Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania . n inthe fort, the rest having gone with the women andchildren to show them the path to Stroudsburg,but they did not come .back. They waited till themiddle of the afternoon. Elisha went out intothe woods and brought in their cattle, and notknowing the way to Stroudsburg, they startedclown the river road and at Nanticoke, eight milesdown, they made a fire and heated a rock andbaked a cake from some flour Elisha had in a pil-low case he got in their own house as they passedit on their way down, and water. At Nan
Genealogical and family history of the Wyoming and Lackawanna valleys, Pennsylvania . n inthe fort, the rest having gone with the women andchildren to show them the path to Stroudsburg,but they did not come .back. They waited till themiddle of the afternoon. Elisha went out intothe woods and brought in their cattle, and notknowing the way to Stroudsburg, they startedclown the river road and at Nanticoke, eight milesdown, they made a fire and heated a rock andbaked a cake from some flour Elisha had in a pil-low case he got in their own house as they passedit on their way down, and water. At Nanticoketheir cattle, in the dark, ran into a laurel swampand they lost them. They went on down theriver to a creek where they saw a light and founda cabin and a man living there alone. They staidall night there and in the morning he showed thema path that led to Stroudsburg, where they ar-rived in two days, Elisha badly crippled withrheumatism. What language can protray the hardships en-dured by those early pioneers. Pursued by theBritish and bv the still more deadlv foes, the sav-. 2jL*hc<(Q&*c£- ~huv\/ -yJJ^t^ f A^<^™^ 2^-^w^
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