2005-11
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/31/2005
The Wyoming Valley "massacre" was a military battle in the American Revolutionary War that took place in Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley on July 3, 1778, in which more than three hundred Americans died at the hands of Loyalist and Iroquois raiders. In the Wyoming Valley—along the Susquehanna River near present Wilkes-Barre—Colonel Butler led Butler's Rangers with a force of Senecas (led by Cornplanter) and Cayugas in a surprise attack in which the 360 armed Patriot defenders of Forty Fort were practically annihilated. Butler reported the taking of 227 American scalps. Partly-printed ALS “Jno. Nicholson” self-covering, 1p. plus blank intergal pgs and address panal, March 22, 1790, in part, “John Kline you observe was wounded at Wyoming. This I take to be the cause he is not returned ....” Letter continues requesting that Kline be paid. Fine, 6-1/2” x 7-1/2.”
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