Lycoming County

CHAPTER IX EARLY ROADS – STAGE COACHES – CANALS – RAILROADS FIRST HIGHWAYS – THE GENESEE ROAD – COUDERSPORT PIKE – RIVER THE FIRST MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION – CANAL BUILDING – FIRST RAILROAD COMPLETED – OTHER RAILROADS – TRANSPORTATION OF LUMBER – PENNSYLVANIAS SYSTEM – PETER HERDIC – RESIDENT RAILROAD OFFICIALS – READING RAILROAD – … Read more

CHAPTER VIII OFFICERS OF LYCOMING COUNTY PROTHONOTANIES – SHERIFFS – REGISTERS AND RECORDERS – CORONERS – DISTRICT ATTORNEYS – COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. The officers of Lycoming County since it was erected as a separate organization, with the date of their appointment or election, have been as follows: Prothonotaries – Clerk of the court of quarter sessions … Read more

CHAPTER VII LYCOMING COUNTY ERECTED AN ATTRACTIVE LOCATION – NECESSITY FOR A NEW COUNTY – FAILURE OF MEASURE IN 1786  –  EFFORT TO REMOVE COUNTY SEAT DEFEATED – BILL ERECTING COUNTY PASSED IN 1795 – EXTENT OF NEW COUNTY – FIRST OFFICIALS – SELECTING A COUNTY SEAT – COURTS ORGANIZED – RIVAL CLAIMANTS FOR COUNTY … Read more

CHAPTER VISETTLEMENT AT MUNCY – INDIAN DEPREDATIONS – CATHERINE SMITH MUNCY MANOR DIVIDED – JOHN HEADY BUILDS FORT – LOCAL EFFECT OF THE REVOLUTION – PRESENCE OF TORIES – FREQUENT MASSACRES – SETTLERS ORGANIZE DEFENSE – SHORTAGE OF ARMS AND AMMUNITION – CATBARINE SMITH – THE WYOMING MASSACRE A number of squatters had settled on … Read more

CHAPTER V COLONEL HARTLEY’S EXPEDITION – DEATH OF JAMES AND CAPTAIN JOHN BRADY. SELECTED TO LEAD EXPEDITION AGAINST INDIANS – PLAN OF CAMPAIGN OBJECTIVE – ENGAGEMENTS WITH INDIANS – SUCCESS OF EXPEDITION – JAMES BRADY AND OTHERS KILLED BY INDIANS – CAPT. JOHN BRADY KILLED – ANOTHER INDIAN AND TORY RAID – FORTS BRADY AND … Read more

CHAPTER IV. THE BIG RUNAWAY – FORT MUNCY NEWS OF THE WYOMING MASSACRE – SETTLERS ORDERED TO FLEE TO FORT AUGUSTA FOR SAFETY – GREAT EXODUS FROM THE VALLEY – CLOSELY FOLLOWED FT INDIANS WHO DEVASTATED THE ENTIRE VALLEY – SHORTAGE OF FOOD IN THE FORT – LOCAL FFFECT OF THE BATTLE OF MONMOUTH – … Read more

CHAPTER III MUNCY MANOR – PINE CREEK – FAIR PLAY MEN – PINE CREEK DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE   FIRST SETTLEMENT – SAMUEL WALLIS – REDEMPTIONERS – RUSH OF SETTLERS — EARLY TOWNS – NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY ERECTED IN 1772 – INCLUDED PRESENT LYCOMING COUNTY – REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS EFFECT – TIADAGHTOM CREEK – FAIRPLAY MEN … Read more

CHAPTER II FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR – EARLY SETTLEMENTS. BRITISH AND FRENCH RIVALRY-FORT AUGUSTA – “CANNON HOLE” – EFFECT OF DEFEAT AT BUSHY RUN AND OCCUPATION OF FT. DUQUENE – LAND GRANTS – EARLY MANORS – PENN’S PLAN OF SELLING LAND – A NEW SYSTEM – OTHER PERIODS OF ACQUIRING LANDS – ABUSES OF LATER … Read more

History, of Lycoming County CHAPTER 1 LOCATION, ABORIGINES, EARLY EXPLORATIONS LOCATION – TOPOGRAPHY — PRINCIPAL INDUSTRY – ORIGINAL INHABITANTS – OTHER INDIAN TRIBES – CONFLICTING CLAIMS – PENN’S PURCHASE – FIRST WHITE MAN HERE – OTHER WHITE SETTLERS – MORAVIAN MISSIONARIES – FRENCH MARGARET – INDIAN TROUBLES. The history of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, naturally falls … Read more