Editing Wyoming, Pennsylvania (section)

===Early history===
By the 1700s, the [[Wyoming Valley]] was inhabited by several [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] tribes (including the [[Susquehannock]] and the [[Lenape|Delaware]]). In the mid-18th century, [[Connecticut Colony|Connecticut]] [[settler]]s ventured into the valley. These were the first recorded [[Europeans]] in the region.<ref>{{cite book | last = Fisher | first = Sydney George | title = The Making of Pennsylvania | url = https://archive.org/details/makingofpennsylv00fish | publisher = J. B. Lippincott Company | location = Philadelphia, PA| year = 1896}}</ref> In 1768, the Susquehanna Company of Connecticut devised a plan to divide the Wyoming Valley into five townships. Each township was to be divided amongst forty settlers. Wyoming was originally part of [[Kingston Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania|Kingston Township]].<ref>{{cite web |title=History |url=https://www.westwyoming.org/history/ |website=West Wyoming Borough |access-date=27 February 2023}}</ref>