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Saturday, January 31, 2009.
Sunday, March 15, 2009. Back to Hotels and Taverns. The Black Horse tavern, located on the south side of East Market street between the Luzerne County Jail. And Public Square was built and kept by Archippus Parrish. On the east side of the Square was destroyed by fire. At the time of its occupation by Parrish, it was the principal hotel of the town, and furnished some of the best accommodations in Wyoming Valley.
Sunday, February 22, 2009. The landlord of a hotel was apt to be a man of consequence and standing in the community. As a class they were generally respected and were often called to hold public office when it was a distinction to hold public office, as marking the esteem and respect and confidence in which one was held by his fellow citizens.
Monday, February 23, 2009. Back to Hotels and Taverns. The members of the Junior Volunteers will meet at the hou.
Monday, March 23, 2009. Arnold Colt was a son of Harris Colt and a grandson of Benjamin Colt, an early settler in Lyme, New London, Connecticut. He was born in Lyme September 10, 1760. Colt learned the trade of a blacksmith and of a general worker in iron, and in the year 1786 emigrated from. Connecticut to the Wyoming Valley. In 1788 he married Lucinda Yarrington. In 1790 Arnold Colt was appointed collector of excise for Luzerne. In 1795 he moved with.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009. , at the house of her father, Sarah, daughter of Asher Miner, aged 31 years. He was born in Norwich, Connecticut. At Wilkes Barre, on the 13th March, Mr. Asher Miner, aged 63 years.
Saturday, February 21, 2009. He married in 1804, Letitia Wright, and had four daughters and one son; William Penn.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009. Rev Cyrus Gildersleeve was born April 14, 1768, in Orange, Essex County, New Jersey. He was the son of Ezra Gildersleeve and Mary Camp. He graduated from old Queens College now Rutgers, in 1789, received adegree of M. in 1792 and also from Princeton in 1792. He was pastor from 1792 to 1811 in Midway, Liberty County, Georgia. This famous old church was founded by New England Puritans. He died January 15, 1837, at Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009. From The Pioneer Women of Wyoming - By Frederick C. Previous to her marriage to Dr. Sprague, Eunice Chapman had been married to a Mr. Poiner at Sharon Nine Partners, N. After a long and useful life she died in Wilkes-Barre April 12, 1814. In accordance with the usual brevity with.