The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1876-07-20

Nicholas Wieser, was killed near Brinker 81
(now Fennersville or Sciota, and his fam
lily taken to Canada.
Russells, settled on the flats below, now
(Bartonsville, and John Russell was killed
in 1764 by the Indians, and the last Kill
ling done by the Indians was George
Learn and his wife and child, in 1870, Cat
now the lower part of Tannersville, in
Pocono township)
Fort Penn was erected about the time of
the Revolution, at the lower part of the
town of Stroudsburg
General Sullivan on his way from Easton
to Wyoming with about 5000 troops to
chastise the Indians on the Susquehanna
passed through this County in 1873. InI
his journal he says. ''On the 18th of June
1779, he had encamped at Hillard's (Hel
ler's) tavern, l l miles from Easton, June
18th marched to Larney's (Larne's or
Learn's) tavern, at Pokanose (Pocono)
Point, Goth to Chowder Camp, which is
now known as Hungry Hill, in Tobyhanna
township, and at which place they halted
several days and sent back to Fort Penn,
now Stroudsburg) for provisions. While
waiting there they cut road through a
swamp there, and Gen. Sullivan's son about
II years of age cut in large letters on a
tree on the hill, the words " HUNGRY
HILL, and in the swamp, in letters about
two inches in size, on a yellow pine, the
words HELL'S KITCHEN" The tree
on the hill blew down and rotted, but the
one in the swamp stood until within about
twenty years ago, when Frederick p. Miller,
cut the block out with the letters on and
had it on the mantle in his bar-room at
Tompkinsvile After he left the tavern the
block was sent to the Historical Society of
Pennsylvania. Gen. Sullivan, on his re-
turn stayed several days at Brinker's wait
wrong road about three miles above Stod-
dartsyille, Cat Buck s. they having taking
what is called the cold Shupp road or
the road from Shupp's to Wyoming" and
and came down through Chesnuthill, to
Brinker's afterwards called Fort SULLIVAN,
Fennersville-and now Sciota). At Hungry
Hill there is grave by the side of the
"Old Sullivan Road" of one of the Soldiers,
and another grave at Locust Ridge Dur
ing the war in the Wyoming Valley
between the Connecticut claimants Cor
Yankees and the Pcnnsylvanians (Pena-
mite's) called the Penamite war, there was
one battle fought, within the boundaries of
now Monroe County. At Locust Lidge,
in which one of the Penamite soldiers
named Everitt, was killed Locust Ridge
seems to have been an old place, as there
was a survey made there in 1749, for
Samuel Depue. There was also an old
settlement at White Oak Run by man by
the name Of Zabreiska, and one where
General Sullivan crossed the Tobyhapna,
by man named Levers.
There has nothing transpired after 1880
to record, except that in some parts of the
County there has been destructive freshets
In January, 1871, June, e,->1S62, and
October, 1869. Our County has i'm,
proved steadily, and from population OF
about 1000 one hundred years ago, it now
has population of about 20,000 and an
area of 3S4, 900 acres of land, and instead
of faw scattering mills, we now have about
80 FIGURING mills, 10 Tanneries, several
Foundries, Woolen mill, a Tanite Factory
for manufacturing Emery Wheels, &c. and
a glass Factory, which will soon be in opera
ton, and our hills and valleys dotted
| with Churches and School HOuSes