Item 36: Meeting Minutes by Jesse Fell, 1804 March 19
Item — Box: 12, Folder: 76
Dates
- Created: 1804 March 19
Creator
- Fell, Jesse 1750-1830 (Person)
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Meeting Minutes
Condition Note:
Fair. Some staining and ink fading. However, it is still legible.
Measurements:
7 ¾ in. x 6 ½ in. (half); 13 in. x 7 ¾ in. (full)
Description:
This document was written by Jessie Fell, the Wilkes-Barre town clerk of the time, and is an account of the voting and approving of Matthias Hollenback building a store house on the river bank. It has been discovered in later years that this house was built before the first Market Street bridge and overlooked both the susquehanna river and a 100-acre farm, which is today’s Kirby Park. The committee overseeing this project consisted of Ebenezer Bowman, Nathan Waller, and Cornelius Courtright. These three individuals were well-known during this time period and contributed to the development of Luzerne County. There is a lot known about Matthias Hollenback, for the context of this specific document, along with being a judge for Luzerne county and successful merchant, Hollenback also was a farmer who raised crops on the 100-acre farm discussed above. Hence, why Hollenback requested the farmhouse being built along the river and close to his farm, it is believed it was used by one of his farmer's tenants. For the time period, the house was built extraordinarily well, it survived great ice flows and floods, which was later admired by Wilkes-Barre citizens, before being torn down in the early 1900’s.
Location:
Wilkes-Barre, Pa
Transcription:
At a Town meeting held at the Court House in Wilkesbarre 17 March 1804.
“On the application of Matthias Hollenback Esquire to build a Store House on the River Bank on the Public Commons it was motioned and seconded & Voted that Colo. Matthias Hollenback have liberty to build a Store House on the River Bank on the Public Commons at such a place, and on such Conditions and under such regulations as a Committee to be appointed by this meeting and the said Hollenback shall agree upon”
“Voted, That Ebenezer Bowman, Nathan Waller, Cornelius Courtright be a Committee for the purpose last above mentioned.”
A true extract from the minutes on Town Book of Wilkes barre Jesse Fell Town Clk Wilkesbarre 19 March 1804
A true extract from the minutes on Town Book of Wilkes barre Jesse Fell Town Clk Wilkesbarre 19 March 1804
Creator
- Fell, Jesse 1750-1830 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
Contact:
84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu