I have been getting inquiries of where Tioga Township in present Bradford County was located in response to my earlier email on the Tioga Township assessment list. Rev. David Craft in the History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania states that in the division of Tioga Township in 1797, which was formed in 1790 as part of Luzerne County, the northern portion became Athens and the southern portion became Ulster and that the name Tioga was "lost to our county." This does not seem to be the case and the name Tioga continued to be used on the 1800 census and on the 1808 assessment list. Tioga Township was formed in 1790 in what is now Bradford County as part of Luzerne County and was bounded by the north line of the State, on the east by the county line, on the south by an east-west line and on the west by the county line. The township is related to have been seventy-six miles in length from east to west and slightly more than eighteen miles from north to south. In 1795 the township was divided and the southerly portion became Wysox. In 1797 Tioga was further divided and the southern portion became Ulster. In the 1800 census of Luzerne County there were four townships in present Bradford County - Tioga, Ulster, Wysox, and Wyalusing (north to south in that order). Each of the first three were related to have been about six miles from north to south and seventy-five miles from east to west (extending across the entire width of the present County). In 1801, Tioga was further reduced by the creation of Rush and Mt. Zion (now Orwell) Townships, which included pr! esent Windham and Warren Townships. The 1808 assessment list is called Tioga and not Athens, which was perhaps created in late 1807 for the 1808 tax year. The 1808 Tioga Assessment list included what is now Athens, Ridgebury, South Creek, Wells, and the western portion of Litchfield townships. By the 1810 census enumeration the name Tioga had been dropped and Athens, Lycoming County had been adopted. To get a visual idea of the township formations, a map on page 112a of Rev. David Craft's History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania shows Tioga Township (labeled as Athens), before the creation of Lycoming County and then the creation of Bradford County. Connecticut held title to the same lands and had a completely different set of divisions, boundaries, and names. The Connecticut surveys refered to the area as Athens and Pennsylvania refered to the above described area as Tioga. J. Kelsey Jones