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DELAWARE COUNTY. 163 large three-story grist-mill on Trout creek^* near where it empties into the Delaware ; on the side next the creek, were rows of tackles projecting out over the water, for the purpose of unloading boats which should run between the two cities, Philadelphia and Dickinson. He also built near by, a building for a hotel, in which was a large arched room, styled the City Hall, and in which public meetings were actually held for many years. He also opened an avenue from Trout creek to the river, and on either side built a high board fence. Dickinson failed in business, and returned to Philadelphia in 1795, but for many years thereafter, and until recently, the place retained the name of Dickinson's City. John, a brother of Jesse Dickinson, was also an early settler on a creek near by, which, after him, took the name of Johnny's Brooh. It is a fact worthy of note, that Jesse Dickinson run the first raft of lumber that descended the West Branch of the Delaware. In 1796, Wait Cannon removed from Connecticut, and renewed the purchase of a part of the tract formerly owned by Dickinson, where he resided until his death, which took place in 1803 or 1804, and after whom the place took its present name of Cannonsville. The widow of Wait Cannon afterward married a cousin of her former husband, by the name of Benjamin, the father of our present efficient county-clerk, Benjamin Cannon, Esq. Before the erection of Dickinson's mill, the settlers were obliged to go to Minisink, distant nearly one hundred miles, ^ This stream took its name from the circumstance that large quantities of trout were annually caught in wooden troughs prepared for the purpose, and placed immediately behind the sheet of water falling over Dickinson's dam. The trout, in attempting to make their way up the falling sheet to the dam, fell through in great numbers into these troughs.