DALLAS POST, DALLAS, PA
FRIDAY, JANUARY 2. 1931
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: In The
Wyoming Valley
(Continued from page 2)
~~ there gave them decent purial. The
~ force then marched back to Forty Fort
~ and though they were nqt molested on
the way and no further signs of Indi-
anse were discovered, their return and
the story of the sad duty they had
performed for their unfortunate friends
served to increase the gloom which al-
ready rested over the people who had
fled for refuge to the fort,
But though Colonel Zebulon Butler
had seen no signs of the enemy on his
return march to Forty Fort it was not
"because the enemy were not near. Not
5 long after the men had returned, the
great host entered the head of the val-
Jey. Colonel John Butler (no relative
of Colonel Zebulon Butler, though he
too had originally come from Connec-
gan to prepare to resist, and his sturdy
wife, having no gun, seized a pitchfork
and declared that, thus armed she
could stand by her husband's side and
fight to the end. But the sturdy patri-
ots were at once given to understand
by the other inmates of the fort that
no resistance was to be made, for the
Tories now boldly declared that they
had erected the fort for the very pur-
pose of turning it over to John Butler |
when he should come. So, although
the Westmoreland men had seized and
arrested many of the Tories and had
sent them as prisoners to Hartford, it
seems that a few had been overlooked,
and now were to appear in their true
light as foes of the patriots.
over to Colonel John Butler and sturdy
Daniel Ingersoll was held as a Dpris-
oner.
. pitiable. No
The fort was accordingly turned:
The very same evening a detach-
/
ment of the British was sent to seize
little Fort Jenkins.
feeble little garrison held out, but as
there were only seventeen men there
and most of these men were old and
feeble,
For a time the
Jenkins, too, was in the hands of the|
enemy.
The news of the fall éf these two
forts, as well as of the coming of the
host, whose numbers were even great-
ly exaggerted by the terrified people,
caused even those who had ridiculed
the idea of an attack on the valley to
flee for safety to the forts. Forty Fort
was soon overcrowded and the ‘condi-
tion of th peoeple within its walls was
one knew just what to
expect or when the advance of the in-
vaders would be made. Already they
held the entrance to the valley and it
was only a matter of time, perhaps a
few ‘hours, when they would appear
Indian
it was not long before Fort:
before the rude walls
Fort.
On the following morning the guard
reported that two white men and an
could be
bearing a white flag with them.
sden approaching,
When
the men were received it was at once
perceived that one of them was Daniel
Ingersoll, the man who had been mad=
prisoner by the redcoats when Fort
Wintermoot was seized.
In the interview that followed Inger-
soll was not permitted by the two men
who were with him to be alone with
his friends for even a moment, nor
was he allowed to speak a word ex-
cept in their hearing. His sad face,
however, bore witness to the plight in
which he knew himself to be and his
very presence perhaps impressed his
hearers more than any words might
have done.
of old“ Forty
A demand was made that Forty Fort
should be surrendered at once and 50
all bloodshed should be spared.’ This
demand was firmly refused and then
the three men withdrew to report their
failure to their commander.
After their
ment in the fort increased. The pres-
ence of the prisoner, as well as of tha
soldier and the Indian, and the bold
and confident manner in which they
had presented Colonel John Butler's
demand, had not been without making
a deep impression upon the minds of
those who had received them. Still,
there was no thought of yielding or of
giving up the post, and preparations
for the defense were steadily continu-
ed. -
Friday morning (July 3, 1778) Dan-
departure the excite-
iel Ingersoll was again sent to Forty
Fort accompanied as he had been on
his visit three days before by a while
man and Indian as guards.
mand for the surrender of the fort was
repeated. Indeed, all the little forts
in the valley were now demanded and
that their occupants and defenders
savages.
Well aware that the men with In-
gersoll were spies as well as guards,
and that the bearing of the defenders
of the fort as well as the means of de-
fense would be reported, a bold refusal
was again made to the demand for sur-
render. But when the men were gone,
knowing that the critical moment had
| come, Colonel Zebulon Butler called a
council of his fellows to consider what
should be done, for the time for words
and conferences was past and the time
for the conflict was at hand.
(To be continued next week)
1s Ein
Again Re: i
was carefully watched while the de-
should be turned over to the tender
mercies of the invading Tories ang.
: CRANES SILKS,.
-ticut) was in command of the white
. men, who for the most part were the
~ Tories known as Johnson’s Greens, 3 Ir
and was also in general command of
~ the entire expedition.” With him and
his men were many of the warriors
from the Senecas ,and also some from
the Mohawks and a few ‘other tribes.
In command of them was the chief
- who was known as Old King, or Say- L
enguaraghton, as he was called in the
Indian tongue, as savage a warrior as
ever the most savage of people had
produced.
At Fort Wintermoot the host, which
numbered altogether more than a
thousand men, stopped and demanded
¢ the surrender of the place. When word
of their coming had been received. Dan-
iel Ingersoll, one of the patriots who
chanced to be in the fort, at once be-
~Maple Grove-
“Dora C. Davenport, Correspondent
Mr. and Mrs. Corey Moyer and
family were visitors at Plymouth ‘Sun
day. ;
George Stroud has been entertaining
his daughter from Philadelphia.
M. Donald Williams, a school direc~
tor of Lake township, visited Laketon
schools Monday.
Mrs. L. N. Lewis visited Mrs. Dora
‘Wesley one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. LaBarr enter-
tained last Friday evening Mrs. David
‘Williams and son, Grawdon, and M. D.
‘Williams, all of Manchester, N. Y.
E. N. Wolfe was .a. caller at Noxen
last Saturday.
Arline Mott, of Forty Fort, visited
her parents over Sunday.
= Hilda Ruggles entertained Margaret
Caswell, of Rummerfield, over the
week-end.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer N. Wolfe en-
tertained friends on Saturday and
. Sunday.
Sunday school next Sunday at 10]
and preaching at 11 o'clock.
Rev. C. B. Henry was called to En-
dicott, N. Y., last week to attend the
funeral of his counsin.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold E. Wagner and
son Keith, of Hunlock Creek, were
visitors here Sunday.
Dana Lord has been on the sick list.
£ Mr. and Mrs. . A. Ballantine and
Z. daughter, Jean, were callers at T. E.
Ruggles’ Sunday evening. ;
Mrs. Laura Wesley and family were
Benton visitors Sunday.
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