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PAGE SIX
THE DALLAS POST,
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1938
EXCERPTS FROM
~ THE HISTORY
OF LUZERNE COUNTY
By H. C. BRADSBY
(Readers will enjoy Mir. Bradsby’s quaint,
paranthetical remarks more if they keep in
mind that he was writing this history of
Luzerne County forty-five years ago, and
refers to conditions as he knew them, mot
as they are in 1938.) —EDITOR
(Continued From Last Week)
When the fight occured Captain Spalding was
only forty miles away and hurrying to Forty Fort
as fast as possible. With his and Franklin's men—
thirty-five, who reached the fort during the fight—
the invading army could have been successfully re-
pulsed, and, standing on the defensive in various
chosen localities, in time the British and Indians
as an army destroyed in all probability. Captains
Durkee and Bidlack had ridden all night and were
at the fort in time to go into the battle, where both
died. Hence the patriots knew just where Spalding
and his men were at the moment they so rashly
marched out to engage the enemy.
One of the theories that is read between the lines
of this chapter of history is something like this: A
number of families that had come to be known as
anti-Yankee in sentiment had settled in the upper
end of the Valley. They had been driven out,
some ordered to go, and others persecuted until they
felt compelled to leave. These had taken refuge in
the northern part of New York and were eager
to return to the Valley and even up old scores. And
it is said that they suggested the expedition and
some of these were in Colonel John Butler's com-
mand, and that some of the darkest of the colors in
the sad picture were the results of their presence.
Col. Zebulon Butler, as soon as possible, wrote
General Washington an account of the bloody day,
and solicited succor, in order that, if possible a por-
tion of the harvest standing in the fields might be
saved. |
Joining Captain Spalding early in August, he re- |
turned to Wyoming. A new stockade was built in
Wilkes-Barre and put in the best possible defense.
A number of settlers were now encouraged to re-
turn, among others John Abbott, who had been mn |
the battle, and Isaac Williams, a young man. In!
attempting to harvest their wheat on Jacob’s plains,
they were waylaid, and both shot and scalped. The
widow of Mr. Abbott, who had fled to Catawissa,
with nine children (their house and barn having
been burned, and all their property destroyed), set
out on foot, a journey of nearly 300 miles, and
begged their way to Hampton, Conn.
About this time three Indians took prisoners on
the Lackawanna, Isaac Tripp, the elder; Isaac Tripp,
his grandson, and two other young men, by the
names of Keys and Hocksey. The old gentleman
they painted and dismissed, but hurried the others
into” the forest (now Abington), above Leggett’s
Gap, on the Warriors’ path to Oquago. Resting
one night, they rose next morning and traveled
about two miles, when they stopped at a little
stream of water.
The two young Indians then took Keys and
Hocksey some distance from the path, and were
absent half an hour, the old Indian looking anxious
ly the way they had gone. Presently, the death-
whoop was heard, and the Indians returned, brand-
ishing bloody tomahawks, and exhibiting the scalps
of their victims. Tripp's hat was taken from his
head, and his scalp examined twice, the savages
speaking earnestly, when at length they told him to
fear nothing, he should not be hurt, and carried
him off as a prisoner. Luke Swetland and Joseph ;
Blanchard were taken prisoners near Nanticoke on !
August 24, and carried away captives to the Indian
country.
A garrison of about 100 men was in the Wilkes-
Barre stockade—Captains Garrison's and Spalding’s
companies; these were the militia of Westmoreland
town. Armed parties labored in the fields and on
the hills around were placed sentinels. Late in the
fall Isaac Inman was murdered in Hanover. He
supposed he had heard wild turkeys and went out
to kill one. His scalped body laid under the snow
and was not discovered until spring.
On October 2 four of Captain Morrison's men
were attacked on the west side of the river, three of
whom were killed, and one escaped. October 14
William Jameson, returning home from Wilkes- |
Barre, was shot near where the canal crossed the |
road below Careytown. Being wounded, he fell
from the horse and attempted to gain the woods,
but he was pursued, tomahawked and scalped. A!
valuable young man in the prime of life, being
twenty-six years of age. He had been in the battle
and escaped, and his scalp was therefore doubly
precious to the savages.
November 7 John Perkins was killed in Plymouth,
a victim also most gratifying to the revengeful sav-
age, as Mr. Perkins had a son in Spalding’s inde-
pendent company. William Jackson and Mr. Lester,
taken from the mill at Nanticoke, were marched
three miles up into Hanover, and then shot down.
An aged man, spoken of as “old Mr. Hageman”, a
prisoner, escaped with six wounds, and survived.
November 9 Captain Carr and Phillip Goss, in at-
tempting to flee in a canoe, were shot below Wap-
wallopen and left, the latter dead, the other dying
on the shore. Robert Alexander and Amos Parker
were, about the same time, found murdered in the
lower part of the valley.
A whole family was brutally massacred Novem-
ber 19, near Nescopeck—John, Elisha and Diah
Utley, the first two shot down. Diah fled and
swam the river, but as he came to the opposite shore
was brained by an Indian. The savages then en
tered the house, murdered and scalped the aged
mother, and in savage glee placed her body mock-
ingly in a chair.
(To Be Continued)
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