sentences:  Census records support Hollister's claim that it was John Biesecker and Richard Edwards.There is no census entry for any Thomas Biesecker in Luzerne County (before the formation of Lackawanna County), but John Biesecker is in Lower Mount Bethel, Northampton County in the 1820 census and in Covington in the 1830 census.However, neither of these original settlers lived in the area considered Quicktown.