George Peck's WYOMING, 1858 - Pennsylvania - INDEX

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                                    WYOMING;

             ITS HISTORY, STIRRING INCIDENTS AND ROMANTIC ADVENTURES.

                              By GEORGE PECK, D.D.

                               WITH ILLUSTRATIONS.

         NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN SQUARE, 1858


                                     INDEX.

Alexander, Mrs., her account of her father's death and mother's escape, 111;
character of her mother, 120; account of Mrs. Gardner, 353.
Armstrong, Colonel, comes on under authority of Pennsylvania - gross treachery,
64, 217, 413.
Bedford, Mrs., character and parentage of, 201; her account of the Indians, ib.;
of a mission to Queen Esther, 202; a war demonstration, 203; the battle, 204;
of the flight to Middletown, 209; return, 210; Franklin family, 212; keeps
house at Forty Fort, 218.
Bennet, Thomas, captivity and escape of, 291.
Bennet, Rufus, wonderful escape of, 362.
Bennet, Solomon, escape of, 160.
Bolin, Captain, killed. 184. 
Bones of the patriots, 377.
Brant, history of, 71; at Unadilla, 73; at Oriskany, 74; ravages on the Mohawk,
78, 84; not in the battle of Wyoming, 87; cruelty of, 94. 
Brockway's, Widow, a fight there, 183.
Butler, Colonel Zebulon, commands at the battle, 38; report of, 49.
Buterl, Colonel John, invades Wyoming, 38; faithless conduct, 45; report of the
battle, 52; character of, 96.
Butler, Walter N., destroys Cherry Valley, 80; Colonel Stone's apology for, 86;
cruelties of, 82; death, 85.
Campbell's Ledge, 10, 344. 
Cherry Valley destroyed, 81. 
Connecticut people, object of, 26. 
Corey, young, tortured, 214. 
Decree of Trenton, 63. 
Delaware Indians, war, 11, 12.
Denison, Colonel, came from Hartford, 147; in the battle, 39; remonstrates with
J. Butler, 162; robbed of his shirt and hat, 163.
Dick, Captain, defeated, 146.
Esther, Queen, 152; prisoners escape from, 285; Colonel Stone's apology for, 
287. 
Follett stabbed and scalped, 213.
Fortifications, ancient, 13. 
Forts, situation of, 56.
Forty Fort erected, 136; strengthened, 30; capitulation of, 43. 
Franklin, Colonel John, opposes Colonel Pickering, 190.
Franklin, Roswell, family of, carried off by the Indians, 212.
Gardner, Richard, 351.
Gustin, Dr., carries a flag of truce, 162; assistant surgeon, 201, 206; settles 
in Carlisle, 209.
Hammond escapes from Bloody Rock, 285. 
Hartley, Colonel, marches against the Indians, 60.
Hollenback, Colonel, comes to Wyoming, 100; enters the army, 102; escapes from
the battle, 106; engages in grubbing, 109; returns to Wyoming, 110; trades in
Canada - trip with John Jacob Astor, 116; followed by robbers, 118; is a 
magistrate and judge, 119; character, 121; residence, 123; anecdote of, 124; 
resolutions of the court - character by Judge Scott, 127; votes for Jackson, 
131.
Hopkins, Noah, life saved by a spider, 369. 
Hurlbut, Christopher, journal of, 405. 
Ice-flood, 178.
Indians make preparations for war, 154; plunder the people in the fort, 162. 
Jenkins, Colonel, 388; capture by the Indians, 391; opposes Colonel Pickering,
394; employed by General Washington as a guide to General Sullivan, 393; fights
the Pennsylvania claim, 402. 
Johnson, Sir William, 31.
Johnson, Guy, 32.
Lackawanna, events at, after the battle, 221; flag of truce, 222; a singular 
triumph at, 225.
Luzerne County organized, 398, 414.
Manning, Captain, his house defended by hot water, 141; removes to Lackawanna 
Island, 142.
Marcy, Mrs., history of her troubles, 220; flees across the mountain, 227; a 
child in the woods, 228; reaches her father's, 229; account of the Pennamites, 
230. 
Massacre at Wyoming, erroneous accounts of, 56. 
Monument, Wyoming, 376.
Myers, Mrs., character by authors, 133; her account of her father's leaving 
Rhode Island, 135; coming to the Delaware, ib.; visiting Wyoming, 136; removing 
his family, 137; his imprisonment, 143; hard toiling, 148; affecting incident, 
151; the battle, 156; separation of the family, 161; goes to Sunbury, 167; 
crosses the mountain, ib.; spends two years in the east, 171; returns to 
Wyoming, 172; usefulness, 173; account of the death of Satterlee, 183; married, 
191; subsequent history, 159.
M'Allum, captivity of Daniel, 235.
Nanticoke Indians, 11.
Northern border wars, 31.
Ogden, Captain Amos, heads the Pennamites, 139; repulsed, 145. 
Ogden, Nathan, killed, 140.
Ogden, David, attempts the life of T. Bennet, 144; drowns Satterlee, 183. 
Pencil shot by his brother, 371.
Pennamite and Yankee wars, 20, 26, 180, 184, 215, 410. 
Pennsylvania, policy of the proprietors of, 19; lease Wyoming, 25. 
Pickering, Colonel, 190, 304, 395, 399.
Pike, Abram, 304.
Plunket, Colonel, expedition of, 149, 215.
Plymouth Company, 21.
Prospect Rock, 418.
Ransom, Colonel George P., captivity, 317; whipped, 320; taken to Prisoners' 
Island, 321; escapes, 322; great sufferings of, 324; marries and settles, 326; 
an assault and battery, 327.
Rogers, Jonah, captivity and escape of, 304. 
Schuyler, Fort, invested, 33; siege of, raised, 36. 
Seminaries, 426.
Seybolt, Mrs., her story of the battle, 221. 
Shawanese Indians, 11.
Slocum, Frances, captivity, 239; her father killed, 243; family seek for her, 
244; is discovered, 248; visited by her brothers, 255; second visit, 264; 
portrait, 267; her story, 274; act of Congress, 281; last days of, 282.
Smith, Dr. W. Hooker, 181, 201, 206, 219. 
Speedy, William, released from prison, 147.
Sullivan, General, expedition of, 61; leaves a garrison in Wilkesbarre, 173. 
Susquehanna Company, 22; purchase of the Indians, 23; send on forty pioneers, 
25.
Sutton, Esquire, settled in Wyoming, 101; visits Queen Esther, 202; flees down 
the river, 207; builds a mill, 210.
Toby's Eddy and Cave, 425, 426.
Tories, cruelties of, 46.
Umbrella-tree, 417.
Van Campen, Moses, 304.
Westmoreland, town of, 27; town meeting of, 28; erected into a county, 29; 
companies of, organized, 29.
Wyoming, name, 9; visited by New England people, 14; first settlement, 24; lives 
lost in, 26.
Zinzendorf, Count, 14.

                                    THE END.