Identifier: pittstongazettec00gaze (find matches)
Title: Pittston gazette centennial hand-book, 1778-1878 : one hundredth anniversary of the battle and massacre of Wyoming, July 3 & 4, 1878 : containing a complete historical sketch of Wyoming Valley ..
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Gazette Print. (Firm : Pittston, Pa.) D. Davidsburg (Firm : Wilkes-Barre, Pa.)
Subjects: Wyoming Massacre, 1778
Publisher: Pittston, Pa. : Gazette Print.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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all the pomp and cir-cumstance of glorious war, early in December, 177.5, bound up the river for the conquest ofYankeedom. Arrived at the lower end of the Vallej, and advancing through Nanticoke Gap, the forcewas confronted by a rude breastwork erected at the point now represented by the inlet lock ofthe canal on the west side of the river. Here the Cotinecticut men were securely intrenched,and poured an effective tire upon the invaders. The latter were thrown into the utmost confu-sion, and hastily crossed the river with their boat. Here they were ambushed, and againrouted by another Yankee squad. Plunkett threw himself prostrate in the boat to avoid agalling fire, and, ordering a retreat, the whole force retired from the fitld, leaving it to thevictors. Thus ended the last attempt of Colonial Pennsylvania to possess herself of Wyoming.These desultory warfares were now to be interrui)ted for a time by a struggle of a more ex-tended and eventful character. EARLY HISTORY OF WYOMING. 23
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WYOMING BATTLE-GROUND. 24 EARLY HISTORY OF WYOMING. The following year (1776) commenced a new era in the history of the American colonies,A census was taken, and the Westmoreland settlements were found to contain five thousand!souls. Their militia amounted to 1100 men capable of bearing arms, and three companies were-enlisted at Wyoming for service in the army of the colonies. Regular garrison duty was per-formed in the seVeral fortifications and a patrol was on duty night and day through the Valley.Early in the spring ot 1778 a force of about eight hundred men, composed of British regulars,Torips and Indians, under command of Colonel John Butler, assembled at Niagara and marchedfor the destruction of Wyoming. The Indians numbered four hundred, and were commandedby Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea),a warlike chief of mixed blood. (The authors statementhere is disputed. The late Eleazer Carey has often assured his step-son (C. I. A. C.) thatBrant was not at Wyoming, asserting that, while in

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