At 09:05 AM 4/10/2009, Loretta Lisowski wrote: >Hello, I am new to the list. I am researching my paternal line which is the >PENSYL family. > >There are several locations mentioned in family stories that I am trying to >pinpoint. > >After arriving from Germany in 1749, the family whose original name was >Bentzel has been said to have settled in LOWER SMITHFIELD on the Delaware 20 >miles north of Easton. > >There was also a mention of FORT PENN and in post Revolutionary War years, a >PENSYL CREEK. > >I cannot locate any of these places. Does anyone know anything about them? Sure - Upper, Lower, and Middle Smithfield are the townships with boundaries on the Delaware River. Middle Smithfield is still called that today, I believe we call Upper Smithfield just Smithfield now. And Lower Smithfield is the Minisink Hills/Delaware Water Gap area. Fort Penn was in Stroudsburg Borough, the original Jacob Stroud house. Pensyl Creek if I remember is out in Neola, there's a Pensyl Creek Road that goes from Neola to Snydersville alond the creek. Geoff Crawford geoff@innov8cs.com

Thanks so much Geoff! Was Fort Penn close to Lower Smithfield? I am also looking for marriage, birth and death records from this area in the period from 1749 to 1770 which was prior to the family's move into the hornet's nest of what was the Wyoming Valley. Where would I find church records or tax lists? On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Geoff Crawford <geoff@innov8cs.com> wrote: > At 09:05 AM 4/10/2009, Loretta Lisowski wrote: > >Hello, I am new to the list. I am researching my paternal line which is > the > >PENSYL family. > > > >There are several locations mentioned in family stories that I am trying > to > >pinpoint. > > > >After arriving from Germany in 1749, the family whose original name was > >Bentzel has been said to have settled in LOWER SMITHFIELD on the Delaware > 20 > >miles north of Easton. > > > >There was also a mention of FORT PENN and in post Revolutionary War years, > a > >PENSYL CREEK. > > > >I cannot locate any of these places. Does anyone know anything about them? > > Sure - Upper, Lower, and Middle Smithfield are the townships with > boundaries > on the Delaware River. Middle Smithfield is still called that today, I > believe > we call Upper Smithfield just Smithfield now. And Lower Smithfield is > the Minisink Hills/Delaware Water Gap area. > > Fort Penn was in Stroudsburg Borough, the original Jacob Stroud house. > > Pensyl Creek if I remember is out in Neola, there's a Pensyl Creek Road > that goes from Neola to Snydersville alond the creek. > > > Geoff Crawford > geoff@innov8cs.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAMONROE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Loretta Pensyl Lisowski