. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . As to the twt. (township), it is ordered that the pets, (petitioners) do exhibit a Plan of the twpt., as they propose it to the next court that the court may be better judge thereof. As Upper Smithfield appears in the list ottownships in 1752, it would appear that it waserected about the same time that Northamptoncounty was. The following petition for the division ofUpper Smithfield township, which then in-cluded nearly all of Pike County, appears onthe Road Book of Northampton County in1766: Upon the petition of divers Inhabitants o
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . As to the twt. (township), it is ordered that the pets, (petitioners) do exhibit a Plan of the twpt., as they propose it to the next court that the court may be better judge thereof. As Upper Smithfield appears in the list ottownships in 1752, it would appear that it waserected about the same time that Northamptoncounty was. The following petition for the division ofUpper Smithfield township, which then in-cluded nearly all of Pike County, appears onthe Road Book of Northampton County in1766: Upon the petition of divers Inhabitants of thetownship of Upper Smithfield, setting forth that thesaid petitioners labor under great inconveniences uponthe account of the largeness of the said township,which renders it inconvenient and expensive for theInhabitants to assemble upon the necessary businessof the township : Praying the Court to divide the saidtownship, and for that purpose to appoint proper per-sons to make such division, whereupon it is considered Undoubtedly in should here be read. \ OUTLINE MAP OF Pike County, P E X N S Y L V A X L A. / PIKE C01 TN,i. 831 and ordered by the court that Benjamin Shoemaker,Hanes Van Etten, William Jeans, Andrew Dingman,Emanuel Gonzales and Abraham Westbrook, or anyfour of them, do view, and if they see occasion, todivide said township according to the prayer of thesaid petition. These viewers probably favored the division,as Delaware appears among the townships there-after. The following is a list of the taxables inUpper Smithfield and Delaware townships(which then included nearly all of that part ofPike County which was then inhabited) for1781: UPPER SMITHFIELD. Josephus Cole. John Quick. Leonard Cole. James Kosencrance. Cornelius Dewitt. Joseph Reeder. Jacob Dewitt. John Dewitt, Jr. Joseph Shobes. Reiner Dewitt. John Van Auken. Abraham Dutcher. Levi Van Auken. Morgan Dushay. James Van Auken. Henry Decker. John Van Sickle. James Decker. Simon Westfall.
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