History of Warren County, Chapter 5

CHAPTER V FROM 1655 TO 1680 The Iroquois Triumphant – Obliteration of Dutch Power – French Progress – La Salle Visits the Senecas – Greenhalgh’s Estimates – La Salle on the Niagara – Building of the Griffin – Its First and Last Voyage – La Salle’s Subsequent Career. The overthrow of the Kahquahs and Eries … Read more

History of Warren County, Chapter 4

CHAPTER IV THE IROQUOIS Their Name as Applied by Themselves – System of Clans – Its Importance – Its Probable Origin – The Grand Council – Sachems and War – chiefs – Line of Descent – Choice of Sachems – Religious Belief – Natural Attributes – Family Relations, etc. From the destruction of the unfortunate … Read more

History of Warren County, Chapter 2

CHAPTER II NATURAL FEATURES, ETC Topography – Character of Forests – The Soil – Its Products – Minerals – The Animal Kingdom – The Eries – The Kahquahs, or Neuter Nation The Hurons – The Iroquois – Earlier Occupants – Inferences. IT is deemed fitting, before beginning the record of events, to give a brief … Read more

History of Warren County, Chapter 1

HISTORY OF WARREN COUNTY CHAPTER I OUR SUBJECT SOMEWHAT EXPLAINED The Beginning of Warren County’s History – Date of Organization – Its Boundaries – Its Area and Streams – Origin of its Name – The System to be Pursued in Succeeding Chapters. On that eventful mid – summer’s day in 1749 when Captain Bienville de … Read more

5 December 2008 – Update

We’ve been busy adding new stuff recently that you’ll want to check out!   Amityville Lutheran Church, Berks County Newman Cemetery, Susquehanna County Over in our Photo Gallery we’ve posted over 100 pictures from 10 different cemeteries in Mifflin County.  Check them out! Do you have some photos from cemeteries in Pennsylvania that you’d be … Read more

Amityville Lutheran Church, Berks County

THE AMITY CHURCH AND ITS ANCIENT DEAD. NOTES AND QUERIES BY WILLIAM HENRY EGLE, PAGES 207-209 The Amityville Lutheran Church is situated in Amity township, Berks county, Pa., about four or five miles north of Douglassville, on the Schuylkill river.  Its organization dates back more than one hundred and fifty years.  Its cemetery is very … Read more

3 December 2008 Update

It’s been a busy day with updates to PA-Roots! We’ve added the following today Newman Cemetery, Susquehanna County Mergenthaler Cemetery Minutes of the Board of Property, 1894 Orphan School Pupils, 1908 Tindall Family Cemetery, Lawrence County Latshaw Journal Christ Lutheran Church Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Lancaster County Church of God Cemetery, Highspire, Dauphin County Stoner Family Cemetery, … Read more

Newman Cemetery, Susquehanna County

Newman Cemetery

 Newman Cemetery Great Bend, Susquehanna County       Contributed by Andrew and Jan Myers, Norwich, NY amyers1966@gmail.com This is only a partial transcription. Headstone photos may be found by Clicking Here   Prefix Last Name First Name Middle Name Suffix Maiden Name Month Day Year Month Day Year Plot Inscription Notes       … Read more

Minutes of the Board of Property, 1894

MINUTES   OF THE   BOARD OF PROPERTY   AND OTHER REFERENCES   TO   LANDS IN PENNSYLVANIA.   INCLUDING     PROPRIETARY (OLD) RIGHTS.   _______     EDITED BY   WILLIAM HENRY EGLE, M. D. ______     HARRISBURG: CLARENCE M. BUSCH, STATE PRINTER. 1894.                     [Owing to the … Read more