to cause a re-survey to be made of all the lands laimed by the Pennsylvania claimants, situated in the seventeen townships, which should be released or re-conveyed by such claimants to the Commonwealth; and to divide the same into four classes, according to the quality of the land. As soon as forty thousand acres should be so released to the state, and the Connecticut settlers claiming land to the same amount, should bind themselves to submit to the determination of the Commissioners, then the law was to take effect; and the Pennsylvania claimants who had so released their land, were to receive a compensation for the same from the State Treasury, at the rate of five dollars per acre for lands of the first class, three dollars for the second, one dollar and fifty cents for the third, and twenty-five cents for lands of the fourth class. The Connecticut settlers were also to receive patents from the State confirming their lands to them upon condition of paying into the Treasury the sum of two dollars per acre, for lands of the first class, one dollar and twenty cents for lands of the second class, fifty cents for lands of the third class, and eight and one third cents for lands of the fourth class; the certificates issued by the Commissioners to regulate the settlement of accounts in both cases. Thus while the State was selling her vacant lands to her other citizens, at twentysix cents an acre, she demanded of the Connecticut settlers a sum, which, upon the supposition that there was the same quantity of land in each class, would average ninety-four cents an acre.--

Compensation was made to the Pennsylvania claimant only in cases where the warrant and survey were executed previous to the passage of the law of 1787. This act which is commonly called the Compensation Law," has been carried into full effect, and has been the principal cause of finally terminating that long and bloody controversy, in which the troubles of Wyoming principally originated.

As this law, however, affected those lands in the seventeen Townships only, and as a large body of lands in the Northern parts of the County continued to be settled very fast, principally by emigrants from New England, claiming under the Connecticut title, the Legislature became apprehensive that, unless those settlements were checked, another system of opposition to the laws would be formed, and accordingly, on the eleventh of April, 1795, passed an act to prevent intrusions on lands in the counties of Northumberland and Luzerne, which provided that any person who should come to settle on any lands in those counties, under any title not derived from the State of Pennsylvania, should be subject to a fine of one thousand dollars, and to imprisonment at hard labor, not exceeding eighteen months. An Agent was appointed to reside at Wyoming, to enquire into offences committed against the law; and every male person above the age of twenty-one years, coming to reside within the counties of Wayne, Northampton, Luzerne, Northumberland or Lycoming, was directed to dever within three months from the time of his

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.'

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. Mawsham 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.

gers were murdered.

Nawpawnollend....The place where the messenThis 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.

grows.

Woaphollaughpink....A place where white hemp Hence the 66 name Wapahawly." 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.