.
258, 259, 267, 271
Discovery how to burn coal
Dutch church
281
263
Drovers, cattle, horses 285
Debtor and creditor
286
Dam at Nanticoke .
290
Dundee shaft .
304
Drafts (military)
317
Depreciation in paper currency 319 Depths of mines. . 341, 342
31*
Canals abandoncd
249
253
490
HISTORY OF HANOVER.
-
End of time . 89
Emigrants to New England . 96
Escaped the massacre . 103
Escaped, list of . 106
Evictions by wholesale
128
Exiles along both sides of the Delaware 129
Election, first in Luzerne Co.
.
136
Eighteen proprietors of Han- over
148
Eighteen others, hired men .
.
148
Each Associate had at least one lot in each division 148
English governors
153
Elevation in the flats
154
English
155
Early tradesmen
198
Embroidery making
202
Eggs
203
Emigration to the West
240
Easton turnpike 263
Effects of war on prices
265
Employes at mines received in 1884 376
Employes at shops and on rail- roads 376
Elevations above tide
376, 377
Forefathers' Day 16
Flight to Holland
11, 12
First form of government
13
Fences .
French in Canada 25, 26
Fortifications, ancient . 33
Flats, the
32, 33, 34, 52
French and Indian War 46, 64 Fort Allen 46
Flint and Steel
53, 230
First attempt to settle Wyoming 66 First townships granted, 1768 . 68
Forty, settlers first come . 69
Fort, a
72
Four-pound cannon brought .
73
Fishing season 79
Flint-lock guns
79
Fence Viewers
85
Freeman's oath 88
Farming the only business 91
118
Fort Dickinson
Flight toward the river 102
Forty Fort surrendered . 108, 109
Fugitives on Warrior Path . 109, 110 Fugitives meet Capt. Spalding 112 Flood, the great ice . . 127, 206, 207 Fort Lillope 129
Franklin (John) made Capt. . 130
Franklin's activity 137
Franklin (Col. John) arrested .
137
Franklin (Col. John) released . 137 Franklin (Col. John) honored
with offices 138
Farmers, all .
142
Forty settlers
144
Fighting
146
Fort abandoned by Stewart 147
Farming and fighting . 147
Fifty proprietors of a town
147
Forty proprietors in Kingston . 147
Five-mile square townships 148
First Yankee Hanover men 152
Fight with Plunkett 154
First meeting of proprietors .
.
156
Franklin's block-house, 187, 188, 189 Forge, Bloomery 180
Ferries
182
First settlement .
183
Floors and cellars
189
First saw-mill .
189
Fuel in early times 190
Flax spinning 192, 201
Fish in Susquehanna 197
Flax spinning-wheel
201
Free schools .
203
Flowering plants
205
First carding machine 208
Fur caps
208
Fan for winnowing grain 208
Flannel, price of
213
218, 219
Fence Viewers
219
Farming
220
Farms, size of
220
Fanning mill
221
Friction matches
229
Fire produced
230
Fire making Fishing
230
Fish hooks
231
First Census, 1790 234
Food
239
First list of taxables 245, 246
First railroad 248
Fire-places
257
Fruits
261, 311
Falls at Nanticoke 289
Ferries at Nanticoke 289, 290
Forge at Ashley
291
Falling stars
292
Floating population
298
Fire-damp, choke-damp
299
Fan for ventilating mines
341
Future history of Hanover
346
Government, first form of . 13 Gnadenhütten . 45, 46, 50, 51, 64, 66 Grasshopper War 51, 52
231
Fish story .
231
Famine
79
Franklin's (Lieut. ) family 125
491
Grantees, number of .
65
Guns, rifles, flint-locks
79
Grand Jurors
86
Hanover Records, book of.
156
Graves, two for the slain
112
Hanover Record saved by Jas.
Lasley
163
Gen. Sullivan in Indian country
115
Guarding the mill at Nanticoke 117
Guard-house, the
126
Good Pennsylvanians aroused .
129
Gathering a crop
129
Green Mountain Boys .
131
Grant of Hanover township
145
German Reformed
155
Great roads laid out
157, 159
Growth of a forest
185
Game plentiful
187, 195, 232
Girls learn to spin .
202
Great floods, height of . 127, 206, 207
Gold, joe. and half-joe.
Gardens .
220
Gypsum, plaster
225
Gourd shells
226
Groves left standing
238
Grindstones made .
248
Grist-mills
247, 248, 253, 310
Grates for burning coal
253
Going West .
262
Garret, attic, loft .
267
Germans, Americans by birth .
281
Game scarce .
311
Germania Coal Company
322
Goats, destructiveness of
344
Garden products
345
Glossary of Indian names, 382 to 386
Genealogical tables
387
History of Wyoming Valley . . 32
Honors to old warriors .
55
Hanover settled .
70
Hanover block-house .
94
Hanover men in massacre
100
Hanover Company's men
in
battle . 100
Hanover men killed
106, 107
Hanover abandoned .
109
Hubley's description of Wyom-
ing, 1779 .
115
Hubley's journal
115
Hurlbut's journal .
119
Houses and barns swept away.
127
Heaps of ice in Wilkes-Barre
127
Hay and grain float off
127
Humanity outraged
128
Houses burned down
128
Hanover not the most populous 142
Hanover township settlers . 144, 153
History of Hanover, special .
144
Hollenback's step-daughter
.
144
Had enough of it, first forty .
.
146
Hurrah for King George .
147
Houses loop-holed .
155
Hanover Green
156
Hanover men killed in massacre 164 Hanover men escaped . 164 Hanover men not in massacre 164, 165 Hanover men in the year 1778, 164, 165
History of first division lots . . 167 History of second division lots 175 History of third division lots . 177 Herbs, roots, plants, bark . . 204
Hand carding
208
Hatters
208, 209
Hats, three-cornered
214
Hunting shirt .
214
Hurlbut house, sitc of
207
Horse-shoeing
213
Horned cattle .
222
Hand work
223
Harvesting crops
224
Hearths .
225
Hickory brooms
225, 226
Horn tumblers, goblets .
226
Hospitality of the people
226
Hives of bees .
227, 228
Honey
227, 228, 229
Housing hogs at night
232
Hunting
232,
233
Hunting cabin
233
Hanover soldiers of 1812
265
Houses in 1820 described .
266
Hanover described, Chapman .
280
Hanover Basin
298
Holland's railroad
298
Hartford Coal Company
304
Hanover men in Army of 1861-5
314 to 316
Hartford slope
321
Houses, companies'
327, 328
Houses, private
327
Higher pay, poorer work
327
Hanover's future history
346
Houses on River Road . . 355 to 362 Houses on Middle Road . 362 to 368 Houses on Back Road . . 368 to 375 Home-made implements 243
Iroquois .
.
23
Indians, when first known in
the East .
36
Indian food, how cooked
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