. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . Lord of Op-dorp and Zimmerseele, and who changed his 115S WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA. name for political reasons in 1777, when hecame to this country to join the Americanarmy. His character and life-work are morefully referred to elsewhere in this volume. married Elizabeth, daughter of Garretand Jane Davis Brodhead, a representative of]another of the old families of the Jeaunette Hollinshead is still one of theold residents of Stroudsburg, where she haslived for over sixty years. Owing to the
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . Lord of Op-dorp and Zimmerseele, and who changed his 115S WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA. name for political reasons in 1777, when hecame to this country to join the Americanarmy. His character and life-work are morefully referred to elsewhere in this volume. married Elizabeth, daughter of Garretand Jane Davis Brodhead, a representative of]another of the old families of the Jeaunette Hollinshead is still one of theold residents of Stroudsburg, where she haslived for over sixty years. Owing to the death trail of her husband, her own engraving will befound in this volume. Her children were Harriet,who became the wife of Dr. A. Reeves Jackson,and died Jan. 1!), ISO!); Sarah, who marriedlion. John D. Morris, and died Jan. 27, 1854;I>r. Frank, who married Jane Malvcn, left des-cendants, and died December 24,1856; William,a druggist for many years in Stroudsburg, mar-ried Cecilia Kenecht, died November 11, 1876 ;and Caroline, who died young in S*/M*uied£ Jfrs&njjb ■z£at& of her mother when she was an infant, she wasreared in Monroe County by her great-grand-mother Brodhead, and as at the present timeshe has great-grandchildren of her own, hashad living communication with seven genera-tions of her maternal lineage. She possesses aremarkably clear recollection of old events andancient families and people, and is one of therespected and esteemed landmarks standing be-tween the remote past and the ever-recurringevents of the present. In the absence of a por- Robert R. De Puy.—Among the old fami-lies of Monroe County who, at an early periodin our colonial history, emigrated from theprimitive settlement of Esopus, in Ulster Coun-ty, N. Y., to the wild and unsettled region ofthe Minisink, none is probably of greater an-tiquity, or has been more prominently identifiedwith the development of that region, than thefamily of 1 The name is variously spelledDepuy,
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