Item 23: Notice by Ezekiel Pierce to Nathan Dennison, 1772 September 7
Item — Box: 12, Folder: 63
Dates
- Created: 1772 September 7
Creator
- Pierce, Ezekiel 1712-1773 (Person)
Access:
All series and subseries within this collection are open for research, with the exception of a few files within the Academia series that are restricted. The Academia series contains financial and sensitive institutional records from Wilkes College, and financial report records from Princeton University that will remain restricted for 80 years upon creation.
Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Notice
Condition Note:
Fair, some discoloration, tearing and staining. However, the ink is fresh and still legible.
Measurements:
7 ¾ in. x 7 ¾ in.
Description:
This notice, created by Ezekiel Pierce and Nathan Denison, is about a former upcoming community meeting in Kingston (PA) on September 7, 1772. It mentions when and where the meeting will take place and what will be discussed. Nathan Denison was one of the first forty shareholders in the Susquehanna Company to settle five new towns in the Wyoming Valley in February 1769. Maj. Ezekiel Pierce, was former town clerk of Plainfield, Connecticut (1749-1754), but then appointed town clerk for Westmoreland county once moving to wyoming in 1771.He, was the ready writer of early days and for a succession of years clerk of the town, the records being in his handwriting.
*The figure of Captain Butler has been inferred as Zebulon Butler according to the period of the manuscript. Zebulon Butler was a prominent figure of the Yankee Pennamite Wars, ranging from 1769-1784, and became a lieutenant colonel in the American Revolutionary War. Butler was also a representative of the Susquehanna Company’s land interests in the earlier years of the conflict and later became a director of the company.
Location:
Kingston (PA)
Transcription:
These are to Warn all the Propriators Belonging to the town of Kingstown [sic] to meet at the House of Thomas Bennets Where ye old Fort once stood on Saturday the 12th Day of this Instant September at one of ye Clock in ye afternoon.
1st to Chuse a Comtee [sic] [committee] to transact town affairs & c:
2ly to se if ye town will make any alteration in any of ye Roads in sd [sic] [said] town and Lay out a New Road or Roads.
3ly to se if ye town will give a piece of Common Land to Peter Harris joyning [sic] to his Land for ye strip of Land that was taken of from sd [sic] [said] Harris & meadow Lott in order to Commode ye town Lotts or settle with sd [sic] [said] Harris some other way &:
4ly to se what ye town will do in Building a fortification & to act upon any other Business that shall be thought proper Kingstown September Ezekiel Pierce Clerk- the 7th 1772. Nathan Dennison
{back} A warning for meeting in Kings town [sic]
John Jenkins /////////9 Capt Butler ////////8 Swift ///////7 Ob Gore Jr-/////////////13
Gore Jr /////////////////////// Jenkins //////////// Swift ////////
Obediah Gore Jr //////////////////////22 John Jenkins //////////////14 Mr. Swift ////////8
2ly to se if ye town will make any alteration in any of ye Roads in sd [sic] [said] town and Lay out a New Road or Roads.
3ly to se if ye town will give a piece of Common Land to Peter Harris joyning [sic] to his Land for ye strip of Land that was taken of from sd [sic] [said] Harris & meadow Lott in order to Commode ye town Lotts or settle with sd [sic] [said] Harris some other way &:
4ly to se what ye town will do in Building a fortification & to act upon any other Business that shall be thought proper Kingstown September Ezekiel Pierce Clerk- the 7th 1772. Nathan Dennison
{back} A warning for meeting in Kings town [sic]
John Jenkins /////////9 Capt Butler ////////8 Swift ///////7 Ob Gore Jr-/////////////13
Gore Jr /////////////////////// Jenkins //////////// Swift ////////
Obediah Gore Jr //////////////////////22 John Jenkins //////////////14 Mr. Swift ////////8
Creator
- Pierce, Ezekiel 1712-1773 (Person)
- Denison, Nathan 1740-1809 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
Contact:
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Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu