Editing Plains Township, Pennsylvania (section)

===Settlement===
Modern-day Plains Township was originally owned and occupied by the Wanami tribe of the [[Lenape|Delaware]] [[Native Americans in the United States|Native Americans]]. [[Captain Jacobs|Jacob]] was the tribe’s leader; he lived on level ground adjacent to the [[Susquehanna River]] (near the modern-day City of [[Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania|Wilkes-Barre]]). Early white settlers named the locality “Jacob’s Plains.” As time progressed, the settlers simply referred to it as “Plains.”<ref name="pagenweb1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.pagenweb.org/~luzerne/patk/plainstwp.htm|title=PLAINS TOWNSHIP|website=www.pagenweb.org}}</ref>

Roughly two hundred settlers from the Susquehanna Company of [[Colony of Connecticut|Connecticut]] arrived in Plains in August 1762; they established a small village of cabins just above the mouth of [[Mill Creek (Susquehanna River tributary)|Mill Creek]]. They returned to [[New England]] in November after planting a few acres of [[wheat]]. The Susquehanna Company returned with their families, [[livestock]], and provisions in the spring of 1763.<ref name="pagenweb1"/>