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PIKE IN EARLY TIMES. PAPER BY COL. JOHN A. CODDING PIKE derives its name from Gen. Zebulon Pike, who was killed in our war with Great Britain, 1812-15. It is located on the extreme East line of Bradford county, adjoining Susquehanna. It is about ten miles long from north to south and five miles wide … Read more
FRIEDENSHUTTEN, PAPER BY J.W. INGHAM INTRODUCTION NOT far from the present village of Wyalusing, on the north hank of the creek near its junction with the Susquehanna, at the point of the ridge which was cut through by the railroad, stood Go-hon-to-to, one of the fortified villages of the Te-hot-ach-see tribe of Indians, which was … Read more
CHAPTER IV. TIOGA COUNTY ORGANIZED. The Landed Interests – Their Influence on Legislation – Tioga County Created – Form and Area – Derivation op Name – The Term Tioga – Boundary Line Dispute- Origin of the Trouble – Various Efforts to Establish Lines – A Tangle op Perplexing Questions- The Latest Commission. OWING to landed … Read more
CHAPTER III. BEGINNING OF TIOGA COUNTY. Purchase of 1784 – Pair Play System – Lycoming Township Formed- Its Boundaries AND Area- Old Tioga Township Erected- A Valuable Document Discovered- Boundaries Defined- Other Record Evidence- Tioga Township Taxables of 1800 – Additional Extracts From Early Records- Panther and Wolf Scalp Bounties. WHEN the purchase of 1784 … Read more
CHAPTER II. THE LAND OF TIOGA. First Occupants- Rugged and Romantic Scenery- Game, Fish and Wild Animals- An Ideal Hunting Ground- Indian Paths- Indian Villages – French Explorers and Missionaries – Boundary Line op the Purchase op 1768- The Old Treaties- The Walker Tragedy- Indian Characteristics and Peculiarities. The territory lying within the present boundaries … Read more
CHAPTER I. TOPOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL FEATURES. Surface Transformation- Mountain Ranges- Anticlinals and Synclinals- The Blossburg Mountain Basin- Dip of the Rocks- Wellsboro Anticlinal -Crooked Creek Basin- Valley of the Cowanesque- Streams of the County- The Tioga River- Crooked Creek – Lycoming Creek – Pine Creek -Marsh Creek- The Cowanesque River- Minor Streams- Concluding Observations. BEFORE … Read more
CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Topographical and Geological Features. Surface Transformation- Mountain Ranges- Anticlinals and Synelinals- The Blossburg Mountain Basin- Dip of the Rocks- Wellsboro Anticlinal- Crooked Creek Basin- Valley of the Cowanesque- Streams of the County- The Tioga River- Crooked Creek – Lycoming Creek – Pine Creek – Marsh Creek- The Cowanesque River – Minor Streams … Read more
PREFACE. MORE than one hundred years have passed away since the first white settlers built their cabins along the Cowanesque and Tioga rivers and commenced laying the corner-stone of American civilization within the confines of what is now Tioga county. The Indian occupants had been pushed back farther into the wilderness by the advancing tide … Read more
The AgitatorWellsboro, PennaJanuary 3, 1872 MARRIAGES Pitts – Baker – At the residence of the bride’s father in Charleston December 13, 1871, by Rev. W. Taylor, Mr. John Pitts of Richmond and Miss Sarah Baker. Cruttendin – Webster – By the same December 20, 1871. Mr. Henry E. Cruttenden of Lambs Creek, and Miss Delphine … Read more
The AgitatorWellsboro, PennaJanuary 19, 1870 LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION having been granted on the estate of James Scott, deceased, late of Chatham, all those indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, and those having claims against it, to present them for settlement. Moses Lee, Adm’r.Chatham, Jan 12, 1870 ADMINISTRATOR’S NOTICE. -Letters of Administration … Read more