Readers' Theatre Script from Historical Data Part 2

Reader Four: Moses Ashley
Stephen Brown
Simon Larnard
Josiah G. Pierson
Asa Bement
William Brown
Elizabeth Lusk
Joseph Pierson
Asa Bement, Jr., builder of the Bement-Billings Farmstead
John Chapman
Reader Three: The Boston Ten Townships
Reader One: as the tract of land would be known
Reader Three: comprised an area of 230,400 acres in what was then Tioga County, but now northern Tioga and Broome Counties, between the Chenango River and Tioughnioga River to the east and the west branch of Owego Creek to the west, from the Susquehanna River to about twenty-five miles northwards.
Reader Four: Ebenezer Mason
Nathan Pierson
Anna Bingham
Dudley Coleman
John Morell
David Pixley
Elkanah Bishop
Ashbel Cone
Stephen Nash
Joseph Raymond
Reader Two: It includes what is now the northern half of the town of Owego and the towns of Newark Valley, Berkshire, and Richford in Tioga County, and a portion of the Broome County Towns of Lisle, Nanticoke and Maine.
Reader One: One of the investors, Colonel Avid Pixley, came to the area to negotiate with the native inhabitants for the land rights. He learned the Indian language and greatly endeared himself to the Indians. Many of the investors actually settled in the area, and were soon able to extinguish the Indian claims by purchase from the Oneida.
Reader Four: Nathaniel Bishop
Ebenezer Cook
Allen Newhall
Abner Rockwell
Elisha Blin, who sold his lot to Elisha Wilson, first settler of Newark Valley
Phillip Cook
Warham Parks
Erastus Sergeant
Asahel Bradley
Ezekiel Crocker