Excerpt from History of Sullivan County, Pennsylvania: Compendium of Biography One of the earliest 'settler'r'ients oi the fest Branch above Northumberland was made'at the mouth of Muncy creek in 1768, by Connecticut settlers sirom \vyoming Valley, but their settlement was entirely broken up by Colonel Plunkett, under orders of John Penn. Governor of Pennsylvania, and the settlers imprisoned. Or driven oh. Their improvements were immediately oc cupied by Pennsylvania claimants, who lived there until i778. When they-were-attacked by a band of Indians. And, being panic stricken. fled. Leaving the Indians in pos session of the whole valley. The war with the Indians lasted about six years, the set tlers in the valley suffering all the. Hardships and cruelties of an Indian warfare. We can easily imagine that no hardy, adven turons settlers Undertook to begin settle ments within the present boundaries of Sul livan county while this Indian war was going on. The Indian war-paths from the North Branch of the Susquehanna led through this county. And in the fastnesses of this region the savages retired after committing theirdoubt caught big trout from the waters of the Loyalsock; and killed game on the banks of that beautiful stream. \vhen the first settlers came they found an Indian meadow on the flats above the forks oi the Loyalsock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.