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HANOVER TOWNSHIP.
Col. Wright, in his Sketches of Plymouth, has Joseph Morse as one of the pioneer settlers of Plymouth. That being true, then he had sold his settling right there and came to Hanover.
Five of them were in the Wyoming Massacre, and three of them were slain.
At a meeting of the Susquehanna Company at Hartford, Con- necticut, in 1773, it was resolved and voted that :-
"Whereas, there is some difficulty with respect to the voats rela- tive to the town of Hanover, and the number of settlers to be placed in said town, it is the understanding of this meeting, that by the voates of this company Capt. Lazarus Stewart and Wm. Stewart and their associates shold have the Derection of filling up said town of Hanover, and that there shall not be less than thirty-six settlers on said . to hold the same, the reglation of said . . to be nevertheless under the controal of this com- pany as other towns are.
"At adjourned meeting at Hartford, June 2d, 1773.
"A copy taken by Wm. Stewart.
"A true copy taken from a copy by
"JAMES LASLEY-Clark."
Now, there was nothing to disturb the settlers and they went to work clearing land, building houses and making rough homes for themselves, when they were startled December, 1775, by the news that another invasion of the valley was preparing at Sunbury. While the tension of affairs between the colonies and the mother country was becoming severely strained, the English governors of the province chose that time as the particular moment in which to make a final attempt to dislodge the settlers and expel them from the valley.
The second Pennamite and Yankee War-Plunkett's invasion in December, 1775-called upon the Hanover men in an especial manner to defend themselves. They and the inhabitants of Plymouth would first feel the tread and the devastation of the hostile invader. Captain Stewart was in command of them, but his forces of probably forty men, were divided, half of them with the main army on the west side of the river, and twenty men with Stewart on the east side to repel any attempt to land in Hanover.
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The story of the fight has been told in a previous part of this book. The only thing that need be said here is that Stewart was not accustomed to firing blank cartridges. When the boat, filled with soldiers said to have been under the immediate command of the redoubtable Colonel Plunkett himself, arrived within fair shoot- ing distance of the Hanover shore, a volley of ball cartridges were fired into them. One man was killed outright, two were severely wounded, as afterwards learned, and a dog killed. The men, or soldiers, all lay down in the boat and begged of the Yankees to cease firing and permit them to steer their boat down the falls. It is said that Plunkett lay down flat on the bottom of the boat, fear- ing if he were seen he would be surely killed. As they promised to leaye and not attempt to land anywhere on the east side of the river below; the Yankees, or the Hanover men, allowed them to steer down the falls. Col. Wright, in his Sketches of Plymouth, says Benjamin Harvey, Jr., a Plymouth man, a prisoner with the Pennamites, was put upon this boat as a kind of shield, and that he begged of Stewart after the first volley not to fire upon them any . more as he might injure his friends.
Captain Lazarus Stewart's lot had fallen upon Nos. 1, 2, and 3 in the first division (among others), the latter lot afterwards known as the Alexader Jameson lot. That is the third lot from the Wilkes- Barre line (as it is now), and upon that land about midway between the river road and the river bank was-and is-an elevation in the flats slightly higher than the surrounding plain, upon which there stood a block-house at the time of the Wyoming battle and massacre in 1778. This block-house was also the dwelling of Capt. Stewart's family. His family was there when he was slain in that battle and massacre and fled with the rest of the inhabitants in the neighborhood, some down the river in boats and some on foot. The people of the lower end of Hanover fled across the mountain by the Warriors' Path. This Stewart block-house was probably not the fortification built by the residents of the township at the re- quest of the general town-meeting immediately after the declara- tion of independence by Congress in 1776. This block-house and the other buildings in the neighborhood and along the river road in the upper part of the township were burnt by the Indians and tories after the inhabitants fled, and all the furniture and property
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left in the houses and barns and fields was destroyed or carried away. No buildings have ever been erected there since. There was, however, some kind of a defensive work at the ".Stewart Place" in 1782.
The writer has been unable to find where the township built its block-house in 1776 (it was not a fort), but it was probably about three miles or less further down the road, towards the west, say two miles above Nanticoke, where the block-house afterwards stood, that was so often defended by Lieutenant Rosewell Franklin and his neighbors against Indian attacks.
There were other block-houses in Hanover besides these, after 1778. People that lived in the township at all after 1778 and until peace was declared, lived in block-houses or in the immediate vicinity of one. How many there were is not known, but there are persons still living who have seen such a house, then in use as a dwelling, standing near the river road, a short distance east of the house of the late Samuel Pell. There was probably one at Nanti- coke. The ordinary dwelling-houses of the times from 1778 to 1782-3 were loop-holed, and prepared for defense from hostile attack.
Captain Stewart and his associates were not all Pennsylvanians. There were two or three Yankees among them. We have no list of the names of the inhabitants except the nineteen and the names of some found through their town-meetings, and those who were remembered that were killed, or escaped from the massacre in 1778; but from the names among the inhabitants of the township after the Pennamite troubles of 1783 to 1785 it would be supposed that they were mostly descendants of the Puritans of New England. The Scotch and Scotch-Irish Pennsylvanians had been nearly all killed off by the massacre, and few others from Lancaster county · came in to take .their places. So there were then "Yankees" from Connecticut, Pennsylvania "Dutch," New York and New Jersey "Dutch," English, Irish, Welsh and a Negro, and the remnant of the Scotch-Irish Pennsylvania Paxton Boys. The Yankees were Congregationalists, the Scotch-Irish were Presbyterians, and it may be fairly presumed that the Pennsylvania and other Dutch were Lutherans, or German Reformed. The settlers were all very relig- ious and took care to have a clergyman with them, or at least a dea-
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con accustomed to conducting religious services. The Pennsylva- nians or Lancaster men had a Presbyterian church or "meeting- house" somewhere in the township, though it is now uncertain where it stood. Christopher Hurlbut's journal speaks of the murder of John Jameson at the Hanover Green in 1782, and says it was near where the church was afterwards built, showing that no church edifice had been built there since the lot had been set off for that purpose up to 1782, at least. The lot was set aside for church uses in 1776. The Yankee Congregationalists held religious meetings in private houses and in barns, not being at all particular where they worshiped, but always being very particular to worship, even if it was in the open air. They believed they could worship God as well in one place as another.
The Book of "Records" of the Proprietors of Hanover town- ship or district, in the "Town of Westmoreland," in the county of Litchfield, Connecticut, commences in 1776.
A record of some kind must have been kept from 1770-1-the end of the first " Pennamite and Yankee War"-to 1776, or to the opening of the war of independence. Houses were built and build- ing, school-houses were built in every township, taxes were levied and collected, school and township committees were appointed in town-meeting,-and a record must have been kept. It is now lost-or at least not known to exist. The one we have begins as follows :-
"To James Lasley of the District of Hanover in the town of Westmoreland * * *" requiring him to :-
"Warn all the Proprietors of said District of Hanover to meet at the dwelling-house of Titus Hinman in said district on the 25th day of March instant, at one of the clock afternoon, and then and there, first, to choose a Proprietors' Clark and committee for said district; secondly, to come into some proper method to get the un- divided lands laid out in s'd district; thirdly, to any other business gone over and necessary to be done at s'd meeting; hereof fail not and make due return of the warrant with your doings thereon ac- cording to law.
"Dated at Westmoreland the 5th day of March, 1776.
"NATHAN DENISON, .
"Justice of the Peace."
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In obedience to the above mandate, the proper written "warning" was posted up and the meeting was held at the house of Titus Hinman, March 25, 1776 :-
"Voted, that John Jameson be Moderator for s'd meeting.
"Voted, that James Lasley be Proprietors' Clark for s'd district.
" Voted, that Captain Lazarus Stewart, William Stewart, John Franklin, Titus Hinman and Robert Young be appointed a com- mittee for said district.
"Voted, that there be left six acres where the committee shall think proper for the use of a. meeting-house and other things neces- sary for public use in the common land."
Adjourned to April 25, 1776.
April 25, 1776, meeting held at Titus Hinman's.
Caleb Spencer, Moderator for the day.
James Lasley, Clerk.
"Voted, that the two great roads from Wilkes-Barre line through this district to Newport line be six rods wide each; and from the first great road nearest the river, of the above-mentioned roads, to the south end of the district, be six rods wide each, only the road next Newport to be - rods wide, and all roads from the north great road that runs east and west to the river, be as wide as our committee shall think proper; said roads to be given for public use forever from us, the Proprietors of the District."
At a meeting held May . 1, 1776.
. Titus Hinman, Moderator for the day.
James Lasley, Clerk.
Voted, "That all the undivided land between the mountain and the river shall be laid out thus: that it shall be laid out as nearly square as it will admit of or the committee shall think fit, not more being laid out in one lot than belongs to a right, and when the re- turns of the surveyor are made, then each man draws for his lot."
"Voted, Lieut. Lazarus Stewart and James Spencer is appointed a committee to go with the surveyor to say where proper to run the line by the mountain."
These are the lots in the second division in Hanover.
Meeting, June 8, 1776.
Titus Hinman, Moderator for the day.
James Lasley, Clerk.
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"Voted, that the District pay James Lasley six shillings for a book to keep the District Records in."
List of second division lots, their names and numbers as they drew according to the original, June 8, 1776.
SECOND DIVISION.
"Robert Young . No. 29
" Charles Stewart
19
" William Young 22
"Lazarus Stewart, jr. . 8
"Thomas Robinson 26 "Capt. Lazarus Stewart . 4
"Capt. Lazarus Stewart . 9
"William Graham
I
" Lazarus Stewart, jr. . 18 "Public Lot 16
"Hugh Cafron (Coffrin) . 24
"John Young . 3
" James Robinson 21
"John Robinson . II
"Capt. Lazarus Stewart . 3I "James Stewart 66
"Capt. Lazarus Stewart . 14
"William Stewart 7
"David Young
17
"Parsonage Lot . 6
" John Danahough . ¥
"William Stewart . IO
"Capt. Lazarus Stewart . 28
"John Franklin
27
The above are all the same names as those drawing the lots in the first division with one name added (Elijah Inman) making nineteen persons.
There was no halting in their work. The meeting, where it was determined to have the undivided land surveyed, was held May I, 1776, and the land was divided by "lot" on June 8, 1776.
There were other settlers in the township besides these and their hired men; why did not some of them draw settlers' rights in the land? The Hopkins, the Campbells, the Caldwells, the Spencers, the Bennetts, the Hibbards, the Jamesons, the Hin- mans, the Wades, Lasley, McKarrican, Espy, Line, Pell, and num- bers of others. A Proprietor was the owner of land whether much or little; a settler's or associate's right in Hanover was about six hundred acres.
At a meeting of the Proprietors of Hanover at the house of Titus Hinman-May 28, 1776 :-
"Voted, that number one in the second division is of more value than the other lots, it is to be fifteen acres less in number than the rest of the lots."
15
"Public Lot
5
"Josias Aspiey
23
"William Stewart . " 20
"Thomas Robinson . . No. 30
"Elijah Inman 12
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"Silas Gore . "
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"William Young 25
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This was the lot upon which James Coffrin,-( Cofron, Cockron, Cochrane)-had erected a grist-mill several years before. The division or drawing of the lots took place June 8, 1776, and William Graham,-(Grimes, Greames)-drew the lot. It was more valuable as a mill seat than the other lots of the second division. Coffrin bought it of Graham after the drawing.
June 8, 1776. "Voted, for the futer our meetings shall be warned by five or more of the Proprietors making application to the Pro- prietor's Clark for a meeting and then he shall set up his warnings one at the upper end of the District and the other at the lower end of the District at the most Public places not less than six days before said meeting."
On June 16, 1776, James Coffrin deeds to John Comar (Com- mer) a lot of land in the District of Hanover, Lot No. I, second div- ision, bounded as follows: "N'ly by Susquehanna River; S'ly by James Stewart; E'ly by William Stewart; W'ly by Newport line; being drawed to ye Proprietorship of William Grimes." This is the lot on which Col. Washington Lee's house stood at Nanticoke. After 1830 the backwater from the dam covered and hid the place where Coffrin's Mills stood. No one now-1885-remembers the place where they stood. The old "Lee's Mill," well remembered still, did not occupy the site of the original Nanticoke mill of James Coffrin. Coffrin's Mill was much nearer the river, and with- in Hanover's boundaries, while Lee's Mill was within the boundaries of Newport.
THE RIVER ROAD.
The first of the two great roads, (the River Road and the Middle Road).
"Beginning at a stake on the line of said District of Hanover, (the Newport line) near to Mr. Coffrin's Mills; thence N. 79º E. 68 rods,-thence N. 84° E. 116 rods,-thence N. 85º E. 15 rods,- thence S. 75° E. 38 rods, to a stake on Capt. Stewart's land,-(lots No. 23 and 24), thence N. 68°'E. 114 rods,-thence N. 87º E. 236 rods,-thence S. 88° E. 40 rods, to an oven on James Lasley's land (lot No. 17),-thence N. 85° E. 20 rods,-thence N. 70° E. 44 rods to a stake at the land of Ebenezer Wickesham,-thence N. 84º E. 40 rods,-thence N. 55° E. 204 rods to the upper corner of the
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meeting-house green,-thence same course 447 rods,-thence N. 76° E. 40 rods to Edward Spencer's lot,-thence N. 70° E. 25 rods, -thence N. 73º E. 56 rods,-thence N. 79º E. 56 rods,-thence N. 59° E. 56 rods,-thence N. 50° W. 18 rods crossing Moses' Creek, (Solomon's Creek),-thence N. 58° E. 96 rods,-thence N. 50° E. I 22 rods to the Wilkes-Barre line." "Sept. 23, 1776."
The road was six rods wide, commenced on the line between Hanover and Newport townships, at Nanticoke near Coffrin's Mills. This road was run out and report made 23 Sept. 1776. Coffrin's Mills are assumed to be the mills so often mentioned by Miner as "at Nanticoke,". "on the borders of Hanover and Newport," etc. William and James Coffrin were killed in the massacre, 1778. Sol- omon's Creek is called "Moses' Creek." There had been a road, where this one was now located by law, for five or six years, and the mills for making oil, and the forge for making iron had been built some years before on the Newport branch of the Nanticoke Creek beyond the Hanover line, but now-1884-5-the place is within the borough of Nanticoke.
THE MIDDLE ROAD.
"Beginning at Newport line at a yellow pine tree; thence N. 77º E. 244 rods to white pine tree on Capt. Stewart's land,-(lots 23 and 24)-thence N. 88° E. 164 rods,-thence N. 55° E. 116 rods,- thence N. 40° E. 112 rods,-thence N. 58° E. 256 rods,-thence N. 50° E. III rods,-thence N. 37º E. 215 rods,-thence N. such course as will meet Wilkes-Barre line one rod westward of the main road through said Wilkes-Barre, said road to ly southeastwardly from said marks and bounds six rods wide.
"Dated at Westmoreland the 23 day of September 1776.
"CHRISTOPHER AVERY, "GEORGE DORRANCE, Select Men."
"WILLIAM MCKERACHAN "JOHN JENKINS.
At the same time cross-roads were surveyed and made, generally six rods wide. This was all under Connecticut jurisdiction.
ANCIENT TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE IN HANOVER.
1772-Nov. 25. Lazarus Stewart to David Young (Guarantee) -Lot No. 7-1 Div.
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1772-Dec. 22. David Young to Thomas Robinson-Lot No. 7-1 Div.
1774-May 8. James and John Robinson to Richard Robinson -Lot No. 7-1 Div.
1774-June II. Ebenezer Hibbard to Cyprian Hibbard- Lot-
1774-Oct. 13. Ebenezer Hibbard to Edward Spencer-Lot No. 10-1 Div. 400 acres.
1774-Oct. 25. Robert Young to Samuel Howard-Undivided land.
1775-July 1. Silas Gore to Samuel Ensign-Lot No. 28-1 Div.
1776-July 13. John Jameson to Wm. and Cyprian Hibbard- Lot No. 25-1 Div.
1776-August 30. Lazarus Stewart, Jr., to Wm. McKarrachan -Lot No. 8-2 Div.
1776, Robert Young to Samuel Gordon-Lot No. 16-1 Div.
1776-John Franklin to Samuel Gordon-Lot 15-1 Div.
1776-June 16. James Coffrin to John Comer-Lot No. 1-2 Div.
1776-Sept. II. Lazarus Stewart, Jr., to Nathaniel Howard- Undivided land.
1776-Sept. II. Matthew Hollenback to Samuel Ensign-Lot No. 12-1 Div.
1777-Jan 15. Wm. McKarrachan to Gideon Booth, Jr .- Lot No. 8-2 Div., "ye meeting-house lot."
1777-Feb. 5. Silas Gore to Wm. McKarrachan-Lot No. 28 I Div.
1777-Mar. 15. John Franklin to Nathan Howell-Lot No. 15 I Div.
1777-Mar. 19. Gideon Baldwin to Caleb Spencer-
1777-Mar. 19. Caleb Spencer to Gideon Baldwin-
1777-Mar. 19. Caleb Spencer to Peleg Burritt-Lot No. 7-I Div.
1777-May 2. William Hibbard to Cyprian Hibbard-Lot No. 25 and 18.
1777-May 13. Margaret Neill to Richard Robinson-
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1777-May 20. James Lasley to Jenks Corey-Lot No. 14-I Div.
1777-May 25. Dr. Samuel Cooke to John Staples-Lot No. 6 - -I Div.
1777-June 7. Jenks Corey to Dr. Samuel Cooke-Lot No. 14 -I Div.
1777-June 24. Matthew Hollenback to John Hollenback- Lots No. 11 and 12-1 Div.
1777-June 24. Matthew Hollenback to James Lasley-Lot No. 17-1 Div.
1777-July 6. James Cochran (Coffrin) to John Comer-Mill and 50 acres in 1775.
1777-Sept. 9. Wm. McKarrachan to John Ewings-Lot No. 18-1 Div., where McK. lives.
1777-Sept. 12. Peleg Burritt to Gideon Burritt-Part of No. 7 -I Div.
1777-Nov. 12, John Hollenback to (Deacon) John Hurlbut- Lots No. 11 and 12-1 Div.
1778-Jan 15. William Stewart to Cyprian Hibbard- * James Coffrin's (or Cochran) Mill in Hanover.
"28 February, 1777, attachment.
"Nathaniel Davenport vs. James Coffrin of Hanover.
"September term, 1776, Damages £80. Cause of action."
"Ye Plff. declares that ye Deft. brought his action of damages against ye Plff. in Litchfield County Court," (Westmoreland) "at September Term, 1776, for the sum of £80. L. M. for enticing and evilly contriving and persuading one, Job Scot, who ye Deft. had then agreed and bargained with to build and erect a certain Grist Mill in said Westmoreland at a place called Hanover District, etc., etc.
"Writ issued by Zebulon Butler, J. P., to William Stewart, Const."
James Stewart-Hanover-"Claims about 60 acres of Lot No. 16-first division, drawn by Robert Young."
DEED .- Westmoreland Records .- Robert Young to Samuel Gordon. "Tract of land situate on N. branch of Nanticoke Creek (No. 16), adjoining and below where John Franklin's line between
*I am indebted to Steuben Jenkins for nearly all this list of transfers.
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John (No. 15) and said Young's lot crosses the creek at the lowest place, and as the said line runs from the one branch to the other, thence on the high bank runs on both sides of the creek down to the bank next above the fence made by John Ewing's (lot No. 18) to run from the end of the bank which points to the cr . '= square across to a line run between said Young's lot and Matthias Hollen- back's lot;" (No. 17).
Dated . . 1776. Consideration, £12. ($40.)
The above attachment and the conveyance seemed to the writer very interesting papers, and for that alone are introduced.
The last entry before the massacre is . 1778. On July 3, 1778, the terrible battle, and massacre of the people took place at Wyoming. The people left alive all fled from the valley in the wildest confusion and disorder, and the whole country was left without inhabitants. Nearly all the Westmoreland Records were abandoned in the flight. Almost everything was left behind; but the person in possession of the Hanover Book of Proprietors' Records-probably James Lasley, the town-clerk-carried it away. He survived, and `returned in 1786, and the book is again brought into use in town-meetings, although the jurisdiction of Connecticut, under which the book had been commenced, had ceased by the Decree at Trenton in 1782, and Pennsylvania had succeeded to it. The meetings of the proprietors in "town-meet- ings". now go right on as if there had been no change in the state to which they belonged. This proprietors' book shows nothing of the occurrences of the reign of tyranny and treachery under Penn- sylvania rule from 1782 up to 1785. They have been sufficiently detailed in the first part of this work and were called the third Pennamite and Yankee War.
Of the time from 1778 to 1782 the Indian and tory raids and murders were so frequent that the settlers had no time nor heart for town-meetings, and probably none were held. But now, when the meetings and the regular town business are resumed, we find but very few of the old names. William Stewart is here, and James Lasley, Robert and Wm. Young, and one of the Robinsons; the Jamesons, Hibbards, Inmans, Burretts and Spencers have represent- atives.
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Now we will introduce the names of the Hanover men in the Wyoming Massacre, the killed, and the escaped, and the names of the residents of Hanover at the time that were not in the massacre.
Hanover men that were in the battle and massacre July 3, 1778, and were killed:
Capt. Lazarus Stewart,
Capt. William McKarrachan,
Lieut. Lazarus Stewart,
Ensign Silas Gore,*
Ensign Jeremiah Bigford,*
Ensign Titus Hinman,*
Samuel Bigford,*
Cyprean Hibbard,*
William Coffrin,
Elijah Inman, Jr.,*
James Coffrin,
Israel Inman,*
Isaac Campbell,
Robert Jameson, Jr.,*
John Caldwell,
William Jones,
Janks Corey,*
William Lester,
Coe,*
James Spencer,
John Franklin,*
Josiah Spencer,*
Jonathan Franklin,*
James Hopkins,*
Levi Spencer,* Nathan Wade .*
Total, 26 killed. Fifteen New England men in above.
Hanover men that were in the Wyoming Massacre of July 3, 1778, and escaped:
Rufus Bennett,* Coe,*
John Jameson,* William Jameson,*
Rosewell Franklin,*
Joseph Morse (or Morris),*
Arnold Franklin,*
Thomas Neill (or Neal),
Ebenezer Hibbard,*
Josiah Pell, Jr.,
William Hibbard,*
Walter Spencer, **
Jacob Haldron,
Edward Spencer,*
Richard-Inman,*
William Young.
David Inman .*
Total, 17 escaped. Twelve are of New England.
List of names of men resident in Hanover from 1776 to 1778 who from old age, sickness, want of weapons or absence from the township were not in the Wyoming Battle and Massacre July 3, 1778:
Robert Alexander,
George Asbie,
Peley Burritt (too old),* Stephen Burritt,* Gideon Burritt,*
Gideon Booth, Jr.,* Jonathan Corey,*
Joseph Jameson,* Alexander Jameson,*
Thomas Jones,
Wm. Jackson (too old),
James Lasley (too old),
Edward Lester, Conrad Line, Sr. (too old),
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Asa Chapman,* John Coleman,
John Ewings, Wm. Graham,
Wm. Stewart,
- Hagaman (too old),
Caleb Spencer (too old),*
Christopher Hurlbut (absent),*
Thomas Wigton,*
Elijah Inman, Sr. (too old),*
Ebenezer Wickersham,
John Inman (no gun),*
David Young,
Isaac Inman (no gun),*
Robert Young.
Robert Jameson, Sr. (too old) .*
Asa Lyons, Josiah Pell, Sr. (too old), John Robinson,
Total, 33 not in the massacre ; Fifteen are from New England.
There were 26 killed, 17 escaped, 33 residents of Hanover not in the battle-total male inhabitants over 21 years, 76. Out of the whole seventy-six, forty-four are New England men. They are marked with a star (*). Fourteen are Scotch-Irish. The remainder are Pennsylvania Dutch-18.
There may have been-there probably were-a few others in the Wyoming. Massacre besides those named above. The list of those that escaped is about full. The list of those not in the mas- sacre, mostly old men, sick men, and men that had no fire-arms, and men absent from the valley, is not and cannot be entirely full, and there may be two or three under 21 years, but with two or, at most, three exceptions they were resident land-owners. Those known to have been too old are marked so. The return of the in- habitants and their sufferings and murder by Indians, and their further sufferings from the Pennsylvania government, after the Decree of Trenton, by murders, arsons, robbery, tyranny, evictions and expulsions have been sufficiently detailed in previous pages.
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