CKNTEXX I AL II IST011Y OF MONROE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. BY WILLIAM S. REES. ()n the first settlement of the Province (nov State) of Pennsylvania, three orinal (.Van tics were established, as follows: J'ucks. Chester and Philadelphia, and on t. 11th day of March 1752, Northampton, (old mother Northampton) was formed from ;i part of rucks. Ont of the territory taken from Bucks at that time, there have been firmed " Counties and part of the Gth, Consequently the Co mty of Northampton LMt the name of mother of Counties ''Old lother Northampton." One hundred years :i0, 31 arch 21st, 1770, the first t'olinty was formed lr wm Northampton, and was named afier one of the (Jcnerals then lighting for our liberty and Indepen-; deiice, Ueneral Anthony Wayne, (called Mad Anthony Wayne, or, the htin Quaker, of Chester County, Pa.) March 1st, IS 1 1 , Schuylkill County was formed from parts of Northampton and Berks ; and Lehigh was formed from Northampton on the lit h day of March, 1812. During the second war, about oue year after the death ot CJeneral Zebulon Montgomery Pike, (one of the Generals of our second war) on the 20th day March, 1814, Pike County was formed from the County of Wayne, and on "All fools day" April 1st lSIJO, Monroe (the namesake of President Monroe) was formed from part of North ampton and Pike, therefore our County originated from "Little Pike" and "Old Mother Northampton," with "Old Pucks" one of the original Counties for Grand father. The presumption is the first settle ment within the boundaries of the State of Pennsylvania, was in what is now the County of Monroe, at Shawnee, by the Low 1 Hitch or Hollanders ( probably descen dants of the Putch that took llollaud). In 17S7 Samuel Preston of Wayne County, went on his first surveying tour into North ampton County, at that time he was Deputy under John Lukehs, Surveyor General and received from him his instructions, and also the following account or narrative in regard to the settlement above Kittatinny, or lllue Mountains: '"That the settlement was made a long time before it was known to the government in Philadelphia. That when government was informed of the settle ment, they passed a law, in 172'.'. that any purchases of the Indians should be void, and the purchasers indicted for forcible en try and detainer, according to the laws of Kiiglaiid. That in 1 730 they appointed an arei t to ge and investigate the laets; that the agent so appointed was the famous sur veyor Nicholas Scull ; that he John Lukons. was Nicholas Scull's apprentice, to carry chain and learn surveying; that lie accom panied Nicholas Scull. As they both un derstood and could talk Indian, they hired Indian guides, and had a fatiguing journey, there beiiiir then no white inhabitants in the upper part of Bucks or Northampton Counties. That thev had verv irreat diih cult y to lea 1 their horses through the Water Clap to MeeiicHiik fiats, which were all tattled with Hollanders: with several they could only be understood in Indian '. ''The f.rst thing that struck his admiration Was a rove of ;:T'!e trees. ; f size far b''Vnd any PI: '1 la. That i:in Mis t.-ld them that when the livers were fruz-'ti 'he had a good road to Eusopus from the Mine Hole, on the Mine I'mad. some hun dr ed miles : that he took his wheat and tiler there, for salt and necessaries ; and did not appear to have any knowledge or idea where the river ran Philadelphia market or being in the government of Pennsyl vania. They (Scull and Lukens) were of opinion that the fir.-t sttlemeut of Hollan ders, in Mecnesiuk, were many years older than William Penu's charter ; and as Samuel Pepuis had treated them so well, they concluded to make a survey of his i iaim. in order to befriend him if necessary. When they began to survey, the Indians gathered around ; an old Indian laid his hand on Nicholas Scull's shoulder and said, "put up iron string, go home!" and they piit and returned. The Indians had the anie Men that some people have yet, (for 1 have run disputed lines where threats were made, that thev would cut the chain, thev had no fears of the compass doing any mis chief, but that iron string was a dangerous affair.) Mr. Lukens must have been mis taken as to the 3'car being 173, for I have a copy of a draft, (which I copied from the original ) ofa,curvc made several years hefure that time and I think it is the oldest survey in Monroe count, and is as follows: In the draft, SO acres, 0 acres allowed, 1)5 acres, the Shawnee town, inside is a draft, and underneath the draft is the following words: '-The draft of a tract cf land situa ted near the Miunessink, in the County of Bucks, containing 89 acres, surveyed for m. Allen, of Philadelphia city, by virtue of a warrant from the Proprietaries Trus tees bearing date of the lGth of November, 1727, for sureying to Wm. Penu, the Pro prietaries grand-son, 10,000 acres of laud m the province, the right whereof is now vested in said Wrm. Allen; certified by Jacob Taylor. N. B. The above tract contains 80 acres with allowance of G per cent." On the draft is the following endorse ment, the lands at "Shawnee town" above. In contie.etion with the above I would state that Wm. Penn, the founder of Pennsylva nia was bom Oct. 10, 1004, nearly 232 years ago, and March 4, 1031, when in his o7th year obtained a charter from Charles for the Province of Pennsylvania, de bribed as follows: t;For a tract of land in America laying north of Maryland, on the Last bounded by the Delaware Liver, on the West limited as Maryland, and North Ward to extend as far as plantable." Wm. J enn in his will devised to his grand son, m. lVnn, 10,000 acres to be laid out in some convenient place or places in the Pro vince of Pennsylvania, and Wm. Penu, the ?rand-son, sold and conveyed all his right, Jitle and interest iu the same to Win. Allen, hence the order and survey of Shawnee town. There were other parts surveyed in "lis County, one tract in Hamilton town fcinp of which I have a deed in my posses ion, endorsed Wm. Allen to "Nicholas Muni, 250 acres, unlocated, and bearing date 'T't- 17, 1731; nearly! 15 years old, which deed has never been recorded. This deed "cites the deed from Wm. Penn, the grund-soa to Wru. Allen, dated August 20, 1728, and on record at Philadelphia, book F. volume 5, page 92 &c. The. oldert surveys after Shawnee town are the tracts of land on which the Borough of Stroudsburg and East Stroudsburg are located, the oldest of which is the Daniel Brodhcad, 000 acres ; which covers the principal part of East Stroudsburg and a small portion of. Stroudsburg, Warrant April 5, 17H7, surveyed Dec. 275 1737, and the following tracts, parts of which are in the Borough of Stroudsburg John Clark, 200 acres, warrant, Oct. 12, 173S, surveyed May 21, 17:10, Lynford Lardner, 310 acres, for which there was no warrant issued and no date of surveyor surveyor's name given, but marked on the draft as follows : "Jtc-j turned into the Secretary's office March 17,! 17-11" and the following entry is made in the office at Ilarrisburg, 'one of three tracts which had been surveyed for the Proprie taries by their direction for such uses and as we should afterwards think fit to apply them." Dec. 20, 1741, a warrant of accep tance was issued in which is the following : "It being our pleasure to make a grant there of to our kinsman, Lynford Lardner." Henry or (Win.) Clark, 72 acres, warrant Sept. U), 1748. John McMickle, (now cal led McMichael,) two tracts, 20 and 8 acres respectively warrants dated Dec. 1750, and Daniel Brodhcad, 130 acres, warrant, Dec. 20, 1750, returned into the Secretary's office, June 20, 1755, for the use of Ephraim Colver. in the deed (or Patent) from Thos. and Itichard Perm to Ephriam Colver, Miller, of Bethlehem, dated June 30, 1755, the land is described as "A certain tract of Land situate in Danshury township, former ly iu the County of Bucks, now Northamp ton count)', aforesaid" : This tract had the Falls on, now known as Wallace's Dam. Ephraim Colver built the first mill, that was built here, (probably the -first mill that was built this side of the Kittatinny or Blue Mountain,) a log mill, and after Col. Jacob Stroud, purchased the mill property in Feb. 1700, he built a Stone-Mill, which was afterwards burnt down. In the vicinity of Stroudsburg arc the' following tracts taken up ami settled on at an early day, which I will mention as near as L can m tlie order m wlncli they were taken up. The tract of land on which Col. Norton now resides was settled on by John McMickle and surveyed to him A mil 27, j 1714, on a warrant dated Dec. 21, 1743. Where Henry Kautz, resides was surveyed May 1, 1740; on warrant of Dec. 13, 1745, to Ann Garton, ( who was a Brodhcad) and where John W. Huston resides, was survey ed to John Hillman, Dee. 12, 1753, on warrants dated respectively, Dee. 21, 1743 and Line 3, 17 IS. granted to John Mc Mickle, Henry Keever, 155 acres, war rant April 22, 1751, surveyed Oct. 10, 1751. The hill at Owens' was named after him ''Keever's Hill" but generally called "Kafer's J I ill'. On this hill is the old burial irround commonly called "llollinshead's Grave Yard," in which Dirk or (Derrick) ' A-.r i - l l ? i r rn ? an Heir was ouncu in l i'. ane l.ees Farm, now occupied by Matthias Able, was granted to Wm. Peter Knowlton by Warrant dated May 15, 1749, and Patented Mav 16. 17-TJ, and was settled on or owned les .John Drake. Soloman Jenningsand Jno McMickle took up the land now known a A nule & wami i (on which Thomas and David Smi y Iive.l) in 1 4 4ft, and it was then called the "Big Meadow," and th e run near Melchior Drcher s was called Bi Meadow Bun. Along the Brodhead's (or Analomink) Creek from the Brodhcad OiJO acre tract to near Spranuevilie was the ''Proprietaries Manor 1500 acres. (Jen. Robert Brown lives at the Brodhcad nlace, on the 0M) acre tract. At Bushkill. James Hvndsliaw, (the Grand-father of the llcv Jas. llyndshaw, formerly of this place) set tled at an eary day. About the year 175G, there was a line of Forts erected to protect the frontier settlements. Fort Allen where Weissport now is ; Fort Norris at Grccn- sweig's, ( now in EM red township, this Coun ty.) I ort Hamilton, here at this place, near the est end of our town, and I-ort llynd sliaw at the mouth of the Bushkill Creek; 20 3'ears later during the Revolution Fort Penn was in existence, on the hill back of where the stone house, where William S ltitcmute ami Alexander rowler live. Among the earlv settlers in Hamilton town ship were John McDowel, Philip Bossard, Conrad Bittenbendcr and others. During the Old French and Indian War of 1755-00 the inhabitants north of the mountain were continually in danger of being massacred bv the Indians; and in someplace, the Indians commenced operations m ITo.j. In jJcceiu ber 1755, the Indians made an attack upon the inhabitants in the neigliorhood of this place (then Fort Hamilton Jasippcars from the following, (parts ol ) depositions dec. "Col. Joseph Stout received one express this morning by a young man from that place ( Fort Hamilton,) where Jno. Carmcclc (Mc Mickle) and Broadhcad live, back of bam 1 Depue's, where they were attacked yester day about 11 o'clock, where Brodhcad'i Barn and Barracks were on fire, and heard the runs afiring, for Broadhcad had bar ricaded his house ; and there were several people killed, and I fled to John Ander son, and as near as I could estimate, there were 100 of the enemy that appeared to me, and were iu white people's clothing, only a few match coats. 1 1 EN II Y CO L E, Sworn, &.c, Dec. 12. 1755 Col. Stout : I desire you would come up directly with your regiment till you and I see if we cannot save our country. JOHN ANDERSON. On the same day, Dec. 12, 1755, Jno. Mc Mickle or McM ichacl) Hy. Dysert,Jas. Tidd and Job Blakehorn, were sworn at Easton, and said "Yesterday about 3 of the clock in the morning two Indian men came from towards Brodhead's house, who fired at these deponents and several others, who returned the fire and made the Indians turn oil"; and the said Tidd and Blakehorn, further say that as they were going round the stack yard of sfiid McMichael, they saw as they verily believe 4 Indians . on their knees about 20 perches from the stack yard, who fired at these deponents ; that thev were engaged with the Indians at least three quarters of an hour ; Aud the said McMichael and Dysort, further say, that thev saw the Barn of the said Brodhcad on fire about 1) o'clock in the morning, which continued burning till they left the house, about four iu the afternoon, and fen that they heard shorting and cry'ng at Brodhead's house almost the whole day, and that when they left McMichael's house, the dwelling house Of the said Brodhcad was yet unburnt, being as they supposed defended by the people within. ,j And the said Tidd and Blakehorn also Paid, "that they did not come to McMichael's house till about three o clock iii the afternoon, when they could see the Barn and Barracks of the said Brodhcad on fire ; that they did not see any one killed on cither side, but James Garland one of their company was shot through the hand." About the same time the Indians appeared at what is now called Pleasant Valley, in Polk township. In 31ichacl llute s deposition, taken Decem ber 12, 1755, he says : "Last Wednesday about 0 o'clock, afternoon, a company of Indians about 5 in number attacked the house, of Frederick lloeth, about 12 miles East from unauden Huttcn (Lehurhton) on Pocho Pochto Creek ; that the family being at supper, the Indians shot into the house, and wounded a woman ; at the next shot they killed Frederick Hoeth himself, and shot several times more, whereupon all ran out of the house that could. The Indians immediately set fire to the house, mill and stables. Heaths wife ran into the bake house, which was also set on fire. The poor woman ran out through the flames, and being very much burned, she ran into the water and there lied. They killed and scalped a daughter ; and he thinks three other children who were of the family, were burnt. Three of lloeth s daughters are missing with another woman, who are supposed to be carried off. In the action, one Indian was killed and another wounded." I suppose Fort Hamilton was not in existence then as there is no account given of it, but the next year it is mentioned. I he following is taken from the journal of James Young, Commissary General : "June 22, 17aG, At 4 P. M. set out. at G came to Lehigh Gap where I found a sergant and S men stationed at a farm house, with a small stoccade around it. From Fort Allen (now Weissport, Carbon county,) here the road is very hilly aud swampy, I found they were a detachment from Capt. Weathcrholt's Company ; he is stationed on the other side the Gap, 3 miles from tins with 12 men. . I he rest of hi.- company is at Depue's and another at (Jap (The Wind Gap) 15 miles from this. June 2.j, Ii.jG. At t in the morning mustered the men" kc. " At 9 A. M. 1 set out for Fort Norris. The road fur the first 0 miles is a crood waeon road along the foot of the North Mouutain ; the other 7 miles verv hilly and stony. Passed 3 plan tations on this road, all deserted and the houses burnt down. At 11 A. M. I came to Fort Norris, found here a sergent com manding with 21 men. This Fort stand.- in a valley midway between the North Mountain and the Tin-l;trora, 0 miles from each on the hi'h road towards the Minne- siuks; it is a souare about SO feet each way, with 4 half bastions, all very com pletely stoccaded, finished and defensible At 2 P. M. Capt, Wcathcrholt came here to us. He brought me his muster roll, vc and proposed to go with me to Samuel De pue's, where his lieutenant and 20 men are, to see them mustered, I accepted his com pany. At 3 1 . M. we set forth from rort Norris on our way to Fort Hamilton. At 0 P. M. came to Philip Bosart's farm 12 miles from Fort Norris, here we staved all night. In our way to this house we found the road very hill, the country barren : passed 3 plantations, all deserted and the houses burnt down. Iu Bosart's house are 0 families from other plantations. June 24. At 4 A. M. set out from Bosart's : at C came to Fort Hamilton, about 7 miles from Bosart's; a good wagon road and the land better than any I had seen on the north side of the Mountain. Fort Ham ilton stands in a cornfield by a firm house, in a plain and clear country ; it is a square with 4 half bastiqms, all very illcontrived and finished ; the stoccades arc 0 inches open in many places and not firm in the ground, and may be easily pulled down. Before the gate are some stoccades driven in the ground to cover it which I think might be a great shelter to an enemy. I therefore ordered them to pull them down. I also ordered to fill up the other stoccades where they were open. I found here a lieutenant and 8 men, 7 were gone to Easton with a prisoner, At 8, a. m. I set out from Fort Hamilton for Samuel Depue's where Capt. Weathcrholt's lieutenant and 20 men are stationed ; when I came there his mus ter roll was not ready. I therefore .pro ceeded to the next Fort, 10 miles further up the river. At.l P. M. I came there. It is a good plain road from Depue's; there are many plantations this way, but all de serted, and the houses chiefly burnt. Found at this Fort (llyndshaw) Lieut, Handshaw with 25 men. This Fort is a square about 70 feet each way, very lightly stoccaded. It is clear all round for 300 yards. The Fort stands on the bank of a creek and about one fourth of a mile from the River Delaware. I think it is a very important place for the defence of this frontier. At 7 1. M. came to Samuel Depue's, mustered that part of Capt, Weathcrholt's company stationed here, a lieutenant and 20 men, all regularly enlisted for 6 months, as arc the rest of his company. Around Depue's house is a large but very and ill-contrived stoccade, with a swivel guu mounted on each corner. June 25, At 5 A. M. set out from . De pue's for the Wiod Gap, where a part of Weathcrholt's company is stationed. Stop ped at Bosart's plantation to find our hor ses. I was informed this morning that 2 miles from the house in the woods they found the body of Peter Hess, who had been murdered and scalped about the month of February. At 11 A. M. came to Wind Gap, where I found Capt. Weathcr holt's ensign, who is stationed here with 7 men at a Farm House." During the remaining part of 1750, there seems to have been quiet north of the Mountain ; but in 1757 the Indians again made incursion in the settlements back of the Mountain, as appears from letters from Maj. Parsons to Gov. Denny, on informa tion given to him by depositions of differ ent parties, extracts of which are as follows: April 24, 1757, Michael Roup of Lower Smithfield was sworn, and said : " That on Friday morning last, John Le Fever, passing by the Louses of Philip Bosart and others informed him them that the Indians had murdered (jasper Gundryman last Monday evening; that he went immediately to Bo sart's to consult what vras best to be done ; that they concluded it best for the neigh bors to collect together in some one house; that he returned and loaded his wagon with his most valuable effect!, which he carried to Bosart's house, and as soon as he had unloaded Ins wagon he drove to his son-in-law's, Peter Soan's house, about two miles and loaded as much of his ef fects as the time and hurry would ad mit, and took them also to Bossart's where nine familes were retired ; that a great number of the inhabitants were also retired to the houses of Conrad Bittenbcnder and John McDowel ; that Bosart's house Js seven miles from Fort Hamilton and twelve from Fort Norris, that yesterday inornimr about nine o'clock, the said Peter Soan and Christian Klein, writh his daughter, about thirteen years of age, went from Bossart s house to the house of the said Klein and then to Soan's house, to look after the cattle, and to bring off more effects; that about halt an hour after the above three persons were gone from Bosart's house a certain George Hartlieb, who also fled. with his family to Bosart's, and who had been at his own house about a mile from Soan's, returned to Bosart's and reported that he had heard three guns fired very quick one after another towards Soan's place Arc. That this morning nine men armed themselves and went towards Soan's place ; that when they came within about three hundred yards of the house they lound the bodies of the said Soan and Klein lying about 20 feet from each other, killed and scalped ; but did not fiud Klein's daughter. June 22, 1757, Maj. Parsons wrote to Gov. Denny, and enclosed the deposition of George Ebert, taken dune 20th, from which are the following extracts : " That on or about the 2d day of May last he, with about 18 armed men went with two wagons from Plainfield township, to assist the inhabi tants of Lower Smithfield, who had a few days before been attacked by the enemy, Indians, and some of the neighborhood murdered by the savages, to bring off some of their best effects; that about noon of the same da' they came to the house of Conrad Bittenbendcr, to w hich divers of the neigh bors had fled. Here one of the wagons, with about 10 men and himself, halted to load their wagou with the poor people's ef fects ; and the rest ot the company with the other wagon, went about a mile further to Philip Bozart's ; That Conrad Bitten bcnder, Peter Shajffer, John Nolf, Jacob Roth, Michael Kiersfer (Keiser), a certain Kcins (Kintz), and one man more, whose name he had forgotten, and himself, went about 2 miles iuto the woods, to seek the neighbors horses, where they found 0, and were returning with them to within half a mile of Bittenbender's house, when they were attacked by 15 French Indians, who fired, upon them, and killed Bittenbendcr, Jacob Roth, and Johu Nolf, as he believed, for that he saw them fall, one dead, and took Peter Shteffer, who received two flesh shots, one in his arm and the other in his shoulder, and him the said Ebert, prison ers, that he received a shot. I hat the In tliaus frequently talked French together ; that they immediately started off with their prisoners ; that on the evening of the next day they fell in with another company of about 24 Indians, who had Abraham -Mil ler, with his mother, and Adam Snell daughter prisoners. The Indians with their prisouers, marched in parties as far as Dia lioga, and at that place the Indians separa ted, and about 8, the foremost took him and Abraham Miller with them, and they never saw any of the other prisoners after wards : that on their way on this side of Piahoga they saw Klein's daughter, who had been taken prisoner about a week be fore he was taken, and about a day's jour ney beyond Diahoga, they come to some French Indian cabins, where they saw an other prisoner, a girl about IS or Id years old, who said her name was CathariHC lea gcr, and that her father was a locksmith and lived at Allemengle ; that she had been a prisoner ever since Christinas; that at this place the Indians loosed him and Abra ham Miller, whom they had bound every night before; that finding themselves at liberty, he and Abraham Miller made their escape in the night, and the next day came to French Margaret's at Diahoga, having been prisoners 9 days ; that they stayed about 4 weeks with her, during which time she concealed them and supported them That some French Indians came in search of them and she told them it was not safe for them to stay any longer and advised them to make the best of their way homewards, that while at Diahoga, they were informed that the Indians had killed Abraham Mil ler's mother, who was not able to travel any further and Sncll's daughthcr who had received a wound in her left leg by a fall when they first took her prisoner ; but, heard nothing of Peter Shaeffer, that in three days they arrived at Wyoming by water, as Margaret had advised them, that at Wyoming the friendly Indians directed them the way to Fort Allen, but they missed their way and came the road to Fort Hamilton where they arrived last Saturday a week. (Abraham Miller, afterwards mar ried a daughter of Johu McDowell, a sister of Col. Stroud's wife, and owned and lived on the place where Judge Storm afterwards owned and lived on, (now Snovcr's,) at Stormsville, and when ho left there, he went to the Wyoming V alley, on the bus quehanna.) The letter (with Ebcrt's deposi tion,) from Major Parson's, on the 20th of June, 1757, giving an account "that a large body of Indians had attacked and burned Brodhead's house, which is about a mile from here and in sight of Fort Hamilton and that they had killed and scalped one Tidd, besides, killing a great number of creatures. The Hilborn's settled at an early day on the Brodhead's Creek, near Wywamic Mountain on the farm now owned by John Savage, and the Soliday's, about the same time settled on the south-west branch of Brodhead's creek near its junction with the main creek, (now at the High Bridge, and owned by Thomas Stite's,) and were cither killed or captured by the Indians, Price and Wissimer settled lurther up the hrod head's creek, now in (Price and Barrett townships,) and I believe were never molested ry the Indians. Nicholas Wieser, was killed near Briukor'sj (now Fenuersville or Sciotaj) aud his fam ily taken to Canada. Russells, settled on the flats below, now (Bartonsville,) and John Russell was killed in 1704 by the Indians, arid the hut kil ling . done by the Indians was--George Learn and his wife and child, in i780, (at now the lower part of Tannersville, in Pocono township.) Fort Penn was erected about the time of the Revolution, at the lower part of the town of Stroudsburg. General Sullivan on his way from Easton to Wyoming with about 5,000 troops to chastise the Indians on the Susquehanna passed through this County in 1779. In his journal he saj's. "On the ISth of June 1779, he had encamped at llillard's (Hel ler's) tavern, 11 miles from Easton, June 19th marched to Larney's (Lame's or Learn's) tavern, at Pokanose (Pocono) Point, 20th to Chowder Camp, which is now known as Hungry Hill, in Tobyhanna township, and at which place they halted several days and sent back to Fort Penn, (now Stroudsburg) for provisions. While waiting there they cut a road through a swamp there, and Gen. Sullivan's son about 17 years of age cut in large letters on a tree on the hill, the words " HUNGRY HILL," and in the swamp, in letters about two inches in size, on a yellow pine, the words " HELL'S KITCHEN." The tree on the hill blew down and rotted, but the one in the swamp stood until within about twenty years ago, when Frederick P. Miller, cut the block out with the letters on and had it on the mantle in his bar-room at Tompkiusville. After he left the tavern the block was sent to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Gen. Sullivan,, on his re turn stayed several days at Drinker's wait ing for his wagon train, which took the wrong road about three miles above' Stod dartsville, (at Buck's) they having taking what is called the "old Shupp road or the road from bhupps to W-oming and and came down through Chcsnuthill, to Blinker's (afterwards called Fort Sullivan, Fennersville and now Sciota). At Hungry Hill there is a grave by tho side of the ;01d Sullivan. Road" of one of the Soldiers. and another grave at Locust Ridge. Dur- g the . war in the Wyoming Valley between the Connecticut claimants (or Yankee's) and the Pcnnsylvanians (Pcna- mite's) called the Penamite war, there was one battle fought, within the boundaries of now Monroe County. At Locust Lidge, in which one of the Penamite soldiers named Everitt, was killed. Locust Ridge seems to have been an old place, as there was a survey made there in 149, for Samuel Depue. There was 'also an old settlement at White Oak Run by a man by a i " ' r l - l me name oi jUoroisNa, ana one wncre General Sullivan crossed the Tobyhanna, by a man named Levers. Ihere has nothing transpired after 17S0, to record, except that in some parts of the County there lias been destructive freshets. In January, 1S41, Junc,lS02, aud October, 1809. Our "County has im proved steadily, and from a population of about 2000 one huudred 3'ears ago, it now has a population of about 20,000, and an area of i84,000 acres of land.-: and instead of a faw scattering mills, we now have about 30 Flouring mills, 10 Tanneries, several l oundncs, a Woolen mill, aTanite Factory for manufacturing Emery Wheels, Sec. and a glass Factory, which will soon be in opera tion, and our hills and valleys dotted with Churches aud School Houses. Special JSTotice. "The safety of the people is the highest law,' was an old lawgiver's maxim. Messrs. Wana maker & Brown, at their creat Oak Hall Clothing House in Philadelphia, seems to have adopted the old maxim. There is absolutely no risk in buying of them. o' mistake of a salesman, or inexperience of a customer can ever be taken advantage of. The firm sives to every buyer a guarantee, over their own sirna ture, covering everv possible point at which a purchaser can need protection. Such deter mination to take every obstacle out of the way oi ouying cunning is wormy oi sincere applause It need not any longer be a terror to suit your self or your family with the best and cheapest clothing the country aflords. July 13-lm DIVIDEND NOTICE. A semi-annual dividend of 5 per cent will be paid hy the Stroiidsburj; l'assengc r Kail war Company, at the oiiioe cr tne .Monroe County Hanking and Ravines Co. Parties holding certificates of stork, which have, not been "transferred on the nooks of the Company, will please present them aud have new certificates issued in their iavor. July 1ML THOS. A. BELL, Soc'y. EXECUTOR'S NOTICE. Estate, of Stephen II. Peters, dee'd., of Barrett tsp, Letters testamentary upon the above Estate having oeen granted to the undersigned, all persons indebted to said Estate aro requested to make payment, and those having claims to present the same, without delay to LEVIN A PETEKS, Executrix, or SAMUEL PUSTENS, Executor. July 13-Ct. Mountain lUme, Pa NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that an application will be made under the Act or Assembly, or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, entitled. "An Act to provide for the incorporation or certain corporations," approved April 14, lor tne charter oi an intended corporation to be called " 1 he Stroudsburg Water Com pany," for tho purpose of supplying tho (aid Borough of Stroudsburg and vicinity with water. The business of said company to be transacted in said Borough of Atrouasuurg, county oi Jionroe, Mate oi t'ennsylvania J. IS. SIOU.M, Solicitor. July 13, lS7-3t. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE Estate of EMANUEL IT. HELLER, late of Stroud town ship, deceased. Letters of Administration upon the above named sons persons indebted to said Estate are requested to Instate having been granted to the undersigned, all ner maKe immediate payment, and those having claims ngatnsi me same win present tneir accounts duly auincniicaieu lor seuiem-m to. CHAIiLES B. RTATLES, Adra'r. July Stroudsburg, Pa. NOTICE. All persons indebted to me on book account are requested to make immediate payment. All accounts not settled up before the first of August 186, will be placed in the hands of a Justice of the 1 eace for collection. WM. S. FLORE Y. Stroudsburg, July 13, lS7ti.tf. Auditor's Notice. The undersigned appointed Auditor by the Court of Common Fleas of Monroe county, to make distribution of the fund in Court, arising from the cdienlT asaleof the personal property of Samuel Stitzer, will attend to the duties of his appointment at his ollice, in the Borough of Sitrouusburg, on rriday, July 21, 187o, at 2 o'clock p. m., when and where all persons in terested in said distribution, mav attend if they think proper or be forever debarred from coin ing in for any share thereof. A. A. D1NSMORE, Auditor. Jane 22, 1876. it. Terrible times m m York ! DRY GOODS MEN BtllSttNS tipH The! Clothing Meflatref Biirtflii'gtJpl Hat & Cap Bfefl are BffrstiAg' tfy I i The Milliners tre Bursting tlp A BIG SrjAP MAtf has BURSTED UP III Thousands of Dollars icbrth of Goods aft Sold the Sheriff every day, and some go fur a mere liothirijj! ! ! DECKED OF THE WONDERFUL CHEAP AUCTION Is WIDE AWAKE cm the spot, and hU Store iii Strbudsbtfrg ii libw gtoaiiiny and grunting tinder the load of Cheap Goods Just arrived. JUST LOOK HERE f 2 spoola of our best Colto'n for 5 cents. 3 rows of Pins for 1 cent. 2 papers best Needles, 5 cents. 2 large cakes Toilet Soap, 5 cents.' Good Lead Pencils, 1 cent. Full set of Jet Jewelry, 20' ceAtsV Gents' and Youth's lined Cdllata per box, 8 and 10 cents. Calico, 4 and 5; Very fine white stripe Peka, 12 cents. . ..... . Beautiful Shades of Grass Cloth', find, 6nf ltf cents a yard. Plain Dress Goods, 10. Black Alpaca, 25' tUt; Summer and Fall Shawls, 55 and 65 cents. Large White Counter-panes SI and Si 15. Cassimeres & Summer Wear, nearly half price: Fine Dress Linen 1 8, 22 and 25 cents". Muslin Edgfngs 4, 6, S and 12 cents. Ribbons, Flowers antf Feathersy half price; Children a Gloves o cents." Ladies' Gloves 8 and 10 cents; GcntsT Giuves 10 and 15 cents. . ....... Children's, Ladie's and Gents' Hosiery' nearly half nnce. Hemmed Handkerchiefs 4 cents. Oil Table-cloths and Covers never so cheap." Corsets, elegant, only 40 cents. Linen lable-cloths and lqwels, very cheap." r ull pound Cotton Bats 14 cts; Beautiful Carpets 25 cts. per yard. , Men's Pants, lined, $1: Men's Coats $1 and! S3. Men's Vests SI. . ... Men's and Boys' whole suits, good Cassimer; So to !?3, ....... Men's and Youth's soft Hats, 70c to $1 25: Men s and Boys' Straw Hats, 15 and 25 cts. Misses' fc Ladies' fashionalW trimmed Spring and Summer Hats, 30c. to SI 50l . Ladies' Fine Lace and Button Lasting Gaiters SI 25 to SI 75. Men's Fine Calf Boots $3 50. Men's fine Un dershirts, 35 to 50 cents. Ladies' fine Undershirts 45 cts.' Men's fine Muslin Shirts SI. Now, if vou want to see a J2 USH. just come" to DECKEIl'S wonderful cheap Auction Store 4 doors below Jrost Oiace." April 27, '70. ly." WAITED, To rent bv a workingman. a small hous near yfl'-'' lage, between Stroudsburg and Bushkill, address, with particulars P. SWIFTWOOD, Julyl3-4t. Philadelphia. Ta. - Sheriff's Stile.- Bv virtue of a writ of Ler. Fa. to me directed. Issued' out of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County, I win expose to sale, at I'uolic endue, ou SATURDAY; JULY 29th, IS76"; . . at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, at the Court House in the, Borough of Mroudsburg, Monroe County, Che following; describtM Heal Estate, to wit : . . , All tnat certain messuage, tenement and lot or land, situate on the north side of Ann Street in the Borough of Stroudsburg, being KOKTY-TIIREE FEET on said Ann Street and ONE HUNDRED and NINETY FEET in depth, adjoining land of James II. McCarty and land late James T. Palmer and Cherry Ally. Tho improve- menu are a t i;a.mj Dwelling House, 22x20 feet, 2 stories high. Kitchen attached, 12x16 feet . -1 i t . . , ,.. . ... . Seized and taken in execution as the property, ojf, Morris 11. Stone aud Susan Stone his wife, and to be sold by me for cash. JACOB K. SHATER, Sheriff: Sheriff's Office, Stroudsburg, July 13th, 1S76. i sn.ry injjii, waier near xne uoor and lot CI Iran treef. Sheriff's Sale.- By virtue of a writ of Fi. Fa. to' me directed,'. Issued.' out of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County, I will expose to sale at Public Vendue, on SATURDAY, JULY 20iK;lS7G; at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, at- the Court House, Jn the Borough of Stroudsburg, Monroe County, the fol lowing described Real Estate, to wit: :. , ,. ,. An certain lot of land situate in the Tillage of Oak land, Township of Barrett, County of Monroe, contain- x ..... . . Three Quarter Acres; all cleared, adjoining land of Day, Wilcox A Co!i John' Zahn. The Improvements are a FRAME' Dwelling House; tfix2i feet, 2 stories high, a lot of appVe and eher fruit trees on the premises and water neat the dobir. Seised and taken in execution as the property of Philip Koehlcr, and to be sold br m for cash. JACOB K. SftATER, Sheriff. SheriiTs Office, Stroudsburg,") July 13th, 1S7G, V Smithfield School District. STATEMENT OP Receipts and Expenses.' of the District for the year ending June Mh, 1876.- For school purposes 10 mills, and for tiirilding- 2 mittV to the dollar. Total amount levied for school purposes, Total amount levied for buildirg, 212 35 406 69 t 2573 01' 1639 90 S3 39 855 75 '$2573 Total amount levied, Tho Treasurer collected, Premiums and mistakes,' To be collected, Duplicate Theo. W. Bunnel, collector, Collectors rcceirte 762 98 855 75" Exonerations cl9 85, paid other dis tricts ?27 15 Amount due at settlement, 47 00 45 82- 8? 75 45 82 Ainount due from collector,' From State appropriation, 353 05i " M. Yetter, collector 1875. . , 22 50' " Theo. Taylor, col. bounty tax '71 24 28" " sale of oM stove Ac, 2 40 " Treasurer aud collector, 2429 9? Total receipts from aH resources. Teachers wages, 1927 65 Fuel aud contingencies, 169 19; Repairs and renewals, 259 39 Paid in other districts, 27 15 Printing Sll 50, School Journal S7 00, 18 5r Debt $1 10 00, interest $9 30, 155 SO Salary of Secretary, 15 05 Auditors and town clerk, 4 50 Treasurer's commissions, 50 99 283721 Total expenditures. 2627 67 balance tn hands of Treasurer. 2v9 54 Balance on duplii'jte, 45 82 Total revourcfa of District. Jane fi. 1875. 255 ! June 29-ot.J E. T. CROASPALE, Sec'y. STORE . fit m i, a f lit I - iij i jh . piVrt m ?
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