Wyoming, its history, stirring incidents, and romantic adventures . r did the other. X In this arrangement the brave Colonel John Butler was be-hind the light-house, for this business was committed to Brant, whoat that very moment was earnestly engaged in its prosecution. We do not much wonder that this famous dispatch has been solong shut up in the government archives in London. It is a perfect-ly bald caricature of the famous expedition of its author down theSusquehanna to Wyoming. At the same time, we are happy to beable to give it to the public. The journal of which the colonelspeaks must
Wyoming, its history, stirring incidents, and romantic adventures . r did the other. X In this arrangement the brave Colonel John Butler was be-hind the light-house, for this business was committed to Brant, whoat that very moment was earnestly engaged in its prosecution. We do not much wonder that this famous dispatch has been solong shut up in the government archives in London. It is a perfect-ly bald caricature of the famous expedition of its author down theSusquehanna to Wyoming. At the same time, we are happy to beable to give it to the public. The journal of which the colonelspeaks must be rich. We only wish we had that. 56 WYOMING. ent routes, I am in hopes that - some of them will beable to make their way to them and return. In a few days I do myself the honor of writing toyou more fully, and send you a journal of my proceed-ings since I left Niagara. I am, sir, with respect, your most obedient andvery humble servant, (Signed), John Butler. We have given, in as brief a manner as we deemedconsistent with a fall understanding of the subject, the. POSITION OF THE WYOMING FORTS. main facts of the Wyoming massacre. It will beproper in this place to take some notice of a widely * Explanation of the Plan.—The several divisions, Hanover, Wilkes-barre, Kingstown, &c, mark the districts into which the town ofWestmoreland was divided ; in military language, the different marks the site of Fort Durkee; 7?, Wyoming or Wilkesbarre Fort;C, Fort Ogden; D, village of Kingston; E, Forty Fort. [This, inthe early histories of the Revolution, is called Kingston Fort.] F,the battle-ground ; G, Wintermoots Fort; 77, Fort Jenkins; 7,Monocasy Island; 7, the three Pittstown stockades. The dot below ITS HISTORY. 57 different report of the affair, which has gone into his-tory and obtained a wide circulation. The account towhich we refer may be found in Thatchers MilitaryJournal, and Gordons History of the American Bev-olution. We shall simply refer to the points whichare most
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