Captain David Isaac Cash married Sally M. Gore, daughter of Obediah Gore, Jr. and Anna Avery, on 9 Apr 1792 probably in Ulster, Pennsylvania. To this union were born eleven children: Mary Ann, David, Eliza, Carassa, George Washington, Lord Gore, John Spalding, Daniel Shepard, Isaac, Sarah M. and William Kirkpatrick. Among these children grew attorneys, politicians and adventurers.
David Isaac Cash, along with his brothers and sisters, was a survivor of "The Wyoming Massacre" new Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania 3 Jul 1778. His mother, Mary Polly Tracy Cash, was the family hero by saving herself and her children from the Indians.
Received the following from Charlie McCabe of Pine City, New York, November 11, 1995: He writes "Isaac born 1766, often referred to as "Esquire" or "Captain" enters Bradford County, PA about 1790 along with many other Connecticut settlers, many of whom had first settled at Wyoming. Bradford County early settlement is closely associated with the Connecticut settlers of Wyoming, but I find no evidence of Isaac's presence there after the battle. He probably came directly from Orange County to Bradford County as did many others. He appears as an early settler and landholder in "Tioga Point", now Athens, PA. (my hometown), purchasing land in 1791 (only twenty-five years old) and soon moves down the Susquehanna River seven or eight miles to Ulster, PA. where he becomes a large landholder. At that time there was still much controversy between the Connecticut and Pennsylvania settlers over land ownership. Present day "Cash Creek" runs through Ulster.
He is intimately associated with several other Connecticut families who were early settlers in Sheshequin across the river from Ulster. These families included the Gores, Kinneys, and Spaldings. He married Sally Gore in 1792/93. She was the daughter of "Judge" Obadiah Gore who had three brothers and two brothers-in-law killed at Wyoming. "Judge" Gore was born ca 1744 in Norwich, CT, son of Obadiah, born c 1714, probably Roxbury, MA; son of Samuel born 1681; son of Samuel born 1652; son of John Gore and his wife Rhoda, who settled in Roxbury about 1635."
From the History of Bradford County, PA: "Captain Isaac Cash was a prominent citizen of Ulster and one of its early settlers. He was the oldest son of Daniel and Mary (Tracy) Cash, and was born in Orange County, NY, August 15, 1766. At the battle of Wyoming Daniel Cash volunteered to go east to solicit aid to repel the impending attack. On his return he met the fleeing fugitives, among them his wife and her little children. They went back to Orange county, and after the war was over returned to Wyoming, where he died in 1789. Isaac Cash was among the early settlers in Athens, having settled on the Point, on the farm afterwards owned by General Welles. He sold his improvement in 1791, and moved to Ulster while yet a single man. He settled on the farm next above Mr. Holcomb, and which Solomon Tracy (his mother's brother) owned, of whom Mr. Cash purchased it by deed dated August 8, 1791, and is described as lot No. 3, of Ulster, in Old Sheshequin. His grandson, S.S. Lockwood, now lives on the farm. Here he married Sarah, youngest daughter of Judge Gore, of Sheshequin. He was an active, energetic man, dealing largely in lumber and real estate. He was appointed justice of the peace, and held the office until the time of his death, which was April 12, 1813; his wife died two weeks before him, viz., March 28. Of the eleven children left orphans by the sudden death of both their parents, Anna married first Dr. Robert Russell and second Col. Edmond Lockwood.
Rural Amity Lodge, No. 70, Athens. - "The early lodges in the North Branch valley were at Newtown, now Elmira, in 1793, and in Wilkes-Barre in 1794. In this lodge, still existing as No. 60 (1878), Arnold Colt was made a Mason. He soon after came to Tioga Point to reside, and while here, in conjunction with other brethren, obtained a warrant from the Grand Lodge of PA, for a lodge at Tioga Point. It was granted June 24, 1796, but was not issued until July 6, 1796, and the lodge was not organized under it until May 21, 1798, nearly two years later. Arnold Colt was its first Master, Dr. Stephen Hopkins its Senior Warden, and Captain Ira Hopkins its Junior Warden. The registry number of the lodge is no. 70, at Tioga Point, Luzerne county. The warrant is on parchment, and is still preserved in good condition in the lodge as the authority for its work. The lodge organized with some of the most prominent names in northern PA upon its rolls including Spaldings and Cash among its constituent members. The meetings for organization was held at the house of George Welles, on Tioga Point. Fourteen members formed the first constituency."
At some point Duke de la Rochefoucault made a tour of northern PA. The following is from his journal on his visit to the Towanda and Ulster area (Translated by II. Newman.) "This planter (Solomon Tracy) occupies an estate of five hundred acres, only thirty of which are yet cleared....... He wishes to dispose of his plantation, which he holds from the State of Connecticut; the price he demands is five thousand three hundred and ninety dollars; that is to say, about ten and three-fourths dollars per acre. Another land-holder (probably Mr. Isaac Cash), at whose house we stopped to procure directions about the road, intimated to us a similar design, as he mistook us for jobbers. His planation consisted of three hundred acres, sixty of which wre cleared, with corn and saw mills, which he estimated at one thousand three hundred dollars. He asked for the whole estate two thousand six hundred dollars, which is tantamount to eight and one half dollars per acre. The state of agriculture here is no better than in other parts of PA, and even worse than in many of them, all the plantations being in that infant state where the soil yields rich crops without cultivation. The settlers, too, are doubtful whether their rights to their possessions will be confirmed, have much business on their hands, and are in general little able to advance money for the improvement of their lands, so that they give themselves hardly the trouble to plough up the ground. For this purpose they make use of oxen, the medium price of a yoke of which is seventy dollars. Wheat commonly sells for one dollar a bushel, rye for four shillings, and oats from two shillings sixpence to three shillings. There are two schools in the neighboring country, which are both kept by women, who teach needle-work and reading. To learn to read, therefore, is the only instruction which boys can obtain here. These schools are maintained solely by a fee of five shillings a quarter paid by each scholar. They are evidently insufficient, but they are schools, and these are very rare yet in PA.
No place has hitherto been set apart for religious worship. Those who desire to perform this assemble in private families, and engage a preacher for a yearly salary, which, however, is very small. Families of Methodists constitute the principal part of the inhabitants.
On the other side of the river stands New Sheshequin, a small, neat town, containing about twelve houses, which are either built of rough logs or boards. It is located on a very pleasant plain. The justice of the peace, surgeon, and the pastor of the neighboring country reside in this place. It contains shops; in short, all those things which are found only in principal towns.
The road from Old Sheshequin to Tioga, which had been represented to us as a very bad one, proved, on the contrary, very good. Here the farm houses lie closer to each other. Near Tioga the river of the same name discharges itself into the Susquehanna. The site of the town, or rather the eight or ten houses which are so called, is about two miles distant from the confluence of the two rivers...... The price of land in the neighborhood of the town is eight dollars per acre, when, out of three hundred acres, the proportion of fifty or sixty are cleared of wood. The town shares are sixteen yards in breadth and fifty in depth, and cost twenty dollars. The price of wheat is seven shillings sixpence per bushel; rye sells for six shillings, and oats from three to four (PA currency). Some venison excepted, which at times comes to market, no fresh meat has been seen at Tioga since last autumn. The merchants of the place carry on an inconsiderable trade in hemp, which they get from the upper parts of the river, and send to Philadelphia by Middletown. We were informed that the shops at Asylum prove very hurtful to the trade of Tioga.--a complaint which gave our fellow-traveler, who keeps a shop at Asylum, no small satisfaction. Last year there were three inns in Tioga, but at this time there was but one; we found it crowded with travelers from the Jerseys, PA, and New York, who intend to settle on the lakes. After a scanty supper, we were all obliged to take up with two beds; more were not to be had on any terms. The sheets, which had already served three or four travelers, were, according to the landlady's account, very clean; and so indeed they are called in all the American inns, when they are in fact totally unfit for use. Yet, on the other hand, we enjoyed the special favor of being permitted to lie down in boots, as those of our party really did who, like myself, preferred taking their repose on the ground wrapped up in a blanket.... Near the confines of PA a mountain rises from the banks of the river Tioga in the shape of a sugarloaf, upon which are seen the remains of some intrenchment; these the inhabitants call the Spanish ramparts, but I rather judge them to have been thrown up against the Indians in the times of M. de Noville. One perpendicular breastwork is yet remaining, which, though covered over with grass and bushes, plainly indicates that a parapet and a ditch have been constructed here."
David Isaac Cash, along with his brothers and sisters, was a survivor of "The Wyoming Massacre" new Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania 3 Jul 1778. His mother, Mary Polly Tracy Cash, was the family hero by saving herself and her children from the Indians.
Received the following from Charlie McCabe of Pine City, New York, November 11, 1995: He writes "Isaac born 1766, often referred to as "Esquire" or "Captain" enters Bradford County, PA about 1790 along with many other Connecticut settlers, many of whom had first settled at Wyoming. Bradford County early settlement is closely associated with the Connecticut settlers of Wyoming, but I find no evidence of Isaac's presence there after the battle. He probably came directly from Orange County to Bradford County as did many others. He appears as an early settler and landholder in "Tioga Point", now Athens, PA. (my hometown), purchasing land in 1791 (only twenty-five years old) and soon moves down the Susquehanna River seven or eight miles to Ulster, PA. where he becomes a large landholder. At that time there was still much controversy between the Connecticut and Pennsylvania settlers over land ownership. Present day "Cash Creek" runs through Ulster.
He is intimately associated with several other Connecticut families who were early settlers in Sheshequin across the river from Ulster. These families included the Gores, Kinneys, and Spaldings. He married Sally Gore in 1792/93. She was the daughter of "Judge" Obadiah Gore who had three brothers and two brothers-in-law killed at Wyoming. "Judge" Gore was born ca 1744 in Norwich, CT, son of Obadiah, born c 1714, probably Roxbury, MA; son of Samuel born 1681; son of Samuel born 1652; son of John Gore and his wife Rhoda, who settled in Roxbury about 1635."
From the History of Bradford County, PA: "Captain Isaac Cash was a prominent citizen of Ulster and one of its early settlers. He was the oldest son of Daniel and Mary (Tracy) Cash, and was born in Orange County, NY, August 15, 1766. At the battle of Wyoming Daniel Cash volunteered to go east to solicit aid to repel the impending attack. On his return he met the fleeing fugitives, among them his wife and her little children. They went back to Orange county, and after the war was over returned to Wyoming, where he died in 1789. Isaac Cash was among the early settlers in Athens, having settled on the Point, on the farm afterwards owned by General Welles. He sold his improvement in 1791, and moved to Ulster while yet a single man. He settled on the farm next above Mr. Holcomb, and which Solomon Tracy (his mother's brother) owned, of whom Mr. Cash purchased it by deed dated August 8, 1791, and is described as lot No. 3, of Ulster, in Old Sheshequin. His grandson, S.S. Lockwood, now lives on the farm. Here he married Sarah, youngest daughter of Judge Gore, of Sheshequin. He was an active, energetic man, dealing largely in lumber and real estate. He was appointed justice of the peace, and held the office until the time of his death, which was April 12, 1813; his wife died two weeks before him, viz., March 28. Of the eleven children left orphans by the sudden death of both their parents, Anna married first Dr. Robert Russell and second Col. Edmond Lockwood.
Rural Amity Lodge, No. 70, Athens. - "The early lodges in the North Branch valley were at Newtown, now Elmira, in 1793, and in Wilkes-Barre in 1794. In this lodge, still existing as No. 60 (1878), Arnold Colt was made a Mason. He soon after came to Tioga Point to reside, and while here, in conjunction with other brethren, obtained a warrant from the Grand Lodge of PA, for a lodge at Tioga Point. It was granted June 24, 1796, but was not issued until July 6, 1796, and the lodge was not organized under it until May 21, 1798, nearly two years later. Arnold Colt was its first Master, Dr. Stephen Hopkins its Senior Warden, and Captain Ira Hopkins its Junior Warden. The registry number of the lodge is no. 70, at Tioga Point, Luzerne county. The warrant is on parchment, and is still preserved in good condition in the lodge as the authority for its work. The lodge organized with some of the most prominent names in northern PA upon its rolls including Spaldings and Cash among its constituent members. The meetings for organization was held at the house of George Welles, on Tioga Point. Fourteen members formed the first constituency."
At some point Duke de la Rochefoucault made a tour of northern PA. The following is from his journal on his visit to the Towanda and Ulster area (Translated by II. Newman.) "This planter (Solomon Tracy) occupies an estate of five hundred acres, only thirty of which are yet cleared....... He wishes to dispose of his plantation, which he holds from the State of Connecticut; the price he demands is five thousand three hundred and ninety dollars; that is to say, about ten and three-fourths dollars per acre. Another land-holder (probably Mr. Isaac Cash), at whose house we stopped to procure directions about the road, intimated to us a similar design, as he mistook us for jobbers. His planation consisted of three hundred acres, sixty of which wre cleared, with corn and saw mills, which he estimated at one thousand three hundred dollars. He asked for the whole estate two thousand six hundred dollars, which is tantamount to eight and one half dollars per acre. The state of agriculture here is no better than in other parts of PA, and even worse than in many of them, all the plantations being in that infant state where the soil yields rich crops without cultivation. The settlers, too, are doubtful whether their rights to their possessions will be confirmed, have much business on their hands, and are in general little able to advance money for the improvement of their lands, so that they give themselves hardly the trouble to plough up the ground. For this purpose they make use of oxen, the medium price of a yoke of which is seventy dollars. Wheat commonly sells for one dollar a bushel, rye for four shillings, and oats from two shillings sixpence to three shillings. There are two schools in the neighboring country, which are both kept by women, who teach needle-work and reading. To learn to read, therefore, is the only instruction which boys can obtain here. These schools are maintained solely by a fee of five shillings a quarter paid by each scholar. They are evidently insufficient, but they are schools, and these are very rare yet in PA.
No place has hitherto been set apart for religious worship. Those who desire to perform this assemble in private families, and engage a preacher for a yearly salary, which, however, is very small. Families of Methodists constitute the principal part of the inhabitants.
On the other side of the river stands New Sheshequin, a small, neat town, containing about twelve houses, which are either built of rough logs or boards. It is located on a very pleasant plain. The justice of the peace, surgeon, and the pastor of the neighboring country reside in this place. It contains shops; in short, all those things which are found only in principal towns.
The road from Old Sheshequin to Tioga, which had been represented to us as a very bad one, proved, on the contrary, very good. Here the farm houses lie closer to each other. Near Tioga the river of the same name discharges itself into the Susquehanna. The site of the town, or rather the eight or ten houses which are so called, is about two miles distant from the confluence of the two rivers...... The price of land in the neighborhood of the town is eight dollars per acre, when, out of three hundred acres, the proportion of fifty or sixty are cleared of wood. The town shares are sixteen yards in breadth and fifty in depth, and cost twenty dollars. The price of wheat is seven shillings sixpence per bushel; rye sells for six shillings, and oats from three to four (PA currency). Some venison excepted, which at times comes to market, no fresh meat has been seen at Tioga since last autumn. The merchants of the place carry on an inconsiderable trade in hemp, which they get from the upper parts of the river, and send to Philadelphia by Middletown. We were informed that the shops at Asylum prove very hurtful to the trade of Tioga.--a complaint which gave our fellow-traveler, who keeps a shop at Asylum, no small satisfaction. Last year there were three inns in Tioga, but at this time there was but one; we found it crowded with travelers from the Jerseys, PA, and New York, who intend to settle on the lakes. After a scanty supper, we were all obliged to take up with two beds; more were not to be had on any terms. The sheets, which had already served three or four travelers, were, according to the landlady's account, very clean; and so indeed they are called in all the American inns, when they are in fact totally unfit for use. Yet, on the other hand, we enjoyed the special favor of being permitted to lie down in boots, as those of our party really did who, like myself, preferred taking their repose on the ground wrapped up in a blanket.... Near the confines of PA a mountain rises from the banks of the river Tioga in the shape of a sugarloaf, upon which are seen the remains of some intrenchment; these the inhabitants call the Spanish ramparts, but I rather judge them to have been thrown up against the Indians in the times of M. de Noville. One perpendicular breastwork is yet remaining, which, though covered over with grass and bushes, plainly indicates that a parapet and a ditch have been constructed here."
Captain David Isaac Cash married Sally M. Gore, daughter of Obediah Gore, Jr. and Anna Avery, on 9 Apr 1792 probably in Ulster, Pennsylvania. To this union were born eleven children: Mary Ann, David, Eliza, Carassa, George Washington, Lord Gore, John Spalding, Daniel Shepard, Isaac, Sarah M. and William Kirkpatrick. Among these children grew attorneys, politicians and adventurers.
David Isaac Cash, along with his brothers and sisters, was a survivor of "The Wyoming Massacre" new Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania 3 Jul 1778. His mother, Mary Polly Tracy Cash, was the family hero by saving herself and her children from the Indians.
Received the following from Charlie McCabe of Pine City, New York, November 11, 1995: He writes "Isaac born 1766, often referred to as "Esquire" or "Captain" enters Bradford County, PA about 1790 along with many other Connecticut settlers, many of whom had first settled at Wyoming. Bradford County early settlement is closely associated with the Connecticut settlers of Wyoming, but I find no evidence of Isaac's presence there after the battle. He probably came directly from Orange County to Bradford County as did many others. He appears as an early settler and landholder in "Tioga Point", now Athens, PA. (my hometown), purchasing land in 1791 (only twenty-five years old) and soon moves down the Susquehanna River seven or eight miles to Ulster, PA. where he becomes a large landholder. At that time there was still much controversy between the Connecticut and Pennsylvania settlers over land ownership. Present day "Cash Creek" runs through Ulster.
He is intimately associated with several other Connecticut families who were early settlers in Sheshequin across the river from Ulster. These families included the Gores, Kinneys, and Spaldings. He married Sally Gore in 1792/93. She was the daughter of "Judge" Obadiah Gore who had three brothers and two brothers-in-law killed at Wyoming. "Judge" Gore was born ca 1744 in Norwich, CT, son of Obadiah, born c 1714, probably Roxbury, MA; son of Samuel born 1681; son of Samuel born 1652; son of John Gore and his wife Rhoda, who settled in Roxbury about 1635."
From the History of Bradford County, PA: "Captain Isaac Cash was a prominent citizen of Ulster and one of its early settlers. He was the oldest son of Daniel and Mary (Tracy) Cash, and was born in Orange County, NY, August 15, 1766. At the battle of Wyoming Daniel Cash volunteered to go east to solicit aid to repel the impending attack. On his return he met the fleeing fugitives, among them his wife and her little children. They went back to Orange county, and after the war was over returned to Wyoming, where he died in 1789. Isaac Cash was among the early settlers in Athens, having settled on the Point, on the farm afterwards owned by General Welles. He sold his improvement in 1791, and moved to Ulster while yet a single man. He settled on the farm next above Mr. Holcomb, and which Solomon Tracy (his mother's brother) owned, of whom Mr. Cash purchased it by deed dated August 8, 1791, and is described as lot No. 3, of Ulster, in Old Sheshequin. His grandson, S.S. Lockwood, now lives on the farm. Here he married Sarah, youngest daughter of Judge Gore, of Sheshequin. He was an active, energetic man, dealing largely in lumber and real estate. He was appointed justice of the peace, and held the office until the time of his death, which was April 12, 1813; his wife died two weeks before him, viz., March 28. Of the eleven children left orphans by the sudden death of both their parents, Anna married first Dr. Robert Russell and second Col. Edmond Lockwood.
Rural Amity Lodge, No. 70, Athens. - "The early lodges in the North Branch valley were at Newtown, now Elmira, in 1793, and in Wilkes-Barre in 1794. In this lodge, still existing as No. 60 (1878), Arnold Colt was made a Mason. He soon after came to Tioga Point to reside, and while here, in conjunction with other brethren, obtained a warrant from the Grand Lodge of PA, for a lodge at Tioga Point. It was granted June 24, 1796, but was not issued until July 6, 1796, and the lodge was not organized under it until May 21, 1798, nearly two years later. Arnold Colt was its first Master, Dr. Stephen Hopkins its Senior Warden, and Captain Ira Hopkins its Junior Warden. The registry number of the lodge is no. 70, at Tioga Point, Luzerne county. The warrant is on parchment, and is still preserved in good condition in the lodge as the authority for its work. The lodge organized with some of the most prominent names in northern PA upon its rolls including Spaldings and Cash among its constituent members. The meetings for organization was held at the house of George Welles, on Tioga Point. Fourteen members formed the first constituency."
At some point Duke de la Rochefoucault made a tour of northern PA. The following is from his journal on his visit to the Towanda and Ulster area (Translated by II. Newman.) "This planter (Solomon Tracy) occupies an estate of five hundred acres, only thirty of which are yet cleared....... He wishes to dispose of his plantation, which he holds from the State of Connecticut; the price he demands is five thousand three hundred and ninety dollars; that is to say, about ten and three-fourths dollars per acre. Another land-holder (probably Mr. Isaac Cash), at whose house we stopped to procure directions about the road, intimated to us a similar design, as he mistook us for jobbers. His planation consisted of three hundred acres, sixty of which wre cleared, with corn and saw mills, which he estimated at one thousand three hundred dollars. He asked for the whole estate two thousand six hundred dollars, which is tantamount to eight and one half dollars per acre. The state of agriculture here is no better than in other parts of PA, and even worse than in many of them, all the plantations being in that infant state where the soil yields rich crops without cultivation. The settlers, too, are doubtful whether their rights to their possessions will be confirmed, have much business on their hands, and are in general little able to advance money for the improvement of their lands, so that they give themselves hardly the trouble to plough up the ground. For this purpose they make use of oxen, the medium price of a yoke of which is seventy dollars. Wheat commonly sells for one dollar a bushel, rye for four shillings, and oats from two shillings sixpence to three shillings. There are two schools in the neighboring country, which are both kept by women, who teach needle-work and reading. To learn to read, therefore, is the only instruction which boys can obtain here. These schools are maintained solely by a fee of five shillings a quarter paid by each scholar. They are evidently insufficient, but they are schools, and these are very rare yet in PA.
No place has hitherto been set apart for religious worship. Those who desire to perform this assemble in private families, and engage a preacher for a yearly salary, which, however, is very small. Families of Methodists constitute the principal part of the inhabitants.
On the other side of the river stands New Sheshequin, a small, neat town, containing about twelve houses, which are either built of rough logs or boards. It is located on a very pleasant plain. The justice of the peace, surgeon, and the pastor of the neighboring country reside in this place. It contains shops; in short, all those things which are found only in principal towns.
The road from Old Sheshequin to Tioga, which had been represented to us as a very bad one, proved, on the contrary, very good. Here the farm houses lie closer to each other. Near Tioga the river of the same name discharges itself into the Susquehanna. The site of the town, or rather the eight or ten houses which are so called, is about two miles distant from the confluence of the two rivers...... The price of land in the neighborhood of the town is eight dollars per acre, when, out of three hundred acres, the proportion of fifty or sixty are cleared of wood. The town shares are sixteen yards in breadth and fifty in depth, and cost twenty dollars. The price of wheat is seven shillings sixpence per bushel; rye sells for six shillings, and oats from three to four (PA currency). Some venison excepted, which at times comes to market, no fresh meat has been seen at Tioga since last autumn. The merchants of the place carry on an inconsiderable trade in hemp, which they get from the upper parts of the river, and send to Philadelphia by Middletown. We were informed that the shops at Asylum prove very hurtful to the trade of Tioga.--a complaint which gave our fellow-traveler, who keeps a shop at Asylum, no small satisfaction. Last year there were three inns in Tioga, but at this time there was but one; we found it crowded with travelers from the Jerseys, PA, and New York, who intend to settle on the lakes. After a scanty supper, we were all obliged to take up with two beds; more were not to be had on any terms. The sheets, which had already served three or four travelers, were, according to the landlady's account, very clean; and so indeed they are called in all the American inns, when they are in fact totally unfit for use. Yet, on the other hand, we enjoyed the special favor of being permitted to lie down in boots, as those of our party really did who, like myself, preferred taking their repose on the ground wrapped up in a blanket.... Near the confines of PA a mountain rises from the banks of the river Tioga in the shape of a sugarloaf, upon which are seen the remains of some intrenchment; these the inhabitants call the Spanish ramparts, but I rather judge them to have been thrown up against the Indians in the times of M. de Noville. One perpendicular breastwork is yet remaining, which, though covered over with grass and bushes, plainly indicates that a parapet and a ditch have been constructed here."
David Isaac Cash, along with his brothers and sisters, was a survivor of "The Wyoming Massacre" new Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania 3 Jul 1778. His mother, Mary Polly Tracy Cash, was the family hero by saving herself and her children from the Indians.
Received the following from Charlie McCabe of Pine City, New York, November 11, 1995: He writes "Isaac born 1766, often referred to as "Esquire" or "Captain" enters Bradford County, PA about 1790 along with many other Connecticut settlers, many of whom had first settled at Wyoming. Bradford County early settlement is closely associated with the Connecticut settlers of Wyoming, but I find no evidence of Isaac's presence there after the battle. He probably came directly from Orange County to Bradford County as did many others. He appears as an early settler and landholder in "Tioga Point", now Athens, PA. (my hometown), purchasing land in 1791 (only twenty-five years old) and soon moves down the Susquehanna River seven or eight miles to Ulster, PA. where he becomes a large landholder. At that time there was still much controversy between the Connecticut and Pennsylvania settlers over land ownership. Present day "Cash Creek" runs through Ulster.
He is intimately associated with several other Connecticut families who were early settlers in Sheshequin across the river from Ulster. These families included the Gores, Kinneys, and Spaldings. He married Sally Gore in 1792/93. She was the daughter of "Judge" Obadiah Gore who had three brothers and two brothers-in-law killed at Wyoming. "Judge" Gore was born ca 1744 in Norwich, CT, son of Obadiah, born c 1714, probably Roxbury, MA; son of Samuel born 1681; son of Samuel born 1652; son of John Gore and his wife Rhoda, who settled in Roxbury about 1635."
From the History of Bradford County, PA: "Captain Isaac Cash was a prominent citizen of Ulster and one of its early settlers. He was the oldest son of Daniel and Mary (Tracy) Cash, and was born in Orange County, NY, August 15, 1766. At the battle of Wyoming Daniel Cash volunteered to go east to solicit aid to repel the impending attack. On his return he met the fleeing fugitives, among them his wife and her little children. They went back to Orange county, and after the war was over returned to Wyoming, where he died in 1789. Isaac Cash was among the early settlers in Athens, having settled on the Point, on the farm afterwards owned by General Welles. He sold his improvement in 1791, and moved to Ulster while yet a single man. He settled on the farm next above Mr. Holcomb, and which Solomon Tracy (his mother's brother) owned, of whom Mr. Cash purchased it by deed dated August 8, 1791, and is described as lot No. 3, of Ulster, in Old Sheshequin. His grandson, S.S. Lockwood, now lives on the farm. Here he married Sarah, youngest daughter of Judge Gore, of Sheshequin. He was an active, energetic man, dealing largely in lumber and real estate. He was appointed justice of the peace, and held the office until the time of his death, which was April 12, 1813; his wife died two weeks before him, viz., March 28. Of the eleven children left orphans by the sudden death of both their parents, Anna married first Dr. Robert Russell and second Col. Edmond Lockwood.
Rural Amity Lodge, No. 70, Athens. - "The early lodges in the North Branch valley were at Newtown, now Elmira, in 1793, and in Wilkes-Barre in 1794. In this lodge, still existing as No. 60 (1878), Arnold Colt was made a Mason. He soon after came to Tioga Point to reside, and while here, in conjunction with other brethren, obtained a warrant from the Grand Lodge of PA, for a lodge at Tioga Point. It was granted June 24, 1796, but was not issued until July 6, 1796, and the lodge was not organized under it until May 21, 1798, nearly two years later. Arnold Colt was its first Master, Dr. Stephen Hopkins its Senior Warden, and Captain Ira Hopkins its Junior Warden. The registry number of the lodge is no. 70, at Tioga Point, Luzerne county. The warrant is on parchment, and is still preserved in good condition in the lodge as the authority for its work. The lodge organized with some of the most prominent names in northern PA upon its rolls including Spaldings and Cash among its constituent members. The meetings for organization was held at the house of George Welles, on Tioga Point. Fourteen members formed the first constituency."
At some point Duke de la Rochefoucault made a tour of northern PA. The following is from his journal on his visit to the Towanda and Ulster area (Translated by II. Newman.) "This planter (Solomon Tracy) occupies an estate of five hundred acres, only thirty of which are yet cleared....... He wishes to dispose of his plantation, which he holds from the State of Connecticut; the price he demands is five thousand three hundred and ninety dollars; that is to say, about ten and three-fourths dollars per acre. Another land-holder (probably Mr. Isaac Cash), at whose house we stopped to procure directions about the road, intimated to us a similar design, as he mistook us for jobbers. His planation consisted of three hundred acres, sixty of which wre cleared, with corn and saw mills, which he estimated at one thousand three hundred dollars. He asked for the whole estate two thousand six hundred dollars, which is tantamount to eight and one half dollars per acre. The state of agriculture here is no better than in other parts of PA, and even worse than in many of them, all the plantations being in that infant state where the soil yields rich crops without cultivation. The settlers, too, are doubtful whether their rights to their possessions will be confirmed, have much business on their hands, and are in general little able to advance money for the improvement of their lands, so that they give themselves hardly the trouble to plough up the ground. For this purpose they make use of oxen, the medium price of a yoke of which is seventy dollars. Wheat commonly sells for one dollar a bushel, rye for four shillings, and oats from two shillings sixpence to three shillings. There are two schools in the neighboring country, which are both kept by women, who teach needle-work and reading. To learn to read, therefore, is the only instruction which boys can obtain here. These schools are maintained solely by a fee of five shillings a quarter paid by each scholar. They are evidently insufficient, but they are schools, and these are very rare yet in PA.
No place has hitherto been set apart for religious worship. Those who desire to perform this assemble in private families, and engage a preacher for a yearly salary, which, however, is very small. Families of Methodists constitute the principal part of the inhabitants.
On the other side of the river stands New Sheshequin, a small, neat town, containing about twelve houses, which are either built of rough logs or boards. It is located on a very pleasant plain. The justice of the peace, surgeon, and the pastor of the neighboring country reside in this place. It contains shops; in short, all those things which are found only in principal towns.
The road from Old Sheshequin to Tioga, which had been represented to us as a very bad one, proved, on the contrary, very good. Here the farm houses lie closer to each other. Near Tioga the river of the same name discharges itself into the Susquehanna. The site of the town, or rather the eight or ten houses which are so called, is about two miles distant from the confluence of the two rivers...... The price of land in the neighborhood of the town is eight dollars per acre, when, out of three hundred acres, the proportion of fifty or sixty are cleared of wood. The town shares are sixteen yards in breadth and fifty in depth, and cost twenty dollars. The price of wheat is seven shillings sixpence per bushel; rye sells for six shillings, and oats from three to four (PA currency). Some venison excepted, which at times comes to market, no fresh meat has been seen at Tioga since last autumn. The merchants of the place carry on an inconsiderable trade in hemp, which they get from the upper parts of the river, and send to Philadelphia by Middletown. We were informed that the shops at Asylum prove very hurtful to the trade of Tioga.--a complaint which gave our fellow-traveler, who keeps a shop at Asylum, no small satisfaction. Last year there were three inns in Tioga, but at this time there was but one; we found it crowded with travelers from the Jerseys, PA, and New York, who intend to settle on the lakes. After a scanty supper, we were all obliged to take up with two beds; more were not to be had on any terms. The sheets, which had already served three or four travelers, were, according to the landlady's account, very clean; and so indeed they are called in all the American inns, when they are in fact totally unfit for use. Yet, on the other hand, we enjoyed the special favor of being permitted to lie down in boots, as those of our party really did who, like myself, preferred taking their repose on the ground wrapped up in a blanket.... Near the confines of PA a mountain rises from the banks of the river Tioga in the shape of a sugarloaf, upon which are seen the remains of some intrenchment; these the inhabitants call the Spanish ramparts, but I rather judge them to have been thrown up against the Indians in the times of M. de Noville. One perpendicular breastwork is yet remaining, which, though covered over with grass and bushes, plainly indicates that a parapet and a ditch have been constructed here."
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In
MEMORY OF
ISAAC CASH
ESQ WHO
DEPARTED THIS
LIFE ON THE 12th
OF APRIL 1813
AGED 46 YEARS
AND 8 MONTHS
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