History of Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania - In Six Volumes, Illustrated

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A History of
Wilkes Barre
Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
From Its First Beginnings to the Present Time;
Including Chapters of Newly-discovered
Early Wyoming Valley History
Together With Many Biographical Sketches
And Much Genealogical Material
Illustrated With Many Portraits, Maps, Facsimiles,
Original
Drawings and Contemporary Views
In Six Volumes
By Oscar Jewell Harvey, 1909
3,000 pages, Illustrated, Indexed, Searchable
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Wilkes-Barre is the county seat of Luzerne County, PA. It is at the center of the Wyoming Valley area and is one of the principal
cities in the Scranton/Wilkes-Barre metropolitan area. It was founded in 1769 and formally incorporated in 1806.
Wilkes-Barre and the surrounding Wyoming Valley are framed by the Pocono Mountains to the east, the Endless Mountains to the west and
the Lehigh Valley to the south. The Susquehanna River flows through the center of the valley and defines the northwestern border of the city.
“In gathering together material for this work I spent upwards of
three years before attempting to prepare for the printer a single page
of copy. At length, having effected what I then believed to be an
exhaustive search for interesting and authentic historical matter relat-
ing to Wilkes-Barre and Wyoming Valley, I began the task of putting
the same in shape for the printer ; and soon thereafter the actual work
of printing the following pages was begun.
“But, while preparing copy, and reading proofs of the printer's work,
I sought in new directions for additional historical data, and met with
unusual and pronounced success. One find seemed to lead to another
find, and the large amount of theretofore unused and absolutely valu-
able material, which it was my good fortune to turn up, soon convinced
me that it would be necessary for me either to recast my plans and
enlarge the scope of my work, or else discard entirely my latest finds.
Meanwhile, I had been urged by competent and esteemed advisers to
devote as much space in my book as possible to an account of the vari-
ous clans and tribes of Indians which at one time or another had occu-
pied Wyoming Valley.”
Contents of Volume I.
A NOTE OF EXPLANATION 7
A Chronological Table of Important Occurrences 9
CHAPTER I.
Introduction — Reasons for Writing this History— Sources of
Information 17
CHAPTER II.
The North Branch of the Susquehanna River — The Vai,ley of Wyoming —
Location and Description — Poetry and Legend 32
CHAPTER III.
The American People — The Mound-builders — The Aboriginals of New
York and Pennsylvania 78
CHAPTER IV.
Early Indian Settlements in Wyoming— Earliest Visits of White Men-
Moravian Missionaries on the Susquehanna — Connecticut Land Com-
panies Organized — The "Wyoming Region" Purchased from the Six
Nations 169
CHAPTER V.
The Susquehanna Company Stirs up a Hornet's Nest — Sir William John-
son and the Six Nations — French and Indian War — Wyoming Tempo-
rarily Deserted by the Indians — Indian Congresses and Conferences
IN Pennsylvania — The Delaware Indians Established at Wyoming . 295
CHAPTER VI.
More Indian Conferences and Pow-wows — Attempts at Settlement in
Wyoming by the Whites Under The Susquehanna Company — Death
OF King Teedyuscung — First Massacre of the White Settlers — Wyo-
ming Forsaken by the Indians 384
CHAPTER VII.
The CL0SING Days of Pontiac's War— Indian Council, and Treaty at Fort
Stanwix — Indian Sale of Lands to the Pennsylvania Proprietaries —
Surveys and Settlements at Wyoming Under the Proprietaries . . 435
CHAPTER VIII.
The Settlement at Wyoming Renewed by The Susquehanna Company —
Major Durkee and the "Sons of Liberty" — Fort Durkee Erected —
The Five "Settling-towns" — Wilkes-Barre Laid Out and Named —
Some Facts Relative to the Writing and Pronunciation of the Name
OF THE Town 462
CHAPTER IX.
The Right Hon. John Wilkes, Patriot, Statesman, and a Friend to
Liberty 525
CHAPTER X.
The Right Hon. Isaac Barre, Soldier, Orator, Statesman, and America's
Advocate and Champion 570
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