Jonathan Fitch - Pioneer Cemetery, Sidney, NY
Posted by: ripraff
N 42° 18.967 W 075° 23.596
18T E 467592 N 4684950
Jonathan Fitch was involved in the Wyoming Massacre.
Waymark Code: WMR9YV
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 05/29/2016
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"Jonathan Fitch came to the Wyoming Valley perhaps about 1774; ...Jonathan and Esther were in Westmoreland, of course, when the Wyoming Massacre occurred on July 3, 1778. In the wild flight that terrible carnage caused, Jonathan led a party of about 100 women and children over the mountain and out of the valley, but Esther was not one of them. She and her sister, Elizabeth were apparently visiting a prominent woman of the community, a Mary Young...About that time Jonathan and Esther moved to what is now Broome Co. NY, then was Tioga. He built a grist mill there, was the first representative of Tioga County to the New York Legislature and was appointed a Tioga county judge."
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