Notes:Shamokin Street

1873-07-26: Source:Wharton-yard-plan: Summit Street.

1881-03-04: Source:Ordinance-1880-1881-33: "Shamokin street, from Opporto [sic] street to Property line, formerly Summit street, Twenty-seventh ward."

1891-03-15: Source:Kaufmann: ". . . , and then, as if fearful of neglecting home produce too much, a little more skirmishing is done in this country, during which El Paso, Kanawha, Kenesaw, Scioto and Shamokin are bagged."

1915-04-04: Source:Fleming-indian-names: "So the Iroquois sent their vice-gerents to dwell among these vassals. Some of these overlords have left their impress on Pennsylvania history, notably Shikellimy the Oneida at old Shamokin, now Sunbury and Scarroady and [sic] Oneida also, at Logstown on the Ohio. . . . ¶ . . . ¶ The cowed Delawares obeyed. They left immediately. Some went to Shamokin and Wyoming, the places assigned them by Cannassatego, and some to the Ohio and here they made history for us. ¶ . . . ¶ Cannassatego further said: ¶ 'We assign you to two places either to Wyoming or Shamokin. You may go to either of these places and then we shall have you more under our eye and see how you behave.'"

1915-04-11: Source:Fleming-fierce-indians: "We have in addition to the names enumerated last week the following: ¶ . . . , Shamokin, . . . ."

1915-05-23: Source:Fleming-thrilling-days: "Logan is usually referred to as a Mingo. He was a Cayuaga [sic]; the son of the great Shikelimus, who resided at what is now Sunbury on the Susquehanna, then called Shamokin, to be distinguished from the present of that name."

1915-06-27: Source:Fleming-montour-1: "Andrew Montour, the eldest son of Mme. Montour, first appears as a captain of a party of Iroquois warriors marching against the Catawabas of Carolina in 1744. He fell sick on the way to the James River and was obliged to return to Shamokin, not the present Shamokin, Pa., but the Indian town on the site of Sunbury."

1915-07-04: Source:Fleming-montour-2: "Zinzendorf, the Moravian missionary and historian, met Capt. Montour first in 1742 at Shamokin (now Sunbury)."

1922: Source:Fleming-history

• p. 12: "Post came the northern trail to Logstown, starting at Philadelphia and traveling by way of Shamokin, now Sunbury."
• p. 111: "So the Iroquois sent their vice-gerents to dwell among these vassals. Some of these overlords have left their impress on Pennsylvania history, notably Shikellimy the Oneida at old Shamokin, now Sunbury, and Scarrooyada, also called Monacatoocha, an Oneida also, at Logstown on the Ohio." (from Source:Fleming-indian-names)
• p. 121: "'This alarmed the proprietors,' says Thomson, 'who thereupon in 1741 sent Shikellimy (a Six Nation chief who resided at Shamokin) to the Six Nations to press them to come down. . . .'"
• p. 122: "Shikellimy was the Iroquois over-lord at Shamokin."
• p. 122: "The first arrival of the Six Nations chiefs was June 30, 1742, but no council was held until July 2nd, and thereafter held daily until the 12th. . . . Among the Indians present not Iroquois, Colden enumerates . . . ; the Delawares of Shamokin, Olumapies (also called Sassanoon), the principal chief; . . . ."
• p. 134: "The most plausible date fixed for the complete subjugation of the Delawares is 1727, when Shikellimy took charge at Shamokin."
• p. 135: "An example is furnished in the minutes of the treaty at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in June and July, 1744. The list of the attending chiefs and warriors was made out by Conrad Weiser, whose notes read in part: 'The Delawares were forbid to come by the chiefs of the Six Nations; Shawanos, a chief and eight more of his countrymen; Nanticokes, ten; Conoys, eight; Saponys, late of Virginia, now settled at Shamokin, nine men;' . . . ."
• p. 139: "The governor said he would refer such matters to Sir William Johnson, inviting as many as chose to live at Shamokin."
• p. 140: "On October 26th, when the deeds were acknowledged, Teedyuscung's request for land at Shamokin and Wyoming was not granted."
• p. 141: "In 1749 a further cession was secured from the Indians the Six Nations uniting with the Shamokin, Delaware and Shawanese occupants."
• pp. 148–149: "In the list of street names, . . . . [p. 149] . . . ; localities are brought in view by . . . , Shamokin, . . . ."
• p. 151: "Names of localities likewise commemorated have their places in our local history; Shamokin, Wyoming, Sandusky and Juniata in their mention, each evoke thrilling stories, sad stories of war, desolation and waste of human blood—tales of terror that are forgotten by the dwellers and the wayfarers on the streets that carry these historic names, merely as names we may take it."
• p. 157: "He [Arnold Viele] was an Albany trader, because he hailed from that Dutch settlement which was the base of supplies for the northern trade, in distinction from the Pennsylvania traders from Paxtang and Conestoga on the Susquehanna and also from Shamokin and Wyoming."
• pp. 168–169: "Thomas McKee's adventures and perils would more than fill a chapter. He was one of the best known of the traders on the Susquehanna, having had a trading post on Big Island, now Haldeman's Island, at the mouth of the Juniata, and was also of the class of traders [p. 169] called in history the Shamokin traders, and one of the most noted; others, John Fisher, John Hart, James Le Tort, Antony Sadowsky, and John (or Jack) Armstrong, who was murdered by a revengeful Delaware in 1744 at the gorge in the Juniata, since known as Jack's Narrows."
• p. 177: "Anthony Sadowsky, a Shamokin trader in 1728, is recorded in the Colonial Records of Pennsylvania as in Allegheny in 1729. His name occurs in the Pennsylvania Archives curiously spelled—'Zadousky' and 'Sadowsk' are instances. Henry Smith, also from Shamokin, was 'on the river Allegheny 1729–1732,' with more mention than Sadowsky, and especially noted in 'A letter from Ye Chieffs of Ye Delawares att Alleegaeening on the main road' as 'being there with rum where the Indians gott Drunk etc,' resulting in a murder."
• p. 424: "He [Christian Frederick Post] was traveling the Shamokin Path, the roughest and most difficult road over the Alleghenies."
• p. 432: "They [Post and one or more companions] went first to Conrad Weiser's house, where Post read them a letter from Governor Denny, requesting them not to travel the Shamokin route, but go a nigher way, where they could be better supplied and could travel with less fatigue and more safety."
• p. 470: "All were well treated, and a great trading house set up by the Governor at Pittsburgh, and another at Fort Augusta, Shamokin on the Susquehanna."
• p. 559: "He [Logan] was a Cayuga; the son of the great Shikelimus, or Skikelamy, who resided at what is now Sunbury on the Susquehanna, then called Shamokin, and to be distinguished from the present town of that name." (from Source:Fleming-thrilling-days)