J. C. Platt Reminiscences of the Early History of Dark Hollow, Slocum Hollow, Harrison Lackawanna Iron Works, Scrantonia, and Scranton, Pa

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Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Connecticut by its charter, (granted in covered the forty-second degree of latitude and ex tended from Narragansett river on the east to the South sea on the west, excepting such lands as were then occupied by prior settlers namely, New York and New Jersey. Nearly nineteen years afterwards Wm. Penn obtained a grant of lands on the west side of the Delaware river extending northward to the forty third degree of latitude; this covered a part of the territory embraced in the Connecticut charter.