. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . e. Continu-ing their jouruey, they at length came in viewof the Blue Ridge barrier. There were some MONROE COUNTY. small settlements back from the river, but le on the river above Williamsburg, except that ofNicholas Depui, who was comfortably plantedat what is now Shawnee. After viewing thecountry between the river and the mountainfor a day or two, they pitched upon a site fortheir cabin about three-quarters of a mile fromthe river, on a somewhat elevated spot, in whatis now Mount Bethel township, NorthamptonCounty, and soon had the
. History of Wayne, Pike and Monroe counties, Pennsylvania . e. Continu-ing their jouruey, they at length came in viewof the Blue Ridge barrier. There were some MONROE COUNTY. small settlements back from the river, but le on the river above Williamsburg, except that ofNicholas Depui, who was comfortably plantedat what is now Shawnee. After viewing thecountry between the river and the mountainfor a day or two, they pitched upon a site fortheir cabin about three-quarters of a mile fromthe river, on a somewhat elevated spot, in whatis now Mount Bethel township, NorthamptonCounty, and soon had their primitive home- Charles remained in the old cabin homestead inMount Bethel. Peter pushed a little farther onand bought a tract of land above the mountainsof the Indians, southwest of where Stroudsburgnow stands, and adjoining a tract ColonelStroud purchased some time after. Here hecleared up a good home, after many years ofhard labor, and raised a large family of children,Abram planted himself above the DelawareWater Gap Notch, not far from the Delaware. stead erected. The Indians were their only [near neighbors, and these they managed to jmake their true friends by many little acts ofkindness. Here they dwelt together a numberof years, engaged in the various occupations ofpioneer life, until finally, as the tide of emi-gration from the north and south began toreach them, they each married a German orDutch wife, and found it advisable to separate. Water Cap depot, where he lived many yearsand raised a large family. He cleared theisland just above the Gap, which, with thegardenflat around his house, made quite a snug lived there in 1741, when the Governor sentNicholas Scull up to look after the state ofthings in the Smithfields. It was from one of these brothers, probablyAbraham, that Daniel La Bar, grandfather of 1084 WAYNE, IIKE AM) MONROE COUNTIES, PENNSYLVANIA. the subjecf of this sketch, descended. He wasearly identified with Colonel Stroud in his landoperations
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