THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
880146A
LOUIS N. MEGARGEE Publishe
Philadelphia, October 7, 1903
Published Weekly at 806 Walnut St.
Subscription, $2 per year
From Wilkesbarre comes this newspaper an
One hundred and twenty-five years ago the
surviving settlers of the Wyoming Valley, re-
turning after the massacres by the Indians and
Tories, placed a headstone over the spot where
they believed the bodies of the two men first
killed in the invasion were buried. These
two men, Benjamin and Stukely Harding,
were slain on June 30, 1778. Yesterday a line-
man of a telegraph company found that the
settlers had made a mistake and that the bones
lie several feet from the headstone.
The two Hardings, with their brother John,
had gone north of the Wyoming fort to scout.
They were attacked by the Indians at a place
now known as Exeter Borough. John es-
caped, but the others were killed.
The bodies were buried the following day.
The next day the massacre occurred.
The headstone was enclosed with a fence to
separate it from the road, and the old Exeter
graveyard grew about it.
The lineman, digging in the road several feet from the stone, came upon the bones of the