. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . ishment of a regular mission post there, which was successfullymaintained for several years, and until broken up by troubles as ex-traordinary in their origin as they were fatal to the Indians involvedin them. The contention which so long subsisted between the citizens ofConnecticut and Pennsylvania, says Mr. Trego, in his Geography ofPennsylvania, and which caused so much blood to be spilled at Wyo-ming, originated in an interference of the territorial claims o
. The pictorial sketch-book of Pennsylvania, or, Its scenery, internal improvements, resources, and agriculture, populary described . ishment of a regular mission post there, which was successfullymaintained for several years, and until broken up by troubles as ex-traordinary in their origin as they were fatal to the Indians involvedin them. The contention which so long subsisted between the citizens ofConnecticut and Pennsylvania, says Mr. Trego, in his Geography ofPennsylvania, and which caused so much blood to be spilled at Wyo-ming, originated in an interference of the territorial claims of therespective parties. Strange as it may appear at the present day, thisregion was claimed by Connecticut as being within the limits of itscharter as granted by the English government, and in 1753 a companywas formed in that colony for the purpose of making settlements atWyoming. In 1762, about two hundred persons from Connecticutarrived, and established themselves on the east side of the river,about the mouth of Mill Creek, a little above the place where Wilkes-barre now stands. They lived in friendship with the Indians, and. a •Jf- E- o t OE- WYOMING. 251 soon extended their settlements to the west side of the rivier. Thisstate of peace was, however, of short duration, for the settlement wassuddenly attacked by the savages ; about twenty persons were killed,others wounded, and the rest fled to the mountains, making theirway, almost destitute of provisions, through a wilderness of sixtymiles, to the settlements at Easton, on the Delaware. The proprietor of Pennsylvania, having purchased this territoryfrom the Indians, granted the lands at Wyoming to certain persons,who in 1769 took possession of them, together with the improve-ments made by the Connecticut people, who had been driven awayby the Indians. In the same year forty new emigrants from Con-necticut arrived, who, after much contention and difficulty withthe Pennsylvania settlers, were most of them arrested and take
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