The story of some French refugees and their "Azilum," 1793-1800 . ilkes-Barre, one of thefew important settlements. August 2Y, they made the acquaintance of MatthiasHoUenback, proprietor of several trading postsalong the river, to whom they delivered the letterof Eobert Morris, which is still in the possessionof HoUenback heirs. Passing up the lovely Susquehanna, then theonly highway, the explorers reached a certainland-locked valley on the north branch of theriver, now a part of Bradford County, includedin the Susquehanna Companys township ofStanding Stone. Long before Etienne Brule
The story of some French refugees and their "Azilum," 1793-1800 . ilkes-Barre, one of thefew important settlements. August 2Y, they made the acquaintance of MatthiasHoUenback, proprietor of several trading postsalong the river, to whom they delivered the letterof Eobert Morris, which is still in the possessionof HoUenback heirs. Passing up the lovely Susquehanna, then theonly highway, the explorers reached a certainland-locked valley on the north branch of theriver, now a part of Bradford County, includedin the Susquehanna Companys township ofStanding Stone. Long before Etienne Brule, the scout of Chara-plain, had traced out the windings of the Susque-hanna, the Indian, whose chosen waterway itwas, had marvelled at a great slab of rock pro-jecting some twenty feet from the surface of theriver bed. To Indian and white man, known asthe Standing Stone, it has been a land markfrom time immemorial. This stone is 44 ft. high from top to the bed ofthe river, 16 ft. wide, 4 ft. thick. The loweredge must reach far into the earth to resist, —20—. as it has for at least more than a century, the ir-resistible power of freshets. It stands near theright bank of the river, visible from Lehigh Val-ley R. R. between Rummerfield and HornetsFerry. Just south of this great stone, in one ofthe many curves of the river, lies a semicircle offlat, fertile land, shut in on the landward side bythe steep heavily-wooded hills which follow thecourse of the valley. On this promising tract of meadowland, theagents of the French found eight lots of threehundred acres each occupied by Connecticutsettlers. According to deed records of LuzerneCo., these eight lots, one of which was a largeisland, were owned by Robert Cooleys heirs,Charles Townley (two), Robert Alexander, Rob-ert Alexander, Jr., AdelphijRoss, Ebenezer Skin-ner and Justus Gaylord.* They were not how-ever the earliest settlers, as the plain was calledSchufeldt Flats after a Palatine emigrantPeter Schufeldt, who had come fr
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