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The settlers of Connecticut had received glowing reports from explorers and missionaries of a beautiful and fertile valley in Pennsylvania.

Although the claim was granted to Connecticut in 1662, it was not until 1769 that Connecticut through the Susquehanna Company, sent forty men to the valley. They were told to hold the land against the Indians and the Pennsylvanians. Upon arriving in the area, those early pioneers gazed from the hilltop upon a fertile valley below (now Wyoming Valley) and felt their long trip had not been in vain.