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* LUTHER S. Hiofpb¶AN I , ~ "4 d A'~~~~i 1 A~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * LUTHER S. hIOFPB¶AN i , ~ THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Gift of C. Russell Smith [. Pa --; . irs - F ate Pe ily Xj CONTENTR Page Monroe County .................. 3 Smithdeld Township .................. 4 Villages ... 11 Marshall's Creek ......... 14 California ......... 14 Tinkertown ...... 14 Assessments ........................... 16 Battle of Brodhead's Manor ................ 16 Old Buildings and Families ................ 17 Citizens ................ 21 Health and Doctors ................ 34 Churches ................ 4f Schools ................ 46 Post Offices ................ 51 Stores ................ 53 Roads ................ 55 Bridges ................ a7 Mill and Factories ................ 60 Trees and Their Products ................ 62 Cemeteries ................ 69 Names and Sayings ................ 71 Slavery and Service ................ 78 NOTE: Mathew's history of Monroe County 1886, gives the name of Joseph Houser as the builder of the stone house at the foot of Minisink Hill; but according to the records kept by my grandfather who did the carpenter work, It was Joseph Houser. The date of the first church at Shawnee should be 1752. Editor. -1 FOREWORD 1938 Having been born and lived in Smithfield Township until I became twenty-eight years of age, I therefore know many facts and sayings besides many which have been handed down by tradition relating to the early history of Smithfield Township. I, who followed the plow and worked over many of the hills and valleys, cannot help remembering the past years of early life, when I attended and took part at funerals, vendues, camp meetings, political meetings, frolics (bees), listened to arguments and stories in country stores and taverns, went chestnuting, hunting rabbits, squirrels and wild pigeons. How on frosty mornings when doing the work at the barn we would arouse the sleepy cows from their beds and stand on the warm spot to get our bare feet warm. All of this endears Smithfield Township to me. There is much that has occurred in the early settlements of any community that has not been recorded and is forgotten, and much has been handed down by tradition and eventually will be forgotten unless it can be preserved in a more tangible form than what exists today. It may be that at some future date some one will gather all the odds and ends, now recorded in a half dozen or more small histories and make one complete history of Smithfield Town- ship. as well as that of Monroe County. In recording the unwritten history of Smithfield Township, we have tried not to repeat anything that has already been recorded in other histories, and in the genealogy and memoirs of the Hoffman and Smith families, except where it is necessary to explain and develop the story we are trying to tell. If in the future so)ne one takes up the task of assembling and writing a history of Smithfield Township, all histories should be consulted with all facts contained therein and combined with other historical e:ents which may be de- veloped at that time. We should hold our ancestors in veneration and be profoundly thankful for the heritage they have passed on to us, and should prove o. rsel:es their worthy descendants. PRINTED IN U. S. A. By THE ARTCRAFT PRESS FAST STROUDSBURG. PA. EARLY HISTORY-SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP Chapter I. Monroe County The first attempt to form a new county above the Blue Mountains was in 1794. The petition was signed by 114 petitioners. Most of the signers lived in what now is Smithfield Township. It was 42 years before their desire for a new county was gratified-1836. It is said that when this petition was written the date was omitted, through an oversight, and in after years when it was discov- ered that it was without a date, the year was made certain by referring to Dr. Francis Josephus Smith's signature, which he always ended with a scroll and the date within the scroll. I have Dr. Smith's signa- ture he made when he signed my great grandfather's will in 1794, which verifies the above statement. Much has been said about the result of the vote to establish the county seat for the new county (Monroe) in 1836. At the first elec- tion, Dutotsburg of "Monroe Center," so named by those who favored the county seat at that place, received only 82 votes, was eliminated. At the second election, Stroudsburg won out by -a majority of seventy votes. Then charges of fraud were made, particularly against Middle Smithield election board, John Place and Samuel Gunsaulus. It is without a doubt but what the charges of stuffing the ballot box were well founded from the fact that at the county seat election there were 345 votes cast for Stroudsburg and 2 cast for Kellersville, a total of 347 votes, while four years afterwards at the Pres-dential election, Harrison received 2 votes and Van Buren received 208 votes, a total of 210 votes. We are pleased to know that our native township, Smithfield, shows a clean record. The vote at these two elections is as follows: At the county seat election, Smithfield cast 224 votes for Stroudsburg and 2 votes for Kellersville, a total of 226 votes; while four years afterward at the Presidential election, Harrison received 42 votes while Van Buren received 1833 votes, a total in the township of 225 votes. After the election suit was brought aganist the election board of Middle Smtihifield and since there was no court house in Monroe County and the court had not been full organized, the case was taken to Pike County for trial. It was tried before Judge David Scott, president judge of the eleventh judicial district, and associate judges of Pike County, Daniel W. Dingman and John Coolbaugh. Dingman was a very eccentric man of great native intellect, great force of character, but uneducated. It is said that he came into court without a coat and with bare feet. (3) 415852 EARLY HISTORY-SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP Judge Scott quashed one or two counts in the indictment, where- upon he left the bench for a few minutes. During his absence, Judge Dingman took upon himself and told "Bub" Coolbaugh, he always called him "Bub," that they would quash the other indictment. "I know the law, for I have been to the Legislature," and laying his hand on a copy of pamphlet laws said, "Bub and I will quash the other indictment on the grounds of the Legislature." Many stories are told about Judge Dingman. One which inter- ested me has been handed down as it happened at a hearing of a col- ored man charged with stealing. After the witnesses were heard, Judge Dingman pronounced sentence on the defendant: "Nigger, stand up. You are charged and found guilty of the crime of larceny. You are a bad nigger. I know all about niggers. You ought to be hung, but the sentence of this court is that you be banished from the face of the earth. Go get off the face of the earth." "Why massa," said the darky, "How ken I git off de face of dis yere earth?" You can go," said Dingman, "to Jersey, and if you ever come back you will be hanged." Judge Dingman must have had an opinion about New Jersey like I. When a boy, heard people remark disparingly about Jersey, when they would say, "Otit of the United States over in Jersey," "Jersey Lightning," meaning apple-jack whiskey. "Jersey match," a team of horses, one white, the other black. "Blue bellied Jerseymen," meaning a person who thought himself a little superior to his fellow- men. Smithfield Township In 1746, the first action was taken for the formation of Smith- field Township, the first municipal division north of the Blue Moun- tains. The petition contained the names of twenty-seven landholders. The township comprised all the settlements above the mountains. In 1752, when Northampton County was set off from Bucks County, it comprised all of Smithfield which included what is now Lehigh, Carbon, Monroe, Pike and Wayne. So when we read about an event which took place in Smithfield during the latter part of the 1700's, we must remember it may have happened anywhere within any of the five counties. In an old deed dated 1745, Nicholas Depui sold his son Aaron a farm which he describes as the John Smith farm (now the Croasdale or River Farm.) In other old papers he calls it the "Smith fields." So without a doubt the name for Smithfield Township originated in that way. John Smith who lived near Mt. Bethel Northampton Coun- (4) EARLY HISTORY-SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP ty, before the Revolutionary War, and is mentioned as selling this farm, had nine sons and four daughters. After the war, he and sev- eral of his sons came above the mountains and settled on farms cut from large tracts of land on both sides of the Delaware River from Shawnee to above Bushkill Hence we had before Pike County was erected, Lower Smithfield, Middle Smithfield, and Upper Smithfield. When Pike County was erected, Upper Smithfield was cut into two lownships and named Dingman's and Milford Townships. THE IIAPPY LIFE-'I'HE LIFI II)DEAL T1'( SMI'I'IIFIELD B0YS The township has no large natural lakes, but is well watered by the Delaware River washing the southeastern side of the township. The Delaware has bcen called by a variety of names. T1'he Con- federated Indians ca]lDd it "Lenapewiiio Much," Lenape River. In a deed to William Penn in 1682, it is named "Mackeriskickon.' The EARLY HISTORY--SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP Indians at the head of the river called it "Lamasepose," signifying Fish River. The Hollanders named it "Zudt," or South River.
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