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