Monday, March 9, 2009. I will now go back a few years with the occurrences of my boyhood at Wilkes- Barre.

Monday, March 23, 2009. Abel Yarrington, a native of Norwich, Connecticut was one of the early settlers in Wyoming Valley and for many years was collector of taxes and keeper of the Wilkes-Barre and Kingston ferry. From 1790 to 1793, and from 1795 to 1801, he was coroner of Luzerne county, and for several years he was treasurer of the county. 1740 - June - Born in Preston or Norwich, New London County, Connecticut.

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.

Saturday, May 30, 2009. He died on October 25, 1836 in Wilkes-Barre. She was christened on Aug 12 1793 in Roman Chapel in Philadelphia PA. With a mere trifle of his former fortunes, accompanied by his family,.

Sunday, April 19, 2009. Joseph Slocum was born in Warwick Township, Rhode Island, April 9, 1777, and consequently was only an infant in arms when he came to Wilkes-Barre with his parents in the Autumn of the same year. It was he who, when his sister Frances was captured by the Indians, was snatched up by his sister Mary and carried away to a place of safety.