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Chapter 04 – Tioga County Organized

CHAPTER IV. TIOGA COUNTY ORGANIZED. The Landed Interests – Their Influence on Legislation – Tioga County Created – Form and Area – Derivation op Name – The Term Tioga –…

Chapter 03 – Beginning of Tioga County

CHAPTER III. BEGINNING OF TIOGA COUNTY. Purchase of 1784 – Pair Play System – Lycoming Township Formed- Its Boundaries AND Area- Old Tioga Township Erected- A Valuable Document Discovered- Boundaries…

Chapter 02 – The Land of Tioga

CHAPTER II. THE LAND OF TIOGA. First Occupants- Rugged and Romantic Scenery- Game, Fish and Wild Animals- An Ideal Hunting Ground- Indian Paths- Indian Villages – French Explorers and Missionaries…

Chapter 01 – Topographical and Geological Features

CHAPTER I. TOPOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL FEATURES. Surface Transformation- Mountain Ranges- Anticlinals and Synclinals- The Blossburg Mountain Basin- Dip of the Rocks- Wellsboro Anticlinal -Crooked Creek Basin- Valley of the Cowanesque-…

Table of Contents – History of Tioga County

CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Topographical and Geological Features. Surface Transformation- Mountain Ranges- Anticlinals and Synelinals- The Blossburg Mountain Basin- Dip of the Rocks- Wellsboro Anticlinal- Crooked Creek Basin- Valley of the…

Preface

PREFACE. MORE than one hundred years have passed away since the first white settlers built their cabins along the Cowanesque and Tioga rivers and commenced laying the corner-stone of American…

Abstracts, The Agitator, January 3, 1872

The AgitatorWellsboro, PennaJanuary 3, 1872 MARRIAGES Pitts – Baker – At the residence of the bride’s father in Charleston December 13, 1871, by Rev. W. Taylor, Mr. John Pitts of…

Abstracts, The Agitator, January 19, 1870

The AgitatorWellsboro, PennaJanuary 19, 1870 LETTERS OF ADMINISTRATION having been granted on the estate of James Scott, deceased, late of Chatham, all those indebted to said estate are requested to…

Abstracts, The Agitator, May 19, 1869

The AgitatorWellsboro, PennaMay 19, 1869 CORRECTION. – In our notice of the death of Mr. Knapp, last week there were some errors. He was born in 1827, consequently was but…

Abstracts, The Agitator, September 18, 1867

The AgitatorWellsboro, PennaSeptember 18, 1867 Almost a Centenarian. – There is now living in Athens township, Bradford county, Pa., a venerable lady in the person of Mrs. Rebecca Porter. Mrs.…