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If you are not located in the United States, you'll -have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using -this ebook. - - - -Title: A History of the Twenty-Fourth Regiment of Connecticut Militia - -Author: Charles Tubbs - -Release Date: September 26, 2019 [EBook #60361] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CONNECTICUT MILITIA *** - - - - -Produced by Graeme Mackreth and The Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - - -[Illustration: EARLY MAP OF WYOMING AND LACKAWANNA VALLIES.] - - - - - The Wyoming Military Establishment. - - - A HISTORY - - --OF THE-- - - TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT - - --OF-- - - CONNECTICUT MILITIA. - - - An Address - - before - - The Tioga Point Historical Society - - delivered December 3rd, 1901, by - - Hon. CHARLES TUBBS, - - Honorary Member Tioga Point Historical Society. - Corresponding Member Wyoming Historical & Geological Society. - - - Athens, Penna. - 1903. - - - - - LIEUTENANT LEBBEUS TUBBS, - PRIVATE SAMUEL TUBBS, - LIEUTENANT-COLONEL GEORGE DORRANCE. - - TO THE MEMORY OF THESE, MY ANCESTORS, - MEMBERS OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT, - I DEDICATE THIS STUDY - OF COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY EVENTS, - IN WHICH THEY PERFORMED A PART. - - - - -ILLUSTRATIONS. - - - Map of Wyoming Valley, Frontispiece. - - Lazarus Stewart's Block House, Page 16 - - Forty Fort in 1778, 22 - - Pittston Fort, 25 - - Wyoming Monument, 28 - -The plates from which the above illustrations were printed were kindly -loaned by the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. - -[Illustration] - - Athens Gazette, - Athens, Pa. - - - - -The Wyoming Military Establishment. - - -Alsace-Loraine is a conquered province. The flag of Germany floats over -it. Within the memory of most of us it was an integral part of France. -At the time of the conquest, no heart of all its people went willingly -to the side of the victor. - -We are met to-day in Pennsylvania. Yet for years, in the eighteenth -century the soil beneath our feet, and five thousand square miles -of adjacent territory, inside the present limits of Pennsylvania, -was an integral part of the State of Connecticut. It was settled -by Connecticut people, was under Connecticut institutions, was -governed by Connecticut laws. It was a Connecticut town; it was a -Connecticut county; had a judge, a sheriff, other officers, and sent -representatives to the Connecticut legislature. - -Pennsylvania made conquest of it. No heart of all the people of -this Connecticut town went willingly to the side of the victor. The -Alsatians were no more stunned, at being forcibly wrenched from their -allegiance to the flag they loved, than were the Connecticut people who -had settled a town of their own in the heart of Pennsylvania. - -How did this cataclysm befall? I will tell you. It all came of the -ignorance or carelessness of a King. In 1620 King James I. of England -granted a Charter to the Plymouth company for the ruling of New England -in America. The charter covered North America from the fortieth to -the forty-eighth degrees of north latitude, and from the Atlantic to -the Pacific oceans. The Plymouth Company proceeded to sub-divide its -territory. In 1631 it granted a charter to the Connecticut Colony which -covered the space between the forty-first and forty-second degrees of -north latitude "and from the Narragansett river on the east to the -South Sea on the west throughout the main lands." The South Sea was -the Pacific Ocean. In 1662 King Charles II. gave a new charter to -Connecticut confirming the act of the Plymouth Company. Nineteen years -later this same King in the grant of Pennsylvania to William Penn, -included a portion of the same territory, already given by him to -Connecticut. - -The ignorance or carelessness of King Charles, in due time bore a rich -harvest of strife and bloodshed. Under the Connecticut charter (which -was the older) my ancestors, and perhaps yours, came into this valley -of the Susquehanna, and sat themselves down. Under the Pennsylvania -charter (which was the younger) came sheriffs, and armed men, to drive -them off. On the tongues of men this disputed section was known as -Wyoming. In the statute book it is called Westmoreland. - -Having explained how the Connecticut people under a claim of right, -built up a government within the present boundaries of Pennsylvania, -I have said all I desire to say on that subject. It explains how a -part of what is now Pennsylvania was really a part of Connecticut in -the last years of our Colonial history, and in the first years of our -history as an independent nation--from 1774 to 1783. - -This Twenty-fourth regiment of Connecticut Militia was organized on -that part of the soil of Pennsylvania which was known as the Wyoming -region, and in that region it performed its deeds, and lived its -organic life. - -I am aware that this explanation is quite unnecessary. I am aware -that the Society that listens to me contains many descendants of the -men who made the history I am about to relate. I am aware that the -great-grandchildren of Captains Bidlack, Franklin, Spaulding, and -Whittlesey here reside. I know that descendants of the Buck, Gore, -Mathewson, Satterlee, Stevens and Tozer families abound in this old -town. A writer who knows your community better than I do could mention -others. - -I have been attracted to the history of the Twenty-fourth regiment -of Connecticut Militia because in all the histories it has received -so little attention. Mr. Chapman, in his "Sketch of the History of -Wyoming," (1830) says: "The whole body of the citizens was formed into -a militia." (p. 102). He does not say it was a regiment nor designate -it by its number. Col. Stone, in his work entitled, "Wyoming and its -History," (1841), alludes to it in the phrase, "a regiment of militia -being organized," (p. 202), but does not state its number nor give -it further attention. Charles Miner, in his "History of Wyoming in a -Series of Letters," (1845), gives many facts, but notices only six -of the ten companies of which the regiment was composed and details -only the organization of those companies as it was in 1775. George -Peck, in his "Wyoming: its history, stirring incidents, and romantic -adventures," (1858), devotes to it a passing allusion in the words, -"a regiment of militia having been established." (p. 28). Stewart -Pearce does not allude to the Twenty-fourth regiment at all in his -"Annals of Luzerne," (1866), but does mention five of its companies. -(p. 34) Steuben Jenkins, in his "Historical Address at the Monument," -(1878), mentions its existence (p. 17), and at another place enumerates -seven of its companies. (p. 34) Horace Edwin Hayden, in his monograph -entitled, "Major John Garret; a forgotten hero of the Massacre of -Wyoming," (1895) explains the existence of the regiment, credits it -with nine companies, and gives the changes of the officers made in 1777. - -In my judgment, the services of this regiment were of more importance -than have been accorded them by the historians. I shall seek to arrange -those already well known, into a comprehensive whole, to show their -relation to other events, and to add some facts not hitherto brought to -light. - -The Wyoming community was isolated in its situation. It was seventy -miles from it to the settlements on the Delaware; it was sixty miles to -Fort Augusta; to the north and to the west, was a howling wilderness. -This wilderness was filled with a savage Indian population. A continual -fight was waged with the proprietaries of Pennsylvania. - -The settlement, which became permanent, was begun in 1769. It was a -self-governing community. It kept a record of its official acts. In -1772 it was voted, "That each and every settler should provide himself -with a flint lock and ammunition, and continue to guard around the -threatened plantations until further notice."[1] That was the first -step--individual action, every man defend his own castle. This did not -prove effectual. Organization was needed. That was the second step in -the evolution. It took time to bring it about--perhaps a year. At a -meeting of the inhabitants held March 22, 1773, it was voted: "That -the Comtee of settlers be Desired to send to the several towns or to -their Comtee. Requiring them to Call all the Inhabitants in Each of ye -said towns to meet on Thursday Next at five a Clock in ye afternoon of -sd Day in some Convenient place in sd town, and that they then Chouse -one Person in Each of sd towns as an officer to muster them, & so that -all are oequipt according to Law with fire arms, and ammunition, and -that they Chuse two Sergants & a Clerk & that the said Chieff officer -is Hereby Commanded & Directed to Call ye Inhabitants together once -in 14 Days for ye future until this Company orders otherwise & that -in case of an allarm or ye appearance of an Enemy he is Directed -to call ye sd Inhabitants together & stand for ye Defense of ye sd -towns & Settlements without further orders."[2] In speaking of these -preparations Miner says: "If the splendid uniform, the glittering -bayonet, the evolution rapid and precise, with the imposing band of -music, did not grace their trainings, there was yet upon the ground -the strong banded old French musket, the long duck shooting piece, and -more efficient than either the close drawing rifle, little known in -New England, but becoming familiar on the banks of the Susquehanna." -Trainings once in fourteen days! They certainly believed in the -strenuous life. Those trainings were not holidays. They were serious -preparation for impending warfare. - -In January. 1774, the Wyoming settlements which had grown to a -population of 1922 souls,[3] were taken official notice of by the -legislature of Connecticut which incorporated them as the town of -Westmoreland. Wyoming and Westmoreland may henceforth be regarded as -interchangeable terms. - -The next step in the evolution of the military establishment had its -origin at the second town meeting after the incorporation, which was -held on the 12th day of April, 1774. The town, by a vote, applied for -the establishment of a regiment.[4] For some reason the legislature was -slow to act. It may have been for the want of a representative in the -law making body. The town, however, did not neglect to keep itself in -a state of preparedness. They kept everlastingly at it. At the fourth -town meeting held that year "Votes were passed to form themselves into -companies in a military way,"[5] each district in Westmoreland to be -a company and Zebulon Butler, Esq., Major Ezekiel Pierce and Mr. John -Jenkins were appointed a committee to repair to the several districts -and lead each company to a choice of officers. - -From this it is clear that the officers were chosen by a vote of the -men in each company. The subsequent "establishment" of the rank of -officers by the Connecticut Assembly was but a ratification of what had -already been done by vote of the men. - -It was more than a year after the action of the town meeting asking -for the legal organization of a regiment before the legislature acted -upon the subject. At May session, 1775, it enacted "That the town of -Westmoreland shall be one entire regiment distinguished and called by -the name of the Twenty-fourth regiment and shall be under the same -rules and orders, and have the same powers, privileges and advantages -as other regiments of this Colony by law have."[6] - -One of these advantages was the promise of six pence for half day -training and twelve pence for whole day training, and this to be paid -out of the Colony treasury. - -The regiment was assigned to the sixth brigade, Connecticut State -Militia, commanded by Brig. Gen. Oliver Wolcott. The organization was -begun by the "establishment" of the regimental officers at the same -session. Zebulon Butler was made Colonel; Nathan Denison, Lieutenant -Colonel; William Judd, Major.[7] - -Zebulon Butler, the newly elected colonel, born at Lynne. Conn., 1731, -was no novice in the military service. In the French and Indian war he -was Ensign in Captain Andrew Ward's 2 company of the 4 Conn. Regt. in -1755-6-7. He was Lieutenant in Captain Timothy Mather's company of the -3 Regt. in 1758. He was Captain in the 4th and 1st regiments in 1759, -1760 and 1761.[8] He had served seven enlistments. The territorial -range of his service extended from Crown Point on the north to Havana -on the south. When elected Colonel his home was in Wilkes-Barre. - -Nathan Denison, the newly elected Lieutenant Colonel, born in Conn., -1741, had seen service in the French and Indian war as a private in -Col. Eleazar Fitch's 3d Conn. Regt. His services extended from May to -November, 1758. His home was in Kingston. - -Speaking of these two men Miner says: "Nature never formed two -excellent men in more distinct contrast. Butler polished in manner, -quick in perception, vehement and rapid in execution: Denison, plain -though courteous, slow to speak, as careful to consider, cool and -firm, if not alert in action. They were the two great and acknowledged -leaders in Westmoreland."[9] - -William Judd, the newly elected Major, does not seem to have had any -military experience outside of the militia. - -The accessible records are silent about the progress made with the -regiment during the summer of 1775, but it is fair to assume that -the newly commissioned field officers did not neglect their duty in -perfecting their organization and in training their men. - -At the October session of the Connecticut legislature the election -of the officers of nine of the companies were ratified. They were as -follows:[10] - -First (Lower Wilkes-Barre) Company, Stephen Fuller, Captain; John -Garret, Lieutenant; Christopher Avery, Ensign. - -Second (Kingston) Company, Nathaniel Landon, Captain; George Dorrance, -Lieutenant; Asahel Buck, Ensign. - -Third (Plymouth) Company, Samuel Ransom, Captain; Perrin Ross, -Lieutenant; Asaph Whittlesey, Ensign. - -Fourth (Pittston) Company, Solomon Strong, Captain; Jonathan Parker, -Lieutenant; Timothy Keyes, Ensign. - -Fifth (Hanover) Company, William McKarachan, Captain; Lazarus Stewart, -Jr., Lieutenant; Silas Gore, Ensign. - -Sixth (Upper Wilkes-Barre) Company, Rezin Geer, Captain; Daniel Gore, -Lieutenant; Matthias Hollenback, Ensign. - -Seventh (Exeter) Company, Stephen Harding, Captain; Elisha Scovill, -Lieutenant; John Jenkins, Jr., Ensign. - -Eighth (Lackaway) Company, Eliab Farnham, Captain; John Shaw, -Lieutenant; Elijah Winters, Ensign. - -Ninth (Up the River) Company, James Secord, Captain; John De Pui, -Lieutenant; Rudolph Fox, Ensign. - -Some of these officers had seen service as soldiers in the French and -Indian War.[11] Captain Eliab Farnham, of the Lackaway Company, had -done a tour of duty lasting twenty-five weeks in 1758 in Capt. Nathan -Whiting's Company, 2d Conn. Regt. Lieut. Elisha Scovill had served -32 weeks in 1759 in Capt. Amos Hitchcock's Company in the seventh -Connecticut regiment. - -Lieutenant Jonathan Parker had served 34 weeks in 1761 in the third -company of the First Conn. Regt. commanded by Major David Baldwin. - -The citizen liable to serve in the Connecticut militia was a man, -between 16 and 50 years of age, but for specified reason many were -exempt from the service.[12] - -There was an almost immediate call for all the skill and ability of the -newly commissioned officers not only in the training field, but in the -arena of actual war. The Governor of Pennsylvania had made up his mind -to completely destroy the Connecticut settlement at Wyoming. Wyoming -was within the Pennsylvania county of Northumberland of which William -Cook was Sheriff. William Cook, under pretense of serving sundry writs -at Wyoming, took with him an armed force of 700 men under the command -of Colonel William Plunket. He called it a "posse." - -This force left Northumberland early in December, 1775, marching up the -west side of the river over the almost impassable roads. The supplies -for the expedition were loaded into boats. Progress was slow, as the -boats had to be propelled against the current, encumbered as it often -was at that season of the year by floating ice. December 20th, Col. -Plunket was at Nescopeck Creek, nineteen miles below the south eastern -extremity of the valley. His progress now was closely watched by -scouts. On Saturday, the 23d he arrived at Harvey's landing, one-fourth -of a mile below the mouth of Harvey's Creek, where he landed, unloaded -his boats, and encamped for the night. - -What preparation had been made to receive the invader? On this same -Saturday Col. Zebulon Butler mustered the newly formed Twenty-fourth -regiment. He also collected all the old men and boys who did not belong -to the ranks of the regiment and armed them the best he could. In -number, his force thus made up, was about four hundred. The two armies -spent the night within a half mile of each other. From this point Col. -Butler sent out a flag to Col. Plunket, in charge of Lieutenant Garret, -inquiring the object of the invasion. Col. Plunket's reply was that he -came on a peaceful errand, simply to serve some Pennsylvania writs at -Wyoming. - -On Sunday morning. Col. Butler left Ensign Mason F. Alden[13] with -18 men on the ground where he had spent the night. At the same time -he sent Capt. Lazarus Stewart[14] of the Hanover Company, with 20 -men across the river to the east side above the Nanticoke Falls to -prevent the enemy from landing, should they attempt to do so. He -then, with the main body of his force, retreated about one mile up -the river to a place where a natural defence existed. This consisted -of a ridge of rocks projecting about one-half a mile south easterly -from the Shawanese mountain to the river. Near the river it was 1 or -2 feet high, but as it ran back toward the mountain it was of great -height. Wherever there were breaks in this natural rampart, Butler's -men filled in the space with logs and stones. Behind this breastwork -the Twenty-fourth regiment and its co-operating forces were stationed. -About 11 o'clock Alden and his men became conscious that the enemy was -moving, and they withdrew. They announced the approach of the enemy to -Col. Butler and joined him behind the fortification. When the enemy -advanced it was met with a fusilade of shots along the whole line, -killing one man, wounding others and throwing the whole force into the -utmost confusion. Without firing a shot Col. Plunket withdrew to the -camp at Harvey's Creek. - -Late in the afternoon the enemy brought two of its boats by land from -Harvey's landing above the Nanticoke Falls. At night fall they were -loaded with soldiers and rowed across the river. When they attempted to -land they were fired upon by Captain Stewart and his men, who lay in -ambush upon the bank, killing one man, and wounding others. The attempt -to land was given up and the boats and their cargoes floated down -through the rapids and were safely moored at Harvey's landing. Thus -ended the events of the day. - -On Christmas Day Col. Plunket renewed the attack on the breastwork. -He divided his forces into two divisions. One division assailed the -fortification in front, while the other attempted a flanking movement -on Col. Butler's right. This was promptly met and repelled. The battle -lasted nearly all day, but the enemy, baffled at all points, finally -withdrew. The invasion known by Col. Plunket's name was at an end. -Eight or ten men on each side were killed and many wounded.[15] - -The battle with Plunket had made the officers and men of the regiment -painfully conscious of their lack of equipment. Powder! How could they -get powder? Offer a reward for it? That was what they did at a town -meeting, March 10, 1776--two and a half months after the battle. -"Voted that the first man that shall make fifty weight of good salt -peter, in this town, shall be entitled to ten pounds lawful money, to -be paid out of the town treasury."[16] - -Patriotism and this bounty no doubt produced an effect, as witness the -following: "Mrs. Bethiah Jenkins says. The women took up their floors, -dug out the earth, put it in casks, and ran water through it. Then took -ashes in another cask and made lye--mixed the water from the earth with -weak lye, boiled it, set it out to cool, and the salt peter rose to the -top. Charcoal and sulphur were then used, and powder produced."[17] - -In May, 1776, John Jenkins, representative to the legislature, obtained -leave for the selectmen to erect a powder mill in Westmoreland, but I -can not learn that any mill was ever built.[18] - -In July of the same year the Council of Safety at Hartford "Voted that -the Selectmen of Westmoreland may receive at Messrs. Elderkin & Wales -mill, not exceeding 200 pounds of gun powder: they to account to the -Colony therefor at the price of 5s, 4d per lb."[19] - -Col. Butler, in a letter to Roger Sherman, dated August 6, 1776, speaks -of being in want of arms, "as those 80 guns taken from our people at -Warrior Run have not been returned."[20] - -The Continental Congress the next year undertook to aid in supplying -these wants, as witness the following action April 11: "Resolved, that -175 fire arms, either musquets or rifles, 200 wt. powder, 800 wt. lead, -and 500 flints be sent to the town of Westmoreland, on the east branch -of the Susquehanna river, to the care of Colonel Nathan Denison, to -be used by the malitia there, for the defense of the said town, if -necessary: the arms to be returned when the service there will admit of -it."[21] - -I am telling the story of a regiment whose fortunes were profoundly -affected by the Revolutionary War. The men of which it was composed -were intense rebels against the authority of England. Therefore when -the Congress on the 23d of August, "Resolved, That two companies on the -Continental Establishment be raised in the town of Westmoreland"[22] -it responded with an enlistment of 82 men in each company. Captain -Samuel Ransom, Lieutenant Perrin Ross, Ensigns Asahel Buck and Matthias -Hollenbeck, with others, were elected as officers. I mention these -because they were officers in the Twenty-fourth regiment. The men were -all taken from the ranks of the Twenty-fourth regiment. Twenty other -men in the summer of 1776 also enlisted under Lieutenant Obadiah Gore, -to serve in a New York State regiment under Colonel Weisner, as well as -ten more men to serve under Captain Strong. Our regiment thus lost of -its most robust men, 194 in the Summer of 1776, who enlisted into the -Continental Army. - -While this depletion was going on the town assigned additional duties -to the field officers at a meeting held August 28. "Voted ye field -officers of ye regiment of this town be appointed a committee to view -the most suitable places to build forts for ye defense of sd town, -and determine on some particular spot or place in each district for -the purpose, and mark out the same."[23] Think for a moment of the -work imposed on this Committee! Think of the large territory to be -gone over, the consideration of reasons for or against any particular -location. Think of the work imposed on the men who were to build the -forts. - -[Illustration: STEWART'S BLOCK HOUSE.] - -There were some old forts like Forty Fort in Kingston, and Fort Brown -in Pittston, that were repaired and enlarged, but in other districts -there were no suitable works of the kind and accordingly new sites -were selected, and the proposed works laid out on the ground. Such was -the case in Wilkes-Barre, Plymouth and Exeter. In Lower Pittston and -Hanover, block houses were recommended and built. The work of repairing -and building the forts ran through the years 1776, 1777 and was not -completed until 1778. - -Before closing the regimental history for 1776 I wish to mention the -advent of the tenth company into its ranks, representing the train -bands of the Districts of Huntington and Salem, of which Frethias Wall -was elected Lieutenant and John Franklin, Jr., Ensign, at the October -session of the legislature.[24] I have not seen this company assigned -its proper place in the regiment in any of the histories. Of this -company John Franklin, Jr., was ultimately to become the Captain and -Stoddart Bowen the Lieutenant. - -In December, 1776, a supplement to the militia law was enacted by the -Connecticut legislature, by which the age limit of those liable to -serve was extended to persons from 50 to 60 years of age, and many -theretofore exempt were brought into the service. These persons were to -be formed into companies to be called the "Alarm List," to elect their -own officers and to be attached to already existing regiments.[25] - -Under this act two companies were formed in Wyoming in 1777--one on -the east side of the river, of which William Hooker Smith was elected -Captain, one on the west side of the river of which James Bidlack, -Sr., was elected Captain. These became attached to the Twenty-fourth -regiment. - -In popular speech these old men and exempts were called "Reformadoes." -Under this Act the Colonels of regiments were given authority "to -assemble in martial array and put in warlike posture," the men under -their command in case of invasion. - -In the Spring of 1777 the regiment took up a new duty. It was the duty -of sending out scouting parties.[26] The Indians and Tories up the -river were showing activity by occasionally capturing some one, and -making a prisoner of him. Lieut. Asa Stevens, of the Kingston Company, -went on a scouting expedition and brought in five suspected persons. -Ensign John Jenkins, Jr., of the Exeter Company, led a scouting party -up as far as Wyalusing, and was himself captured and three other men. -Captain Asaph Whittlesey, of the Plymouth Company, led a scouting party -up as far as Standing Stone. In January, 1778, Capt. Eliab Farnham, of -the Lackaway Company, captured 18 tories[27] that had been disturbing -his vicinage and sent them to Hartford under the escort of Lieut. -Jonathan Haskell. The legislature declared that these persons should -be treated as prisoners of war. This action was necessary, because -the frontiersmen held that the prisoners ought to be hanged as cattle -thieves. In May, 1778, Nathan Denison memorialized the legislature to -be reimbursed as Colonel of the Twenty-fourth regiment, in sending out -detachments as scouts and for guards during 1776, 1777 and 1778. The -prayer of his memorial was granted.[28] - -I must refer in this place to a further nominal depletion of the -regiment. By act of Congress March 16, 1778, it was resolved to raise -another Company of Continental troops at Westmoreland. The efforts to -do this was at least partially successful and Dethic Hewit was elected -Captain of the new company. In the same resolution it was provided that -the new organization should be under the command of the field officers -of the Twenty-fourth regiment.[29] - -The enlistment of this company reduced the strength of the regiment. -It transferred the service of the men from the state to the service of -the United States. It did not, however, withdraw them from the Wyoming -Valley. - -I will here explain the changes in the officers of the regiment. Under -the militia laws of Connecticut there were two general muster days in -the year--first Monday of May, first Monday of October. On either new -officers could be elected to fill vacancies or for other reasons. Able -and ambitious men coveted and strove to become officers of the regiment -and of the companies. In the larger and stronger companies the rivalry -was great and the officers were in a continual state of flux. In this -way there were a large number of ex-officers. The ex-officers retained -their titles by courtesy. Once a captain, always a captain. In the -Wyoming histories, and upon the monument erected on the battlefield, -confusion results, from giving the courtesy titles of ex-officers as -much prominence as is given the titles of men who were in commission, -and exercised actual command. In view of these and similar facts I -have been to much pains to make the roster of those in actual command -accurate as it was in the last formation of the regiment.[30] - -I will first call attention to the changes in the regimental officers. -Colonel Zebulon Butler resigned to enter the Continental service -January 1, 1777. Lt. Col. Nathan Denison was promoted to be colonel. -This occasioned a vacancy in the office of lieutenant-colonel, which -was filled by the election of Lazarus Stewart, the famous Captain of -the Paxtang Rangers, who declined to accept, and thereupon Major George -Dorrance was promoted to that office in Oct., 1777. Major William Judd -resigned to enter the Continental service, and his place was filled -in May, 1777, by the promotion of Lieut. George Dorrance and on his -elevation to the Lt. Colonelcy, Captain John Garret was elected Major -in Oct., 1777.[31] - -I have given a list of the Company officers as "established" at the -organization of the regiment. They underwent many changes as heretofore -indicated. I will give them as they existed in May, 1778, when the last -changes were made of which there is a record.[32] This is a list of the -Captains beginning with the first Company and thus on through to the -tenth. They were as follows: James Bidlack, Jr., Aholiab Buck, Asaph -Whittlesey, Jeremiah Blanchard, William McKarachan, Rezin Geer, Stephen -Harding, Eliab Farnham, Robert Carr and John Franklin, Jr. - -The Lieutenants were Lebbeus Tubbs, Elijah Shoemaker, Aaron Gaylord, -Timothy Keyes, Roswell Franklin, Daniel Gore, Elisha Scovil, John Shaw, -Nathan Kingsbury and Stoddart Bowen. - -The Ensigns were: John Comstock, Asa Gore, William White, Jeremiah -Bigford, Titus Hinman, John Hagerman, John Jenkins, Jr., Elijah -Winters, Rudolph Fox and Nathaniel Goss. John Jenkins, Jr., of the -Exeter company, probably should not be included as he had recently been -elected a lieutenant in the Continental Service. This company had no -Ensign in commission. - -Some of these new officers had seen service in the old French war. -Lieutenant Lebbeus Tubbs had served two enlistments--one of 26 weeks -in 1755, in Capt. Nicholas Bishop's company of the first Conn, -regiment--another in 1759 of 27 weeks in Capt. John Pitkin's company of -the Fourth Conn. Regt.[33] - -In the latter year he was in the expedition sent out for the reduction -of Crown Point. Ensign William White served 35 weeks in 1756 in Capt. -Samuel Champlin's Company in the First Conn, regiment. Ensign Titus -Hinman in 1755 served 32 weeks in Capt. Benjamin Hinman's company in -the Second Conn. regiment. - -The Twenty-fourth regiment availed itself of other means of becoming -efficient. Two deserters from the British army--Abraham Pike and -Sergeant Boyd--were employed as drill masters, and spent much time in -putting the men through their evolutions.[34] - -It had need of the skill of all its officers, of the efficiency of all -its men. While I have been talking about officers, important events -have been hastening toward a conclusion, on the northern border. -They now claim attention. Up to this time (1778) no murders had been -committed by the Indians. They now became frequent. Scouting parties of -the regiment were continually going out and coming in. They heralded -the approach of an invading army. Premonitory signs of its coming had -not been wanting. - -It consisted of about 1,100 British soldiers, Indians and Tories, under -the command of Major John Butler.[35] This force had been gathered at -Kanadaseago and other points in Western New York. The time was the -month of June, when nature puts on her best apparel. It approached -Wyoming in boats. I can imagine the wild and weird flotilla, tricked -out in barbaric splendor, as it rounded Tioga Point, and swept out into -the broad waters of the Susquehanna, receiving welcome reinforcements -to its numbers as it passed Queen Esther's flats and the meadows of -Sheshequin. It landed above Wyoming in Keeler's Eddy. It marched about -twenty miles by land and was ready to do its work. - -What was the situation at Wyoming? What the preparation to receive it? -We have detailed the building of the forts; the establishment of the -regiment and its depletion from time to time to recruit the Continental -service. The forts were there--and the regiment--what there was of it. - -We left the enemy at the head of the valley. It signified its approach -by killing six men in Exeter on the 30th of June, 1778. On the first -day of July it seized Fort Wintermoot. This fort was occupied by -Elisha Scovil, lieutenant of the Exeter (7th) company and a few -patriotic men. The Wintermoots and other non-combatants in the fort -were Tories[36] and after making the best show of resistance he could, -Scovil capitulated. At Fort Jenkins, one mile above Fort Wintermoot, -were eight men, including Stephen Harding, Captain of the 7th (Exeter) -company. Resistance against such odds was useless and it surrendered -on the second of July, although the articles of capitulation were -dated on the first.[37] This disposes of one of the companies of the -Twenty-fourth regiment. - -To the valley below a vague knowledge of what was happening was -communicated by scouts and by persons who had escaped when the Hardings -and Hadsells were killed on the 30th of June. Some information was -obtained by a reconnoisance in force on the first of July. - -In consequence the population gathered into the several forts on the -first and second days of July. - -[Illustration: FORTY FORT IN 1778.] - -Of these, Forty Fort in Kingston was the largest and the strongest. -In it Col. Nathan Denison established his headquarters. He endeavored -to concentrate his regiment at this point. There were many obstacles -in the way. Captain Robert Carr's (9th) Up River company could not be -reached because of the proximity of the enemy. According to Hollister, -this Company was at Capouse Meadows (Scranton).[38] Captain Eliab -Farnham's (8th) Lackaway company was 70 miles away and could not be -reached on account of the distance. This company did not learn of -the invasion until it was over.[39] Thus these two companies were -unavailable. So far as adding to the force of lighting men was -concerned, they did not do it. Denison sent a messenger express to -Captain Franklin in Huntington, who dispatched Lieutenant Stoddart -Bowen with the first of his men who could be gotten together. He sent -another messenger to Wilkes-Barre. Zebulon Butler, Lt. Col. of the -third regiment of the Connecticut line was then at Wilkes-Barre on -furlough. Denison asked him to come to Forty Fort. When there, by -common consent, he assumed command of all the forces. - -Early in the afternoon of Friday, July 3d, the two Wilkes-Barre, the -Hanover, Plymouth, Kingston and part of the Huntington companies were -at the rendezvous mustering not more than 200 men. In addition to these -were Captain Hewit's company of Continental Soldiers, some old men, -young boys, and refugees from all sides, who were willing to risk their -lives, but did not belong to any military organization. Perhaps 400 -would be a fair estimate to put on the whole number of fighting men. On -the 2d and again on the 3d day of July the enemy demanded the surrender -of the Forts and all the military forces in the Valley. - -What shall be done? Great uncertainty existed, as to the strength and -intention of the enemy. Shall the force now in hand await the coming -of promised reinforcements?--the more complete concentration of the -regiment, the advance of the enemy? or shall they march out and give -battle? A council of war was held in which the pros and cons were -warmly debated. It was decided to give battle. - -"About three o'clock in the afternoon they marched from the fort, in -martial array, with the stars and stripes at their head, to the tune of -Saint Patrick's Day in the Morning, played on the fife by a true son -of Erin, and with drums beating."[40] They proceeded about three miles -in column when they formed a line of battle of about 500 yards front. -Capt. Dethic Hewit with his so-called regulars, was on the extreme -right, with Captain Bidlack next to him, and he joined by Captain -Geer. On the extreme left was Capt. Whittlesey and the Salem detachment -under Lieut. Bowen. Next to them was the Hanover company under Captain -Stewart (McKaracan having that day resigned), and he was joined by -Captain Buck, of Kingston. This was the order in which the advance was -made. It was made over a plain that was grown up with brush--yellow -pines, pitch pines and scrub oak. These bushes could be seen over by a -man, but were high enough to conceal a skulking foe. The right rested -on a rise of ground near the river, and was led by Lieut. Col. Zebulon -Butler, aided by Major John Garret. The left was commanded by Col. -Nathan Denison, assisted by Lieut. Col. George Dorrance. - -The enemy in front had the Tories in the center under Captains Pawling -and Hopkins and the British regulars on their extreme left under -Captain William Caldwell and Lieutenant Turney. On the enemy's right -were the Indians, under cover of the alders in a swamp led by a Seneca -Chief named Sayenqueraghta.[41] - -The Americans advanced with spirit, the enemy purposely falling back -under fire for the distance of about a mile, until they came to a -cleared field. On the opposite side of this field was a log fence which -the British used as a breastwork, and from it poured in such a severe -fire that it checked the advance. Just at this point the Indians with -brandishing spears and demoniac yells, rushed out of the swamp on the -left, in which most of them lay concealed, enveloped the left wing by -superior numbers, and turned it in upon the right. In the melee that -ensued an effort was made to re-form it, so that it would present a -front to the enemy, but in the confusion occasioned by the fierce onset -of the enemy the orders were misunderstood and the day was lost. - -The men retreated in squads at first, firing as they gave ground, but -borne down by overwhelming numbers, the retreat became a rout, and -every man did the best he could to save himself. It was four miles -back to the fort. On the way some of the squads were captured, some -in pairs, some singly. The slaughter of captured men by the Indians -constitutes what is known in history as the Wyoming Massacre. Some -of the fugitives reached Forty Fort; some Wilkes-Barre. Lieut. Col. -Zebulon Butler escaped with his life. He and the remnant of Hewit's -regulars left the valley. They did not surrender. - -[Illustration: PITTSTON FORT.] - -What of the Twenty-fourth Regiment? Col. Denison reached Forty Fort -alive. Lieut. Col. George Dorrance was mortally wounded. Major John -Garret was killed. The Captain of every company fell upon the field, as -also did three Lieutenants and three Ensigns. How many men the regiment -lost it is impossible to say, but from 200 to 300 of those engaged on -the American side were slain. The loss of the enemy was from 40 to 80 -men. - -Early the next day, July 4, the British commander sent a detachment -across the river and demanded the surrender of Fort Brown, in which -the Pittston people assembled, under the command of Captain Jeremiah -Blanchard. The demand was complied with.[42] It is said that this -company failed to report at Forty Fort because the enemy captured all -the water craft along the river in its vicinity. This disposes of one -more of the companies of the Twenty-fourth Regiment. - -The same day the surrender of Forty Fort was demanded on terms deemed -reasonable under the circumstances. No means for further resistance -were at hand. After some negotiation articles of capitulation were -drawn up and signed.[43] Protection was promised to persons and -property. The fort was surrendered. Captain Franklin had come up -from Huntington, while the battle was in progress on Abraham's -Plains, with the remainder of his company and they were included in -the surrender[44], thus making six complete companies. I have now -accounted for the ten original companies of the regiment. Captain -William Hooker Smith's company of the "Alarm List" was in the fort -with the women and children at Wilkes-Barre, and Capt. James Bidlack, -Sr.'s company was in the fort on Garrison Hill in Plymouth. These -"Reformadoes" belonged to Col. Denison's command. - -The victors planned a spectacular entrance into Forty Fort. Massed in -columns of four upon the left, approached Major John Butler at the head -of his Rangers and Royal Greens; on the right came the Seneca Chiefs, -leading their warriors, streaked with paint, adorned with feathers, and -other picturesque barbaric ornaments. They were preceded with waving -banners, the screech of fife, and the roll of drums. At a signal the -gates were opened: in at the north gate entered the Tories and British -Provincials; at the south gate the savages.[45] - -This scene as it came down to me when a child, from the reported words -of a great grandmother who witnessed it, most profoundly impressed my -youthful imagination. - -What occurred after the capitulation? By the terms of the surrender -protection was promised to persons and property. Regardless of the -terms, the Indians plundered individuals of the clothing on their -persons, pillaged the farm steads of everything movable, drove away the -live stock, destroyed the growing crops and burned the buildings of the -distressed inhabitants to the ground. Their commander could not, or -would not restrain them. - -The result was that on the night following the battle, and on the two -or three succeeding days and nights, the 3,000 inhabitants of the -Wyoming Valley fled, some by boats and rafts down the river, but by -far the greater number through the wilderness, and over the mountains -to the settlements beyond. It was not a planned and orderly hegira, in -which provision was made for necessary wants, but a hurried, hasty, -precipitate flight, urged on to desperation by every element of real -and imaginary danger. Their houses, furniture, household utensils, -crops, flocks, farming implements, provisions, papers, clothing, -horses, wagons,--all left behind. And it was all utterly destroyed or -carried off. Of the delicate women and tender children, not less than -200 perished by the way. In the battle, the massacre, and the flight -it is probable that 500 persons lost their lives. In a memorial to -the Connecticut legislature, the survivors stated that their property -losses amounted to 38,308 pounds, 13s.[46] - -In the Articles of Capitulation signed at Forty Fort was this: "Art. -7. That the inhabitants Col. Denison capitulates for, together with -himself, do not take up arms during the present contest." Some -undoubtedly considered themselves bound by this article. Colonel -Denison for one is no longer heard of in our military annals, -although Westmoreland remained more than four years longer under -the jurisdiction of Connecticut. The Twenty-fourth regiment was -never reorganized. It was overwhelmed on the field of battle; it was -surrendered in sections, by the terms of four military conventions.[47] -Of this sort of glory it had a monopoly. As a regiment its story is -told. - -On the other hand many of the men considered themselves absolved from -the terms above recited. The party that imposed the conditions, did -not themselves observe them. Lieut. Col. Zebulon Butler, one month -from the day of surrender, returned to the valley at the head of some -Continental soldiers and 40 militiamen and went into garrison at -Wilkes-Barrie. A muster roll of these men is extant. Many of them were -men who had been surrendered. Captain John Franklin, with a company of -Wyoming militia, went out in Hartley's expedition the same year, and in -Sullivan's expedition the next year, and on other occasions. - -In an upper chamber of this building is an original pay roll of one of -these companies. Many of its names are identical with those who served -in the Twenty-fourth regiment. - -After the flight of the people from the valley the dead lay unburied on -the plain where they fell for nearly four months. On the twenty second -day of October a detail of thirty men was sent from the garrison at -Wilkes-Barre as a guard to protect those of the inhabitants that had -returned, in performing that solemn duty.[48] - -A granite monument suitably inscribed now marks the place of sepulchre. -Engraved upon it is a very inaccurate list of those "slain in battle" -and of "survivors." - -In this temple, dedicated to the Muse of the backward look, it may be -appropriate to inquire, What relation, if any, had these events to -the history of the times? The drama of the American Revolution held -the center of the stage. Did our regiment enact a part? An important -part. It triumphed mightily in its death. The tales of the butchery of -these captured citizen soldiers, the cries of those mothers and little -children, driven from their burning homes to the wilds of the forest, -were heard all over the civilized world. The execration of mankind was -visited upon a King, and a country, that employed savage allies and -paid them ten dollars apiece, in gold, for the scalps of human beings. - -It produced another effect. It called the attention of Washington and -the Congress to the imperative necessity of dealing a death blow, to -the Six Nation Confederacy of Indian barbarians. A year passed by. -The avengers of Wyoming darkened the waters that wash the shores of -your beautiful peninsula-they swarmed over the lands where we are -assembled to-night, they went forward, they did the work assigned them; -Wyoming was avenged. - -[Illustration: WYOMING MONUMENT.] - -Permit me a word of review. - -The Connecticut controversy! with all its bitterness and contention, it -is sunk in oblivion. - -The town of Westmoreland! it is sponged from the map. - -The Twenty-fourth regiment! it served three years--one for the colony, -two for the state. It builded forts, it fought battles, it went down -to defeat and death, amidst a wild saturnalia of blood, rapine, and -murder. It is forgotten. - - "Time rolls its ceaseless course; the race of yore. - Who danced our infancy upon their knee. - And told our marvelling boyhood legends store - Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, - How are they blotted from the things that be!" - - -Appendix A. - -ROSTER OF THE OFFICERS OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT MILITIA - -From Date of Its Organization to Day of Its Destruction. Date of -Commission Follows Each Name. - - - -----------------+---------------------------- - Colonel. | Zebulon Butler May, 1775 - " | Nathan Denison May, 1777 - -----------------+---------------------------- - Lieut.-Colonel. | Nathan Denison May, 1775 - " " | Lazarus Stewart May, 1777 - " " | George Dorrance Oct., 1777 - -----------------+---------------------------- - Major. | William Judd May, 1775 - " | George Dorrance May, 1777 - " | John Garret Oct., 1777 - -----------------+---------------------------- - - +---------------------------------+ - | Captains. | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -First, or | Stephen Fuller Oct., 1775 | -Lower | John Garret Oct., 1776 | -Wilkes-Barre | Elisha Swift May, 1777 | -Comp'y. | James Bidlack, Jr. Oct., 1777 | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Second, or | Nathaniel Landon Oct., 1775 | -Kingston | Wm. Hooker Smith May, 1777 | -Company. | Dethic Hewit Oct., 1777 | - | Aholiab Buck May, 1778 | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Third, or | Samuel Ransom Oct., 1775 | -Plymouth | Asaph Whittlesey May, 1777 | -Company. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Fourth, or | Solomon Strong Oct., 1775 | -Pittston | Jeremiah Blanchard May, 1777 | -Company. | |_ -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Fifth, or | Wm. McKarrican Oct., 1775 | -Hanover | | -Company. | |_ -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Sixth, or Upper | Rezin Geer Oct., 1775 | -Wilkes-Barre | | -Comp'y. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Seventh, or | Stephen Harding Oct., 1775 | -Exeter Company. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Eighth, or | Eliab Farnham Oct., 1775 | -Lackaway | | -Company. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Ninth, or Up | James Seacord Oct., 1775 | -River Company. | Robert Carr May, 1776 | -----------------+---------------------------------| -Tenth, or | John Franklin May, 1778 | -Huntington-Salem| | -Co. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ - - - +---------------------------------+ - | Lieutenants. | -----------------+ --------------------------------+ -First, or | John Garret Oct., 1775 | -Lower | Asa Stevens Oct., 1776 | -Wilkes-Barre | James Bidlack, Jr. May, 1777 | -Comp'y. | Lebbeus Tubbs Oct., 1777 | -----------------+ --------------------------------+ -Second, or | George Dorrance Oct., 1775 | -Kingston | Flavius Waterman May, 1777 | -Company. | Aholiab Buck Oct., 1777 | - | Elijah Shoemaker May, 1778 | -----------------+ --------------------------------+ -Third, or | Perrin Ross Oct., 1775 | -Plymouth | Aaron Gaylord May, 1777 | -Company. | | -----------------+ --------------------------------+ -Fourth, or | Jonathan Parker Oct., 1775 | -Pittston | Timothy Keyes May, 1777 | -Company. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Fifth, or | Lazarus Stewart, Jr. Oct., 1775 | -Hanover | Roswell Franklin May, 1777 | -Company. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Sixth, or Upper | Daniel Gore Oct., 1775 | -Wilkes-Barre | | -Comp'y. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Seventh, or | Elisha Scovil Oct., 1775 | -Exeter Company. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Eighth, or | John Shaw Oct., 1775 | -Lackaway | | -Company. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Ninth, or Up | John Depue Oct., 1775 | -River Company. | Nathan Kingsley May, 1776 | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Tenth, or | Frethias Wall Oct., 1776 | -Huntington-Salem| Stoddart Bowen May, 1778 | -Co. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ - - - +--------------------------------+ - | Ensigns. | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -First, or | Charles Avery Oct., 1775 | -Lower | David Downing Oct., 1776 | -Wilkes-Barre | Lebbeus Tubbs May, 1777 | -Comp'y. | John Comstock Oct., 1777 | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Second, or | Asahel Buck Oct., 1775 | -Kingston | Dethic Hewit Oct., 1776 | -Company. | Elisha Blackman May, 1777 | - | Asa Gore Oct., 1777 | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Third, or | Asaph Whittlesey Oct., 1775 | -Plymouth | William White May, 1777 | -Company. | | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Fourth, or | Timothy Keyes Oct., 1775 | -Pittston | William Shays May, 1777 | -Company. | Jeremiah Bigford May, 1778 | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Fifth, or | Silas Gore Oct., 1775 | -Hanover | Titus Hinman May, 1777 | -Company. | | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Sixth, or Upper | John Hagerman Oct., 1775 | -Wilkes-Barre | | -Comp'y. | | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Seventh, or | John Jenkins, Jr. Oct., 1775 | -Exeter Company. | | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Eighth, or | Elijah Winters Oct., 1775 | -Lackaway | | -Company. | | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Ninth, or Up | Rudolph Fox Oct., 1775 | -River Company. | | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Tenth, or | John Franklin Oct., 1776 | -Huntington-Salem| Nathaniel Goss May, 1778 | -Co. | | -----------------+--------------------------------+ - - -APPENDIX B. - -A bill of Losses sustained by the Inhabitants of Westmoreland from the -3d day of July, 1778, to May, 1780, taken and carefully examined by the -Selectmen of sd Town pursuant to a Resolve of the Assembly of the state -of Connecticut holden at Hartford the second Thursday of May, 1780. - -And is as followeth: - £ s. - - Sam'l Andross, 26 15 - Isaac Adams, 103 14 - Richardson Avery, 155 00 - Alice Abbot, 173 6 - Prince Alden, 83 17 - Mason F. Alden, 5 13 - Noah Adams, 83 5 - Cornelius Atherton, 103 0 - Samuel Ayers, 100 10 - James Atherton, 120 0 - Richardson Avery, Jr., 137 13 - Eber Adros, 120 9 - Col. Zebulon Butler, 429 4 - Zerah Beach, 67 13 - Ishmael Bennet, 96 17 - Isaac Bennet, 61 7 - Asa Bennet, 199 12 - Henry Burney, 71 15 - Moses Brown, 13 8 - Andrew Blanchard, 49 15 - John Blanchard, 23 8 - Joseph Blanchard, 54 9 - Margaret Blanchard, 79 2 - Lucretia Buck, 90 14 - James Benedict, 228 13 - Jeremiah Blanchard, 215 14 - Benjamin Bailey, 134 17 - Asahel Burnham, 35 6 - Isaac Benjamin, 9 0 - Thomas Brown, 61 0 - Thomas Bennet, 507 0 - James Brown, 165 4 - Capt. James Bidlack, 65 19 - Sarah Brockway, 205 7 - Joseph Baker, 124 13 - Elisha Blackman, 137 1 - Elizabeth Benedict, 144 13 - Bertha Bixby, 36 13 - James Bagley, 95 15 - Mary Bixby, 74 8 - Capt. Caleb Bates, 285 4 - Wm. Buck, 245 5 - Elijah Buck, 103 18 - Abigail Bidlack, 63 10 - David Brown, 28 16 - Richard Brockway, 163 17 - Mehitable Bigford, 202 1 - Uriah Chapman, Esq., 58 10 - Samuel Cummings, 151 5 - John Cray, 93 10 - Wm. Churchill, 178 10 - Anne Campbell, 100 5 - Nathan Cary, 160 4 - Benjamin Cole, Jr., 165 0 - James Cole, 207 3 - Peleg Comstock, 40 13 - Mary Crooker, 51 1 - John Comstock, 219 7 - Jonathan Cory, 173 11 - Jinks Cory, 83 0 - Thos McCluer, 66 4 - Barnabas Cary, 88 17 - Samuel Cole, 89 6 - Preserved Cooley, 95 19 - Col. Nathan Denison, 209 15 - Samuel Downer, 22 19 - Daniel Downing, 107 0 - David Darling, 13 0 - Sarah Durkee, 240 18 - Amos Draper, 68 18 - Samuel Dart, 124 4 - Anderson Dana, Esq., 194 15 - Frederick Eveland, 90 6 - Samuel Ensign, 38 10 - Joseph Elliott, 33 17 - Henry Elliott, 44 14 - Benjamin Eaton, 369 10 - Nathaniel Evans, 61 19 - Capt. Stephen Fuller, 288 4 - Roswell Franklin, 104 0 - Charles Forsythe, 15 3 - Capt. John Franklin, 21 4 - Benj. Follet, 118 17 - Jabez Fish, 223 0 - John Ferre, Jr., 61 11 - Hugh Foresman, 193 11 - Sarah Fuller, 101 13 - Esther Follet, 221 7 - James Finn, 221 11 - Richard Fitz Jarold, 245 2 - Elizabeth Follet, 212 3 - Jonathan Forsythe, 138 16 - Jonathan Fitch, 46 10 - Capt. Eliab. Farnham, 27 11 - Joanna Fish, 30 17 - Major John Garret, 309 11 - Hannah Gore, - John Garret, Jr., 59 16 - Daniel Gore, 273 13 - Cornelius Gale, 7 14 - William Gallop, 200 0 - Solomon Goss, 31 11 - Justin Gaylord, 134 14 - Keziah Gore, 89 0 - Obadiah Gore, Esq., 306 1 - Elisha Garret, 29 0 - Catherine Gaylord, 158 4 - Joseph Gaylord, 69 6 - Stephen Gardner, 176 18 - Nathaniel Gates, 66 14 - James Gardner, 180 0 - Elizabeth Gore, 240 0 - Wait Garret, 108 6 - Bezaleel Gurney, 59 6 - John Hurlburt, Esq., 85 7 - Peter Harris, 149 16 - Richard Hoisted, 177 6 - Lebbeus Hammond, 84 18 - Joseph Hagaman, 19 0 - Henry Harding, 55 12 - Matthew Hollenback, 671 3 - Dr. Joseph Hamilton, 284 17 - James Hopkins, 90 6 - Capt. Robt. Hopkins, 28 18 - Samuel Huchinson, 163 9 - Simon Hide, 117 17 - Widow Hasen and son, 182 10 - Samuel Howard, 27 15 - Mary Howard, 50 1 - Benjamin Hervy, 186 0 - Mary Hatch, 12 7 - John Hutchins, 57 1 - Capt. Stephen Harding, 181 19 - Stukely Harding, 73 6 - James Headsall, 210 0 - Thos. Heath, 190 0 - Cyprian Hybert, 119 13 - Daniel Ingersol, 208 2 - Sarah Inman, 161 10 - Richard Inman, 41 17 - Edward Inman, 84 6 - Rev. Jacob Johnson, 459 1 - John Jenneson, 88 11 - Crocker Jones, 9 0 - Wm. Jacobson, 106 1 - Robert Jamison, 183 16 - Capt. Wm. Judd, 19 2 - John Jenkins, Esq., 598 1 - Josiah Kellogg, 146 12 - Michael Kelly, 21 11 - Benj. Kilburn, 92 16 - Hanna Keys, 178 14 - Alexander M. Kay, 277 4 - Sarah Lee, 236 6 - Thomas Levenworth, 122 11 - Sarah Leonard, 75 0 - Rufus Lawrence, 189 11 - Daniel Lawrence, 37 0 - George Liquors, 136 18 - Abigail Leech, 82 0 - Joseph Leonard, 79 19 - John Lashley, 53 2 - David Lindsey, 78 7 - Edward Lester, 109 11 - Samuel Morgan, 153 8 - John Murphy, 86 3 - Benj. Murry, 78 2 - Ebenezer Murry, 118 12 - Uzania Manvill, 46 17 - Thomas Neil, 4 0 - James Nesbit, 74 19 - Phinehas Nash, 70 0 - John O'Neil, 18 2 - David Owen, 24 0 - Amos Ormsby, 7 1 - Anning Owen, 174 12 - Josiah Pell, 73 10 - Lucy Pettibone, 79 9 - Hannah Parish, 44 12 - Thomas Picket, 111 11 - Hannah Pierce, 151 6 - Thos. Picket, Jr., 66 0 - Ichabod Phelps, 93 2 - Thos. Porter, 200 0 - Josiah Parks, 49 19 - Noah Pettibone, 216 1 - Jonathan Pritchard, 30 15 - Jonathan Parker, 54 12 - Silas Parks, Esq., 91 10 - Elijah Phelps, 550 10 - Sarah Pixley, 26 19 - John Ryon 18 3 - Wm. Ross, 326 0 - John Ross, 65 17 - Susannah Reynolds, 28 10 - Peran Ross, 233 9 - Abigail Richards, 135 3 - David Reynolds, 94 2 - Capt. Samuel Ransom, 259 0 - Capt. Daniel Rosencrans, 175 10 - James Roberts, 83 18 - Jonah Rogers, 168 17 - Amasa Roberts, 92 10 - Timothy Rose, 118 11 - Caleb Spencer, 182 17 - Margaret Smith, 155 10 - James Stark, 547 15 - Lazarus Stuart, Jr., 172 12 - Isaac Smith, 67 10 - Joseph Staples, 223 0 - Esther Spencer, 135 0 - David Sanford, 193 12 - Elizabeth St. John, 162 0 - Elisha Scovil, 712 4 - Jonathan Scovil, 72 0 - Ebenezer Skinner, 89 4 - Wm. Shay, 114 15 - Josiah Smith, 83 19 - Obadiah Scott, 72 15 - Jedediah Stevens, 285 0 - Joshua Stevens, 119 11 - Zacharias Squire, 66 16 - James Sutton, 176 17 - David Shoemaker, 50 0 - Daniel Sherwood, 40 4 - Edward Spencer, Jr., 85 7 - Thomas Stoddard, 200 8 - David Smith, 202 15 - Jane Shoemaker, 329 12 - Benj. Skiff, 98 7 - Wm. Hooker Smith, 168 7 - Wm. Stuart, 57 17 - Giles Slocum, 205 19 - Asa Stevens, 185 11 - John Scott, 217 3 - James Staples, 80 19 - Martha Stuart, 481 12 - Jabez Sill, 351 19 - John Staples, 224 12 - John Stafford, 36 6 - Josiah Stanberry, 603 14 - Luke Sweatland, 200 0 - Joseph Thomas, 120 18 - Mary Thomas, 25 0 - Ephraim Tyler, 14 10 - Parshall Terry, 216 12 - Mary Thompson, 30 10 - Job Tripp, 113 1 - Isaac Tripp, 74 10 - Lebbeus Tubbs, 130 3 - John Taylor, 61 14 - Preserved Taylor, 18 2 - Mehitable Truks, 159 4 - Moses Thomas, 68 3 - Bezaleel Tyler, 35 17 - Elizabeth Tuttle, 67 10 - James Towser, 36 0 - Isaac Van Orman, 122 0 - John Van Titbury, 84 3 - Rev. Noah Wadhams, 193 6 - Amy Wilcox, 116 12 - Elizabeth Wilcox, 87 15 - Enos Woddard, 30 19 - Enos Woddard, Jr., 16 7 - Eleazer West, 53 10 - Nathaniel Williams, 30 0 - Abigail Weeks, 129 16 - Mary Walker, 42 5 - Eunice Whiton, 26 7 - Daniel Willing, 44 17 - Thomas Wigton, 175 6 - Isabel Wigton, 130 1 - Wm. Warner, 68 16 - Wm. Williams, 148 18 - Jonathan Weeks, 239 11 - Flavius Waterman, 90 0 - Elihu Williams, 197 10 - Richard West, 65 17 - Amy Williams, 130 0 - Daniel Whitney, 363 14 - Abraham Westbrook, 380 2 - James Wells, 92 12 - Lucretia York, 221 13 - Jemima Yale, 130 3 - Jacob Zaratt, 42 11 - - Total amount, £38,308 13 - -The foregoing Bill was carefully examined in each single account and -estimated in lawful money equal to money in 1774. - - Westmoreland, Oct. 2, 1781. - -In the Lower House, Ordered that this Report be Lodged on file in the -Secretary's Office. - - Teste--Jed'h Strong, Clerk. - -Concur'd in the Upper House. - - Teste--George Wyllys, Sect'y. - -[Illustration] - - -APPENDIX C. - - Copies of Documents Relative to the Expedition Against Wyoming, in - 1778, Now in His Majesty's State Paper Office, London, in a Volume - Entitled, "Military, 1778.--No. 122." - - -I. - - Copy of Articles of Capitulation, for Wintermoot's Fort, July 1, 1778. - -Art. 1st. That Lieut. Elisha Scovell surrender the Fort, with the -Stores, arms and ammunition, that are in said fort, as well public as -private, to Major John Butler. - -2d. That the garrison shall not bear arms during the present contest; -and Major Butler promises that the men, women and children shall not be -hurt, either by Indians or Rangers. - - -II. - - Fort Jenkins Fort, July 1st, 1778. - - Between Major John Butler, on behalf of His Majesty King George the - Third, and John Jenkins. - -Art. 1st. That the Fort with all the stores, arms and ammunition, be -delivered up immediately. - -2d. That Major John Butler shall preserve to them, intire, the lives of -the men, women and children. - - -III. - - Articles of Capitulation for three Forts at Lackuwanack, 4th July, - 1778. - -Art. 1st. That the different Commanders of the said Forts, do -immediately deliver them up, with all the arms, ammunition and stores -in the said forts. - -2d. Major Butler promises that the lives of the men, women and children -shall be preserved intire. - - -IV. - - Westmoreland, July 4th, 1778. - - Capitulation made and completed between Major John Butler, on behalf - of His Majesty King George the Third, and Col. Nathan Denniston, of - the United States of America. - -Art. 1. That the inhabitants of the settlement lay down their arms, and -the garrisons be demolished. - -2d. That the inhabitants are to occupy their farms peaceably, and the -lives of the inhabitants preserved intire and unhurt. - -3d. That the Continental Stores be delivered up. - -4th. That Major Butler will use his utmost influence that the private -property of the inhabitants shall be preserved intire to them. - -5th. That the prisoners in Forty Fort, be delivered up, and that Samuel -Finch, now in Major Butler's possession, be delivered up also. - -6th. That the property taken from the people called Tories, up the -river, be made good; and they to remain in peaceable possession of -their farms, unmolested in a free trade, in and throughout this State, -as far as lies in my power. - -7th. That the inhabitants, that Colonel Denniston now capitulates for, -together with himself, do not take up arms during the present contest. - - [Signed] - - Nathan Denniston. - John Butler. - - Zarah Beech, - John Johnson, - Samuel Gustin, - Wm. Caldwell. - - - - -BIBLIOGRAPHY. - - -Below will be found a list of the books, pamphlets, and manuscripts -consulted in the preparation of this address. By means of an -alphabetical arrangement, usually as to author's names, an authority -cited in the text may here be found with the title of the work, and the -date, and place of publication. - - Chapman, Isaac A.--A sketch of the History of Wyoming. Wilkes-Barre. - 1830. - - Conover, George S.--Sayenqueraghta, King of the Senecas. Waterloo. - 1885. - - Supplement to the same. 1886. - - Connecticut--The Public Records of the Colony of.--From October, - 1772, to April, 1775, inclusive. Vol. XIV. Hartford. 1887. - - Connecticut--The Public Records of the Colony of.--From May, 1775, to - June, 1776, inclusive. Vol. XV. Hartford. 1890. - - Connecticut--The Public Records of the State of.--From October, 1776, - to February, 1778, inclusive. Vol. I. Hartford. 1894. - - Connecticut--The Public Records of the State of. From May, 1778, to - April, 1780, inclusive. Vol. II. Hartford. 1895. - - Connecticut.--Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the War of the - Revolution. Quarto, pp. 777. Hartford. 1889. - - Craft, Rev. David.--Historical Address at the Centennial Celebration - of the Battle of Newtown. Printed in Journals of the Sullivan - Expedition. - - Craft, Rev. David.--Colonel John Franklin and the Wild Yankees. An - Address delivered June 9, 1896, at the Old Academy, Athens, Pa. 1896. - - Egle, Wm. H., M. D.--A History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, - Civil, Political and Military, from its earliest settlement to the - present time. Harrisburg. 1876. - - Hubbard, John N., A. B.--Sketches of Border Adventures in the Life - and Times of Major Moses VanCampen, a Surviving Soldier of the - Revolution. By his Grandson. Bath, N. Y. 1842. - - Hayden, Rev. Horace Edwin, M. A.--Major John Garret, slain July 3, - 1778. A Forgotten Hero of the Massacre of Wyoming, Pa. Wilkes-Barre, - Pa. 1895. - - Hayden, Rev. Horace Edwin, M. A.--The Massacre of Wyoming. - Wilkes-Barre. 1895. - - Hollister, Horace.--History of the Lackawana Valley, Fifth Edition. - Philadelphia. 1885. - - Hoyt, Henry M.--A Brief of the Title in the Seventeen Townships - in the County of Luzerne: A Syllabus of the Controversy between - Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Harrisburg. 1879. - - Hinman, Royal R.--A Historical Collection from Official Records, - Files, etc., of the part sustained by Connecticut during the War of - the Revolution. Hartford. 1842. - - Harvey, Oscar Jewell.--The Harvey Book, giving genealogies of Harvey, - Nesbitt, Dixon and Jamison Families. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 1899. - - Jenkins, Steuben.--Historical Address at the Wyoming Monument July 3, - 1878, on the 100th Anniversary of the Battle and Massacre of Wyoming. - Wilkes-Barre. 1878. - - Jenkins, Steuben.--Wyoming, Connecticut, Pennsylvania. Historical - Register. Vol. II. Harrisburg. 1884. - - Johnson, Frederick C., M. D.-The Pioneer Women of Wyoming. An Address - before the Wyoming Valley Chapter D. A. R. Wilkes-Barre. 1901. - - Meginness, John F.--Biography of Frances Slocum, the lost Sister of - Wyoming. A complete Narrative of her wanderings among the Indians. - Williamsport, Pa. 1891. - - Miner, Charles.--History of Wyoming in a Series of Letters. - Philadelphia. 1845. - - Military Expedition of General John Sullivan, Journals of. Auburn. - 1887. - - Peck, George, D. D.--Wyoming; its History, Stirring Incidents and - Romantic Adventures. New York. 1858. - - Pearce, Stewart.--Annals of Luzerne County. Second Edition. - Philadelphia. 1866. - - Pennsylvania--Minutes of the Provincial Council of.--From the - organization to the termination of the Proprietary Government. Vols. - IX to XI. Harrisburg. 1853. - - Pennsylvania--Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council of.--From its - organization to the termination of the Revolution. Vols. XI to XVI. - Harrisburg. 1853. - - Pennsylvania Archives.--Selected and arranged from Original Documents - in the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. First Series. - Vols. IV. to XII. Harrisburg. 1855-8. Second Series. Vol. XVIII. - Harrisburg. 1897. Fourth Series. Vols. III. and IV. Harrisburg. 1900. - - Perkins, Mrs. George A.--Early Times on the Susquehanna. Binghamton. - 1870. - - Plumb, Henry Blackman.--History of Hanover Township and Wyoming - Valley, Luzerne County, Pa. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 1885. - - - Reynolds, Sheldon, M. A.--The Frontier Forts within the Wyoming - Valley, Pa. Wilkes-Barre. 1896. Also in Frontier Forts of Pa. Vol. I, - pp. 419-466. Harrisburg. 1896. - - Stone, William L.--The Poetry and History of Wyoming. New York and - London. 1841. - - Stone, William L.--Life of Joseph Brant--Thayendanegea, including the - Indian Wars of the American Revolution. Vol. I. Cooperstown, N. Y. - 1844. - - United States.--Journals of Congress. Containing their Proceedings - from Sept. 5, 1774, to November 3, 1788. 13 volumes. Philadelphia. - 1800-1. - - Wright, Hendrick B.--Historical Sketches of Plymouth, Luzerne County, - Pa. Philadelphia. 1873. - - Wyoming Valley--The Historical Record of. A periodical publication. - Dr. F. C. Johnson, Editor. 9 volumes. Wilkes-Barre. 1886-1901. - - Wyoming Historical and Geological Society--Proceedings and - Collections. Vols. 1-7. Wilkes-Barre. 1858-1902. - - Wyoming Commemorative Association--Proceedings. 12 volumes. - Wilkes-Barre. 1878-1902. - - -MANUSCRIPTS. - -The subjoined list embraces material not in printed form: - - Craft, Rev. David.--Collection of MSS. deposited by him in the Rooms - of the Tioga Point Historical Society, Athens, Pa. - - Connecticut State Library.--Manuscript Pay and Muster Rolls of - Soldiers in the French and Indian War, 1754-1763. Hartford, Conn. - - Appendix "B" is Document No. 147 in a manuscript volume entitled - "Susquehanna Settlers," Vol. I. - - Jenkins, Hon. Steuben.--Documents, Letters, Surveys, Account Books, - Agreements, Diaries, etc. etc. Wyoming, Pa. Examined in lifetime of - late owner. - - Tioga Point Historical Society.--Pay Roll of Capt. John Franklin's - Company, dated May, 1780. Athens, Pa. - -[Illustration] - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[Footnote 1: Westmoreland Records as per Hollister 5th ed. p. 139.] - -[Footnote 2: Westmoreland Records as per Hollister 5th ed. p. 140.] - -[Footnote 3: Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XIV p. ----.] - -[Footnote 4: Miner p. 157.] - -[Footnote 5: Miner p. 158.] - -[Footnote 6: Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XV p. 12.] - -[Footnote 7: Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XV p. 43.] - -[Footnote 8: Manuscript Pay Rolls Conn. State Library.] - -[Footnote 9: Miner p. 154.] - -[Footnote 10: Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XV p. 152 et seq.] - -[Footnote 11: Manuscript Pay and Muster Rolls Conn. State Lib.] - -[Footnote 12: Hinman's Connecticut in the War of the Revolution, (1842) -p. 10.] - -[Footnote 13: Mason F. Alden is employed to perform a responsible -duty and is called Ensign. However, his name does not appear among -the Ensigns of the Twenty-fourth regiment, at that time but recently -elected. Perhaps it was a courtesy title derived from some previous -service.] - -[Footnote 14: Lazarus Stewart was also employed to perform a -responsible duty and is called Captain. He served during the French -and Indian War; was in Braddock's defeat; was Captain of the "Paxtang -Boys," but was not at this time a Captain in the Twenty-fourth -regiment. He was a cousin of Lazarus Stewart, Jr., a Lieutenant in the -Hanover company.] - -[Footnote 15: Miner, p. 172 et seq.; The Harvey Book, p. 628 et seq.] - -[Footnote 16: Miner, p. 189.] - -[Footnote 17: Westmoreland Records as per Jenkins' Address p. 11.] - -[Footnote 18: Miner p. 212.] - -[Footnote 19: Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XV p. 470.] - -[Footnote 20: Miner p. 187.] - -[Footnote 21: Journals of Continental Congress Vol. III p. 104.] - -[Footnote 22: Journals of Continental Congress Vol. II p. 307.] - -[Footnote 23: Frontier Forts of Pa. Vol. I p. 434.] - -[Footnote 24: Records of the State of Conn. Vol. I p. 31.] - -[Footnote 25: Records of the State of Conn. Vol. I p. 91 et seq.] - -[Footnote 26: Miner p. 200.] - -[Footnote 27: Names of fifteen of these Tories are given in Records of -State of Conn. Vol. I p. 539.] - -[Footnote 28: Records State of Conn. Vol. II p. 58.] - -[Footnote 29: Journals of Continental Congress Vol. IV p. 113.] - -[Footnote 30: See Appendix A.] - -[Footnote 31: Records of the State of Conn. Vol. I, pp. 264, 430.] - -[Footnote 32: Records of the State of Conn. Vol. I, pp. 270, 422; Vol. -II, p. 30.] - -[Footnote 33: Manuscript Pay and Muster Rolls Conn. State Lib.] - -[Footnote 34: Miner, p. 215.] - -[Footnote 35: Miner, p. 216.] - -[Footnote 36: Miner, p. 218.] - -[Footnote 37: For Articles of Capitulation see Miner p. 255, and -Appendix C.] - -[Footnote 38: Hollister 5th ed., p. 163, 194.] - -[Footnote 39: Miner p. 470.] - -[Footnote 40: Address of Hon. Steuben Jenkins, p. 38.] - -[Footnote 41: The Wyoming Massacre, by Horace Edwin Hayden, (1895) p. -xviii et seq.] - -[Footnote 42: Articles of Capitulation given by Miner p. 255.] - -[Footnote 43: Articles of Capitulation given by Miner p. 255.] - -[Footnote 44: Col. John Franklin and the Wild Yankees, by Rev. David -Craft, p. 7.] - -[Footnote 45: Miner p. 232.] - -[Footnote 46: See Appendix B.] - -[Footnote 47: See Appendix C.] - -[Footnote 48: Orderly Book of Col. Z. Butler in Proc. Wyo. Hist. 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If you are not located in the United States, you'll -have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using -this ebook. - - - -Title: A History of the Twenty-Fourth Regiment of Connecticut Militia - -Author: Charles Tubbs - -Release Date: September 26, 2019 [EBook #60361] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CONNECTICUT MILITIA *** - - - - -Produced by Graeme Mackreth and The Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="hidehand"> -<p class="center"> -<img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="pic" /> -</p></div> - -<p class="center" style="margin-top: 15em;"> -<img src="images/illus1.jpg" alt="pic" /> -<a id="illus1" name="illus1"></a> -</p> -<p class="caption"> EARLY MAP OF WYOMING AND LACKAWANNA VALLIES.</p> - - - - - -<p class="ph4">The Wyoming Military Establishment.</p> - - -<p class="ph5">A HISTORY</p> - -<p class="ph6">—OF THE—</p> - -<p class="ph1">TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT</p> - -<p class="ph6">—OF—</p> - -<p class="ph4">CONNECTICUT MILITIA.</p> - - -<p class="ph4" style="margin-top: 5em;">An Address</p> - -<p class="ph5">before</p> - -<p class="ph4">The Tioga Point Historical Society</p> - -<p class="ph5">delivered December 3rd, 1901, by</p> - -<p class="ph4">Hon. CHARLES TUBBS,</p> - -<p class="ph6">Honorary Member Tioga Point Historical Society.<br /> -Corresponding Member Wyoming Historical & Geological Society.</p> - - -<p class="ph6" style="margin-top: 5em;">Athens, Penna.<br /> -1903.</p> - - - - - - -<p class="ph3" style="margin-top: 5em;">LIEUTENANT LEBBEUS TUBBS,<br /> -PRIVATE SAMUEL TUBBS,<br /> -LIEUTENANT-COLONEL GEORGE DORRANCE.</p> - -<p class="ph4">TO THE MEMORY OF THESE, MY ANCESTORS,<br /> -MEMBERS OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT,<br /> -I DEDICATE THIS STUDY<br /> -OF COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY EVENTS,<br /> -IN WHICH THEY PERFORMED A PART.</p> - - - - - -<p class="ph2">ILLUSTRATIONS.</p> - - -<p style="margin-left: 25%;"> -<a href="#illus1"><span class="smcap">Map of Wyoming Valley</span>,</a><br /> -<br /> -<a href="#illus3"><span class="smcap">Lazarus Stewart's Block House</span></a>,<br /> -<br /> -<a href="#illus4"><span class="smcap">Forty Fort in 1778</span>,</a><br /> -<br /> -<a href="#illus5"><span class="smcap">Pittston Fort</span>,</a> <br /> -<br /> -<a href="#illus6"><span class="smcap">Wyoming Monument</span>,</a><br /> -</p> - -<p class="center">The plates from which the above illustrations were printed were kindly -loaned by the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society.</p> - -<p class="center"> -<img src="images/illus2.jpg" alt="pic" /> -</p> - - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;"><span class="smcap">Athens Gazette,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">Athens, Pa.</span></span><br /> -</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span></p> - - - - -<p class="ph2">The Wyoming Military Establishment.</p> - - -<p>Alsace-Loraine is a conquered province. The flag of Germany floats over -it. Within the memory of most of us it was an integral part of France. -At the time of the conquest, no heart of all its people went willingly -to the side of the victor.</p> - -<p>We are met to-day in Pennsylvania. Yet for years, in the eighteenth -century the soil beneath our feet, and five thousand square miles -of adjacent territory, inside the present limits of Pennsylvania, -was an integral part of the State of Connecticut. It was settled -by Connecticut people, was under Connecticut institutions, was -governed by Connecticut laws. It was a Connecticut town; it was a -Connecticut county; had a judge, a sheriff, other officers, and sent -representatives to the Connecticut legislature.</p> - -<p>Pennsylvania made conquest of it. No heart of all the people of -this Connecticut town went willingly to the side of the victor. The -Alsatians were no more stunned, at being forcibly wrenched from their -allegiance to the flag they loved, than were the Connecticut people who -had settled a town of their own in the heart of Pennsylvania.</p> - -<p>How did this cataclysm befall? I will tell you. It all came of the -ignorance or carelessness of a King. In 1620 King James I. of England -granted a Charter to the Plymouth company for the ruling of New England -in America. The charter covered North America from the fortieth to -the forty-eighth degrees of north latitude, and from the Atlantic to -the Pacific oceans. The Plymouth Company<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> proceeded to sub-divide its -territory. In 1631 it granted a charter to the Connecticut Colony which -covered the space between the forty-first and forty-second degrees of -north latitude "and from the Narragansett river on the east to the -South Sea on the west throughout the main lands." The South Sea was -the Pacific Ocean. In 1662 King Charles II. gave a new charter to -Connecticut confirming the act of the Plymouth Company. Nineteen years -later this same King in the grant of Pennsylvania to William Penn, -included a portion of the same territory, already given by him to -Connecticut.</p> - -<p>The ignorance or carelessness of King Charles, in due time bore a rich -harvest of strife and bloodshed. Under the Connecticut charter (which -was the older) my ancestors, and perhaps yours, came into this valley -of the Susquehanna, and sat themselves down. Under the Pennsylvania -charter (which was the younger) came sheriffs, and armed men, to drive -them off. On the tongues of men this disputed section was known as -Wyoming. In the statute book it is called Westmoreland.</p> - -<p>Having explained how the Connecticut people under a claim of right, -built up a government within the present boundaries of Pennsylvania, -I have said all I desire to say on that subject. It explains how a -part of what is now Pennsylvania was really a part of Connecticut in -the last years of our Colonial history, and in the first years of our -history as an independent nation—from 1774 to 1783.</p> - -<p>This Twenty-fourth regiment of Connecticut Militia was organized on -that part of the soil of Pennsylvania which was known as the Wyoming -region, and in that region it performed its deeds, and lived its -organic life.</p> - -<p>I am aware that this explanation is quite unnecessary. I am aware -that the Society that listens to me contains many descendants of the -men who made the history I am about to relate. I am aware that the -great-grandchildren of Captains Bidlack, Franklin, Spaulding, and -Whittlesey<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> here reside. I know that descendants of the Buck, Gore, -Mathewson, Satterlee, Stevens and Tozer families abound in this old -town. A writer who knows your community better than I do could mention -others.</p> - -<p>I have been attracted to the history of the Twenty-fourth regiment -of Connecticut Militia because in all the histories it has received -so little attention. Mr. Chapman, in his "Sketch of the History of -Wyoming," (1830) says: "The whole body of the citizens was formed into -a militia." (p. 102). He does not say it was a regiment nor designate -it by its number. Col. Stone, in his work entitled, "Wyoming and its -History," (1841), alludes to it in the phrase, "a regiment of militia -being organized," (p. 202), but does not state its number nor give -it further attention. Charles Miner, in his "History of Wyoming in a -Series of Letters," (1845), gives many facts, but notices only six -of the ten companies of which the regiment was composed and details -only the organization of those companies as it was in 1775. George -Peck, in his "Wyoming: its history, stirring incidents, and romantic -adventures," (1858), devotes to it a passing allusion in the words, "a -regiment of militia having been established." (p. 28). Stewart Pearce -does not allude to the Twenty-fourth regiment at all in his "Annals -of Luzerne," (1866), but does mention five of its companies. (p. 34) -Steuben Jenkins, in his "Historical Address at the Monument," (1878), -mentions its existence (p. 17), and at another place enumerates seven -of its companies. (p. 34) Horace Edwin Hayden, in his monograph -entitled, "Major John Garret; a forgotten hero of the Massacre of -Wyoming," (1895) explains the existence of the regiment, credits it -with nine companies, and gives the changes of the officers made in 1777.</p> - -<p>In my judgment, the services of this regiment were of more importance -than have been accorded them by the historians. I shall seek to arrange -those already well known,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> into a comprehensive whole, to show their -relation to other events, and to add some facts not hitherto brought to -light.</p> - -<p>The Wyoming community was isolated in its situation. It was seventy -miles from it to the settlements on the Delaware; it was sixty miles to -Fort Augusta; to the north and to the west, was a howling wilderness. -This wilderness was filled with a savage Indian population. A continual -fight was waged with the proprietaries of Pennsylvania.</p> - -<p>The settlement, which became permanent, was begun in 1769. It was a -self-governing community. It kept a record of its official acts. In -1772 it was voted, "That each and every settler should provide himself -with a flint lock and ammunition, and continue to guard around the -threatened plantations until further notice."<a name="FNanchor_1_1" id="FNanchor_1_1"></a><a href="#Footnote_1_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> That was the first -step—individual action, every man defend his own castle. This did not -prove effectual. Organization was needed. That was the second step in -the evolution. It took time to bring it about—perhaps a year. At a -meeting of the inhabitants held March 22, 1773, it was voted: "That -the Comtee of settlers be Desired to send to the several towns or to -their Comtee. Requiring them to Call all the Inhabitants in Each of ye -said towns to meet on Thursday Next at five a Clock in ye afternoon of -sd Day in some Convenient place in sd town, and that they then Chouse -one Person in Each of sd towns as an officer to muster them, & so that -all are oequipt according to Law with fire arms, and ammunition, and -that they Chuse two Sergants & a Clerk & that the said Chieff officer -is Hereby Commanded & Directed to Call ye Inhabitants together once -in 14 Days for ye future until this Company orders otherwise & that -in case of an allarm or ye appearance of an Enemy he is Directed -to call ye sd Inhabitants together & stand for ye Defense of ye sd -towns & Settlements without further orders."<a name="FNanchor_2_2" id="FNanchor_2_2"></a><a href="#Footnote_2_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a> In speaking of these -pre<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span>parations Miner says: "If the splendid uniform, the glittering -bayonet, the evolution rapid and precise, with the imposing band of -music, did not grace their trainings, there was yet upon the ground -the strong banded old French musket, the long duck shooting piece, and -more efficient than either the close drawing rifle, little known in -New England, but becoming familiar on the banks of the Susquehanna." -Trainings once in fourteen days! They certainly believed in the -strenuous life. Those trainings were not holidays. They were serious -preparation for impending warfare.</p> - -<p>In January. 1774, the Wyoming settlements which had grown to a -population of 1922 souls,<a name="FNanchor_3_3" id="FNanchor_3_3"></a><a href="#Footnote_3_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> were taken official notice of by the -legislature of Connecticut which incorporated them as the town of -Westmoreland. Wyoming and Westmoreland may henceforth be regarded as -interchangeable terms.</p> - -<p>The next step in the evolution of the military establishment had its -origin at the second town meeting after the incorporation, which was -held on the 12th day of April, 1774. The town, by a vote, applied for -the establishment of a regiment.<a name="FNanchor_4_4" id="FNanchor_4_4"></a><a href="#Footnote_4_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> For some reason the legislature was -slow to act. It may have been for the want of a representative in the -law making body. The town, however, did not neglect to keep itself in -a state of preparedness. They kept everlastingly at it. At the fourth -town meeting held that year "Votes were passed to form themselves into -companies in a military way,"<a name="FNanchor_5_5" id="FNanchor_5_5"></a><a href="#Footnote_5_5" class="fnanchor">[5]</a> each district in Westmoreland to be -a company and Zebulon Butler, Esq., Major Ezekiel Pierce and Mr. John -Jenkins were appointed a committee to repair to the several districts -and lead each company to a choice of officers.</p> - -<p>From this it is clear that the officers were chosen by a vote of the -men in each company. The subsequent "estab<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span>lishment" of the rank of -officers by the Connecticut Assembly was but a ratification of what had -already been done by vote of the men.</p> - -<p>It was more than a year after the action of the town meeting asking -for the legal organization of a regiment before the legislature acted -upon the subject. At May session, 1775, it enacted "That the town of -Westmoreland shall be one entire regiment distinguished and called by -the name of the Twenty-fourth regiment and shall be under the same -rules and orders, and have the same powers, privileges and advantages -as other regiments of this Colony by law have."<a name="FNanchor_6_6" id="FNanchor_6_6"></a><a href="#Footnote_6_6" class="fnanchor">[6]</a></p> - -<p>One of these advantages was the promise of six pence for half day -training and twelve pence for whole day training, and this to be paid -out of the Colony treasury.</p> - -<p>The regiment was assigned to the sixth brigade, Connecticut State -Militia, commanded by Brig. Gen. Oliver Wolcott. The organization was -begun by the "establishment" of the regimental officers at the same -session. Zebulon Butler was made Colonel; Nathan Denison, Lieutenant -Colonel; William Judd, Major.<a name="FNanchor_7_7" id="FNanchor_7_7"></a><a href="#Footnote_7_7" class="fnanchor">[7]</a></p> - -<p>Zebulon Butler, the newly elected colonel, born at Lynne. Conn., 1731, -was no novice in the military service. In the French and Indian war he -was Ensign in Captain Andrew Ward's 2 company of the 4 Conn. Regt. in -1755-6-7. He was Lieutenant in Captain Timothy Mather's company of the -3 Regt. in 1758. He was Captain in the 4th and 1st regiments in 1759, -1760 and 1761.<a name="FNanchor_8_8" id="FNanchor_8_8"></a><a href="#Footnote_8_8" class="fnanchor">[8]</a> He had served seven enlistments. The territorial -range of his service extended from Crown Point on the north to Havana -on the south. When elected Colonel his home was in Wilkes-Barre.</p> - -<p>Nathan Denison, the newly elected Lieutenant Colonel, born in Conn., -1741, had seen service in the French and<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> Indian war as a private in -Col. Eleazar Fitch's 3d Conn. Regt. His services extended from May to -November, 1758. His home was in Kingston.</p> - -<p>Speaking of these two men Miner says: "Nature never formed two -excellent men in more distinct contrast. Butler polished in manner, -quick in perception, vehement and rapid in execution: Denison, plain -though courteous, slow to speak, as careful to consider, cool and -firm, if not alert in action. They were the two great and acknowledged -leaders in Westmoreland."<a name="FNanchor_9_9" id="FNanchor_9_9"></a><a href="#Footnote_9_9" class="fnanchor">[9]</a></p> - -<p>William Judd, the newly elected Major, does not seem to have had any -military experience outside of the militia.</p> - -<p>The accessible records are silent about the progress made with the -regiment during the summer of 1775, but it is fair to assume that -the newly commissioned field officers did not neglect their duty in -perfecting their organization and in training their men.</p> - -<p>At the October session of the Connecticut legislature the election -of the officers of nine of the companies were ratified. They were as -follows:<a name="FNanchor_10_10" id="FNanchor_10_10"></a><a href="#Footnote_10_10" class="fnanchor">[10]</a></p> - -<p>First (Lower Wilkes-Barre) Company, Stephen Fuller, Captain; John -Garret, Lieutenant; Christopher Avery, Ensign.</p> - -<p>Second (Kingston) Company, Nathaniel Landon, Captain; George Dorrance, -Lieutenant; Asahel Buck, Ensign.</p> - -<p>Third (Plymouth) Company, Samuel Ransom, Captain; Perrin Ross, -Lieutenant; Asaph Whittlesey, Ensign.</p> - -<p>Fourth (Pittston) Company, Solomon Strong, Captain; Jonathan Parker, -Lieutenant; Timothy Keyes, Ensign.</p> - -<p>Fifth (Hanover) Company, William McKarachan, Captain; Lazarus Stewart, -Jr., Lieutenant; Silas Gore, Ensign.</p> - -<p>Sixth (Upper Wilkes-Barre) Company, Rezin Geer, Captain; Daniel Gore, -Lieutenant; Matthias Hollenback, Ensign.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p> - -<p>Seventh (Exeter) Company, Stephen Harding, Captain; Elisha Scovill, -Lieutenant; John Jenkins, Jr., Ensign.</p> - -<p>Eighth (Lackaway) Company, Eliab Farnham, Captain; John Shaw, -Lieutenant; Elijah Winters, Ensign.</p> - -<p>Ninth (Up the River) Company, James Secord, Captain; John De Pui, -Lieutenant; Rudolph Fox, Ensign.</p> - -<p>Some of these officers had seen service as soldiers in the French and -Indian War.<a name="FNanchor_11_11" id="FNanchor_11_11"></a><a href="#Footnote_11_11" class="fnanchor">[11]</a> Captain Eliab Farnham, of the Lackaway Company, had -done a tour of duty lasting twenty-five weeks in 1758 in Capt. Nathan -Whiting's Company, 2d Conn. Regt. Lieut. Elisha Scovill had served -32 weeks in 1759 in Capt. Amos Hitchcock's Company in the seventh -Connecticut regiment.</p> - -<p>Lieutenant Jonathan Parker had served 34 weeks in 1761 in the third -company of the First Conn. Regt. commanded by Major David Baldwin.</p> - -<p>The citizen liable to serve in the Connecticut militia was a man, -between 16 and 50 years of age, but for specified reason many were -exempt from the service.<a name="FNanchor_12_12" id="FNanchor_12_12"></a><a href="#Footnote_12_12" class="fnanchor">[12]</a></p> - -<p>There was an almost immediate call for all the skill and ability of the -newly commissioned officers not only in the training field, but in the -arena of actual war. The Governor of Pennsylvania had made up his mind -to completely destroy the Connecticut settlement at Wyoming. Wyoming -was within the Pennsylvania county of Northumberland of which William -Cook was Sheriff. William Cook, under pretense of serving sundry writs -at Wyoming, took with him an armed force of 700 men under the command -of Colonel William Plunket. He called it a "posse."</p> - -<p>This force left Northumberland early in December, 1775, marching up the -west side of the river over the almost impassable roads. The supplies -for the expedition were loaded into boats. Progress was slow, as the -boats had to be propelled against the current, encumbered as it often<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> -was at that season of the year by floating ice. December 20th, Col. -Plunket was at Nescopeck Creek, nineteen miles below the south eastern -extremity of the valley. His progress now was closely watched by -scouts. On Saturday, the 23d he arrived at Harvey's landing, one-fourth -of a mile below the mouth of Harvey's Creek, where he landed, unloaded -his boats, and encamped for the night.</p> - -<p>What preparation had been made to receive the invader? On this same -Saturday Col. Zebulon Butler mustered the newly formed Twenty-fourth -regiment. He also collected all the old men and boys who did not belong -to the ranks of the regiment and armed them the best he could. In -number, his force thus made up, was about four hundred. The two armies -spent the night within a half mile of each other. From this point Col. -Butler sent out a flag to Col. Plunket, in charge of Lieutenant Garret, -inquiring the object of the invasion. Col. Plunket's reply was that he -came on a peaceful errand, simply to serve some Pennsylvania writs at -Wyoming.</p> - -<p>On Sunday morning. Col. Butler left Ensign Mason F. Alden<a name="FNanchor_13_13" id="FNanchor_13_13"></a><a href="#Footnote_13_13" class="fnanchor">[13]</a> with -18 men on the ground where he had spent the night. At the same time -he sent Capt. Lazarus Stewart<a name="FNanchor_14_14" id="FNanchor_14_14"></a><a href="#Footnote_14_14" class="fnanchor">[14]</a> of the Hanover Company, with 20 -men across the river to the east side above the Nanticoke Falls to -prevent the enemy from landing, should they attempt to do so. He -then, with the main body of his force, retreated about one mile up -the river to a place where a natural defence existed. This consisted -of a ridge of rocks projecting about one-half a mile south easterly -from the Shawanese mountain to the river. Near the river it was 1 or -2 feet high, but as it ran back toward the mountain it was of great -height.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> Wherever there were breaks in this natural rampart, Butler's -men filled in the space with logs and stones. Behind this breastwork -the Twenty-fourth regiment and its co-operating forces were stationed. -About 11 o'clock Alden and his men became conscious that the enemy was -moving, and they withdrew. They announced the approach of the enemy to -Col. Butler and joined him behind the fortification. When the enemy -advanced it was met with a fusilade of shots along the whole line, -killing one man, wounding others and throwing the whole force into the -utmost confusion. Without firing a shot Col. Plunket withdrew to the -camp at Harvey's Creek.</p> - -<p>Late in the afternoon the enemy brought two of its boats by land from -Harvey's landing above the Nanticoke Falls. At night fall they were -loaded with soldiers and rowed across the river. When they attempted to -land they were fired upon by Captain Stewart and his men, who lay in -ambush upon the bank, killing one man, and wounding others. The attempt -to land was given up and the boats and their cargoes floated down -through the rapids and were safely moored at Harvey's landing. Thus -ended the events of the day.</p> - -<p>On Christmas Day Col. Plunket renewed the attack on the breastwork. -He divided his forces into two divisions. One division assailed the -fortification in front, while the other attempted a flanking movement -on Col. Butler's right. This was promptly met and repelled. The battle -lasted nearly all day, but the enemy, baffled at all points, finally -withdrew. The invasion known by Col. Plunket's name was at an end. -Eight or ten men on each side were killed and many wounded.<a name="FNanchor_15_15" id="FNanchor_15_15"></a><a href="#Footnote_15_15" class="fnanchor">[15]</a></p> - -<p>The battle with Plunket had made the officers and men of the regiment -painfully conscious of their lack of equipment. Powder! How could they -get powder? Offer a reward for it? That was what they did at a town -meeting,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> March 10, 1776—two and a half months after the battle. -"Voted that the first man that shall make fifty weight of good salt -peter, in this town, shall be entitled to ten pounds lawful money, to -be paid out of the town treasury."<a name="FNanchor_16_16" id="FNanchor_16_16"></a><a href="#Footnote_16_16" class="fnanchor">[16]</a></p> - -<p>Patriotism and this bounty no doubt produced an effect, as witness the -following: "Mrs. Bethiah Jenkins says. The women took up their floors, -dug out the earth, put it in casks, and ran water through it. Then took -ashes in another cask and made lye—mixed the water from the earth with -weak lye, boiled it, set it out to cool, and the salt peter rose to the -top. Charcoal and sulphur were then used, and powder produced."<a name="FNanchor_17_17" id="FNanchor_17_17"></a><a href="#Footnote_17_17" class="fnanchor">[17]</a></p> - -<p>In May, 1776, John Jenkins, representative to the legislature, obtained -leave for the selectmen to erect a powder mill in Westmoreland, but I -can not learn that any mill was ever built.<a name="FNanchor_18_18" id="FNanchor_18_18"></a><a href="#Footnote_18_18" class="fnanchor">[18]</a></p> - -<p>In July of the same year the Council of Safety at Hartford "Voted that -the Selectmen of Westmoreland may receive at Messrs. Elderkin & Wales -mill, not exceeding 200 pounds of gun powder: they to account to the -Colony therefor at the price of 5s, 4d per lb."<a name="FNanchor_19_19" id="FNanchor_19_19"></a><a href="#Footnote_19_19" class="fnanchor">[19]</a></p> - -<p>Col. Butler, in a letter to Roger Sherman, dated August 6, 1776, speaks -of being in want of arms, "as those 80 guns taken from our people at -Warrior Run have not been returned."<a name="FNanchor_20_20" id="FNanchor_20_20"></a><a href="#Footnote_20_20" class="fnanchor">[20]</a></p> - -<p>The Continental Congress the next year undertook to aid in supplying -these wants, as witness the following action April 11: "Resolved, that -175 fire arms, either musquets or rifles, 200 wt. powder, 800 wt. lead, -and 500 flints be sent to the town of Westmoreland, on the east branch -of the Susquehanna river, to the care of Colonel Nathan Denison, to -be used by the malitia there, for the defense of the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> said town, if -necessary: the arms to be returned when the service there will admit of -it."<a name="FNanchor_21_21" id="FNanchor_21_21"></a><a href="#Footnote_21_21" class="fnanchor">[21]</a></p> - -<p>I am telling the story of a regiment whose fortunes were profoundly -affected by the Revolutionary War. The men of which it was composed -were intense rebels against the authority of England. Therefore when -the Congress on the 23d of August, "Resolved, That two companies on the -Continental Establishment be raised in the town of Westmoreland"<a name="FNanchor_22_22" id="FNanchor_22_22"></a><a href="#Footnote_22_22" class="fnanchor">[22]</a> -it responded with an enlistment of 82 men in each company. Captain -Samuel Ransom, Lieutenant Perrin Ross, Ensigns Asahel Buck and Matthias -Hollenbeck, with others, were elected as officers. I mention these -because they were officers in the Twenty-fourth regiment. The men were -all taken from the ranks of the Twenty-fourth regiment. Twenty other -men in the summer of 1776 also enlisted under Lieutenant Obadiah Gore, -to serve in a New York State regiment under Colonel Weisner, as well as -ten more men to serve under Captain Strong. Our regiment thus lost of -its most robust men, 194 in the Summer of 1776, who enlisted into the -Continental Army.</p> - -<p>While this depletion was going on the town assigned additional duties -to the field officers at a meeting held August 28. "Voted ye field -officers of ye regiment of this town be appointed a committee to view -the most suitable places to build forts for ye defense of sd town, -and determine on some particular spot or place in each district for -the purpose, and mark out the same."<a name="FNanchor_23_23" id="FNanchor_23_23"></a><a href="#Footnote_23_23" class="fnanchor">[23]</a> Think for a moment of the -work imposed on this Committee! Think of the large territory to be -gone over, the consideration of reasons for or against any particular -location. Think of the work imposed on the men who were to build the -forts.</p> - -<p class="center"> -<img src="images/illus3.jpg" alt="pic" /> -<a id="illus3" name="illus3"></a> -</p> -<p class="caption"> STEWART'S BLOCK HOUSE.</p> - -<p>There were some old forts like Forty Fort in Kingston, and Fort Brown -in Pittston, that were repaired and enlarged, but in other districts -there were no suitable works<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> of the kind and accordingly new sites -were selected, and the proposed works laid out on the ground. Such was -the case in Wilkes-Barre, Plymouth and Exeter. In Lower Pittston and -Hanover, block houses were recommended and built. The work of repairing -and building the forts ran through the years 1776, 1777 and was not -completed until 1778.</p> - -<p>Before closing the regimental history for 1776 I wish to mention the -advent of the tenth company into its ranks, representing the train -bands of the Districts of Huntington and Salem, of which Frethias Wall -was elected Lieutenant and John Franklin, Jr., Ensign, at the October -session of the legislature.<a name="FNanchor_24_24" id="FNanchor_24_24"></a><a href="#Footnote_24_24" class="fnanchor">[24]</a> I have not seen this company assigned -its proper place in the regiment in any of the histories. Of this -company John Franklin, Jr., was ultimately to become the Captain and -Stoddart Bowen the Lieutenant.</p> - -<p>In December, 1776, a supplement to the militia law was enacted by the -Connecticut legislature, by which the age limit of those liable to -serve was extended to persons from 50 to 60 years of age, and many -theretofore exempt were brought into the service. These persons were to -be formed into companies to be called the "Alarm List," to elect their -own officers and to be attached to already existing regiments.<a name="FNanchor_25_25" id="FNanchor_25_25"></a><a href="#Footnote_25_25" class="fnanchor">[25]</a></p> - -<p>Under this act two companies were formed in Wyoming in 1777—one on -the east side of the river, of which William Hooker Smith was elected -Captain, one on the west side of the river of which James Bidlack, -Sr., was elected Captain. These became attached to the Twenty-fourth -regiment.</p> - -<p>In popular speech these old men and exempts were called "Reformadoes." -Under this Act the Colonels of regiments were given authority "to -assemble in martial array<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> and put in warlike posture," the men under -their command in case of invasion.</p> - -<p>In the Spring of 1777 the regiment took up a new duty. It was the duty -of sending out scouting parties.<a name="FNanchor_26_26" id="FNanchor_26_26"></a><a href="#Footnote_26_26" class="fnanchor">[26]</a> The Indians and Tories up the -river were showing activity by occasionally capturing some one, and -making a prisoner of him. Lieut. Asa Stevens, of the Kingston Company, -went on a scouting expedition and brought in five suspected persons. -Ensign John Jenkins, Jr., of the Exeter Company, led a scouting party -up as far as Wyalusing, and was himself captured and three other men. -Captain Asaph Whittlesey, of the Plymouth Company, led a scouting party -up as far as Standing Stone. In January, 1778, Capt. Eliab Farnham, of -the Lackaway Company, captured 18 tories<a name="FNanchor_27_27" id="FNanchor_27_27"></a><a href="#Footnote_27_27" class="fnanchor">[27]</a> that had been disturbing -his vicinage and sent them to Hartford under the escort of Lieut. -Jonathan Haskell. The legislature declared that these persons should -be treated as prisoners of war. This action was necessary, because -the frontiersmen held that the prisoners ought to be hanged as cattle -thieves. In May, 1778, Nathan Denison memorialized the legislature to -be reimbursed as Colonel of the Twenty-fourth regiment, in sending out -detachments as scouts and for guards during 1776, 1777 and 1778. The -prayer of his memorial was granted.<a name="FNanchor_28_28" id="FNanchor_28_28"></a><a href="#Footnote_28_28" class="fnanchor">[28]</a></p> - -<p>I must refer in this place to a further nominal depletion of the -regiment. By act of Congress March 16, 1778, it was resolved to raise -another Company of Continental troops at Westmoreland. The efforts to -do this was at least partially successful and Dethic Hewit was elected -Captain of the new company. In the same resolution it was provided that -the new organization should be under the command of the field officers -of the Twenty-fourth regiment.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span><a name="FNanchor_29_29" id="FNanchor_29_29"></a><a href="#Footnote_29_29" class="fnanchor">[29]</a></p> - -<p>The enlistment of this company reduced the strength of the regiment. -It transferred the service of the men from the state to the service of -the United States. It did not, however, withdraw them from the Wyoming -Valley.</p> - -<p>I will here explain the changes in the officers of the regiment. Under -the militia laws of Connecticut there were two general muster days in -the year—first Monday of May, first Monday of October. On either new -officers could be elected to fill vacancies or for other reasons. Able -and ambitious men coveted and strove to become officers of the regiment -and of the companies. In the larger and stronger companies the rivalry -was great and the officers were in a continual state of flux. In this -way there were a large number of ex-officers. The ex-officers retained -their titles by courtesy. Once a captain, always a captain. In the -Wyoming histories, and upon the monument erected on the battlefield, -confusion results, from giving the courtesy titles of ex-officers as -much prominence as is given the titles of men who were in commission, -and exercised actual command. In view of these and similar facts I -have been to much pains to make the roster of those in actual command -accurate as it was in the last formation of the regiment.<a name="FNanchor_30_30" id="FNanchor_30_30"></a><a href="#Footnote_30_30" class="fnanchor">[30]</a></p> - -<p>I will first call attention to the changes in the regimental officers. -Colonel Zebulon Butler resigned to enter the Continental service -January 1, 1777. Lt. Col. Nathan Denison was promoted to be colonel. -This occasioned a vacancy in the office of lieutenant-colonel, which -was filled by the election of Lazarus Stewart, the famous Captain of -the Paxtang Rangers, who declined to accept, and thereupon Major George -Dorrance was promoted to that office in Oct., 1777. Major William Judd -resigned to enter the Continental service, and his place was filled -in May, 1777, by the promotion of Lieut. George Dorrance and on his<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> -elevation to the Lt. Colonelcy, Captain John Garret was elected Major -in Oct., 1777.<a name="FNanchor_31_31" id="FNanchor_31_31"></a><a href="#Footnote_31_31" class="fnanchor">[31]</a></p> - -<p>I have given a list of the Company officers as "established" at the -organization of the regiment. They underwent many changes as heretofore -indicated. I will give them as they existed in May, 1778, when the last -changes were made of which there is a record.<a name="FNanchor_32_32" id="FNanchor_32_32"></a><a href="#Footnote_32_32" class="fnanchor">[32]</a> This is a list of the -Captains beginning with the first Company and thus on through to the -tenth. They were as follows: James Bidlack, Jr., Aholiab Buck, Asaph -Whittlesey, Jeremiah Blanchard, William McKarachan, Rezin Geer, Stephen -Harding, Eliab Farnham, Robert Carr and John Franklin, Jr.</p> - -<p>The Lieutenants were Lebbeus Tubbs, Elijah Shoemaker, Aaron Gaylord, -Timothy Keyes, Roswell Franklin, Daniel Gore, Elisha Scovil, John Shaw, -Nathan Kingsbury and Stoddart Bowen.</p> - -<p>The Ensigns were: John Comstock, Asa Gore, William White, Jeremiah -Bigford, Titus Hinman, John Hagerman, John Jenkins, Jr., Elijah -Winters, Rudolph Fox and Nathaniel Goss. John Jenkins, Jr., of the -Exeter company, probably should not be included as he had recently been -elected a lieutenant in the Continental Service. This company had no -Ensign in commission.</p> - -<p>Some of these new officers had seen service in the old French war. -Lieutenant Lebbeus Tubbs had served two enlistments—one of 26 weeks -in 1755, in Capt. Nicholas Bishop's company of the first Conn, -regiment—another in 1759 of 27 weeks in Capt. John Pitkin's company of -the Fourth Conn. Regt.<a name="FNanchor_33_33" id="FNanchor_33_33"></a><a href="#Footnote_33_33" class="fnanchor">[33]</a></p> - -<p>In the latter year he was in the expedition sent out for the reduction -of Crown Point. Ensign William White served 35 weeks in 1756 in Capt. -Samuel Champlin's Company in the First Conn, regiment. Ensign Titus -Hinman<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> in 1755 served 32 weeks in Capt. Benjamin Hinman's company in -the Second Conn. regiment.</p> - -<p>The Twenty-fourth regiment availed itself of other means of becoming -efficient. Two deserters from the British army—Abraham Pike and -Sergeant Boyd—were employed as drill masters, and spent much time in -putting the men through their evolutions.<a name="FNanchor_34_34" id="FNanchor_34_34"></a><a href="#Footnote_34_34" class="fnanchor">[34]</a></p> - -<p>It had need of the skill of all its officers, of the efficiency of all -its men. While I have been talking about officers, important events -have been hastening toward a conclusion, on the northern border. -They now claim attention. Up to this time (1778) no murders had been -committed by the Indians. They now became frequent. Scouting parties of -the regiment were continually going out and coming in. They heralded -the approach of an invading army. Premonitory signs of its coming had -not been wanting.</p> - -<p>It consisted of about 1,100 British soldiers, Indians and Tories, under -the command of Major John Butler.<a name="FNanchor_35_35" id="FNanchor_35_35"></a><a href="#Footnote_35_35" class="fnanchor">[35]</a> This force had been gathered at -Kanadaseago and other points in Western New York. The time was the -month of June, when nature puts on her best apparel. It approached -Wyoming in boats. I can imagine the wild and weird flotilla, tricked -out in barbaric splendor, as it rounded Tioga Point, and swept out into -the broad waters of the Susquehanna, receiving welcome reinforcements -to its numbers as it passed Queen Esther's flats and the meadows of -Sheshequin. It landed above Wyoming in Keeler's Eddy. It marched about -twenty miles by land and was ready to do its work.</p> - -<p>What was the situation at Wyoming? What the preparation to receive it? -We have detailed the building of the forts; the establishment of the -regiment and its depletion from time to time to recruit the Continental -service. The forts were there—and the regiment—what there was of it.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p> - -<p>We left the enemy at the head of the valley. It signified its approach -by killing six men in Exeter on the 30th of June, 1778. On the first -day of July it seized Fort Wintermoot. This fort was occupied by -Elisha Scovil, lieutenant of the Exeter (7th) company and a few -patriotic men. The Wintermoots and other non-combatants in the fort -were Tories<a name="FNanchor_36_36" id="FNanchor_36_36"></a><a href="#Footnote_36_36" class="fnanchor">[36]</a> and after making the best show of resistance he could, -Scovil capitulated. At Fort Jenkins, one mile above Fort Wintermoot, -were eight men, including Stephen Harding, Captain of the 7th (Exeter) -company. Resistance against such odds was useless and it surrendered -on the second of July, although the articles of capitulation were -dated on the first.<a name="FNanchor_37_37" id="FNanchor_37_37"></a><a href="#Footnote_37_37" class="fnanchor">[37]</a> This disposes of one of the companies of the -Twenty-fourth regiment.</p> - -<p>To the valley below a vague knowledge of what was happening was -communicated by scouts and by persons who had escaped when the Hardings -and Hadsells were killed on the 30th of June. Some information was -obtained by a reconnoisance in force on the first of July.</p> - -<p>In consequence the population gathered into the several forts on the -first and second days of July.</p> - -<p class="center"> -<img src="images/illus4.jpg" alt="pic" /> -<a id="illus4" name="illus4"></a> -</p> -<p class="caption"> FORTY FORT IN 1778.</p> - -<p>Of these, Forty Fort in Kingston was the largest and the strongest. -In it Col. Nathan Denison established his headquarters. He endeavored -to concentrate his regiment at this point. There were many obstacles -in the way. Captain Robert Carr's (9th) Up River company could not be -reached because of the proximity of the enemy. According to Hollister, -this Company was at Capouse Meadows (Scranton).<a name="FNanchor_38_38" id="FNanchor_38_38"></a><a href="#Footnote_38_38" class="fnanchor">[38]</a> Captain Eliab -Farnham's (8th) Lackaway company was 70 miles away and could not be -reached on account of the distance. This company did not learn of -the invasion until it was over.<a name="FNanchor_39_39" id="FNanchor_39_39"></a><a href="#Footnote_39_39" class="fnanchor">[39]</a> Thus these two companies were -unavailable. So far as adding to the force of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span> lighting men was -concerned, they did not do it. Denison sent a messenger express to -Captain Franklin in Huntington, who dispatched Lieutenant Stoddart -Bowen with the first of his men who could be gotten together. He sent -another messenger to Wilkes-Barre. Zebulon Butler, Lt. Col. of the -third regiment of the Connecticut line was then at Wilkes-Barre on -furlough. Denison asked him to come to Forty Fort. When there, by -common consent, he assumed command of all the forces.</p> - -<p>Early in the afternoon of Friday, July 3d, the two Wilkes-Barre, the -Hanover, Plymouth, Kingston and part of the Huntington companies were -at the rendezvous mustering not more than 200 men. In addition to these -were Captain Hewit's company of Continental Soldiers, some old men, -young boys, and refugees from all sides, who were willing to risk their -lives, but did not belong to any military organization. Perhaps 400 -would be a fair estimate to put on the whole number of fighting men. On -the 2d and again on the 3d day of July the enemy demanded the surrender -of the Forts and all the military forces in the Valley.</p> - -<p>What shall be done? Great uncertainty existed, as to the strength and -intention of the enemy. Shall the force now in hand await the coming -of promised reinforcements?—the more complete concentration of the -regiment, the advance of the enemy? or shall they march out and give -battle? A council of war was held in which the pros and cons were -warmly debated. It was decided to give battle.</p> - -<p>"About three o'clock in the afternoon they marched from the fort, in -martial array, with the stars and stripes at their head, to the tune of -Saint Patrick's Day in the Morning, played on the fife by a true son -of Erin, and with drums beating."<a name="FNanchor_40_40" id="FNanchor_40_40"></a><a href="#Footnote_40_40" class="fnanchor">[40]</a> They proceeded about three miles -in column when they formed a line of battle of about 500 yards front. -Capt. Dethic Hewit with his so-called regulars, was on the extreme -right, with Captain Bidlack next to him,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> and he joined by Captain -Geer. On the extreme left was Capt. Whittlesey and the Salem detachment -under Lieut. Bowen. Next to them was the Hanover company under Captain -Stewart (McKaracan having that day resigned), and he was joined by -Captain Buck, of Kingston. This was the order in which the advance was -made. It was made over a plain that was grown up with brush—yellow -pines, pitch pines and scrub oak. These bushes could be seen over by a -man, but were high enough to conceal a skulking foe. The right rested -on a rise of ground near the river, and was led by Lieut. Col. Zebulon -Butler, aided by Major John Garret. The left was commanded by Col. -Nathan Denison, assisted by Lieut. Col. George Dorrance.</p> - -<p>The enemy in front had the Tories in the center under Captains Pawling -and Hopkins and the British regulars on their extreme left under -Captain William Caldwell and Lieutenant Turney. On the enemy's right -were the Indians, under cover of the alders in a swamp led by a Seneca -Chief named Sayenqueraghta.<a name="FNanchor_41_41" id="FNanchor_41_41"></a><a href="#Footnote_41_41" class="fnanchor">[41]</a></p> - -<p>The Americans advanced with spirit, the enemy purposely falling back -under fire for the distance of about a mile, until they came to a -cleared field. On the opposite side of this field was a log fence which -the British used as a breastwork, and from it poured in such a severe -fire that it checked the advance. Just at this point the Indians with -brandishing spears and demoniac yells, rushed out of the swamp on the -left, in which most of them lay concealed, enveloped the left wing by -superior numbers, and turned it in upon the right. In the melee that -ensued an effort was made to re-form it, so that it would present a -front to the enemy, but in the confusion occasioned by the fierce onset -of the enemy the orders were misunderstood and the day was lost.</p> - -<p>The men retreated in squads at first, firing as they gave ground, but -borne down by overwhelming numbers, the retreat became a rout, and -every man did the best he could<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span> to save himself. It was four miles -back to the fort. On the way some of the squads were captured, some -in pairs, some singly. The slaughter of captured men by the Indians -constitutes what is known in history as the Wyoming Massacre. Some -of the fugitives reached Forty Fort; some Wilkes-Barre. Lieut. Col. -Zebulon Butler escaped with his life. He and the remnant of Hewit's -regulars left the valley. They did not surrender.</p> - -<p class="center"> -<img src="images/illus5.jpg" alt="pic" /> -<a id="illus5" name="illus5"></a> -</p> - -<p class="caption"> PITTSTON FORT.</p> - -<p>What of the Twenty-fourth Regiment? Col. Denison reached Forty Fort -alive. Lieut. Col. George Dorrance was mortally wounded. Major John -Garret was killed. The Captain of every company fell upon the field, as -also did three Lieutenants and three Ensigns. How many men the regiment -lost it is impossible to say, but from 200 to 300 of those engaged on -the American side were slain. The loss of the enemy was from 40 to 80 -men.</p> - -<p>Early the next day, July 4, the British commander sent a detachment -across the river and demanded the surrender of Fort Brown, in which -the Pittston people assembled, under the command of Captain Jeremiah -Blanchard. The demand was complied with.<a name="FNanchor_42_42" id="FNanchor_42_42"></a><a href="#Footnote_42_42" class="fnanchor">[42]</a> It is said that this -company failed to report at Forty Fort because the enemy captured all -the water craft along the river in its vicinity. This disposes of one -more of the companies of the Twenty-fourth Regiment.</p> - -<p>The same day the surrender of Forty Fort was demanded on terms deemed -reasonable under the circumstances. No means for further resistance -were at hand. After some negotiation articles of capitulation were -drawn up and signed.<a name="FNanchor_43_43" id="FNanchor_43_43"></a><a href="#Footnote_43_43" class="fnanchor">[43]</a> Protection was promised to persons and -property. The fort was surrendered. Captain Franklin had come up -from Huntington, while the battle was in progress on Abraham's -Plains, with the remainder of his company and they were included in -the surrender<a name="FNanchor_44_44" id="FNanchor_44_44"></a><a href="#Footnote_44_44" class="fnanchor">[44]</a>, thus making six<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span> complete companies. I have now -accounted for the ten original companies of the regiment. Captain -William Hooker Smith's company of the "Alarm List" was in the fort -with the women and children at Wilkes-Barre, and Capt. James Bidlack, -Sr.'s company was in the fort on Garrison Hill in Plymouth. These -"Reformadoes" belonged to Col. Denison's command.</p> - -<p>The victors planned a spectacular entrance into Forty Fort. Massed in -columns of four upon the left, approached Major John Butler at the head -of his Rangers and Royal Greens; on the right came the Seneca Chiefs, -leading their warriors, streaked with paint, adorned with feathers, and -other picturesque barbaric ornaments. They were preceded with waving -banners, the screech of fife, and the roll of drums. At a signal the -gates were opened: in at the north gate entered the Tories and British -Provincials; at the south gate the savages.<a name="FNanchor_45_45" id="FNanchor_45_45"></a><a href="#Footnote_45_45" class="fnanchor">[45]</a></p> - -<p>This scene as it came down to me when a child, from the reported words -of a great grandmother who witnessed it, most profoundly impressed my -youthful imagination.</p> - -<p>What occurred after the capitulation? By the terms of the surrender -protection was promised to persons and property. Regardless of the -terms, the Indians plundered individuals of the clothing on their -persons, pillaged the farm steads of everything movable, drove away the -live stock, destroyed the growing crops and burned the buildings of the -distressed inhabitants to the ground. Their commander could not, or -would not restrain them.</p> - -<p>The result was that on the night following the battle, and on the two -or three succeeding days and nights, the 3,000 inhabitants of the -Wyoming Valley fled, some by boats and rafts down the river, but by -far the greater number through the wilderness, and over the mountains -to the settlements beyond. It was not a planned and orderly hegira, in -which provision was made for necessary wants, but a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> hurried, hasty, -precipitate flight, urged on to desperation by every element of real -and imaginary danger. Their houses, furniture, household utensils, -crops, flocks, farming implements, provisions, papers, clothing, -horses, wagons,—all left behind. And it was all utterly destroyed or -carried off. Of the delicate women and tender children, not less than -200 perished by the way. In the battle, the massacre, and the flight -it is probable that 500 persons lost their lives. In a memorial to -the Connecticut legislature, the survivors stated that their property -losses amounted to 38,308 pounds, 13s.<a name="FNanchor_46_46" id="FNanchor_46_46"></a><a href="#Footnote_46_46" class="fnanchor">[46]</a></p> - -<p>In the Articles of Capitulation signed at Forty Fort was this: "Art. -7. That the inhabitants Col. Denison capitulates for, together with -himself, do not take up arms during the present contest." Some -undoubtedly considered themselves bound by this article. Colonel -Denison for one is no longer heard of in our military annals, -although Westmoreland remained more than four years longer under -the jurisdiction of Connecticut. The Twenty-fourth regiment was -never reorganized. It was overwhelmed on the field of battle; it was -surrendered in sections, by the terms of four military conventions.<a name="FNanchor_47_47" id="FNanchor_47_47"></a><a href="#Footnote_47_47" class="fnanchor">[47]</a> -Of this sort of glory it had a monopoly. As a regiment its story is -told.</p> - -<p>On the other hand many of the men considered themselves absolved from -the terms above recited. The party that imposed the conditions, did -not themselves observe them. Lieut. Col. Zebulon Butler, one month -from the day of surrender, returned to the valley at the head of some -Continental soldiers and 40 militiamen and went into garrison at -Wilkes-Barrie. A muster roll of these men is extant. Many of them were -men who had been surrendered. Captain John Franklin, with a company of -Wyoming militia, went out in Hartley's expedition the same year, and in -Sullivan's expedition the next year, and on other occasions.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p> - -<p>In an upper chamber of this building is an original pay roll of one of -these companies. Many of its names are identical with those who served -in the Twenty-fourth regiment.</p> - -<p>After the flight of the people from the valley the dead lay unburied on -the plain where they fell for nearly four months. On the twenty second -day of October a detail of thirty men was sent from the garrison at -Wilkes-Barre as a guard to protect those of the inhabitants that had -returned, in performing that solemn duty.<a name="FNanchor_48_48" id="FNanchor_48_48"></a><a href="#Footnote_48_48" class="fnanchor">[48]</a></p> - -<p>A granite monument suitably inscribed now marks the place of sepulchre. -Engraved upon it is a very inaccurate list of those "slain in battle" -and of "survivors."</p> - -<p>In this temple, dedicated to the Muse of the backward look, it may be -appropriate to inquire, What relation, if any, had these events to -the history of the times? The drama of the American Revolution held -the center of the stage. Did our regiment enact a part? An important -part. It triumphed mightily in its death. The tales of the butchery of -these captured citizen soldiers, the cries of those mothers and little -children, driven from their burning homes to the wilds of the forest, -were heard all over the civilized world. The execration of mankind was -visited upon a King, and a country, that employed savage allies and -paid them ten dollars apiece, in gold, for the scalps of human beings.</p> - -<p>It produced another effect. It called the attention of Washington and -the Congress to the imperative necessity of dealing a death blow, to -the Six Nation Confederacy of Indian barbarians. A year passed by. -The avengers of Wyoming darkened the waters that wash the shores of -your beautiful peninsula-they swarmed over the lands where we<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span> are -assembled to-night, they went forward, they did the work assigned them; -Wyoming was avenged.</p> - -<p class="center"> -<img src="images/illus6.jpg" alt="pic" /> -<a id="illus6" name="illus6"></a> -</p> -<p class="caption"> WYOMING MONUMENT.</p> - -<p>Permit me a word of review.</p> - -<p>The Connecticut controversy! with all its bitterness and contention, it -is sunk in oblivion.</p> - -<p>The town of Westmoreland! it is sponged from the map.</p> - -<p>The Twenty-fourth regiment! it served three years—one for the colony, -two for the state. It builded forts, it fought battles, it went down -to defeat and death, amidst a wild saturnalia of blood, rapine, and -murder. It is forgotten.</p> - -<p style="margin-left: 25%;"> -<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">"Time rolls its ceaseless course; the race of yore.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Who danced our infancy upon their knee.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">And told our marvelling boyhood legends store</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1.5em;">How are they blotted from the things that be!"</span><br /> -</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p> -<p class="center"> -<img src="images/illus7.jpg" alt="pic" /> - -</p> - -<p class="center">Appendix A.</p> - -<p class="center">ROSTER OF THE OFFICERS OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT MILITIA</p> - -<p class="center">From Date of Its Organization to Day of Its Destruction. Date of -Commission Follows Each Name.</p> - -<table summary="officers" width="60%"> -<tr> -<td class="tdrb"><span class="smcap">Colonel.</span> -</td> -<td class="bt">Zebulon Butler -</td> -<td class="tdra">May, 1775 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdrc"> " -</td> -<td>Nathan Denison -</td> -<td class="tdrc" align="right">May, 1777 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdrb"> <span class="smcap">Lieut.-Colonel.</span> -</td> -<td class="bt">Nathan Denison -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1775 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdrc"> " " -</td> -<td>Lazarus Stewart -</td> -<td class="tdrc" align="right">May, 1777 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdrc"> " " -</td> -<td>George Dorrance -</td> -<td class="tdrc" align="right">Oct., 1777 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdrb"> <span class="smcap">Major.</span> -</td> -<td class="bt">William Judd -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right" >May, 1775 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdrc"> " -</td> -<td>George Dorrance -</td> -<td class="tdrc" align="right">May, 1777 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdrc"> " -</td> -<td>John Garret -</td> -<td class="tdrc" align="right">Oct., 1777 -</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<table summary="officers" width="90%"> -<tr> -<td> -</td> -<td colspan="2" class="tdrb" align="center"><span class="smcap">Captains.</span> -</td> - -<td colspan="2" class="tdrb" align="center"><span class="smcap">Lieutenants.</span> -</td> - -<td colspan="2" class="tdrb" align="center"><span class="smcap">Ensigns.</span> -</td> -<td> -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td rowspan="4" class="tdrb"><i>First, or<br /> Lower<br /> Wilkes-Barre<br /> Comp'y.</i> -</td> -<td class="bt">Stephen Fuller -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bt">John Garret -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bt">Charles Avery -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> - -<td class="bt">John Garret -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">Oct., 1776 -</td> -<td class="bt">Asa Stevens -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">Oct., 1776 -</td> -<td class="bt">David Downing -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">Oct., 1776 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> - -<td class="bt">Elisha Swift -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1777 -</td> -<td class="bt">James Bidlack, Jr. -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1777 -</td> -<td class="bt">Lebbeus Tubbs -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">Oct., 1777 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> - -<td class="bt">James Bidlack, Jr. -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">Oct., 1777 -</td> -<td class="bt">Lebbeus Tubbs -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">Oct., 1777 -</td> -<td class="bt">John Comstock -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">Oct., 1777 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td rowspan="4" class="tdrb"><i>Second, or<br /> Kingston<br /> Company.</i> -</td> -<td class="bta">Nathaniel Landon -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bta">George Dorrance -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bta">Asahel Buck -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> - -<td class="bt">Wm. Hooker Smith -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1777 -</td> -<td class="bt">Flavius Waterman -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1777 -</td> -<td class="bt">Dethic Hewit -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">Oct., 1776 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bt">Dethic Hewit -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">Oct., 1777 -</td> -<td class="bt">Aholiab Buck -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">Oct., 1777 -</td> -<td class="bt">Elisha Blackman -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1777 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bt">Aholiab Buck -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1778 -</td> -<td class="bt">Elijah Shoemaker -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1778 -</td> -<td class="bt">Asa Gore -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">Oct., 1777 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td rowspan="2" class="tdrb"><i>Third, or<br /> Plymouth <br />Company.</i> -</td> -<td class="bta">Samuel Ransom -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bta">Perrin Ross -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bta">Asaph Whittlesey -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bt">Asaph Whittlesey -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1777 -</td> -<td class="bt">Aaron Gaylord -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1777 -</td> -<td class="bt">William White -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1777</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td rowspan="3" class="tdrb"><i>Fourth, or<br /> Pittston<br /> Company.</i> -</td> -<td class="bta">Solomon Strong -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bta">Jonathan Parker -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bta">Timothy Keyes -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bt">Jeremiah Blanchard -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1777 -</td> -<td class="bt">Timothy Keyes -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1777 -</td> -<td class="bt">William Shays -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1777 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bt"> -</td> -<td class="tdrb"> -</td> -<td class="bt"> -</td> -<td class="tdrb"> -</td> -<td class="bt">Jeremiah Bigford -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1778 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td rowspan="2" class="tdrb"><i>Fifth, or<br /> Hanover<br /> Company.</i> -</td> -<td class="bta">Wm. McKarrican -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bta">Lazarus Stewart, Jr. -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bta">Silas Gore -</td> -<td class= "tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bt"> -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right"> -</td> -<td class="bt">Roswell Franklin -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1777 -</td> -<td class="bt">Titus Hinman -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1777 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdrb"><i>Sixth, or Upper<br /> Wilkes-Barre<br /> Company.</i> -</td> -<td class="bta" >Rezin Geer -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bta">Daniel Gore -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bta">John Hagerman -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdrb"><i>Seventh, or<br /> Exeter Company.</i> -</td> -<td class="bta">Stephen Harding -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bta">Elisha Scovil -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bta">John Jenkins, Jr. -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="tdrb"><i>Eighth, or<br /> Lackaway Company.</i> -</td> -<td class="bta">Eliab Farnham -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bta">John Shaw -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bta">Elijah Winters -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td rowspan="2" class="tdrb"><i>Ninth, or Up <br />River Company.</i> -</td> -<td class="bta">James Seacord -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bta">John Depue -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -<td class="bta">Rudolph Fox -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1775 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td class="bt">Robert Carr -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1776 -</td> -<td class="bt" >Nathan Kingsley -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1776 -</td> -<td class="bt"> -</td> -<td class="tdrb"> -</td> -</tr> -<tr> -<td rowspan="2" class="tdrb"><i>Tenth, or <br />Huntington-Salem<br /> Company.</i> -</td> -<td class="bta">John Franklin -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">May, 1778 -</td> -<td class="bta">Frethias Wall -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1776 -</td> -<td class="bta">John Franklin -</td> -<td class="tdrd" align="right">Oct., 1776 -</td> -</tr> -<tr> - -<td class="bt"> -</td> -<td class="tdrb"> -</td> -<td class="bt">Stoddart Bowen -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1778 -</td> -<td class="bt">Nathaniel Goss -</td> -<td class="tdrb" align="right">May, 1778 -</td> -</tr> -</table> - - - - - -<p class="center">APPENDIX B.</p> - -<p>A bill of Losses sustained by the Inhabitants of Westmoreland from the -3d day of July, 1778, to May, 1780, taken and carefully examined by the -Selectmen of sd Town pursuant to a Resolve of the Assembly of the state -of Connecticut holden at Hartford the second Thursday of May, 1780.</p> - -<p>And is as followeth:</p> - - -<table summary="losses" width="60%"> -<tr><td></td><td></td><td></td><td></td><td align="right">£</td><td align="right">s.</td></tr> -<tr><td>Sam'l Andross,</td> <td align="right">26</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">15</td> -<td>John Jenneson,</td> <td align="right">88</td> <td align="right">11</td></tr> -<tr><td>Isaac Adams,</td> <td align="right">103</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">14</td> -<td>Crocker Jones,</td> <td align="right">9</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Richardson Avery,</td> <td align="right">155</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">00</td> -<td>Wm. Jacobson,</td> <td align="right">106</td> <td align="right">1</td></tr> -<tr><td>Alice Abbot,</td> <td align="right">173</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">6</td> -<td>Robert Jamison,</td> <td align="right">183</td> <td align="right">16</td></tr> -<tr><td>Prince Alden,</td> <td align="right"> 83</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">17</td> -<td>Capt. Wm. Judd,</td> <td align="right">19</td> <td align="right">2</td></tr> -<tr><td>Mason F. Alden,</td> <td align="right">5</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">13</td> -<td>John Jenkins, Esq.,</td> <td align="right">598</td> <td align="right">1</td></tr> -<tr><td>Noah Adams,</td> <td align="right">83</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">5</td> -<td>Josiah Kellogg,</td> <td align="right">146</td> <td align="right">12</td></tr> -<tr><td>Cornelius Atherton,</td> <td align="right">103</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Michael Kelly,</td> <td align="right">21</td> <td align="right">11</td></tr> -<tr><td>Samuel Ayers,</td> <td align="right">100</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">10</td> -<td>Benj. Kilburn,</td> <td align="right">92</td> <td align="right">16</td></tr> -<tr><td>James Atherton,</td> <td align="right">120</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Hanna Keys,</td> <td align="right">178</td> <td align="right">14</td></tr> -<tr><td>Richardson Avery, Jr.,</td> <td align="right">137</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">13</td> -<td>Alexander M. Kay,</td> <td align="right">277</td> <td align="right">4</td></tr> -<tr><td> Eber Adros,</td> <td align="right">120</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">9</td> -<td>Sarah Lee,</td> <td align="right">236</td> <td align="right">6</td></tr> -<tr><td>Col. Zebulon Butler,</td> <td align="right">429</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">4</td> -<td>Thomas Levenworth,</td> <td align="right">122</td> <td align="right">11</td></tr> -<tr><td>Zerah Beach,</td> <td align="right">67</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">13</td> -<td>Sarah Leonard,</td> <td align="right">75</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Ishmael Bennet,</td> <td align="right">96</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">17</td> -<td>Rufus Lawrence,</td> <td align="right">189</td> <td align="right">11</td></tr> -<tr><td>Isaac Bennet,</td> <td align="right">61</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">7</td> -<td>Daniel Lawrence,</td> <td align="right">37</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Asa Bennet,</td> <td align="right">199</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">12</td> -<td>George Liquors,</td> <td align="right">136</td> <td align="right">18</td></tr> -<tr><td>Henry Burney,</td> <td align="right">71</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">15</td> -<td>Abigail Leech,</td> <td align="right">82</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Moses Brown,</td> <td align="right">13</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">8</td> -<td>Joseph Leonard,</td> <td align="right">79</td> <td align="right">19</td></tr> -<tr><td>Andrew Blanchard,</td> <td align="right">49</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">15</td> -<td>John Lashley,</td> <td align="right">53</td> <td align="right">2</td></tr> - -<tr><td>John Blanchard,</td> <td align="right">23</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">8</td> -<td>David Lindsey,</td> <td align="right">78</td> <td align="right">7</td></tr> -<tr><td>Joseph Blanchard,</td> <td align="right">54</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">9</td> -<td>Edward Lester,</td> <td align="right">109</td> <td align="right">11</td></tr> -<tr><td>Margaret Blanchard,</td> <td align="right">79</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">2</td> -<td>Samuel Morgan,</td> <td align="right">153</td> <td align="right">8</td></tr> -<tr><td>Lucretia Buck,</td> <td align="right">90</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">14</td> -<td>John Murphy,</td> <td align="right">86</td> <td align="right">3</td></tr> -<tr><td>James Benedict,</td> <td align="right">228</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">13</td> -<td>Benj. Murry,</td> <td align="right">78</td> <td align="right">2</td></tr> -<tr><td>Jeremiah Blanchard,</td> <td align="right">215</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">14</td> -<td>Ebenezer Murry,</td> <td align="right">118</td> <td align="right">12</td></tr> - -<tr><td>Benjamin Bailey,</td> <td align="right">134</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">17</td> -<td>Uzania Manvill,</td> <td align="right">46</td> <td align="right">17</td></tr> -<tr><td>Asahel Burnham,</td> <td align="right">35</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">6</td> -<td>Thomas Neil,</td> <td align="right">4</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Isaac Benjamin,</td> <td align="right">9</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>James Nesbit,</td> <td align="right">74</td> <td align="right">19</td></tr> -<tr><td>Thomas Brown,</td> <td align="right">61</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Phinehas Nash,</td> <td align="right">70</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Thomas Bennet,</td> <td align="right">507</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>John O'Neil,</td> <td align="right">18</td> <td align="right">2</td></tr> -<tr><td>James Brown,</td> <td align="right">165</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">4</td> -<td>David Owen,</td> <td align="right">24</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Capt. James Bidlack,</td> <td align="right">65</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">19</td> -<td>Amos Ormsby,</td> <td align="right">7</td> <td align="right">1</td></tr> -<tr><td>Sarah Brockway,</td> <td align="right">205</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">7</td> -<td>Anning Owen,</td> <td align="right">174</td> <td align="right">12</td></tr> -<tr><td>Joseph Baker,</td> <td align="right">124</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">13</td> -<td>Josiah Pell,</td> <td align="right">73</td> <td align="right">10</td></tr> -<tr><td>Elisha Blackman,</td> <td align="right">137</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">1</td> -<td>Lucy Pettibone,</td> <td align="right">79</td> <td align="right">9</td></tr> -<tr><td>Elizabeth Benedict,</td> <td align="right">144</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">13</td> -<td>Hannah Parish,</td> <td align="right">44</td> <td align="right">12</td></tr> - -<tr><td>Bertha Bixby,</td> <td align="right">36</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">13</td> -<td>Thomas Picket,</td> <td align="right">111</td> <td align="right">11</td></tr> -<tr><td>James Bagley,</td> <td align="right">95</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">15</td> -<td>Hannah Pierce,</td> <td align="right">151</td> <td align="right">6</td></tr> -<tr><td>Mary Bixby,</td> <td align="right">74</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">8</td> -<td>Thos. Picket, Jr.,</td> <td align="right">66</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Capt. Caleb Bates,</td> <td align="right">285</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">4</td> -<td>Ichabod Phelps,</td> <td align="right">93</td> <td align="right">2</td></tr> -<tr><td>Wm. Buck,</td> <td align="right">245</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">5</td> -<td>Thos. Porter,</td> <td align="right">200</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Elijah Buck,</td> <td align="right">103</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">18</td> -<td>Josiah Parks,</td> <td align="right">49</td> <td align="right">19</td></tr> -<tr><td>Abigail Bidlack,</td> <td align="right">63</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">10</td> -<td>Noah Pettibone,</td> <td align="right">216</td> <td align="right">1</td></tr> -<tr><td>David Brown,</td> <td align="right">28</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">16</td> -<td>Jonathan Pritchard,</td> <td align="right">30</td> <td align="right">15</td></tr> -<tr><td>Richard Brockway,</td> <td align="right">163</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">17</td> -<td>Jonathan Parker,</td> <td align="right">54</td> <td align="right">12</td></tr> - -<tr><td>Mehitable Bigford,</td> <td align="right">202</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">1</td> -<td>Silas Parks, Esq.,</td> <td align="right">91</td> <td align="right">10</td></tr> -<tr><td>Uriah Chapman, Esq.,</td> <td align="right">58</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">10</td> -<td>Elijah Phelps,</td> <td align="right">550</td> <td align="right">10</td></tr> -<tr><td>Samuel Cummings,</td> <td align="right">151</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">5</td> -<td>Sarah Pixley,</td> <td align="right">26</td> <td align="right">19</td></tr> -<tr><td>John Cray,</td> <td align="right">93</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">10</td> -<td>John Ryon</td> <td align="right">18</td> <td align="right">3</td></tr> -<tr><td>Wm. Churchill,</td> <td align="right">178</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">10</td> -<td>Wm. Ross,</td> <td align="right">326</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Anne Campbell,</td> <td align="right">100</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">5</td> -<td>John Ross,</td> <td align="right">65</td> <td align="right">17</td></tr> -<tr><td>Nathan Cary,</td> <td align="right">160</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">4</td> -<td>Susannah Reynolds,</td> <td align="right">28</td> <td align="right">10</td></tr> -<tr><td>Benjamin Cole, Jr.,</td> <td align="right">165</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Peran Ross,</td> <td align="right">233</td> <td align="right">9</td></tr> -<tr><td>James Cole,</td> <td align="right">207</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">3</td> -<td>Abigail Richards,</td> <td align="right">135</td> <td align="right">3</td></tr> - -<tr><td>Peleg Comstock,</td> <td align="right">40</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">13</td> -<td>David Reynolds,</td> <td align="right">94</td> <td align="right">2</td></tr> -<tr><td>Mary Crooker,</td> <td align="right">51</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">1</td> -<td>Capt. Samuel Ransom,</td> <td align="right">259</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>John Comstock,</td> <td align="right">219</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">7</td> -<td>Capt. Daniel Rosencrans,</td> <td align="right">175</td> <td align="right">10</td></tr> -<tr><td>Jonathan Cory,</td> <td align="right">173</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">11</td> -<td>James Roberts,</td> <td align="right">83</td> <td align="right">18</td></tr> -<tr><td>Jinks Cory,</td> <td align="right">83</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Jonah Rogers,</td> <td align="right">168</td> <td align="right">17</td></tr> -<tr><td>Thos McCluer,</td> <td align="right">66</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">4</td> -<td>Amasa Roberts,</td> <td align="right">92</td> <td align="right">10</td></tr> -<tr><td>Barnabas Cary,</td> <td align="right">88</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">17</td> -<td>Timothy Rose,</td> <td align="right">118</td> <td align="right">11</td></tr> -<tr><td>Samuel Cole,</td> <td align="right">89</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">6</td> -<td>Caleb Spencer,</td> <td align="right">182</td> <td align="right">17</td></tr> -<tr><td>Preserved Cooley,</td> <td align="right">95</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">19</td> -<td>Margaret Smith,</td> <td align="right">155</td> <td align="right">10</td></tr> -<tr><td>Col. Nathan Denison,</td> <td align="right">209</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">15</td> -<td>James Stark,</td> <td align="right">547</td> <td align="right">15</td></tr> -<tr><td>Samuel Downer,</td> <td align="right">22</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">19</td> -<td>Lazarus Stuart, Jr.,</td> <td align="right">172</td> <td align="right">12</td></tr> -<tr><td>Daniel Downing,</td> <td align="right">107</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Isaac Smith,</td> <td align="right">67</td> <td align="right">10</td></tr> - -<tr><td>David Darling,</td> <td align="right">13</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Joseph Staples,</td> <td align="right">223</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Sarah Durkee,</td> <td align="right">240</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">18</td> -<td>Esther Spencer,</td> <td align="right">135</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Amos Draper,</td> <td align="right">68</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">18</td> -<td>David Sanford,</td> <td align="right">193</td> <td align="right">12</td></tr> -<tr><td>Samuel Dart,</td> <td align="right">124</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">4</td> -<td>Elizabeth St. John,</td> <td align="right">162</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Anderson Dana, Esq.,</td> <td align="right">194</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">15</td> -<td>Elisha Scovil,</td><td align="right">712</td> <td align="right">4</td></tr> -<tr><td>Frederick Eveland,</td> <td align="right">90</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">6</td> -<td>Jonathan Scovil,</td> <td align="right">72</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Samuel Ensign,</td> <td align="right">38</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">10</td> -<td>Ebenezer Skinner,</td> <td align="right">89</td> <td align="right">4</td></tr> -<tr><td>Joseph Elliott,</td> <td align="right">33</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">17</td> -<td>Wm. Shay,</td> <td align="right">114</td> <td align="right">15</td></tr> -<tr><td>Henry Elliott,</td> <td align="right">44</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">14</td> -<td>Josiah Smith,</td> <td align="right">83</td> <td align="right">19</td></tr> -<tr><td>Benjamin Eaton,</td> <td align="right">369</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">10</td> -<td>Obadiah Scott,</td> <td align="right">72</td> <td align="right">15</td></tr> -<tr><td>Nathaniel Evans,</td> <td align="right">61</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">19</td> -<td>Jedediah Stevens,</td> <td align="right">285</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Capt. Stephen Fuller,</td> <td align="right">288</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">4</td> -<td>Joshua Stevens,</td> <td align="right">119</td> <td align="right">11</td></tr> -<tr><td>Roswell Franklin,</td> <td align="right">104</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Zacharias Squire,</td> <td align="right">66</td> <td align="right">16</td></tr> -<tr><td>Charles Forsythe,</td> <td align="right">15</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">3</td> -<td>James Sutton,</td> <td align="right">176</td> <td align="right">17</td></tr> -<tr><td>Capt. John Franklin,</td> <td align="right">21</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">4</td> -<td>David Shoemaker,</td> <td align="right">50</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Benj. Follet,</td> <td align="right">118</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">17</td> -<td>Daniel Sherwood,</td> <td align="right">40</td> <td align="right">4</td></tr> -<tr><td>Jabez Fish,</td> <td align="right">223</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Edward Spencer, Jr.,</td> <td align="right">85</td> <td align="right">7</td></tr> -<tr><td>John Ferre, Jr.,</td> <td align="right">61</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">11</td> -<td>Thomas Stoddard,</td> <td align="right">200</td> <td align="right">8</td></tr> -<tr><td>Hugh Foresman,</td> <td align="right">193</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">11</td> -<td>David Smith,</td> <td align="right">202</td> <td align="right">15</td></tr> -<tr><td>Sarah Fuller,</td> <td align="right">101</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">13</td> -<td>Jane Shoemaker,</td> <td align="right">329</td> <td align="right">12</td></tr> -<tr><td>Esther Follet,</td> <td align="right">221</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">7</td> -<td>Benj. Skiff,</td> <td align="right">98</td> <td align="right">7</td></tr> -<tr><td>James Finn,</td> <td align="right">221</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">11</td> -<td>Wm. Hooker Smith,</td> <td align="right">168</td> <td align="right">7</td></tr> - -<tr><td>Richard Fitz Jarold,</td> <td align="right">245</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">2</td> -<td>Wm. Stuart,</td> <td align="right">57</td> <td align="right">17</td></tr> -<tr><td>Elizabeth Follet,</td> <td align="right">212</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">3</td> -<td>Giles Slocum,</td> <td align="right">205</td> <td align="right">19</td></tr> -<tr><td>Jonathan Forsythe,</td> <td align="right">138</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">16</td> -<td>Asa Stevens,</td> <td align="right">185</td> <td align="right">11</td></tr> -<tr><td>Jonathan Fitch,</td> <td align="right">46</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">10</td> -<td>John Scott,</td> <td align="right">217</td> <td align="right">3</td></tr> -<tr><td>Capt. Eliab. Farnham,</td> <td align="right">27</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">11</td> -<td>James Staples,</td> <td align="right">80</td> <td align="right">19</td></tr> -<tr><td>Joanna Fish,</td> <td align="right">30</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">17</td> -<td>Martha Stuart,</td> <td align="right">481</td> <td align="right">12</td></tr> -<tr><td>Major John Garret,</td> <td align="right">309</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">11</td> -<td>Jabez Sill,</td> <td align="right">351</td> <td align="right">19</td></tr> -<tr><td>Hannah Gore,</td><td align="right"> </td><td class="tdrc" align="right"> </td> -<td>John Staples,</td> <td align="right">224</td> <td align="right">12</td></tr> -<tr><td>John Garret, Jr.,</td> <td align="right">59</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">16</td> -<td>John Stafford,</td> <td align="right">36</td> <td align="right">6</td></tr> -<tr><td>Daniel Gore,</td> <td align="right">273</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">13</td> -<td>Josiah Stanberry,</td> <td align="right">603</td> <td align="right">14</td></tr> -<tr><td>Cornelius Gale,</td> <td align="right">7</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">14</td> -<td>Luke Sweatland,</td> <td align="right">200</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>William Gallop,</td> <td align="right">200</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Joseph Thomas,</td> <td align="right">120</td> <td align="right">18</td></tr> -<tr><td>Solomon Goss,</td> <td align="right">31</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">11</td> -<td>Mary Thomas,</td> <td align="right">25</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Justin Gaylord,</td> <td align="right">134</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">14</td> -<td>Ephraim Tyler,</td> <td align="right">14</td> <td align="right">10</td></tr> -<tr><td>Keziah Gore,</td> <td align="right">89</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Parshall Terry,</td> <td align="right">216</td> <td align="right">12</td></tr> - -<tr><td>Obadiah Gore, Esq.,</td> <td align="right">306</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">1</td> -<td>Mary Thompson,</td> <td align="right">30</td> <td align="right">10</td></tr> -<tr><td>Elisha Garret,</td> <td align="right">29</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Job Tripp,</td> <td align="right">113</td> <td align="right">1</td></tr> -<tr><td>Catherine Gaylord,</td> <td align="right">158</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">4</td> -<td>Isaac Tripp,</td> <td align="right">74</td> <td align="right">10</td></tr> -<tr><td>Joseph Gaylord,</td> <td align="right">69</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">6</td> -<td>Lebbeus Tubbs,</td> <td align="right">130</td> <td align="right">3</td></tr> -<tr><td>Stephen Gardner,</td> <td align="right">176</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">18</td> -<td>John Taylor,</td> <td align="right">61</td> <td align="right">14</td></tr> -<tr><td>Nathaniel Gates,</td> <td align="right">66</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">14</td> -<td>Preserved Taylor,</td> <td align="right">18</td> <td align="right">2</td></tr> -<tr><td>James Gardner,</td> <td align="right">180</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Mehitable Truks,</td> <td align="right">159</td> <td align="right">4</td></tr> -<tr><td>Elizabeth Gore,</td> <td align="right">240</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Moses Thomas,</td> <td align="right">68</td> <td align="right">3</td></tr> -<tr><td>Wait Garret,</td> <td align="right">108</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">6</td> -<td>Bezaleel Tyler,</td> <td align="right">35</td> <td align="right">17</td></tr> -<tr><td>Bezaleel Gurney,</td> <td align="right">59</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">6</td> -<td>Elizabeth Tuttle,</td> <td align="right">67</td> <td align="right">10</td></tr> -<tr><td>John Hurlburt, Esq.,</td> <td align="right">85</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">7</td> -<td>James Towser,</td> <td align="right">36</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Peter Harris,</td> <td align="right">149</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">16</td> -<td>Isaac Van Orman,</td> <td align="right">122</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Richard Hoisted,</td> <td align="right">177</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">6</td> -<td>John Van Titbury,</td> <td align="right">84</td> <td align="right">3</td></tr> -<tr><td>Lebbeus Hammond,</td> <td align="right">84</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">18</td> -<td>Rev. Noah Wadhams,</td> <td align="right">193</td> <td align="right">6</td></tr> -<tr><td>Joseph Hagaman,</td> <td align="right">19</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Amy Wilcox,</td> <td align="right">116</td> <td align="right">12</td></tr> -<tr><td>Henry Harding,</td> <td align="right">55</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">12</td> -<td>Elizabeth Wilcox,</td> <td align="right">87</td> <td align="right">15</td></tr> -<tr><td>Matthew Hollenback,</td> <td align="right">671</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">3</td> -<td>Enos Woddard,</td> <td align="right">30</td> <td align="right">19</td></tr> -<tr><td>Dr. Joseph Hamilton,</td> <td align="right">284</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">17</td> -<td>Enos Woddard, Jr.,</td> <td align="right">16</td> <td align="right">7</td></tr> -<tr><td>James Hopkins,</td> <td align="right">90</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">6</td> -<td>Eleazer West,</td> <td align="right">53</td> <td align="right">10</td></tr> -<tr><td>Capt. Robt. Hopkins,</td> <td align="right">28</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">18</td> -<td>Nathaniel Williams,</td> <td align="right">30</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> - -<tr><td>Samuel Huchinson,</td> <td align="right">163</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">9</td> -<td>Abigail Weeks,</td> <td align="right">129</td> <td align="right">16</td></tr> -<tr><td>Simon Hide,</td> <td align="right">117</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">17</td> -<td>Mary Walker,</td> <td align="right">42</td> <td align="right">5</td></tr> -<tr><td>Widow Hasen and son,</td> <td align="right">182</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">10</td> -<td>Eunice Whiton,</td> <td align="right">26</td> <td align="right">7</td></tr> -<tr><td>Samuel Howard, </td> <td align="right">27</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">15</td> -<td>Daniel Willing,</td> <td align="right">44</td> <td align="right">17</td></tr> -<tr><td>Mary Howard,</td> <td align="right">50</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">1</td> -<td>Thomas Wigton,</td> <td align="right">175</td> <td align="right">6</td></tr> -<tr><td>Benjamin Hervy,</td> <td align="right">186</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Isabel Wigton,</td> <td align="right">130</td> <td align="right">1</td></tr> -<tr><td>Mary Hatch,</td> <td align="right">12</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">7</td> -<td>Wm. Warner,</td> <td align="right">68</td> <td align="right">16</td></tr> -<tr><td>John Hutchins,</td> <td align="right">57</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">1</td> -<td>Wm. Williams,</td> <td align="right">148</td> <td align="right">18</td></tr> -<tr><td>Capt. Stephen Harding,</td> <td align="right">181</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">19</td> -<td>Jonathan Weeks,</td> <td align="right">239</td> <td align="right">11</td></tr> -<tr><td>Stukely Harding,</td> <td align="right">73</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">6</td> -<td>Flavius Waterman,</td> <td align="right">90</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>James Headsall,</td> <td align="right">210</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Elihu Williams,</td> <td align="right">197</td> <td align="right">10</td></tr> -<tr><td>Thos. Heath,</td> <td align="right">190</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">0</td> -<td>Richard West,</td> <td align="right">65</td> <td align="right">17</td></tr> -<tr><td>Cyprian Hybert,</td> <td align="right">119</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">13</td> -<td>Amy Williams,</td> <td align="right">130</td> <td align="right">0</td></tr> -<tr><td>Daniel Ingersol,</td> <td align="right">208</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">2</td> -<td>Daniel Whitney,</td> <td align="right">363</td> <td align="right">14</td></tr> -<tr><td>Sarah Inman,</td> <td align="right">161</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">10</td> -<td>Abraham Westbrook,</td> <td align="right">380</td> <td align="right">2</td></tr> -<tr><td>Richard Inman,</td> <td align="right">41</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">17</td> -<td>James Wells,</td> <td align="right">92</td> <td align="right">12</td></tr> -<tr><td>Edward Inman,</td> <td align="right">84</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">6</td> -<td>Lucretia York,</td> <td align="right">221</td> <td align="right">13</td></tr> -<tr><td>Rev. Jacob Johnson,</td> <td align="right">459</td> <td class="tdrc" align="right">1</td> -<td>Jemima Yale,</td> <td align="right">130</td> <td align="right">3</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td><td></td><td> </td><td>Jacob Zaratt,</td> <td align="right">42</td> <td align="right">11</td></tr> -<tr><td> </td><td></td><td> </td><td align="right">Total amount,</td><td align="right">£38,308</td><td align="right">13</td></tr> -</table> - - -<p>The foregoing Bill was carefully examined in each single account and -estimated in lawful money equal to money in 1774.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 35%;">Westmoreland, Oct. 2, 1781.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>In the Lower House, Ordered that this Report be Lodged on file in the -Secretary's Office.</p> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 25%;">Teste—Jed'h Strong, Clerk.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p>Concur'd in the Upper House.</p> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 25%;">Teste—George Wyllys, Sect'y.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p class="center"> -<img src="images/illus8.jpg" alt="pic" /> - -</p> - - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p> - - -<p class="center">APPENDIX C.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Copies of Documents Relative to the Expedition Against Wyoming, in -1778, Now in His Majesty's State Paper Office, London, in a Volume -Entitled, "Military, 1778.—No. 122."</p></blockquote> - - -<p class="center">I.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Copy of Articles of Capitulation, for Wintermoot's Fort, July 1, 1778.</p></blockquote> - -<p>Art. 1st. That Lieut. Elisha Scovell surrender the Fort, with the -Stores, arms and ammunition, that are in said fort, as well public as -private, to Major John Butler.</p> - -<p>2d. That the garrison shall not bear arms during the present contest; -and Major Butler promises that the men, women and children shall not be -hurt, either by Indians or Rangers.</p> - - -<p class="center">II.</p> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 35%;"><span class="smcap">Fort Jenkins Fort</span>, July 1st, 1778.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Between Major John Butler, on behalf of His Majesty King George the -Third, and John Jenkins.</p></blockquote> - -<p>Art. 1st. That the Fort with all the stores, arms and ammunition, be -delivered up immediately.</p> - -<p>2d. That Major John Butler shall preserve to them, intire, the lives of -the men, women and children.</p> - - -<p class="center">III.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Articles of Capitulation for three Forts at Lackuwanack, 4th July, -1778.</p></blockquote> - -<p>Art. 1st. That the different Commanders of the said Forts, do -immediately deliver them up, with all the arms, ammunition and stores -in the said forts.</p> - -<p>2d. Major Butler promises that the lives of the men, women and children -shall be preserved intire.</p> - - -<p class="center">IV.</p> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 35%;"><span class="smcap">Westmoreland</span>, July 4th, 1778.</span><br /> -</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p>Capitulation made and completed between Major John Butler, on behalf -of His Majesty King George the Third, and Col. Nathan Denniston, of -the United States of America.</p></blockquote> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span></p> - -<p>Art. 1. That the inhabitants of the settlement lay down their arms, and -the garrisons be demolished.</p> - -<p>2d. That the inhabitants are to occupy their farms peaceably, and the -lives of the inhabitants preserved intire and unhurt.</p> - -<p>3d. That the Continental Stores be delivered up.</p> - -<p>4th. That Major Butler will use his utmost influence that the private -property of the inhabitants shall be preserved intire to them.</p> - -<p>5th. That the prisoners in Forty Fort, be delivered up, and that Samuel -Finch, now in Major Butler's possession, be delivered up also.</p> - -<p>6th. That the property taken from the people called Tories, up the -river, be made good; and they to remain in peaceable possession of -their farms, unmolested in a free trade, in and throughout this State, -as far as lies in my power.</p> - -<p>7th. That the inhabitants, that Colonel Denniston now capitulates for, -together with himself, do not take up arms during the present contest.</p> - -<p> -<span style="margin-left: 0.5em;">[Signed]</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 35%;"><span class="smcap">Nathan Denniston</span>.</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 35%;"><span class="smcap">John Butler</span>.</span><br /> -<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 15%;">Zarah Beech,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 15%;">John Johnson,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 15%;">Samuel Gustin,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 15%;">Wm. Caldwell.</span><br /> -</p> - -<p class="center"> -<img src="images/illus10.jpg" alt="pic" /> - -</p> -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p> - - - - -<p class="ph2">BIBLIOGRAPHY.</p> - - -<p>Below will be found a list of the books, pamphlets, and manuscripts -consulted in the preparation of this address. By means of an -alphabetical arrangement, usually as to author's names, an authority -cited in the text may here be found with the title of the work, and the -date, and place of publication.</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Chapman, Isaac A.</span>—A sketch of the History of Wyoming. -Wilkes-Barre. 1830.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Conover, George S.</span>—Sayenqueraghta, King of the Senecas. -Waterloo. 1885.</p> - -<p>Supplement to the same. 1886.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Connecticut</span>—The Public Records of the Colony of.—From -October, 1772, to April, 1775, inclusive. Vol. XIV. Hartford. 1887.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Connecticut</span>—The Public Records of the Colony of.—From May, -1775, to June, 1776, inclusive. Vol. XV. Hartford. 1890.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Connecticut</span>—The Public Records of the State of.—From -October, 1776, to February, 1778, inclusive. Vol. I. Hartford. 1894.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Connecticut</span>—The Public Records of the State of. From May, -1778, to April, 1780, inclusive. Vol. II. Hartford. 1895.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Connecticut.</span>—Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the -War of the Revolution. Quarto, pp. 777. Hartford. 1889.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Craft, Rev. David.</span>—Historical Address at the Centennial -Celebration of the Battle of Newtown. Printed in Journals of the -Sullivan Expedition.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Craft, Rev. David.</span>—Colonel John Franklin and the Wild -Yankees. An Address delivered June 9, 1896, at the Old Academy, -Athens, Pa. 1896.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Egle, Wm. H.</span>, M. D.—A History of the Commonwealth of -Pennsylvania, Civil, Political and Military, from its earliest -settlement to the present time. Harrisburg. 1876.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hubbard, John N.</span>, A. B.—Sketches of Border Adventures in -the Life and Times of Major Moses VanCampen, a Surviving Soldier of -the Revolution. By his Grandson. Bath, N. Y. 1842.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hayden, Rev. Horace Edwin</span>, M. A.—Major John Garret, slain -July 3, 1778. A Forgotten Hero of the Massacre of Wyoming, Pa. -Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 1895.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hayden, Rev. Horace Edwin</span>, M. A.—The Massacre of Wyoming. -Wilkes-Barre. 1895.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hollister, Horace.</span>—History of the Lackawana Valley, Fifth -Edition. Philadelphia. 1885.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hoyt, Henry M.</span>—A Brief of the Title in the Seventeen -Townships in the County of Luzerne: A Syllabus of the Controversy -between Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Harrisburg. 1879.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Hinman, Royal R.</span>—A Historical Collection from Official -Records, Files, etc., of the part sustained by Connecticut during the -War of the Revolution. Hartford. 1842.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Harvey, Oscar Jewell.</span>—The Harvey Book, giving genealogies -of Harvey, Nesbitt, Dixon and Jamison Families. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. -1899.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jenkins, Steuben.</span>—Historical Address at the Wyoming -Monument July 3, 1878, on the 100th Anniversary of the Battle and -Massacre of Wyoming. Wilkes-Barre. 1878.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jenkins, Steuben.</span>—Wyoming, Connecticut, Pennsylvania. -Historical Register. Vol. II. Harrisburg. 1884.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Johnson, Frederick C.</span>, M. D.-The Pioneer Women of Wyoming. -An Address before the Wyoming Valley Chapter D. A. R. Wilkes-Barre. -1901.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Meginness, John F.</span>—Biography of Frances Slocum, the lost -Sister of Wyoming. A complete Narrative of her wanderings among the -Indians. Williamsport, Pa. 1891.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Miner, Charles.</span>—History of Wyoming in a Series of Letters. -Philadelphia. 1845.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Military Expedition</span> of General John Sullivan, Journals of. -Auburn. 1887.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Peck, George</span>, D. D.—Wyoming; its History, Stirring -Incidents and Romantic Adventures. New York. 1858.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pearce, Stewart.</span>—Annals of Luzerne County. Second Edition. -Philadelphia. 1866.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pennsylvania</span>—Minutes of the Provincial Council of.—From -the organization to the termination of the Proprietary Government. -Vols. IX to XI. Harrisburg. 1853.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pennsylvania</span>—Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council -of.—From its organization to the termination of the Revolution. -Vols. XI to XVI. Harrisburg. 1853.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Pennsylvania Archives.</span>—Selected and arranged from Original -Documents in the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. -First Series. Vols. IV. to XII. Harrisburg. 1855-8. Second Series. -Vol. XVIII. Harrisburg. 1897. Fourth Series. Vols. III. and IV. -Harrisburg. 1900.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Perkins, Mrs. George A.</span>—Early Times on the Susquehanna. -Binghamton. 1870.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Plumb, Henry Blackman.</span>—History of Hanover Township and -Wyoming Valley, Luzerne County, Pa. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 1885.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span></p> - - -<p><span class="smcap">Reynolds, Sheldon</span>, M. A.—The Frontier Forts within the -Wyoming Valley, Pa. Wilkes-Barre. 1896. Also in Frontier Forts of Pa. -Vol. I, pp. 419-466. Harrisburg. 1896.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stone, William L.</span>—The Poetry and History of Wyoming. New -York and London. 1841.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Stone, William L.</span>—Life of Joseph Brant—Thayendanegea, -including the Indian Wars of the American Revolution. Vol. I. -Cooperstown, N. Y. 1844.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">United States.</span>—Journals of Congress. Containing their -Proceedings from Sept. 5, 1774, to November 3, 1788. 13 volumes. -Philadelphia. 1800-1.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wright, Hendrick B.</span>—Historical Sketches of Plymouth, -Luzerne County, Pa. Philadelphia. 1873.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wyoming Valley</span>—The Historical Record of. A periodical -publication. Dr. F. C. Johnson, Editor. 9 volumes. Wilkes-Barre. -1886-1901.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wyoming Historical and Geological Society</span>—Proceedings and -Collections. Vols. 1-7. Wilkes-Barre. 1858-1902.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Wyoming Commemorative Association</span>—Proceedings. 12 volumes. -Wilkes-Barre. 1878-1902.</p></blockquote> - - -<p class="ph2">MANUSCRIPTS.</p> - -<p>The subjoined list embraces material not in printed form:</p> - -<blockquote> - -<p><span class="smcap">Craft, Rev. David.</span>—Collection of MSS. deposited by him in -the Rooms of the Tioga Point Historical Society, Athens, Pa.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Connecticut State Library.</span>—Manuscript Pay and Muster Rolls -of Soldiers in the French and Indian War, 1754-1763. Hartford, Conn.</p> - -<p>Appendix "B" is Document No. 147 in a manuscript volume entitled -"Susquehanna Settlers," Vol. I.</p> - -<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Jenkins, Hon. Steuben.</span>—Documents, Letters, Surveys, Account -Books, Agreements, Diaries, etc. etc. Wyoming, Pa. Examined in -lifetime of late owner.</p> - -<p><span class="smcap">Tioga Point Historical Society.</span>—Pay Roll of Capt. John -Franklin's Company, dated May, 1780. Athens, Pa.</p></blockquote> - -<p class="center"> -<img src="images/illus9.jpg" alt="pic" /> -</p> - - -<div class="footnotes"><h3>FOOTNOTES:</h3> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_1_1" id="Footnote_1_1"></a><a href="#FNanchor_1_1"><span class="label">[1]</span></a> Westmoreland Records as per Hollister 5th ed. p. 139.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_2_2" id="Footnote_2_2"></a><a href="#FNanchor_2_2"><span class="label">[2]</span></a> Westmoreland Records as per Hollister 5th ed. p. 140.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_3_3" id="Footnote_3_3"></a><a href="#FNanchor_3_3"><span class="label">[3]</span></a> Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XIV p. ——.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_4_4" id="Footnote_4_4"></a><a href="#FNanchor_4_4"><span class="label">[4]</span></a> Miner p. 157.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_5_5" id="Footnote_5_5"></a><a href="#FNanchor_5_5"><span class="label">[5]</span></a> Miner p. 158.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_6_6" id="Footnote_6_6"></a><a href="#FNanchor_6_6"><span class="label">[6]</span></a> Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XV p. 12.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_7_7" id="Footnote_7_7"></a><a href="#FNanchor_7_7"><span class="label">[7]</span></a> Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XV p. 43.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_8_8" id="Footnote_8_8"></a><a href="#FNanchor_8_8"><span class="label">[8]</span></a> Manuscript Pay Rolls Conn. State Library.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_9_9" id="Footnote_9_9"></a><a href="#FNanchor_9_9"><span class="label">[9]</span></a> Miner p. 154.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_10_10" id="Footnote_10_10"></a><a href="#FNanchor_10_10"><span class="label">[10]</span></a> Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XV p. 152 et seq.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_11_11" id="Footnote_11_11"></a><a href="#FNanchor_11_11"><span class="label">[11]</span></a> Manuscript Pay and Muster Rolls Conn. State Lib.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_12_12" id="Footnote_12_12"></a><a href="#FNanchor_12_12"><span class="label">[12]</span></a> Hinman's Connecticut in the War of the Revolution, (1842) -p. 10.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_13_13" id="Footnote_13_13"></a><a href="#FNanchor_13_13"><span class="label">[13]</span></a> Mason F. Alden is employed to perform a responsible -duty and is called Ensign. However, his name does not appear among -the Ensigns of the Twenty-fourth regiment, at that time but recently -elected. Perhaps it was a courtesy title derived from some previous -service.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_14_14" id="Footnote_14_14"></a><a href="#FNanchor_14_14"><span class="label">[14]</span></a> Lazarus Stewart was also employed to perform a -responsible duty and is called Captain. He served during the French -and Indian War; was in Braddock's defeat; was Captain of the "Paxtang -Boys," but was not at this time a Captain in the Twenty-fourth -regiment. He was a cousin of Lazarus Stewart, Jr., a Lieutenant in the -Hanover company.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_15_15" id="Footnote_15_15"></a><a href="#FNanchor_15_15"><span class="label">[15]</span></a> Miner, p. 172 et seq.; The Harvey Book, p. 628 et seq.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_16_16" id="Footnote_16_16"></a><a href="#FNanchor_16_16"><span class="label">[16]</span></a> Miner, p. 189.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_17_17" id="Footnote_17_17"></a><a href="#FNanchor_17_17"><span class="label">[17]</span></a> Westmoreland Records as per Jenkins' Address p. 11.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_18_18" id="Footnote_18_18"></a><a href="#FNanchor_18_18"><span class="label">[18]</span></a> Miner p. 212.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_19_19" id="Footnote_19_19"></a><a href="#FNanchor_19_19"><span class="label">[19]</span></a> Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XV p. 470.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_20_20" id="Footnote_20_20"></a><a href="#FNanchor_20_20"><span class="label">[20]</span></a> Miner p. 187.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_21_21" id="Footnote_21_21"></a><a href="#FNanchor_21_21"><span class="label">[21]</span></a> Journals of Continental Congress Vol. III p. 104.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_22_22" id="Footnote_22_22"></a><a href="#FNanchor_22_22"><span class="label">[22]</span></a> Journals of Continental Congress Vol. II p. 307.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_23_23" id="Footnote_23_23"></a><a href="#FNanchor_23_23"><span class="label">[23]</span></a> Frontier Forts of Pa. Vol. I p. 434.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_24_24" id="Footnote_24_24"></a><a href="#FNanchor_24_24"><span class="label">[24]</span></a> Records of the State of Conn. Vol. I p. 31.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_25_25" id="Footnote_25_25"></a><a href="#FNanchor_25_25"><span class="label">[25]</span></a> Records of the State of Conn. Vol. I p. 91 et seq.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_26_26" id="Footnote_26_26"></a><a href="#FNanchor_26_26"><span class="label">[26]</span></a> Miner p. 200.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_27_27" id="Footnote_27_27"></a><a href="#FNanchor_27_27"><span class="label">[27]</span></a> Names of fifteen of these Tories are given in Records of -State of Conn. Vol. I p. 539.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_28_28" id="Footnote_28_28"></a><a href="#FNanchor_28_28"><span class="label">[28]</span></a> Records State of Conn. Vol. II p. 58.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_29_29" id="Footnote_29_29"></a><a href="#FNanchor_29_29"><span class="label">[29]</span></a> Journals of Continental Congress Vol. IV p. 113.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_30_30" id="Footnote_30_30"></a><a href="#FNanchor_30_30"><span class="label">[30]</span></a> See Appendix A.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_31_31" id="Footnote_31_31"></a><a href="#FNanchor_31_31"><span class="label">[31]</span></a> Records of the State of Conn. Vol. I, pp. 264, 430.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_32_32" id="Footnote_32_32"></a><a href="#FNanchor_32_32"><span class="label">[32]</span></a> Records of the State of Conn. Vol. I, pp. 270, 422; Vol. -II, p. 30.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_33_33" id="Footnote_33_33"></a><a href="#FNanchor_33_33"><span class="label">[33]</span></a> Manuscript Pay and Muster Rolls Conn. State Lib.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_34_34" id="Footnote_34_34"></a><a href="#FNanchor_34_34"><span class="label">[34]</span></a> Miner, p. 215.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_35_35" id="Footnote_35_35"></a><a href="#FNanchor_35_35"><span class="label">[35]</span></a> Miner, p. 216.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_36_36" id="Footnote_36_36"></a><a href="#FNanchor_36_36"><span class="label">[36]</span></a> Miner, p. 218.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_37_37" id="Footnote_37_37"></a><a href="#FNanchor_37_37"><span class="label">[37]</span></a> For Articles of Capitulation see Miner p. 255, and -Appendix C.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_38_38" id="Footnote_38_38"></a><a href="#FNanchor_38_38"><span class="label">[38]</span></a> Hollister 5th ed., p. 163, 194.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_39_39" id="Footnote_39_39"></a><a href="#FNanchor_39_39"><span class="label">[39]</span></a> Miner p. 470.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_40_40" id="Footnote_40_40"></a><a href="#FNanchor_40_40"><span class="label">[40]</span></a> Address of Hon. Steuben Jenkins, p. 38.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_41_41" id="Footnote_41_41"></a><a href="#FNanchor_41_41"><span class="label">[41]</span></a> The Wyoming Massacre, by Horace Edwin Hayden, (1895) p. -xviii et seq.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_42_42" id="Footnote_42_42"></a><a href="#FNanchor_42_42"><span class="label">[42]</span></a> Articles of Capitulation given by Miner p. 255.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_43_43" id="Footnote_43_43"></a><a href="#FNanchor_43_43"><span class="label">[43]</span></a> Articles of Capitulation given by Miner p. 255.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_44_44" id="Footnote_44_44"></a><a href="#FNanchor_44_44"><span class="label">[44]</span></a> Col. John Franklin and the Wild Yankees, by Rev. David -Craft, p. 7.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_45_45" id="Footnote_45_45"></a><a href="#FNanchor_45_45"><span class="label">[45]</span></a> Miner p. 232.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_46_46" id="Footnote_46_46"></a><a href="#FNanchor_46_46"><span class="label">[46]</span></a> See Appendix B.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_47_47" id="Footnote_47_47"></a><a href="#FNanchor_47_47"><span class="label">[47]</span></a> See Appendix C.</p></div> - -<div class="footnote"> - -<p><a name="Footnote_48_48" id="Footnote_48_48"></a><a href="#FNanchor_48_48"><span class="label">[48]</span></a> Orderly Book of Col. Z. Butler in Proc. Wyo. Hist. 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If you are not located in the United States, you'll -have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using -this ebook. - - - -Title: A History of the Twenty-Fourth Regiment of Connecticut Militia - -Author: Charles Tubbs - -Release Date: September 26, 2019 [EBook #60361] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CONNECTICUT MILITIA *** - - - - -Produced by Graeme Mackreth and The Online Distributed -Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was -produced from images generously made available by The -Internet Archive) - - - - - - - -[Illustration: EARLY MAP OF WYOMING AND LACKAWANNA VALLIES.] - - - - - The Wyoming Military Establishment. - - - A HISTORY - - --OF THE-- - - TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT - - --OF-- - - CONNECTICUT MILITIA. - - - An Address - - before - - The Tioga Point Historical Society - - delivered December 3rd, 1901, by - - Hon. CHARLES TUBBS, - - Honorary Member Tioga Point Historical Society. - Corresponding Member Wyoming Historical & Geological Society. - - - Athens, Penna. - 1903. - - - - - LIEUTENANT LEBBEUS TUBBS, - PRIVATE SAMUEL TUBBS, - LIEUTENANT-COLONEL GEORGE DORRANCE. - - TO THE MEMORY OF THESE, MY ANCESTORS, - MEMBERS OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT, - I DEDICATE THIS STUDY - OF COLONIAL AND REVOLUTIONARY EVENTS, - IN WHICH THEY PERFORMED A PART. - - - - -ILLUSTRATIONS. - - - Map of Wyoming Valley, Frontispiece. - - Lazarus Stewart's Block House, Page 16 - - Forty Fort in 1778, 22 - - Pittston Fort, 25 - - Wyoming Monument, 28 - -The plates from which the above illustrations were printed were kindly -loaned by the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society. - -[Illustration] - - Athens Gazette, - Athens, Pa. - - - - -The Wyoming Military Establishment. - - -Alsace-Loraine is a conquered province. The flag of Germany floats over -it. Within the memory of most of us it was an integral part of France. -At the time of the conquest, no heart of all its people went willingly -to the side of the victor. - -We are met to-day in Pennsylvania. Yet for years, in the eighteenth -century the soil beneath our feet, and five thousand square miles -of adjacent territory, inside the present limits of Pennsylvania, -was an integral part of the State of Connecticut. It was settled -by Connecticut people, was under Connecticut institutions, was -governed by Connecticut laws. It was a Connecticut town; it was a -Connecticut county; had a judge, a sheriff, other officers, and sent -representatives to the Connecticut legislature. - -Pennsylvania made conquest of it. No heart of all the people of -this Connecticut town went willingly to the side of the victor. The -Alsatians were no more stunned, at being forcibly wrenched from their -allegiance to the flag they loved, than were the Connecticut people who -had settled a town of their own in the heart of Pennsylvania. - -How did this cataclysm befall? I will tell you. It all came of the -ignorance or carelessness of a King. In 1620 King James I. of England -granted a Charter to the Plymouth company for the ruling of New England -in America. The charter covered North America from the fortieth to -the forty-eighth degrees of north latitude, and from the Atlantic to -the Pacific oceans. The Plymouth Company proceeded to sub-divide its -territory. In 1631 it granted a charter to the Connecticut Colony which -covered the space between the forty-first and forty-second degrees of -north latitude "and from the Narragansett river on the east to the -South Sea on the west throughout the main lands." The South Sea was -the Pacific Ocean. In 1662 King Charles II. gave a new charter to -Connecticut confirming the act of the Plymouth Company. Nineteen years -later this same King in the grant of Pennsylvania to William Penn, -included a portion of the same territory, already given by him to -Connecticut. - -The ignorance or carelessness of King Charles, in due time bore a rich -harvest of strife and bloodshed. Under the Connecticut charter (which -was the older) my ancestors, and perhaps yours, came into this valley -of the Susquehanna, and sat themselves down. Under the Pennsylvania -charter (which was the younger) came sheriffs, and armed men, to drive -them off. On the tongues of men this disputed section was known as -Wyoming. In the statute book it is called Westmoreland. - -Having explained how the Connecticut people under a claim of right, -built up a government within the present boundaries of Pennsylvania, -I have said all I desire to say on that subject. It explains how a -part of what is now Pennsylvania was really a part of Connecticut in -the last years of our Colonial history, and in the first years of our -history as an independent nation--from 1774 to 1783. - -This Twenty-fourth regiment of Connecticut Militia was organized on -that part of the soil of Pennsylvania which was known as the Wyoming -region, and in that region it performed its deeds, and lived its -organic life. - -I am aware that this explanation is quite unnecessary. I am aware -that the Society that listens to me contains many descendants of the -men who made the history I am about to relate. I am aware that the -great-grandchildren of Captains Bidlack, Franklin, Spaulding, and -Whittlesey here reside. I know that descendants of the Buck, Gore, -Mathewson, Satterlee, Stevens and Tozer families abound in this old -town. A writer who knows your community better than I do could mention -others. - -I have been attracted to the history of the Twenty-fourth regiment -of Connecticut Militia because in all the histories it has received -so little attention. Mr. Chapman, in his "Sketch of the History of -Wyoming," (1830) says: "The whole body of the citizens was formed into -a militia." (p. 102). He does not say it was a regiment nor designate -it by its number. Col. Stone, in his work entitled, "Wyoming and its -History," (1841), alludes to it in the phrase, "a regiment of militia -being organized," (p. 202), but does not state its number nor give -it further attention. Charles Miner, in his "History of Wyoming in a -Series of Letters," (1845), gives many facts, but notices only six -of the ten companies of which the regiment was composed and details -only the organization of those companies as it was in 1775. George -Peck, in his "Wyoming: its history, stirring incidents, and romantic -adventures," (1858), devotes to it a passing allusion in the words, -"a regiment of militia having been established." (p. 28). Stewart -Pearce does not allude to the Twenty-fourth regiment at all in his -"Annals of Luzerne," (1866), but does mention five of its companies. -(p. 34) Steuben Jenkins, in his "Historical Address at the Monument," -(1878), mentions its existence (p. 17), and at another place enumerates -seven of its companies. (p. 34) Horace Edwin Hayden, in his monograph -entitled, "Major John Garret; a forgotten hero of the Massacre of -Wyoming," (1895) explains the existence of the regiment, credits it -with nine companies, and gives the changes of the officers made in 1777. - -In my judgment, the services of this regiment were of more importance -than have been accorded them by the historians. I shall seek to arrange -those already well known, into a comprehensive whole, to show their -relation to other events, and to add some facts not hitherto brought to -light. - -The Wyoming community was isolated in its situation. It was seventy -miles from it to the settlements on the Delaware; it was sixty miles to -Fort Augusta; to the north and to the west, was a howling wilderness. -This wilderness was filled with a savage Indian population. A continual -fight was waged with the proprietaries of Pennsylvania. - -The settlement, which became permanent, was begun in 1769. It was a -self-governing community. It kept a record of its official acts. In -1772 it was voted, "That each and every settler should provide himself -with a flint lock and ammunition, and continue to guard around the -threatened plantations until further notice."[1] That was the first -step--individual action, every man defend his own castle. This did not -prove effectual. Organization was needed. That was the second step in -the evolution. It took time to bring it about--perhaps a year. At a -meeting of the inhabitants held March 22, 1773, it was voted: "That -the Comtee of settlers be Desired to send to the several towns or to -their Comtee. Requiring them to Call all the Inhabitants in Each of ye -said towns to meet on Thursday Next at five a Clock in ye afternoon of -sd Day in some Convenient place in sd town, and that they then Chouse -one Person in Each of sd towns as an officer to muster them, & so that -all are oequipt according to Law with fire arms, and ammunition, and -that they Chuse two Sergants & a Clerk & that the said Chieff officer -is Hereby Commanded & Directed to Call ye Inhabitants together once -in 14 Days for ye future until this Company orders otherwise & that -in case of an allarm or ye appearance of an Enemy he is Directed -to call ye sd Inhabitants together & stand for ye Defense of ye sd -towns & Settlements without further orders."[2] In speaking of these -preparations Miner says: "If the splendid uniform, the glittering -bayonet, the evolution rapid and precise, with the imposing band of -music, did not grace their trainings, there was yet upon the ground -the strong banded old French musket, the long duck shooting piece, and -more efficient than either the close drawing rifle, little known in -New England, but becoming familiar on the banks of the Susquehanna." -Trainings once in fourteen days! They certainly believed in the -strenuous life. Those trainings were not holidays. They were serious -preparation for impending warfare. - -In January. 1774, the Wyoming settlements which had grown to a -population of 1922 souls,[3] were taken official notice of by the -legislature of Connecticut which incorporated them as the town of -Westmoreland. Wyoming and Westmoreland may henceforth be regarded as -interchangeable terms. - -The next step in the evolution of the military establishment had its -origin at the second town meeting after the incorporation, which was -held on the 12th day of April, 1774. The town, by a vote, applied for -the establishment of a regiment.[4] For some reason the legislature was -slow to act. It may have been for the want of a representative in the -law making body. The town, however, did not neglect to keep itself in -a state of preparedness. They kept everlastingly at it. At the fourth -town meeting held that year "Votes were passed to form themselves into -companies in a military way,"[5] each district in Westmoreland to be -a company and Zebulon Butler, Esq., Major Ezekiel Pierce and Mr. John -Jenkins were appointed a committee to repair to the several districts -and lead each company to a choice of officers. - -From this it is clear that the officers were chosen by a vote of the -men in each company. The subsequent "establishment" of the rank of -officers by the Connecticut Assembly was but a ratification of what had -already been done by vote of the men. - -It was more than a year after the action of the town meeting asking -for the legal organization of a regiment before the legislature acted -upon the subject. At May session, 1775, it enacted "That the town of -Westmoreland shall be one entire regiment distinguished and called by -the name of the Twenty-fourth regiment and shall be under the same -rules and orders, and have the same powers, privileges and advantages -as other regiments of this Colony by law have."[6] - -One of these advantages was the promise of six pence for half day -training and twelve pence for whole day training, and this to be paid -out of the Colony treasury. - -The regiment was assigned to the sixth brigade, Connecticut State -Militia, commanded by Brig. Gen. Oliver Wolcott. The organization was -begun by the "establishment" of the regimental officers at the same -session. Zebulon Butler was made Colonel; Nathan Denison, Lieutenant -Colonel; William Judd, Major.[7] - -Zebulon Butler, the newly elected colonel, born at Lynne. Conn., 1731, -was no novice in the military service. In the French and Indian war he -was Ensign in Captain Andrew Ward's 2 company of the 4 Conn. Regt. in -1755-6-7. He was Lieutenant in Captain Timothy Mather's company of the -3 Regt. in 1758. He was Captain in the 4th and 1st regiments in 1759, -1760 and 1761.[8] He had served seven enlistments. The territorial -range of his service extended from Crown Point on the north to Havana -on the south. When elected Colonel his home was in Wilkes-Barre. - -Nathan Denison, the newly elected Lieutenant Colonel, born in Conn., -1741, had seen service in the French and Indian war as a private in -Col. Eleazar Fitch's 3d Conn. Regt. His services extended from May to -November, 1758. His home was in Kingston. - -Speaking of these two men Miner says: "Nature never formed two -excellent men in more distinct contrast. Butler polished in manner, -quick in perception, vehement and rapid in execution: Denison, plain -though courteous, slow to speak, as careful to consider, cool and -firm, if not alert in action. They were the two great and acknowledged -leaders in Westmoreland."[9] - -William Judd, the newly elected Major, does not seem to have had any -military experience outside of the militia. - -The accessible records are silent about the progress made with the -regiment during the summer of 1775, but it is fair to assume that -the newly commissioned field officers did not neglect their duty in -perfecting their organization and in training their men. - -At the October session of the Connecticut legislature the election -of the officers of nine of the companies were ratified. They were as -follows:[10] - -First (Lower Wilkes-Barre) Company, Stephen Fuller, Captain; John -Garret, Lieutenant; Christopher Avery, Ensign. - -Second (Kingston) Company, Nathaniel Landon, Captain; George Dorrance, -Lieutenant; Asahel Buck, Ensign. - -Third (Plymouth) Company, Samuel Ransom, Captain; Perrin Ross, -Lieutenant; Asaph Whittlesey, Ensign. - -Fourth (Pittston) Company, Solomon Strong, Captain; Jonathan Parker, -Lieutenant; Timothy Keyes, Ensign. - -Fifth (Hanover) Company, William McKarachan, Captain; Lazarus Stewart, -Jr., Lieutenant; Silas Gore, Ensign. - -Sixth (Upper Wilkes-Barre) Company, Rezin Geer, Captain; Daniel Gore, -Lieutenant; Matthias Hollenback, Ensign. - -Seventh (Exeter) Company, Stephen Harding, Captain; Elisha Scovill, -Lieutenant; John Jenkins, Jr., Ensign. - -Eighth (Lackaway) Company, Eliab Farnham, Captain; John Shaw, -Lieutenant; Elijah Winters, Ensign. - -Ninth (Up the River) Company, James Secord, Captain; John De Pui, -Lieutenant; Rudolph Fox, Ensign. - -Some of these officers had seen service as soldiers in the French and -Indian War.[11] Captain Eliab Farnham, of the Lackaway Company, had -done a tour of duty lasting twenty-five weeks in 1758 in Capt. Nathan -Whiting's Company, 2d Conn. Regt. Lieut. Elisha Scovill had served -32 weeks in 1759 in Capt. Amos Hitchcock's Company in the seventh -Connecticut regiment. - -Lieutenant Jonathan Parker had served 34 weeks in 1761 in the third -company of the First Conn. Regt. commanded by Major David Baldwin. - -The citizen liable to serve in the Connecticut militia was a man, -between 16 and 50 years of age, but for specified reason many were -exempt from the service.[12] - -There was an almost immediate call for all the skill and ability of the -newly commissioned officers not only in the training field, but in the -arena of actual war. The Governor of Pennsylvania had made up his mind -to completely destroy the Connecticut settlement at Wyoming. Wyoming -was within the Pennsylvania county of Northumberland of which William -Cook was Sheriff. William Cook, under pretense of serving sundry writs -at Wyoming, took with him an armed force of 700 men under the command -of Colonel William Plunket. He called it a "posse." - -This force left Northumberland early in December, 1775, marching up the -west side of the river over the almost impassable roads. The supplies -for the expedition were loaded into boats. Progress was slow, as the -boats had to be propelled against the current, encumbered as it often -was at that season of the year by floating ice. December 20th, Col. -Plunket was at Nescopeck Creek, nineteen miles below the south eastern -extremity of the valley. His progress now was closely watched by -scouts. On Saturday, the 23d he arrived at Harvey's landing, one-fourth -of a mile below the mouth of Harvey's Creek, where he landed, unloaded -his boats, and encamped for the night. - -What preparation had been made to receive the invader? On this same -Saturday Col. Zebulon Butler mustered the newly formed Twenty-fourth -regiment. He also collected all the old men and boys who did not belong -to the ranks of the regiment and armed them the best he could. In -number, his force thus made up, was about four hundred. The two armies -spent the night within a half mile of each other. From this point Col. -Butler sent out a flag to Col. Plunket, in charge of Lieutenant Garret, -inquiring the object of the invasion. Col. Plunket's reply was that he -came on a peaceful errand, simply to serve some Pennsylvania writs at -Wyoming. - -On Sunday morning. Col. Butler left Ensign Mason F. Alden[13] with -18 men on the ground where he had spent the night. At the same time -he sent Capt. Lazarus Stewart[14] of the Hanover Company, with 20 -men across the river to the east side above the Nanticoke Falls to -prevent the enemy from landing, should they attempt to do so. He -then, with the main body of his force, retreated about one mile up -the river to a place where a natural defence existed. This consisted -of a ridge of rocks projecting about one-half a mile south easterly -from the Shawanese mountain to the river. Near the river it was 1 or -2 feet high, but as it ran back toward the mountain it was of great -height. Wherever there were breaks in this natural rampart, Butler's -men filled in the space with logs and stones. Behind this breastwork -the Twenty-fourth regiment and its co-operating forces were stationed. -About 11 o'clock Alden and his men became conscious that the enemy was -moving, and they withdrew. They announced the approach of the enemy to -Col. Butler and joined him behind the fortification. When the enemy -advanced it was met with a fusilade of shots along the whole line, -killing one man, wounding others and throwing the whole force into the -utmost confusion. Without firing a shot Col. Plunket withdrew to the -camp at Harvey's Creek. - -Late in the afternoon the enemy brought two of its boats by land from -Harvey's landing above the Nanticoke Falls. At night fall they were -loaded with soldiers and rowed across the river. When they attempted to -land they were fired upon by Captain Stewart and his men, who lay in -ambush upon the bank, killing one man, and wounding others. The attempt -to land was given up and the boats and their cargoes floated down -through the rapids and were safely moored at Harvey's landing. Thus -ended the events of the day. - -On Christmas Day Col. Plunket renewed the attack on the breastwork. -He divided his forces into two divisions. One division assailed the -fortification in front, while the other attempted a flanking movement -on Col. Butler's right. This was promptly met and repelled. The battle -lasted nearly all day, but the enemy, baffled at all points, finally -withdrew. The invasion known by Col. Plunket's name was at an end. -Eight or ten men on each side were killed and many wounded.[15] - -The battle with Plunket had made the officers and men of the regiment -painfully conscious of their lack of equipment. Powder! How could they -get powder? Offer a reward for it? That was what they did at a town -meeting, March 10, 1776--two and a half months after the battle. -"Voted that the first man that shall make fifty weight of good salt -peter, in this town, shall be entitled to ten pounds lawful money, to -be paid out of the town treasury."[16] - -Patriotism and this bounty no doubt produced an effect, as witness the -following: "Mrs. Bethiah Jenkins says. The women took up their floors, -dug out the earth, put it in casks, and ran water through it. Then took -ashes in another cask and made lye--mixed the water from the earth with -weak lye, boiled it, set it out to cool, and the salt peter rose to the -top. Charcoal and sulphur were then used, and powder produced."[17] - -In May, 1776, John Jenkins, representative to the legislature, obtained -leave for the selectmen to erect a powder mill in Westmoreland, but I -can not learn that any mill was ever built.[18] - -In July of the same year the Council of Safety at Hartford "Voted that -the Selectmen of Westmoreland may receive at Messrs. Elderkin & Wales -mill, not exceeding 200 pounds of gun powder: they to account to the -Colony therefor at the price of 5s, 4d per lb."[19] - -Col. Butler, in a letter to Roger Sherman, dated August 6, 1776, speaks -of being in want of arms, "as those 80 guns taken from our people at -Warrior Run have not been returned."[20] - -The Continental Congress the next year undertook to aid in supplying -these wants, as witness the following action April 11: "Resolved, that -175 fire arms, either musquets or rifles, 200 wt. powder, 800 wt. lead, -and 500 flints be sent to the town of Westmoreland, on the east branch -of the Susquehanna river, to the care of Colonel Nathan Denison, to -be used by the malitia there, for the defense of the said town, if -necessary: the arms to be returned when the service there will admit of -it."[21] - -I am telling the story of a regiment whose fortunes were profoundly -affected by the Revolutionary War. The men of which it was composed -were intense rebels against the authority of England. Therefore when -the Congress on the 23d of August, "Resolved, That two companies on the -Continental Establishment be raised in the town of Westmoreland"[22] -it responded with an enlistment of 82 men in each company. Captain -Samuel Ransom, Lieutenant Perrin Ross, Ensigns Asahel Buck and Matthias -Hollenbeck, with others, were elected as officers. I mention these -because they were officers in the Twenty-fourth regiment. The men were -all taken from the ranks of the Twenty-fourth regiment. Twenty other -men in the summer of 1776 also enlisted under Lieutenant Obadiah Gore, -to serve in a New York State regiment under Colonel Weisner, as well as -ten more men to serve under Captain Strong. Our regiment thus lost of -its most robust men, 194 in the Summer of 1776, who enlisted into the -Continental Army. - -While this depletion was going on the town assigned additional duties -to the field officers at a meeting held August 28. "Voted ye field -officers of ye regiment of this town be appointed a committee to view -the most suitable places to build forts for ye defense of sd town, -and determine on some particular spot or place in each district for -the purpose, and mark out the same."[23] Think for a moment of the -work imposed on this Committee! Think of the large territory to be -gone over, the consideration of reasons for or against any particular -location. Think of the work imposed on the men who were to build the -forts. - -[Illustration: STEWART'S BLOCK HOUSE.] - -There were some old forts like Forty Fort in Kingston, and Fort Brown -in Pittston, that were repaired and enlarged, but in other districts -there were no suitable works of the kind and accordingly new sites -were selected, and the proposed works laid out on the ground. Such was -the case in Wilkes-Barre, Plymouth and Exeter. In Lower Pittston and -Hanover, block houses were recommended and built. The work of repairing -and building the forts ran through the years 1776, 1777 and was not -completed until 1778. - -Before closing the regimental history for 1776 I wish to mention the -advent of the tenth company into its ranks, representing the train -bands of the Districts of Huntington and Salem, of which Frethias Wall -was elected Lieutenant and John Franklin, Jr., Ensign, at the October -session of the legislature.[24] I have not seen this company assigned -its proper place in the regiment in any of the histories. Of this -company John Franklin, Jr., was ultimately to become the Captain and -Stoddart Bowen the Lieutenant. - -In December, 1776, a supplement to the militia law was enacted by the -Connecticut legislature, by which the age limit of those liable to -serve was extended to persons from 50 to 60 years of age, and many -theretofore exempt were brought into the service. These persons were to -be formed into companies to be called the "Alarm List," to elect their -own officers and to be attached to already existing regiments.[25] - -Under this act two companies were formed in Wyoming in 1777--one on -the east side of the river, of which William Hooker Smith was elected -Captain, one on the west side of the river of which James Bidlack, -Sr., was elected Captain. These became attached to the Twenty-fourth -regiment. - -In popular speech these old men and exempts were called "Reformadoes." -Under this Act the Colonels of regiments were given authority "to -assemble in martial array and put in warlike posture," the men under -their command in case of invasion. - -In the Spring of 1777 the regiment took up a new duty. It was the duty -of sending out scouting parties.[26] The Indians and Tories up the -river were showing activity by occasionally capturing some one, and -making a prisoner of him. Lieut. Asa Stevens, of the Kingston Company, -went on a scouting expedition and brought in five suspected persons. -Ensign John Jenkins, Jr., of the Exeter Company, led a scouting party -up as far as Wyalusing, and was himself captured and three other men. -Captain Asaph Whittlesey, of the Plymouth Company, led a scouting party -up as far as Standing Stone. In January, 1778, Capt. Eliab Farnham, of -the Lackaway Company, captured 18 tories[27] that had been disturbing -his vicinage and sent them to Hartford under the escort of Lieut. -Jonathan Haskell. The legislature declared that these persons should -be treated as prisoners of war. This action was necessary, because -the frontiersmen held that the prisoners ought to be hanged as cattle -thieves. In May, 1778, Nathan Denison memorialized the legislature to -be reimbursed as Colonel of the Twenty-fourth regiment, in sending out -detachments as scouts and for guards during 1776, 1777 and 1778. The -prayer of his memorial was granted.[28] - -I must refer in this place to a further nominal depletion of the -regiment. By act of Congress March 16, 1778, it was resolved to raise -another Company of Continental troops at Westmoreland. The efforts to -do this was at least partially successful and Dethic Hewit was elected -Captain of the new company. In the same resolution it was provided that -the new organization should be under the command of the field officers -of the Twenty-fourth regiment.[29] - -The enlistment of this company reduced the strength of the regiment. -It transferred the service of the men from the state to the service of -the United States. It did not, however, withdraw them from the Wyoming -Valley. - -I will here explain the changes in the officers of the regiment. Under -the militia laws of Connecticut there were two general muster days in -the year--first Monday of May, first Monday of October. On either new -officers could be elected to fill vacancies or for other reasons. Able -and ambitious men coveted and strove to become officers of the regiment -and of the companies. In the larger and stronger companies the rivalry -was great and the officers were in a continual state of flux. In this -way there were a large number of ex-officers. The ex-officers retained -their titles by courtesy. Once a captain, always a captain. In the -Wyoming histories, and upon the monument erected on the battlefield, -confusion results, from giving the courtesy titles of ex-officers as -much prominence as is given the titles of men who were in commission, -and exercised actual command. In view of these and similar facts I -have been to much pains to make the roster of those in actual command -accurate as it was in the last formation of the regiment.[30] - -I will first call attention to the changes in the regimental officers. -Colonel Zebulon Butler resigned to enter the Continental service -January 1, 1777. Lt. Col. Nathan Denison was promoted to be colonel. -This occasioned a vacancy in the office of lieutenant-colonel, which -was filled by the election of Lazarus Stewart, the famous Captain of -the Paxtang Rangers, who declined to accept, and thereupon Major George -Dorrance was promoted to that office in Oct., 1777. Major William Judd -resigned to enter the Continental service, and his place was filled -in May, 1777, by the promotion of Lieut. George Dorrance and on his -elevation to the Lt. Colonelcy, Captain John Garret was elected Major -in Oct., 1777.[31] - -I have given a list of the Company officers as "established" at the -organization of the regiment. They underwent many changes as heretofore -indicated. I will give them as they existed in May, 1778, when the last -changes were made of which there is a record.[32] This is a list of the -Captains beginning with the first Company and thus on through to the -tenth. They were as follows: James Bidlack, Jr., Aholiab Buck, Asaph -Whittlesey, Jeremiah Blanchard, William McKarachan, Rezin Geer, Stephen -Harding, Eliab Farnham, Robert Carr and John Franklin, Jr. - -The Lieutenants were Lebbeus Tubbs, Elijah Shoemaker, Aaron Gaylord, -Timothy Keyes, Roswell Franklin, Daniel Gore, Elisha Scovil, John Shaw, -Nathan Kingsbury and Stoddart Bowen. - -The Ensigns were: John Comstock, Asa Gore, William White, Jeremiah -Bigford, Titus Hinman, John Hagerman, John Jenkins, Jr., Elijah -Winters, Rudolph Fox and Nathaniel Goss. John Jenkins, Jr., of the -Exeter company, probably should not be included as he had recently been -elected a lieutenant in the Continental Service. This company had no -Ensign in commission. - -Some of these new officers had seen service in the old French war. -Lieutenant Lebbeus Tubbs had served two enlistments--one of 26 weeks -in 1755, in Capt. Nicholas Bishop's company of the first Conn, -regiment--another in 1759 of 27 weeks in Capt. John Pitkin's company of -the Fourth Conn. Regt.[33] - -In the latter year he was in the expedition sent out for the reduction -of Crown Point. Ensign William White served 35 weeks in 1756 in Capt. -Samuel Champlin's Company in the First Conn, regiment. Ensign Titus -Hinman in 1755 served 32 weeks in Capt. Benjamin Hinman's company in -the Second Conn. regiment. - -The Twenty-fourth regiment availed itself of other means of becoming -efficient. Two deserters from the British army--Abraham Pike and -Sergeant Boyd--were employed as drill masters, and spent much time in -putting the men through their evolutions.[34] - -It had need of the skill of all its officers, of the efficiency of all -its men. While I have been talking about officers, important events -have been hastening toward a conclusion, on the northern border. -They now claim attention. Up to this time (1778) no murders had been -committed by the Indians. They now became frequent. Scouting parties of -the regiment were continually going out and coming in. They heralded -the approach of an invading army. Premonitory signs of its coming had -not been wanting. - -It consisted of about 1,100 British soldiers, Indians and Tories, under -the command of Major John Butler.[35] This force had been gathered at -Kanadaseago and other points in Western New York. The time was the -month of June, when nature puts on her best apparel. It approached -Wyoming in boats. I can imagine the wild and weird flotilla, tricked -out in barbaric splendor, as it rounded Tioga Point, and swept out into -the broad waters of the Susquehanna, receiving welcome reinforcements -to its numbers as it passed Queen Esther's flats and the meadows of -Sheshequin. It landed above Wyoming in Keeler's Eddy. It marched about -twenty miles by land and was ready to do its work. - -What was the situation at Wyoming? What the preparation to receive it? -We have detailed the building of the forts; the establishment of the -regiment and its depletion from time to time to recruit the Continental -service. The forts were there--and the regiment--what there was of it. - -We left the enemy at the head of the valley. It signified its approach -by killing six men in Exeter on the 30th of June, 1778. On the first -day of July it seized Fort Wintermoot. This fort was occupied by -Elisha Scovil, lieutenant of the Exeter (7th) company and a few -patriotic men. The Wintermoots and other non-combatants in the fort -were Tories[36] and after making the best show of resistance he could, -Scovil capitulated. At Fort Jenkins, one mile above Fort Wintermoot, -were eight men, including Stephen Harding, Captain of the 7th (Exeter) -company. Resistance against such odds was useless and it surrendered -on the second of July, although the articles of capitulation were -dated on the first.[37] This disposes of one of the companies of the -Twenty-fourth regiment. - -To the valley below a vague knowledge of what was happening was -communicated by scouts and by persons who had escaped when the Hardings -and Hadsells were killed on the 30th of June. Some information was -obtained by a reconnoisance in force on the first of July. - -In consequence the population gathered into the several forts on the -first and second days of July. - -[Illustration: FORTY FORT IN 1778.] - -Of these, Forty Fort in Kingston was the largest and the strongest. -In it Col. Nathan Denison established his headquarters. He endeavored -to concentrate his regiment at this point. There were many obstacles -in the way. Captain Robert Carr's (9th) Up River company could not be -reached because of the proximity of the enemy. According to Hollister, -this Company was at Capouse Meadows (Scranton).[38] Captain Eliab -Farnham's (8th) Lackaway company was 70 miles away and could not be -reached on account of the distance. This company did not learn of -the invasion until it was over.[39] Thus these two companies were -unavailable. So far as adding to the force of lighting men was -concerned, they did not do it. Denison sent a messenger express to -Captain Franklin in Huntington, who dispatched Lieutenant Stoddart -Bowen with the first of his men who could be gotten together. He sent -another messenger to Wilkes-Barre. Zebulon Butler, Lt. Col. of the -third regiment of the Connecticut line was then at Wilkes-Barre on -furlough. Denison asked him to come to Forty Fort. When there, by -common consent, he assumed command of all the forces. - -Early in the afternoon of Friday, July 3d, the two Wilkes-Barre, the -Hanover, Plymouth, Kingston and part of the Huntington companies were -at the rendezvous mustering not more than 200 men. In addition to these -were Captain Hewit's company of Continental Soldiers, some old men, -young boys, and refugees from all sides, who were willing to risk their -lives, but did not belong to any military organization. Perhaps 400 -would be a fair estimate to put on the whole number of fighting men. On -the 2d and again on the 3d day of July the enemy demanded the surrender -of the Forts and all the military forces in the Valley. - -What shall be done? Great uncertainty existed, as to the strength and -intention of the enemy. Shall the force now in hand await the coming -of promised reinforcements?--the more complete concentration of the -regiment, the advance of the enemy? or shall they march out and give -battle? A council of war was held in which the pros and cons were -warmly debated. It was decided to give battle. - -"About three o'clock in the afternoon they marched from the fort, in -martial array, with the stars and stripes at their head, to the tune of -Saint Patrick's Day in the Morning, played on the fife by a true son -of Erin, and with drums beating."[40] They proceeded about three miles -in column when they formed a line of battle of about 500 yards front. -Capt. Dethic Hewit with his so-called regulars, was on the extreme -right, with Captain Bidlack next to him, and he joined by Captain -Geer. On the extreme left was Capt. Whittlesey and the Salem detachment -under Lieut. Bowen. Next to them was the Hanover company under Captain -Stewart (McKaracan having that day resigned), and he was joined by -Captain Buck, of Kingston. This was the order in which the advance was -made. It was made over a plain that was grown up with brush--yellow -pines, pitch pines and scrub oak. These bushes could be seen over by a -man, but were high enough to conceal a skulking foe. The right rested -on a rise of ground near the river, and was led by Lieut. Col. Zebulon -Butler, aided by Major John Garret. The left was commanded by Col. -Nathan Denison, assisted by Lieut. Col. George Dorrance. - -The enemy in front had the Tories in the center under Captains Pawling -and Hopkins and the British regulars on their extreme left under -Captain William Caldwell and Lieutenant Turney. On the enemy's right -were the Indians, under cover of the alders in a swamp led by a Seneca -Chief named Sayenqueraghta.[41] - -The Americans advanced with spirit, the enemy purposely falling back -under fire for the distance of about a mile, until they came to a -cleared field. On the opposite side of this field was a log fence which -the British used as a breastwork, and from it poured in such a severe -fire that it checked the advance. Just at this point the Indians with -brandishing spears and demoniac yells, rushed out of the swamp on the -left, in which most of them lay concealed, enveloped the left wing by -superior numbers, and turned it in upon the right. In the melee that -ensued an effort was made to re-form it, so that it would present a -front to the enemy, but in the confusion occasioned by the fierce onset -of the enemy the orders were misunderstood and the day was lost. - -The men retreated in squads at first, firing as they gave ground, but -borne down by overwhelming numbers, the retreat became a rout, and -every man did the best he could to save himself. It was four miles -back to the fort. On the way some of the squads were captured, some -in pairs, some singly. The slaughter of captured men by the Indians -constitutes what is known in history as the Wyoming Massacre. Some -of the fugitives reached Forty Fort; some Wilkes-Barre. Lieut. Col. -Zebulon Butler escaped with his life. He and the remnant of Hewit's -regulars left the valley. They did not surrender. - -[Illustration: PITTSTON FORT.] - -What of the Twenty-fourth Regiment? Col. Denison reached Forty Fort -alive. Lieut. Col. George Dorrance was mortally wounded. Major John -Garret was killed. The Captain of every company fell upon the field, as -also did three Lieutenants and three Ensigns. How many men the regiment -lost it is impossible to say, but from 200 to 300 of those engaged on -the American side were slain. The loss of the enemy was from 40 to 80 -men. - -Early the next day, July 4, the British commander sent a detachment -across the river and demanded the surrender of Fort Brown, in which -the Pittston people assembled, under the command of Captain Jeremiah -Blanchard. The demand was complied with.[42] It is said that this -company failed to report at Forty Fort because the enemy captured all -the water craft along the river in its vicinity. This disposes of one -more of the companies of the Twenty-fourth Regiment. - -The same day the surrender of Forty Fort was demanded on terms deemed -reasonable under the circumstances. No means for further resistance -were at hand. After some negotiation articles of capitulation were -drawn up and signed.[43] Protection was promised to persons and -property. The fort was surrendered. Captain Franklin had come up -from Huntington, while the battle was in progress on Abraham's -Plains, with the remainder of his company and they were included in -the surrender[44], thus making six complete companies. I have now -accounted for the ten original companies of the regiment. Captain -William Hooker Smith's company of the "Alarm List" was in the fort -with the women and children at Wilkes-Barre, and Capt. James Bidlack, -Sr.'s company was in the fort on Garrison Hill in Plymouth. These -"Reformadoes" belonged to Col. Denison's command. - -The victors planned a spectacular entrance into Forty Fort. Massed in -columns of four upon the left, approached Major John Butler at the head -of his Rangers and Royal Greens; on the right came the Seneca Chiefs, -leading their warriors, streaked with paint, adorned with feathers, and -other picturesque barbaric ornaments. They were preceded with waving -banners, the screech of fife, and the roll of drums. At a signal the -gates were opened: in at the north gate entered the Tories and British -Provincials; at the south gate the savages.[45] - -This scene as it came down to me when a child, from the reported words -of a great grandmother who witnessed it, most profoundly impressed my -youthful imagination. - -What occurred after the capitulation? By the terms of the surrender -protection was promised to persons and property. Regardless of the -terms, the Indians plundered individuals of the clothing on their -persons, pillaged the farm steads of everything movable, drove away the -live stock, destroyed the growing crops and burned the buildings of the -distressed inhabitants to the ground. Their commander could not, or -would not restrain them. - -The result was that on the night following the battle, and on the two -or three succeeding days and nights, the 3,000 inhabitants of the -Wyoming Valley fled, some by boats and rafts down the river, but by -far the greater number through the wilderness, and over the mountains -to the settlements beyond. It was not a planned and orderly hegira, in -which provision was made for necessary wants, but a hurried, hasty, -precipitate flight, urged on to desperation by every element of real -and imaginary danger. Their houses, furniture, household utensils, -crops, flocks, farming implements, provisions, papers, clothing, -horses, wagons,--all left behind. And it was all utterly destroyed or -carried off. Of the delicate women and tender children, not less than -200 perished by the way. In the battle, the massacre, and the flight -it is probable that 500 persons lost their lives. In a memorial to -the Connecticut legislature, the survivors stated that their property -losses amounted to 38,308 pounds, 13s.[46] - -In the Articles of Capitulation signed at Forty Fort was this: "Art. -7. That the inhabitants Col. Denison capitulates for, together with -himself, do not take up arms during the present contest." Some -undoubtedly considered themselves bound by this article. Colonel -Denison for one is no longer heard of in our military annals, -although Westmoreland remained more than four years longer under -the jurisdiction of Connecticut. The Twenty-fourth regiment was -never reorganized. It was overwhelmed on the field of battle; it was -surrendered in sections, by the terms of four military conventions.[47] -Of this sort of glory it had a monopoly. As a regiment its story is -told. - -On the other hand many of the men considered themselves absolved from -the terms above recited. The party that imposed the conditions, did -not themselves observe them. Lieut. Col. Zebulon Butler, one month -from the day of surrender, returned to the valley at the head of some -Continental soldiers and 40 militiamen and went into garrison at -Wilkes-Barrie. A muster roll of these men is extant. Many of them were -men who had been surrendered. Captain John Franklin, with a company of -Wyoming militia, went out in Hartley's expedition the same year, and in -Sullivan's expedition the next year, and on other occasions. - -In an upper chamber of this building is an original pay roll of one of -these companies. Many of its names are identical with those who served -in the Twenty-fourth regiment. - -After the flight of the people from the valley the dead lay unburied on -the plain where they fell for nearly four months. On the twenty second -day of October a detail of thirty men was sent from the garrison at -Wilkes-Barre as a guard to protect those of the inhabitants that had -returned, in performing that solemn duty.[48] - -A granite monument suitably inscribed now marks the place of sepulchre. -Engraved upon it is a very inaccurate list of those "slain in battle" -and of "survivors." - -In this temple, dedicated to the Muse of the backward look, it may be -appropriate to inquire, What relation, if any, had these events to -the history of the times? The drama of the American Revolution held -the center of the stage. Did our regiment enact a part? An important -part. It triumphed mightily in its death. The tales of the butchery of -these captured citizen soldiers, the cries of those mothers and little -children, driven from their burning homes to the wilds of the forest, -were heard all over the civilized world. The execration of mankind was -visited upon a King, and a country, that employed savage allies and -paid them ten dollars apiece, in gold, for the scalps of human beings. - -It produced another effect. It called the attention of Washington and -the Congress to the imperative necessity of dealing a death blow, to -the Six Nation Confederacy of Indian barbarians. A year passed by. -The avengers of Wyoming darkened the waters that wash the shores of -your beautiful peninsula-they swarmed over the lands where we are -assembled to-night, they went forward, they did the work assigned them; -Wyoming was avenged. - -[Illustration: WYOMING MONUMENT.] - -Permit me a word of review. - -The Connecticut controversy! with all its bitterness and contention, it -is sunk in oblivion. - -The town of Westmoreland! it is sponged from the map. - -The Twenty-fourth regiment! it served three years--one for the colony, -two for the state. It builded forts, it fought battles, it went down -to defeat and death, amidst a wild saturnalia of blood, rapine, and -murder. It is forgotten. - - "Time rolls its ceaseless course; the race of yore. - Who danced our infancy upon their knee. - And told our marvelling boyhood legends store - Of their strange ventures happ'd by land or sea, - How are they blotted from the things that be!" - - -Appendix A. - -ROSTER OF THE OFFICERS OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT CONNECTICUT MILITIA - -From Date of Its Organization to Day of Its Destruction. Date of -Commission Follows Each Name. - - - -----------------+---------------------------- - Colonel. | Zebulon Butler May, 1775 - " | Nathan Denison May, 1777 - -----------------+---------------------------- - Lieut.-Colonel. | Nathan Denison May, 1775 - " " | Lazarus Stewart May, 1777 - " " | George Dorrance Oct., 1777 - -----------------+---------------------------- - Major. | William Judd May, 1775 - " | George Dorrance May, 1777 - " | John Garret Oct., 1777 - -----------------+---------------------------- - - +---------------------------------+ - | Captains. | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -First, or | Stephen Fuller Oct., 1775 | -Lower | John Garret Oct., 1776 | -Wilkes-Barre | Elisha Swift May, 1777 | -Comp'y. | James Bidlack, Jr. Oct., 1777 | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Second, or | Nathaniel Landon Oct., 1775 | -Kingston | Wm. Hooker Smith May, 1777 | -Company. | Dethic Hewit Oct., 1777 | - | Aholiab Buck May, 1778 | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Third, or | Samuel Ransom Oct., 1775 | -Plymouth | Asaph Whittlesey May, 1777 | -Company. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Fourth, or | Solomon Strong Oct., 1775 | -Pittston | Jeremiah Blanchard May, 1777 | -Company. | |_ -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Fifth, or | Wm. McKarrican Oct., 1775 | -Hanover | | -Company. | |_ -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Sixth, or Upper | Rezin Geer Oct., 1775 | -Wilkes-Barre | | -Comp'y. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Seventh, or | Stephen Harding Oct., 1775 | -Exeter Company. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Eighth, or | Eliab Farnham Oct., 1775 | -Lackaway | | -Company. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Ninth, or Up | James Seacord Oct., 1775 | -River Company. | Robert Carr May, 1776 | -----------------+---------------------------------| -Tenth, or | John Franklin May, 1778 | -Huntington-Salem| | -Co. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ - - - +---------------------------------+ - | Lieutenants. | -----------------+ --------------------------------+ -First, or | John Garret Oct., 1775 | -Lower | Asa Stevens Oct., 1776 | -Wilkes-Barre | James Bidlack, Jr. May, 1777 | -Comp'y. | Lebbeus Tubbs Oct., 1777 | -----------------+ --------------------------------+ -Second, or | George Dorrance Oct., 1775 | -Kingston | Flavius Waterman May, 1777 | -Company. | Aholiab Buck Oct., 1777 | - | Elijah Shoemaker May, 1778 | -----------------+ --------------------------------+ -Third, or | Perrin Ross Oct., 1775 | -Plymouth | Aaron Gaylord May, 1777 | -Company. | | -----------------+ --------------------------------+ -Fourth, or | Jonathan Parker Oct., 1775 | -Pittston | Timothy Keyes May, 1777 | -Company. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Fifth, or | Lazarus Stewart, Jr. Oct., 1775 | -Hanover | Roswell Franklin May, 1777 | -Company. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Sixth, or Upper | Daniel Gore Oct., 1775 | -Wilkes-Barre | | -Comp'y. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Seventh, or | Elisha Scovil Oct., 1775 | -Exeter Company. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Eighth, or | John Shaw Oct., 1775 | -Lackaway | | -Company. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Ninth, or Up | John Depue Oct., 1775 | -River Company. | Nathan Kingsley May, 1776 | -----------------+---------------------------------+ -Tenth, or | Frethias Wall Oct., 1776 | -Huntington-Salem| Stoddart Bowen May, 1778 | -Co. | | -----------------+---------------------------------+ - - - +--------------------------------+ - | Ensigns. | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -First, or | Charles Avery Oct., 1775 | -Lower | David Downing Oct., 1776 | -Wilkes-Barre | Lebbeus Tubbs May, 1777 | -Comp'y. | John Comstock Oct., 1777 | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Second, or | Asahel Buck Oct., 1775 | -Kingston | Dethic Hewit Oct., 1776 | -Company. | Elisha Blackman May, 1777 | - | Asa Gore Oct., 1777 | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Third, or | Asaph Whittlesey Oct., 1775 | -Plymouth | William White May, 1777 | -Company. | | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Fourth, or | Timothy Keyes Oct., 1775 | -Pittston | William Shays May, 1777 | -Company. | Jeremiah Bigford May, 1778 | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Fifth, or | Silas Gore Oct., 1775 | -Hanover | Titus Hinman May, 1777 | -Company. | | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Sixth, or Upper | John Hagerman Oct., 1775 | -Wilkes-Barre | | -Comp'y. | | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Seventh, or | John Jenkins, Jr. Oct., 1775 | -Exeter Company. | | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Eighth, or | Elijah Winters Oct., 1775 | -Lackaway | | -Company. | | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Ninth, or Up | Rudolph Fox Oct., 1775 | -River Company. | | -----------------+--------------------------------+ -Tenth, or | John Franklin Oct., 1776 | -Huntington-Salem| Nathaniel Goss May, 1778 | -Co. | | -----------------+--------------------------------+ - - -APPENDIX B. - -A bill of Losses sustained by the Inhabitants of Westmoreland from the -3d day of July, 1778, to May, 1780, taken and carefully examined by the -Selectmen of sd Town pursuant to a Resolve of the Assembly of the state -of Connecticut holden at Hartford the second Thursday of May, 1780. - -And is as followeth: - L s. - - Sam'l Andross, 26 15 - Isaac Adams, 103 14 - Richardson Avery, 155 00 - Alice Abbot, 173 6 - Prince Alden, 83 17 - Mason F. Alden, 5 13 - Noah Adams, 83 5 - Cornelius Atherton, 103 0 - Samuel Ayers, 100 10 - James Atherton, 120 0 - Richardson Avery, Jr., 137 13 - Eber Adros, 120 9 - Col. Zebulon Butler, 429 4 - Zerah Beach, 67 13 - Ishmael Bennet, 96 17 - Isaac Bennet, 61 7 - Asa Bennet, 199 12 - Henry Burney, 71 15 - Moses Brown, 13 8 - Andrew Blanchard, 49 15 - John Blanchard, 23 8 - Joseph Blanchard, 54 9 - Margaret Blanchard, 79 2 - Lucretia Buck, 90 14 - James Benedict, 228 13 - Jeremiah Blanchard, 215 14 - Benjamin Bailey, 134 17 - Asahel Burnham, 35 6 - Isaac Benjamin, 9 0 - Thomas Brown, 61 0 - Thomas Bennet, 507 0 - James Brown, 165 4 - Capt. James Bidlack, 65 19 - Sarah Brockway, 205 7 - Joseph Baker, 124 13 - Elisha Blackman, 137 1 - Elizabeth Benedict, 144 13 - Bertha Bixby, 36 13 - James Bagley, 95 15 - Mary Bixby, 74 8 - Capt. Caleb Bates, 285 4 - Wm. Buck, 245 5 - Elijah Buck, 103 18 - Abigail Bidlack, 63 10 - David Brown, 28 16 - Richard Brockway, 163 17 - Mehitable Bigford, 202 1 - Uriah Chapman, Esq., 58 10 - Samuel Cummings, 151 5 - John Cray, 93 10 - Wm. Churchill, 178 10 - Anne Campbell, 100 5 - Nathan Cary, 160 4 - Benjamin Cole, Jr., 165 0 - James Cole, 207 3 - Peleg Comstock, 40 13 - Mary Crooker, 51 1 - John Comstock, 219 7 - Jonathan Cory, 173 11 - Jinks Cory, 83 0 - Thos McCluer, 66 4 - Barnabas Cary, 88 17 - Samuel Cole, 89 6 - Preserved Cooley, 95 19 - Col. Nathan Denison, 209 15 - Samuel Downer, 22 19 - Daniel Downing, 107 0 - David Darling, 13 0 - Sarah Durkee, 240 18 - Amos Draper, 68 18 - Samuel Dart, 124 4 - Anderson Dana, Esq., 194 15 - Frederick Eveland, 90 6 - Samuel Ensign, 38 10 - Joseph Elliott, 33 17 - Henry Elliott, 44 14 - Benjamin Eaton, 369 10 - Nathaniel Evans, 61 19 - Capt. Stephen Fuller, 288 4 - Roswell Franklin, 104 0 - Charles Forsythe, 15 3 - Capt. John Franklin, 21 4 - Benj. Follet, 118 17 - Jabez Fish, 223 0 - John Ferre, Jr., 61 11 - Hugh Foresman, 193 11 - Sarah Fuller, 101 13 - Esther Follet, 221 7 - James Finn, 221 11 - Richard Fitz Jarold, 245 2 - Elizabeth Follet, 212 3 - Jonathan Forsythe, 138 16 - Jonathan Fitch, 46 10 - Capt. Eliab. Farnham, 27 11 - Joanna Fish, 30 17 - Major John Garret, 309 11 - Hannah Gore, - John Garret, Jr., 59 16 - Daniel Gore, 273 13 - Cornelius Gale, 7 14 - William Gallop, 200 0 - Solomon Goss, 31 11 - Justin Gaylord, 134 14 - Keziah Gore, 89 0 - Obadiah Gore, Esq., 306 1 - Elisha Garret, 29 0 - Catherine Gaylord, 158 4 - Joseph Gaylord, 69 6 - Stephen Gardner, 176 18 - Nathaniel Gates, 66 14 - James Gardner, 180 0 - Elizabeth Gore, 240 0 - Wait Garret, 108 6 - Bezaleel Gurney, 59 6 - John Hurlburt, Esq., 85 7 - Peter Harris, 149 16 - Richard Hoisted, 177 6 - Lebbeus Hammond, 84 18 - Joseph Hagaman, 19 0 - Henry Harding, 55 12 - Matthew Hollenback, 671 3 - Dr. Joseph Hamilton, 284 17 - James Hopkins, 90 6 - Capt. Robt. Hopkins, 28 18 - Samuel Huchinson, 163 9 - Simon Hide, 117 17 - Widow Hasen and son, 182 10 - Samuel Howard, 27 15 - Mary Howard, 50 1 - Benjamin Hervy, 186 0 - Mary Hatch, 12 7 - John Hutchins, 57 1 - Capt. Stephen Harding, 181 19 - Stukely Harding, 73 6 - James Headsall, 210 0 - Thos. Heath, 190 0 - Cyprian Hybert, 119 13 - Daniel Ingersol, 208 2 - Sarah Inman, 161 10 - Richard Inman, 41 17 - Edward Inman, 84 6 - Rev. Jacob Johnson, 459 1 - John Jenneson, 88 11 - Crocker Jones, 9 0 - Wm. Jacobson, 106 1 - Robert Jamison, 183 16 - Capt. Wm. Judd, 19 2 - John Jenkins, Esq., 598 1 - Josiah Kellogg, 146 12 - Michael Kelly, 21 11 - Benj. Kilburn, 92 16 - Hanna Keys, 178 14 - Alexander M. Kay, 277 4 - Sarah Lee, 236 6 - Thomas Levenworth, 122 11 - Sarah Leonard, 75 0 - Rufus Lawrence, 189 11 - Daniel Lawrence, 37 0 - George Liquors, 136 18 - Abigail Leech, 82 0 - Joseph Leonard, 79 19 - John Lashley, 53 2 - David Lindsey, 78 7 - Edward Lester, 109 11 - Samuel Morgan, 153 8 - John Murphy, 86 3 - Benj. Murry, 78 2 - Ebenezer Murry, 118 12 - Uzania Manvill, 46 17 - Thomas Neil, 4 0 - James Nesbit, 74 19 - Phinehas Nash, 70 0 - John O'Neil, 18 2 - David Owen, 24 0 - Amos Ormsby, 7 1 - Anning Owen, 174 12 - Josiah Pell, 73 10 - Lucy Pettibone, 79 9 - Hannah Parish, 44 12 - Thomas Picket, 111 11 - Hannah Pierce, 151 6 - Thos. Picket, Jr., 66 0 - Ichabod Phelps, 93 2 - Thos. Porter, 200 0 - Josiah Parks, 49 19 - Noah Pettibone, 216 1 - Jonathan Pritchard, 30 15 - Jonathan Parker, 54 12 - Silas Parks, Esq., 91 10 - Elijah Phelps, 550 10 - Sarah Pixley, 26 19 - John Ryon 18 3 - Wm. Ross, 326 0 - John Ross, 65 17 - Susannah Reynolds, 28 10 - Peran Ross, 233 9 - Abigail Richards, 135 3 - David Reynolds, 94 2 - Capt. Samuel Ransom, 259 0 - Capt. Daniel Rosencrans, 175 10 - James Roberts, 83 18 - Jonah Rogers, 168 17 - Amasa Roberts, 92 10 - Timothy Rose, 118 11 - Caleb Spencer, 182 17 - Margaret Smith, 155 10 - James Stark, 547 15 - Lazarus Stuart, Jr., 172 12 - Isaac Smith, 67 10 - Joseph Staples, 223 0 - Esther Spencer, 135 0 - David Sanford, 193 12 - Elizabeth St. John, 162 0 - Elisha Scovil, 712 4 - Jonathan Scovil, 72 0 - Ebenezer Skinner, 89 4 - Wm. Shay, 114 15 - Josiah Smith, 83 19 - Obadiah Scott, 72 15 - Jedediah Stevens, 285 0 - Joshua Stevens, 119 11 - Zacharias Squire, 66 16 - James Sutton, 176 17 - David Shoemaker, 50 0 - Daniel Sherwood, 40 4 - Edward Spencer, Jr., 85 7 - Thomas Stoddard, 200 8 - David Smith, 202 15 - Jane Shoemaker, 329 12 - Benj. Skiff, 98 7 - Wm. Hooker Smith, 168 7 - Wm. Stuart, 57 17 - Giles Slocum, 205 19 - Asa Stevens, 185 11 - John Scott, 217 3 - James Staples, 80 19 - Martha Stuart, 481 12 - Jabez Sill, 351 19 - John Staples, 224 12 - John Stafford, 36 6 - Josiah Stanberry, 603 14 - Luke Sweatland, 200 0 - Joseph Thomas, 120 18 - Mary Thomas, 25 0 - Ephraim Tyler, 14 10 - Parshall Terry, 216 12 - Mary Thompson, 30 10 - Job Tripp, 113 1 - Isaac Tripp, 74 10 - Lebbeus Tubbs, 130 3 - John Taylor, 61 14 - Preserved Taylor, 18 2 - Mehitable Truks, 159 4 - Moses Thomas, 68 3 - Bezaleel Tyler, 35 17 - Elizabeth Tuttle, 67 10 - James Towser, 36 0 - Isaac Van Orman, 122 0 - John Van Titbury, 84 3 - Rev. Noah Wadhams, 193 6 - Amy Wilcox, 116 12 - Elizabeth Wilcox, 87 15 - Enos Woddard, 30 19 - Enos Woddard, Jr., 16 7 - Eleazer West, 53 10 - Nathaniel Williams, 30 0 - Abigail Weeks, 129 16 - Mary Walker, 42 5 - Eunice Whiton, 26 7 - Daniel Willing, 44 17 - Thomas Wigton, 175 6 - Isabel Wigton, 130 1 - Wm. Warner, 68 16 - Wm. Williams, 148 18 - Jonathan Weeks, 239 11 - Flavius Waterman, 90 0 - Elihu Williams, 197 10 - Richard West, 65 17 - Amy Williams, 130 0 - Daniel Whitney, 363 14 - Abraham Westbrook, 380 2 - James Wells, 92 12 - Lucretia York, 221 13 - Jemima Yale, 130 3 - Jacob Zaratt, 42 11 - - Total amount, L38,308 13 - -The foregoing Bill was carefully examined in each single account and -estimated in lawful money equal to money in 1774. - - Westmoreland, Oct. 2, 1781. - -In the Lower House, Ordered that this Report be Lodged on file in the -Secretary's Office. - - Teste--Jed'h Strong, Clerk. - -Concur'd in the Upper House. - - Teste--George Wyllys, Sect'y. - -[Illustration] - - -APPENDIX C. - - Copies of Documents Relative to the Expedition Against Wyoming, in - 1778, Now in His Majesty's State Paper Office, London, in a Volume - Entitled, "Military, 1778.--No. 122." - - -I. - - Copy of Articles of Capitulation, for Wintermoot's Fort, July 1, 1778. - -Art. 1st. That Lieut. Elisha Scovell surrender the Fort, with the -Stores, arms and ammunition, that are in said fort, as well public as -private, to Major John Butler. - -2d. That the garrison shall not bear arms during the present contest; -and Major Butler promises that the men, women and children shall not be -hurt, either by Indians or Rangers. - - -II. - - Fort Jenkins Fort, July 1st, 1778. - - Between Major John Butler, on behalf of His Majesty King George the - Third, and John Jenkins. - -Art. 1st. That the Fort with all the stores, arms and ammunition, be -delivered up immediately. - -2d. That Major John Butler shall preserve to them, intire, the lives of -the men, women and children. - - -III. - - Articles of Capitulation for three Forts at Lackuwanack, 4th July, - 1778. - -Art. 1st. That the different Commanders of the said Forts, do -immediately deliver them up, with all the arms, ammunition and stores -in the said forts. - -2d. Major Butler promises that the lives of the men, women and children -shall be preserved intire. - - -IV. - - Westmoreland, July 4th, 1778. - - Capitulation made and completed between Major John Butler, on behalf - of His Majesty King George the Third, and Col. Nathan Denniston, of - the United States of America. - -Art. 1. That the inhabitants of the settlement lay down their arms, and -the garrisons be demolished. - -2d. That the inhabitants are to occupy their farms peaceably, and the -lives of the inhabitants preserved intire and unhurt. - -3d. That the Continental Stores be delivered up. - -4th. That Major Butler will use his utmost influence that the private -property of the inhabitants shall be preserved intire to them. - -5th. That the prisoners in Forty Fort, be delivered up, and that Samuel -Finch, now in Major Butler's possession, be delivered up also. - -6th. That the property taken from the people called Tories, up the -river, be made good; and they to remain in peaceable possession of -their farms, unmolested in a free trade, in and throughout this State, -as far as lies in my power. - -7th. That the inhabitants, that Colonel Denniston now capitulates for, -together with himself, do not take up arms during the present contest. - - [Signed] - - Nathan Denniston. - John Butler. - - Zarah Beech, - John Johnson, - Samuel Gustin, - Wm. Caldwell. - - - - -BIBLIOGRAPHY. - - -Below will be found a list of the books, pamphlets, and manuscripts -consulted in the preparation of this address. By means of an -alphabetical arrangement, usually as to author's names, an authority -cited in the text may here be found with the title of the work, and the -date, and place of publication. - - Chapman, Isaac A.--A sketch of the History of Wyoming. Wilkes-Barre. - 1830. - - Conover, George S.--Sayenqueraghta, King of the Senecas. 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D.--A History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, - Civil, Political and Military, from its earliest settlement to the - present time. Harrisburg. 1876. - - Hubbard, John N., A. B.--Sketches of Border Adventures in the Life - and Times of Major Moses VanCampen, a Surviving Soldier of the - Revolution. By his Grandson. Bath, N. Y. 1842. - - Hayden, Rev. Horace Edwin, M. A.--Major John Garret, slain July 3, - 1778. A Forgotten Hero of the Massacre of Wyoming, Pa. Wilkes-Barre, - Pa. 1895. - - Hayden, Rev. Horace Edwin, M. A.--The Massacre of Wyoming. - Wilkes-Barre. 1895. - - Hollister, Horace.--History of the Lackawana Valley, Fifth Edition. - Philadelphia. 1885. - - Hoyt, Henry M.--A Brief of the Title in the Seventeen Townships - in the County of Luzerne: A Syllabus of the Controversy between - Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Harrisburg. 1879. - - Hinman, Royal R.--A Historical Collection from Official Records, - Files, etc., of the part sustained by Connecticut during the War of - the Revolution. Hartford. 1842. - - Harvey, Oscar Jewell.--The Harvey Book, giving genealogies of Harvey, - Nesbitt, Dixon and Jamison Families. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 1899. - - Jenkins, Steuben.--Historical Address at the Wyoming Monument July 3, - 1878, on the 100th Anniversary of the Battle and Massacre of Wyoming. - Wilkes-Barre. 1878. - - Jenkins, Steuben.--Wyoming, Connecticut, Pennsylvania. Historical - Register. Vol. II. Harrisburg. 1884. - - Johnson, Frederick C., M. D.-The Pioneer Women of Wyoming. An Address - before the Wyoming Valley Chapter D. A. R. Wilkes-Barre. 1901. - - Meginness, John F.--Biography of Frances Slocum, the lost Sister of - Wyoming. A complete Narrative of her wanderings among the Indians. - Williamsport, Pa. 1891. - - Miner, Charles.--History of Wyoming in a Series of Letters. - Philadelphia. 1845. - - Military Expedition of General John Sullivan, Journals of. Auburn. - 1887. - - Peck, George, D. D.--Wyoming; its History, Stirring Incidents and - Romantic Adventures. New York. 1858. - - Pearce, Stewart.--Annals of Luzerne County. Second Edition. - Philadelphia. 1866. - - Pennsylvania--Minutes of the Provincial Council of.--From the - organization to the termination of the Proprietary Government. Vols. - IX to XI. Harrisburg. 1853. - - Pennsylvania--Minutes of the Supreme Executive Council of.--From its - organization to the termination of the Revolution. Vols. XI to XVI. - Harrisburg. 1853. - - Pennsylvania Archives.--Selected and arranged from Original Documents - in the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth. First Series. - Vols. IV. to XII. Harrisburg. 1855-8. Second Series. Vol. XVIII. - Harrisburg. 1897. Fourth Series. Vols. III. and IV. Harrisburg. 1900. - - Perkins, Mrs. George A.--Early Times on the Susquehanna. Binghamton. - 1870. - - Plumb, Henry Blackman.--History of Hanover Township and Wyoming - Valley, Luzerne County, Pa. Wilkes-Barre, Pa. 1885. - - - Reynolds, Sheldon, M. A.--The Frontier Forts within the Wyoming - Valley, Pa. Wilkes-Barre. 1896. Also in Frontier Forts of Pa. Vol. I, - pp. 419-466. Harrisburg. 1896. - - Stone, William L.--The Poetry and History of Wyoming. New York and - London. 1841. - - Stone, William L.--Life of Joseph Brant--Thayendanegea, including the - Indian Wars of the American Revolution. Vol. I. Cooperstown, N. Y. - 1844. - - United States.--Journals of Congress. Containing their Proceedings - from Sept. 5, 1774, to November 3, 1788. 13 volumes. Philadelphia. - 1800-1. - - Wright, Hendrick B.--Historical Sketches of Plymouth, Luzerne County, - Pa. Philadelphia. 1873. - - Wyoming Valley--The Historical Record of. A periodical publication. - Dr. F. C. Johnson, Editor. 9 volumes. Wilkes-Barre. 1886-1901. - - Wyoming Historical and Geological Society--Proceedings and - Collections. Vols. 1-7. Wilkes-Barre. 1858-1902. - - Wyoming Commemorative Association--Proceedings. 12 volumes. - Wilkes-Barre. 1878-1902. - - -MANUSCRIPTS. - -The subjoined list embraces material not in printed form: - - Craft, Rev. David.--Collection of MSS. deposited by him in the Rooms - of the Tioga Point Historical Society, Athens, Pa. - - Connecticut State Library.--Manuscript Pay and Muster Rolls of - Soldiers in the French and Indian War, 1754-1763. Hartford, Conn. - - Appendix "B" is Document No. 147 in a manuscript volume entitled - "Susquehanna Settlers," Vol. I. - - Jenkins, Hon. Steuben.--Documents, Letters, Surveys, Account Books, - Agreements, Diaries, etc. etc. Wyoming, Pa. Examined in lifetime of - late owner. - - Tioga Point Historical Society.--Pay Roll of Capt. John Franklin's - Company, dated May, 1780. Athens, Pa. - -[Illustration] - - -FOOTNOTES: - -[Footnote 1: Westmoreland Records as per Hollister 5th ed. p. 139.] - -[Footnote 2: Westmoreland Records as per Hollister 5th ed. p. 140.] - -[Footnote 3: Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XIV p. ----.] - -[Footnote 4: Miner p. 157.] - -[Footnote 5: Miner p. 158.] - -[Footnote 6: Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XV p. 12.] - -[Footnote 7: Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XV p. 43.] - -[Footnote 8: Manuscript Pay Rolls Conn. State Library.] - -[Footnote 9: Miner p. 154.] - -[Footnote 10: Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XV p. 152 et seq.] - -[Footnote 11: Manuscript Pay and Muster Rolls Conn. State Lib.] - -[Footnote 12: Hinman's Connecticut in the War of the Revolution, (1842) -p. 10.] - -[Footnote 13: Mason F. Alden is employed to perform a responsible -duty and is called Ensign. However, his name does not appear among -the Ensigns of the Twenty-fourth regiment, at that time but recently -elected. Perhaps it was a courtesy title derived from some previous -service.] - -[Footnote 14: Lazarus Stewart was also employed to perform a -responsible duty and is called Captain. He served during the French -and Indian War; was in Braddock's defeat; was Captain of the "Paxtang -Boys," but was not at this time a Captain in the Twenty-fourth -regiment. He was a cousin of Lazarus Stewart, Jr., a Lieutenant in the -Hanover company.] - -[Footnote 15: Miner, p. 172 et seq.; The Harvey Book, p. 628 et seq.] - -[Footnote 16: Miner, p. 189.] - -[Footnote 17: Westmoreland Records as per Jenkins' Address p. 11.] - -[Footnote 18: Miner p. 212.] - -[Footnote 19: Colonial Records of Conn. Vol. XV p. 470.] - -[Footnote 20: Miner p. 187.] - -[Footnote 21: Journals of Continental Congress Vol. III p. 104.] - -[Footnote 22: Journals of Continental Congress Vol. II p. 307.] - -[Footnote 23: Frontier Forts of Pa. Vol. I p. 434.] - -[Footnote 24: Records of the State of Conn. Vol. I p. 31.] - -[Footnote 25: Records of the State of Conn. Vol. I p. 91 et seq.] - -[Footnote 26: Miner p. 200.] - -[Footnote 27: Names of fifteen of these Tories are given in Records of -State of Conn. Vol. I p. 539.] - -[Footnote 28: Records State of Conn. Vol. II p. 58.] - -[Footnote 29: Journals of Continental Congress Vol. IV p. 113.] - -[Footnote 30: See Appendix A.] - -[Footnote 31: Records of the State of Conn. Vol. I, pp. 264, 430.] - -[Footnote 32: Records of the State of Conn. Vol. I, pp. 270, 422; Vol. -II, p. 30.] - -[Footnote 33: Manuscript Pay and Muster Rolls Conn. State Lib.] - -[Footnote 34: Miner, p. 215.] - -[Footnote 35: Miner, p. 216.] - -[Footnote 36: Miner, p. 218.] - -[Footnote 37: For Articles of Capitulation see Miner p. 255, and -Appendix C.] - -[Footnote 38: Hollister 5th ed., p. 163, 194.] - -[Footnote 39: Miner p. 470.] - -[Footnote 40: Address of Hon. Steuben Jenkins, p. 38.] - -[Footnote 41: The Wyoming Massacre, by Horace Edwin Hayden, (1895) p. -xviii et seq.] - -[Footnote 42: Articles of Capitulation given by Miner p. 255.] - -[Footnote 43: Articles of Capitulation given by Miner p. 255.] - -[Footnote 44: Col. John Franklin and the Wild Yankees, by Rev. David -Craft, p. 7.] - -[Footnote 45: Miner p. 232.] - -[Footnote 46: See Appendix B.] - -[Footnote 47: See Appendix C.] - -[Footnote 48: Orderly Book of Col. Z. Butler in Proc. Wyo. Hist. 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