. Historical sketches of Plymouth, Luzerne Co., must relate an incident connected with the pur-chase of a part of tliis property, for the purpose ofshowing the astonishing increase of the value of land,on account of coal developments, and to which I wasa witness. A part of the estate of the late James Barnes,who resided many years en the north-eastern slope ofEoss Hill, was exposed to public sale—some thirty orforty acres of woodland, adjoining the Nesbitt was a competing bidder for the land at the was probably in 1832 or 1S33. As he bidseven and a half dollars an acr
. Historical sketches of Plymouth, Luzerne Co., must relate an incident connected with the pur-chase of a part of tliis property, for the purpose ofshowing the astonishing increase of the value of land,on account of coal developments, and to which I wasa witness. A part of the estate of the late James Barnes,who resided many years en the north-eastern slope ofEoss Hill, was exposed to public sale—some thirty orforty acres of woodland, adjoining the Nesbitt was a competing bidder for the land at the was probably in 1832 or 1S33. As he bidseven and a half dollars an acre, I stepped upto him and remarked, that I thought him wild inbidding seven dollars and a half per acre for unculti-vated woodland. He rephed, that the land adjoinedhim, and that he could make pasturage of it; that aware that he was oflering more than its value,and should not bid any farther. The auctioneerfailing to get another bid, struck it down to Mr. Nes-bitt, and he thus became the owner of it, and, as Ithought, against his THE WADHABIS HOUSE. WADHAMS, 371 The same land to-day, I presume, could not bebought at a thousand dollars an acre. Its intrinsicvalue exceeds two thousand. After the expiration of his term, as sheriff, remained in Wilkes-Barre, and entered intomercantile pursuits. He died in that town somethirty years since. WADHAMS. The Eeverend Noah Wadhams, a clergyman ofthe Congregational church, and the progenitor of thePlymouth family, was one of the original forty ofthe first immigrants. He came from Litchfield, Con-necticut, in the year 1769. He had previously beenfirst pastor at the church at New Preston, in thatcounty—installed in the year 1775. A portion ofthis immigration came the year previous, but themain body of them came in the year 1769. Mr. Wad-hams was the shepherd of the small flock, which tookup their residence in the wilderness, made more for-bidding because of the savage people who were inpossession of the val
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