Tim,
I believe the area around Wilkes-Barre was claimed by both PA &
Connecticut, and maybe Rhode Island (?). I am harkening back a few decades
to a Colonial America class in college. Hope others can give you a better
and more specific answer
Buck Buchanan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Frank" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: Cumberland County, NY
> NY could indeed be wrong I suppose.
> But Cumberland County, PA is not on the Susquehanna, and the Cumberland
Gap
> comes up as Tennessee.
> The area around Wyoming, PA is also possible. The borders were unclear.
>
> Does anyone know what state would have claimed the area around
Wilkes-Barre,
> PA at the time of the revolution?
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Travis, John
> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 1:52 PM
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> Subject: Re: Cumberland County, NY
>
> Isn't it more likely that the NY part is wrong! Doesn't the Susquehanna
> River run through the Cumberland Gap down south??
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Frank [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 4:06 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Cumberland County, NY
>
>
> Thanks you all for your responses to my query re: Cumberland County NY.
> Is there any way that some one could have lived in Cumberland County, and
> on the Susquehanna simultaneously? i.e. This ancestor supposedly lived in
> Cumberland County , Susquehanna, New York Province.
> Or is this just completely inconsistent?
>
>
>
> Tim Frank
> (mailto:[log in to unmask]
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Walter Greenspan
> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 5:53 PM
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> Subject: Cumberland County, NY
>
> On 5/28/02 (5:19:45 PM EDT), an eMail from Lester Hendrix
> ([log in to unmask]) was posted, as:
>
> "New York also had Tryon and Charlotte counties, from 1772 to 1784. The
last
> counties formed by the colonial government, they were named for
> then-governor
> Tryon and Charlotte, queen consort to George. After the revolution they
were
> renamed for patriot generals Mongtomery (Tryon) and Washington (Charlotte)
> and were chopped up into smaller counties. Tryon, seated at Johnstown,
> encompassed all of western New York excepting the Indian lands and
Charlotte
> all of north eastern New York, some of which was transferred to Vermont.
So
> the count is 68 for the time span given."
>
>
> Thank you. However, I don't think a change in names truly represents a
new
> or different county. Hence, my count was (and remains) that New York
State
> since November 1, 1683, has had 66 counties. (I show the name changes in
> the
> footnotes to the table I included in my previous eMail oif May 21 on this
> subject.)
>
>
> Walter Greenspan
>
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