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PLYMOUTH , a See also:- BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
- BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)
borough of Luzerne See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A., on the See also:north See also:branch of the Susquehanna See also:river, immediately See also:west of and across the river from Wilkes-See also:Barre, of which it is a suburb. Pop. (1910), 16,996. Plymouth is served by the See also:Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad. The borough is finely situated in the See also:Wyoming Valley among the See also:rich See also:anthracite coalfields of eastern Pennsylvania, and its inhabitants are chiefly engaged in the See also:coal See also:industry; in 1906 and 1907 (when it shipped 24,081,491 tons) Luzerne county shipped more anthracite coal than any other county in Pennsylvania. In 1905 the See also:total value of the factory products was $902,758, 69.4% more than in 1900. Before the coming of See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white settlers there was an See also:Indian See also:village called See also:Shawnee on the site of the See also:present borough. The township of Plymouth was settled in 1769 by immigrants from New See also:England—many originally from Plymouth, See also:Litchfield county, See also:Connecticut, whence the name—under the auspices of the Susquehanna See also:Company, which claimed this region as a See also:part of Connecticut, and Plymouth became a centre of the contest between the " Pennamites " and the " Yankees " (representing respectively Pennsylvania and Connecticut), which See also:grew out of the conflict of the royal See also:charter of Pennsylvania (granted in 1681) with theroyal charter of Connecticut (granted in 1662), a See also:matter which was not settled until 1799. (See WYOMING VALLEY.) In its earlier See also:history the region was agricultural. Two See also:brothers, See also:Abijah and See also:John See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, originally of See also:Derby,. See also:Conn., settled in Plymouth in 18o6 and began See also:shipping coal thence in 18o8; this was the beginning of the anthracite coal See also:trade in the See also:United States. The borough was incorporated in 1866, being then separated from the township of Plymouth, which had a See also:population in 1890 of 8363 and in 1900 of 9655.
See H. B. See also:Wright's See also:Historical Sketches of Plymouth (See also:Philadelphia, 1873).
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