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1885 Seven Counties History - Bradford
County PA
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“HISTORY OF SEVEN COUNTIES presented by the Elmira Weekly
Gazette". It is an “Outline History of Tioga and Bradford Counties in
Pennsylvania, Chemung, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins and Schuyler in New York by
TOWNSHIPS, VILLAGES, BORO’S AND CITIES.” Written expressly for the Gazette
Company, Elmira, N. Y. Copyright 1885.From AN OUTLINE
HISTORY of Tioga and
Bradford
Counties in Pennsylvania, Chemung, Steuben,
Tioga, Tompkins and Schuyler in New York by TOWNSHIPS, VILLAGES, BORO'S AND
CITIES"
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SHESHEQUIN
TOWNSHIP
Sheshequin township was formed in 1820, taken from
Ulster. It is situated on the east side of the Susquehanna, and comprises
some of the finest alluvial lands in Pennsylvania. It has become historic
grounds on account of its Indian and revolutionary history. The old Indian
town of Sheshequin was situated on the west side of the river in the present
town of Ulster, but the broad and fertile flats upon the east side now in
Sheshequin, early became famous for their productiveness. Sheshequin is
bounded on the north by Athens, and Litchfield, on the east by Rome, on the
south by Wysox and the Susquehanna river, and on the west by the Susquehanna
river.
Its early settlers were Gen. Simon Spalding, Joseph
Kinney, Benjamin Cole, Col. Fordham, Col. Thomas Baldwin, Stephen Fuller,
Obediah Gore, Samuel Gore, Arnold Franklin, Col. Joseph Kingsbury, Moses Pard,
Capt. Jeremiah Shaw, Peter Snyder, Ebenezer Shaw, Daniel Brink, Abel Newell,
George Murphy, Stephen Morgan, Daniel Curtis, Henry Hine, Ichabod Blackman,
Franklin Blackman, William Ferguson, Ebenezer Franklin, Joseph Franklin, Hugh
Rippeth, Elijah Horton, William Horton, Joshua Horton, Elijah Horton, Jr.,
Stephen Horton, Gilbert Horton, Joseph Tuttle, Josiah Newell, Abel Newell,
William Webber, John Newell, Joseph Salisbury, Josiah Tuttle, Jonathan Stark,
Jesse Smith, Capt. Jabez Fish, Zebulon Butler, Captain Forbes, Harry Spaulding,
Capt. Stephen Fuller, Benjamin Clark, Jabez Sill, Elijah Towner, Enoch Towner,
John Towner, Daniel Moore, William Kennedy, Hugh Kennedy, Peter Bernard, James
Bidland, Timothy Bartlett, Samuel Bartlett, Henry Boyce, Jacob Brokaw, Ludowick
Carner, Silas Carner, Henry Cleveland, John Deitrick, Christain Brokaw, Zadoc
Gillett, Freeman Gillett, William Presher, Edward Griffin, Samuel Hoyt, Samuel
Marshall, Thomas Marshall, Josiah B. Marshall, Mathew Rogers, David E. Weed,
Earl Masten, Lockwood Curley, David Smith, Samuel K. Gore, William W. Spalding,
John C. VanSize, George Killmer, Jeremiah Killmer, James Shroes, Peter Snyder,
Christain Forbes.
--Obediah Gore opened the first store in Sheshequin,
in 1796.
--The first white settlement was made in
Sheshequin, May 3, 1783.
--Obediah Gore built the first framed house in
Sheshequin, in 1787.
--Sheshequin is an Indian name, and signifies “the
place of a rattle.”
--In 1790, three hundred Indians were encamped on
the Sheshequin flats
--Obediah Gore erected a grist mill, in 1807, the
first grist mill in Sheshequin.
--The first marriage was Mathias Hollenback and
Miss Sarah Hibbard, April 20, 1788.
--Ezra Shaw, an old pioneer in Sheshequin, died in
1871, aged over one hundred years.
--Samuel Kinney, was the first white child born in
the present township of Sheshequin.
--Judge Gore and his father were blacksmiths.
They were the first persons to use anthracite coal.
--Great floods in the Susquehanna river in 1786,
swept over the flats of Sheshequin and did great damage on the Susquehanna
river.
--Simon Spalding, Joseph Kinney, Obediah Gore,
Samuel Gore, Captain Jeremiah Shaw, Daniel Moore, Christain Avery, were early
settlers of Sheshequin, and revolutionary soldiers.
--Col. H. L. Kinney a native of Sheshequin, was the
founder of Corpus Christi, Texas, as engaged in the Mexican war, in 1846, and in
the Maximillian war was killed at Monterey.
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