Warren County PA Archives News.....Pennsylvania Indians April 3, 1873
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Jeffersonian Republican. (Stroudsburg, Pa.) April 3, 1873
The following from the pen of D. Sutherland, County Superintendent of public schools
of Warren county, Pa. will disclose the fact that Pennsylvania is yet the home of
the red men, and that his station in life also, is being advanced with the popular
tide of educational progress. He says:
The Indians in this county are descendants of the Chief Cornplanter, a chief of the
Senecas. His Indian name was something like "Oconosough " as nearly as I can
remember. The land upon which his people live was granted late in the last century
by Congress to Cornplanter for services in the war of the Revolution. He served with
Brant and also with Colonel Johnson. From the accounts of which I have been able to
gather from the old citizens, he was a man of marked ability and of some degree of
intelligence. He built a comfortable block house and a saw mill, but still pursued
all the characteristics of the primitive Indian.
The reservation is on the left bank of the Allegheny river, sixteen miles above this
point. They have about 500 acres of land which they, until recently, held in common.
Last year it was partitioned among them by an order of the court under the guidance
of the Society of Friends.
They have generally comfortable frame dwellings; a good school house and school
sustained by the State. Ministers of the Gospel hold services regularly for their
benefit, conducted in the Indian tongue. There are about seventy souls in the
settlement and they remain at about that number, the deaths about keeping pace with
the births. 


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