- Author
- Eshleman, Henry Frank,
- Date of Publication
- 1908
grandmother told her, tells us in
her "Journal" that the farmers on the
Susquehanna about 1730 did not de-
pend on wheat and corn, but on hemp
and hops to make a living. (See
Journal Hist. Soc. Pa,)
To tell the number of people who
lived here when the county was or-
ganized in 1729 is a difficult matter.
In