Hi, Thanks for the reply to my inquiry. Carol

CMMEADOWS2@aol.com wrote: > Fred Myers' Webpage shows the death date of this Thomas Bortree as 5 Mar 1865 > rather than 1864. Does anyone know for sure which date is correct? Carol The date listed on my site is from a transcription of Garford Williams' family history for the BORTREEs. Happy to change it if you can tell me the transcription is not correct. Fred -- _-_|\ Frederick W. Myers fredwm@perth.dialix.oz.au / \ 187 Mondurup St Mt Barker WA 6324 Australia \*.-._/ Perhaps your most distant relative :-) v http://www.dsdata.com.au/genealogy/nepa/

The Register of Thomas' will is dated 1864: 'Wayne County, ? this day before me M. Regan Jr., Jno. H. Williams, Register for the probate of wills and Letters of Lyman Ames, Administration....he was of sound mind, memory and understanding to the best of their knowledge and belief. Witness my hand and official seal in Honesdale this 9th day of March 1864.' * * * * * * ~ ~ ~ ~ Please check our Home Page ~ ~ ~ ~ * * * * * * http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/n/d/Sharon-D-Andreasen/ -----Original Message----- From: CMMEADOWS2@aol.com [mailto:CMMEADOWS2@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 8:05 PM To: PAWAYNE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PAWAYNE] Bortree Hi, Fred Myers' Webpage shows the death date of this Thomas Bortree as 5 Mar 1865 rather than 1864. Does anyone know for sure which date is correct? Carol Potter Meadows ==== PAWAYNE Mailing List ==== If you change your email address; be sure to SUBSCRIBE your NEW address and UNSUBSCRIBE your OLD address ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

Is Thomas Bortree the s/o Robert & Margaret Holland Bortree? Learn about Pike Co., Pa. http://pages.ivillage.com/lilykintner/

Hi, Fred Myers' Webpage shows the death date of this Thomas Bortree as 5 Mar 1865 rather than 1864. Does anyone know for sure which date is correct? Carol Potter Meadows

There were some misc artices about place names and the like and another series on the local Civil War Vets----By the way, I live on the property originally owned by his ancestor ----- Original Message ----- From: "Holly Jagger" <hjagger@pronetisp.net> To: <PAWAYNE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 6:05 PM Subject: [PAWAYNE] re: index for G Miller's works > Mr. Baird, > I wonder if you can tell me, was there a whole series of articles by > Miller? Or only the Sterling and Drinker's Beech articles? > thanks for your assistance > Holly Jagger > > > > ==== PAWAYNE Mailing List ==== > If you change your email address; be sure to SUBSCRIBE your NEW address and UNSUBSCRIBE your OLD address > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Mr. Baird, I wonder if you can tell me, was there a whole series of articles by Miller? Or only the Sterling and Drinker's Beech articles? thanks for your assistance Holly Jagger

The copy in the North Pocono Public Libary has an index by last name for both the Drinkers Beech and the Road to Sterling Articles. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Holly Jagger" <hjagger@pronetisp.net> To: <PAWAYNE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 12, 2004 11:08 PM Subject: [PAWAYNE] re: G. miller's articles > Faye, > You have hard copy of Mr. Miller's articles? Interesting, an Osborne > cousin of mine told me about The Road to Sterling, another of his > topics. I am actually looking for anything on the Lakeville/Hemlock > Hollow/Purdytown area located in Paupack twp. Before 1850, it was > Palmyra twp. > > Do you know if his entire works are indexed by surname anywhere? I > would be VERY interested, if they are... (especially looking for > references to: William Harris & Betsey Sharp(e) & family, Reuben & > Alpheas Jones of CT and family, Silas , Charles & Daniel Woodward, etc.) > > thanks! > Holly > > > > ==== PAWAYNE Mailing List ==== > If you can't visit the area you are researching, check with your local > Family History Center. They may be able to get the records you require > on microfilm. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >

Gwen, Sorry, no. Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gwen Boyer Bjorkman" <gwenbj@seanet.com> To: <PAWAYNE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 4:32 PM Subject: RE: [PAWAYNE] Starlight, Wayne Co., PA---question? > Hi Ann: Is there anything about James Kimble or Levi Kimble in this book? James Kimble died > sometime after 1870 in Paupack Twp and Levi Kimble was living as late as 1880 in Paupack Twp. > > Gwen Boyer Bjorkman > gwenbj@seanet.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ann O'Hara [mailto:yannster@ptd.net] > Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 6:33 AM > To: PAWAYNE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [PAWAYNE] Starlight, Wayne Co., PA---question? > > > I took a look at the book "Nomenclature of Wayne," which is a reprint of a > series of articles by Thomas J. Ham published in the Honesdale Citizen > 1905-1907. The articles were compiled in 1995 by Pike County Historian > George J. Fluhr and the book was recently reissued by the Wayne County > Historical Society with an index. The series is constructed around area > post offices and gives considerable history of the areas covered, but > unfortunately it only mentions the first postmaster at Starlight, who was > George Wainwright. The location of the post office was "a farm house about > two miles from its present location, now known as the Clark Du Mond farm;" > Not much help, I'm afraid. > > > Ann > - > > > > ==== PAWAYNE Mailing List ==== > If you change your email address; be sure to SUBSCRIBE your NEW address and UNSUBSCRIBE your OLD address > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > >

Teddy, Thankls somuch for this information---have passed on to my h.s. buddy and friend---who I am helping do his genelaogy. he sits in the mountians on his computer--- appreciate so much your senidng it on--good reference for future needs, too. Sheila / Firehair

Hi Ann: Is there anything about James Kimble or Levi Kimble in this book? James Kimble died sometime after 1870 in Paupack Twp and Levi Kimble was living as late as 1880 in Paupack Twp. Gwen Boyer Bjorkman gwenbj@seanet.com -----Original Message----- From: Ann O'Hara [mailto:yannster@ptd.net] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 6:33 AM To: PAWAYNE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PAWAYNE] Starlight, Wayne Co., PA---question? I took a look at the book "Nomenclature of Wayne," which is a reprint of a series of articles by Thomas J. Ham published in the Honesdale Citizen 1905-1907. The articles were compiled in 1995 by Pike County Historian George J. Fluhr and the book was recently reissued by the Wayne County Historical Society with an index. The series is constructed around area post offices and gives considerable history of the areas covered, but unfortunately it only mentions the first postmaster at Starlight, who was George Wainwright. The location of the post office was "a farm house about two miles from its present location, now known as the Clark Du Mond farm;" Not much help, I'm afraid. Ann -

In a message dated 4/19/04 9:39:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, yannster@ptd.net writes: > first postmaster at Starlight, who was > George Wainwright. The location of the post office was "a farm house about > two miles from its present location, now known as the Clark Du Mond farm;" > Not much help, I'm afraid. > George was Minnie's father in law, Minnie was md to son, Charles--- they lived with him. George was md to Sarah Churchill. Thanks, this info helps, and I have a feeling, it is a case of "right church, wrong pew" ?? Sheila // Firehair

The National Archives has the list of postmasters, and the lists are also available on microfilm at the Field Branches for their respective areas. They are in Record Group (RG) 28, Records of the Postal Service; M841, Records of the Appoinments of Postmasters. 1832 to 30 September 1971. There's 145 rolls of microfilm. Teddy Firehair3@aol.com wrote: > Supposedly, Minnie (Blanchard) Wainwright, wife/widow, of Charles, (d. 1895) > was the postmistress, or mail person at Starlight for several years. So > says her grand daughter, alive and in Calif. how's THAT for tracking. > > Said g-d also related Minnie remarried, last name may not be Wainwright. > (she d. 1914) > > Is there a list of those who did this? > > I know in Delaware Co., etc--NY there is. and I asked over here at mine > this a.m., they said there is a list going back as long as this little p.o. has > been in existance. > > Thanks for any help. I appreciate anyone taking time out to check.. > > going to be 90 today in NC--but we are very dry. > > ==== PAWAYNE Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe to PAWAYNE mailing list (list mode) Address to: PAWAYNE-L-request@rootsweb.com > type UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message; nothing more. > For Digest mode: address to PAWAYNE-D-request@rootsweb.com > type UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message; nothing more. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237

I took a look at the book "Nomenclature of Wayne," which is a reprint of a series of articles by Thomas J. Ham published in the Honesdale Citizen 1905-1907. The articles were compiled in 1995 by Pike County Historian George J. Fluhr and the book was recently reissued by the Wayne County Historical Society with an index. The series is constructed around area post offices and gives considerable history of the areas covered, but unfortunately it only mentions the first postmaster at Starlight, who was George Wainwright. The location of the post office was "a farm house about two miles from its present location, now known as the Clark Du Mond farm;" Not much help, I'm afraid. Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: <Firehair3@aol.com> To: <PAWAYNE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 9:09 AM Subject: [PAWAYNE] Starlight, Wayne Co., PA---question? > Supposedly, Minnie (Blanchard) Wainwright, wife/widow, of Charles, (d. 1895) > was the postmistress, or mail person at Starlight for several years. So > says her grand daughter, alive and in Calif. how's THAT for tracking. > > Said g-d also related Minnie remarried, last name may not be Wainwright. > (she d. 1914) > > > Is there a list of those who did this? > > I know in Delaware Co., etc--NY there is. and I asked over here at mine > this a.m., they said there is a list going back as long as this little p.o. has > been in existance. > > Thanks for any help. I appreciate anyone taking time out to check.. > > going to be 90 today in NC--but we are very dry. > > > ==== PAWAYNE Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe to PAWAYNE mailing list (list mode) Address to: PAWAYNE-L-request@rootsweb.com > type UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message; nothing more. > For Digest mode: address to PAWAYNE-D-request@rootsweb.com > type UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message; nothing more. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > > >

Supposedly, Minnie (Blanchard) Wainwright, wife/widow, of Charles, (d. 1895) was the postmistress, or mail person at Starlight for several years. So says her grand daughter, alive and in Calif. how's THAT for tracking. Said g-d also related Minnie remarried, last name may not be Wainwright. (she d. 1914) Is there a list of those who did this? I know in Delaware Co., etc--NY there is. and I asked over here at mine this a.m., they said there is a list going back as long as this little p.o. has been in existance. Thanks for any help. I appreciate anyone taking time out to check.. going to be 90 today in NC--but we are very dry.

Beth Rupert, if you are out there, I just sent you a post regarding Bartleson information and it was returned undeliverable. Please send me your current address. Thanks! Holly Jagger

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In a message dated 4/11/2004 7:26:32 PM Eastern Standard Time, carey@advsolutions.com writes: > > > Can anyone explain in simple layman's terms what "Drinker's Beach" is/was > exactly. Publication? Written by whom? Compiled by whom? Accuracy? Etc. > I got some info from it that is being quoted over and over about my 3rd > Great Grandmother, Rosanna Swartz Cobb Carey Swingle. Thanks, > > Lisa Carey L'Archevesque > The following was extracted from Hollister's History of the Lackawanna Valley, pp 285-288, published in 1869: EARLY HISTORY OF THE SETTLEMENT OF "DRINKER'S BEECH", NOW COVINGTON As the dweller in wigwams turned his footsteps toward the setting sun, in search of hunting-grounds better stocked than the Pocono, he left behind him no region more wild than the section of country lying between the Delaware and the Lackawanna, known as Drinker's Beech--a name made popular by the vast number of beech-trees growing upon lands owned by Drinker. No attention of the white man was directed to the tract until 1787. During this year, and that of 1791, Henry Drinker, Sr., of Philadelphia, father of the late Henry W. and Richard Drinker, purchased from the State some twenty-five thousand acres of unseated land in the Beech, now embraced by Wayne, Pike, and Luzerne counties. .... At the Court of Quarter Sessions, held at Wilkes Barre in 1818, Covington was formed out of a part of Wilkes Barre, embracing the whole of Drinker's possession. "In honor of Brigadier-General Covington, who gallantly fell at the battle of Williamsburg, in Upper Canada, the court call this township Covington." H. W. Drinker being an intimate friend of General Covington, this name was given to the new township at his suggestion. page 288 Among the earlier settlers were John Wragg, Michael Mitchell, Lawrence Dershermer, Ebenezer Covey, John and William Ross, John and George Fox, John and Lewis Stull, Samuel Wilohick, Archippus Childs, John Lafrance, John Genthu, Henry Ospuck, John Fish, David Dale, Edward Wardell, John Thompson, Mathew Hodson, Peter Rupert, Wesley Hollister, John Besecker, Jacob Swartz, Nathaniel Carter, Samuel Buck, Richard Edward, John Koons, and Barnabas Carey. ******************* The Family History Library at Salt Lake City has a copy of the G Ellis Miller newspaper series on the families of Drinker's Beech. Title Drinker's Beech settlers : including the townships of Clifton, Covington, Elmhurst, Madison, Roaring Brook, Springbrook, and the Borough of Moscow, Lackawanna County, Pa. Stmnt.Resp. by G. Ellis Miller Authors Miller, G. Ellis (Main Author) Notes Typescript and newsprint. Donated by the author. Includes clippings from "The Villager" newspaper from 1978 to 1982. Subjects Pennsylvania, Lackawanna - History Copies Call Number Location 974.836 H2m FHL US/CAN Book 974.836 H2m v. 2 FHL US/CAN Book Format Manuscript Language English Publication 1982 Physical 2 v. Subject Class 974.836 H2 ******************** Hopefully, this and the other replies will help all of us with our Northeastern PA research. Roger L Walter roger10288@cs.com Researching ALT, AULT, BIESECKER, KNAPP, SHERWOOD, CASE, SWARTZ

Listers, Looking for some historical perspective on Delaware Township, Pike County. Does anyone have suggestions for sources? (individual family histories, county historical books, individuals whose families have lived there many years, etc.) thanks Holly

Faye, You have hard copy of Mr. Miller's articles? Interesting, an Osborne cousin of mine told me about The Road to Sterling, another of his topics. I am actually looking for anything on the Lakeville/Hemlock Hollow/Purdytown area located in Paupack twp. Before 1850, it was Palmyra twp. Do you know if his entire works are indexed by surname anywhere? I would be VERY interested, if they are... (especially looking for references to: William Harris & Betsey Sharp(e) & family, Reuben & Alpheas Jones of CT and family, Silas , Charles & Daniel Woodward, etc.) thanks! Holly