oceedings and
Addresses_, XX (1954), 34-35, eighty-two Yankees came to Warrior's Run
in September of 1775, but none went farther west.
[9] Wyoming Historical and Geological Society, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., The
Zebulon Butler Papers, Jonas Davis to Zebulon Butler, March 16, 1773.
[10] Meginness, _Otzinachson_ (1889), p. 340.
[11] Linn, _History of Centre and Clinton Counties_, p. 475; Meginness,
_Otzinachson_ (1889), pp. 508-511.
[12] Linn, _History of Centre and Clinton Counties_, p. 477; Meginness,
_Otzinachson_ (1889), p. 666.
[13] O'Callaghan, _Documentary History of the State of New York_, I,
587-591.
[14] Meginness, _Otzinachson_ (1889), p. 509. This July 12, 1778,
communication from Colonel Hunter did not fall on deaf ears, for Colonel
Thomas Hartley was ordered to the area with his regiment before the
summer was out.
[15] Linn, _History of Centre and Clinton Counties_, p. 475.
[16] Richmond D. Williams, "Col. Thomas Hartley's Expedition of 1778,"
_Now and Then_, XII (1960), 258-259.
[17] Wallace, _Conrad Weiser_, pp. 362-363. Lydius had gotten the
Indians drunk following the settlement at Albany between the Six Nations
and the Proprietaries. This boundary line (Albany) "crossed the West
Branch below the Big Island," p. 374.
[18] _Pennsylvania Archives_, First Series, XI, 508.
[19] Meginness, _Otzinachson_ (1889), p. 667.
[20] Linn, _History of Centre and Clinton Counties_, p. 477.
_Pennsylvania Archives_, Third Series, XIX, 711-713.
[21] The ambiguity of the term "New Purchase" becomes apparent once it
is recognized that territorial acquisitions of both Stanwix treaties
adopted that appellation.
[22] Dunaway, _The Scotch-Irish of Colonial Pennsylvania_, pp. 28-49.
[23] Northumberland County Courthouse, Sunbury, Pa., Penns & C.
1782-1811 Tax Assessments, Cabinet #1. This book, found in the cellar of
the courthouse, also contains the Pine Creek assessment for 1789.
[24] _Pennsylvania Archives_, Third Series, XIX, 618-622.
[25] _Pennsylvania Archives_, First Series, XII, 286-287. The squatters,
apparently warned in advance, had practically all vacated the premises.
However, neighbors across the river willingly gave their names.
[26] _Pennsylvania Archives_, Third Series, XIX, 437, 468, 557, 711,
790.
[27] _Pennsylvania Archives_, Second Series, III (1875), 217, 518-522.
The original petitions of 1781 and 1784 are located in the State
Archives, Harrisburg.
[28] Penn's colony w
|