(erielack) Re: Name Lackawanna

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-From my copy of the book,  The Lackawanna Story by Robert Casey and W.A.S. 
Douglas, copy right 1951:
"Lackawanna," in Delaware Indian, meant "the forks of a stream.". The word 
began to appear in surveys, sales, grants, transfers, etc., following the 
first trek of the Connecticut men, and is shown in various spellings such as 
"Lackawanick," "Lackawanneck", "Lackawannuck", "Lackawanny," Leghawanny.". 
After the Wyoming Massacre the army expedition through the region, led by 
General John Sullivan, broke all Indian power in northeastern Pennsylvania, 
and soldier-settlers, heirs to slaughtered settlers, new adventures, and 
former absentee owners moved in. The spelling then was offficially recorded 
as "Lackawanna."
     The term "Connecticut Men" is derived from a group that came to the 
Lackawanna Valley and set up a camp at what is now the town of Shickshinney, 
southwest of Scranton during the middle of August, 1762. In the spring of 
1763 the first women and childern of the Connecticut Colony moved in. This 
group was trying to stake claim to the area for the Colony of Connecticut 
under a chapter granted by King Charles II of England in 1662 consisted of 
all the land between the forty-first and forty-second degrees of north 
latitude, a area of land 68 miles wide, extending from Naggaganset Bay to the 
Pacific Ocean. This land grant conflicted with William Penns land grant of 
1681 which also included the same lands in Northeastern Pennsylvania. This 
was an atemp by Connecticut to lay claim to the land. 
     Also the name "Delaware" derives from the tribe of that name, which, 
originally the Leni-Lenape, took the name of Lord De La Warr, its first white 
overlord.
Bob Stafford 

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