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See also:WYOMING VALLEY , a valley on the N. See also:branch of the Susquehanna See also:river, in Luzerne See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Its name is a corruption of a See also:Delaware See also:Indian word meaning " large plains." The valley, properly speaking, is about 31 M. wide and about 25 M. See also:long, but the See also:term is sometimes used historically in a broader sense to include all of the territory in the N.E. of the See also:state once in dispute between Pennsylvania and See also:Connecticut. In Connecticut the Susquehanna See also:Land See also:Company was formed in 1753 to colonize the valley, and the Delaware Land Company was formed in 1754 for the region immediately W. of the Delaware river. The rights of the Six Nations to all this territory were See also:purchased at See also:Albany, New See also:York, by the Susquehanna Company in 17J4, but the See also:work of colonization was delayed for a See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time by the Seven Years' See also:War. A few colonists sent out by the Susquehanna Company settled at See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
Mill See also:Creek near the See also:present site of
i In See also:place of De See also:Forest See also:Richards, deceased.Wilkes-See also:Barre in 1763, but were (See also:October 15th) attacked and driven away by the See also:Indians. In See also:December 1768 the company divided a See also:part of the valley into five townships of 5 sq. m. each, granting to See also:forty proprietors the choice of one of these on See also:condition that they should take See also:possession of it by the 1st of See also:February 1769, and the other four townships to 200 settlers on condition that they should follow by the 1st of May. The first See also:group arrived on the 8th of February, the first See also:division of the larger See also:body on the 12th of May, and the five See also:original towns of Wilkes-Barre (q.v.), See also:Kingston (q.v.), See also:Hanover,2 See also:Plymouth and See also:Pittston were soon founded.
In the meantime the Six Nations (in 1768) had repudiated their See also:sale of the region to the Susquehanna Company and had sold it to the Penns; the Penns had erected here the manors of Stoke and See also:Sunbury, the See also:government of Pennsylvania had commissioned See also:Charles See also:- STEWART, ALEXANDER TURNEY (1803-1876)
- STEWART, BALFOUR (1828-1887)
- STEWART, CHARLES (1778–1869)
- STEWART, DUGALD (1753-1828)
- STEWART, J
- STEWART, JOHN (1749—1822)
- STEWART, JULIUS L
- STEWART, SIR DONALD MARTIN (1824–19o0)
- STEWART, SIR HERBERT (1843—1885)
- STEWART, SIR WILLIAM (c. 1540—c. 1605)
- STEWART, STUART
- STEWART, WILLIAM (c. 1480-c. 1550)
Stewart, See also:Amos See also:Ogden and others to See also:lay out these manors, and they had arrived and taken possession of the See also:block-See also:house and huts at Mill Creek in See also:January 1769. The conflict which followed between the Pennsylvania and the Connecticut settlers is known as the first Pennamite-See also:Yankee War. Although defeated in the See also:early stages of the conflict, the Yankees or Connecticut settlers finally rallied in See also:August 1771 and compelled the Pennsylvanians to See also:retreat, and the war terminated with the defeat of See also:Colonel See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Plunket (1720-1791) and about 700 Pennsylvanians by a force of 300 Yankees under Colonel Zebulon See also:- BUTLER
- BUTLER (or BOTELER), SAMUEL (1612–168o)
- BUTLER (through the O. Fr. bouteillier, from the Late Lat. buticularius, buticula, a bottle)
- BUTLER, ALBAN (1710-1773)
- BUTLER, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN (1818-1893)
- BUTLER, CHARLES (1750–1832)
- BUTLER, GEORGE (1774-1853)
- BUTLER, JOSEPH (1692-1752)
- BUTLER, NICHOLAS MURRAY (1862– )
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1774-1839)
- BUTLER, SAMUEL (1835-1902)
- BUTLER, SIR WILLIAM FRANCIS (1838– )
- BUTLER, WILLIAM ARCHER (1814-1848)
Butler (1731-1795) in the See also:battle of " Rampart Rocks " on the 25th of December 1775. The See also:General See also:Assembly of Connecticut, in January 1774, erected the valley into the See also:town-See also:ship of Westmoreland and attached it to See also:Litchfield county, and in October 1776 the same body erected it into Westmoreland county. On the 3rd of See also:July 1778, while a considerable number of the able-bodied men were absent in the Connecticut service, a See also:motley force of about 400 men and boys under Colonel Zebulon Butler were attacked and defeated near Kingston in the " battle of Wyoming " by about 'too See also:British, Provincial (Tory) and Indian troops under See also:Major See also:John Butler, and nearly three-fourths were killed or taken prisoners and subsequently massacred. See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell's poem,Gertrude of Wyoming (1809), is based on this See also:episode, various liberties being taken with the facts. As the War of See also:Independence came to a See also:close the old trouble with Pennsylvania was revived. A See also:court of See also:arbitration appointed by the See also:Continental See also:Congress met at Trenton, New See also:Jersey, in 1782, and on December 3oth gave a unanimous decision in favour of Pennsylvania. The refusal of the Pennsylvania government to confirm the private land titles of the settlers, and the arbitrary conduct of a certain See also:Alexander Patterson whom they sent up to take See also:charge of affairs, resulted in 1784 in the outbreak of the second Pennamite-Yankee War. The Yankees were dispossessed, but they took up arms and the government of Pennsylvania despatched General John See also:Armstrong with a force of 400 men to aid Patterson. Armstrong induced both parties to give up their arms with a promise of impartial See also:justice and See also:protection, and as soon as the Yankees were defenceless he made them prisoners. This treachery and the harsh treatment by Patterson created a strong public See also:opinion in favour of the Yankees, and the government was compelled to adopt a milder policy. Patterson was withdrawn, the disputed territory was erected into the new county of Luzerne (1786), the land titles were confirmed (1787), and Colonel See also:Timothy See also:Pickering (q.v.) was commissioned to organize the new county and to effect a reconciliation. But a few of the settlers under the See also:lead of Colonel John See also:Franklin (1749-1831) attempted to See also:form a See also:separate state government. Franklin was .seized and imprisoned, under a See also:warrant from the State Supreme Court. As Pickering was held responsible for Franklin's imprisonment, some of Franklin's followers in See also:retaliation kidnapped Pickering and carrying him into the See also:woods, tried in vain for nearly three See also:weeks to get from him a promise to intercede for Franklin's See also:pardon. The trouble was again revived by the See also:repeal in 1790 of the confirming See also:act
2 Several Scotch-Irish families from See also:Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, accepted Connecticut titles and settled at Hanover under See also:Captain See also:Lazarus Stewart.
of 1787 and by a subsequent decision of the See also:United States See also:Circuit Court, unfavourable to the Yankees, in the See also:case of See also:Van See also:Horn versus Dorrance. All of the claims were finally confirmed, by a See also:series of statutes passed in 1799, 1802 and 1807. Since i8o8, mainly through the development of its See also:coal mines (see PITTSTON, PA.), the valley has made remarkable progress both in See also:wealth and in See also:population.
For a thorough study of the early See also:history of Wyoming Valley see O. J. See also:Harvey, A History of. Wilkes-Barre (3 vols., Wilkes-Barre, 1909–1910) ; see also H. M. Hoyt, Brief of a See also:Title in the Seventeen Townships in the County of Luzerne (See also:Harrisburg, 1879).
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