arrival, under the penalty of forty dollars to the agent or his deputy-sheriff or constable, a written declaration of his name and place of abode, and of the State or foreign Country in which he last resided; and also whether he claimed any, and what lands within the Commonwealth, and the title under which he claimed the same. The Governor was also authorized to call out the militia to carry the act into effect. This act, together with a supplement passed in 1801, form the last of those disgraceful measures which the records of Pennsylvania exhibit against the persecuted inhabitants of Wyoming. The Agent attempted a few prosecutions under this law, but the Courts neglected to carry it into effect, and this, like many previous measures, proved an abortive attempt to effect what the permanent laws of the Commonwealth had provided other means to accomplish. Those claims having at length been quieted, and the Pennsylvania titles fully established, the two counties of Bradford and Susquehanna were erected, and the Wyoming controversy finally became extinct. The New England emigrants have become obedient, industrious and valuable citizens in their adopted State; and Wyoming, under the present mild and liberal government of Pennsylvania, enjoys that repose which a long train of unparalleled sufferings had rendered necessary to her happiness and prosperity.

NOTE I.

The following is the signification of several Indian names which are still retained at and near Wyoming :

Hanna or Hannah....Signifies a stream of water. Susquehanna.......... Muddy or riley river.

Lechaw....The forks, or point of intersection, The Lehigh River is still pronounced 'Lechaw' by the Germans.

Lechaw-hanna....The meeting of two streams. Hence our name · Lackawanna.”

Tope-hanna....Alder stream, or stream having alders growing along its banks. Hence the name Tobyhanna.'

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Tonk-honna.... Two smaller streams falling into a larger one opposite to each other. Hence the name Tunkhannock, which in the Indian language included Tunkannock and Bowman's creek, with an additional term to designate one from the other. Mavshapi... Cord or reed stream. Hence Meshoppen.

Nescopeck or Neschoppeck....Deep, black water. Tyaogo....A word of the Six Nations, signifying "gate" or "door," a figurative expression. The

Delawares say the North door of their Council House was at the head of tide on the North or Hudson river, and the South door at the head of the tide on the Potomac.

Nawpawnollend........The place where the messengers were murdered. This word by a corruption has become "Wapwallopen." In Luzerne it signified the stream near which was murdered Thomas Hill, a messenger from the Governor of Pennsylvania to the Indians at Wyoming.

Woaphollaughpink.... A place where white hemp Hence the name " Wapahawly."

grows.

Maugh Chunk... Signifies Bear Mountain.-The village of Mauch Chunk is at the foot of this mountain, and on a stream of the same name, i. e. Bear Mountain Creek.

The above particulars, and many of the incidents of the early Indian History, were communicated to the writer by the Rev. John Heckawelder, of Bethlehem, when he was compiling his History of the American Indians, and have been omitted in that work, as he informed the author they would be, in consequence of that communication

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NOTE II.

The following is a copy of the articles of capitulation agreed upon after the Battle of Wyoming. Westmoreland, 4th July, 1778.

"CAPITULATION AGREEMENT-Made and completed between John Butler, in behalf of his Majesty King George the Third, and Colonel Nathan, Denison of the United States of America,

"ARTICLE I. It is agreed that the settlement lay, down their arms, and their garrison be demolished. ARTICLE II. That the inhabitants occupy their farms peaceably, and the lives of the inhabitants. be preserved entire and unhurt.

ARTICLE III. That the Continental stores are to be given up.

ARTICLE IV. That Colonel Butler will use his atmost influence that the private property of the inhabitants shall be preserved entire to them,

ARTICLE V. That the prisoners in Forty fort be delivered up.

ARTICLE VI. That the property taken from the people called Tories, be made good and that they remain in peaceable possession of their farms, and unmolested in a free trade through this settlement.

ARTICLE VII. That the inhabitants which Col. Denison capitulates for, together with himself, do not take up arms during this contest.

(Signed)

"JOHN BUTLER,

"NATHAN DENISON."?

NOTE III.

List of the officers killed at the Battle of Wyo ming, July 3, 1778.

Lieutenant Colonel-George Dorrance.
Major-Wait Garret.

CAPTAINS.-Dottrick Hewet, Robert Durkee,* Aholab Buck, Asa Whittlesey, Lazarus Stewart, Samuel Ransom,* Jaines Bidlack,

Geere,

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LIEUTENANTS.-Timothy Pierce,* James Welles, Elijah Shoemaker, Lazarus Stewart, 2d, Peren Ross,* Asa Stevens.

ENSIGNS.-Asa Gore,

-Avery.

Note. Those with this mark (*) were the five who arrived from the continental army just before the battle.