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564 HISTORY 'OF BRADFORD COUNTY.being a part of the 11 Manor of Pomfret 11 in the county of Northumberland.May 4, 1775, Job and Elizabeth Chillaway conveyed by deed this tract of land to Henry Pawling, great-grandfather Of the late Judge LeviPawling Stalford, in consideration of the Sum of 1784, subject to a mortgage of X236 due parties in Philadelphia; and Pawling by his will,dated August 29, 1792, conveyed a part of this land to Ills daughter, Catharine Stalford (spelled Stalmford), wife of Joseph Stalford. She wasto locate her 275 acres according to her pleasure. The commissioners appointed to settle the titles in Springfield township assigned theupper half of the Pawling track to Connecticut claimants, leaving to the Stalford family, where it is now, the part actually occupied by theIndians.The Moravian brothers of Bethlehem visited Wyalusing in 1870, and hunted out the grounds of Friedenshtutten, and a memorial monumentwas erected on the old village ground, standing in front of the late Judge Stalford's residence, and near the track of the Lehigh Valley Road.The dedicatory services of the monument were held June 14 and 15, 1871. It is of drab sandstone from near Pittston; the foundation stoneis from Laceyville; total height of the structure is fifteen feet; on the eastern face is the following 11 This stone was erected on the 15th ofJune, in the year of Redemption 1871, by members of the Moravian Historical Society." There was present at the dedication Bernhard AdamGrube, eighty years old, a grandson of Rev. Grube, who had been a teacher and adviser at old Friedenshutten, who told the audienceinteresting reminiscences of his grandfather who died at Bethlehem, March 20, 1808, aged ninety-three years. In the course of his remarkslie pointed out a little girl, sitting at his side, Annie W. Lehman, whose great-grandfather, John Heckewelder, bad followed the Indians ofFriedenshutten into the western country casting his lot with theirs in the darkest days of the mission.The Pawlings took possession of their land, and they brought as tenant ' . Isaac Hancock, who came in 1776, who soon had cleared a farmnear the old Indian village site. It is a disputed question whether any white man remained in the valley during the War of the Revolution ornot, and yet from the late Judge L. P. Stalford's notes is taken the statement that this man Hancock opened the first public-house and kept itfrom 1780 to 1795; and he farther states that he was the first justice of the peace; that he was here from 1766 to 1795, and that his daughter,born in 1777, was the first white child born in this vicinity.

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