Excerpt from An Address We have met this day to dedicate a memorial stone to the memory of Capt. Joseph Davis of the Eleventh Pennsylvania regiment, Lieut. William Jones of a Delaware regiment, and, as some accounts state it, Corporal Butler and three privates, belonging to a detachment of soldiers of the Revolutionary army under the command of Major-General John Sullivan. Generally in the records we find it stated thus, - Captain Davis, Lieutenant Jones and three privates; so whether the bodies of three or four soldiers lie here will always be a mooted question - like that of the number of his children who followed John Rogers to the stake. Perhaps some of you will ask - are you sure any bones of Revolutionary soldiers lie near this place? Is this the spring near the Laurel Run where the savages waited in ambush for the gallant little band? In order to answer the question, and prove our right to erect the memorial on this spot, we must ask you to bear with us as we bring the testimony of many witnesses. We have searched the Records, and from The Journals of the Military Expedition of Major-General John Sullivan against the Six Nations, edited by Mr. Frederick Cook, at that time Secretary of the State of New York, we can bring several interesting accounts to prove our case. It is a matter of history that General Washington had determined to send a force into the Indian country sufficient, at one blow, to break up the savage haunts where these great barbarities were planned, and the depredators were harbored. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.