In the booklet, "History of Dunmore Commemorating Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, 1937," published by the Dunmore Improvement Association the following is mentioned, perhaps it will help in your research. jho p.7-Indians "In the eighteenth century, Pennsylvania was inhabited by bands of Iroquois Indians who held this land for about one hundred and seventy years. The land now occupied by Dunmore was claimed by a tribe called the Monsey, whose chief was Capoose. This tribe appears to have been originally an off-shoot of the Delawares. Their habits and their history are so assimilated as to indicate a common origin. Both spoke the Algonquin language of the Iroquois - a language abounding in vowels and fertile in dialect - obeyed laws emanating from the same source, and both are intimately associated in colonial and provincial history. The Monseys, like every tribe were nomadic. However, Capoose chose the Providence township for his village, through what is now Dunmore Corners, up the slope to the summit of Moosic Mountains as his hunting grounds. The Monsey Indians were well-shaped and strong, having pitch black and lank hair, as coarse as a horse's tail, broad shoulders, small waist, brown eyes, and snow white teeth. For food, they made use of Indian corn and beans, flesh meat and fish. The crushed corn was boiled to a pulp, called by them "sappean." There was no set time for meals. Whenever hunger demanded, the time for eating arrived. Beaver's tails were considered the most savory delicacy. When hunting, they lived on roasted corn carried about the person in a little bag. The domestic habits of the Monsey tribe, when not engaged in warfare, were extremely simple. The labor of planting the corn and later of securing the harvest, fell upon the more submissive squaws. The Indians were skilled in the art of manufacturing, from flint and stone, implements for agriculture and the chase, elegant arrow heads and spear points; the rude pebble, and sometimes the rarer silex were shaped into pipes and ornaments of symbolic meaning, while bowls were fashioned of dry clay with an ingenuity never equaled by the white man within the stone period. The forest was stocked with deer and pheasant, duck, rabbits, moose and elk. The deer, as well as panthers, bears, beaver, muskrat and otter gave the hunters every opportunity for their swift arrows. The streams were filled with perch, pike and trout. Hooks constructed cleverly from bone, or nets woven from the inner bark of trees, or even the stone-tipped spear, which they threw with admirable adroitness at a distant of thirty feet, while the fish were moving rapidly, never failed to supply the wigwam with food. Capoose, undecked with the emblems of war, and not desirous of distinction or prominence, lived in amity with the whites, encouraged the culture of the soil, and left behind him a name untarnished with either blood or carnage." pp. 8- Early Settlers "We find that the first white man who ever set foot on Dunmore soil was Count Zinzendorf, of Saxony, in 1742. Upon his arrival in America, Count Zinzendorf manifested a great anxiety to have the gospel preached to the Indians, and although he had heard much of the ferocity of the savages, formed a resolution to visit them. When he visited Capoose in 1742 he named this county Saint Anthony's Wilderness. The Count, as a missionary, gave the Indians a practicable insight into religion he came to teach, by simply leading a Christian life among them, and when favorable impressions had thus been made and inquiry was excited, he preached the leading truths of the gospel, taking care not to put more things into their heads than their hearts could take care of. In 1754, the Dunmore section, together with the rest of the land in this part of the state was purchased from the Delaware Indians by the Susquehanna Company of Connecticut. This was the time when Connecticut claimed this land and tried to occupy it. This same land was claimed by William Penn and his settlers and there was considerable fighting between them and the Connecticut settlers. This was called the Pennamite and Yankee War and lasted until the close of the Revolution, when the United States Government decided in 1782 that the land belonged to Pennsylvania. In 1770 the Lackawanna Valley was divided into two townships; these were named Providence and Pittston. The area of each township was about 36 square miles. Dunmore was a part of the Providence township. In 1771, the first settlers came from Providence Township. They were originally from Connecticut, but there is no record of their names........"