History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Published by L. H. Everts & Co., 714-16 Filbert Street, Philadelphia 1878
Warren is the northeast corner township of Bradford County. Previous to 1798 this section was an unbroken wilderness, inhabited by a few Indians an the wild beasts which roamed unrestrained over the hills and thru the valleys. In 1798, James Bowen, William Arnold, Mr. Harding, and Thomas Gibson came into Warren, then known as Martell, and made a clearing on the south branch of the Wappusening creek, at a place called for many years "the old clearing." But they found they were not on the tract of land they had designed settling on, and after obtaining their first crop they abandoned it and went farther north, to a place which has been known ever since as "Bowen Hollow", where James Bowen built a grist-mill on the middle branch of the Wappusening
William Arnold and Elizabeth, his wife, came from Swanzey, Mass., to Warren, in the year 1799. They brought with them three sons, James, William, and Andrew, all of whom lived to be aged men, and reared families. The fourth son, Benedict, was born in Warren, and was the first child in the township. Their oldest daughter, Patience, married a Mr. Green, a sea-captain, and did not come to Warren with her parents. Elizabeth Arnold died in Warren when fifty years of age, about the year 1801. Her husband died about seventeen years after, sixty-two years of age. After the death of Mrs. Arnold, he married for a second woman by the name of Mapes, who survived him several years. Brown and Ives, the land owners, were anxious to induce settlers to come upon their lands, and made great inducements to secure the settlement of the first-comers upon their lands. The first pasture-field and meadow which the settlers possessed was an old beaver meadow, in which their only cow found pasture during the summer, and where they cut hay to keep her during the winter. There being no mill nearer than the river, Mr. Arnold made a mortar in the top of a hollow stump in front of his door.
Warren is the northeast corner township of Bradford County. Previous to 1798 this section was an unbroken wilderness, inhabited by a few Indians an the wild beasts which roamed unrestrained over the hills and thru the valleys. In 1798, James Bowen, William Arnold, Mr. Harding, and Thomas Gibson came into Warren, then known as Martell, and made a clearing on the south branch of the Wappusening creek, at a place called for many years "the old clearing." But they found they were not on the tract of land they had designed settling on, and after obtaining their first crop they abandoned it and went farther north, to a place which has been known ever since as "Bowen Hollow", where James Bowen built a grist-mill on the middle branch of the Wappusening
William Arnold and Elizabeth, his wife, came from Swanzey, Mass., to Warren, in the year 1799. They brought with them three sons, James, William, and Andrew, all of whom lived to be aged men, and reared families. The fourth son, Benedict, was born in Warren, and was the first child in the township. Their oldest daughter, Patience, married a Mr. Green, a sea-captain, and did not come to Warren with her parents. Elizabeth Arnold died in Warren when fifty years of age, about the year 1801. Her husband died about seventeen years after, sixty-two years of age. After the death of Mrs. Arnold, he married for a second woman by the name of Mapes, who survived him several years. Brown and Ives, the land owners, were anxious to induce settlers to come upon their lands, and made great inducements to secure the settlement of the first-comers upon their lands. The first pasture-field and meadow which the settlers possessed was an old beaver meadow, in which their only cow found pasture during the summer, and where they cut hay to keep her during the winter. There being no mill nearer than the river, Mr. Arnold made a mortar in the top of a hollow stump in front of his door.
History of Bradford County, Pennsylvania with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers. Published by L. H. Everts & Co., 714-16 Filbert Street, Philadelphia 1878
Warren is the northeast corner township of Bradford County. Previous to 1798 this section was an unbroken wilderness, inhabited by a few Indians an the wild beasts which roamed unrestrained over the hills and thru the valleys. In 1798, James Bowen, William Arnold, Mr. Harding, and Thomas Gibson came into Warren, then known as Martell, and made a clearing on the south branch of the Wappusening creek, at a place called for many years "the old clearing." But they found they were not on the tract of land they had designed settling on, and after obtaining their first crop they abandoned it and went farther north, to a place which has been known ever since as "Bowen Hollow", where James Bowen built a grist-mill on the middle branch of the Wappusening
William Arnold and Elizabeth, his wife, came from Swanzey, Mass., to Warren, in the year 1799. They brought with them three sons, James, William, and Andrew, all of whom lived to be aged men, and reared families. The fourth son, Benedict, was born in Warren, and was the first child in the township. Their oldest daughter, Patience, married a Mr. Green, a sea-captain, and did not come to Warren with her parents. Elizabeth Arnold died in Warren when fifty years of age, about the year 1801. Her husband died about seventeen years after, sixty-two years of age. After the death of Mrs. Arnold, he married for a second woman by the name of Mapes, who survived him several years. Brown and Ives, the land owners, were anxious to induce settlers to come upon their lands, and made great inducements to secure the settlement of the first-comers upon their lands. The first pasture-field and meadow which the settlers possessed was an old beaver meadow, in which their only cow found pasture during the summer, and where they cut hay to keep her during the winter. There being no mill nearer than the river, Mr. Arnold made a mortar in the top of a hollow stump in front of his door.
Warren is the northeast corner township of Bradford County. Previous to 1798 this section was an unbroken wilderness, inhabited by a few Indians an the wild beasts which roamed unrestrained over the hills and thru the valleys. In 1798, James Bowen, William Arnold, Mr. Harding, and Thomas Gibson came into Warren, then known as Martell, and made a clearing on the south branch of the Wappusening creek, at a place called for many years "the old clearing." But they found they were not on the tract of land they had designed settling on, and after obtaining their first crop they abandoned it and went farther north, to a place which has been known ever since as "Bowen Hollow", where James Bowen built a grist-mill on the middle branch of the Wappusening
William Arnold and Elizabeth, his wife, came from Swanzey, Mass., to Warren, in the year 1799. They brought with them three sons, James, William, and Andrew, all of whom lived to be aged men, and reared families. The fourth son, Benedict, was born in Warren, and was the first child in the township. Their oldest daughter, Patience, married a Mr. Green, a sea-captain, and did not come to Warren with her parents. Elizabeth Arnold died in Warren when fifty years of age, about the year 1801. Her husband died about seventeen years after, sixty-two years of age. After the death of Mrs. Arnold, he married for a second woman by the name of Mapes, who survived him several years. Brown and Ives, the land owners, were anxious to induce settlers to come upon their lands, and made great inducements to secure the settlement of the first-comers upon their lands. The first pasture-field and meadow which the settlers possessed was an old beaver meadow, in which their only cow found pasture during the summer, and where they cut hay to keep her during the winter. There being no mill nearer than the river, Mr. Arnold made a mortar in the top of a hollow stump in front of his door.
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