. Schizzi storici di Plymouth, Luzerne Co., penna.. E, tuttavia, ha pienamente dimostrato la sua utilità; e il rapido aumento del suo consumo, da quintoni all'anno, a sedici milioni, in un periodo di un lit-tle più di cinquanta anni, è una delle meraviglie del secolo tenineteo. Le tabelle statistiche del commercio, che figurano yearlyappear nella stampa pubblica, datano l'inizio in 1S20. In quell'anno è messo a thi*ee Him-dred e sessanta-rive tonnellate, come la spedizione dalla regione di Lehigh al mercato. In questo c'è un errore, per tredici anni prima di quel tempo, come abbiamo già sta

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. Historical sketches of Plymouth, Luzerne Co., Penna.. e, however, has fully demonstrated its usefulness;and the rapid increase of its consumption, from fiftytons annually, to sixteen millions, in a period of a lit-tle more than fifty years, is one of the wonders of thenineteenth century. The statistical tables of the trade, which yearlyappear in the public press, date the commencmentin 1S20. It is put down in that year at thi*ee him-dred and sixty-rive tons, as the shipment from theLehigh region to market. In this there is error, for thirteen years previousto that time, as we have already stated, Mr. Smithhad shipped coal from his Plymouth mine. But infact the article had been put in the market long pre-vious to 1S20, by other peisons than the Messrs.Smith. Charles Miner, Jacob Cist, John W. Robinsonand Stephen Tut tie, all of Wilkes-Barre, had leasedthe old Mauch Chunk mines, and in August, 1S14, had sent an ark load of it down the Lehigh. Mr.George M. Hollenback sent two ark loads down theSusq^uehanna, taken from his Mill creek mines, iu. ABU AH SMITH-3 n O A L OPENING 01- 1807. EARLY COAL MINING. 315 1813. The same year, Joseph Wright, of Plymouth, mined two ark loads of coal from the mines of hisbrother, the late Samuel (Jr. Wright, of New Jersey, near Port Grriffith, in Pittston. This was an oldopening, and coal had been mined there for thesmiths forge as far hack as 1775. The late LordButler, of Wilkes-Barre, had also shipjjed coal fromhis mines, more generally known of late years as the Baltimore mines, as early as 1814, and so hadCrandal Wilcox, of Plaines township. My object in making these references is to showthat the coal-trade actually began in 1807, and notin 1820, as is now generally believed. But while the persons I have named did not fol-low up the business, Abijah and John Smith, hisbrother, continued the business down to the periodof their respective deaths; and their children contin-ued on the trade long afterwards. Abijah Smith came to the valley

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