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Definition of Susquehanna
1. Noun. A river in the northeastern United States that rises in New York and flows southward through Pennsylvania and Maryland into Chesapeake Bay.
Group relationships: Free State, Maryland, Md, Old Line State, Empire State, New York, New York State, Ny, Keystone State, Pa, Pennsylvania
Generic synonyms: River
Lexicographical Neighbors of Susquehanna
Literary usage of Susquehanna
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Lumber Industry of America by James Elliott Defebaugh (1907)
"THE susquehanna AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. All the territory drained by the ...
Captain Joseph Leonard and his family moved up the susquehanna in a canoe from ..."
2. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1877)
"An association, called the 1754 •' susquehanna Company," with the consent of the
Connecticut Assembly, had applied in England for leave to plant a new ..."
3. Sketches of Debate in the First Senate of the United States, in 1789-90-91 by William Maclay, George Washington Harris (1880)
"Pennsylvania would suffer the susquehanna to be opened, if Maryland would suffer
a canal to be dug between the bays of Chesapeake and Delaware. ..."
4. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1875)
"To counteract the projects of the susquehanna Company, the Pennsylvania agents
at the same Convention purchased of the Six Nations for £400 their claim to ..."
5. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1892)
"Crossed a branch of the susquehanna and over to an island, where we found a number
of huts but not a soul about. Mack wandered over the island and climbed a ..."
6. A Geography of Pennsylvania: Containing an Account of the History by Charles B. Trego (1843)
"susquehanna county adjoins the state of New York on the north ; Wayne county on
the east ; Luzerne and Wyoming on the south ; and Bradford on the ..."
7. History of the Life and Times of James Madison by William Cabell Rives (1868)
"... between the Representatives of New England and New York, to vote for Eastern
Bank of susquehanna as the Ultimate Seat of Government — Spirited Rebuke of ..."
8. History of the Lumber Industry of America by James Elliott Defebaugh (1907)
"THE susquehanna AND ITS TRIBUTARIES. All the territory drained by the ...
Captain Joseph Leonard and his family moved up the susquehanna in a canoe from ..."
9. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1877)
"An association, called the 1754 •' susquehanna Company," with the consent of the
Connecticut Assembly, had applied in England for leave to plant a new ..."
10. Sketches of Debate in the First Senate of the United States, in 1789-90-91 by William Maclay, George Washington Harris (1880)
"Pennsylvania would suffer the susquehanna to be opened, if Maryland would suffer
a canal to be dug between the bays of Chesapeake and Delaware. ..."
11. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1875)
"To counteract the projects of the susquehanna Company, the Pennsylvania agents
at the same Convention purchased of the Six Nations for £400 their claim to ..."
12. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1892)
"Crossed a branch of the susquehanna and over to an island, where we found a number
of huts but not a soul about. Mack wandered over the island and climbed a ..."
13. A Geography of Pennsylvania: Containing an Account of the History by Charles B. Trego (1843)
"susquehanna county adjoins the state of New York on the north ; Wayne county on
the east ; Luzerne and Wyoming on the south ; and Bradford on the ..."
14. History of the Life and Times of James Madison by William Cabell Rives (1868)
"... between the Representatives of New England and New York, to vote for Eastern
Bank of susquehanna as the Ultimate Seat of Government — Spirited Rebuke of ..."
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