Reminiscences of the Early History of Dark Hollow, Slocum Hollow, Harrison Lackawanna Iron Works, Scrantonia, and Scranton, Pa - Before the Lackawanna Institute of History and Science, November 9, 1886 #260259

Connecticut by its charter, (granted in covered the forty-second degree of latitude and ex tended from Narragansett river on the east to the South sea on the west, excepting such lands as were then occupied by prior settlers namely, New York and New Jersey. Nearly nineteen years afterwards Wm. Penn obtained a grant of lands on the west side of the Delaware river extending northward to the forty third degree of latitude; this covered a part of the territory embraced in the Connecticut charter.