The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1837-11-25
LUMBrA COUNTY, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1897
Number 81.


for words cannot point the unequalled mis-
cry of their situation. In the simplicity of
truth we will state two instances, those of
the Chairman and Secretary of this NEE
ting.
Perrin and jeremiah Ross, brothers of
the Chairman, were in the battle, and both
fell Mr. Ross, then lad, his father be-
ing dead, was the only male of the family
remaining. His mother, six sisters, the wi
dow of his brother Perrin and her five Or
phan children, fed,-such was the terror
and confusion, not together, but in three
separate parties; two down the river to
Harrisburg, aud thence to Orange Co.,
New York-two to Nescopeck, and thence
to Fort Allen-the rest by more eastern
route.
The father of Mr., Dana had then recent
y returned from Hartford, where he had
been member Of the Assembly of Con,
necticut, from the town of Westmoreland.
He was in the battle; and Mr.. Whiting,
young man who had a few months before
married his daughter, was also in the bat
tie. Both were slain. Anderson Dana,
our Secretary, then lad of l3, widowed
mother and widowed sister, (the latter in
delicate healthy with thirteen others, of
whom he was the eldest male--having one
pack horse to carry the few things they
could hastily gather, set ont through the
wilderness on foot to join their friends three
hundred miles distant, in Ashford, Connec-
ticut, from whenc they originally came.
Death and desolation were behind them;
before them, hunger and despair. They
were twenty days on their journey, living
chiefly on charity. Several women of diff
lerent parties of fugitives, gave birth 10
children on the way, who were indeed,
"Children ofmisery baptized in tears"
| In the Valley, the demon of destruction
completed his work: Scarcely an inhabi-
tant remained. Every house was rifed
and burnt. The sweep was universal
driven away and the harvests laid waste.
War and woe never looked upon a scene Of
such utter sorrow and desolation.
GENTLEMEN-Is it not plain, that these
disasters and suferings, befel the inhabi-
tants from their exertions in the cause of
their country? Is it not manifest, that the
Withdrawing the two companies raised for
the defence of the people, occas sioned the
attack, massacre, and ruin that followed?--
And is it not right, just now when the
public Treasury is full, and all the other
equitable Revolutionary claims have been.
recognized by Congress, that something
should be granted to the old Wyoming
sufferers, and their. heirs! Why should
all receive bounty or justice, and we, ten
fold sufferers, obtain nothing! In honor
of the dead, as well as justice to the hving,l
we ask it at your hands. Noble Virginia
granted Col. George Rogers Clarke and
his regiment, who marched with HIM to
Kaskaskia. and ST. Vincent, one hundred
and fifty thousand acres of land on the Obi
o. Should not Wyoming receive as much!
The portion of New London must have
exceeded one hundred and fifty thousand:
Ought not Wyoming receive as much!-
Having no other resting place, the sur
vivors were obliged to return, desolate and
melancholy as were their homes.-the bat
tie ground was still strewn with the unburi-
ed slain; and their remains, as soon as they
could be approached in that sultry season,
were gathered and inferred with affection
ate and pious care.
After their return, the savages kept war
parties around the settlements, and many
were murdered. Jonathan Slocum and his
wife's father, Isaac Trip, Esq. who
had been a representative to the Connec-
ticut Assembly from Westmoreland, were
butchored and scalped together, near the
Wilkesbarre fort; and shortly before, anoth-
er party of savages murdered two children
near the door of Mrs. Slocum, and took
captive, Frances, her daughter, aged then
about five years. After the war diligent
search through all the Indian country 10
Detroit, was made by her brothers, for
their lost sister, but in vain. After all hope
was extnguished, recently within the pre-
sent year, the sister, now nearly seventy
years of age, has been found. Not able to
speak word of our language, a long life
Of habit has Unidentified her with the Indi-
ans; and though there is a melancholy plea
sure in the recognition, and certainty of
| NoTE B. What q noble contrast do the pro-
ceedings of Wyoming Present-we copy from the
record.
"Ata town meeting legally warned and held at
"Westmoreland December ye 9Th l777.