Blackman, Emily C. History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. From a period preceding its Settlement to Recent Times, including tha Annals and Geography of each Township. With Maps and numerous Illustrations. Also, a Sketch of Woman's Work in the County for the United States Sanitary Commission, and a List of the Soldiers of the National Army furnished by many of the Townships. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1873. First Edition. [9298]
Maroon buckram, spine faded, joints fine, 9 x 6 inches; rebound in 1939 with binder's stamp on ffep. Several page tears and margins repaired. Lacks the county map; the map of the New England Charter Claims lacks the final fold at the left margin. xii., 640 pp., many steel-engraved and lithographed plates, text diagrams, tight. Good. Hardcover.
The first six chapters treat with the colonial charters, the Indians, Westmoreland and the Pennamite Wars, the Intrusion Law, county organization, and the officers and bar of Susquehanna Co.
The Annals include the following townships: Great Bend, Harmony, Oakland, Brooklyn, New Milford, Herrick, Harford, Gibson, Rush, Dimock, Lenox, Auburn, Franklin, Liberty, Bridgewater and Montrose, Middletown, Jessup, Forest Lake, Clifford, Lathrop, Springville, Apolacon, Choconut, Silver Lake, Jackson, Ararat, and Thomson.
Then follows chapters on resources, agriculture, roads and post offices, politics, schools and churches, newspapers, authors, temperance societies, secret societies, &c.
The appendices include treatments of Joseph Smith of Mormon repute, the Treadwell Trial, Magnatic Variation, Woman's Work for the U. S. Sanitary Commission and Freedman's Commissions, and a 15-page list of soldiers.
Flake 547 for the Mormon content. "Joe Smith, the Mormon prophet," p. 103-5, 577-82."
The Smith section includes a diagram of his "diggings" between River Road and the Flat Brook Road in Great Bend. Reprints letters and statements from J. B. Buck, Isaac Hale, Alva Hale, Hezekiah McKune, Joshua McKune, Levi Lewis, Nathaniel C. Lewis, and Sophia Lewis. Describes the locations and buildings that became parts of the Joseph Smith story.