Editing Sullivan County, Pennsylvania (section)

==History==
The land which became Sullivan County was originally purchased from the [[Iroquois]] by the [[Province of Pennsylvania]] in 1768, as part of the first [[Treaty of Fort Stanwix]]. It was then part of [[Northumberland County, Pennsylvania|Northumberland County]], then became part of [[Lycoming County, Pennsylvania|Lycoming County]] when it was formed in 1795.<ref name="history">{{cite book | last = Meginness | first = John Franklin | title = History of Lycoming County, Pennsylvania: including its aboriginal history; the colonial and revolutionary periods; early settlement and subsequent growth; organization and civil administration; the legal and medical professions; internal improvement; past and present history of Williamsport; manufacturing and lumber interests; religious, educational, and social development; geology and agriculture; military record; sketches of boroughs, townships, and villages; portraits and biographies of pioneers and representative citizens, etc. etc. | year = 1892 | url = http://www.usgennet.org/usa/pa/county/lycoming/history/lyco-history-01.html | access-date = August 5, 2007 | edition = 1st | publisher = Brown, Runk & Co. | location = Chicago, IL | isbn = 0-7884-0428-8 | quote = (Note: ISBN refers to Heritage Books July 1996 reprint. URL is to a scan of the 1892 version with some [[Optical Character Recognition|OCR]] typos). }}</ref> Sullivan County itself was formed from the northeastern part of Lycoming County on March 15, 1847. It was the thirteenth and last county formed at least partly from Lycoming County (and the fifth entirely formed from it).<ref name ="history"/>

Sullivan County was named for Pennsylvania state senator Charles C. Sullivan, who "took an active part in procuring passage of the bill" establishing the county.<ref name="PA govt">{{cite web| url = http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_71264_0_0_18/ | title=Pennsylvania Local Government |publisher = Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |format = PDF |access-date = February 7, 2008}}</ref> However, according to [[Frederic A. Godcharles]] (1933), the county is named for General [[John Sullivan (general)|John Sullivan]], who led the [[Sullivan Expedition]] against the Iroquois in 1779.<ref name="godcharles">{{cite book |last= Godcharles |first= Frederic A. |title= Pennsylvania: Political, Governmental, Military and Civil: Political and Civil History Volume |edition= First |year= 1933 |publisher= The American Historical Society |location= New York, New York }}</ref>