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Philip and Martha (Bennet) Myers were the parents of the following-named children: (1) John Myers, born February 17, 1791; married by Cornelius Courtright, Esq., May 2, 1813, to Sarah' (born July 20, 1793; died May 9, 1 868), daughter of Maj. Henry Stark, mentioned in the note on page 1017. Vol. II; had children Elizabeth, Jane, Law- rence, (died at Wilkes-Barre, June 14, 1905). Martha, Mary S., Harriet, John William, Philip Henry (died at Wilkes- Barré, December 28, 1910) Charles, Sarah J., James M. and Ruth Ann; died in Wilkes-Barre January 25, 1850. (2) Lawrence Myers. (3) H'illiam Myers who remaved to Sunbury, Ohio, where he died July 26, 1824. (4) Thomas Myers, born in 1801; Sheriff of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 1835-'38; married (Ist) to Sarah, daughter of Thomas Borbidge of Kingston, (2d) to-Vanderbilt; had children Philip (who died at Chicago, Illinois, April 23, 1891. aged 61 years), Fanny and George, died at Williamsport, Pa., December 3, 1887. (5) Henry Myers. (6) Harriet Myers, born in 1807; married to her cousin Madison F. Myers (born in 1810; died August 2, 1859), son of Michael Myers of Frederick, Maryland (who died there December 2, 1815); had children Miranda (who married Charles Steele), Philip Thomas, Martha A. (who married Archibald J. Weaver), Frederick Benbam and Williamn P .; died at Kingston May 2, 1889. (7) Elizabeth Myers, who became the wife of Emmons Locke. (8) Sarah Myers, born Sept- ember 25, 1792; married November 12, 1812, to Abram Goodwin (born July 6, 1790; died May 15, 1880), son of Abraham and Catharine (King) Goodwin of Kingston; had children Martha (who married Jobn D. Hoyt), Philip, John, Elizabeth (who became the second wife of John D. Hoyt), Abram and Sara (who became the wife of Abram Nesbitt of Kingston) ; died at Kingston March 4, 1867. (9) Mary Myers, born March 12, 1798; married June 10, 1819. . to the Rev. George Peck (born August 8, 1797; died May 20, 1876); died July 31,1881. (For a sketch of the life of the Rev. Dr. Peck see a subsequent chapter.) (10) Martha Ann Myers (born in 1804; died July 9, 1828), who was married at Kingston February 21, 1827, to the Rev. Joseph Castle of Bethany, Pennsylvania.
(iii) Andrew Bennet, younger son of Thomas and Martha (Jackson) Bennet, was born in Orange County, New York, in 1764. He was married first December 18, 1787, to Mary Miller (born in 1759), who died October 6, 1804. Some. time later Andrew Bennet was married to Abigail Kelly, born January 13, 1776. He died at Kingston November 20. 1821, and his widow Abigail died there October 28, 1838. The eldest child of Andrew Bennet by his first wife was John Bennet, born April 25, 1790; lived in Kingston Township; was admitted a member of Lodge No. 61, F. and A. M. Wilkes-Barre, August 2, 1813; was married to Matilda (born January 4, 1799; died August 11, 1879), daughter of Thomas and Tryphena (Hibbard) Buckingham of Lebanon, Connecticut; had one child-Charles Bennet, horn February 28, 1819, admitted to the Bar of Luzerne County April 7, 1845, admitted to Lodge No. 61, F. and A. M., October 24, 1854, married to Sarah Sly of Franklin, Michigan, died at Wilkes-Barre August 6, 1866, and his widow died here June 16, 1887. John Bennet died in Kingston February 10, 1863.
The other children of (iii) Andrew Bennet by his first wife were: Monroe, born July 18, 1791; Martha, born November 8, 1799, and died November 27, 1837; Thomas, horn December 3, 1800, and died in 1801. The children of (iii) Andrew Bennet by his second wife were: (1) Andrew, born March 7, 1809; died March 20, 1885. (2) Elisa- beth, born in 1811; became the wife of Henry Polen; died at Wyoming June 25, 1898. (3) Mary, died September 19, 1837. (4) George, born at Forty Fort December 25, 1813; married February 1, 1844, to Martha, daughter of Daniel Strebeigh of Montoursville, Pennsylvania; was a farmer near Montoursville; had sons John A., George and Daniel S. horn September 3, 1853; died at Wilkes-Barré September 16, 1884). (4) George Bennet died at his home near Montoursville, March 11, 1887.
(iv) Mary Bennet, youngest child of Thomas and Martha (Jackson) Bennet who grew to maturity, was born in Kingston Township, Wyoming Valley, August 15, 1772. She was married January 11, 1789, to John Tuttle of Kings- ton Township Henry Tuttle, a native of Basking Ridge, Somerset County, New Jersey (where he was born November 24. 1733), removed thence with his family to Kingston Township, Wyoming Valley, in 1785, and settled at what is now Forty Fort. In June, 1789, Nathan Denison conveyed to him one half of Meadow Lot No. 10, Kingston. Heory Tuttle had been a soldier in the Revolutionary War, and was a farmer and a blacksmith. He died at Forty Fort, January 3, 1820. His children were: (1) Henry Tuttle, who was twice married, and had children Henry, John and Phehe. (2) Ahner Tuttle, who was married to Hannah, daughter of Stephen Harding of Exeter, Luzerne County (see page 993, Vol. II), and who died September 20, 1820. (3) John Tuttle, born April 3, 1767. (See below.) (4) Joseph Tuttle, born January 19, 1772.
(For further references to Henry and Joseph Tuttle see page 1151. Vol II )
(3) John Tuttle lived for many years in a small frame house within the present bounds of the borough of Forty Fort, on the westerly side of the road (now Wyoming Avenue) near where the "stone-arched bridge" spans Abraham's Creek, as noted on page 1006, Vol. II The site of this house was on the edge of the large, level field shown in the picture facing page 786, Vol. II. (See, also, page 416 of Peck's "Wyoming; Its History and Romantic Adventures " In November, 1791, Thomas Bennet conveyed to John Tuttle Lot No. 24, Fourth Division of Kingston.
The children of (3) John and Mary (Bennet) Tuttle were: (a) Martha Tuttle, born February 3, 1790, became the wife of Holden Tripp, and their daughter, Lucilla S. became the wife of Charles H. Silkman of Scranton, Pennsylvania He was admitted to the Bar of Luzerne County January 1, 1838. (b) Mary Tuttle, born April 18, 1791; became the wife of Joseph Orr of Dallas, Luzerne County, and their youngest child, Albert Skeer Orr (died at Wilkes-Barre, MIarch 25, 1908, aged 79 years), was at one time postmaster at Wilkes-Barré. (c) Henry Tuttle, horn in April. 1793, married to Annie Shoemaker. (d) Sarah Tuttle, born December 7, 1794; married to Benjamin Jenkins (see page 806.
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mountain, where they overtook two more Indians, having charge of Lebbens Hammond*, a neighbor of the Bennets, who had been taken prisoner a few hours before. That night the six Indians and their three captives encamped about twelve miles north of the Valley.
The next day, March 28th, having crossed the Susquehanna, they pushed on towards Meshoppen. In the afternoon of this day they met a party of about thirty Indians headed by a Tory named Moses Mount, who were on their way to pillage and devastate some of the frontier settlements. Mount and one of the Indians were known to Bennet and Hammond, and the latter were eagerly questioned by them as to the state of the garrison at Wyoming, the number of inhabitants in the Valley, etc. The captives informed the leaders of the war- party that there were 300 fighting men in the fort at Wilkes-Barre, that they were well armed and provisioned, that they had a cannon, and that the settlers had all taken refuge there. The war-party then concluded that they would strike the river below the Valley, and they went on their way; but first they told Bennet and Hammond that there were 500 Indians from Fort Niagara al- ready out on the war-path, and that a party equally large, or even larger, was coming on after them; that Brant, with one party, had gone to the Mohawk River; that a second party had gone to the Minisinks, and a third party to the West Branch of the Susquehanna.t
On the evening of March 28th, the party of Indians with the three captives from Wyoming built a fire with the aid of Thomas Bennet, who, being an elderly man and somewhat afflicted with rheumatism, was least feared, and was per- mitted to go unbound. From a few words dropped by one of the Indians Mr. Bennet drew the inference that it was their design to murder him and his fellow- captives. Whispering to Hammond, when the Indians had gone to a nearby spring to slake their thirst, a plan of escape was concerted.
Tired with their heavy march the Indians lay around the fire, after a hearty supper of venison. Hammond and Andrew Bennet were pinioned between the Indians. One old Indian was appointed to keep the first watch, and he sat near the fire half sleeping and nodding, and between times picking the scanty flesh from the head of a deer he had been roasting. Having gathered wood with which to keep the fire going during the night, Thomas Bennet sat down near the Indian on watch, and soon afterwards carelessly took up the latter's spear which lay by his side, and began to play with it. Watching his opportunity, Mr. Bennet, by a quick and powerful thrust, transfixed the savage with his own spear, and he fell across the burning logs with a startling groan. Not a minute was lost in cutting loose the bound limbs of Hammond and Andrew Bennet. Three of the other Indians were tomahawked before they could rise from the ground, another was wounded and escaped and the sixth fled from the scene unhurt. On the
Vol. II) of West Pittston, Luzerne County, who was born December 26, 1792, and died May 28, 1861, leaving to survive him his wife (who died February 26, 1872) and the following-named children: Thomas, Eleanor, Rachel, Catherine, Joho S., Martha Ano, Mary, Sarah and Ada S. (e) Elizabeth Tuttle, born August 29, 1796. (f) Joho Tuttle, born August 23, 1800. (g) Phebe Tuttle, born February 15, 1802. (h) William Tuttle, born July 30, 1805: married to Mary logham. (i) Chester Tuttle, born December 22, 1806; married in 1844 to Mary Ann, daughter of Jacob I. Shoemaker of Wyoming and widow of David Baldwin. He was admitted a member of Lodge No. 61, F. and A. M., Wilkes-Barre, August 9, 1844, and was Secretary of the Lodge in 1850. He was at one time Deputy Sheriff of Luzerne County, was clerk to the County Commissioners for five years, and from 1846 to 1852 was editor of the Luzerne Democrat, a weekly newspaper published at Wilkes-Barré. He was instrumental in raising a company of volunteer militia which became known as the Wyoming Troop, and of which he was Captain. For some fifteen years from about 1853 he held a clerkship in the Navy Department at Washington. He died at Huntsville, Luzerne County, July 17, 1883, and was survived by a daughter.
*Mentioned ou pages 1019 and 1020, Vol. II. According to information recently furnished the writer by the Hoo. Charles Tubbs of Osceola, Tioga County, Pa., Lebbeos Hammond was married to Lucy Tubbs, daughter of Lieut. Lebhens Tubbs previously mentioned. Lehbens Hammond died July 13, 1826, aged 72 years and his widow Lucy died April 17, 1844, aged 86 years and 12 days. The remains of both are buried about two miles from Elmira, New York.
+See letter from Colonel Butler to General Washington, Hayden's "The Wyoming Massacre", page 69.
INDIAN MASSACRE AT WILKES-BARRÉ (From an old engraving by John Rogers)
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evening of March 30th, the escaped captives arrived at Fort Wyoming, Wilkes- Barré, bringing with them five rifles, a silver mounted hanger, and seve al toma- hawks and blankets as trophies of their exploit. The silver mounted hanger, or sword, mentioned above, had been the property of Lieut. Thomas Boyd (see page 1215, Vol. II), and had been taken from him by one of his Indian captors previous to their massacre of him .*
Relative to the capture and escape of the Bennets and Hammond, Col. (formerly Maj.) John Butler, commander of "Butler's Rangers", wrote to Gover- nor Haldimand from Fort Niagara, N. Y., under date of April 29, 1780, in part as follows:+
"Scouts have been out during the Winter. One party returning with prisoners, through carelessness let them untie themselves at night, so that after killing five Indians they escaped."
On the day following that upon which the Bennets and Hammond were seized and carried away, another band of Indians-undoubtedly Delawares from Fort Niagara-made a foray into the Valley, murdered in cold blood four unarmed and inoffensive inhabitants, wounded two, and carried five others into captivity. One of these captives was Jonah Rogers (mentioned in the note on page 1153, Vol. II),¿ then a boy fourteen years of age. He wrote, in August, 1833, an account of this occurrence, which was published in The Wyoming Re- publican (Kingston, Pa.) of September 4, 1833. It reads as follows:
"In 1780 I was engaged with Mr. Asa Upson in making sugar, on what was then called Stewart's Flats, now owned by Frederick Croup, in Plymouth, Luzerne County. Before sunrise on the 28th of March ten Indians came upon us, and shot, tomahawked and scalped Mr. Upson as he lay in the cabin, to which I was an eye witness. The Indians then started with me down the river. We crossed the creek at Shickshinny and traveled for Big Fishing Creek, which we reached about sunset. Here we discovered some white people, and withdrew to a solitary place, where we lay down without fire. As I was not pinioned, I lay in an Indian's arms.
"Before sunrise we went to the cabin of the white people and the Indians killed one and took two prisoners. One of the prisoners was a man of the name of Peter Pence? ; the other a boy named Moses Van Campen, a cousin to the Major. The man killed was Major Van Campen's uncle. W'e then went to another sugar camp, where were the Major [Moses Van Campen]]] and his father and brother. The Indians killed his father and brother on this day, the 29th of March. Four of the Indians were left with the prisoners, and the other six went into Huntington, where they wounded two men by the names of Thomas Parker and Samuel Ransom, who were out on a scouting expedition with Capt. John Franklin. We stayed on the night of the 29th at the Three
*See Peck's "Wyoming; its History and Romantic Adventures", page 296, and the note on page 370 of "Journals of the Sullivan Expedition."
tSee the "Haldimand Papers", B. M. 21,765-CV: 208.
#The present writer now has in his possession an original deed for a tract of land in Plymouth. Wyoming Valley. which was executed at Westmoreland July 8, 1776, by Elisha Richards, conveying the said tract to Jonab and Josiah Rogers, then of Westmoreland, but "late of Ashford, Windham County, Connecticut."
$PETER PENCE, or more probably, BENTZ, was a Pennsylvania German. In June, 1775, he enlisted in Capt John Lowdon's company of the Pennsylvania Battalion of Riffemen commanded by Col. Wm. Thompson, which was raised in pursuance of a resolution of Congress adopted June 14, 1775. The privates of Captain Lowdon's company were from the West Branch Valley, around and north of Sunbury and were enlisted for the term of one year. Among the officers and privates were Samuel Brady, Timothy Murphy, James Parr, James Wilson, William Wilson, David Hammond Philip Ginter, and others who as well as Peter Pence, became noted in the annals of border warfare. (See "Pennsyl- vania in the Revolution." I . 27.)
In Meginness' "Otzinachson, a History of the West Branch Valley", we find this paragraph: "There was another remarkable hunter and Indian killer in this Valley named Peter Pence, of whom many wonderful storie; are related He is described, by those who remember him, as being a savage looking customer, who always went armed with his rifle tomahawk and knife, even years after peace was made."
In consideration of his services during the Revolutionary War the Legislature of Pennsylvania passed. March 10, 1810, an Act granting a pension of forty dollars per annum to Peter Pence. He died in Crawford Township. Clin- ton County, Pennsylvania, in 1827.
MOSES VAN CAMPEN was born in January, 1757 and consequently was twenty-three years old at the time of his capture by the Indians. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary War he resided in Northumberland County, Penn- sylvania, and soon after the Declaration of Independence was proclaimed he enlisted in a Pennsylvania militia regi- ment and served until August, 1777. Then he joined as Orderly Sergeant, Captain Gaskin's company in the regiment of Pennsylvania militia commanded by Col. John Kelly of Northumberland County, which was stationed at Big Island and Bald Eagle Creek, on the West Branch of the Susquehanna. In this regiment he served three months, In 1778 he had attained the rank of Lieutenant in the militia, and early in April of that year he assisted in the erection of Fort Wheeler on Fishing Creek, about three miles above the present town of Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pa
During the Sullivan Expedition (see Chapter XVIII) Lieutenant Van Campen was employed in the quarter master's department of the army. After his escape from his Indian captors in April, 1780, be assisted in stockading the home of James McClure, Sr. (on the right bank of the Susquehanna, about one mile above the mouth of Fishing Creek, in what was then the township of Wyoming. Northumberland County, and within the present limits of the borough of Bloomsburg, Columbia County, Pa.), which thereafter was known as McClure's Fort. In April, 1782. Lieutenant Van Campen then an officer in the Pennsylvania militia company known a: "Robinson's Rangers", was sent with a party of twenty-five men up the West Branch of the Susquehanna to Bald Eagle Creek There they fell
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Corner Pond in Bedford. On the 30th we travelled not more than three miles, when the Indians took Abraham Pike prisoner. On the 31st we crossed the river.
"Abraham Pike* was a British deserter, and death was his portion if he remained with the Indians. He urged an escape. On the 1st of April we had an opportunity of being alone and we all agreed to escape. That night [being encamped near the Susquehanna, about fifteen miles below Tioga Point] the prisoners were all pinioned but myself, and it was agreed that I should procure a knife which I did. Pike cut himself loose, and while the Indians were sleeping, he took away their guns, and then cut the other men loose. One Indian awakened, and instantly Peter Pence fired at him. Major Van Campen took an ax, which I had procured for him, and killed two Indians before they arose. The rest ran and were pursued by Van Campen. As they fled, Peter Pence fired at them several times. I have reason to suppose that Pike did not shed one drop of Indian blood that night, only in scalping the two dead Indians. Major Van Campen was the principal executioner.
"On the 6th of April, while the "go-to-bed drum" (as it was called) was beating at Wilkes- Barre Fort, we reached the block-house in Kingston, having suffered much with hunger during our travel."+
In the diary of Lieut. John Jenkins, Jr., who was at Fort Wyoming, Wilkes- Barré, in the Spring of 1780 (see page 806, Vol. II), occurs the following entry under the date of March 30, 1780.
"Mrs. [Abraham] Pike came in this day, and informed that she and her husband were in the woods making sugar, and were surrounded by a party of about thirty [?] Indians, who had several prisoners with them, and two horses. They took her husband and carried him off with them, and painted her and sent her in. They killed the horses before they left the cabin where she was. One of the prisoners told her that the Indians had killed three or four men at Fishing Creek."
Concerning the escape and return home of Pike and his companions, Lieu- tenant Jenkins made the following entry in his diary, under the date of April 6, 1780.
"Pike and two men from Fishing Creek and two boys, that were taken by the Indians, made their escape by rising on their guard of ten Indians, killed three, and the rest took to the woods naked, and left the prisoners with twelve guns and about thirty blankets, &c. These the prisoners got safe to the fort."
At Fort Niagara, N. Y., under the date of May 3, 1780, Col. Guy Johnson (mentioned in the note on page 300, Vol. II) wrote to Governor Haldimand concerning preparations which had been made by Joseph Brant and other Indian chiefs for incursions against the frontier settlements. He stated that a large expedition had set out about the middle of February, 1780, which was followed by several smaller parties; that one of the latter, composed of Delawares, had killed seven white people and taken six prisoners at Wyoming; that three of the Indians of this party had been killed in the night time.
A small party of Indians came to Cooper's plantation at Capouse (now Scranton) March 30, 1780, and captured and carried away three men named Avery, Lyons and Jones.
At Wilkes-Barré, under the date of April 2, 1780, Col. Zebulon Butler wrote to General Washington and also to the Board of War relative to the recent hap-
in with a considerable body of Indians, and in the fight which ensued nineteen of Van Campen's men were slain, and he and five of the remaining mer were taken prisoners and conveyed to Fort Niagara, New York.
Lieutenant Van Campen was detained as a prisoner in the hands of the British at Fort Niagara, Montreal and the Isle of Orleans until ahout November 1. 1782, when he was exchanged and immediately returned to Northumberland County, where he rejoined "Robinson's Rangers". In March, 1783, he came with his company to Wilkes-Barré to assist in garrisoning Fort Wyoming, about that time known as Fort Dickinson
Lieutenant Van Campen was honorably discharged from the military service of the State November 16, 1783, and soon thereafter was married to Margaret, eldest daughter of James and Mary (Espy) McClure, of "MeClure's Fort' previously mentioned. There he lived until 1789, when he purchased a large tract of land in the neighborhood of Briar Creek, Columbia County, Pa. In 1796 he sold his Pennsylvania lands and removed to Almond. Allegany County. N. Y. Thence he removed, about five years later, to Angelica in the same county, where he died October 15, 1849 He was survived by five daughters.
At Dansville. New York, in 1841, there was published, for the first time, a 12 mo. book, of 310 pages, entitled "Sketches of the Life and Adventures of Moses Van Campen, a Surviving Officer of the Army of the Revolution", by John N Hubbard. In 1913 the price of a copy of this extremely rare book (the first edition) was quoted at $+5 0) in New York.
*Mentioned on pages 982, 1012 and 1014, Vol. II.
tAt different times during the past eighty years various accounts, differing very materially in their details, have been printed relative to the escape of Rogers, the Van Campens, Pike and Pence from their Indian captors. We have accepted the foregoing account of Jonah Rogers as undoubtedly the correct one of the occurrence. For other accounts the reader is referred to Hasard's Register of Pennsylvania, XI1. 38; Stone's "Poetry and Hi tory of Wyoming", p. 276; Miner's "History of Wyoming", p. 279; Peck's "Wyoming". p. 304, Wright's "Historical Sketches of Plymouth". pp 30 and 208.
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penings at Wyoming, and also as to the state of affairs at Fort Wyoming. These communications were entrusted for delivery to Capt. Simon Spalding, who journeyed from Wilkes-Barré to Philadelphia, and thence to Morristown, New Jersey. A copy of the letter to General Washington is printed on page 68 of Hayden's "The Wyoming Massacre" (previously mentioned). The letter to the "President of the Board of War" was as follows:
"Honored Sir-The last letter I wrote per Captain Spalding was of the 30th ult., of the transactions of the enemy up to that day. On the same day, early in the morning, about nine miles west of the river, one Pike, his wife and child, that were out making sugar, were taken by a party that had been to Fishing Creek. They were the party that had killed and scalped one man and taken the other on the 28th of March, about eight miles down the river. They had the prisoners taken at said time with them, and three others, who told Pike's wife that they [the Indians] had killed three at Fishing Creek. They dismissed her with her child, and ordered her to come home. She brings the above account, and says their number was above thirty. She was two hours with them before they dismissed her.
"The same evening the three men [the Bennets and Hammond] mentioned as being taken the 27th of March, came in with five Indian guns, tomhacks, &c., and report that they were taken by six Indians and carried near forty miles, and on the 29th, early in the morning, they arose on their masters, killed three dead and wounded the fourth and two ran off! However, so much is fact: They brought in five guns, one silver mounted hanger, tomhacks, &c. *
The * * three men likewise say that by the appearance of the snow-shoe tracks there had been for some months large numbers of Indians in these parts, which was less than forty miles above this Garrison. * * *
"I had forgot to mention that on the 29th March-the same day the Indians did the mis- chief at Fishing Creek-about eighteen miles westward of this settlement they wounded two men [Parker and Ransom] that went out with Esquire Franklin to give notice to some men that were making sugar there; but they saved themselves by taking to a house, and have all got in. The * * two wounded men are likely to recover. *
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