The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-09-26

| fdiESsf 4hOlldS Ahlict DuQl6yt
Enos Blakley, Thomas Noles, Oliver
Deball, Simeon Hopkins, Robert Bray.
| Novem Der ii, took prisoners from ye
Regt. Lieut.. Col, William Stacy Lieut.,
Aaron Holden Ensign, Andrew Garret
Surgeons mate, Suzer De Beaver. II
soldiers (names not given.)
| "Killed of ye Inhabitants, so persona.
| Took of ditto, "a ditto.
"Wounded ditto, one of the Regt
Burnt 20 houses. 20 barns, mills.
| IN. b. A rainy day"
| That night at Fort Alden was probably
"a lonesome ono. The next day the sold
iers buried Col. Alden, firing three vol
leys over his grave. In the afternoon sew.
eral of those that had been killed were
brought into the fort.
| The next morning after the massacre,
at about o'clock. Brant, with about
100 Indians. came to again attack the
| fort, but tho soldiers fred two or three
shots from a cannon at them, and they
retired.
| November 10, Lieut.. MoKsndry says
they brought In Hugh Mitchal's wife
and four children, all dead and calped,
with a mum Der of other bodies.''
| November 16, found Capt. Scott 3
wife dead and she was buried" and sew.
efal mole bodies were found later.
January l. 1779, Capt. Daniel Lane
was arrested for affronting Capt. Bal
lard, he was tried at Fort Plank and ao-
| quilted. Capt. Ballard was in command
Of the regiment after the massacre.
| February 2, Simeon Hopkins. of this
reg iment, who was killed November II,
| was found and his body was buried at the
fort.
| February 1s, the inhabjtant moved in
| to the fort for fear of the Ind ians. Dur
ing this month the men of the regiment,
in their spare time, engaged in making
maple syrup and sugar.
Capt. Lanes Company remained at
Fort Alden until April 9, when he
marched to Fort Schuyler with 60 men,
and returned the twenty nintb. He in
formed them that he had been with a
party under Col. Van Shaiok, who had
out off three Indian castles at Onordaga,
killed 80, took SO prisoners, burnt AZ
houses and large quantities of corn, and
| had had no one killed.
May %, Lieut.. M cKendry says: capt
Lane and Lieut.. Curtis ran race. Capt.
Lane was beat.'
June Is, the regiment marched for
| Lake Otsego, and the next day Capt
Lane was sent ahead to clear up for the
encampmsnt, they arriving in the after
| noon ABOUT O'Clock. The army re-
manned there until August 9. when they
| started on their march to the Wyoming
| Valley where they arrived October Z.
| They marched through q rough and rug
| Red country which had been Inhabited
| by the most vicious and cruel Tories and
| Indians, and their object was total de-
struction and devastation Of the whole
valley to prevent any further trouble
from that quarter. They had destroyed
immense quantities Of grain and supplies
belonging to their enemies, and burned
a large numberaof buildings. 1t was like
Sherman march to the sea, but on %
smaller scale. They saw much Of the
cruelties of the savages during their
march. They found September IA, the
/ bodies of Lieut. Boyd and sergeant
Both of their heads were cut off. Lient
Boyd was all skinned, his nails burnt
out and had many stabs in his body
The sergeant was in like condition,
and had knife sticking in his back
when found. Both Of their bodies had
been mutillated by the dogs. This was
but one of the horrible sights these men
saw, ON that tedious march, which, to US
seems almost incredible.
This little army remained but three
days amidst the blackened remains of
Wyoming, once SO prosperous.
"Sweet Wyomingl the day when thou
vert doom'd,
Guiltless, to mourn thy loveliest bow
ers laid lowl
When where of yesterday garden
bloom'd,
Death overspread his pail, and blacken-
ing ashes gloom'dl"
This band of faithful patriots marched
on to Eastern Pennsylvania, where
they arrived October Is, the distance be-
ing 63 miles. Here Lieut.. NJ cKendry notes
on October 10, "Capt, Lane, this day,
was discharged from the Continental
army by Gen. Sullivan at Easton. We
cannot tell who succeeded him or
whether his company was consolidated
with another.
October 23, the army crossed the Della
ware river into New Jersey, and Capt.
Lane set off for Winsor, on the North
river. During the march towards New
York, Gen. Washington rode into the
camp of the regiment (Nov. %. The
army arrived at West Point about No
vember 18, having In the campaign
marched probably between six and seven
hundred miles of the most difficult coun
try. The campaign against those enc
mics of our country had been under the
direction of Gen. John Sullivan, who
was the son of John Sullivan, an Irish
sohoolmaster, who lived at Berwick
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