Oh oh! There may be more than one great swamp? I have these references pertaining to adjoining tracts in old Chesnuthill Township: One says: "situate on Tunkhanna Creek, about a mile from the Blockhouse in Northampton County." [1790 reference] The other says "situate near the road leading from Sh [sic] to Wioming about half a mile South of the block house in Northampton County." [1793 reference] A third tract says " Edge of the great Swamp near the Block house in Northampton County." [1789 reference] The fourth tract says just "Chesnuthill Township." [1773 reference] Marie. > >It was once part of the original Northampton Co. but is in >Lehigh Co. today. - Monroe may have been created out of >Northampton but so were other counties. Great Swamp is >an area of the sourthern part of Lehigh Co. near the area >where Lehigh, Northampton, Montgomery and Bucks all meet. >Just on the Lehigh side. >

Marie Robinson wrote: > Oh oh! There may be more than one great swamp? I have these references > pertaining to adjoining tracts in old Chesnuthill Township: > > One says: "situate on Tunkhanna Creek, about a mile from the Blockhouse in > Northampton County." [1790 reference] > > The other says "situate near the road leading from Sh [sic] to Wioming about > half a mile South of the block house in Northampton County." [1793 > reference] > > A third tract says " Edge of the great Swamp near the Block house in > Northampton County." [1789 reference] > > The fourth tract says just "Chesnuthill Township." [1773 reference] > From what you are quoting I don't think it's really refering to "Great Swamp" as a place name but a generic area. I hadn't heard of Tunkhanna Creek before but found this: http://home.ptd.net/~mexorob/T.html It also describes the older boundaries of Chestnuthill and you can see from it that all of the modern day "west end" is pretty well covered. I take it this would mean south of Tobyhanna, but by the western boundary of "Towamensing" state in that site I could see potentially that areas close to the Carbon/Monroe must have been covered. I do not know if the names of the Lehigh river are the same or not, but we may not just call it all the Lehigh now. However I suspect the modern Pocono Pines area may be what the Tunkhanna refers to which could well make the swampy area south of Tobyhanna equal to "Long Pond". Geoff Crawford [email protected]