Winter moot Hotse, Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania

was the Vol. VI.-~25 scene of a terrible ma acre by Indians July 3, 778. The house was fortified and held by a force of British and Indians under command of Colonel John Butler. Colonel Zebulon Butler collected a small band of patriot soldiers and citizens with which he attempted to surprise the place. Report of his plans, however, had preceded him and he found the Tories ready to receive him. A desperate battle ensued, in which the Americans were badly beaten, and when they retreated in rout the Indians fell upon and slaughtered nearly the entire company. In le than an hour two hundred and twenty-five scalps were in the hands of the savages. 392