sentences:  "History and Directory of Newton and Ransom Townships, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania", 1754 - 1912, compiled by J.B. Stephens, 1912 name the original settlers in what would become Madison Township as Thomas Biesecker and Richard Edwards both arriving in 1825.Horace Hollister names "John Besecker" (not Thomas) and Richard Edwards among the original settlers in Drinker's Beech in "History of the Lackawanna Valley", (p. 288).