Battle of Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania

Battle of Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania
http://wwnet.com/~treesrch/wyom-lst.htm

The Battle of Wyoming was fought 3 July 1778 in which a small band of
patriotic Americans led by Col. Zebulon Butler and Col. Nathan Denison
battled a combined British, Tory and Indian force of three times their
number.

Following the Battle of Wyoming, 1778 July 3, the dead lay unburied
until October 22 when a detail of men under Lt. John Jenkins gave them a
common burial on the ground where they fell. In 1833 the mass grave was
opened and the bones of 83 men removed and sealed in a vault. In 1860 a
sixty-two foot high monument was erected along Route. 11 in Wyoming,
Luzerne County, PA.

One of those slain in battle was:
Private John BOYD
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History: The Wyoming Valley Massacre of 1757
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/2822/massacre.html

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