I can't top the excellent advise given you by Geoff but I'll try to add a little. For a picture of the historical marker for Fort Penn go here: http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMR1   Bear in mind that this area was part of Northampton County prior to the formation of Monroe in 1836. Have you checked the PAGenWeb sites? If not, here are the links for Monroe & Northampton: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pamonroe/ http://northampton.pa-roots.com/   Hope this helps Randy Brown --- On Fri, 4/10/09, Loretta Lisowski <lpl2429@gmail.com> wrote: From: Loretta Lisowski <lpl2429@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PAMONROE] PENSYL - historic locations? To: pamonroe@rootsweb.com Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 11:27 AM Fabulous Geoff! Exactly what I needed - thanks for sending me off in the right direction - much appreciated. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Geoff Crawford <geoff@innov8cs.com> wrote: > At 09:56 AM 4/10/2009, Loretta Lisowski wrote: > >Thanks so much Geoff! Was Fort Penn close to Lower Smithfield? > > Depends on what you mean by "close"?  By today's standards or > during the Indian Wars?  Fort Penn during the days of its > existance was the place anyone within many miles would go > for safety, with Fort Depui being the other possibility. > > >  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? > > Any library with PA history will have the resources.  Humphrey's > births books go over county by county the churches, it's basically > an index to pre-1800 church lists.  Tax lists are fairly well published > and go back the furthest, but all you get is head of household. > All of those resources are at both the Monroe Co Hist Soc and the > Eastern Monroe Public Library which are going to be your best > local places to go for info.  At the 1749 time frame though, > about the only church records you're going to get is Hamilton Lutheran. > > For more extensive resources for all of PA try the Marx Room at the > Easton Public Library. > > > 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 P. Lisowski ------------------------------- 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

Thanks Randy - the historic marker location is great info. I'll be taking a trip into the area this summer. What was happening historically in this area during this period is critical to my family's story. How they suddenly came to own 1000 acres of land in the Wyoming Valley around 1770-72, for instance, stills remains a mystery. Thanks again, On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Randy Brown <randyebrown@yahoo.com> wrote: > I can't top the excellent advise given you by Geoff but I'll try to add a > little. For a picture of the historical marker for Fort Penn go here: > http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMR1 > > Bear in mind that this area was part of Northampton County prior to the > formation of Monroe in 1836. Have you checked the PAGenWeb sites? If not, > here are the links for Monroe & Northampton: > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pamonroe/<http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Epamonroe/> > http://northampton.pa-roots.com/ > > Hope this helps > Randy Brown > > --- On Fri, 4/10/09, Loretta Lisowski <lpl2429@gmail.com> wrote: > > > From: Loretta Lisowski <lpl2429@gmail.com> > Subject: Re: [PAMONROE] PENSYL - historic locations? > To: pamonroe@rootsweb.com > Date: Friday, April 10, 2009, 11:27 AM > > > Fabulous Geoff! Exactly what I needed - thanks for sending me off in the > right direction - much appreciated. > > On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Geoff Crawford <geoff@innov8cs.com> > wrote: > > > At 09:56 AM 4/10/2009, Loretta Lisowski wrote: > > >Thanks so much Geoff! Was Fort Penn close to Lower Smithfield? > > > > Depends on what you mean by "close"? By today's standards or > > during the Indian Wars? Fort Penn during the days of its > > existance was the place anyone within many miles would go > > for safety, with Fort Depui being the other possibility. > > > > > 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? > > > > Any library with PA history will have the resources. Humphrey's > > births books go over county by county the churches, it's basically > > an index to pre-1800 church lists. Tax lists are fairly well published > > and go back the furthest, but all you get is head of household. > > All of those resources are at both the Monroe Co Hist Soc and the > > Eastern Monroe Public Library which are going to be your best > > local places to go for info. At the 1749 time frame though, > > about the only church records you're going to get is Hamilton Lutheran. > > > > For more extensive resources for all of PA try the Marx Room at the > > Easton Public Library. > > > > > > 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 > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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