. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . re hedied full of years and the garnered fruits of azealous life. His first field of labor was at Utica, then anobscure village in the interior of New York,from which he penetrated Northern and West-ern New York and along the southern tierof counties, searching out also the Catholicsettlers in the adjoining State. St. JohnsChurch at Utica, built by him, preserves therecord of his functions in this county. Subsequently Buffalo became a centre of WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA. missionary labor and the priest from therev
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . re hedied full of years and the garnered fruits of azealous life. His first field of labor was at Utica, then anobscure village in the interior of New York,from which he penetrated Northern and West-ern New York and along the southern tierof counties, searching out also the Catholicsettlers in the adjoining State. St. JohnsChurch at Utica, built by him, preserves therecord of his functions in this county. Subsequently Buffalo became a centre of WAYNE, PIKE AND MONROE COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA. missionary labor and the priest from therevisited this county about 1835, and the recordof his ministry is to be sought at the Church ofSt. Louis. The rapid growth of the church at thesegreat centres in New York compelled the pas-tors to remain at home, so that between 1835and 1840 the county was indebted to missionaryzeal from Philadelphia, Easton and Friends-ville, in Susquehanna County, at which placesmust be sought the record of the baptisms andmarriages performed by the visiting ST. JOHNS ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH. In 1842 the mining interests of the Delawareand Hudson Canal Company had attracted•quite a number of industrious Catholics to Car-bondale, and the tanneries in Wayne Countyhad become each a centre of profitable industry,.-and aggregated a considerable number of Catholies. These induced the bishop of Philadel-phia to send them a resident pastor, with Car-bondale for a centre, and assigning one Sundayin the month to Honesdale and the otherCatholic settlements in Wayne County. Rev. Henry Fitzsimmons of Carbondale wasthe first pastor of the Catholics of Wayne•County, and on his appointment, in 1842, he erected the first church at Honesdale, which wassubsequently extended on both ends to meet thewants of the growing Catholic population. Three years later (1845) Honesdale waserected into a separate parish, and Rev. was appointed its first pastor. Upto this time the marriage regist
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