Monday, March 23, 2009. Abel Yarrington, a native of Norwich, Connecticut was one of the early settlers in Wyoming Valley and for many years was collector of taxes and keeper of the Wilkes-Barre and Kingston ferry. From 1790 to 1793, and from 1795 to 1801, he was coroner of Luzerne county, and for several years he was treasurer of the county. 1740 - June - Born in Preston or Norwich, New London County, Connecticut.

Monday, March 9, 2009. Archippus Parrish was a native of Windham, Conn. , where he was born January 27, 1773. In his early manhood he removed to Morristown, N. , and there married Phebe, daughter of John Miller, August 12, 1806. Tavern, near the old jail. 1773 - January 27 - Born Windham, Connecticut.

Monday, March 23, 2009. Arnold Colt was a son of Harris Colt and a grandson of Benjamin Colt, an early settler in Lyme, New London, Connecticut. He was born in Lyme September 10, 1760. Colt learned the trade of a blacksmith and of a general worker in iron, and in the year 1786 emigrated from. Connecticut to the Wyoming Valley. In 1788 he married Lucinda Yarrington. In 1790 Arnold Colt was appointed collector of excise for Luzerne. In 1795 he moved with.

Tuesday, April 14, 2009. , at the house of her father, Sarah, daughter of Asher Miner, aged 31 years. He was born in Norwich, Connecticut. At Wilkes Barre, on the 13th March, Mr. Asher Miner, aged 63 years.

Saturday, February 21, 2009. He married in 1804, Letitia Wright, and had four daughters and one son; William Penn.