park."--_Nathaniel Webb's Journal._

[47] FORT JENKINS,--near Centreville, Columbia County, half way
between Wyoming and Sunbury, built in 1777. There was another Fort
Jenkins on the west side of the river a mile above Fort Wintermoot,
built in 1776 under the supervision of the Jenkins and Harding
families. This was captured and destroyed in 1778 in the Wyoming
massacre.

[48] NORTHUMBERLAND,--at the junction of the west, and main branches
of the Susquehanna, above Sunbury, sixty-five miles from Wilkesbarre.

[49] During the absence of Lieut. Hardenbergh down the river a party
visited the battleground. "The place where the battle was fought may
with propriety be called 'a place of skulls,' as the bodies of the
slain were not buried, their bones were scattered in every direction
all around; a great number of which for a few days past having been
picked up, were decently interred by our people. We passed a grave
where seventy-five skeletons were buried; also a spot where fourteen
wretched creatures, who, having surrendered upon being promised mercy,
were nevertheless made immediately to sit down in a ring, and after
the savages had worked themselves up to the extreme of fury in their
usual manner, by dancing, singing, halloaing, &c., they proceeded
deliberately to tomahawk the poor fellows one after another. Fifteen
surrendered and composed the ring; upon the Indians beginning their
work of cruelty, one of them providentially escaped, who reported the
matter to Col. Butler, who upon his return to Wyoming, went to the
spot and found the bones of the fourteen lying as human bodies in an
exact circle."--_Rev. William Rogers' Journal._

[50] NESCOPEC FALLS--at present Nescopec in County of Luzerne.

[51] "WYOMING is situated on the east side of the east branch of the
Susquehanna, the town consisting of about seventy houses, chiefly log
buildings; besides these buildings there are sundry larger ones which
were erected by the army for the purpose of receiving stores, &c., a
large bake and smoke houses. There is likewise a small fort erected in
the town, with a strong abbata around it, and a small redoubt to
shelter the inhabitants in case of an alarm. This fort is garrisoned
by 100 men, draughted from the western army, and put under the command
of Col. Zebulon Butler. I cannot omit taking notice of the poor
inhabitants of the town; two thirds of them are widows and orphans,
who, by the vile hands of the savages, have not o